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                                           HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 18

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Representatives Locke, Fisher, Allen, Jacobsen, Unsoeld, Cole, Brough, Niemi, Ebersole, Gallagher, Wang, Fisch, Belcher, Leonard, Holland, Wineberry and Hine

Read first time 2/4/85 and referred to Committee on Constitution, Elections & Ethics.

BE IT RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE  STATE OF WASHINGTON, IN LEGISLATIVE SESSION ASSEMBLED:

          WHEREAS, Both Houses of the Ninety-fifth Congress of the United States of America by a constitutional majority of two-thirds thereof proposed an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which is in words and figures as follows, to wit:

                                                                   "JOINT RESOLUTION

!ixProposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for representation of the District of Columbia in the Congress.

          Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission by the Congress:

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          "SECTION 1.  For purposes of representation in the Congress, election of the President and Vice President, and Article V of this Constitution, the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall be treated as though it were a State.

          "SEC. 2.  The exercise of the rights and powers conferred under this article shall be by the people of the District constituting the seat of government, and as shall be provided by the Congress.

          "SEC. 3.  The twenty-third article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

          "SEC. 4.  This article shall be inoperative, unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission."

          THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That said proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America be, and the same is, hereby ratified by the legislature of the State of Washington.

          AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That certified copies of this joint resolution be forwarded by the Secretary of State to the Administrator of General Services of the United States, to the presiding officer of the United States Senate, and to the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States.