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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 3534

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Senators DeJarnatt, Bender and Thompson

Read first time 2/1/85 and referred to Committee on Governmental Operations.

AN ACT Relating to political advertising; and amending RCW 42.17.510.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, chapter 216, Laws of 1984 and RCW 42.17.510 are each amended to read as follows:

          (1) All written political advertising, whether relating to candidates or ballot propositions, shall include the sponsor's name and address.  All radio and television political advertising, whether relating to candidates or ballot propositions, shall include the sponsor's name.  The use of an assumed name shall be unlawful.  The name of the party, as it appears on the ballot, with which a candidate files shall be clearly identified in political advertising for partisan office.

          (2) Political yard signs are exempt from the requirement of subsection (1) of this section that the name and address of the sponsor of political advertising be listed on the advertising.  In addition, the public disclosure commission shall, by rule, exempt from the identification requirements of subsection (1) of this section forms of political advertising such as campaign buttons, balloons, pens, pencils, sky-writing, inscriptions, and other forms of advertising where identification is impractical.

          (3) For the purposes of this section, "yard sign" means any outdoor sign with dimensions no greater than eight feet by four feet.