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                                         SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 110

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Senators Lee, Bluechel, McDonald, Guess, Craswell and Barr

Read first time 2/4/85 and referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

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

          THAT, At the next general election to be held in this state there shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the state for their approval and ratification, or rejection, an amendment to Article II, section 22 of the Constitution of the state of Washington to read as follows:

Article II, section 22. (1) No bill shall become a law unless on its final passage the vote be taken by yeas and nays, the names of the members voting for and against the same be entered on the journal of each house, and a majority of the members elected to each house be recorded thereon as voting in its favor.

(2) No bill which would change the existing benefit formulas for public employees shall become a law unless sixty percent of the elected members of each house vote in its favor.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the secretary of state shall cause notice of the foregoing constitutional amendment to be published at least four times during the four weeks next preceding the election in every legal newspaper in the state.