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                                         HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 4214

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Representatives Beck, Sanders, Betrozoff, May and B. Williams

Read first time 2/11/87 and referred to Committee on Ways & 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 VII of the Constitution of the state of Washington by adding a new section to read as follows:

Article VII, section __.       The legislature shall not enact any law that increases the rate of any tax or that imposes a new tax unless the legislation receives the affirmative vote of at least sixty percent of the membership of each house of the legislature.

          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.