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                                SUBSTITUTE HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 4231

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1988 Regular Session

By House Committee on Constitution, Elections & Ethics (originally sponsored by Representatives Fisher and Pruitt;by request of Secretary of State)

Read first time 2/5/88.

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 VI, section 3 and an amendment to Article XIII, section 1 of the state Constitution to read as follows:

Article VI, section 3.           All ((idiots, insane persons, and)) persons convicted of infamous crime unless restored to their civil rights and all persons while they are judicially declared mentally incompetent are excluded from the elective franchise.

Article XIII, section 1.         Educational, reformatory, and penal institutions; those for the benefit of persons who are blind((,)) or deaf((, dumb, or otherwise defective youth; for the insane or idiotic)) or who have other sensory disabilities or who have mental disabilities; and such other institutions as the public good may require, shall be fostered and supported by the state, subject to such regulations as may be provided by law.  The regents, trustees, or commissioners of all such institutions existing at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, and of such as shall thereafter be established by law, shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate; and upon all nominations made by the governor, the question shall be taken by ayes and noes, and entered upon the journal.

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.

          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the foregoing amendment shall be construed as a single amendment within the meaning of Article XXIII, section 1 of this Constitution.

          The legislature finds that the changes contained in the foregoing amendment constitute a single integrated plan for updating terminology.  If the foregoing amendment is held to be separate amendments, this joint resolution shall be void in its entirety and shall be of no further force and effect.