CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 5411

Chapter 160, Laws of 2013

63rd Legislature
2013 Regular Session



PORT COMMISSIONERS--TERMS OF OFFICE--BALLOT PROPOSITION



EFFECTIVE DATE: 07/28/13

Passed by the Senate March 12, 2013
  YEAS 48   NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 16, 2013
  YEAS 96   NAYS 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


 
CERTIFICATE

I, Hunter G. Goodman, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5411 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

HUNTER G. GOODMAN
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Secretary
Approved May 7, 2013, 2:25 p.m.








JAY INSLEE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
May 7, 2013







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 5411
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Passed Legislature - 2013 Regular Session
State of Washington63rd Legislature2013 Regular Session

By Senators Rolfes, Holmquist Newbry, Hatfield, Honeyford, and Conway

Read first time 01/29/13.   Referred to Committee on Governmental Operations.



     AN ACT Relating to requiring the ballot proposition to reduce the terms of office of port commissioners to be submitted at the next general election; and amending RCW 53.12.175.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 53.12.175 and 1994 c 223 s 89 are each amended to read as follows:
     A ballot proposition to reduce the terms of office of port commissioners from six years to four years shall be submitted to the voters of any port district that otherwise would have commissioners with six-year terms of office upon either resolution of the port commissioners or petition of voters of the port district proposing the reduction in terms of office, which petition has been signed by voters of the port district equal in number to at least ten percent of the number of voters in the port district voting at the last general election. The petition shall be submitted to the county auditor. If the petition was signed by sufficient valid signatures, the ballot proposition shall be submitted at the next general ((or special)) election that occurs sixty or more days after the adoption of the resolution or submission of the petition.
     If the ballot proposition reducing the terms of office of port commissioners is approved by a simple majority vote of the voters voting on the proposition, the commissioner or commissioners who are elected at that election shall be elected to four-year terms of office. The terms of office of the other commissioners shall not be reduced, but each successor shall be elected to a four-year term of office.


         Passed by the Senate March 12, 2013.
         Passed by the House April 16, 2013.
         Approved by the Governor May 7, 2013.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 7, 2013.