CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 4427

                        52nd Legislature

                      1992 Regular Session

Adopted by the House January 13, 1992 Speaker of the        House of Representatives Adopted by the Senate January 13, 1992

CERTIFICATE I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 4427 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                         HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 4427

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                     Passed Legislature - 1992 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1992 Regular Session

By Representatives Ebersole and Ballard

Prefiled 1/10/92.  Read first time 1/13/92.  Allowing concurrent resolutions to deal with redistricting plans.

     BE IT RESOLVED, By the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, That Rule 16 of the Joint Rules of the Fifty-Second Legislature be amended as follows:

                    Joint and Concurrent Resolutions; Memorials

     Rule 16. All memorials and resolutions from the legislature addressed to the President of the United States, to the Congress or either house thereof, to any other branch of the Federal government, to any other branch of state government, or to any unit of local government shall be in the form of joint memorials.  Proposed amendments to the state Constitution shall be in the form of joint resolutions.  Business between the two houses such as joint sessions, amendments to redistricting plans submitted by a redistricting commission created under chapter 44.05 RCW, adopting or amending joint rules, creating or empowering joint committees, opening and closing business of the legislature and all such related matters shall be in the form of concurrent resolutions.  Joint memorials, joint resolutions, and concurrent resolutions, up to and including the signing thereof by the presiding officer of each house, shall be subject to the rules governing the course of bills.  Concurrent resolutions may be adopted without a roll call.  Concurrent resolutions amending a redistricting plan submitted by a redistricting commission, authorizing investigations or authorizing the expenditure or allocation of any money or relating to any joint committee must be adopted by roll call, and the yeas and nays recorded in the journal.  Concurrent resolutions amending a redistricting plan as well as all amendments to those resolutions must be agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected or appointed to each house.