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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 8206
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Senators Saling, Metcalf, Amondson, Thorsness, Barr, Stratton and Bailey.
Read first time January 22, 1991. Referred to Committee on Governmental Operations.
BE IT RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE AND THE 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 Articles II and III of the Constitution of the state of Washington by adding new sections to read as follows:
Article II, section ...... . No person may hold the office of senator or representative or combination thereof for more than twelve years, whether such office or offices are held consecutively or nonconsecutively. A person may not file for or be appointed to the office of senator or representative if serving the term or remainder of the term would violate this twelve-year limitation. Service in the office of senator or representative before the second Monday in January 1993, shall not be used when applying this twelve-year limitation.
Article III, section ..... . No person may hold the office of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, treasurer, auditor, attorney general, superintendent of public instruction, commissioner of public lands, or insurance commissioner, or combination of such offices, for more than twelve years, whether such office or offices are held consecutively or nonconsecutively. A person may not file for or be appointed to any such office if serving the term or remainder of the term would violate this twelve-year limitation. Service in any of the offices listed in this section before the Wednesday after the second Monday in January 1993, shall not be used when applying this twelve-year limitation.
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 the state Constitution.
The legislature finds that the changes contained in the foregoing amendment constitute a single integrated plan for limiting terms of state elected officials. 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.