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                    HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 4216

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State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By Representatives Peery, Horn, Ebersole, Ballard, Van Luven, Pruitt, Johanson, Patterson, Flemming, Dunshee, King, Brough, Basich, Springer and J. Kohl; by request of Commission on Ethics in Government & Campaign Financing, Governor Lowry and Attorney General

Read first time 01/12/94.  Referred to Committee on State Government.

Constitutionally authorizing the establishment of a system prescribing ethical conduct for state judicial branch officers and employees.

    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 IV of the Constitution of the state of Washington by adding a new section to read as follows:

    Article IV, section . . .  The legislature shall establish a system prescribing ethical conduct for state officers and state employees of the judicial branch.

    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.

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