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                                  HOUSE BILL 2527

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State of Washington              54th Legislature             1996 Regular Session

By Representatives H. Sommers, R. Fisher, Murray, Brown, Hatfield, Cody, Ogden, Rust, Chopp, Poulsen, Scheuerman, Dickerson, Tokuda, Basich, Wolfe, Patterson, Dellwo, Morris, Regala, Linville, Costa and Chappell

Read first time 01/12/96.  Referred to Committee on Government Operations.

Disclosing use of paid signature gatherers.

     AN ACT Relating to the voters' pamphlet; and adding a new section to chapter 29.81 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 29.81 RCW to read as follows:

     If consideration was provided for soliciting or procuring signatures on a state measure, the following statement:

        "PAID SIGNATURE GATHERERS WERE USED TO SOLICIT VOTERS' SIGNATURES"

must be included in the voters' pamphlet immediately after the legal identification of the measure at the following three locations:  (1) The table of contents; (2) the first two opposing pages relating to the measure; and (3) before the full text of the measure.  The statement must be in bold-faced, twenty-point type at the first two opposing pages relating to the measure and before the full text of the measure.

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