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                            HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 4200

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State of Washington              54th Legislature             1995 Regular Session

By Representatives Padden, Schoesler and Campbell

Prefiled 01/06/95.  Read first time 01/09/95.  Referred to Committee on Government Operations.

Ratifying amendment XXVII of the United States Constitution.

     BE IT RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, IN LEGISLATIVE SESSION ASSEMBLED:

     THAT the Legislature of the State of Washington, pursuant to Article V of the United States Constitution, hereby ratifies an amendment to that document proposed by the very 1st Congress of the United States, sitting in the City of New York on September 25, 1789, which amendment reads as follows:

                                 "AMENDMENT XXVII

     No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened."

     THAT the Legislature of the State of Washington acknowledges that the constitutional amendment in question has received the approval of the required number of states.

     THAT the Legislature of the State of Washington further acknowledges that the constitutional amendment in question became Amendment XVIII to the United States Constitution during the a.m. hours of May 7, 1992, when the Legislature of the State of Michigan became the 38th state to ratify it; that on May 18, 1992, the Archivist of the United States issued a proclamation published in the Federal Register concluding that the two hundred four year old proposal had in fact been incorporated into the United States Constitution; and that on May 20, 1992, both the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, by roll-call votes, adopted resolutions concurring with the Archivist's conclusion.

     THAT while the Legislature of the State of Washington is quite aware of this constitutional amendment's success in already having become part of the United States Constitution, it is important that the unique imprint of the State of Washington be placed thereon and that the State of Washington join the forty-two other states that have already given their approval to what is now Amendment XXVII.

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State of the State of Washington shall transmit duly attested enrolled copies of this joint resolution to Washington, D.C., to the Archivist of the United States, pursuant to P.L. 98-497; to the Vice-President of the United States, as presiding officer of the United States Senate; to the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and to all remaining members of the State of Washington's congressional delegation, including both United States Senators, with the request that this joint resolution's text be spread upon the Congressional Record and journals of both houses of Congress.

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