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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5972

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Government Operations (originally sponsored by Senators McCaslin, Wood, Winsley, Schow, Long, Morton, Oke, Stevens, Johnson, Deccio, Anderson, Hochstatter, Sellar, Heavey, Jacobsen, Rasmussen and Kohl)

Read first time 01/30/98.

Clarifying the time limit for accepting contributions received by mail.

    AN ACT Relating to the time limit for accepting contributions received by mail; and amending RCW 42.17.710.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 42.17.710 and 1993 c 2 s 11 are each amended to read as follows:

    ((During the period)) (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, beginning on ((the thirtieth day before the date a regular legislative session convenes)) December 10th and continuing thirty days past the date of final adjournment of a regular legislative session, and during the period beginning on the date a special legislative session convenes and continuing through the date that session adjourns, no state official or a person employed by or acting on behalf of a state official or state legislator may solicit or accept contributions to a public office fund, to a candidate or authorized committee, or to retire a campaign debt.

(2) A contribution may be accepted if it is received by mail and postmarked before the period proscribed in subsection (1) of this section.

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