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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6068

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators West, Spanel and Oke; by request of Secretary of State)

Read first time 04/02/97.

Enhancing legal advertising of state measures.  

    AN ACT Relating to legal advertising of state measures; amending RCW 29.27.072; and repealing RCW 29.27.074.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 29.27.072 and 1967 c 96 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

Subject to the availability of funds appropriated specifically for that purpose, the secretary of state shall ((cause)) publish notice of the proposed constitutional amendments and ((laws authorizing)) other state ((debts)) measures that are to be submitted to the people ((to be published at least)) at a state general election up to four times during the four weeks ((next)) immediately preceding ((the)) that election in every legal newspaper in the state ((and)).  The secretary of state shall supplement this publication ((thereof by)) with an equivalent amount of radio and television ((broadcast as provided in RCW 65.16.130, 65.16.140, and 65.16.150)) advertisements.  The notices and advertisements may contain references to additional sources of voter information.  No individual candidate or incumbent public official may be referred to or identified in these notices or advertisements.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  RCW 29.27.074 and 1967 c 96 s 2 & 1965 c 9 s 29.27.074 are each repealed.

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