CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

               SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 8420

                        55th Legislature

                   1997 First Special Session

Adopted by the Senate September 17, 1997 President of the Senate Adopted by the House September 17, 1997

CERTIFICATE I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 8420 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Secretary

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                 SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 8420

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          Passed Legislature - 1997 First Special Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature 1997 1st Special Session

By Senators McDonald, Snyder, Sellar and Loveland

Read first time 9/17/97.

Limiting the 1997 First Special Session to matters concerning the authority of police officers to conduct criminal background checks. 

    WHEREAS, It is of paramount importance to the citizens of the State of Washington that the legislature deal with the issue of the authority of police officers to conduct criminal background checks in certain situations; and

    WHEREAS, It is important that the legislature conduct the business of the 1997 First Special Session in an orderly and expeditious manner;

    NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, By the Senate of the State of Washington, the House of Representatives concurring, That the subject matter to be considered during this 1997 First Special Session of the Fifty-Fifth Legislature be limited to legislation to address the recent Washington State Supreme Court opinion in State v. Rife relative to the authority of police officers to conduct criminal background checks; and

    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, By the Senate, the House concurring, That during the 1997 First Special Session a bill which addresses the authority of police officers to conduct criminal background checks may be jointly sponsored by a member or members of the House of Representatives and a member or members of the Senate and that the course of Senate Bills and House Bills that are jointly sponsored is governed by the Permanent Rules of the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case may be, and any concurrent resolution adopting procedures for the course of bills; and

    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That before a jointly sponsored bill may be dropped into the hopper during this 1997 First Special Session, it must be available to the Secretary of the Senate, in the case of a House bill, and the Chief Clerk, in the case of a Senate bill, for members to sign as cosponsors, and before producing a jointly sponsored bill the Office of the Code Reviser must have received a written request signed by either the Secretary of Senate or the Chief Clerk of the House, and the leader of the caucus whose member is the first sponsor of the bill; and

    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the legislature shall adjourn Sine Die September 17, 1997.

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