CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

               SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 8423

                        55th Legislature

                      1998 Regular Session

Adopted by the Senate January 14, 1998 President of the Senate Adopted by the House January 14, 1998

CERTIFICATE I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 8423 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 8423

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             Passed Legislature - 1998 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By Senators McDonald, Sellar, Snyder and Loveland

Read first time 1/14/98.

Adopting cutoff dates. 

    WHEREAS, It is of paramount importance to establish cutoff dates for the consideration of legislation during the 1998 Regular Session of the Fifty-Fifth Legislature;

    NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, By the Senate of the State of Washington, the House of Representatives concurring, That the following cutoff dates apply to all bills, memorials, and joint resolutions with the exception of budgets, matters necessary to implement budgets, initiatives to the legislature, and alternatives to initiatives to the legislature;

    Friday, February 6, 1998, the twenty-sixth day, shall be the final day to read in committee reports in the house of origin with the exception of reports from the Senate Ways and Means and Transportation Committees and House fiscal committees;

    Tuesday, February 10, 1998, the thirtieth day, shall be the final day to read in Senate Ways and Means and Transportation Committees and House fiscal committee reports in the house of origin;

    Tuesday, February 17, 1998, the thirty-seventh day, at 5:00 p.m., shall be the final time to consider bills in their house of origin;

    Friday, February 27, 1998, the forty-seventh day, shall be the final day to read in committee reports on bills from the opposite house with the exception of reports from the Senate Ways and Means and Transportation Committees and House fiscal committees;

    Monday, March 2, 1998, the fiftieth day, shall be the final day to read in Senate Ways and Means and Transportation Committees and House fiscal committee reports on bills from the opposite house; and

    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That after 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 6, 1998, the fifty-fourth day, neither house may consider any bills, memorials, or joint resolutions except initiatives to the legislature and alternatives to such initiatives, messages pertaining to amendments, matters of differences between the two houses, conference and free conference reports, and matters incident to the interim and to the closing of the business of the 1998 Regular Session of the Legislature.

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