CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

               SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 8402

                        57th Legislature

                      2001 Regular Session

Adopted by the Senate January 12, 2001 President of the Senate Adopted by the House January 15, 2001

CERTIFICATE I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is   SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 8402 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the       House of Representatives	Secretary
Speaker of the       House of Representatives

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

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                 SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 8402

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             Passed Legislature - 2001 Regular Session

State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

By Senators Snyder, West, Spanel, Hale and B. Sheldon

READ FIRST TIME 1/10/01.

Establishing cutoff dates.    

    WHEREAS, It is of paramount importance to establish cutoff dates for the consideration of legislation during the 2001 Regular Session of the Fifty-Seventh 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;

    (1) Tuesday, February 27, 2001, the fifty-first day, will be the final day to read in House Bill committee reports in the House of Representatives with the exception of reports from House fiscal committees; and, Wednesday, February 28, 2001, the fifty-second day, will be the final day to read in Senate Bill committee reports in the Senate with the exception of reports from the Senate Ways and Means and Senate Transportation committees;

    (2) Monday, March 5, 2001, the fifty-seventh day, will be the final day to read in Senate Ways and Means, Senate Transportation, and House of Representatives fiscal committee reports in the house of origin;

    (3) Wednesday, March 14, 2001, the sixty-sixth day, at 5:00 p.m., will be the final time to consider bills in their house of origin;

    (4) Friday, March 30, 2001, the eighty-second day, will 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, Senate Transportation, and House of Representatives fiscal committees;

    (5) Monday, April 2, 2001, the eighty-fifth day, will be the final day to read in Senate Ways and Means, Senate Transportation, and House of Representatives fiscal committee reports on bills from the opposite house; and

    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That after 5:00 p.m. on Friday, April 13, 2001, the ninety-sixth 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, and matters incident to the interim and to the closing of the business of the 2001 Regular Session of the Legislature.

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