CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

               SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 8424

                        57th Legislature

                      2002 Regular Session

Adopted by the Senate January 14, 2002 President of the Senate Adopted by the House January 14, 2002

CERTIFICATE I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 8424 as adopted 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 8424

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             Passed Legislature - 2002 Regular Session

State of Washington   57th Legislature        2002 Regular Session

By Senators Snyder and West

READ FIRST TIME 01/14/02. UNDER SUSPENSION OF RULES, READ SECOND AND THIRD TIMES AND ADOPTED.

Establishing cutoff dates.  

    WHEREAS, It is of paramount importance to establish cutoff dates for the consideration of legislation during the 2002 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) Friday, February 8, 2002, the twenty-sixth day, will 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 of Representatives fiscal committees;

    (2) Tuesday, February 12, 2002, the thirtieth 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) Tuesday, February 19, 2002, the thirty-seventh day, at 5:00 p.m., will be the final time to consider bills in their house of origin;

    (4) Friday, March 1, 2002, the forty-seventh 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, March 4, 2002, the fiftieth 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, March 8, 2002, 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, and matters incident to the interim and to the closing of the business of the 2002 Regular Session of the Legislature.

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