CERTIFICATION
OF ENROLLMENT
SENATE
BILL 6529
Chapter
108, Laws of 2002
57th
Legislature
2002
Regular Session
ELECTIONS--VACANCIES IN
OFFICE
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 6/13/02
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Passed by the Senate February 13, 2002
YEAS 48 NAYS 0
 BRAD OWEN
President of the Senate
Passed by the House March 6, 2002
YEAS 93 NAYS 0
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CERTIFICATE
I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington,
do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 6529 as passed by
the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.
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FRANK CHOPP
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
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 TONY M. COOK
Secretary
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Approved March 22, 2002 Place Style On
Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
March 22, 2002 - 1:05 p.m.
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GARY LOCKE
Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington
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SENATE
BILL 6529
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Passed
Legislature - 2002 Regular Session
State of Washington 57th
Legislature 2002 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 01/21/2002. Referred to Committee on State & Local Government.
Modifying the time period for holding elections to fill
vacancies.
AN
ACT Relating to holding or lapsing elections due to vacancies in public office;
and amending RCW 29.15.190 and 42.12.040.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
29.15.190 and 1975-'76 2nd ex.s. c 120 s 12 are each amended to read as
follows:
A
scheduled election shall be lapsed, the office deemed stricken from the ballot,
no purported write-in votes counted, and no candidate certified as elected,
when:
(1)
In an election for judge of the supreme court or superintendent of public
instruction, a void in candidacy occurs on or after the ((fourth)) sixth
Tuesday prior to a primary, public filings and the primary being an
indispensable phase of the election process for such offices;
(2)
Except as otherwise specified in RCW 29.15.180, as now or hereafter amended, a
nominee for judge of the superior court entitled to a certificate of election
pursuant to Article 4, section 29, Amendment 41 of the state Constitution dies
or is disqualified on or after the ((fourth)) sixth Tuesday prior
to a primary;
(3)
In other elections for nonpartisan office a void in candidacy occurs or a
vacancy occurs involving an unexpired term to be filled on or after the ((fourth))
sixth Tuesday prior to an election.
Sec.
2. RCW
42.12.040 and 1981 c 180 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
If
a vacancy occurs in any partisan elective office in the executive or
legislative branches of state government or in any partisan county elective
office before the ((fourth)) sixth Tuesday prior to the primary
for the next general election following the occurrence of the vacancy, a
successor shall be elected to that office at that general election. Except
during the last year of the term of office, if such a vacancy occurs on or
after the ((fourth)) sixth Tuesday prior to the primary for that
general election, the election of the successor shall occur at the next succeeding
general election. The elected successor shall hold office for the remainder of
the unexpired term. This section shall not apply to any vacancy occurring in a
charter county which has charter provisions inconsistent with this section.
Passed the Senate February 13, 2002.
Passed the House March 6, 2002.
Approved by the Governor
March 22, 2002.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State March 22, 2002.