1557-S AMH MCIN H2427.2

SHB 1557 - H AMD 184

By Representative McIntire

WITHDRAWN 03/19/2003

Beginning on page 1, line 6, strike all of section 1 and insert the following:

"Sec. 1. RCW 35.95A.120 and 2002 c 248 s 13 are each amended to read as follows:

The city transportation authority may be dissolved by a vote of the people residing within the boundaries of the authority ((if the authority is faced with significant financial problems)). Any referendum petition to dissolve the city transportation authority must be filed with the city council and contain provisions for dissolution of the authority. Within seven days, the city prosecutor must review the validity of the petition and submit its report to the petitioner and city council. If the petitioner's claims are deemed valid by the city prosecutor, within ten days of the petitioner's filing, the city council will confer with the petitioner concerning the form and style of the petition, issue an identification number for the petition, and write a ballot title for the measure. The ballot title must be posed as a question and an affirmative vote on the measure results in authority retention and a negative vote on the measure results in the authority's dissolution. The petitioner will be notified of the identification number and ballot title within this ten-day period.

After this notification, the petitioner has ninety days in which to secure on petition forms, the signatures of not less than fifteen percent of the registered voters in the authority area and to file the signed petitions with the filing officer. Each petition form must contain the ballot title and the full text of the measure to be referred. The filing officer will verify the sufficiency of the signatures on the petitions. If sufficient valid signatures are properly submitted, the filing officer shall submit the initiative to the authority area voters at a general or special election held on one of the dates provided in RCW 29.13.010 as determined by the city council, which election will not take place later than one hundred twenty days after the signed petition has been filed with the filing officer."

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