BILL REQ. #:  H-3961.1 

Read first time 01/19/2004.   Referred to Committee on State Government.

     BE IT RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, IN LEGISLATIVE SESSION ASSEMBLED:
     THAT, At the next general election to be held in this state the secretary of state shall submit to the qualified voters of the state for their approval and ratification, or rejection, an amendment to Article II, section 5 of the Constitution of the state of Washington to read as follows:

     Article II, section 5. At the next election of the members of the house of representatives after the adoption of this amendment to the Constitution ((shall be on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, eighteen hundred and ninety, and thereafter,)) members of the house of representatives for even-numbered districts shall be elected ((biennially and their)) to terms of office ((shall be)) of two years((;)) and members of the house of representatives for odd-numbered districts shall be elected for terms of four years. Thereafter all members shall be elected for four-year terms. Each election shall be on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year, unless otherwise changed by law.

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the secretary of state shall cause notice of this constitutional amendment to be published at least four times during the four weeks next preceding the election in every legal newspaper in the state.