BILL REQ. #:  S-0605.1 

Read first time 01/31/2003.   Referred to Committee on Government Operations & Elections.

     AN ACT Relating to requirements for filing an initiative or referendum; and amending RCW 29.79.010.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1   RCW 29.79.010 and 1982 c 116 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     If any legal voter of the state, either individually or on behalf of an organization, desires to petition the legislature to enact a proposed measure, or submit a proposed initiative measure to the people, or order that a referendum of all or part of any act, bill, or law, passed by the legislature be submitted to the people, he or she shall file with the secretary of state a typewritten copy of the measure proposed, or the act or part of such act on which a referendum is desired, accompanied by an affidavit that the proposer is a legal voter and ((a filing fee prescribed under RCW 43.07.120, as now or hereafter amended)) deposit of either a fee of one hundred dollars or signatures of one hundred registered voters. If the fee is deposited, it is fully refundable upon either:
     (1) The filing of an affidavit from a printer affirming that sufficient petitions have been printed and delivered to the petitioner to permit the filing of the number of signatures required by Article II, section 1 of the state Constitution; or
     (2) The filing of the required number of signatures.