CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 8417



58th Legislature
2004 Regular Session

Adopted by the Senate January 12, 2004



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President of the Senate
Adopted by the House January 12, 2004


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Speaker of the House of Representatives


CERTIFICATE

I, Milton H. Doumit, Jr., Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 8417 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.


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Secretary
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Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 8417
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Passed Legislature - 2004 Regular Session
State of Washington58th Legislature2004 Regular Session

By Senators Finkbeiner and Brown

Read first time .   Referred to .



     WHEREAS, It is of paramount importance to establish cutoff dates for the consideration of legislation during the 2004 Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth 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 6, 2004, 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 10, 2004, 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 17, 2004, the thirty-seventh day, at 5:00 p.m., will be the final time to consider bills in their house of origin;
     (4) Friday, February 27, 2004, 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 1, 2004, 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 5, 2004, 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 2004 Regular Session of the Legislature.

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