BILL REQ. #:  H-0161.1 

Read first time 01/20/11.   Referred to Committee on State Government & Tribal Affairs.

     AN ACT Relating to mandatory recounts for local ballot measures; and amending RCW 29A.64.090.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 29A.64.090 and 2003 c 111 s 1609 are each amended to read as follows:
     When the official canvass of returns of any election reveals that the difference in the number of votes cast for the approval of a statewide or local ballot measure and the number of votes cast for the rejection of such measure is less than two thousand votes and also less than one-half of one percent of the total number of votes cast on such measure, ((the secretary of state shall direct that)) a recount of all votes cast on such measure must be made ((on such measure,)) in the manner provided by RCW ((29A.64.040)) 29A.64.041 and ((29A.64.060, and)) 29A.64.061. The cost of ((such)) a recount of a statewide measure will be at the expense of the state ((expense)).