BILL REQ. #: H-3080.1
State of Washington | 62nd Legislature | 2011 2nd Special Session |
Read first time 12/02/11. Referred to Committee on State Government & Tribal Affairs.
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 15 of the Constitution of the state of Washington
to read as follows:
Article II, section 15. Such vacancies as may occur in either
house of the legislature or in any partisan county elective office
shall be filled by appointment by the county legislative authority of
the county in which the vacancy occurs: Provided, That the person
appointed to fill the vacancy must be from the same legislative
district, county, or county commissioner or council district and the
same political party as the legislator or partisan county elective
officer whose office has been vacated, and shall be one of three
persons who shall be nominated by the ((county central)) legislative
district committee of that party, and in case a majority of the members
of the county legislative authority do not agree upon the appointment
within sixty days after the vacancy occurs, the governor shall within
thirty days thereafter, and from the list of nominees provided for
herein, appoint a person who shall be from the same legislative
district, county, or county commissioner or council district and of the
same political party as the legislator or partisan county elective
officer whose office has been vacated, and the person so appointed
shall hold office until his or her successor is elected at the next
general election, and has qualified: Provided, That in case of a
vacancy occurring after the general election in a year that the office
appears on the ballot and before the start of the next term, the term
of the successor who is of the same party as the incumbent may commence
once he or she has qualified and shall continue through the term for
which he or she was elected: Provided, That in case of a vacancy
occurring in the office of joint senator, or joint representative, the
vacancy shall be filled from a list of three nominees selected by the
((state central)) legislative district committee, by appointment by the
joint action of the boards of county legislative authorities of the
counties composing the joint senatorial or joint representative
district, the person appointed to fill the vacancy must be from the
same legislative district and of the same political party as the
legislator whose office has been vacated, and in case a majority of the
members of the county legislative authority do not agree upon the
appointment within sixty days after the vacancy occurs, the governor
shall within thirty days thereafter, and from the list of nominees
provided for herein, appoint a person who shall be from the same
legislative district and of the same political party as the legislator
whose office has been vacated.
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.