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HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 4404
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State of Washington 56th Legislature 1999 Regular Session
By Representatives Kessler, Lisk and Dunn
Read first time 01/22/1999. Referred to Committee on .
WHEREAS, It is of paramount importance to establish cutoff dates for the consideration of legislation during the 1999 Regular Session of the Fifty-Sixth Legislature;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, By the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, the Senate 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) Tuesday, March 2, 1999, the fifty-first day, will be the final day to read in House Bill committee reports in the House of Representatives with the exception of reports from House fiscal committees; and, Wednesday, March 3, 1999, the fifty-second day, will be the final day to read in Senate Bill committee reports in the Senate with the exception of reports from the Senate Ways and Means and Senate Transportation committees;
(2) Monday, March 8, 1999, the fifty-seventh 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) Wednesday, March 17, 1999, the sixty-sixth day, at 5:00 p.m., will be the final time to consider bills in their house of origin;
(4) Friday, April 2, 1999, the eighty-second 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, April 5, 1999, the eighty-fifth 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, April 16, 1999, the ninety-sixth 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 1999 Regular Session of the Legislature.
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