BILL REQ. #:  H-0044.1 

Read first time 01/20/2003.   Referred to Committee on State Government.

     AN ACT Relating to initiative qualifications; amending RCW 29.79.120; and providing a contingent effective date.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   This act takes effect January 1, 2004, if the proposed amendment to Article II, section 1 of the state Constitution (HJR --) is validly submitted to and is approved and ratified by the voters at a general election held in November 2003. If the proposed amendment is not approved and ratified, this act is void in its entirety.

Sec. 2   RCW 29.79.120 and 1982 c 116 s 12 are each amended to read as follows:
     When the person proposing ((any)) an initiative measure to be submitted to the people has secured upon such initiative petition a number of signatures of legal voters equal to or exceeding eight percent of the votes cast for the office of governor at the last regular gubernatorial election prior to the submission of the signatures for verification, when the person proposing an initiative measure to be submitted to the legislature has secured upon the initiative petition a number of signatures of legal voters equal to or exceeding six percent of the votes cast for the office of governor at the last regular gubernatorial election before the submission of the signatures for verification, or when the person ((or organization)) demanding ((any)) a referendum of an act of the legislature or ((any)) a part ((thereof)) of an act has secured upon ((any such)) the referendum petition a number of signatures of legal voters equal to or exceeding four percent of the votes cast for the office of governor at the last regular gubernatorial election prior to the submission of the signatures for verification, he or ((they)) she may submit the petition to the secretary of state for filing.