BILL REQ. #:  S-0552.3 

Read first time 02/03/11.   Referred to Committee on Government Operations, Tribal Relations & Elections.

     AN ACT Relating to voters' pamphlets; adding a new section to chapter 29A.84 RCW; and prescribing penalties.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 29A.84 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) Any person who knowingly makes or allows to be made on his or her behalf a false statement of material fact in a voters' pamphlet is guilty of a gross misdemeanor punishable under RCW 9A.20.021.
     (2) For purposes of this section, a "false statement of material fact" includes a statement that would lead a person of ordinary intelligence to reasonably understand the statement as conveying information that is false.
     (3) The public disclosure commission may impose a civil penalty not to exceed five thousand dollars for each violation under subsection (1) of this section.