WHEREAS, Bills, joint resolutions, joint memorials, and concurrent resolutions introduced at the 2023 regular session of the sixty-eighth Legislature may require that they be considered at the 2024 regular session of the sixty-eighth Legislature; and

WHEREAS, The public interest requires that the business of the 2024 regular session of the sixty-eighth Legislature be considered and acted upon as efficiently and expeditiously as possible;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, By the Senate of the state of Washington, the House of Representatives concurring, That all bills, joint resolutions, joint memorials, and concurrent resolutions introduced in the 2023 regular session of the sixty-eighth Legislature are reintroduced in the house in which they originated and shall retain the same number and be given the highest legislative status that they attained in the original house as shown by the official House and Senate dockets upon the adjournment SINE DIE of the regular session.