PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, state operating, transportation and capital budgets,
including bonds, and measures necessary to implement them, were
not passed; and
WHEREAS, substantial work remains to be done with respect to transportation, including reforms and efficiencies, regional governance, projects and investments, the Tacoma Narrows bridge, revenue, and bonds; and
WHEREAS, work also remains to be done to pass legislation affecting
the primary election system, accountability for student
achievement, school safety - including anti-bullying policy,
splitting the Department of Community, Trade and Economic
Development, shorelines rule implementation, the siting of
certain sexual predators at McNeil Island, post-retirement
employment, medical coverage for the disabled who work and
welfare simplification;
NOW, THEREFORE, I Gary Locke, Governor of the State of Washington, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Article II, Section 12 (Amendment 68) and Article III, Section 7 of the Washington State Constitution, do hereby convene the Washington State Legislature in Special Session in the Capitol at Olympia at twelve o'clock noon on Wednesday, April 25, 2001 for a period of not more than thirty days for the purpose of enacting legislation as described above.
| IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the State of Washington to be affixed at Olympia this 22nd day of April, A.D., two thousand one. | ||
| Gary Locke Governor of Washington |
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BY THE GOVERNOR:
Secretary of State |
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