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                                            HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 4209

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Representatives Stevens, Casada, Vance, Brough, Brumsickle, Padden, Fuhrman and Silver

Read first time 02/08/93.  Referred to Committee on Appropriations.

Restricting appropriations.

          BE IT RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, IN LEGISLATIVE SESSION ASSEMBLED:

          THAT, At the next general election to be held in this state there shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the state for their approval and ratification, or rejection, an amendment to Article VIII, section 4 of the Constitution of the state of Washington to read as follows:

           Article VIII, section 4.  No moneys shall ever be paid out of the treasury of this state, or any of its funds, or any of the funds under its management, except in pursuance of an appropriation by law; nor unless such payment be made within one calendar month after the end of the ((next ensuing fiscal biennium)) fiscal year for which the appropriation is made, and every such law making a new appropriation, or continuing or reviving an appropriation, shall distinctly specify the sum appropriated, and the object to which it is to be applied, and it shall not be sufficient for such law to refer to any other law to fix such sum.

          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the secretary of state shall cause notice of the foregoing constitutional amendment to be published at least four times during the four weeks next preceding the election in every legal newspaper in the state.

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