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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5180
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1994 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Vognild, Nelson, Skratek, Winsley, Loveland, Drew, Prince, Sellar, Sheldon, Prentice, von Reichbauer, Barr, Erwin and Roach)
Read first time 01/20/94.
AN ACT Relating to the legislative transportation committee; and amending RCW 44.40.010.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 44.40.010 and 1980 c 87 s 39 are each amended to read as follows:
The joint fact-finding committee on highways,
streets, and bridges originally created by chapter 111, Laws of 1947, recreated
and renamed the joint committee on highways by chapter 3, Laws of 1963
extraordinary session, is hereby recreated and renamed the legislative
transportation committee. The renaming of said committee shall not affect any
powers invested in it or its duties imposed upon it by any other statute. All
appropriations made to the committee under its former name shall continue to be
available to said committee as renamed, the legislative transportation
committee. The committee shall consist of ((eleven)) twelve
senators to be appointed by the president of the senate and twelve members of
the house of representatives to be appointed by the speaker thereof. Not
more than six members from each house shall be from the same political party.
A list of appointees shall be submitted before the close of each regular
legislative session during an odd-numbered year or any successive special
session convened by the governor or the legislature prior to the close of such
regular session or successive special session(s) for confirmation of senate
members, by the senate, and house members, by the house. Vacancies occurring
shall be filled by the appointing authority. All such vacancies shall be
filled from the same political party and from the same house as the member
whose seat was vacated.
The chair shall be elected by the membership of the committee. The chair shall be elected biennially. Each succeeding chair shall be from the opposite house of the current chair, with the first chair elected from the membership appointed at the close of the 1995 legislative session, or any successive special session convened by the governor or the legislature, to be from the senate.
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