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                                      SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 8401

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Senators Gaspard, Jesernig, Snyder, Sellar, Newhouse and Anderson

Read first time 1/14/93. 

Establishing legislative cut-off dates.

          WHEREAS, It is of paramount importance to establish cutoff dates for the consideration of legislation during the 1993 Regular Session of the Fifty-Third Legislature;

          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, By the Senate of the State of Washington, the House of Representatives concurring, That the following cutoff dates apply to all bills, memorials, and joint resolutions with the exception of budgets, matters necessary to implement budgets, initiatives to the legislature, and alternatives to initiatives to the legislature;

          (1) Wednesday, March 3, 1993, the fifty-second day, will be the final day to read in committee reports in the house of origin with the exception of reports from the Senate Ways and Means and House fiscal committees;

          (2) Monday, March 8, 1993, the fifty-seventh day, will be the final day to read in Senate Ways and Means and House fiscal committee reports in the house of origin;

          (3) Wednesday, March 17, 1993, the sixty-sixth day, at 5:00 p.m., will be the final time to consider bills in their house of origin;

          (4) Friday, April 2, 1993, the eighty-second day, will be the final day to read in committee reports on bills from the opposite house with the exception of reports from the Senate Ways and Means and House fiscal committees;

          (5) Monday, April 5, 1993, the eighty-fifth day, will be the final day to read in Senate Ways and Means and House fiscal committee reports on bills from the opposite house; and

          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That after 5:00 p.m. on Friday, April 16, 1993, the ninety-sixth day, neither house may consider any bills, memorials, or joint resolutions except initiatives to the legislature and alternatives to such initiatives, messages pertaining to amendments, matters of differences between the two houses, conference and free conference reports, and matters incident to the interim and to the closing of the business of the 1993 Regular Session of the Legislature.

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