Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 29A Elections - Chapter 29A.72 State Initiative And Referendum

• 29A.72.010 Filing proposed measures with secretary of state
  If any legal voter of the state, either individually or on behalf of an organization, desires to petition the legislature to enact a proposed measure, ...
• 29A.72.020 Review of proposed initiatives -- Certificate required
  Upon receipt of a proposed initiative measure, and before giving it a serial number, the secretary of state shall submit a copy thereof to the ...
• 29A.72.025 Fiscal impact statements
  The office of financial management, in consultation with the secretary of state, the attorney general, and any other appropriate state or local agency, shall prepare ...
• 29A.72.030 Time for filing various types
  Initiative measures proposed to be submitted to the people must be filed with the secretary of state within ten months prior to the election at ...
• 29A.72.040 Numbering -- Transmittal to attorney general
  The secretary of state shall give a serial number to each initiative, referendum bill, referendum measure, or measure for an advisory vote of the people, ...
• 29A.72.050 Ballot title -- Formulation, ballot display
  (1) The ballot title for an initiative to the people, an initiative to the legislature, a referendum bill, or a referendum measure consists of: (a) ...
• 29A.72.060 Ballot title and summary by attorney general
  Within five days after the receipt of an initiative or referendum the attorney general shall formulate the ballot title, or portion of the ballot title ...
• 29A.72.070 Ballot title and summary -- Notice
  Upon the filing of the ballot title and summary for a state initiative or referendum measure in the office of secretary of state, the secretary ...
• 29A.72.080 Ballot title and summary -- Appeal to superior court
  Any persons, including the attorney general or either or both houses of the legislature, dissatisfied with the ballot title or summary for a state initiative ...
• 29A.72.090 Ballot title and summary -- Mailed to proponents and other persons -- Appearance on petitions
  When the ballot title and summary are finally established, the secretary of state shall file the instrument establishing it with the proposed measure and transmit ...
• 29A.72.100 Petitions -- Paper -- Size -- Contents
  The person proposing the measure shall print blank petitions upon single sheets of paper of good writing quality (including but not limited to newsprint) not ...
• 29A.72.110 Petitions to legislature -- Form
  Petitions for proposing measures for submission to the legislature at its next regular session must be substantially in the following form: The warning prescribed by ...
• 29A.72.120 Petitions to people -- Form
  Petitions for proposing measures for submission to the people for their approval or rejection at the next ensuing general election must be substantially in the ...
• 29A.72.130 Referendum petitions -- Form
  Petitions ordering that acts or parts of acts passed by the legislature be referred to the people at the next ensuing general election, or special ...
• 29A.72.140 Warning statement -- Further requirements
  The word "warning" and the following warning statement regarding signing petitions must appear on petitions as prescribed by this title and must be printed on ...
• 29A.72.150 Petitions -- Signatures -- Number necessary
  When the person proposing any initiative measure has obtained signatures of legal voters equal to or exceeding eight percent of the votes cast for the ...
• 29A.72.160 Petitions -- Time for filing
  The time for submitting initiative or referendum petitions to the secretary of state for filing is as follows: (1) A referendum petition ordering and directing ...
• 29A.72.170 Petitions -- Acceptance or rejection by secretary of state
  The secretary of state may refuse to file any initiative or referendum petition being submitted upon any of the following grounds: (1) That the petition ...
• 29A.72.180 Petitions -- Review of refusal to file
  If the secretary of state refuses to file an initiative or referendum petition when submitted for filing, the persons submitting it for filing may, within ...
• 29A.72.190 Petitions -- Appellate review
  The decision of the superior court refusing to grant a writ of mandate may be reviewed by the supreme court within five days after the ...
• 29A.72.200 Petitions -- Destruction on final refusal
  If no appeal is taken from the refusal of the secretary of state to file a petition within the time prescribed, or if an appeal ...
• 29A.72.210 Petitions -- Consolidation into volumes
  If the secretary of state accepts and files an initiative or referendum petition upon its being submitted for filing or if he or she is ...
• 29A.72.230 Petitions -- Verification and canvass of signatures, observers -- Statistical sampling -- Initiatives to legislature, certification of
  Upon the filing of an initiative or referendum petition, the secretary of state shall proceed to verify and canvass the names of the legal voters ...
• 29A.72.240 Petitions to legislature -- Count of signatures -- Review
  Any citizen dissatisfied with the determination of the secretary of state that an initiative or referendum petition contains or does not contain the requisite number ...
• 29A.72.250 Initiatives and referenda to voters -- Certificates of sufficiency
  If a referendum or initiative petition for submission of a measure to the people is found sufficient, the secretary of state shall at the time ...
• 29A.72.260 Rejected initiative to legislature treated as referendum bill
  Whenever any measure proposed by initiative petition for submission to the legislature is rejected by the legislature or the legislature takes no action thereon before ...
• 29A.72.270 Substitute for rejected initiative treated as referendum bill
  If the legislature, having rejected a measure submitted to it by initiative petition, proposes a different measure dealing with the same subject, the secretary of ...
• 29A.72.280 Substitute for rejected initiative -- Concise description
  For a measure designated as "Alternative Measure No. . . . . B," the secretary of state shall obtain from the measure adopting the alternative, ...
• 29A.72.283 Advisory vote on tax legislation -- Short description
  Within five days of receipt of a measure for an advisory vote of the people from the secretary of state under RCW 29A.72.040 the attorney ...
• 29A.72.285 Advisory vote on tax legislation -- Short description filing and transmittal
  When the short description is finally established under RCW 29A.72.283, the secretary of state shall file the instrument establishing it with the proposed measure and ...
• 29A.72.290 Printing ballot titles and short descriptions on ballots -- Order and form
  The county auditor of each county shall print on the official ballots for the election at which initiative and referendum measures and measures for an ...

Last modified: April 7, 2009