Article II.
Legislative Department

Section 31. Laws, When to Take Effect

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Laws, When to Take Effect

Summary: Repeals Article II Section 31

Election Date: November 5, 1912

Votes For Ratification: 79,940

Votes Against Ratification: 47,978

Percent for Ratification: 62%

Percent Against Ratification: 38%

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Amendment Source: 1911 HB 153

Effective Date Source: https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/data-research/history-laws-and-litigation/constitutional-amendment-...

19121889

Laws, When to Take Effect

No law, except appropriation bills, shall take effect until ninety days after the adjournment of the session at which it was enacted, unless in case of an emergency (which emergency must be expressed in the preamble or in the body of the act) the legislature shall otherwise direct by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house; said vote to be taken by yeas and nays and entered on the journals.

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