Court Opinion

ID: 9550806
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:42:44.053156+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:22:29.656519
License: Public Domain

Wright, J.
(concurring) — I concur in the majority opinion and have signed the same. I wish to add this brief concurrence in order to point out that amendment 26 is not relevant to the applicability of article 2, section 19 to initiative measures. Amendment 26, also known as article 2, section 41, contains the words “[n]o act, law, or bill” (italics mine). The wording is in the disjunctive. Amendment 26 is directed to referendum as well as initiative measures. A referendum measure having its origin in the legislature may properly be referred to as a “bill,” and, therefore, amendment 26 can in no wise be viewed as modifying the rule of Senior Citizens League v. Department of Social Security, 38 Wn.2d 142, 228 P.2d 478 (1951).