Court Opinion

ID: 9550807
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:42:44.056677+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:22:29.678562
License: Public Domain

Utter, J.
(concurring) — I concur with the majority opinion. My only concern is with the holding that article 2, *316section 19 of the state constitution applies only to legislative “bills.” Although this is a holding in Senior Citizens League v. Department of Social Security, 38 Wn.2d 142, 228 P.2d 478 (1951), the dissent’s criticism of that case is persuasive, and I would hold that article 2, section 19 applies to initiatives. To that extent I would overrule the foregoing case.
I believe the majority, however, correctly finds the subject matter of the initiative has a rational unity and that the subject of the initiative is sufficiently expressed in its title. For these reasons, the initiative does not violate article 2, section 19.
Stafford and Brachtenbach, JJ., concur with Utter, J.
Hamilton, J. — I have signed the majority opinion with the reservation noted in Justice Utter’s concurrence, with which I agree.