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The effort to repeal I-2109 began in 2023, following a ruling of the Washington Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of the capital gains tax. [2] [4] I-2109 collected a total of 436,474 signatures, and was ultimately certified and introduced to the legislature for their 2024 legislative session. [5]
The state's Voting Rights Act was proposed in response to weakening of the federal Voting Rights Act. Among its provisions was the closing of a loophole that forbid cities in Washington of a certain size from using district-based elections for city councils unless they had switched from at-large elections prior to 1994.
[11] [21] Eyman's 2007 Initiative Measure 960 passed with 51% of the vote and created a new system of "advisory votes" for all tax increases passed by the legislature in Washington. While most of this initiative was overturned by the Washington Supreme Court in 2013, this system still stands.
The measures to repeal the state’s landmark Climate Commitment Act and the tax on the sale of stocks and bonds as well as one that could threaten a long-term care insurance program require ...
I-2124 was one of four initiatives on the Nov. 5 ballot backed by the political action committee Let's Go Washington. As of Tuesday night, 55.5% of voters rejected the measure, with 44.5% voting ...
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In February 2020, the King County Superior Court largely upheld I-976, but kept the measure on hold pending a ruling from the Washington State Supreme Court. [103] On October 15, 2020 the Washington State Supreme Court struck down the initiative by ruling it unconstitutional because it "contains more than one subject and its subject is not ...
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