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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SJR 4

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Relating to: providing for an advisory referendum on the question of requiring able-bodied, childless adults to look for work in order to receive taxpayer-funded welfare benefits.

Public welfare Referendum

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Senate, completed
  3. Passes Assembly, completed
  4. Adopted, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This joint resolution calls for an advisory referendum at the spring election in

April 2023 on the question of requiring able-bodied, childless adults to look for work

in order to receive taxpayer-funded welfare benefits.

Sponsors

Introduced by: LeMahieu (R)

1 cosponsors

Vos (R)

Votes

Senate: SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND

Passed 21–11 Jan 17, 2023 official source full page

Senate: ADOPTION

Passed 22–10 Jan 17, 2023 official source full page

Assembly: SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND

Passed 62–35 Jan 19, 2023 official source full page

Aye · 62

Not voting · 2

Assembly: CONCURRENCE

Passed 62–35 Jan 19, 2023 official source full page

Aye · 62

Not voting · 2

Full history

  1. Jan 13, 2023 · Senate

    Introduced by Senator LeMahieu; cosponsored by Representative Vos

  2. Jan 13, 2023 · Senate

    Read and referred to Committee on Senate Organization

  3. Jan 13, 2023 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  4. Jan 13, 2023 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 1-17-2023 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  5. Jan 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Read and referred to committee on Rules

  6. Jan 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 1-19-2023 by Committee on Rules

  7. Jan 17, 2023 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Senators Agard, Smith, Larson, Hesselbein, Carpenter, Roys, Pfaff, Spreitzer, Taylor, Wirch and L. Johnson

  8. Jan 17, 2023 · Senate

    Point of order that Senate Substitute Amendment 1 was not germane well taken

  9. Jan 17, 2023 · Senate

    Decision of the Chair stands as the judgment of the Senate, Ayes 21, Noes 11

  10. Jan 17, 2023 · Senate

    Adopted, Ayes 22, Noes 10

  11. Jan 17, 2023 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  12. Jan 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  13. Jan 19, 2023 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Neubauer, Haywood, Subeck, Billings, Shelton, Snodgrass, Goyke, McGuire, C. Anderson, J. Anderson, Andraca, Baldeh, Bare, Clancy, Conley, Considine, Doyle, Drake, Emerson, Hong, Jacobson, Joers, Madison, Moore Omokunde, Myers, Ohnstad, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Ratcliff, Riemer, Shankland, Sinicki, Stubbs and Vining

  14. Jan 19, 2023 · Assembly

    Point of order that Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 not germane under Assembly Rule 54 (3)(f) well taken

  15. Jan 19, 2023 · Assembly

    Decision of the Chair appealed

  16. Jan 19, 2023 · Assembly

    Decision of the Chair upheld, Ayes 62, Noes 35

  17. Jan 19, 2023 · Assembly

    Concurred in, Ayes 62, Noes 35

  18. Jan 19, 2023 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  19. Jan 19, 2023 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  20. Jan 19, 2023 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  21. Jan 19, 2023 · Senate

    Deposited in the office of the Secretary of State on 1-19-2023

  22. May 11, 2023 · Senate

    Not published. Enrolled Joint Resolution 3