ESSB 5082: Encouraging electoral participation and making ballots more meaningful by abolishing advisory votes.

What this bill does

Repeals provisions that require legislative tax increases to be subject to an advisory vote in which voters at the next general election may express a nonbinding preference for the tax increases to be repealed or maintained. Requires the Legislative Evaluation and Accountability Program and the Office of Financial Management to create a website that includes certain information about the state budgets. Requires that voters' pamphlets contain information about how to access that website.

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Floor votes

• House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · April 7, 2023
  54 yea · 43 nay · 1 not voting
• Senate: 15 Wilson, J. Pg 6 Ln 39 · February 8, 2023
  20 yea · 28 nay · 1 not voting
• Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 8, 2023
  30 yea · 18 nay · 1 not voting

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