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Honorable Nita Rinehart State Senator PO Box 40482 Olympia, WA 98504-0482

Honorable Jean Silver State Representative PO Box 40600 Olympia, WA 98504-0600

Honorable Jay Weber Douglas County Commissioner PO Box 747 Waterville, WA 98858

Dear Senator Rinehart, Representative Silver and Commissioner Weber:

By letter, previously acknowledged, you have asked the opinion of this office on the following question:

May the legislature, through section 114(9), chapter 18, Laws of 1995 2nd sp. sess., prohibit the administrator for the Courts from expending state funds in excess of fifty percent of the cost of…