Washington Free Parking and Entry to State Land without Access Passes Initiative (2018)

Washington Free Parking and Entry to State Land without Access Passes
Election date November 6, 2018
Topic Forests and parks
Status Not on the ballot
Type State statute	Origin Citizens
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The Washington Free Parking and Entry to State Land without Access Passes Initiative (#1599) was not on the ballot in Washington as an Initiative to the People, a type of initiated state statute, on November 6, 2018.

This initiative would have prohibited charging or requiring passes for access to parks, forests, and other state land, including state-owned recreational land and parking for state-owned recreational land.

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot titles for the different versions of the initiative are below:

Initiative 1599 ballot title
Initiative Measure No. 1599 concerns access to state-owned land. This measure would prohibit requiring an access pass to access state-owned land for recreation, and repeal statutes relating to the Discover Pass and certain other access passes or permits for accessing state-owned land. Should this measure be enacted into law?

Ballot summary

The ballot summaries for the different versions of the initiative are below:

Initiative 1599 ballot summary

This measure would prohibit imposition of access passes to access state land. Specifically, the prohibition would apply to: (1) motor-vehicle parking to access state-owned land; (2) access to state-owned land to operate motor vehicles for recreation on state-owned land; and (3) human access for recreation on state-owned land. It would repeal statutes requiring the Discover Pass and certain other access passes and permits to park on, gain access to, or operate on state-owned lands.

Full text

• The full text of the initiative is available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Washington

The state process

In Washington, the number of signatures required to qualify a directly initiated state statute—called an Initiative to the People in Washington—for the ballot is equal to 8 percent of the votes cast for the office of governor at the last regular gubernatorial election. Initial filings for direct initiatives cannot be made more than 10 months before the general election at which their proposal would be presented to voters. Signatures must be submitted at least four months prior to the general election.

The requirements to get an Initiative to the People certified for the 2018 ballot:

• Signatures: 259,622 valid signatures were required.
• Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was July 6, 2018.

The secretary of state verifies the signatures using a random sample method. If the sample indicates that the measure has sufficient signatures, the measure is certified for the ballot. However, if the sample indicates that the measure has insufficient signatures, every signature is checked. Under Washington law, a random sample result may not invalidate a petition.

Details about this initiative

• Corey Gibson submitted this initiative on January 8, 2018.
• A ballot title and summary were issued for this initiative on January 29, 2018.
• Proponents of the initiative did not submit signatures to the secretary of state's office by the July 6, 2018, deadline and the measure was not put on the ballot.

See also

2018 measures

• 2018 ballot measures
• Forests and parks on the ballot
• 2018 petition deadlines

Washington

• Washington ballot measures
• Washington initiative laws

News and analysis

• Ballot measure lawsuits
• Ballot measure readability
• Ballot measure polls
• Ballot measure signature costs

External links

• Initiative 1599 Full Text