Washington: Hospital measure passed by voters declared unconstitutional
A Columbia County Circuit Court judge declared “unconstitutional and unenforceable in its entirety” a measure voters approved last fall to refund the tax money collected for a hospital project that has been shelved. Measure 5-209 was an initiative petition to stop all work on the Columbia Health District’s hospital project, to stop levying any hospital tax and to give back all the money collected for the hospital project since 2004, when voters approved a measure to build a hospital.