Posted late because, while Joe went home after the NRA Annual Meeting, we headed east and spent most of the week with my parents.
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FROM: GOAL
TO: undisclosed-recipients:
SENT: Mon 4/13/2015 3:28 PM
Subject: GOAL Post 2015-14
Legislative Update from
Olympia 10 April 2015
- NRA ANNUAL MEETING AND CONVENTION IN NASHVILLE
- 7 APR FISCAL COMMITTEE CUT-OFF
- BILLS MOVE
- 15 APR CHAMBER CUT-OFF
- BUDGET ISSUE: DOL FUNDING
This issue of the GOAL Post
is late because I was in Nashville along with 78.864 other NRA members
attending the NRA annual meeting and convention (I helped staff the Second
Amendment Foundation booth.) Also in
attendance were 13 Republican presidential hopefuls, each of whom was given ten
minutes to explain to NRA members why they would be the best choice for gun
owners next year. The only absent face
was Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, whose absence was explained by conflicting
reasons. No matter the reason,
libertarian-leaning Senator Paul is probably closer to the top of the list than
the bottom when it comes to Second Amendment support.
Tuesday, 7 April was the
second chamber fiscal committee cut-off.
The only bill affected was ESHB 1713.
ESHB 1713 passed out of the
Senate Ways & Means Committee and now awaits a vote of the full
Senate. SSB 5381 was amended on the
House floor and passed the House on a 97-0 vote (one member excused). That bill now awaits Senate concurrence in
the House changes. SSB 5658 still awaits
a floor vote in the House.
(When a bill is amended in
the opposite house (Senate bill in the House, House bill in the Senate),
if/after passing the second chamber it must go back to the original chamber for
a concurrence vote (agreeing with the other side's change). If the original chamber does NOT concur, it
has to go to a conference committee, made up of members from BOTH chambers to
iron out the details, then to a concurrence vote by both chambers. Nobody said it was easy!)
The next cut-off is
Wednesday, 15 April, when all bills must pass their second chamber. At this point it only affects ESHB 1713 and
SSB 5658.
A new issue has popped
up: a budget line item giving the
Department of Licensing $184,000 for the biennium to fund additional personnel
to handle the increased workload generated by I-594. We're trying to get it deleted, as it was not
a part of the actual initiative language.
Bill #
|
Subject
|
Prime sponsor
|
Status
|
GOAL Position
|
*ESHB 1713
|
Mental health/guns
|
Cody (D-34)
|
S. Rules
|
NEUTRAL
|
*SSB 5381
|
Return of firearms held by
law enforcement
|
Billig (D-3)
|
S. Rules
|
NEUTRAL
|
SB 5658
|
Reporting of mental health
commitment
|
Dansel (R-7)
|
H. Rules
|
NEUTRAL
|
* indicates change in
status this week
ESHB = Engrossed Substitute
House Bill, SHB/SSB = Substitute Bill (bill amended in committee), HB = House
Bill, SB = Senate Bill, H. Aprop = House Appropriations, H. Jud. = House
Judiciary, S. L&J = Senate Law & Justice, S. W&M = Senate Ways
& Means
HEARING(S) SCHEDULED:
None
LEGISLATIVE HOT LINE: You may reach your Representatives and
Senator by calling the Legislative Hotline at 1-800-562-6000. Toll free!!!
The hearing impaired may obtain TDD access at 1-800-635-9993. Also toll free!!!
1-800-562-6000 TDD 1-800-635-9993
OTHER DATA: Copies of pending legislation (bills),
legislative schedules and other information are available on the legislature's
web site at "www.leg.wa.gov". Bills are available in Acrobat (.pdf)
format. You may download a free version
of Adobe Acrobat Reader from Adobe's web site (http://www.adobe.com). You may also obtain hard copy bills,
initiatives, etc, in the mail from the Legislative Bill Room FREE OF CHARGE by
calling 1-360-786-7573. Copies of bills
may also be ordered toll free by calling the Legislative Hotline at (800)
562-6000. You may also hear floor and
committee hearing action live at http://www.tvw.org/
(you need "RealAudio" to do this, available free at the TVW web site).
By reading the House and
Senate "bill reports" (hbr, sbr) for each bill, you can see how
individual committee members voted. By
reading the "roll call" for each bill, you can see how the entire
House or Senate voted on any bill. The
beauty of the web site is that ALL this information is available, on line, to
any citizen.
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