GOAL Post 2011-14

From:    Joe Waldron [jwaldron@halcyon.com]
Sent:    Friday, April 08, 2011 7:29 PM
Subject:    GOAL Post 2011-14

GOAL Post 2011-14

Legislative Update from Olympia 8 April 2011

HB 1016 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR; MONDAY ACTION

STILL AWAITING VOTES ON TWO BILLS IN SENATE

SECOND CHAMBER CUT-OFF TUESDAY, 12 APRIL

SESSION SCHEDULED TO END ON EASTER SUNDAY

HB 1016, by Rep. Brian Blake (D-19), was officially delivered to Governor Gregoire on Wednesday, 6 April. She has five days to act on the bill. HB 1016 is currently on her schedule for executive action at 2 p.m. on Monday, 11 April. Gubernatorial action on bills and scheduled bill signing information can be found at http://www.governor.wa.gov/billaction/2011/default.asp

Two bills are still hanging in Senate Rules awaiting a pull to the floor for a vote of the full Senate. HB 1455, by Rep. Jim McCune (R-2) (restoration of rights) and SHB 1923, by Rep. Roger Goodman (D-45) (CPL qualification) must pass out of the Senate by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 12 April or die for this session. Both the House and Senate are working this weekend to overcome the backlog of bills,

As noted above, Tuesday, 12 April is the cut-off for bills to pass their second chamber (House bills in the Senate and Senate bills in the House). Bills that fail to make it over this hurdle will be considered dead for the 2011 regular session.

As required by the state constitution, the 2011 regular session of the legislature must end by midnight on Sunday, 24 April, the 105th legislative day. 24 April is Easter Sunday. I suspect the session will end a day or two earlier, given the religious and family-related significance of Easter Sunday.

BILL STATUS:

The following bills are still under consideration for the 2011-12 biennium:

Bill # Subject Sponsor Status
HB 1016 Suppressor use Blake (D-19) To Gov.
HB 1455 Restoration of rights McCune (R-2) S. Rules
SHB 1923 CPL qualification Goodman (D-45) S. Rules

Key to abbreviations: HB = House Bill, SHB = Substitute House Bill

GOAL POSITION ON BILLS

HB 1016 SUPPORT
HB 1455 SUPPORT
SHB 1923 SUPPORT

HEARING(S) SCHEDULED:

No public hearings remain for gun-related bills.

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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