GOAL Post 2015-8

Joe has sent out this week's GOAL Post.  Most of the bills have died; all of the "good" ones in the House, mostly because Tacoma Representative Jinkins never met a gun control she didn't love, or a firearms right she didn't hate. 

If you live in her district, take note.

One bill was forcibly removed form her purview, moved to a different committee, and significantly; re-written. Thanks in no small part to our lobbyists and activists.

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FROM: GOAL <goalwa@cox.net>

TO: undisclosed-recipients:

SUBJECT: GOAL Post 2015-8

SENT: Sat 2/28/2015 4:14 AM

Legislative Update from Olympia 27 February 2015

FISCAL COMMITTEE CUT-OFF

TWELVE SURVIVE

CHAMBER CUT-OFF 11 MARCH

FOCUS SHIFTS TO FLOOR ACTION

NO PUBLIC HEARINGS ON BILLS

Today is the fiscal committee cut-off for those bills that required the legislature to identify a funding source if the bill was to proceed.  As with the policy committee cut-off, bills that did not pass out of committee are considered dead for the session -- probably.

Eleven bills remain under consideration.  Most are in their respective Rules Committees awaiting a floor vote.  Substitute Senate Bill (SSB) 5381 (return of firearms held by law enforcement) passed out of the Senate on a 49-0 vote.  The substitute bill cleared away our objections to the bill, although the House counterpart, HB 1731 is still unacceptable in its current form.   

Wednesday, 11 March is the chamber cut-off for the 2015 Regular Session.  By 5 p.m. on the 11th, all House Bills must pass the House, Senate bills pass the Senate, for the bills to remain in play for the session.  This will result in another major culling of bills as the legislators simply run out of time to vote on more bills

The focus for the next 12 days will be on activity (voting) on the House and Senate floors -- the entire chamber voting to pass bills.  There will be a few committee hearings but you can expect the full House and Senate to be on their respective chamber floors for most of the day (and some evenings) until 5 p.m. on the 11th.  If you can find the time, this is a great opportunity to see the entire House or Senate debating and voting on bills on the floor.  (They typically run bills in batches -- maybe a dozen or more bill votes, then they recess and go into their caucus (Republican and Democrat) rooms to discuss the party position on the next batch of bills. 

There are no more public hearings on bills of interest until after the 11 March chamber cut-off.  The process then starts all over again, with House bills being heard in the Senate and Senate bills in the House.  We're five days short of being half-way through the 105-day session!

BILL STATUS:

Bill #	Subject	Prime sponsor	Status	GOAL Position
*SHB 1713	Mental health/guns	Cody (D-34)	H. Rules	OPPOSE
HB 1731	Return of firearms held by law enforcement	Ormsby (D-3)	H. Rules	OPPOSE
*HB 1857	Extreme protective orders	Jinkins (D-27)	Died H. Aprop	OPPOSE
SSB 5036	Penalizes criminal misuse of body armor	O'Ban (R-28)	S. Rules	NEUTRAL
*SSB 5381	Return of firearms held by law enforcement	Billig (D-3)	Passed Senate	NEUTRAL
SB 5500	Allows retired LEOs to carry on school grounds	Roach (R-31)	S. Rules	SUPPORT
SB 5539	Exempts LEO’s from three day waiting period	Roach (R-31)	S. Rules	SUPPORT
SSB 5579	Exempts licensed scty guards from b/g checks	Dammeier (R-25)	S. Rules	SUPPORT
SB 5615	Exempts military members from b/g checks	Benton (R-17)	S Rules	SUPPORT
SB 5658	Reporting of mental health commitment	Dansel (R-7)	S. Rules	NEUTRAL
SB 5831	Restoration of firearm rights	Honeyford (R-15)	S. Rules	SUPPORT
SB 6015	NRA license plate	Roach (R-31)	S. Rules	SUPPORT

* indicates change in status this week

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, H. Ag/NatRes = House Agriculture & Natural Resources, S. NatRes/Parks = Senate Natural Resources & Parks, S. Hum Ser = Senate Human Services, Mental Health & Housing, H. GenGov = House General Government & Info Technology, S. Trans = Senate Transportation

HEARINGS 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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