FROM: GOAL
TO: undisclosed-recipients:
SENT: Fri 5/1/2015 5:13 PM
SUBJECT: GOAL Post 2015-Special-1
Legislative Update from
Olympia 1 May, 2015
- THEY'RE B-A-A-A-C-K!
- SEVERAL HOLDOVER BILLS PASSED
- ESHB 1713 REPASSED HOUSE
- MORE GUN BILLS COMING BACK?
- HOW LONG WILL THE SESSION LAST?
- MANY ARE FILED, FEW ARE CHOSEN
The only bill of interest
moving is HB 1713. The bill passed both
the House and Senate in the regular session, but the House refused to concur in
the Senate amendments. It went back to
the House at the end of the session. The
House passed it out again, and the Senate assigned it to Senate Ways &
Means... again. The restrictive firearm
language has been removed from the bill.
Rumors are circulating that
the governor has asked that selected anti-gun bills be revived and acted on by
the legislature. You may recall, I
reported that once the legislature goes into special session, they can do
anything they please (legislatively!).
It's alike a constitutional convention in that regard, once the door is
opened, you lose control over who enters.
Having said that, the only
specific legislation the governor mentioned in his proclamation calling for a
special session is specific budgetary items... and one other thing: "Work remains to be done with critical
policy bills... " Could those
include gun bills? Yes. Is the legislature going to act on them? Not likely.
Here's a link to the proclamation:
http://www.governor.wa.gov/sites/default/files/proclamations/proc_15-08_0.pdf
For those of you who are not
familiar with our governor's history on the gun issue... Jay Inslee was first elected to Congress in
1992 to represent the 4th Congressional District -- the central Washington
corridor. In 1994, he cast an
"aye" vote on the Clinton "assault weapon" ban. In fact, it is believed he cast the deciding
vote (it passed by ONE vote of 435) after his arm was twisted by then-Speaker
Tom Foley (D-WA-5). Sort of an
"fellow eastern Washingtonian, do me a favor." That November BOTH Inslee and Foley were
thrown out of Congress! (Foley holds the
distinction of being the first speaker to be thrown out of office since 1862 -
132 years. Inslee moved to the west
side, where he was elected to represent the 1st Congressional District (North
Seattle and environs). So Mr Inslee has
no love for gun owners.
Special sessions are called
in 30-day segments. This session began
on 29 April and will end on 30 May, unless previously adjourned. How long will this one last? Until budgeteers arrive at an agreement
acceptable to both chambers. It could be
over in a few days, it could take the entire 30 days. And ANOTHER 30 days! Are you ready for a major tax increase? The governor wants more money to spend, the
House Democrats wan t to give it to him, the Senate Republicans do not. Who will blink first?
To put things in a little
better perspective, during the regular session that ended last week, a total of
2,445 bills of various types were filed in both chambers. Of the 2,400, only 308 made it to the
governor's desk. 12.6% -- almost 90%
died along the way.
BILL STATUS:
Bill #
|
Subject
|
Prime sponsor
|
Status
|
GOAL Position
|
*ESHB 1713
|
Mental health/guns
|
Cody (D-34)
|
S. W&M
|
NEUTRAL
|
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:
At this point, there is no published agenda.
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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individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself, or the state, shall not
be impaired, but nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing
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Article 1, Section 24
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