GOAL Post 2016-6

Shorter offering from Joe this week. Most bills are dead, which in most cases is probably just as well.

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FROM: GOAL WA goalwa@cox.net

TO: undisclosed-recipients:

SENT: Fri 2/12/2016 6:13 PM

SUBJECT: GOAL Post 2016-6

Legislative Update from Olympia 12 February 2016

• FISCAL COMMITTEE CUT-OFf
• RULES COMMITTEE ACTION (OR INACTION)
• CHAMBER CUT-OFF NEXT WEEK
• NO PUBLIC HEARINGS NEXT WEEK
• SB 6267 PASSES SENATE

Tuesday evening was the fiscal committee cut-off.  HB 1857 failed to pass House Appropriations and is likely dead for the session.  HB 2793 goes to House Rules awaiting a call to the House floor.

Bills that have passed out of their policy committee and a fiscal committee (if required) go to the House or Senate Rules Committees, where they await a “pull” to the floor.  Essentially, the Rules committee votes on which bills to bring to the chamber floor that day, and which wait… or die.  Not all bills that make it to Rules receive a floor vote (vote of the entire House or Senate).  Recognize, too, that a lot of bills in the Rules committee are holdovers from last year and unlikely to move this year as well.

At the time the weekly schedule was published, no gun bills were scheduled to be heard.  As bills move to the floor for a chamber vote, then pass to the other chamber, bills may be scheduled.

5 p.m., Wednesday, 17 February is the chamber cut-off.  All House bills under consideration must pass out of the House to the Senate.  All Senate bills must pass out of the Senate to the House.  Bills that do not pass their original chamber are supposedly dead for the session.  (I say “supposedly” because on rare occasions the rules are suspended and bills come back to life.)  

SB 6267 (Schoesler (R-4) passed out of the Senate.  It will likely go to House Judiciary next week.

BILL STATUS:

Bill #	Subject	Prime sponsor	Status	GOAL position on bill
HB 1713	Mental health/guns	Cody (D-34)	H. Rules.	NEUTRAL
HB 1857	Extreme protective orders	Jinkins (D-27)	Died H Aprop	OPPOSE
SHB 2410	Felon gun registry	Hayes (R-10)	H. Rules	SUPPORT
HB 2793	Suicide awareness and prevention	Orwall (D-33)	H. Rules	SUPPORT
HB 2908	Use of force by peace officers	Ryu (D-32)	H. Rules	OPPOSE
HB 2913	License suspension/child support	Gregerson (D-33)	H. Rules	OPPOSE
SSB 5036	Penalizes criminal misuse of body armor	O'Ban (R-28)	S. Rules	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
SB 6158	Firearm transfers at non-profit events	Dammeier (R-25)	S. Rules	SUPPORT
SB 6165	Allows possession of short barreled rifles	Takko (D-19)	S. Rules	SUPPORT
SB 6267	CPL renewal notice	Schoesler (R-9)	Passed Senate	SUPPORT

 

Key to abbreviations:  S. = Senate, H. = House, Jud = Judiciary, K-12 = Education, L&J = Law & Justice, Trans = Transportation, W&M = Ways and Means

HEARING(S) SCHEDULED: None scheduled.

Tutorial on public testimony:  http://leg.wa.gov/legislature/Pages/Testify.aspx

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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Upcoming WAC gun show(s):

Monroe                 13-14 February

Puyallup              20-21 February

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