GOAL Post 2017-Special 1

Olympia is too busy trying to set new records for tax rates to take further action on gun rights... or so it seems.

Speaking of Olympia,  May Day in Seattle was pretty anticlimactic, but the protesters in Olympia found themselves getting herded by pepperball shooting cops, and then getting ambushed by rock throwing homeless people...

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From: GOAL WA (goalwa@cox.net (Joe Waldron)

To: undisclosed recipients

Sent: Fri 5/5/2017 6:02 PM

Subject: GOAL Post 2017-Special 1

Legislative Update from Olympia 5 May 2017

NO ACTION ON BILLS

I was at the annual NRA convention and meetings in Atlanta last Friday, but nothing happened anyway!

Governor Inslee signed HB 1100 (CPL renewal postcard) a week before the session ended. The first postcards should go out in late summer (they have to set up the system first).

Still awaiting the governor’s signature are HB 1501 (NICS denial police notification), HB 1612 (suicide prevention), SB 5268 (CPL renewal e-mail notification) and SB 5552 (limited I-594 background check exemptions. (Correction, SB 5268 did squeak out just before the regular session ended.)

The governor has 20 days to act on bills after the session ends. That means he has until 13 May to take action on the four bills listed above. Governor Inslee has three options available: he can sign a bill into law; he can veto an entire bill or part of a bill, in which case the legislature has the opportunity to override on the next session; or he can take no action, in which case the bill becomes law anyway. Why decline to take action? Maybe the governor doesn’t like it, but doesn’t feel it is important enough to veto. This is the guy who wants $8 billion in new taxes, despite the fact that the Republican-controlled Senate passed a balanced operating budget.

At this point, 12 days into the up-to-30-day special session, no gun bills have been pulled back out, nor have new bills been filed.

As next Saturday is the last day the governor can act on bills, I’ll likely get the next GOAL Post out over next weekend.

BILL NUMBER	TOPIC	SPONSOR	STATUS
SHB 1100	CPL renewal notice	Blake (D-19)	Governor signed
HB 1501	Illegal purchase of firearms	Hansen (D-23)	To Gov
2SHB 1612	Suicide prevention	Orwall (D-33)	To Gov
SB 5268	CPL renewal notice	Takko (D-19)	To Gov
SB 5552	Certain exemptions to I-594	Pedersen (D-43)	To Gov

PUBLIC 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!!!

1-800-562-6000TDD 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). Each bill’s web page contains a link to any public hearing at the bottom of the page.

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 6-7 May

Puyallup 3-4 June

"The right of the 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 individuals or corporations to organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men."

Article 1, Section 24

Constitution of the State of Washington

Copyright 2017 Gun Owners Action League of WA

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Posted by: GOAL WA <goalwa@cox.net>

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