by Sue | Jan 28, 2020 | Alerts, Alerts about pending WA State Legislation, Olympia News and Views
From Ruth Peterson
Legislation to follow for the week of 1-27-2020. This is not a complete list. I will add to it and update for next week. As I’ve stated before, try to find an organization that focuses on your interests and who provides a newsletter like this for that area. I am barely skimming the surface because of lack of time. There are subjects I’m not even touching upon here. There are lots of bills that will damage different businesses.
Firearms
HB 1068 & SB 5062 – both ban “high capacity” magazines – neither have moved through the legislative process at all since session began.
https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1068&Chamber=House&Year=2019
HB 1010 – Allowing the WSP to destroy firearms that have been confiscated. It has been passed off the floor of the House (party line vote) and will now be considered in the Senate. Bill report here – http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bill%20Reports/House/1010-S%20HBR%20APH%2020.pdf?q=20200126194029 (more…)
by Sue | Jan 21, 2020 | For Your Action, Olympia News and Views
by Ruth Peterson
January 21, 2020
Session began last Monday, and there are hundreds of new bills that are being added to the thousands that didn’t get passed last year. It is a short session which means it will move fast. Many bills will go before the House and the Senate without the public being able to weigh in during hearings because those bills were heard last year. There are others that will get hearings, but because things move so fast in a short session, the public won’t have much time to act. The key in the short sessions is to notify your legislators the minute you hear about a bill that you do or don’t like.
You may wish to ask your legislator to support keeping car tabs at $30. There’s a bill for that – HB 2227. Or how about a ban on local income tax – SB 6462. There are many very good bills like those two. How about some bills you may not like – HB 2529, which bans initiatives and referendums in odd numbered years (the citizens have a constitutional right to put checks on our Legislature. This takes that right away). (more…)
by Sue | Jan 16, 2020 | Alerts about pending WA State Legislation, Olympia News and Views
by Ruth
Olympia, WA – 1/16/2020 – The Legislative Session begins on Monday, January 13th. There are a host of bills and issues we need to follow closely – regulatory restrictions, income tax, pay-per-mile tax, sex education, $30 car tab issue, gun laws. The list is long. I want to point out a bill that really won’t have as much of an impact on your life as many others, and it may not even pass, but it is one of hundreds that gives law-making authority to a board that has no accountability to the people. (more…)
by Sue | Jan 16, 2020 | Alerts, For Your Action, Taxation
Port Angeles, WA – Jan. 2, 2020 – At the regular meeting of the Clallam County Republican Party’s (CCRP) Central Committee meeting, a Resolution was passed by a strong majority advising the rejection of the 2020 Port Angeles School District (PASD) $52 million capital levy, which will be on the ballot for that District in a Special Election to be held February 11, 2020. Ballots will be mailed on January 22, 2020, and voters can accept or reject the levy with a 51% vote.
The CCRP Central Committee agrees with Citizens for Affordable Schools, the levy’s opponents, who states that the levy would be
- a 175% property tax increase for PASD residents, and
- that the PASD School Board should use the least costly, common sense solutions to remedy PASD school building deficiencies.
- PASD’s school board should replace old electrical, plumbing and heating systems, and flooring (if needed) instead of wastefully demolishing and replacing several Stevens Middle School’s buildings.
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