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
SB 6077 – High capacity magazines – It has had a hearing in the Senate and is in the Rules Committee. The next step is the Senate floor for a vote of the entire body. You can find more information about the bills that are on the floor, ready for a vote here –
https://app.leg.wa.gov/far/Senate/Calendar
HB 2240 – This is the companion to the previous bill – it is exactly the same, so it moves through the House at the same time the 6077 moves through the Senate. If they both pass off their floors before cut-off, you can bet this will become law. It is scheduled for a Hearing on Jan 31 in the House Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary at 10:00 am.
HB 2241 – another high cap magazine bill. It had a hearing last week and is awaiting an Executive Session. Bill Report here –
Transportation
HB 2688 – Expanding Transportation policy goals – This is interesting. It removes mobility as one of the goals of transportation. Add climate change to the goals. There is a long list – none of which will help you to get to work faster. It has had a public hearing and needs to be scheduled to pass out of committee (scheduled for executive action). Here is the bill report –
SB 6606 – a bill that reverses I-976. Senator O’Ban remarked that this should just be call the “thumb our nose at the voters” bill. It flies in the face of the will of the people. Needs a public hearing in the Transportation Committee.
https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=6606&Year=2019&Initiative=False
Other
HB 2529 Outlawing Initiatives and Referendums in odd numbered years. It is the right of the people in this state to have control over their government. The Constitution allows this by giving us the right of Initiative and Referendum. This bill takes away that right. The bill is scheduled for an Executive Session on Jan 31, which means the committee will likely pass it out and it will go to the floor for a vote of the entire body. Here is a link to the bill report.
SB 5323 – state-wide ban on plastic bags – This has been voted off the floor of the Senate and is now in the House awaiting a public hearing.
https://apps.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5323&Initiative=false&Year=2019
SB 6516 – reducing the work week to 32 hours – anything over requires an employee be paid overtime pay. No public hearing has been scheduled yet.
Sex education – several bills in this category. All are awful.
HB 2184 – Here is the bill report – Gives the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction the power to decide what the sex education curriculum will be. This is a push to teach gender fluidity as early as kindergarten. It has had a hearing in the House – needs an executive session (to vote out of committee)
Ditto for ESSB 5395 – this bill was passed off the floor of the Senate last Wednesday. It is now in the house Education Committee. Be sure to also watch out for the companion bill HB 1407 (you can click on the companion bill info from the 5395 page. That’s 3 bills you need to track to make sure this legislation doesn’t pass. This is the bill that is currently moving – It was voted off the floor of the Senate last week and is now in the House waiting for a hearing.
Taxes
SB 6492 – replaces a tax surcharge they passed at the end of session last year with an increase to the general B&O tax for service industries from 1.5% to 1.8% for businesses that have a gross income over $1 million (remember this is gross – not net). The next step is the Senate floor for a vote of the entire body.
https://apps.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=6492&Year=2020&Initiative=false
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CAPR ACTION ALERT!
CAPR (Citizens Alliance for Property Rights) urges a call your Senator and Representatives and tell them to pass these bills! 800 562 6000
CAPR has been working the legislature to pass our Liberty Based Bills!
These two bills are the reason we, as CAPR, work to get legislation in play at the legislature! If we all act together as CAPR members we can get these bills passed!
Please call and ask for these bills to move through the legislature and become law!
Bill # 1
Thanks to Senator Jeff Holy SB 6315, Concerning enforcement of the policies of the department of ecology, is scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology at 10:00 AM on Tuesday January 28.
https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=6315&Year=2019&Initiative=false
Bill text: Beginning July 1, 2020, the department of ecology may not apply or enforce any interpretive statement, policy statement, or rule unless the interpretive statement, policy statement, or rule has been adopted as a rule in accordance with the rule-making process provided in this chapter, codified in the Washington Administrative Code, and expressly ratified by the legislature in a bill enacted pursuant to the State Constitution.
Please come and testify if it is important to you to provide better legislative oversight and accountability to the Department of Ecology! If you can’t come and testify, please be sure to call 800 562 6000.
This is one of CAPR’s original Administrative Law Reform bills, CAPR members, it is time for you to help get this reform passed!
Bill # 2
Thanks to Senator Phil Fortunato SB 6572, Concerning uniform due process of land use code violations, is Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Local Government at 8:00 AM on Thursday, January 30.
https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=6572&Initiative=false&Year=2019
Bill text of note: Before any violation of an ordinance is issued under this chapter, the name of any complainant must be available to the person receiving a notice of violation. A notice of violation may be based on information provided by a complainant if a determination to investigate is made after receiving a phone call, email, letter, report, complaint, or other information from a party who claims that a violation is or may be occurring or will soon occur. Activities may not be investigated based on information provided by an anonymous complainant. This subsection does not create any civil liability on the part of the state or any state agency, officer, employee, or agent.
This bill is a CAPR bill sponsored by Senator Fortunato in response to CAPR members and others in his constituency who have suffered the results of anonymous land use code violations.
This bill prohibit anonymous code use violations and prohibits agency action based on anonymous complaints.
Please come and testify if you have been the recipient of an anonymous violation and have faced hardship over such code enforcement activities.
If you cannot come and testify, be sure to back up the hard work done to get this bill to a hearing and call your Senator and Representatives and ask for this bill to move through the legislature and become law! Please also call the legislative hotline at 800 562 6000!
Please call 800 562 6000 and let the legislature know what you think of these bills!
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. Thomas Paine
