GOAL Post 2009-10

Legislative Update from Olympia 20 March 2009

SB 5739 PASSES COMMITTEE

HB1498 PENDING

PUBLIC HEARINGS SCHEDULED

NEXT CUT-OFF DATE 30 MARCH

SB 5739 (military CPL renewal) has passed out of the House Judiciary
Committee on a unanimous vote. It now moves to the House Rules
Committee awaiting a full floor vote.

HB 1498 was voted on in Executive Session in the Senate Human Services
and Corrections Committee Friday morning. It appeared to pass on a
voice vote, but under Senate rules, committee members must sign a "sign
in" sheet recording their vote. Occasionally a bill appears to pass on
a voice vote, but fails to get the required signatures. The sign-in
sheet hasn't been returned to committee staff as this is being written.

Public hearings are scheduled for HB 1052 in Senate Judiciary on
Tuesday, 24 March at 10 a.m., and for HB 1114 on Wednesday, 25 March at
8 a.m. in Senate Natural Resources. At this time, no hearing has been
scheduled for SB 5193 (HB 1052, if it becomes law, will resolve the
alien firearms issue without further action needed).

The policy committee cut-off date in the second chamber is Monday, 30
March. House bills that have not passed their Senate committee, and
vice versa, will be considered dead for the remainder of the session.
Of the five bills we're tracking, two have already passed their policy
committee; two are scheduled for a hearing next week.

BILL STATUS:

The following bills have been filed for the 2009-10 biennium:

Bill # Subject
Sponsor Status

2SHB 1052 Alien firearm licenses Moeller (D-49)
S. Jud

ESHB 1114 Youth hunting age requirement Blake (D-19)
S. NatRes

HB 1498 Involuntary commitment Hunter
(D-48) S. HS&C

SB 5193 Alien firearm licenses Delvin
(R-8) H. Jud

SB 5739 CPL renewal by military members King (R-14) H.
Rules

Key to abbreviations: S. = Senate, H. = House, HB = House Bill, SB =
Senate Bill, 2SHB = Second Substitute House Bill, ESHB = Engrossed
Substitute House Bill, Jud = Judiciary, HS&C = Human Services &
Corrections, NatRes = Natural Resources, Oceans and Recreation

GOAL POSITION ON BILLS

SHB 1052 SUPPORT

HB 1114 SUPPORT

HB 1498 SUPPORT

SB 5193 SUPPORT

SB 5739 SUPPORT

HEARINGS SCHEDULED:

24 Mar HB 1052 Senate Judiciary Committee

10:00 a.m. Senate Hearing
Room 1, JAC Bldg

25 Mar HB 1114 Senate Natural Resources

8:00 a.m. Senate Hearing
Room 2, JAC Bldg

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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
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