GOAL Post 2009-8

GOAL Post 2009-8

Legislative Update from Olympia 6 March 2009

SENATE BILLS 5193 AND 5739 PASS SENATE

HOUSE BILLS 1052 AND 1498 PASS HOUSE

CHAMBER CUT-OFF THURSDAY, 12 MARCH

BILL STATUS TRACKING REDUCED

Senate Bills 5193 (alien firearms access) and 5739 (military CPL
renewal) have passed out of the Senate and were sent to the House
Judiciary Committee for consideration in that chamber. SB 5193 had 45
"aye" votes, three votes in opposition (Fairley (D-32), Regala (D-27)
and Tom (D-48) -- all anti-gun Senators), and one absent/excused. SB
5739 was unanimous, with 47 "aye" votes and two absent/excused.

House Bills 1052 (alien firearms licensing) and 1498 (involuntary
commitment) have passed out of the House and were sent to the Senate
Judiciary Committee for consideration in that chamber. Both passed with
unanimous votes, no opposition in the House.

The next major cut-off date is 12 March. By the end of that day, all
bills must have cleared their original chamber. Four of the five bills
we are tracking have already cleared that hurdle and await the whole
process again (committee hearings, committee and floor votes) on the
other side.

In the "Bill Status" section I have deleted the bills that died
procedurally for failure to pass the policy committee cut-off. The
possibility that any of them could be revived is remote.

BILL STATUS:

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

Bill # Subject
Sponsor Status

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

HB 1114 Youth hunting age requirement Blake (D-19)
H Rules

HB 1498 Involuntary commitment Hunter
(D-48) S. Jud

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

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

Key to abbreviations: S. = Senate, H. = House, HB = House Bill, SB =
Senate Bill, SHB = Substitute House Bill, HJM = House Joint Memorial,
Jud = Judiciary, Ag/NatRes = Agriculture and Natural Resources, Educ =
Education, Gov Ops = Government Operations and Elections, NatRes =
Natural Resources, Oceans and Recreation, StGov = State Government and
Tribal Affairs

GOAL POSITION ON BILLS

HB 1052 SUPPORT

HB 1114 SUPPORT

HB 1498 SUPPORT

SB 5193 SUPPORT

SB 5739 SUPPORT

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!!!

1-800-562-6000 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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