It’s Wednesday morning and we’re on the House Floor to vote on bills. There really aren’t a lot of bills to run from the calendars, but there are several bills in play that came out of committee yesterday. The rumor is we could Sine Die as early as Friday (instead of Sunday), but we’ll see. I have to admit that I’m looking forward to being home, at least for a little while until the Special Session gets cranked up.
We ran the following bills the Concurrence/Dispute Calendar:
Second Substitute Senate Bill 5213 was returned to Second Reading for a new amendment and passed 97 to 0 with 1 excused.
Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5267 was returned to Second Reading for a new amendment and passed 97 to 0 with 1 excused.
Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1253 to concur with the Senate Amendment passed 90 to 7 with 1 excused.
Substitute Senate Bill 5211 was returned to Second Reading for a new amendment and passed 97 to 0 with 1 excused.
Second Substitute Senate Bill 5732 was returned to Second Reading for a new amendment and passed 94 to 3 with 1 excused.
We also debated the Democrat Majority’s idea of good governance … just short of $1.0 billion tax increase. The tax increases will impact businesses throughout Washington State and will mean higher prices and job losses. We ran two important amendments to try and protect the people’s right to Referendum. The first amendment would have required the tax increases be put to a vote of the people and remove the emergency clause. The amendment failed 46 to 51. The second amendment would have simply removed the emergency clause which allows individuals to petition the state for a referendum. That amendment also failed 47 to 50. Substitute House Bill 2038 passed 50 to 47 with 1 excused. Interestingly, Speaker Chopp allowed 5 members of his Democrat Caucus off by voting no to avoid the backlash from their voters.
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