June 27th - 2013 Second Special Session

Thursday morning and we were back on the House Floor for possible action on legislation. It sounds official … there’s a budget deal that could be voted on Friday night or Saturday morning. We have yet to be briefed on what’s in the negotiated budget and we have not been provided a copy as of yet. I hope we’ll be provided an opportunity to actually review the agreement before we vote on it. We were provided a list of five bills that could run and after caucusing until 11:30 AM, we broke for lunch. One of the bills on the list was reconsideration of the 10-1/2 cent gas tax increase that failed to pass yesterday.

After returning from lunch, the first action item was a motion to reconsider the Gas Tax (ESHB 1954), which passed 51 to 41 with 5 excused. The gas tax was passed 51 to 41 with 5 excused … I guess there was enough arm twisting to get the bill passed. It will be interesting to see what those members get for changing their vote to"yes”.

Here’s the vote count on the Gas Tax…

ESHB 1954
Transportation revenue
House vote on Final Passage on Reconsideration
6/27/2013

Yeas: 51 Nays: 41 Absent: 0 Excused: 5

Voting Yea: Representatives Appleton, Bergquist, Blake, Carlyle, Clibborn, Cody, Farrell, Fey, Fitzgibbon, Freeman, Goodman, Green, Habib, Hansen, Hudgins, Hunt, Hunter, Jinkins, Kagi, Kirby, Liias, Lytton, Maxwell, McCoy, Moeller, Morrell, Morris, Moscoso, Ormsby, Orwall, Pedersen, Pettigrew, Pollet, Reykdal, Riccelli, Roberts, Ryu, Santos, Sawyer, Seaquist, Sells, Springer, Stanford, Sullivan, Tarleton, Tharinger, Upthegrove, Van De Wege, Wylie, Zeiger, and Mr. Speaker
Voting Nay: Representatives Alexander, Angel, Buys, Chandler, Condotta, Dahlquist, DeBolt, Dunshee, Fagan, Haigh, Haler, Hargrove, Harris, Hawkins, Hayes, Holy, Hurst, Klippert, Kochmar, Kretz, Kristiansen, MacEwen, Magendanz, Manweller, Nealey, Orcutt, Overstreet, Parker, Pike, Ross, Schmick, Scott, Shea, Short, Smith, Stonier, Taylor, Vick, Walsh, Warnick, and Wilcox
Absent:
Excused: Representatives Crouse, Hope, Johnson, Rodne, and Takko

More to come as the day progresses.