February 12th - 2013 Regular Legislative Session Day 30

It’s going to be a busy day here in Olympia. My day started with public hearing in the Government Operations and Elections committee. The Regulatory Freedom and Accountability Act from the Freedom Agenda, House Bill 1163, was heard this morning. We received great testimony in support of the bill, so let’s see if the bill moves out of committee. Call the Chairman of the Government Operation and Elections Committee, Rep Hunt, and ask him to move the bill out of committee.

The Government Operations and Elections Committee is hearing four other bills this morning as well. House Bill 1400 amends the Washington Administrative Procedure Act to provide that administrative hearing notices and orders may be served electronically upon the parties to administrative hearings.

House Bill 1418 requires cities, towns, and special purpose districts that do not maintain office hours for a minimum of thirty hours per week to post directions on how to contact the agency personnel and to respond to requests to inspect or copy records at the next regularly scheduled agency meeting.

House Bill 1449 exempts victim impact statements from disclosure under the Public Records Act and exempts documents and other materials provided by the defense to the prosecution.

House Bill 1456 authorizes pretax payroll deductions for qualified transit and parking benefits.

There are also eight bills scheduled for possible Executive Action.

#Regulatory #Freedom #Accountability #Agenda #House #Bill #Executive #Action #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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February 7th - 2013 Regular Legislative Session Day 25

We just received word that our Regulatory Freedom and Accountability Act (House Bill 1163) was scheduled for a hearing on February 12, 2013 at 8:00 AM in the Government Operations and Election Committee.

House Bill 1163 is part of the Freedom Agenda and represents a lot of the Regulatory Reform measures many of us have been talking about for years, including 90 day permitting by state agencies, economic impact analysis of new rules, a rule writing moratorium, and coordination by state agencies with local government entities.

Please contact you Representatives and ask them to support House Bill 1163.

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January 24th - 2013 Regular Legislative Session Day 11

At approximately 1:30 PM today I will be on the Lars Larsen show to discuss House Bill 1163, Regulatory Freedom and Accountability Act.

#Lars #Larsen #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District #HB #1163 #Regulatory #Freedom #Accountability
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Op Ed

Business as Usual is Hurting Business Across the State | NFIB:: www.nfib.com/washington/nfib-in-my-state-content?c...59316

The National Federation of Independent Business asked me to write an Op Ed on the Regulatory Freedom and Accountability Act ... here it is.

#HB #2276 #NFIB #regulatory #freedom #accountability #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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2012 Regular Legislative Session Day 19

It's Friday baby! I'm in the Labor and Workforce Development Committee this morning listening to testimony on HB 2348 related to the Workforce Investment Act and HB 2265 establishing Washington Works payments to increase graduation rates. HB 2265 will only cost the taxpayers $140 million per biennium.

Last night the State Government and Tribal Affairs Committee met at 6:30 PM to take Executive Action on 10 bills. We made a procedural motion to put the Regulatory Freedom and Accountability Act on the Executive Session calendar, but the motion failed. So much for the Denorcrat Majority wanting to deal with systemic problems with over regulation. We'll keep working on it for the next few days.

Last night the House Republican Organizational Committee met at AWB to elect 3 members to the Board of Directors. I was officially elected as the Eastern Washington representative to the HROC Board of Directors. With 8 seats, we take the majority ... Time to get to work, as soon as session ends.

#HB #2348 #2265 #HROC #Regulatory #Freedom #and #Accountability #Act #15th #District #Rep #David #Taylor
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