February 20th - 2013 Regular Legislative Session Day 38

We’re hearing four bills in the Government Operations and Elections Committee meeting today. House Bill 1697 exempts the Utilities and Transportation Commission solid waste company records containing valuable commercial information from disclosure.

House Bill 1720 requires that a statement be printed on each ballot and voters' pamphlet, informing voters that a list of campaign donors is available on the Public Disclosure Commission website.

House Bill 1753 authorizes the Department of Labor and Industries to purchase interpreter services for doctors providing services to injured workers or crime victims with limited English proficiency or who are sensory-impaired; requires the departments of Social and Health Services and Labor and Industries and the Health Care Authority to integrate the purchase of interpreter services through one centralized system by July 1, 2016; requires language access providers to be certified or authorized by the Department of Social and Health Services; establishes the Spoken Language Interpreter Advisory Group; requires the Department of Enterprise Services to develop and implement a model for providing interpreter services by July 1, 2014; and allows for statewide collective bargaining units for language access providers who provide interpreter services for the Department of Labor and Industries and for interpreter services purchased for other state agencies through the Department of Enterprise Services.

House Bill 1901 exempts from disclosure actual enumeration data collected for purposes of annexations and population determinations and retained by the Office of Financial Management.

We’re also going to consider six bills for Executive Action.

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February 19th - 2013 Regular Legislative Session Day 37

In the Government Operations and Elections Committee this morning we’re hearing five bills. House Bill 1460 establishes standards for the administrative reassignment of any employee of the state, when necessary to ensure a full, thorough, and impartial investigation of a workplace complaint and requires notification and reporting of the results of the investigation to the person empowered by law to operate the agency and responsible to the governor or to no other public officer, and to the Washington State Human Resources Director, when applicable.

House Bill 1591 requires the departments of Ecology, Labor and Industries, and Health to establish and annually perform a formal review process of existing rules.

House Bill 1714 authorizes governing bodies of public agencies to record closed executive session meetings and exempts the recordings from disclosure under the Public Records Act; authorizes a court, upon finding that a public agency intentionally violated the Open Public Meetings Act, to order recording of closed executive sessions for two years; provides a public agency with immunity from liability for damages that are the consequence of specific actions made without legal authority in an executive session, when certain conditions are met; authorizes the Attorney General (AG) to approve courses of training offered by a governmental body or other entity on compliance with the Open Public Meetings Act; and requires the AG or other entity providing the approved training to provide a certification of course completion to elected or appointed officials who complete the curriculum.

House Bill 1746 allows municipal officers to have a beneficial interest in a contract providing for renewable energy incentive programs and allows municipal officers to have a beneficial interest in a contract for the financing, acquisition, or installation of energy-conserving fixtures, systems, and equipment.

House Bill 1785 allows a provider of payroll deduction programs use of state facilities to provide information to employees about the programs.

With Policy Cutoff on Friday, it’s going to be a long week.

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Lawmakers make plea for state park rangers | The Columbian: www.columbian.com/news/2011/dec/22/lawmakers-make-...ngers

Maybe it's time to reform the way State Parks operate. According to the Governor's priorities of government list, the State Parks and Recreation Commission spends $13.6 million on Park Maintenance, $112.0 million on Park Operations and $3.3 million for Park acquisitions, planning and development ... that's a total of $128.9 million. How about we quite acquiring new parks and take care of the ones we already have ($3.3 million saved)? How about we roll maintenance into operations like most businesses do ($13.6 million saved)?

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2011 Legislative Session

Day 43 - Family Day on the Hill. Molly, Tiffany and Brock came over for the weekend. We had a great time. short but great, and Tiffany and Brock both got to vote on two Resolutions. Pretty cool. Charles' family came over too ... yes, three boys in the house over the weekend ... and also voted for the Resolutions. It was a crazy scene on the House Floor ... all the Republican's had families and kids and all the Democrats had "life partners". Crazy ....

Tomorrow is a grind day ... a whole bunch of bills to run off the floor. We should be on the floor all day long. Wednesday will be more of the same, except Ways and Means and Transportation; neither of which I sit on, but Charles does. We'll be here over the weekend too, then BIAW comes in next week. By Wednesday, Operation Chaos and Mayhem will begin. Stay tuned ...

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