Rule 12 of the 2013-14 Legislative Manual for the House of Representatives requires 24 hours to pass before a budget bill can be placed on the Third Reading Calendar for final passage. This requirement can be waived by a 2/3rd vote of the House or a suspension of the rules.
You know what's in the pending 2013-15 budget, right? | Washington Policy Center:: www.washingtonpolicy.org/blog/post/you-know-whats-...right
"With a 2013-15 budget deal "imminent" one of the remaining questions left to be answered is whether lawmakers and the public will be provided adequate time to review the details before a vote on final passage occurs. We believe at a minimum the time provided for budget transparency should be at least 24 hrs."
Showing posts with label Policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Policy. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
June 25th - 2013 Second Special Legislative Session
Rule 12 of the 2013-14 Legislative Manual for the House of Representatives requires 24 hours to pass before a budget bill can be placed on the Third Reading Calendar for final passage. This requirement can be waived by a 2/3rd vote of the House or a suspension of the rules.
You know what's in the pending 2013-15 budget, right? | Washington Policy Center:: www.washingtonpolicy.org/blog/post/you-know-whats-...right
"With a 2013-15 budget deal "imminent" one of the remaining questions left to be answered is whether lawmakers and the public will be provided adequate time to review the details before a vote on final passage occurs. We believe at a minimum the time provided for budget transparency should be at least 24 hrs."
You know what's in the pending 2013-15 budget, right? | Washington Policy Center:: www.washingtonpolicy.org/blog/post/you-know-whats-...right
"With a 2013-15 budget deal "imminent" one of the remaining questions left to be answered is whether lawmakers and the public will be provided adequate time to review the details before a vote on final passage occurs. We believe at a minimum the time provided for budget transparency should be at least 24 hrs."
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
April 2nd - 2013 Regular Legislative Session Day 79
My day is starting with a Government Operation and Elections Committee meeting where we’re hearing two bills and will consider one bill for Executive Action. Substitute Senate Bill 5160 establishes processes that an agency must use when administratively reassigning an employee to home during scheduled work hours and Senate Bill 5500 limits the replacement of ballots that are destroyed, spoiled, lost, or not received through electronic means to service and overseas voters only.
Tomorrow is Policy Committee cutoff, which means we’ll be transitioning into a week of Fiscal Committee meetings. The Appropriations Committee is scheduled to meet Saturday morning at 9:00 AM, which means I’ll be spending another weekend in Olympia. I have to admit it’s pretty frustrating to have had four Appropriations Committee meetings canceled over the past couple of weeks and now face late nights and a Saturday meeting. Time management is not one of the Democrat Majority’s strong points.
Tomorrow is Policy Committee cutoff, which means we’ll be transitioning into a week of Fiscal Committee meetings. The Appropriations Committee is scheduled to meet Saturday morning at 9:00 AM, which means I’ll be spending another weekend in Olympia. I have to admit it’s pretty frustrating to have had four Appropriations Committee meetings canceled over the past couple of weeks and now face late nights and a Saturday meeting. Time management is not one of the Democrat Majority’s strong points.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
February 19th - 2013 Regular Legislative Session Day 37
We’re hearing seven bills in the Appropriations Committee today. In some cases, bills begin in policy committee and then move onto the Appropriations Committee, so you may notice some of these bills were previously listed on past posts. Substitute House Bill 1005 eliminates the Executive Ethics Board and transfers duties to the Public Disclosure Commission; requires lobbyists, lobbyist employers, and government entities to file lobbying reports over the Internet; and assesses a yearly fee to political committees, lobbyists, lobbyist employers, government entities, and elected officials that receive a salary and file personal financial disclosure statements.
Substitute House Bill 1114 requires most inpatient evaluations for involuntary treatment after criminal charges have been dismissed to occur at state hospitals; modifies procedures and standards for involuntary treatment of persons who have been deemed incompetent to stand trial for violent felonies; and provides additional notification and review requirements for release of certain involuntarily detained people.
House Bill 1152 requires that meal and rest periods for certain hospital employees be uninterrupted; permits rest periods to be taken at any point in the work period; and requires hospitals to record when certain employees take or miss a meal or rest period.
House Bill 1368 deletes requirements obligating the State Treasurer to make quarterly transfers of $2.5 million from the Liquor Excise Tax Fund to the State General Fund, thus resulting in additional moneys being transferred to counties, cities, and towns and establishes a new distribution formula for moneys in the Liquor Revolving Fund.
Substitute House Bill 1477 modifies truancy petitions and other requirements that apply to schools and school districts in responding to students who have unexcused absences.
House Bill 1560 directs the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to adopt a definition of professional learning and make recommendations for how it may be used to guide policy and investments in educator professional development; directs each Educational Service District to retain professional development coordinators in mathematics, science, and English Language Arts, if funds are provided; allows Learning Assistance Program funds to be used to support students in science; directs the OSPI to adopt consistent procedures for school districts to identify and select students for purposes of the Highly Capable Program; requires student performance data from the Transitional Bilingual Instructional Program to be reported online through the Washington State Report Card; requires a fairness and bias review to be conducted before implementation of revisions to state learning standards; renames a staffing category in the prototypical school funding formula; and allows qualified graduates of the Recruiting Washington Teachers Program to participate in an alternative route teacher preparation scholarship program.
House Bill 1868 expands eligibility for reimbursement of medical insurance premium costs for members of the Law Enforcement Officers' and Fire Fighters' Retirement System Plan 2 totally disabled in the line of duty and includes reimbursement for any medical insurance premiums up to the amounts authorized by the federal Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985.
#Appropriations #Committee #House #Bill #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District #policy #financial
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Substitute House Bill 1114 requires most inpatient evaluations for involuntary treatment after criminal charges have been dismissed to occur at state hospitals; modifies procedures and standards for involuntary treatment of persons who have been deemed incompetent to stand trial for violent felonies; and provides additional notification and review requirements for release of certain involuntarily detained people.
House Bill 1152 requires that meal and rest periods for certain hospital employees be uninterrupted; permits rest periods to be taken at any point in the work period; and requires hospitals to record when certain employees take or miss a meal or rest period.
House Bill 1368 deletes requirements obligating the State Treasurer to make quarterly transfers of $2.5 million from the Liquor Excise Tax Fund to the State General Fund, thus resulting in additional moneys being transferred to counties, cities, and towns and establishes a new distribution formula for moneys in the Liquor Revolving Fund.
Substitute House Bill 1477 modifies truancy petitions and other requirements that apply to schools and school districts in responding to students who have unexcused absences.
House Bill 1560 directs the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to adopt a definition of professional learning and make recommendations for how it may be used to guide policy and investments in educator professional development; directs each Educational Service District to retain professional development coordinators in mathematics, science, and English Language Arts, if funds are provided; allows Learning Assistance Program funds to be used to support students in science; directs the OSPI to adopt consistent procedures for school districts to identify and select students for purposes of the Highly Capable Program; requires student performance data from the Transitional Bilingual Instructional Program to be reported online through the Washington State Report Card; requires a fairness and bias review to be conducted before implementation of revisions to state learning standards; renames a staffing category in the prototypical school funding formula; and allows qualified graduates of the Recruiting Washington Teachers Program to participate in an alternative route teacher preparation scholarship program.
House Bill 1868 expands eligibility for reimbursement of medical insurance premium costs for members of the Law Enforcement Officers' and Fire Fighters' Retirement System Plan 2 totally disabled in the line of duty and includes reimbursement for any medical insurance premiums up to the amounts authorized by the federal Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985.
#Appropriations #Committee #House #Bill #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District #policy #financial
https://chumly.com/n/1a4eb8f
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.
#Government #Operation #Elections #House #Bill #1460 #1591 #1714 #1746 #1785 #Policy #Cutoff #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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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.
#Government #Operation #Elections #House #Bill #1460 #1591 #1714 #1746 #1785 #Policy #Cutoff #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
2012 Regular Legislative Session Day 22
Yesterday’s committee hearings finally ended at 8:00 PM for me ... an incredibly long day. My State Government and Tribal Affairs Committee did not go very well. Rep Sam Hunt, who is the Chairman of the Committee, decided to start taking Executive Action on bills while we were still Caucusing. This is after the games the Speaker played on the House Floor yesterday morning. Needless to say, I need to figure out how to make life difficult for these people around here. Not happy!
With all the crap on the Floor and in committee yesterday, I was very pleased with the Labor and Workforce Committee Meeting. Rep. Sells runs a very good hearing and is very fair to everyone. I may not like his politics, but he does a great job running the committee.
I’m back in the General Government Appropriations and Oversight Committee this morning for 4 more work sessions and 3 bills for Public Hearings. Can anyone please explain to me why we are still holding"work sessions” to hear how overworked and under budgeted all these agencies are? Ugh!
I also have a Labor and Workforce Development Committee meeting at 10:00 AM today, with 5 bills for Public Hearing and 9 scheduled for Executive Action. Finally, at 1:30 PM today is the Environment Committee where 4 bills are scheduled for Executive Action. Today is the cutoff for all policy committees, so the frantic pace of the last few days will be coming to an end.
#LWD #ENV #GGAO #Committee #Policy #Cutoff #Olympia #House #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
http://chumly.com/n/1014ca6
With all the crap on the Floor and in committee yesterday, I was very pleased with the Labor and Workforce Committee Meeting. Rep. Sells runs a very good hearing and is very fair to everyone. I may not like his politics, but he does a great job running the committee.
I’m back in the General Government Appropriations and Oversight Committee this morning for 4 more work sessions and 3 bills for Public Hearings. Can anyone please explain to me why we are still holding"work sessions” to hear how overworked and under budgeted all these agencies are? Ugh!
I also have a Labor and Workforce Development Committee meeting at 10:00 AM today, with 5 bills for Public Hearing and 9 scheduled for Executive Action. Finally, at 1:30 PM today is the Environment Committee where 4 bills are scheduled for Executive Action. Today is the cutoff for all policy committees, so the frantic pace of the last few days will be coming to an end.
#LWD #ENV #GGAO #Committee #Policy #Cutoff #Olympia #House #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
http://chumly.com/n/1014ca6
Thursday, February 17, 2011
2011 Legislative Session
Day 38 - We were able to move HB 1200 out of the General Government Appropriations Committee with a 12-0 vote. With any luck, citizens of WA State will be able to purchase fresh, healthy WA grown meat products in the grocery stores and restaurants by this fall. Today is the "Policy Cutoff" day, which means all policy bills in the house origin must be moved out of the various committees by 5:00 PM today. Monday is the "Fiscal Cutoff", except for bills Necessary to Implement the Budget or NTIB.
We should have some big news very, very soon ... stay tuned!
#HB #1200 #Rep #David #Taylor #Meat #Inspection #Program #15th #District #Policy #Cutoff
http://chum.ly/n/6c1c36
We should have some big news very, very soon ... stay tuned!
#HB #1200 #Rep #David #Taylor #Meat #Inspection #Program #15th #District #Policy #Cutoff
http://chum.ly/n/6c1c36
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