June 24th - 2013 Second Special Legislative Session Day 13

It’s Monday and we’re on the House Floor at 1:00 PM for possible action on bills. At 4:08 PM we began consideration of Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5897. It passed 78 to 7 with 12 excused. After the bill passed, the House immediately adjourned for the day. After a little over three hours of waiting to consider bills, we ran 1 bill for the day. Your government at work …

June 13th and 14th - 2013 Second Special Legislative Session Days 2 and 3

Welcome to the Second Special Legislative Session of 2013, where some things never change. We started the day and spent the next 2 hours waiting for the Democrat Majority to decide what they want to do. The first bill we ran was House Bill 2075, which was yet another Estate Tax (Death Tax) bill that passed 53 to 33 with 11 excused. This is the third time we voted on a version of the Death Tax bill this year.

After running the bill the Death Tax bill went to ease and we were told to be back at 2:00 PM. At 4:30 PM we remained at ease and were told to be on the floor at 6:00 PM, only to sit around until 11:20 PM without doing anything.

We finally ran a bill, Senate Bill 5296, to reform the Model Toxics Control Account (MTCA) which has the potential to be a huge economic development tool for local jurisdictions. It only took 137 days in session, but we passed a great"jobs” bill. The bill passed 67 to 18 with 12 excused. All the no votes were Democrats.

We adjourned at midnight. Let’s recap today’s busy day on the House Floor … 15 hours, 2 bills.

June 11th - 2013 First Special Legislative Session Day 30

At 3:30 today the First Special Session of the 2013 Legislature came to a close. I say "first" because we start the Second Special Sessional tomorrow at 10:00 AM with a Pro Forma Session and expect the first actual votes to happen on Thursday, Day 2 of the Second Special Session. Here's a summary of what a 30-day Special Session looks like ... 4 days with the House in Session, a total of 12 bills voted on, 10 of which occured on one day.

April 23rd - 2013 Regular Legislative Session Day 100

After spending the morning in the Appropriations Committee, I’m back on the House Floor voting on bills from the Concurrence/Dispute Calendar.

Substitute House Bill 1242 to concur with the Senate Amendments passed 97 to 0 with 1 excused.
Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1245 to concur with the Senate Amendments passed 95 to 2 with 1 excused.
Substitute House Bill 1466 to concur with the Senate Amendments passed 81 to 16 with 1 excused.
Substitute House Bill 1612 to concur with the Senate Amendments passed 89 to 8 with 1 excused.
Second Substitute House Bill 1764 to concur with the Senate Amendments passed 93 to 4 with 1 excused.
Substitute House Bill 1779 to concur with the Senate Amendments passed 87 to 10 with 1 excused.
Substitute House Bill 1941 to concur with the Senate Amendments passed 97 to 0 with 1 excused.
Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1412 to concur with the Senate Amendments passed 90 to 7 with 1 excused.

We also receded from the House Amendment and returned to Second Reading to consider a new amendment on Second Substitute Senate Bill 5595. It passed 58 to 39 with 1 excused.

April 1st - 2013 Regular Legislative SessioN Day 78

It’s Monday in Olympia and in today’s Appropriations Committee Meeting we’re hearing eight bills. Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5176 requires that evaluations for involuntary treatment of individuals who have had felony charges dismissed due to incompetency 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.

Substitute Senate Bill 5195 allows a nonprofit institution recognized by Washington to be eligible to participate in the State Need Grant program, effective August 1, 2013.

Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5243 encourages school districts to adopt a policy to automatically enroll a student who meets the standard on the high school state assessments or the Preliminary SAT in the next most rigorous advanced course in that subject, with the objective that students eventually enroll in dual credit courses; provides an incentive award to high schools based on student performance in specified dual credit courses, if funding is appropriated; creates a program to allocate one-time grants to high schools on a competitive basis to expand availability of dual credit courses, if funding is appropriated.

Senate Bill 5337 stays for five years the set decrease in the maximum amount of timber that can be sold by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) through their contract harvesting program; stays for five years the set decrease in the maximum amount of money that can be held in the Contract Harvest Revolving Account; allows, for five more years, the DNR to set the final appraised value for the purposes of an auction based on the current market prices for the valuable material in question; and provides five more years of authority to the DNR to give consideration to requests from timber purchasers when the purchasers request timber sale extensions or other flexible options in the execution of a timber sale contract designed to avoid a contract default.

Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5480 accelerates implementation of provisions of 2010 legislation that expanded the factors that may be considered for detaining and committing persons under the Involuntary Treatment Act, from July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2014.

Second Substitute Senate Bill 5732 directs the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) to develop a strategy for the improvement of the adult behavioral health system; requires the DSHS to issue a request for proposals for enhanced services facilities; and requires Regional Support Networks to develop an individualized discharge plan for certain patients and arrange for his or her transition to the community within 21 days of the determination that he or she no longer needs inpatient, active psychiatric treatment.

Substitute Senate Bill 5754 creates the Alliance for Student Success in Education and Training (ASSET) Program to increase access to work-integrated learning opportunities, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and requires the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board to administer the ASSET Program.

Substitute Senate Bill 5834 allows businesses owned jointly by a veteran and his or her spouse or domestic partner to be certified as a veteran-owned business; requires that all veteran-owned businesses are located in the state, owned by a resident of the state, or that all corporate officers are residents of the state; and encourages state agencies to award 5 percent of all procurement contracts to veteran-owned businesses.

January 17th - 2013 Regular Legislative Session Day 4

The 2013 Legislative Session is now four days old and there is very little moving along the process. It's been a strange year in relation to my previous three sessions. Maybe it’s all the pomp and circumstance over the past three days, but the session feels different none the less.

I will be speaking at the 2nd Amendment Rally here in Olympia on Saturday. I hope to see a lot of people from Yakima there in support of our 2nd Amendment Rights.

I’ll be posting today’s Introduction Sheet later today. My goal is to keep people informed as to the bills being considered by the Legislature. We will need people in Olympia throughout the year to help fight to keep our freedoms and liberty intact.

Stay tuned, it's going to be a long session.

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2012 Second Special Legislative Session Day 1 Update

It's 3:30 AM and we're three and a half hours into the 2nd Special Session. We've voted on three bills ... so much for something new and exciting in the 2nd Special Session. This is the 6th Special Session since 2010 ... Fun-tastic Olympia under one party control.

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2012 Second Special Legislative Session Day 1

So the Governor has officially called the Second Special Session, but we're waiting for it to actually begin. It's 12:37 AM on Tuesday and we still have several bills that need to be passed before we'll get out of here. As soon as we begin, we will be starting our 5th Special Session in the 62nd Legislature. How do you like that one party control now?

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2012 First Special Session Day 22 Continued

Here’s the latest from Olympia ... I got called back to Olympia Wednesday for a Caucus at 9:00 AM and a General Government Appropriations and Oversight Committee meeting at 10:30 AM to hear one bill. Yup that’s right, one bill and one bill only. What an incredible waste of time and taxpayer money. It sounds like we’ll be on the House Floor Thursday and maybe Friday to run a bunch of bills that aren’t agreed to and likely will not even come up for a vote in the Senate.

Second Special Session, here we come. By the way, this Special Session is actually the 4th for the biennium.

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A possible 2nd Special Session?

Lawmakers struggle with budget negotiations | Yakima Herald-Republic: www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2012/03/28/lawmakers...tions

This most certainly is not good news for the taxpayers of Washington.

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