Tuesday, February 5, 2013

February 5th - 2013 Regular Legislative Session Day 23

Here's today's Freedomcast on Private Property Rights ... enjoy.



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February 5th - 2013 Regular Legislative Session Day 23

Here's today's House Introduction Sheet .... chumly.com/attachment/11129639
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February 5th - 2013 Regular Legislative Session Day 23

In the Appropriations Committee today we’re getting briefed on Early Childhood Learning and then considering HB 1226 for Executive Action. We’ve almost completed all the briefings on the various state agency’s budgets and programs and will move into hearing bills later this week.


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City in Virginia Becomes First to Pass Anti-Drone Legislation - US News and World Report

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"Resolution bans all municipal agencies from buying or leasing drones."


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Drones get really tiny; new rules proposed for Seattle - www.seattlepi.com

www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Drones-get-really-...2.php




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February 5th - 2013 Regular Legislative Session Day 23

We’re hearing two bills in the Local Government Committee today. House Bill 1268 authorizes local government to award contracts to the lowest bidder before taxes are applied provided that it gives notice of its intent to do so prior to submission of bids. House Bill 1324 authorizes any county with a population of 1.5 million or more to assume by ordinance or resolution all rights, powers, functions, and obligations of a county ferry District; authorizes any county with a population of 1.5 million or more to assume by ordinance or resolution all rights, powers, immunities, functions, and obligations of a flood control zone district; and establishes procedures and requirements for counties assuming the rights, powers, functions, and obligations of a county ferry district or flood control zone district pursuant to the act.

We’ll also be considering several bills for Executive Action.


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February 5th - 2013 Regular Legislative Session Day 23

My day in Olympia began with a Government Operations and Elections Committee Hearing where we’re accepting testimony on five bills. House Bill 1101 designates July 25 as Patient Safety Day. House Bill 1143 adds requirements related to early termination of existing procurement contracts; states the governor has authority to terminate any master contract for goods and services; limits contracts for services and goods to terms of no more than three years, not to exceed ten years with extensions; requires the governor to approve certain contractual increases; and provides a definition for "public agency."

House Bill 1297 implements a recommendation of the Sunshine Committee by clarifying what information resulting from background checks of a guardian ad litem may and may not be disclosed to the parties in a parent-child termination action. House Bill 1298 also implements recommendations of the Sunshine Committee by making changes to exemptions from public inspection and copying related to personal information contained in agency files, examination reports held in the Office of the Insurance Commissioner, and examination reports obtained by the Washington Pollution Liability Insurance Program. House Bill 1299 also implements some recommendations of the Sunshine Committee by changing the exemption from disclosure relating to the identifying information of child victims of sexual assault to be inclusive. It adds an exemption from disclosure for information contained in a local or regionally maintained gang database. Finally, it repeals the exemption from disclosure for certain identifying data relating to medical malpractice closed claim reporting.

We’ll be considering three bills for Executive Action later in the hearing.


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