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"Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer will file a proposed gun control bill with the Washington legislature on Monday. The bill proposes to close a loophole in Washington's current background check law."


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June 6th - 2013 First Special Session Day 25

Here we are on Day 25 of the First Special Legislative Session and we’re finally running bills. With the exception of the one bill we ran last Thursday (May 30th) these are the first bills we’ve run all Special Session.

Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1947 passed 68 to 25 with 4 excused.
Substitute House Bill 1961 passed 87 to 6 with 4 excused.
House Bill 2042 passed 84 to 9 with 4 excused.
Second Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2016 passed 71 to 22 with 4 excused.
Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1971 passed 74 to 18 with 5 excused.
Engrossed House Bill 2036 passed 52 to 35 with 10 excused.
House Bill 2068 passed 79 to 9 with 9 excused.
Substitute House Bill 2069 passed 83 to 5 with 9 excused.
Substitute House Bill 1057 passed 53 to 35 with 9 excused.
Engrossed House Bill 2034 passed 52 to 40 with 5 excused.

After a long 13 plus hour day on the House Floor, we managed to pass a total of ten bills and I voted"no” on all of them. In summary, the House passed tax increases, extended assessments, further implemented Obamacare, increased court fees, shifted state tax dollars to federal dollars, and passed another operating budget … not a great day for the taxpayers of Washington.

June 6th - 2013 Special Legislative Session Day 25

We’re on the Floor this morning for what could be a long day of waiting. The Democrat Majority has placed eleven bills on the Calendar for possible action over the next couple of days, but we really don’t know what their plan is. By all accounts, thus far, they don’t have a strategy to reach agreements before the end of the First Special Session, meaning a Second Special Session is looking like a real possibility.

June 5th - 2013 First Special Legislative Session

In today’s House Appropriations Committee meeting we’re hearing House Bill 2034 and House Bill 2069. House Bill 2034 eliminates the preferential B&O tax rate of 0.275 percent for travel agents and tour operators; eliminates the preferential B&O tax rate of 0.138 percent for resellers of prescription drugs; repeals the sales and use tax exemption for bottled water; changes the nonresident sales and use tax exemption for tangible personal property into a remittance program; narrows the high technology tax credit for research and development; expires the high technology sales and use tax deferral program on July 1, 2013; narrows the use tax exemption for extracted fuel produced by an extractor or manufacturer during the extracting or manufacturing activity; provides new funding formula allocations to support increased instructional hours for secondary students, for the Transitional Bilingual Instruction Program, and increased staffing for counselors and family engagement coordinators; specifies an implementation schedule for increased instructional hours under Basic Education; directs the State Board of Education to adopt a 24-credit graduation requirement framework to take effect with the graduating class of 2018; and appropriates $168.6 million for K-12 and $78.7 million for higher education.

House Bill 2069 modifies the eligibility criteria for the Medical Care Services and the Aged, Blind or Disabled Programs and requires the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) to determine eligibility for the Essential Needs and Housing Services Program.

We’re also scheduled to consider House Bill 1057 for Executive Action, which is the Democrats original proposed Operating Budget.

June 5th - 2013 First Special Legislative Session

Well I'm back in Olympia today for an Appropriations Committee Meeting to hear a couple of bills and to possibly take Executive Action on at least one. We're also scheduled to be on the House Floor tomorrow (Thursday) and Friday. It doesn’t sound like any real progress has been made on the budget, but there are several bills NTIB (necessary to implement the budget) on the calendar.