GOAL Post 2016-6

Legislative Update from Olympia 12 February 2016

FISCAL COMMITTEE CUT-OFF

RULES COMMITTEE ACTION (OR INACTION)

CHAMBER CUT-OFF NEXT WEEK

NO PUBLIC HEARINGS NEXT WEEK

SB 6267 PASSES SENATE

Tuesday evening was the fiscal committee cut-off. HB 1857 failed to pass House Appropriations and is likely dead for the session. HB 2793 goes to House Rules awaiting a call to the House floor.

Bills that have passed out of their policy committee and a fiscal committee (if required) go to the House or Senate Rules Committees, where they await a “pull” to the floor. Essentially, the Rules committee votes on which bills to bring to the chamber floor that day, and which wait… or die. Not all bills that make it to Rules receive a floor vote (vote of the entire House or Senate). Recognize, too, that a lot of bills in the Rules committee are holdovers from last year and unlikely to move this year as well.

At the time the weekly schedule was published, no gun bills were scheduled to be heard. As bills move to the floor for a chamber vote, then pass to the other chamber, bills may be scheduled.

5 p.m., Wednesday, 17 February is the chamber cut-off. All House bills under consideration must pass out of the House to the Senate. All Senate bills must pass out of the Senate to the House. Bills that do not pass their original chamber are supposedly dead for the session. (I say “supposedly” because on rare occasions the rules are suspended and bills come back to life.)

SB 6267 (Schoesler (R-4) passed out of the Senate. It will likely go to House Judiciary next week.

2016 Legislative Session

Bill # Position	Subject	Prime Sponsor	Status
SHB 1713 Neutral	Mental health/guns	Cody (D-34)	Passed to H. Rules
HB 1857 OPPOSE	Extreme protective orders	Jinkins (D-27)	Died H. Aprop.
SHB 2410 SUPPORT	Firearm Felony Registry	Hayes (R-10)	Passed to H. Rules
HB 2793 SUPPORT	Suicide Awareness & Prevention	Orwall (D-33)	Passed to H. Rules
HB 2908 OPPOSE	Use of Force by Peace Officers, Those Assisting	Ryu (D-32)	Passed to House Rules
HB 2913 OPPOSE	License Suspension/Child Support	Gregerson (D-33)	Passed to House Rules
SSB 5036 NEUTRAL	Penalizes criminal misuse of body armor	O’Ban (R-28)	S. Rules
SB 5500 SUPPORT	Allows retired LEOs to carry on school grounds	Roach (R-31)	S. Rules
SB 5539 SUPPORT	Exempts LEO’s from three day waiting period	Roach (R-31)	S. Rules
SSB 5579 SUPPORT	Exempts licensed scty guards from b/g checks	Dammeier (R-25)	S. Rules
SB 5615 SUPPORT	Exempts military members from b/g checks	Benton (R-17)	S. Rules
SB 5658 NEUTRAL	Reporting of mental health commitment	Dansel (R-7)	S. Rules
SB 5831 SUPPORT	Restoration of firearm rights	Honeyford (R-15)	S. Rules
SB 6015 SUPPORT	NRA license plate	Roach (R-31)	S. Rules
SB 6158 SUPPORT	Transfer of firearms at nonprofit fund-raisers.	Dammeier (R-25)	S. Rules
SB 6165 SUPPORT	Short Barrel Rifles	Takko (D-19)	S. Rules
SB 6267 SUPPORT	CPL Expiration Notice	Schoesler (R-9)	Passed Senate

Key to abbreviations: S. = Senate, H. = House, Jud = Judiciary, K-12 = Education, L&J = Law & Justice, Trans = Transportation, W&M = Ways and Means

HEARING(S) SCHEDULED:

None scheduled.

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OTHER DATA: Copies of pending legislation (bills), legislative schedules and other information are available on the legislature’s web site at “www.leg.wa.gov”. Bills are available in Acrobat (. pdf) format. You may download a free version of Adobe Acrobat Reader from Adobe’s web site (http: //www. adobe. com). You may also obtain hard copy bills, initiatives, etc, in the mail from the Legislative Bill Room FREE OF CHARGE by calling 1-360-786-7573. Copies of bills may also be ordered toll free by calling the Legislative Hotline at (800) 562-6000. You may also hear floor and committee hearing action live at http: //www. tvw. org/ (you need “RealAudio” to do this, available free at the TVW web site).

By reading the House and Senate “bill reports” (hbr, sbr) for each bill, you can see how individual committee members voted. By reading the “roll call” for each bill, you can see how the entire House or Senate voted on any bill. The beauty of the web site is that ALL this information is available, on line, to any citizen.

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Article 1, Section 24

Constitution of the State of Washington