Regular Committee Meeting April 17, 2018 10:00 a.m. – 11:35 a.m.* House Hearing Room B Olympia AGENDA 10:00 a.m. 1. Approval of December Minutes 10:05 a.m. 2. Interim Kick Off – Aaron Gutierrez, Senior Policy Analyst 10:20 a.m. 3. Election of Officers – Corban Nemeth, Associate Policy and Data Analyst 10:35 a.m. 4. 2018 Legislative […]
Archive | 2018 Legislature
RFFOW President’s Message | March 2018
I was in the galleries of the House and Sen ate on March 8. 2018 when the short sixty-day legislature was brought to a close. I was relieved that there was no major pension legislation passed that would be detrimental to the members. As we worked our way through the halls visiting key legislators, committee […]
Who voted for SB 6617?
Bill History 2018 REGULAR SESSION Feb 22 Read first time, rules suspended, and placed on second reading calendar. (View Original Bill) Feb 23 Floor amendment(s) adopted. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. Third reading, passed; yeas, 41; nays, 7; absent, 1; excused, 0. (View 1st Engrossed) (View Roll Calls) IN THE HOUSE Feb 23 Read […]
Call for a VETO on SB6617
Now is the time to contact the Governor and your legislators and insist they stop SB6617. The following is an excerpt from an article dealing with a similar action on the part of the legislature to fast track a bill and limit discovery and debate. When we filed a request for discovery we were told […]
Call Gov. Jay Inslee and urge him to veto SB 6617 (Bill exempting Legislators from public record law)
Please read this article in the Tacoma News Tribune. http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/politics-government/article202291559.html As you may have seen in the media, last week the Legislature passed a bill to exempt themselves from the Public Records Act and overturn a final judgment against the four elected leaders of the Legislature finding they had broken the law by not releasing […]
HB 2719 on Hold
On January 23rd the House Committee on Local Government conducted a hearing on HB 2719. You can view that hearing on TVW. (Starts at about 20 min, then has a break and then then public testimony begins at about 40 min.) On its face, the bill appears very simple in that it simply raised the […]
Hearings on HB 2719
This coming week will have two hearings on this bill. Jan 23 — Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Local Government at 10:00 AM Jan 25 — Scheduled for executive session in the House Committee on Local Government at 1:30 PM See the bill analysis — it really says nothing in terms […]
HB 2719 Notification
Once again we were notified by the Retired Firefighters of Washington that HB 2719 was introduced in the House to amend RCW 41.26 the LEOFF I Retirement System. The amendment would only require cities with a population of 30,000 to establish a LEOFF I Disability Board. As Dick explained this bill is now subject to […]
Legislative Update 2018 | First week.
The Legislature has been in session since Monday, January 8th. Today we have seen the first bill this session that would impact LEOFF 1 HB 2719 was introduced today. All it appears to do is to increase the size of population for a city to be required to establish a LEOFF 1 disability board. This […]
Legislature Opens on January 8th
The Legislature will convene for a Regular Session on January 8, 2018. This is a short session of 60 days and by the State Constitution the regular session must end by March 8, 2018. Of course they can always have special sessions after the regular session ends. Given the balance of membership between the D’s […]