If this were a football game, we’d be down to the last minute or so of the first quarter. This is day 15 of a 60 day session.
The Service Employees union is at the Capitol lobbying today, as are dental hygenists, and the state Medical Association. The Legislature is also holding “Civic Education Day.”
The governor has a morning press conference to discuss the importance of national health care reform, which may seem more questionable after last week’s Massachusetts election for the U.S. Senate seat. Washington Democrats were counting on some changes in federal rules that would increase payments for Medicaid, and ease the state’s budget problems, and had some hopes the state’s Basic Health program would become a national model.
The afternoon will be busy with committee hearings. Of possible interest to the Spokane area is HB 2717, which would restrict outings from state facilities, drafted in the wake of the Philip Paul’s walkaway from the County Fair last fall.
A full schedule of hearings can be found inside the blog.
Community
& Economic Development & Trade*
1/25/10 1:30 pm
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Human
Services*
1/25/10 1:30 pm
House Full
Committee
House Hearing Rm D
John L. O’Brien Building
Olympia,
WA
REVISED 1/21/2010 12:46 PM
Public Hearing:
- HB 2717 - Restricting outings from state facilities.
- HB 2882 - Detaining persons with mental disorders.
- HB 2932 - Concerning the assessment and treatment of certain
persons with mental illnesses.
- HB 2725 - Modifying community custody conditions for persons
convicted of assaulting a child in the first degree.
- HB 2664 - Concerning supported living vendor rates.
- HB 3076 - Concerning the involuntary treatment act.
Judiciary
1/25/10
1:30 pm
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Local
Government & Housing
1/25/10 1:30 pm
House Full
Committee
House Hearing Rm E
John L. O’Brien Building
Olympia,
WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 2428 - Concerning fees for locating surplus funds from
county governments, real estate property taxes, assessments, and other
government lien foreclosures or charges.
- HB 2848 - Repealing RCW 36.32.210.
- HB 2851 - Restricting mailings by local officials.
- HB 2884 - Authorizing limited expansions of urban growth areas
into one hundred year floodplains in areas adjacent to a freeway interchange or
interstate in counties wholly or partially bordering salt waters with more than
one hundred thousand but fewer than one hundred fifty thousand residents.
- HB 2891 - Extending time to complete recommendations under RCW
36.70A.5601 conducted by the William D. Ruckelshaus Center.
- HB 2962 - Allowing county treasurers to use electronic bill
presentment and payment that includes an automatic electronic payment option for
property taxes.
- HB 2986 - Requiring the appointment of nonvoting labor members
to public transportation governing bodies.
- HB 2988 - Regarding local improvement districts in flood
control zone districts.
Possible Executive Session: Bills
previously heard in committee.
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Technology,
Energy & Communications
1/25/10 1:30 pm
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Transportation
1/25/10
3:30 pm
House Full
Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O’Brien Building
Olympia,
WA
Work Session: Department of Transportation Tolling Studies.
- Columbia River Crossing.
- Interstate 405.
- Alaskan Way Viaduct.
Public Hearing:
- HB 2941 - Authorizing the use of express toll lanes in the
Interstate 405 corridor.
- HB 2897 - Concerning the administration, collection, use, and
enforcement of tolls.
- HB 2929 - Clarifying the use of revenue generated from tolling
the state route number 520 corridor.
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Ways
& Means*
1/25/10 3:30 pm
House Full
Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O’Brien Building
Olympia,
WA
REVISED 1/21/2010 12:11 PM
Public Hearing:
- EHB 1547 - Increasing the duty-related death benefit for
public employees.
- EHB 1679 - Providing access to catastrophic disability medical
insurance under plan 2 of the law enforcement officers’ and firefighters’
retirement system.
- HB 2872 - Establishing a period of public and legislative
review of appropriations legislation.
- HB 2877 - Authorizing payment of regulated company stock in
lieu of a portion of salary for educational employees.
- HB 2998 - Suspending certain monetary awards and salary increases.
- HB 2731 - Creating an early learning program for educationally
at-risk children. (If measure is referred to committee.)
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Senate Committees
Agriculture
& Rural Economic Development
1/25/10 10:00 am
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Early
Learning & K-12 Education*
1/25/10 1:30 pm
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Economic
Development, Trade & Innovation*
1/25/10 1:30 pm
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Government
Operations & Elections*
1/25/10 10:00 am
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Health
& Long-Term Care
1/25/10 1:30 pm
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Labor,
Commerce & Consumer Protection*
1/25/10 10:00 am
Senate Full
Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia,
WA
REVISED 1/22/2010 4:02 PM
Public Hearing:
- SB 6574 - Authorizing issuance of subpoenas for purposes of
agency investigations of underground economy activity.
- SB 6575 - Concerning the recommendations of the joint
legislative task force on the underground economy.
- SB 6492 - Authorizing the department of labor and industries
to issue subpoenas to enforce production of information related to electricians
and electrical installations.
- SB 6728 - Concerning classroom training for electrical trainees.
- SB 6545 - Adopting the international wildland urban interface code.
- SB 6586 - Regarding membership on the state building code council.
- SB 6435 - Requiring the building code council to adopt rules
for installing outlets to charge vehicles.
Executive
Session:
- SB 5046 - Placing symphony orchestras, operas, and performing
arts theaters under the jurisdiction of the public employment relations
commission for purposes of collective bargaining. (Executive Session is on the
Proposed Substitute.)
- SB 6348 - Prohibiting certain communications of collection
agencies and their employees.
Possible executive session on
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Natural
Resources, Ocean & Recreation*
1/25/10 1:30 pm
Senate Full
Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 2
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia,
WA
REVISED 1/21/2010 4:11 PM
Work Session: Background on
Falconry.
Public Hearing:
- SB 6644 - Concerning the possession and capture of birds of prey.
- SB 6481 - Clarifying which local governments have jurisdiction
over conversion-related forest practices.
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Transportation
1/25/10
3:30 pm
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Ways
& Means*
1/25/10 3:30 pm
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Jim Camden is a veteran political reporter for The Spokesman-Review.
Jonathan Brunt covers Spokane City Hall for The Spokesman-Review.
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