Senate passes Davis/Hill amendment, not the others
When debate in the Senate resumed, Sen. Dan Schmidt, D-Moscow, thanked Sen. Bart Davis for pointing out the conflict between the various amendments to HB 404, the anti-Occupy bill. "I think there's a simple solution - we can reject Amendment 3," Schmidt told the Senate. "By rejecting Amendment 3, we will minimize unintended consequences. ... I believe we can reject this amendment and still have a very good bill with the first two amendments. I ask you to consider that."
Senate Assistant Majority Leader Chuck Winder, who chairs the Committee of the Whole that considers amendments, said it's at the chair's discretion which vote to take first; he asked for a vote on Amendment 3, the one from Sens. Hill and Davis. It passed on a strong voice vote; that meant Schmidt's amendment and the one from Sen. Dan Johnson to remove the bill's emergency clause have no effect. So the only amendment the Senate has approved is the Davis/Hill amendment, which softens language on property seizure, requiring the state to store belongings left on-site for 90 days to give people a chance to claim them before they're destroyed; a "reasonable" storage fee could be charged.