CAPR Bills of Concern Legislative Wrap

CON

Passed 

Final Passage

Passed House as amended without a single nay vote.  It was amended on the senate floor, and was passed with only 3 opposing votes

Senate Nay votes:

McCune, Padden, Wagoner.  Thank you senators!

We are dissapointed this bill has passed both houses.

Concerning the use of existing buildings for residential purposes. 

We believe this bill will foster negative consequences for inadequate housing,

parking and fundamental government services.

CON

Passed 

Final Passage

Passed Both Houses

Increasing middle housing in areas traditionally dedicated to single-family detached housing.

This is a stack and pack bill forcing GMA planning cities to increase density and to a lesser extent

increase density outside an Urban Growth Area, 

Affordable housing incentives are established. 

Rather than encouraging strip malls, this bill encourages strip housing.

CON

Passed the Senate

Failed to pass the House

DEAD Bill

Passed Senate, In the House it is in rules second reading but not yet on the floor calendar.

Call your representatives!

Concerning accessory dwelling units.

Allows for Accessory Dweling Units within the GMA Urban Growth Area, prohitbiting certain regulations on the Dwellings,

promotes incentives for ADU building and prohibits covenance or deed restrictions against ADUs. 

Once again the GMA suddenly does not matter when it comes to local zoning.

CON

Passed the Senate

Failed to pass the House

DEAD Bill

Passed Senate, in the House the bill is in rules second reading and now is on the floor calendar.

Call your representatives!

Promoting transit-oriented development.  The DOT, who won't/can't even fix potholes in the highways

will in this bill, be expected to establish a competitive grant program to help finance housing projects within rapid transit corridors. 

GMA planning cities may not regulate to prohibit within a transit station area multifamily residential housing,

maximum floor space area, or density.

Off street parking may not be required, and the bill expands catagorical in fill development. 

CON

Passed

Final Passage

Passed House, In Senate rules second reading and on the floor calendar. 

Call your senator today!

CON

DEAD Bill

Protecting tenants from excessive rent and related fees by providing at least six months' notice for rent increases over a certain amount,

allowing tenants the right to terminate a tenancy without penalty, and limiting late fees.

CON

DEAD Bill

CON

DEAD Bill

CON

DEAD Bill

CON

Passed

Final Passage

Passed Senate, Passed House

CON

Passed

Final Passage

Passed House, in Senate rules consent calendar, meaning senators do not consider the bill controversial.  

The only Nay vote on this bill was Representative Chandler

Concerning drought preparedness.  

This bill increases Ecology's authority to act regarding drought advisory or emergency conditions.  

NEUTRAL

DEAD Bill

NEUTRAL

DEAD Bill

CON

Passed 

Final Passage

Passed House, Passed Senate

Concerning requirements for the purchase or transfer of firearms.

The bill passed exclusively with all Yea votes from Democrats and all Nay votes from Republicans in both the 

House and the Senate.

CON

Passed 

Final Passage

Passed House, Passed Senate

Establishing firearms-related safety measures to increase public safety.

The bill passed with some last minute drama from the House which inferred disagreement between the Senate and 

the House.  The disagreement evaporated, and the bill was passed.  The bill passed exclusively with all House democrats voting yea

and all House republicans vating Nay, in the Senate all Democrats voted yea with the single exception of Senator Van de Wege

who voted Nay with all the Senate Republicans.

CON

DEAD Bill

Concerning local government authority to regulate firearms.

Would have created a patchwork of counties or cities authorized to create their own gun laws preempting state gun law.

CON

Passed

Final Passage

Passed Senate, Passed House

Protecting public safety by establishing duties of firearm industry members.  The bill passed as with the other gun legislation,

Exclusively on a partisan basis, all Democrats in the House voting Yea and all Republicans in the House voting Nay.

In the Senate for the Final Passage, all Democrats voted Yea with the exception of Senator Mullet who voted Nay along with all 

Republican Senators

CON

Passed

Final Passage

Passed House, Passed Senate.

Final Passage

Improving climate resilience through updates to the state's integrated climate response strategy.

Legislators lend too much oversight and authority to agencies, weakening their role in representative government.

CON

Passed

Final Passage

Passed House, Passed Senate

CON

Passed

Final Passage

Passed House, Passed Senate.

Amended so will return to the House for a vote or reconciliation.

CON

DEAD Bill

Passed House, in Senate  on the floor calendar. 

Placed in Senate X file dead for this session.

Supporting Washington's clean energy economy and transitioning to a clean, affordable, and reliable energy future. 

No new availability of natural gas in homes for customers of large utilities,

requires Utilities and Tansportation Commission to extort extensive "planning" by those large utilities.

CON

DEAD Bill

Passed House easily, did not pass the Senate

Expanding revenue generation and economic opportunities from natural climate solutions and ecosystem services.

Allows DNR to commoditize our natural resources.

CON

DEAD Bill

Supporting Washington's crop and livestock farms, reducing greenhouse gas emissions,

and generating renewable energy by capturing methane.

CON

DEAD Bill

Referred to Senate Ways and Means on Feb. 17, has not progressed yet.

Dead-ish?

CON

Passed

Final Passage

Passed Senate, passed House.

Amended, will return to Senate for vote or reconciliation.

CON

Passed

Final Passage

Passed Senate, Passed House.

Is now law.

Increasing access to the provisions of the Washington death with dignity act.

This bill has been signed by the governor, passed into law by the shameless party of death.

CON

Passed

Final Passage

Passed House, Passed the Senate

Concerning access to reproductive health care services and gender-affirming treatment in Washington state.  

For those over 18 years of age, Read the bill report on the house version which is the one progressing here.

This bill interferes with citizens' ability to act lawfully in a civil manner.  Establising Washington as a premier abortion and gender 

treatment destination.

CON

Passed

Final Passage

Passed Senate, House First Reading on 3/4, public hearing in the House with over 5840 signing in on the bill the huge majority CON, against the bill.  The bill passed both houses, disregarding the will of the people and establishing the will of the democrat party.

Supporting youth and young adults seeking protected health care services.

The bill allows for sheltering and harboring of children 12-18 if the children seek abortion or gender transition services.

Parents will not be notified of the whereabouts of their children and will not be involved in medical procedures of their children

if they "seek" such services by being absent from home, or "running away".

House committee executive hearing passed the bill on party lines, all republicans voting nay, all democrats voting aye. 

Here is the committee members list.

CON

DEAD Bill

CON

DEAD Bill

PRO

DEAD Bill

CON

Passed

Final Passage

Passed House, Passed Senate

Creating a statewide resiliency program.  Requires the Military Department to

develop and administer a disaster resilience program.

What could go wrong?  Emergency proclamation went so well this last go round!?!

Too Much Governance passed on partisan basis democrats Yea, republicans Nay

CON

Passed

Final Passage

Passed the Senate, Passed the House

Concerning the uniform commercial code.  This sleeper bill astonishingly passed the senate without a single no vote.

In the House hearing there was an overwhelming sign in on the bill of CON, against the bill with at the time of hearing

well over 1,361 against the bill.

Only 3 testified in favor, and those people had ties to the federal agency UCC.  Two were "other"  having concerns.

This bill impairs legal transactions by digitalizing information and access to information. 

The bill would endanger property of a variety of types.

It is a step to usher in a federal digital currency.  

Here is the bill summary  and here is the bill.

This is not the way Americans should be forced to do business. 

Other states in the Union have rejected the bill, Washington State should not pass the bill!

Legislature gave away the farm on this one, it seems a careless lack of concern and attention won the day on this complicated and overly 

confusing and wordy bill that changed the definition of historical terms and created a vacuum of legal paper documentation of property.

This law will need a huge overhaul in future.

CON

Passed

Final Passage

Passed House, Passed Senate.

Amended will return to the House for vote or reconciliation.

Expensive virtue signalling bill that will cost EVERYONE more to record transactions.

Creating the covenant homeownership account and program to address the history of

housing discrimination due to racially restrictive real estate covenants in Washington state.

The bill would charge $100.00 per recording at a minimum to be placed in an account so you could attone for social sins

you never committed to help people who were never harmed by those social sins. 

As is the case with so many bills this session it is written in such a way to only serve to divide.

CON

DEAD Bill

Increasing the supply of affordable housing by modifying the state and local real estate excise tax.  Would have cost property owners 

more in taxation on the sale of property.

PRO

DEAD Bill

CON

Passed

Final Passage

Passed Senate, Passed House

Concerning jury diversity.  More societal devisive nonsense or Is this a form of legislative jury tampering?  Read and decide.

A be careful what you wish for bill.  Best of luck.

CON

DEAD Bill

Concerning equity and environmental justice in the growth management act.  Just as it states, the bill got no play, but should 

be watched in future sessions.

PRO

DEAD Bill

Providing flexibility for the department of fish and wildlife to collaborate with local governments to manage gray wolves.

The bill should have had more attention, in a more sane legislative environment it would have.

CON

Passed

Final Passage

Passed House, Passed Senate

Limiting liability for salmon recovery projects performed by regional fisheries enhancement groups.

Astounding this bill passed with almost no oppositon in the house. 

The potential for harm to private property expands if this bill passes.

Non-governmental organizations get a free pass for harm they may do in river or other restoration projects. 

Unfortunately there is a history of harm which will now not be a deterrent to future harm.

Legislators should have been more attentive to the harm to constituents, and less attentive to the wants of the 

Habitat Restoration consortium.

PRO

DEAD Bill

CON

DEAD Bill

CON

DEAD Bill

DEAD ish

The words road usage are mentioned 12 times in the Transportation Budget 

Implementing a per mile charge, or road usage charge on vehicle usage of public roadways. 

Just another tax that will harm rural drivers and small businesses disproportionately.  

Passed,

Final Passage

Passed 

Final Passage

Passed

Final Passage