Administrative State

Competing Bills Undermine Housing Updated

By Cindy Alia

Updated 2/26/24

We are pleased to note the Senate Ways and Means committee held today at 10:00 am failed to hear HB 2114 in executive session. This means the bill is dead for this session as it would miss the deadling established for today for a bill to be read on the floor. That won't happen as the Ways and Means committee failed to hear the bill in executive committee and it can't be passed to the rules committee or the floor. Good news for landlords and tenants alike who would find it hard to be prepared for the additional burdens and expenses that would have resulted from the passage of the bill.

Updated 2/20/24

Administrative State

February 20, 2024

Citizens' Alliance for Property Rights Banquet Thank you!

CAPR especially thanks all members and friends who attended our event making it a fun and uplifting experience! Your dedication to liberty and property rights along with your generous support for CAPR's mission of respecting and restoring property rights has made our past and will make our future work possible and impactful! Thank you!

“Restoring Common Sense in Washington” Initiatives, Taxation, Education.

Thank you Keynote Speaker Jim Walsh!

Administrative State

February 19, 2024

Domestic Violent Extremist Bill HB 1333 In Legislature Again!

Updated 2/19/24

By Cindy Alia

This bill is dead for this session, and deservedly so as it is the most discriminatory bill ever produced by legislators. This is the kind of bill that would have ripped our society apart and was never worth consideration let alone the waste of resources and time spent on preparing it. As an electorate we must do better at seeing principled candidates who recognize the differences between right and wrong elected regardless of party affiliation.

Administrative State

January 16, 2024

Tsunami of Bills!!! Even though a "short" or 60 day session has begun on January 8, to end on March 8, the bills are pouring in like there is no end in sight!

By Cindy Alia

1/9/23

Even though a "short" or 60 day session has begun on January 8, to end on March 8, the bills are pouring in like there is no end in sight! Bills unworthy of special attention last session are attempting to be included in this session, as we run a bicameral or 2-year legislative cycle. All bills introduced last year technically are viable this year. Unfortunately many new bills were also introduced this year to bring the total of introduced bills to date for the two sessions to 3,053as of this writing. Gratefully, all bills will be "dead" or not acted on next session, and to be in play would need to be reintroduced to go through the entire legislative process. This seems to me to be a great recipe for disfunction!

Administrative State

January 10, 2024

Government Pet Projects – Special Interests Get Special Laws

By Cindy Alia

8/30/23

When government works at becoming a savior, what can go wrong? Despite years of government spending on “solutions”, the problem of the “unhoused” is still widespread in our state. Governmental claims for ending homelessness often require throwing money at solutions without accountability for results. A case in point is the Pierce County project to create a “Community First” tiny house village, which appears to be patterned after a communistic utopia, but which is an impractical scheme for social improvement in rural Pierce County.

Administrative State

Growth Management

August 30, 2023

Learn About Lets Go Washington Initiatives to Reverse Legislative Harm to Families

Updated December 27, 2023

By Cindy Alia

Learn about the successful Lets Go Washington Initiatives to Reverse Legislative Harm to Families, Safety, Cost of Living, and Parental Rights!

CAPR members are grateful to and appreciative of Lets Go Washington and Restore Washington, and all those who worked hard and backed this effort to provide the successes in gathering far more signatures than needed to get these initiatives to the legislature or ultimately the voters! By all accounts or measures this was the most successful initiative campaign in state history with an impressive current count of 2,635,700 signatures gathered!

Administrative State

June 21, 2023

Rewilding Unleashed!

By Steve Busch

REWILDING UNLEASHED! BIGGEST LAND LOCK UP IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES IS NOW UNDERWAY!!!!

ON APRIL 3, 2023, BLM BOSS TRACY STONE-MANNING ISSUED A NEW RULE THAT REVERSED A LONG STANDING POLICY THAT ALLOWS FOR MULTIPLE USE OF PUBLIC LANDS.

IF THE NEW BLM RULE IS ALLOWED TO STAND, CONTINUED MULTIPLE USES OF FEDERAL LANDS WILL BE EFFECTIVELY ENDED IN FAVOR OF ALLOWING WELL FINANCED "ENVIRONMENTAL" ORGANIZATIONS TO PURCHASE MILLIONS OF ACRES OF "CONSERVATION LEASES" ON FEDERAL LAND.

WESTERN GOVERNORS FROM MONTANA, IDAHO, WYOMING, UTAH, NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA, ARE PETITIONING CONGRESS TO PASS LEGISLATION SPONSORED BY UTAH'S MIKE SIMPSON THAT WILL REVERSE BLM'S ATTEMPT TO EFFECTIVELY DECAPITATE MULTIPLE USE AND JEOPARDIZE AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.

Administrative State

June 21, 2023

Last Minute Legislative Proposal to Triple Your Property Taxes!

by Cindy Alia 4/12/2023

Updated 2/9/24

Great news! SB 5770 is tabled and is a dead bill for this session!

Thanks to the strong leadership of the Republican Senate, and especially to your responses to the urgent calls to action on SB 5770 which triples calculations on your property taxes! Thank you Senators Short, Braun, and Linda Wilson for sounding the alarm to the citizens of Washington State!

Two of the bill's sponsors backed out of the bill because of public pressure, and the bill would not have had the support to pass. The bill sponsor tabled the bill and it will not get a vote on the floor! The bill is dead!

Administrative State

April 13, 2023

CAPR Bills of Concern Legislative Wrap

By Cindy Alia

4/26/23

The 105 "long session" is over as of April 23. It was indeed a long session with too many bills introduced and some carelessly passed. Even so, the legislature failed to pass a law regarding illegal drug posession, leaving behind a legacy of careless disregard for those suffering addiction and those suffering because so many are addicted. In essence because a bill was not passed all drugs in this state are now legal.

That aside, the CAPR bills of concern will be updated below. Please be sure to thank your legislator if he voted the way you would have liked him to vot

Administrative State

March 14, 2023

CAPR Bills of Serious Concern

CAPR Bills of Concern

February 26, 2023

By Cindy Alia

CAPR has compiled this list of Serious Bills of Concern, we would urge a no vote on this list of bills.

Gun Rights

HB 1240 - 2023-24

Establishing firearms-related safety measures to increase public safety.

Sponsors: Peterson, Senn, Alvarado, Walen, Street, Springer, Simmons, Reeves, Reed, Ormsby, Kloba, Fitzgibbon, Duerr, Doglio, Berry, Bateman, Fey, Davis, Ramel, Bergquist, Fosse, Pollet, Lekanoff, Macri, Gregerson, Santos

This bill is a so called “assault weapons” ban.

Administrative State

February 27, 2023

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