Courtesy Legislative Planning Committee, Washington Library Association State Bills of Interest.

The Washington Library Association(WLA) tracks state legislative activity that will potentially affect Washington Libraries. Their tracker is posted to the WLA web site and we will also post it weekly on this blog.  For information on the legislative process or becoming involved see the WLA site referenced above.

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Bill	Title	Sponsor	Status	Date	Latest Cmte Mtg Info	Companion Bills
HB 1541	Half-time edu employment	Seaquist	S Rules 2G	3/1/2010	Feb 27 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 9:00 AM.	SB 5302(SRules X)
HB 1690	Public works contracting	Hasegawa	S Rules 2	2/26/2010	Feb 25 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Government Operations & Elections at 3:30 PM.
SHB 2403	Military leave/pub employees	Morrell	S Rules 2G	3/1/2010	Feb 18 Public hearing and executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Government Operations & Elections at 3:30 PM.	SB 6196(HRules R)
ESHB 2424	Sexual exploitation/children	O’Brien	S 2nd Reading	3/1/2010	Feb 26 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Judiciary at 8:00 AM.	SB 6201(SJudiciary)
SHB 2620	Excise taxation	Hunter	S Rules 2	2/18/2010	Feb 17 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.	SB 6552(SRules X)
2SHB 2731	At-risk children program	Goodman	S Rules 2	3/1/2010	Mar 1 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 3:30 PM.
SHB 2824	Operating supp budget 2010	Linville	H Rules R	3/1/2010	Feb 26 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.	SB 6444(Ssubst for)
2SHB 2867	Early learning	Kagi	S Rules 2	2/25/2010	Feb 24 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 8:00 AM.	SB 6517(SEL/K-12)
SHB 2909	Sales and use taxes/cities	Appleton	H Finance	2/3/2010	Feb 1 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Local Government & Housing at 1:30 PM.
HB 3041	Local services levy limits	Haigh	H Finance	1/21/2010
HB 3054	Local government T.O.	Springer	H Finance	1/21/2010
HB 3070	Fiscal reform	Chase	H Finance	1/22/2010		SB 6250(SWays & Means)
SHB 3182	Unfunded mandates	Alexander	H Rules R	3/1/2010	Feb 27 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Ways & Means at 9:00 AM.
SSB 5295	Publ records exemptions comm	Kline	H Passed 3rd	2/28/2010	Feb 19 Public hearing and executive action taken in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Affairs at 1:30 PM.
SB 6196	Military leave/pub employees	Hobbs	H Rules R	2/24/2010	Feb 23 Executive action taken in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Affairs at 1:30 PM.	HB 2403(Hsubst for)
ESSB 6241	Community facilities distr’s	Kilmer	H 2nd Reading	3/1/2010	Feb 22 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Community & Economic Development & Trade at 1:30 PM.	HB 2577(Hsubst for)
SSB 6367	Agency web sites/pub records	Hatfield	H Passed 3rd	2/28/2010	Feb 23 Public hearing and executive action taken in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Affairs at 1:30 PM.	HB 2582(HRules R)
SSB 6395	Rights of speech & petition	Kline	H Passed 3rd	2/28/2010	Feb 22 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Judiciary at 1:30 PM.
ESSB 6444	Operating supp budget 2010	Prentice	H 2nd Reading	2/28/2010	Feb 26 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.	HB 2824(HRules R)
SSB 6609	Local govt infrastructure	Kastama	S Ways & Means	1/28/2010	Mar 2 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 8:00 AM.	HB 2985(HFinance)