| Excerpt: | Several Democrats joined the chamber's forty Republicans in casting nay votes, creating a potent obstacle to the bill's passage that leadership determined could not be surmounted before the clock ran out on the 2023 legislative session. |
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| Published at: | 10:30 PM on Sunday, April 23rd, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Criminal Justice, Substance Control |
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Category Archives: Civil Liberties
“Blake fix” bill fails in State House, prompting calls for special session on drug policy
VICTORY! Assault weapons ban clears Legislature, heads to Governor Inslee’s desk
| Excerpt: | On April 19th, the state House of Representatives and Senate came to an agreement on mutually acceptable final language for House Bill 1240, which prohibits the manufacture, importation, distribution, selling, and offering for sale of assault weapons. |
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| Published at: | 6:22 PM on Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership |
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VICTORY! My Health, My Data Act heads to Governor Inslee after House concurrence vote
| Excerpt: | By a vote of 57-40, the House voted to concur in the Senate amendments to House Bill 1155, prime sponsored by Representative Vandana Slatter (D‑48th District: Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Medina, the Points communities). |
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| Published at: | 1:27 PM on Monday, April 17th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Privacy, Reproductive Rights |
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VICTORY! Firearm Industry Responsibility & Gun Violence Victims’ Access to Justice Act heads to Governor Inslee’s desk
| Excerpt: | SB 5078 received a concurrence vote on April 14th, 2023. That means the Senate agreed with the changes that the House made to the bill, completing its journey through the bicameral legislative process. |
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| Published at: | 1:51 PM on Friday, April 14th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership |
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Washington State House of Representatives amends and approves police pursuit bill
| Excerpt: | A bipartisan majority of the Washington State House has endorsed updates to the law governing police pursuits, lowering the standard for police officers to instigate a chase from probable cause to reasonable suspicion while attaching a number of new conditions to police departments’ use of that pursuit authority. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Criminal Justice, Nondiscrimination |
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Nearly three-fifths of Washington voters support the Firearm Industry Responsibility & Gun Violence Victims’ Access to Justice Act
| Excerpt: | 59% of voters surveyed last month for NPI by Public Policy Polling said they supported enacting a new law to protect public safety by establishing duties of firearm industry members. 36% said they were opposed and 4% were not sure. |
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| Published at: | 2:50 PM on Monday, April 10th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Research Poll Findings, Secure Firearms Ownership |
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Firearm fanatics remind us that they believe guns should have more rights than people
| Excerpt: | For firearm fanatics, those "unalienable Rights" of people are a secondary concern. More important to them than lives, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness is the manufacture, sale, import, and availability of guns. It's as if the guns are alive. The concern these firearm fanatics have for guns is really something. |
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| Published at: | 11:48 AM on Monday, April 10th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership |
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VICTORY! Washington State House votes to remove death penalty and Eyman’s two-thirds nonsense from our state’s body of laws
| Excerpt: | Legislation that would formally scrub a long list of statutes no longer in effect from the Revised Code of Washington is now going to Governor Inslee after receiving a vote in both chambers. |
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| Published at: | 8:00 PM on Friday, April 7th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Criminal Justice, Fiscal Responsibility |
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Senate sends My Health, My Data Act back to WA House with strong private right of action
| Excerpt: | By a vote of 27-21, the Senate voted to pass an amended version of House Bill 1155, prime sponsored by Representative Vandana Slatter (D-48th District: Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Medina, the Points communities) that has the support of Slatter, Senate prime sponsor Manka Dhingra (D-45th District: Redmond, Kirkland, Sammamish, Duvall), Ferguson, and advocates like NPI. |
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| Published at: | 4:45 PM on Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Privacy |
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More than three-fourths of Washington voters support the proposed My Health, My Data Act
| Excerpt: | 76% of 874 voters interviewed from March 7th-8th, 2023 by Public Policy Polling for the Northwest Progressive Institute said they were supportive of blocking health tracking apps and advertisers from collecting and selling Washingtonians’ health data without their consent, barring location-specific targeting of people who visit reproductive and gender affirming healthcare facilities, and requiring companies to maintain and publish a privacy policy for people’s health data. |
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| Published at: | 12:30 PM on Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Privacy, Research Poll Findings |
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ACCOUNTABILITY: Donald Trump indicted!
| Excerpt: | Trump's lawbreaking predated his four years in the White House, continued while he occupied the Oval Office, and continued even after he left. Yet until March 30th, 2023, he had only been the subject of investigations and no charges. That has changed. The logjam has broken; we have an indictment. |
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| Published at: | 4:06 PM on Thursday, March 30th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Criminal Justice |
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“Pro-life” Idaho Republican Governor Brad Little just signed a firing squad execution bill
| Excerpt: | Idaho Republicans are most definitely not trying to change their state's laws to abolish executions. They could be, but they are choosing not to be. It's a choice. |
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| Published at: | 4:30 PM on Saturday, March 25th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Criminal Justice, Nondiscrimination |
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68% of likely Washington voters support enacting a permit-to-purchase law for guns
| Excerpt: | 68% of 874 voters interviewed across the state from March 7th-8th support the policies proposed by Representative Liz Berry (D-36th District: Seattle) and dozens of her House colleagues in House Bill 1143, which is now under consideration in the Senate. 29% are opposed and 3% said they were not sure. |
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| Published at: | 10:16 AM on Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Research Poll Findings, Secure Firearms Ownership |
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DONE! Governor Inslee signs assault weapons ban and two more gun safety bills into law