QV Archive

The House 2011 Supplementary Operating Budget (HB 1086) for the current fiscal year passed the House and is now in the Senate Ways & Means Committee.  It includes partial or time-limited funding for the Disability Lifeline, Apple Health for Kids, and Community Health Clinics. Basic Health is terminated after April 30, 2011. Take Charge family planning … Read more

Jan. 30: HB 1320/SB 5238: Washington Investment Trust, sponsored (in the House) by Rep. Bob Hasegawa.  Set up state institution to hold state funds and lend to small business, farmers, students and others.  Hearings were held this past week in House Business and Finance Committee and Senate Financial Institutions Committee.  Oral testimony by FCWPP in … Read more

Following the Governor’s supplemental budget proposal, the House (SHB 1086) has submitted a proposed 2011 Supplemental Operation Budgets to address revenue shortfalls projected to occur before the end of the current biennium. SHB 1086 was passed out of the House Ways and Means Committee on January 19, 2011.? The impacts of the governor’s budget proposals … Read more

SB 5053, prime sponsor: Senators Adam Kline In Washington State, individuals convicted of “3 strikes” may be sentenced to life without parole.  The bill would permit 3-Strikers convicted of Class B felonies only (primarily Robbery 2 and Assault 2) — currently serving Life Without Parole (LWOP) — to apply for parole after serving 15 years.  … Read more

Please help move House Bill 1320, Rep. Bob Hasegawa’s bill to create Washington Investment Trust, (WIT). The WIT is based on the model of North Dakota’s State Bank.  In Bob’s words, “The concept:  keep taxpayers’ money working here in Washington to build our economy. Currently, all tax revenues go into a “Concentration Account” held by … Read more

“While we are still analyzing the details, it appears the House Ways and Means Committee responded to concerns shared about the needs of our most vulnerable neighbors and found ways to retain most of the funding for Disability Lifeline and full funding for Apple Health for Kids in its proposed 2011 Supplemental Operating Budget. The … Read more

Goals and Objectives for FCWPP’s work in Criminal Justice, Local Responses to Global Challenges, and Economic Justice, including Health Care….  

approved by FCWPP Steering Committee – January 15, 2011 1. CRIMINAL JUSTICE     a. Goals:          i. Give priority to efforts to repair the harm suffered by victims over applying punishments to offenders        ii. Enable offenders to redeem themselves and reintegrate into society       iii. Replace costly incarceration through diversion, drug treatment, job training, and education … Read more

FCWPP Alert:  FCWPP Endorsement of Initiatives and a Referendum FCWPP recommends: a YES vote for the following: Initiative 1098: Tax Reform initiative (This Initiative was endorsed earlier by FCWPP; for details see the Alert of 5-21-2010 on our website: www.fcwpp.org).  I-1098 reforms our unfair and imbalanced tax system and generates dedicated funding for education and … Read more

An article by Tom Ewell from Western Friend, June 2010 A room full of fifty Friends is gathered in the Olympia Friends Meetinghouse listening to a state legislator explain the complexities of offering prison reform measures to the Washington State legislature. Friends from various parts of the state have gathered for the second annual Quaker … Read more