Support increased revenue to reduce climate disruption and provide for our poorest neighbors Please e-mail your legislators (two reps; one senator) today. Request they support a capital gains excise tax and carbon pollution market program to provide increased funding needed for education, needed to repair our shredded social safety net, and needed to address climate … Read more
Send Legislators an email today One thing is clear as legislative budget negotiators continue their deliberations: our current regressive tax system (most regressive in the nation according to The Seattle Times) does not provide the revenue needed to fully fund education, repair our shredded social safety net, and maintain funding for programs that survived the … Read more
Washington will have to spend $290 million on a new prison, if this one last criminal justice bill is not in the budget. SB 5755 (or its companion: HB1885) is necessary to implement the budget (NTIB) and required if we are to reduce the trend of a year after year increase in the number of … Read more
Dear Friends of FCWPP, You are invited to participate in the spring meeting of the Steering Committee of Friends Committee on Washington Public Policy (FCWPP). The meeting will be at 7 pm on Friday April 24 at Pacific Northwest Quarterly Meeting (PNQM), at Lazy F camp near Ellensburg. We’ll be meeting in the dining hall. So, … Read more
Dear FCWPP Activist: The Environmental Stewardship and Peace Working Group asks your support for efforts to protect the public from oil transportation accidents by today contacting the two people who represent you in the state house and the one representing you in the state senate. Both the house and the senate have passed separate, and … Read more
The criminal justice bills described below made it through Rules and were passed by one chamber in our state legislature. Now those same bills must get passed in the opposite chamber before the April cutoff. Please email your legislator today and ask she or he take the action in the ASK below. Three of these … Read more
HB 1314, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, is currently stuck in the House Appropriations Committee. We urge Friends to act now to contact your House members to express support for moving this bill to the floor and including the funds it would provide in the budget. (Please see the Attachments for a script or more … Read more
Dear Friends, Legislators have one week to vote bills out of their house of origin. Any bill not voted by March 11th cannot be considered further this legislative session (unless deemed necessary to implement the budget). Before any bill can be voted on the House or Senate floor, it must be “pulled” by the Rules … Read more
2015 Quaker Lobby Day Issues Environmental Stewardship and Peace Support HB 1314 / SB 5283: Implementing a carbon pollution market program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This legislation — requested by the Governor — would create financial incentives to encourage less energy consumption, to invest in technologies that produce energy with fewer greenhouse gas emissions, … Read more
https://qvwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/2015.BillTracker.2.DC_.pdf Bill Tracker – Workplan/Status Report updated 1/26/15 Bill/Issue +/- Last Action Current Committee Status Next Step for Quaker Voice Brief Description HB1390/eliminate interest on LFOs owed to gov to support efforts to redeem, rehabilitate, and reintegrate 1/21/15 Heard in Hse Judiciary Hse Judiciary Needs Executive Action Lobby Committee Mbrs and encourage Chair to … Read more