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Law & Justice Committee advances multiple bills, sends recommendations to committees
Summary
The Law & Justice Committee advanced several bills on March 27, recommending they move to downstream committees. Actions included due-pass recommendations for at least seven bills and adoption of multiple amendments.
The Law & Justice Committee on March 27 voted to advance several bills, issuing due-pass recommendations to downstream committees and adopting amendments on multiple measures.
Votes at a glance
- Substitute House Bill 1133 (civil commitment information-sharing for sexually violent predators): due pass recommendation to the Rules Committee (subject to signatures).
- Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1829 (tribal warrants / Brady Warrants Act): amendment Alpha adopted; engrossed bill as amended received a due pass recommendation to Rules (subject to signatures).
- Substitute House Bill 1733 (increased cap for agency displacement moving/relocation reimbursements): due pass recommendation to the Transportation Committee (subject to signatures).
- Substitute House Bill 1281 (technical corrections to the Revised Code of Washington): due pass recommendation to Rules (subject to signatures).
- Second Substitute House Bill 1359 (task force on criminal insanity and competency to stand trial): amendment Bravo adopted; bill as amended received a due pass recommendation to Ways & Means (subject to signatures).
- Engrossed House Bill 1219 (interbranch advisory committee; restores sunset to 01/01/2031): amendment Charlie adopted; engrossed bill as amended received a due pass recommendation to Ways & Means (subject to signatures).
- Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1163 (firearm purchase permits, training, CPLs): multiple amendments adopted (including Delta, Delta‑1 and Delta‑2) and the bill as amended received a due pass recommendation to Ways & Means (subject to signatures).
Committee action and context
Staff briefly introduced each bill at the start of the session and identified offered amendments. Committee members asked questions on a subset of bills with longer debate or technical issues; most measures were then moved and seconded and advanced by voice vote with no roll-call tally recorded in the transcript.
Several amendments were adopted during the meeting. For example, Amendment Alpha to SHB 1829 was adopted after floor discussion about entry of certified tribal warrants into national databases. For ESSHB 1163 (firearms), the committee adopted a striking amendment and multiple carve outs (Delta‑1 and Delta‑2) exempting certain licensed armed private investigators and armed security guards from proposed firearms safety training requirements; senators said they would pursue “perfecting” language on the floor to ensure training consistency.
What this means next
Each bill advanced is now slated to move to the committee named in the motion (Rules, Transportation, or Ways & Means) and will be subject to further floor or fiscal committee action. The due-pass recommendations are subject to signatures and may be amended further in subsequent committee or floor proceedings.
Provenance
This article summarizes recorded committee motions and votes spanning the meeting. See transcript excerpts used as evidence in provenance.
