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House approves Mosquito Fleet Act to enable passenger-only ferry districts
Summary
The House passed second substitute House Bill 19-23, the Mosquito Fleet Act, 84-11-3, allowing local jurisdictions to form passenger-only ferry districts to expand short-distance ferry service around Puget Sound and other coastal communities.
The Washington State House on the floor approved second substitute House Bill 19-23, known in debate as the Mosquito Fleet Act, by a recorded vote of 84 yays, 11 nays and 3 excused. Sponsor Representative Josh Nance urged colleagues to back the measure as a way to restore reliable passenger-only ferry connections disrupted in recent years.
Representative Nance, the bill’s sponsor, said the legislation aims to “relaunch passenger ferries, to reconnect communities all around the Sound so that counties, cities, ports can actually…
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