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Senate moves dozens of bills forward; key votes include background-check fee measure and annual accounts bill
Summary
The state Senate on March 6 advanced and passed multiple bills after amendment battles and roll-call votes, including House Bill 2,521 (background-check fees) and House Bill 2,675 (annual accounts); several concurrence motions on substituted Senate bills were also adopted.
The State Senate spent several hours this week taking concurrence motions, debating amendments and recording final passage on a broad set of measures that ranged from school safety to fee-setting authority for the Washington State Patrol.
Senate leaders read a long list of House messages and then moved through a slate of concurrence motions. The chamber declared engrossed substitute Senate Bill 5,156 passed after the roll call was restarted when the electronic reader board showed the wrong bill; the clerk reported 41 ayes, 6 nays and 2 excused and the President declared the bill passed.
Senators adopted the…
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