Bateman and Doglio represent part of Thurston County (the 22nd District). ![]() Most of them represent districts in Seattle and King County. The Democratic nays were Emily Alvarado, Jessica Bateman, Liz Berry, Frank Chopp, Beth Doglio, Darya Farivar, Mia Gregerson, Nicole Macri, Sharlett Mena, Melanie Morgan, Julia Reed, Kristine Reeves, Sharon Tomiko Santos, Tarra Simmons, and Chipalo Street. Voting Nay: Representatives Abbarno, Alvarado, Barkis, Barnard, Bateman, Berry, Caldier, Chambers, Chandler, Cheney, Chopp, Christian, Connors, Corry, Couture, Dent, Doglio, Dye, Eslick, Farivar, Goehner, Graham, Gregerson, Griffey, Harris, Hutchins, Jacobsen, Klicker, Kretz, Low, Macri, Maycumber, McClintock, McEntire, Mena, Morgan, Mosbrucker, Orcutt, Reed, Reeves, Robertson, Rude, Sandlin, Santos, Schmick, Schmidt, Simmons, Steele, Stokesbary, Street, Volz, Walsh, Waters, Wilcox, Ybarra Voting Yea: Representatives Berg, Bergquist, Bronoske, Callan, Chapman, Cortes, Davis, Donaghy, Duerr, Entenman, Fey, Fitzgibbon, Fosse, Goodman, Hackney, Hansen, Kloba, Leavitt, Lekanoff, Ormsby, Ortiz-Self, Orwall, Paul, Peterson, Pollet, Ramel, Ramos, Riccelli, Rule, Ryu, Senn, Shavers, Slatter, Springer, Stearns, Stonier, Taylor, Thai, Tharinger, Timmons, Walen, Wylie, Jinkins That left the bill with no route to Governor Inslee’s desk, at least not before the end of the one hundred and fifth legislative day - the last allowed by the Washington State Constitution for the 2023 regular session.įinal Passage as recommended by the Conference Committee That could be very chaotic and inequitable, which is why Governor Inslee urged the Legislature to act before the Sine Die curtain came down.īut House Republicans refused to provide any votes for the negotiated version of 5536 and House Democrats were too divided to pass it themselves. ![]() Absent such a law, Washington would cease to have a uniform criminal justice policy on drug possession, which would mean that localities could set their own laws. Several Democrats joined the chamber’s forty Republicans in casting nay votes, creating a potent obstacle to the bill’s passage that leadership determined could not be surmounted before the clock ran out on the 2023 legislative session.Īs a consequence, the state doesn’t have a new law slated to replace the previous “Blake fix” that is set to expire in just a few weeks. An eleventh hour vote on revisions to Washington’s drug possession laws ended in failure in the state House this evening when a majority of representatives refused to endorse a conference committee report on E2SSB 5536, Senator June Robinson’s bill that responds to the Supreme Court’s Blake decision.
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