March 23, 2009

WASHINGTON MANAGEMENT SERVICE BILL UP FOR HEARING THURSDAY

The Federation-initiated bill to bring accountability and transparency to the Washington Management Service and exempt service comes up for a hearing this Thursday and we need calls in to get it out of committee.

ESHB 2049 gets a hearing at 3:30 p.m., this Thursday, March 26, in the Senate Labor, Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee. It will be held in Senate Hearing Room 4 in the John A. Cherberg Building on the Capitol campus.

Call 1-800-562-6000 and urge your senator to support ESHB 2049 to bring accountability to the Washington Management Service. If any members of the Senate Labor, Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee are from your district, make doubly sure to call.

The members of the Senate Labor, Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee are:
  • Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, 36th Dist. (chair)
  • Sen. Karen Keiser, 33rd Dist. (vice chair)
  • Sen. Jenea Holmquist, 13th Dist. (ranking minority member)
  • Sen. Rosa Franklin, 29th Dist.
  • Rep. Jim Honeyford, 15th Dist.
  • Rep. Curtis King, 14th Dist.
  • Rep. Adam Kline, 37th Dist.
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