Dozens of Federation members turned out to pack the main hearing room and four overflow hearing rooms Saturday morning during the public hearing on two good bills to give legislators the flexibility to deal with the fiscal crisis.
The House Finance Committee then voted out ESSB 6130 to temporarily suspend the Initiative 960 two-thirds vote requirement and allow majority votes by the Legislature on revenue bills. The vote was 6-3.
It now goes to the full House.
We should note that this is the vehicle the committee chose to consider for a number of reasons. So this replaces SB 6843 on our all to action sheets. We now need to generate support for ESSB 6130.
The committee also heard but did not take action on HB 3176 to close hundreds of millions of dollars in tax loopholes.
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