Subject: FW: (INFO) (DETAILS) HB 1443 I run a little mailing list of my own. Here's what I sent out to my listmembers on Washington State's Substitute House Bill 1443. I have a copy of the bill, along with both anti-gay measures filed. I'll follow-up with the anti-gay measures; I can forward you HB 1443 if you want. It'll be UUencoded, in Word for Windows format. - R'ykandar. ---------- From: Janice Van Cleve To: R'ykandar Korra'ti Subject: HB 1443 Date: Thursday, January 13, 1994 12:27PM Dar, please post with my name. *************************************************************************** Here is the official up to the minute status from Cal Anderson's office at noon on Thursday, January 13: HB1443 is in the House Rules Committee. It can be pulled to the floor at any time for a House vote. A date has not been decided yet, but it will happen in the next two weeks. Then it will go to the Senate Law and Justice Committee for a hearing. The hearing is expected to occure in the first week of February. We will receive about 5 days notice. While the hearing is planned to be a low-key, 2-hour, pro-con, type hearing, the "green tag" creatures will be out in force. Therefore it will be important for us to make a good showing at that hearing as well. By the second week in February, HB1443 should be in the Senate Rules Committee. Nita Rinehardt, chair of the Ways and Means Committee, expects to keep it out of there because the money is already in the budget for HB1443. It can be pulled to the Senate floor for a vote at any time after it gets to Senate Rules committee. Top priority right now is quality testimony of first hand discrimination stories. If you have one or a friend who has one, call Martin Munguia at 206-624-2184 immediately. He is at the ACLU and is collecting the stories for Privacy Fund and Hands Off Washington. These stories are the most convincing to wavering senators. Second priority is to call, fax, and write your senator and representatives within the next week. Get your friends to do this too. Any support we can generate from outside King County is critical. Whether you or your friends live there, work there, own property there, go boating or skiing there, travel throught there . . . . hell, if you can spell "Wenachee" send a letter from there and get your friends from there to call. The legislative hot line is 1-800-562-6000. Actually, the number of positive calls is going well in the 43, 46, 10, 24, and 35 districts so far. But the right wing is dumping on the 1st district. They may be using the "focused deluge" approach district by district to create the impression of a massive voter rejection of the bill. For specific names and districts and phone numbers,faxes, etc. of the legislator you are targeting, please call the legislative hot line or your county's elections office. Final note: Many senators and representatives really want to vote for HB1443 but they know they will take heat from a well-organized and vicious right wing. Help them out! Give them a way to say: "My constituents want me to vote for this bill." - Janice Van Cleve