IRV bill dead in state senate
IRV Washington blog reports:
At the last meeting of the Senate Government Operations Committee, SB 6000's prime sponsor Senator Swecker asked the Chair of the Committee for an executive session and a vote on the bill. Senator Fairley adjourned the Committee meeting without a vote. This is unfortunate since it appeared that Senator Swecker had the votes to pass the bill out of committee.SB 6000 was really a housekeeping bill. After IRV passed in Pierce County last year there was some concerns of different voting methods between levels of local government. That the county would be using IRV, but cities and local districts would be using the primary/general method. SB 6000 would have allowed cities and local districts to adopt IRV in Pierce County. It was already supported by the Pierce County Council.. Here is a post that talks about the hearing on SB 6000.As a result of this SB 6000 is dead for this session of the legislature. We will have a chance to revive the bill in the 2008 session if we desire to do so.
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