Northwest = Automatic Vending Association

Northwest=20 Automatic Vending Association

Weekly=20 Report

Prepared=20 by: Boswell=20 Consulting

Sunday, February 10,=20 2008

First=20 Cut Off

The 2008 = session=20 continues at a frantic pace with first cutoff arriving this week. = This=20 means that for Legislation to continue through the Legislative = process it=20 must be voted out of its original committee. Bills that are in the = Health=20 Care Committee must have passed out or they are considered dead = for this=20 session. The House and Senate will now move to floor action where=20 legislation must be voted on by the entire House or Senate and = passed over=20 to the opposite Chamber. If Bills are not voted by a chamber by = the 19th=20 of February they are considered dead for this session.

Menu = Labeling: The House Commerce and Labor committee passed = Legislation that=20 will prevent the King County Labeling standard from being = implemented and=20 will establish a statewide standard that does not require = nutritional=20 information to be on the menu but available somewhere at the = Restaurant.=20 This Legislation will now move to the Floor of the House for a = floor vote=20 and be sent over to the Senate.

House Bill 2422, would have = banned=20 the use of Plastic bottles for water did not pass out of the House = Environmental Committee and is considered dead for this session. = The use=20 of plastics for beverage containers will continue to be an issue = in future=20 legislative session. =

Bill=20 Tracking = Summary

High=20 Priority Bills

Sponsor

Position

Status

2422

Prohibiting = the sale=20 of petroleum-based water bottles.

Chase

Monitor

H, Env=20 Health

2423

Concerning = the=20 composting and recycling of certain food service=20 packaging.

Chase

Monitor

H, Env=20 Health

2665

Implementing = the=20 recommendations of the joint legislative task force on family = leave=20 insurance.

Dickerson

Monitor

H,=20 Commerce/Lab

S2709

Authorizing = school=20 districts to establish a price preference to purchase locally = grown=20 food.

Hurst

Monitor

H, Exec=20 Action

S3160

Addressing = the=20 availability of nutrition information.

Springer

Monitor

H, CLDPS=20 +

S6280

Implementing = the=20 recommendations of the joint legislative task force on family = leave=20 insurance.

Keiser

Monitor

S, Ways = & Means=20 +

6378

Making 2008 = operating=20 supplemental appropriations.

Prentice

Monitor

S, Ways = &=20 Means

S6516

Providing a = framework=20 for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the Washington economy. = (DIGEST=20 OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE)

Pridemore

Monitor

S, Ways = & Means=20 +

6659

Addressing = the=20 availability of nutrition information.

Prentice

Monitor

S, Hea/L-T=20 Care

6786

Creating a = legislative=20 task force on menu labeling.

Franklin

Monitor

S, Hea/L-T=20 Care

Calendar=20 Items

2/11/2008

S6516

Greenhouse = gas=20 emissions

Ways &=20 Means

TVW

1:30=20 PM

SHR=20 4

Bill=20 Tracking = Details

2422

Petroleum-based=20 bottles

Chase

Representative=20 Chase

Prohibits the sale=20 of petroleum-based water bottles.

Full Text=20 URL:

http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/House%20= Bills/2422.pdf

2423

Food=20 service packaging

Chase

Representative=20 Chase

Provides = for the=20 composting and recycling of certain food service=20 packaging.

Full Text=20 URL:

http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/House%20= Bills/2423.pdf

2665

Family=20 leave insurance

Dickerson

Representatives=20 Dickerson and Conway

Implements the=20 recommendations of the joint legislative task force on family = leave=20 insurance.
Declares that the commissioner of the department of = labor=20 and industries shall appoint a state advisory committee. The = committee=20 shall aid the commissioner in formulating policies related to the=20 administration of family leave insurance and of assuring = consistency with=20 program intent and impartiality and freedom from political = influence in=20 the solution of issues that may arise.
Requires that the = employment=20 security department shall conduct a study of the impacts, if any, = of the=20 family leave insurance program on the unemployment compensation = system,=20 and options for mitigating = impacts.

Companion=20 Bill:

6280 Family=20 leave insurance

S, Ways = & Means=20 +

Full Text=20 URL:

http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/House%20= Bills/2665.pdf

S2709

Locally=20 grown food

Hurst

Representatives Hurst,=20 Pettigrew, Appleton, Sells, Green, Conway, Morrell, Anderson, = Sullivan,=20 Kenney, Schual-Berke, McIntire, Wood, Hudgins, Simpson, Goodman,=20 VanDeWege, and Ormsby

Provides = school=20 districts the authority to consider the distance food travels from = the=20 point of production to the point of consumption when making food=20 procurement decisions.

Full Text=20 URL:

http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/House%= 20Bills/2709-s.pdf

S3160

Nutrition=20 information

Springer

Representatives=20 Springer, Newhouse, Ericks, Goodman, Armstrong, Linville, = McDonald,=20 Kessler, Dickerson, Wood, Wallace, Hunter, Blake, Clibborn, = Morrell,=20 Williams, Loomis, Liias, Kelley, Eddy, Takko, Warnick, Jarrett, = Rodne,=20 Sullivan, Roach, VanDeWege, Kenney, and = Ormsby

Requires = a covered=20 food facility to make certain nutrition information available to = consumers=20 for each standard food item.
Expires January 1,=20 2013.

Full Text=20 URL:

http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/House%= 20Bills/3160-s.pdf

S6280

Family=20 leave insurance

Keiser

Senators = Keiser and=20 Kohl-Welles

Full Text=20 URL:

http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Senat= e%20Bills/6280-s.pdf

6378

Operating=20 budget

Prentice

Senators = Prentice and=20 Zarelli

Requested=20 by
Office = of=20 Financial = Management

Makes = 2008=20 operating supplemental = appropriations.

Companion=20 Bill:

2687 Operating=20 budget

H,=20 Approp

Full Text=20 URL:

http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Senate%= 20Bills/6378.pdf

S6516

Greenhouse=20 gas emissions

Pridemore

Senate = Committee on=20 Water, Energy & Telecommunications (originally sponsored by = Senators=20 Pridemore, Rockefeller, Swecker, Oemig, Murray, Hobbs, Fairley,=20 Kohl-Welles, McDermott, Weinstein, Regala, Kilmer, Jacobsen, = Hargrove,=20 Prentice, McAuliffe, Kastama, Rasmussen, Franklin, Keiser, = Kauffman,=20 Fraser, Shin, Kline, and Brandland)

Requested=20 by
Governor = Gregoire

Commences a=20 process to ensure the emission reductions established in this act = are=20 achieved.
Directs the state to continue its participation in = the=20 development of a regional process to design a multisector, = market-based=20 system for regulating greenhouse gas emissions as one measure to = achieve=20 our greenhouse gas reduction limits.
Authorizes a reporting = system to=20 monitor greenhouse gas emissions.
Establishes a process for = maintaining=20 a comprehensive inventory of greenhouse gas emissions to track the = state's=20 progress in achieving its greenhouse gas emission = reductions.
Creates a=20 green collar job training account to train and transition workers = to clean=20 energy jobs.

Full Text=20 URL:

http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Senat= e%20Bills/6516-s.pdf

6659

Nutrition=20 information

Prentice

Senators = Prentice and=20 Brandland

Requires = a covered=20 food facility to make certain nutrition information available to = consumers=20 for each standard food item.
Expires January 1,=20 2013.

Companion=20 Bill:

3160 Nutrition=20 information

H, CLDPS=20 +

Full Text=20 URL:

http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Senate%= 20Bills/6659.pdf

6786

Menu=20 labeling task force

Franklin

Senators = Franklin,=20 Holmquist, Kastama, and Marr

Creates = a=20 legislative task force on menu = labeling.

Full Text=20 URL:

http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Senate%= 20Bills/6786.pdf