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Health Care Worker Measure, Eyman Measure Turn in Sigs
Two other initiative campaigns have turned in signatures this morning. (Costco turned in their signatures first thing today for the liquor privatization measure they're backing.)
Here's our rundown on the initiatives—and who's funding them.
Tim Eyman turned in 327,043 signatures for his initiative to regulate tolling. Specifically, Eyman's I-1125 would make the legislature—not the transportation commission—set tolling rates, it would limit toll revenues to paying for the roads where they were collected. In other words, I-90 tolling could not pay for 520.
Additionally, the Service Employees International Union 775 announced that they turned in 340,000 signatures this morning for its initiative, I-1163, to mandate training and background checks on long term home health care workers (the workers SEIU represents.) The SEIU initiative is a re-do of 2008's I-1029 , which passed by 72 percent, but which the legislature has failed to fund.
Initiatives need 241,000 valid signatures to make it on the ballot and the Secretary of State advises campaigns to turn in at least 320,000 to play it safe.
The Secretary of State is still waiting to see if Sensible Washington, backers of a marijuana decriminalization initiative, will meet today's deadline.
Though the Secretary of State does report that they've sent the ballot title and language to the Attorney General's review for separate pot measure—being pushed by a different group (backed by the ACLU)—to legalize and tax marijuana.
Here's the basic description from the opening intent section:
This measure would first go to the Legislature for consideration. Legislators can either pass it or ignore it, in which case it will to on the 2012 November ballot. (The legislature can also pass a tandem measure to compete with it.)
Here's the full text.
Here's our rundown on the initiatives—and who's funding them.
Tim Eyman turned in 327,043 signatures for his initiative to regulate tolling. Specifically, Eyman's I-1125 would make the legislature—not the transportation commission—set tolling rates, it would limit toll revenues to paying for the roads where they were collected. In other words, I-90 tolling could not pay for 520.
Additionally, the Service Employees International Union 775 announced that they turned in 340,000 signatures this morning for its initiative, I-1163, to mandate training and background checks on long term home health care workers (the workers SEIU represents.) The SEIU initiative is a re-do of 2008's I-1029 , which passed by 72 percent, but which the legislature has failed to fund.
Initiatives need 241,000 valid signatures to make it on the ballot and the Secretary of State advises campaigns to turn in at least 320,000 to play it safe.
The Secretary of State is still waiting to see if Sensible Washington, backers of a marijuana decriminalization initiative, will meet today's deadline.
Though the Secretary of State does report that they've sent the ballot title and language to the Attorney General's review for separate pot measure—being pushed by a different group (backed by the ACLU)—to legalize and tax marijuana.
Here's the basic description from the opening intent section:
Sec. 1. The people intend to stop treating adult marijuana use as a crime and try a new approach that: (1) Allows law enforcement resources to be focused on violent and property crimes; (2) Generates new state and local tax revenue for education, health care, research, and substance abuse prevention; and (3) Takes marijuana out of the hands of illegal drug organizations and brings it under a tightly regulated, state-licensed system similar to that for controlling hard alcohol. This measure authorizes the state liquor control board to regulate and tax marijuana for persons twenty-one years of age and older, and add a new threshold for driving under the influence of marijuana.
This measure would first go to the Legislature for consideration. Legislators can either pass it or ignore it, in which case it will to on the 2012 November ballot. (The legislature can also pass a tandem measure to compete with it.)
Here's the full text.
