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THIRD DAY, SECOND SPECIAL SESSION
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MORNING SESSION
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Senate Chamber, Olympia, Wednesday, June 6, 2001
The Senate was called to order at 10:00 a.m. by President Owen. The Secretary called the roll and announced to the President that all Senators were present except Senators Benton, Costa, Deccio, Finkbeiner, Hargrove, Hewitt, Johnson, Long, McDonald, Parlette, Patterson, Rasmussen, Betti Sheldon and Zarelli. On motion of Senator Honeyford, Senators Benton, Deccio, Finkbeiner, Hewitt, Johnson, Long McDonald, Parlette and Zarelli were excused. On motion of Senator Eide, Senators Costa, Hargrove, Patterson, Rasmussen and Betti Sheldon were excused.
The Sergeant at Arms Color Guard, consisting of staff members, Catherine Mele-Hetter and Toni Blair, presented the Colors. Senator Dan Swecker offered the prayer.
MOTION
On motion of Senator Gardner, the reading of the Journal of the previous day was dispensed with and it was approved.
REPORT OF STANDING COMMITTEE
June 5, 2001
SB 6194 Prime Sponsor, Senator Snyder: Authorizing port districts to provide pilots in Grays Harbor. Reported by Committee on Transportation
MAJORITY Recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Haugen, Chair; Gardner, Vice Chair; Eide, Finkbeiner, Horn, Jacobsen, Johnson, Kastama, McDonald, Patterson, Prentice and T. Sheldon.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
SECOND READING
CONFIRMATION OF GUBERNATORIAL APPOINTMENT
MOTION
On motion of Senator Kohl-Welles, Gubernatorial Appointment No. 9015, Bertha M. Goehner, as a member of the Board of Trustees for Wenatchee Valley Community College District No. 15, was confirmed.
APPOINTMENT OF BERTHA M. GOEHNER
The Secretary called the roll. The appointment was confirmed by the following vote: Yeas, 35; Nays, 0; Absent, 0; Excused, 14.
Voting yea: Senators Brown, Carlson, Constantine, Eide, Fairley, Franklin, Fraser, Gardner, Hale, Haugen, Hochstatter, Honeyford, Horn, Jacobsen, Kastama, Kline, Kohl-Welles, McAuliffe, McCaslin, Morton, Oke, Prentice, Regala, Roach, Rossi, Sheahan, Sheldon, T., Shin, Snyder, Spanel, Stevens, Swecker, Thibaudeau, West and Winsley - 35.
Excused: Senators Benton, Costa, Deccio, Finkbeiner, Hargrove, Hewitt, Johnson, Long, McDonald, Parlette, Patterson, Rasmussen, Sheldon, B. and Zarelli - 14.
PERSONAL PRIVILEGE
Senator McCaslin: “A point of personal privilege, Mr. President. It has been pointed out to me that today, June 6, was D-Day, fifty-seven years ago. I was waiting for Senator Deccio to return, because he went in at France. I think Senator Snyder was in the service along with me. Any other World War II vets here? Some of you look like it, but you just had a hard night. If you are married, you are qualified, Senator Winsley, especially your husband and I am sure he suffered through the wars.
“I was trying to recall where I was. I went into the service in the Navy in March, 1944, and went to Green Lakes for Boot Camp. I survived that and then went on down to San Diego to an air liaison group and then we drove up to Pasco. We had a bombing range in Beverely. I don’t know if you remember Beverely or not. It is under water now--when they put the dam in. We bombed up there with the wild horses and the wild cats and so forth. We used to pull liberty in Vantage. That was a big thrill for a kid from Ohio. Then we closed that and put a bombing range above Zillah. I don’t know whose district that is, but we would fly Sorties up from Pasco and drop Depth Charges and fire five inch rockets from F6Fs and F4Fs and TBMs from Pasco.
“Then, I went overseas and I tell the story that when I went to Hawaii, the Japanese found out I was coming and they surrendered. I also take credit for the ending of the war. The Navy was good for me, because I was a wise little kid when I went in and I was wiser intellectually when I came out and I was a little smoother. I have always felt we should have conscription--kids out of high school should go in for a couple of years and learn what I learned.
“Anyway, there were some blessings in World War II. I did end up marrying a young lady from Yakima. We actually stayed across from the airport and my first wife--my wife of forty-seven years--was a waitress. I met her when I came out of restriction and I won’t go into why I was on restriction. Anyway, it helped me. World War II was a blessing to me individually, as a citizen, because I ended up in the great state of Washington. I am so proud of this state--my adopted state. I don’t know if Senator Snyder has anything to say or not. He looks very wise sitting there. Thank you for allowing me to speak, Mr. President.”
PERSONAL PRIVILEGE
Senator Snyder: “Thank you, Mr. President. I rise to a point of personal privilege. I am pleased that you think I look wise, Senator McCaslin. Senator McCaslin and I are about the same age. I think he is a year older now, because he turned seventy-five last April and I won’t be seventy-five until July. Fifty-seven years ago, I had just graduated from high school, but I certainly remember. I had enlisted in the Army Air Force in February and I was supposed to be called right after I turned eighteen in July. The tide of the war, between February and July, had changed so much and thankfully the losses had been so much less than anticipated that I wasn’t called in the service until February of 1945. As I said, I had joined the Army Air Force and went to basic training and qualified to be a pilot, bombardier or navigator, but here again the tide of the war was that they didn’t need them and were closing down flight schools.
“I was in nine months and twenty-nine days and they said they didn’t need us anymore. I was about the last one to leave and the first one to come home. I was fortunate in that way, but I certainly remember D-Day and I get chocked up remembering kids who sat next to me in class that didn’t come back. Because they didn’t come back, I am standing here today. I am ever grateful for all those buddies of mine that fought in the war who sat next to me in typing class and played football with me--just a year or two older than I am and I don’t think we can ever know--be so grateful--for all the good that has come from the battles that they did.
“I think it is becoming more evident as the years go along. I think it is so right that that was the greatest generation, because the tide of history could easily have been changed. We certainly would not know the way of life that we have today even though, we have a few difference along the way. I think sometimes it would be a little easier to put them to the side and think of what it might have been if it hadn’t been for all those fellows that went through D-Day and all the other battles in the Pacific and so forth, so that we could live in peace and happiness and harmony and watch our families and our grandchildren grow. A lot of those people didn’t have that chance. I raise a special tribute and thanks to all those fellows and women that served, especially those ones who didn’t come back. I am indeed grateful.”
PERSONAL PRIVILEGE
Senator Franklin: “A point of personal privilege. I would like to speak to what they used to refer to as the distaff side. I am in that category, also. I think you all are a year ahead of me, however. I was in high school and all the guys left. It ended up, there were eleven guys that left from my class. What we did as high school students and those who were at home, we entertained--meaning the guys, because I grew up in a free port town, a large shipping area, and then Fort Jackson in South Carolina. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was an airbase. I grew up in South Carolina. We would have just troop after troop coming and going throughout the city. On Sundays, we would have guys for dinner; we would have them for church. We, in turn, at Myrtle Beach, would go dancing with the guys. Those were the times you really danced. When they would leave, we cultivated a pen pal club. We did a lot of correspondence with those who were in service at that time.
“Then, I graduated and went to college for a semester and then went into nursing. My class was the last class of Cadet Nurses. We trained under the Frances Paine Bolton Act. If you look historically, Frances Paine Bolton served in the federal government in recruiting. There were shortages of nurses and shortages of health professionals. We nurses, in turn, went in training. My last class--some of us would go to different parts of the country for six months for the price of graduation. We were recruited to work with those people and to work at home in the health care field. That is how I went into nursing and I was the last class. I had a uniform, of course. My uniform was grey. I had a brother who served in Italy and is a purple heart winner.
“During those years, we had our victory gardens. We were very, very patriotic. Those were the years as the Senators have said. When you look back and learn that women really did many things. Some worked here in Bremerton. They were riveters--there was Rosie the Riveter--as all of us know. The women really took over the home site and really worked and kept things going. When we look back historically at what has taken place, I agree with the Senators, there were many changes, many changes, that took place and there were those who gave their lives.
“I have been overseas and I have visited the places--Flanders and where they fought in France and Germany and Italy and visited the grave sites of the memorials. It does something to you, really. Just being there--I don’t know, whenever I have visited and whenever I go to those places, you know it is so focused and so overwhelming and if we only knew. There are so many things that we take for granted and we need to just think that that point in time was a turning point for this country.
“So, June 6, D-Day, means a lot. Thank you.”
PERSONAL PRIVILEGE
Senator Deccio: “A point of personal privilege, Mr. President. I want to get my two cents worth in here. It is hard to believe that nearly sixty-one years ago this year, I enlisted in the Army Air Corps. In 1940, right our of high school--I knew I was going to get drafted and I wanted to pick my own branch and I sure as hell didn’t want to go into the infantry. Just by a quirk of fate--I think I told this story to Bob McCaslin a few days ago--by a quirk of fate, because of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, we were slated to go to the Philippines and the headquarters of the Fifth Air Force. Because they bombed Pearl Harbor, we turned around and came back. We got off the boat at the San Francisco docks and walked through the Presidio and camped overnight and were sent back up to Seattle.
“I went overseas in early 1943, almost a year before the invasion. The invasion that I remember is one where I was in a troop carrier group. We hauled in the Eighty-Second, the One Hundred First Airborne--in gliders and in C47 Troop Carriers. My job, being in the personnel department, was to check on-- D-Day minus five hours--my job was to load four airplanes with M Gliders with troops--check them off as they boarded the gliders in the planes--realizing that most of those folks were not going to be back. A lot of the gliders ended up in trees. When they parachuted out, the parachutes got caught in the trees and then they were killed by the Nazi soldiers.
“It was awe inspiring to me to watch the Eighty Second, One Hundred First Airborne do their training. While we were in nice warm barracks in January, we were warm, but in England, the January weather is impossible. Those guys slept in pup tents and you didn’t dare to look at them cross-eyed, because you would get your head beat off. That is how tough they were. They were training for the invasion and on June 6 was one of the most--was the roughest the Channel had ever been in fifty years. Imagine, at the beginning of June, you would think it would be nice and quiet. General Eisenhower gave the word to go ahead, because they were not going to wait any longer because of the buildup of the Nazis on the other side.
“I went over to France about two weeks later. We were stationed at Amiens. It is something that is hard for people to understand the bravery that it took for those GIs who were on the ground to face death, knowing that it was coming and yet charging forward. It takes a great deal of patriotism and with all the ground support and all the airplanes, the dog faces--those were the infantry men--were the ones who really won the war. Every time you think of World War II, you need to think of the GI Joe on the ground carrying that rifle who was the one who really won the war for us. I was proud to be a part of it.”
Senators Thibaudeau and Kastama and the President made additional comments regarding the Anniversary of D-Day.
SECOND READING
CONFIRMATION OF GUBERNATORIAL APPOINTMENT
MOTION
On motion of Senator Kohl-Welles, Gubernatorial Appointment No. 9137, Kris Pomianek, as a member of the Board of Trustees for Wenatchee Valley Community College District No. 15, was confirmed.
APPOINTMENT OF KRIS POMIANEK
The Secretary called the roll. The appointment was confirmed by the following vote: Yeas, 43; Nays, 0; Absent, 0; Excused, 6.
Voting yea: Senators Brown, Carlson, Constantine, Deccio, Eide, Fairley, Franklin, Fraser, Gardner, Hale, Hargrove, Haugen, Hewitt, Hochstatter, Honeyford, Horn, Jacobsen, Kastama, Kline, Kohl-Welles, Long, McAuliffe, McCaslin, McDonald, Morton, Oke, Patterson, Prentice, Rasmussen, Regala, Roach, Rossi, Sheahan, Sheldon, B., Sheldon, T., Shin, Snyder, Spanel, Stevens, Swecker, Thibaudeau, West and Winsley - 43.
Excused: Senators Benton, Costa, Finkbeiner, Johnson, Parlette and Zarelli - 6.
MOTION
At 10:37 a.m., on motion of Senator Betti Sheldon, the Senate was declared to be at ease.
The Senate was called to order at 11:35 a.m. by President Owen.
THIRD READING
SENATE BILL NO. 5144, by Senators Winsley, Long, Honeyford, Franklin, Carlson, Fraser and Rasmussen (by request of Joint Committee on Pension Policy)
Creating a supplemental actuarially reduced survivor benefit for qualified law enforcement officers' and fire fighters' retirement system plan 1 members who choose to actuarially reduce their benefits.
The bill was read the third time.
Debate ensued.
The President declared the question before the Senate to be the roll call on the final passage of Senate Bill No. 5144.
ROLL CALL
The Secretary called the roll on the final passage of Senate Bill No. 5144 and the bill passed the Senate by the following vote: Yeas, 43; Nays, 0; Absent, 1; Excused, 5.
Voting yea: Senators Carlson, Constantine, Deccio, Eide, Fairley, Franklin, Fraser, Gardner, Hale, Hargrove, Haugen, Hewitt, Hochstatter, Honeyford, Horn, Jacobsen, Kastama, Kline, Kohl-Welles, Long, McAuliffe, McCaslin, McDonald, Morton, Oke, Parlette, Patterson, Prentice, Rasmussen, Regala, Roach, Rossi, Sheahan, Sheldon, B., Sheldon, T., Shin, Snyder, Spanel, Stevens, Swecker, Thibaudeau, West and Winsley - 43.
Absent: Senator Brown - 1.
Excused: Senators Benton, Costa, Finkbeiner, Johnson and Zarelli - 5.
SENATE BILL NO. 5144, having received the constitutional majority, was declared passed. There being no objection, the title of the bill will stand as the title of the act.
MOTION
On motion of Senator Eide, Senator Brown was excused.
THIRD READING
ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 5237, by Senate Committee on Ways and Means (originally sponsored by Senators Rasmussen, Swecker, Sheahan, Honeyford, West, Fraser, Kastama, Regala, Hewitt, Hale, Parlette, Morton, Hochstatter and Franklin)
Making annual transfers of money into the fair fund.
The bill was read the third time.
Debate ensued.
The President declared the question before the Senate to be the roll call on the final passage of Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill No. 5237.
ROLL CALL
The Secretary called the roll on the final passage of Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill No. 5237 and the bill passed the Senate by the following vote: Yeas, 43; Nays, 0; Absent, 0; Excused, 6.
Voting yea: Senators Carlson, Constantine, Deccio, Eide, Fairley, Franklin, Fraser, Gardner, Hale, Hargrove, Haugen, Hewitt, Hochstatter, Honeyford, Horn, Jacobsen, Kastama, Kline, Kohl-Welles, Long, McAuliffe, McCaslin, McDonald, Morton, Oke, Parlette, Patterson, Prentice, Rasmussen, Regala, Roach, Rossi, Sheahan, Sheldon, B., Sheldon, T., Shin, Snyder, Spanel, Stevens, Swecker, Thibaudeau, West and Winsley - 43.
Excused: Senators Benton, Brown, Costa, Finkbeiner, Johnson and Zarelli - 6.
ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 5237, having received the constitutional majority, was declared passed. There being no objection, the title of the bill will stand as the title of the act.
THIRD READING
SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 5576, by Senate Committee on Ways and Means (originally sponsored by Senator Hargrove) ( by request of Governor Locke)
Simplifying asset tests.
The bill was read the third time.
The President declared the question before the Senate to be the roll call on the final passage of Second Substitute Senate Bill No. 5576.
ROLL CALL
The Secretary called the roll on the final passage of Second Substitute Senate Bill No. 5576 and the bill passed the Senate by the following vote: Yeas, 43; Nays, 0; Absent, 0; Excused, 6.
Voting yea: Senators Carlson, Constantine, Deccio, Eide, Fairley, Franklin, Fraser, Gardner, Hale, Hargrove, Haugen, Hewitt, Hochstatter, Honeyford, Horn, Jacobsen, Kastama, Kline, Kohl-Welles, Long, McAuliffe, McCaslin, McDonald, Morton, Oke, Parlette, Patterson, Prentice, Rasmussen, Regala, Roach, Rossi, Sheahan, Sheldon, B., Sheldon, T., Shin, Snyder, Spanel, Stevens, Swecker, Thibaudeau, West and Winsley - 43.
Excused: Senators Benton, Brown, Costa, Finkbeiner, Johnson and Zarelli - 6.
SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 5576, having received the constitutional majority, was declared passed. There being no objection, the title of the bill will stand as the title of the act.
THIRD READING
SECOND ENGROSSED SENATE BILL NO. 5686, by Senators Eide, Rasmussen, Kohl-Welles, McAuliffe and Carlson) (by request of Governor Locke)
Changing academic assessments timelines.
The bill was read the third time.
Debate ensued.
The President declared the question before the Senate to be the roll call on the final passage of Second Engrossed Senate Bill No. 5686.
ROLL CALL
The Secretary called the roll on the final passage of Second Engrossed Senate Bill No. 5686 and the bill passed the Senate by the following vote: Yeas, 36; Nays, 7; Absent, 0; Excused, 6.
Voting yea: Senators Carlson, Constantine, Deccio, Eide, Fairley, Franklin, Fraser, Gardner, Hale, Hargrove, Haugen, Horn, Jacobsen, Kastama, Kline, Kohl-Welles, Long, McAuliffe, McDonald, Oke, Parlette, Patterson, Prentice, Rasmussen, Regala, Roach, Rossi, Sheahan, Sheldon, B., Sheldon, T., Shin, Snyder, Spanel, Thibaudeau, West and Winsley - 36.
Voting nay: Senators Hewitt, Hochstatter, Honeyford, McCaslin, Morton, Stevens and Swecker - 7.
Excused: Senators Benton, Brown, Costa, Finkbeiner, Johnson and Zarelli - 6.
SECOND ENGROSSED SENATE BILL NO. 5686, having received the constitutional majority, was declared passed. There being no objection, the title of the bill will stand as the title of the act.
THIRD READING
SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 5919, by Senate Committee on Environment, Energy and Water (originally sponsored by Senators Morton, Fraser, Honeyford and Rasmussen)
Providing for the assessment of potential site locations for water storage projects.
The bill was read the third time.
The President declared the question before the Senate to be the roll call on the final passage of Substitute Senate Bill No. 5919.
ROLL CALL
The Secretary called the roll on the final passage of Substitute Senate Bill No. 5919 and the bill passed the Senate by the following vote: Yeas, 43; Nays, 0; Absent, 0; Excused, 6.
Voting yea: Senators Carlson, Constantine, Deccio, Eide, Fairley, Franklin, Fraser, Gardner, Hale, Hargrove, Haugen, Hewitt, Hochstatter, Honeyford, Horn, Jacobsen, Kastama, Kline, Kohl-Welles, Long, McAuliffe, McCaslin, McDonald, Morton, Oke, Parlette, Patterson, Prentice, Rasmussen, Regala, Roach, Rossi, Sheahan, Sheldon, B., Sheldon, T., Shin, Snyder, Spanel, Stevens, Swecker, Thibaudeau, West and Winsley - 43.
Excused: Senators Benton, Brown, Costa, Finkbeiner, Johnson and Zarelli - 6.
SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 5919, having received the constitutional majority, was declared passed. There being no objection, the title of the bill will stand as the title of the act.
MOTION
At 11:55 a.m., on motion of Senator Betti Sheldon, the Senate adjourned until 10:00 a.m., Thursday, June 7, 2001.
BRAD OWEN, President of the Senate
TONY M. COOK, Secretary of the Senate