![]() ![]() Senator Shewmake (D‑42nd District: Whatcom County) was excused. Most of the caucus voted nay, but Keith Wagoner, Judy Warnick, Jeff Wilson, Matt Boehnke, and Ron Muzzall voted yea. The only Democrat to vote nay was Kevin Van De Wege (D‑24th District: Olympic Peninsula). ![]() Voting Nay: Senator Braun, Dozier, Fortunato, Gildon, Holy, MacEwen, McCune, Padden, Rivers, Schoesler, Short, Torres, Van De Wege, Wilson (Lynda) Voting Yea: Senator Billig, Boehnke, Cleveland, Conway, Dhingra, Frame, Hasegawa, Hawkins, Hunt, Kauffman, Keiser, King, Kuderer, Liias, Lovelett, Lovick, Mullet, Muzzall, Nguyen, Nobles, Pedersen, Randall, Robinson, Rolfes, Saldaña, Salomon, Stanford, Trudeau, Valdez, Wagoner, Warnick, Wellman, Wilson (Claire), Wilson (Jeff) Senate vote on 3rd Reading & Final Passage Thirty-four senators said yes to striking these unconstitutional statutes from our books, while fourteen were opposed. These statutes include the death penalty, deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court as applied, along with the unconstitutional two-thirds scheme to raise revenue that Tim Eyman turned into a series of initiatives. Substitute Senate Bill 5087, prime sponsored by Senator Jamie Pedersen (D‑43rd District: Seattle) and requested by Attorney General Bob Ferguson, would formally scrub a list of statutes no longer in effect from the Revised Code of Washington. A well-crafted housekeeping bill that would abolish a number of unconstitutional statutes has passed out of the Washington State Senate with bipartisan support as one of the chamber’s initial acts of the 2023 legislative session. ![]()
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