HB1899 Rebuild After Fire Helpful

HB1899 Rebuild After Fire – Helpful

Pete’s Bills is a short list of important bills that have been read and should be testified on in his opinion. If you are one of those who is happy to sit back on the couch and only complain after a law is in effect, this is probably not enjoyable reading for you.

Peter spends a lot of his time investigating and responding to bills that the Legislature is bringing up, discussing, and voting on before they become law. If you know Peter you already know this. It involves many, many hours of reading. There are only so many bills that you can read in a day and none of us have a whole day to spend on them. We can choose which are the most important to us and act on them.

This is set up to assist others in learning how to save time as they learn about this and begin to participate too. It is a “many hands” thing. People who want to get up off of the couch and do something. Hopefully, more citizens will stand up and take an active role in monitoring what politicians are doing over there in Olympia. By communicating with the lawmakers, we could introduce some common sense and prevent ridiculous laws from being passed in the first place.</!–more–>

Testify BEFORE TUESDAY, January 23RD 10:30am
SPREAD THE WORD ASAP TO EVERYONE!!!!!

The more people who testify will help to get this Bill passed into law.

HB1899 Reconstructing Communities Destroyed by Wildfire
in the Local Government Committee

HB1899 Will allow those us in the process of rebuilding after the fire to use the January 1, 2023 BUILDING CODES. This covers the areas burned in Washington: the Oregon Road Fire, the Gray Fire, the Eagle Bluff Fire, the Newell Road Fire, the Baird Springs Fire, and the Tunnel Five Fire (list not limited to these).

NOTE: The building code change that OUTLAWS – PROPANE INSTALLATIONS went into effect at the end of October 31, 2023. So, if we get enough people to testify in favor of passing this law (PRO) we stand a good chance of being able to rebuild using propane heat and appliances.

Here is a brief HB1899 Analysis of the Bill (2 pgs).

Here is the HB1899 Whole Bill text (7 pgs).

Go straight to where you can testify on this Bill.

You can learn how to go testify on your first bill by reading this previous post, A Walk-Thru Testifying . After going through this process, it will be evident that you should create your login at this Government site so you would not have to enter all that information each time you testify on a Bill.