Legislative round-up: contenders and casualties :: Olympia Newswire

In a voice vote before the Senate Ways and Means Committee, the bill passed. But Senators' signatures on the bill afterward didn't add up: nine signed the bill “do pass,” five signed “do not pass,” and four signed “without recommendation,” including Sen. ... “We would have been the first state in the nation to move on this idea,” Orwall says, but “the timing of a new approach and the stress in the banking industry made it very difficult to move forward.” ...