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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AB 591

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Relating to: receiving reports of mismanagement, abuse, or neglect at state veterans homes. (FE)

Legislative audit bureau Privacy Property tax Telephone Tenure Veteran — Hospitals and home

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires the Legislative Audit Bureau to maintain a toll-free

telephone number for the purpose of receiving reports of mismanagement, abuse, or

neglect at the state veterans homes from the veterans homes' employees, residents,

or families of residents. Under the bill, the LAB is required to conduct an

investigation of the report or refer the report to a department to conduct the

investigation. The bill requires the LAB to keep the identity of any informant

confidential unless the informant expressly agrees to the release of records that

reveal the informant's identity. Except as necessary to complete an investigation, the

LAB must keep confidential a report, an investigation of that report, and any

information from that investigation until the investigation is complete.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Barca (D) , Berceau (D) , Billings (D) , Brostoff (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Considine (D) , Crowley (D) , Fields (D) , Goyke (D) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Hintz (D) , Kolste (D) , Mason (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Shankland (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Vruwink (D) , Wachs (D) , Zamarripa (D)

6 cosponsors

Erpenbach (D) , Hansen (D) , Larson (D) , Ringhand (D) , Vinehout (D) , Wirch (D)

Votes

Suspending the rules (to take a vote immediately) needs a two-thirds majority — a higher bar than passing the bill, which needs a simple majority. That's why a suspension motion can show more Ayes than the passage vote that follows it. Glossary

Assembly: Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Veterans and Military Affairs and take up, Ayes 34, Noes 59

Failed 34–59 Feb 22, 2018 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Oct 26, 2017 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Shankland, Anderson, Berceau, Billings, Brostoff, Considine, Crowley, Fields, Goyke, Hebl, Hesselbein, Hintz, Kolste, Mason, Ohnstad, Pope, Sinicki, Spreitzer, C. Taylor, Vruwink, Wachs, Zamarripa and Barca; cosponsored by Senators Erpenbach, Vinehout, Hansen, Larson, Ringhand and Wirch

  2. Oct 26, 2017 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs

  3. Nov 7, 2017 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Nov 28, 2017 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Feb 22, 2018 · Assembly

    Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Veterans and Military Affairs and take up, Ayes 34, Noes 59

  6. Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1