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Bill #	Title/Purpose	Sponsors	Outcome	Testifying
2009-10 SB 5292	Concerning Persistent Offenders. Removing robbery 2 from the "three strikes" list.	Kline, Hargrove, Pridemore, Kohl-Welles, Regala, McDermott	Hearing in Judiciary 2/4/09. Passed in committee. Did not pass in Rules. Deadline for passage in Rules was extended when the bill was included in the Senate Proposed Substitute operating budget bill, PSSB 5600 as "NTIB" - or "necessary to implement budget". Link to TVW coverage of 2/4/09 hearing on Senate Bill 5292	In favor Earl Ford, Commissioner, Washington State Commission on African American Affairs; Dr. Larry Hoover, citizen and father of 3-Striker; Noemie Maxwell, Justice Works!; Tony Orange, Political Action Chair, Seattle Martin Luther King Jr. County NAACP; Amy Bates, Chair, Black Policy Foundation; Ramona Brandes, Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Washington Defender Association; Virginia Faller, defense attorney; Beth Colgan, Managing Attorney of the Institutions Project, Columbia Legal Services Opposed Tom McBride, Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys; Dave Johnson, Washington Coalition of Crime Victim Advocates.
2007-08 SB 5349	Removing Robbery 2 from the list of most serious offenses	Kline, Franklin, Kohl-Welles, Weinstein	Introduced in Judiciary. No hearing.	No testimony.
2007-08 SB 5502	Adding out of state sexual offenses with sentences of 10 years or more to the PO list.	Benton, Eide, Holmquist, Weinstein, Roach, Tom, Rasmussen, Swecker, Franklin, Zarelli, McCaslin, Hewitt, Regala	Introduced in Judiciary. Passed as SB 6184	No testimony.
2007-08 SB 5964	Revising the definition of "most serious offense" and creating a task force to study crimes included in "most serious offense."	Kline, Hargrove	Introduced in Judiciary. Hearing in House Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness. Passed in Rules. Then passed unanimously in the Senate. No hearing in House.	In favor Kline, Carol Estes, Friends Committee; Sharon Scherer, Sharon Dozier Moffet, Lillian Alexander, Jonathan Nelson, Pastor Emeritus Central Lutheran Church of Seattle; C. Wesley Richards, WDA, WAC Opposed Tom McBride, Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys
2007-08 SB 6184	Adding out of state sexual offenses with sentences of 10 years or more to the PO list.	Benton, Eide, Weinstein, McCaslin, Hargrove, Regala, Hatfield, Carrell, Tom, Franklin, Zarelli, Kline, Haugen, Keiser, Fairley, Hobbs, Marr, Kastama, Berkey, Delvin, Brandland, Spanel, Murray, Prentice, Holmquist, Hewitt, Rasmussen, Jacobsen, Sheldon, Oemig, Morton, Pflug, Roach, Pridemore, McAuliffe, Rockefeller, Parlette, Kauffman, Shin, Kohl-Welles, Stevens, Kilmer, Swecker, Honeyford, Schoesler, King McDermott	Signed by Governor.	Sen. Don Benton (Prime), Sylvia Johnson; Jean Soliz Conklin, Sentencing Guidelines Committee; Tom McBride, WAPA; Evelyn Larsen, Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs.
2005-06 HB 1803	Removing Second Degree Robbery	Representatives Darneille, Kagi, Lantz, Pettigrew, Simpson, Chase, Santos, McDermott, Hasegawa, Moeller	First reading - Referred to Criminal Justice and Corrections
2005-06 SB 5284	Removing Second Degree Robbery	Kline, Thibaudeau, Fairley	Public hearing	Senator Kline, prime sponsor; Sharon Dozier; Wes Richards, WDA, WACDL; Ramona Brandes, WDA, WACDL; Rev. Paul Benz, Lutheran Public Policy, Jill Stephens.
2005-06 SB 5760	Persistent offenders who have no Class A Felonies can be considered for release after 15 years. Substitute bill amended to 20 years.	Kline	Public hearing	In favor Senator Kline, prime sponsor; Justice Sanders; Sharon Dozier; Wes Richards, WDA, WACDL; Ramona Brandes, WDA, WACDL; Rev. Paul Benz, Lutheran Public Policy Office; Jill Stephens. Other Tom McBride, WAPA; Russ Hauge, WAPA.
2003-04 HB 1881	Removing R2 from the list of most serious offenses. Certain elements of assault in the If the perpetrator: (a) intentionally assaults a person and thereby recklessly inflicts substantial bodily harm upon him or her; or (b) with intent to commit a felony, happens to assault another, then those two specific second degree assault offenses will no longer be considered a most serious offense.	O'Brien, Lovick, Kagi, Kenney, Darneille, Hunt, G. Simpson	Public hearing. Passed in Criminal Justice and Corrections committee. Referred to and held in Rules X file.	Justice Sanders, Washington Supreme Court; Larry Gosset,; Dan Merkle, KCBA Drug Policy Project; Russell V. Leonard, Public Defenders, WACDL and WDA; Julius Debro, UW; Jon Nelson, Lifer Spondon Lutheran Pastor; Edward Prince, Commission on African-American Affairs; Lloyd May, Justice Passage; Anne Harper, King County Office of Public Defenders; Adwyna Griffin, Snohomish County; Della Montgomery-Riggins, citizen; Don Alexander, Multi-Culture Council; and Goldie Holmes; Donauon Cruzey Neutral Paul Guppy, Washington Policy Center
2003-04 SB 5911	Removing Robbery 2 from the list of most serious offenses	Kline, Fairley, Thibaudeau	Public hearing. Passed in Judiciary in substitute form, held in Rules.	Darrel Grothaus; Julius Debro, UW; Russell Leonard, WACDL, WDA.
2001-02 SB 6120	Removing Robbery 2 and Assault 2	Kline Hochstatter.	Introduced in Criminal Justice and Corrections. No hearing.	No testimony.
2001-02 HB 1957	Reduce sentence to a minimum of 25 years for persistent offender - can be increased by judge	Kagi, Lambert, Keiser and O'Brien	No hearing	No testimony.
2001-02 HB 2511	Made robbery of a bank by note (no gun) a Robbery 1	O'Brien, Ballasiotes, Schoesler, Kessler, Kirby, Santos, Benson, Edwards, Kenney, Chase, Lovick, Wood, Casada	Signed by governor.
1999-00 HB 1860	Removing robbery 2 from the "three strikes" list.	Koster, Constantine, Cairnes, Hurst, Hatfield, Lovick, Barlean, Dickerson, Lantz, Quall, Veloria, Wood, Kagi and Thomas