The Spokesman-Review from Spokane, Washington • 18

Page B4 Tuesday, March 14, 1995 The Spokesman-Review State Legislature Senate passes bill to keep kids from getting tattoos Legislative action Associated Press OLYMPIA Here is a look at action Monday in the Washington Legislature: GOVERNOR Indicated he would veto a proposed House bill that would cut the business and occupation tax on services back to 1993 levels. SENATE Confirmed the appointment of William Wiley as a member of the University of Washington Board of Regents. Bills approved and sent to the House: SB5190, to make it a misdemeanor to tattoo a child younger than 16 without parental permis sion. II SB5033, to create a commission on pesticide registration. SB5605, to prohibit alcohol and drug use in state-owned college or university housing where a predominant number of residents are minors.

fl SB550O, to change the primaiy method of execution from hanging to lethal injection. BSB5331, to make it a traffic offense for bicycle riders under 19 years of age to ride without a helmet. HOUSE Bills approved and sent to the Senate: HB1274, to permit any county to opt out of provisions of the states Growth Management Act. HB1957, to reduce by 10 percent the states property tax of $3.60 per $1,000 of assessed valuation. fl HB1858, to create a Crime Victims Advocacy Office to help victims obtain services to which they are entitled.

HB1906, to allow extended relatives, friends and neighbors to provide day care without a state license. fl HB1877, to allow school districts to contract with nonsectarian schools and organizations to educate pupils who have been expelled, show poor academic performance or been subject to disciplinary actions, among other things. BHB179L to give two regional commissions one for each side of the Cascades authority to allocate state water. HB2009, eliminating the State Energy Office and transferring some of its functions to other state agencies. Associated Press OLYMPIA The Senate on Monday passed a bill to make it a misdemeanor to tattoo a child younger than 16 without the permission of the childs parent.

Supporters of SB5190, sponsored by Sen. Pam Roach, R-Auburn, say that children under the age of 16 are not old enough to make such a permanent decision. Daryl Ray Seaver, who owns tattoo shops in Tacoma, Renton and Seattle, has said that a number of tattoo-ists are drug addicts or ex-convicts who are unconcerned about the dangerous effects of tattooing. He said some tattoo artists have open sores which spread hepatitis and staph infections. The Senate vote was nearly unanimous, with only one no vote, from Sen.

Darlene Fairley, D-Lake Forest Park. House passes property tax cut This bill is a good faith effort, and an initial attempt, to give some property tax relief to citizens of this state, said House Finance Chairman Brian Thomas, R-Renton. Rep. Ian Elliot, R-Kirkland, said he was glad the bill is a 10 percent decrease and not a 10 percent increase. But Rep.

Helen Sommers, D-Seattle, said the measure is a gift for big business disguised as a break for homeowners. The average homeowner gets enough of a break to buy a lube job take a family of four to a restaurant or buy 76 signatures for a special interest initiative at 15 cents a signature, said Rep. Greg Fisher, D-Normandy Park, drawing laughter in the chamber. Documents circulated by Democrats say Seattles Columbia Center would get a break next year of Weyerhaeuser, and $104,000. This is tax relief for the big guys and not for the homeowner, Sommers said.

Associated Press OLYMPIA Property taxes levied by the state would be cut 10 percent under a bill passed by the House Monday. Foes contend it is a soft deal for big business and a pittance for homeowners. The measure, HB1957, would mean a tax cut of $38 a year to the owner of a $100,000 home, a cut of $677,059 to West, and $528,660 to Puget Power, to name a few businesses that would benefit. The measure, sent to the Senate by a vote of 82-13, would cost the treasury about $184 million in the coming two-year budget cycle beginning July 1, according to documents accompanying the measure. The Republican-dominated House will have sent the Senate nearly $1 billion in proposed business, sales and property tax cuts by the Wednesday cutoff for floor action.

The proposed property tax cut applies only to the portion of total property taxes levied by the state, not to taxes levied by local governments. Partial ban on dormitory alcohol OKd Associated Press OLYMPIA The state Senate on Monday voted to ban drinking in some public college dorms, after students and college presidents squawked about the original plan for dry campuses. The new Ban Lite bill would require colleges to set aside whole dorms or floors of dorms as off-limits to drinking. Students could be guaranteed a room in a dry dorm if they so requested. Colleges would be expected to enforce the partial ban vigorously and to provide students an avenue of complaint if revelers interrupt studies or sleep.

The prime sponsor, Sen. Brad Owen, D-Shelton, said hed rather ban drinking from all campus housing, as his original bill set out to do. But he said this is the best he can do this year, given the opposition of the student lobby and university administrators to a stiffer bill. The measure, a rewrite of SB5605, passed 46-1, with only Seattle Democrat Dwight Pelz opposed. The measure now goes to the House for likely passage.

Colleges say an outright ban would be too tough to police because courts have forbidden monitors from entering student rooms without warrants. Bill favors lethal injection over hanging Associated Press 1981 killing of two Olympia bank tellers, successfully argued in U.S. District Court that he is too heavy to be hanged without the threat of decapitation, thereby violating the Eighth Amendments prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. It took 12 years to carry out the death sentence for triple murderer Charles Campbell. The 9th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals took five years to determine hanging would not violate Campbells Eighth Amendment rights. During brief debate on the Senate floor, Sen. Adam Smith, D-Kent, said a change to lethal injection wouldnt stop appeals, but there would be fewer. Rep. Cal Anderson, D-Seattle, who voted against the measure, said he fears the change would sanitize executions.

Were not putting Spot to sleep; were putting a human being to sleep, Ajiderson said. OLYMPIA A bill to make lethal injection rather than hanging the primary means of execution in Washington sailed through the Senate on a 45-3 vote Monday, but it faces an uncertain future in the House. The measure was proposed by Attorney General Christine Gregoire, who told lawmakers it would close a significant loophole in the states death penalty law. Under current law, condemned inmates can choose hanging or lethal injection. If they refuse to make a choice, they are hanged.

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