Dear WAA Members:
SB 6341, carpet stewardship program, was voted out of the Senate Environment Committee – but failed to get a hearing and Executive Session in the Senate Ways & Means Committee as of the cutoff for bills to be out of the House Fiscal Committee yesterday, Tuesday, February 7. There may be efforts to amend this bill, or portions of this bill, in other legislation, but for now the bill is dead.
We are told from Real-Estate industry sources that up to $2.50 per recycling cost per yard would create a significant impact to the real-estate industry. Depending on the geographic area, in the rental residential real-estate industry the vacancy rates are up to 8 or 9% and in the commercial office building industry they are significantly higher and therefore this legislation would be a genuine hardship. Legislatures realize that added costs in the real-estate industry, that is lagging behind and at times where leases and rents are being renegotiated downwards, this was not a time to allow this legislation to pass forward.
We thank those that have called their lawmakers in the Washington State Senate to ask that this bills not be allowed to come up for a vote in the Senate Ways & Means Committee – your voice was heard.
Many thanks.
Mark Gjurasic
Public Affairs of Washington, LLC
(360) 481-6000
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