{"id":1045,"date":"2019-09-19T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T18:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdc.wastateleg.org\/pedersen\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2020-09-22T10:18:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T17:18:42","slug":"2019-session-review-for-the-people-by-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/pedersen\/2019\/09\/19\/2019-session-review-for-the-people-by-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Session Review: For the people, by the people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Often the best ideas for new laws originate with friends and neighbors who are willing to tell their stories and put in hours of work to develop and advance legislation. One example close to my heart this week is the story of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitolhillseattle.com\/2019\/08\/capitol-hill-neighborhood-and-patient-activist-donovan-remembered\/\">Ann Donovan<\/a>, a Capitol Hill neighbor and mom. Already battling cancer, Ann met with me starting in 2015 and encouraged me to introduce the Right-to-Try bill, giving terminally ill patients the right to try medical products that have been through preliminary safety testing but have not been finally approved by the FDA. After a couple of years of work, we passed <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/billsummary?BillNumber=5035&amp;Initiative=false&amp;Year=2017\" target=\"_blank\">SB 5035<\/a> in the 2017 session. As a result, patients in Washington have better access to investigational medical products. Ann lost her battle with cancer on August 26, but her activism has produced a lasting legacy for our entire community. <\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In honor of\nAnn, I\u2019d like to use my final e-newsletter in this series on the 2019 session\nto highlight three 43rd District constituents who alerted me to problems with\nWashington law last year and then helped me to get those problems fixed by\npassing bills in the 2019 session.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"623\" src=\"https:\/\/dev2.sdc.wastateleg.org\/pedersen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/09\/43_District_Constituents-02-1024x623.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/pedersen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/09\/43_District_Constituents-02-1024x623.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/pedersen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/09\/43_District_Constituents-02-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/pedersen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/09\/43_District_Constituents-02-768x467.jpg 768w, https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/pedersen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/09\/43_District_Constituents-02.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Katrina Spade (Capitol Hill)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/billsummary?BillNumber=5001&amp;Initiative=false&amp;Year=2019\" target=\"_blank\">SB 5001<\/a> will make Washington the first place in the world that allows natural organic reduction (accelerated, controlled composting) of human remains. It is safe to say that the bill would not have become law this year without the unwavering dedication of Katrina Spade. For more than a decade, Katrina has focused her energy on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recompose.life\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/22\/us\/human-composting-washington.html\">environmentally-sustainable alternatives<\/a><\/a> to traditional end-of-life practices. She introduced me to her \u201cUrban Death Project\u201d in 2017 and then met me again in the spring of 2018 to ask if I could help remove the legal prohibition on natural organic reduction in our state. Katrina\u2019s ability to build a coalition of support around a very emotional topic was crucial to passing this new law, which will go into effect in May 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ethan\nBergerson (Wallingford)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laws governing how to divide parenting time after a couple dissolves their relationship are complex and confusing and provoke emotional responses. Families across our state are better off today thanks to Ethan Bergerson, a constituent who shared his story of unintended consequences of the\u00a0Child\u00a0Relocation\u00a0Act which specifies how judges should determine what is in the best interest of the\u00a0child\u00a0when one of their parents needs to move or change school districts. Recent court decisions had ruled that language in the statute referring to the parent \u201cwith whom the\u00a0child\u00a0resides a <em>majority <\/em>of the time\u201d meant that parents who shared residential time equally could never be allowed to relocate (affecting about a quarter of the divorced parents in this state). In Ethan\u2019s case, both parents had agreed that they wanted to be able to\u00a0relocate\u00a0but the court ruled that parents who shared time equally were not allowed to make this kind of agreement and that judges do not need to consider the\u00a0child\u2019s best interests in these cases. Ethan came to Olympia to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvw.org\/watch\/?clientID=9375922947&amp;eventID=2018091049&amp;startStreamAt=559&amp;autoStartStream=true\">testify in the Senate Law &amp; Justice Committee<\/a> and the House Civil Rights &amp; Judiciary Committee. By sharing his story, he helped to pass <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/billsummary?BillNumber=5399&amp;Initiative=false&amp;Year=2019\" target=\"_blank\">SB 5399<\/a>, which is already helping families around the state facing similar circumstances escape from legal limbo.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Greg Moga (Madison Park)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2011,\nWashington state pioneered the idea that children born through assisted\nreproductive technology should, once they become adults, have access to\ninformation about their genetic parents. This is similar to the rights we give\nadopted children to information about their birth parents. That innovation has\nsince become a part of the Uniform Parentage Act, which is being considered and\nadopted by states across the country following Washington\u2019s lead in 2018. Greg\nMoga and his team at Seattle Sperm Bank helped identify a problem with how the\nnew Parentage Act dealt with the transmission of genetic information between\nclinics. Working together, we developed a solution \u2013 adopted in <a href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/billsummary?BillNumber=5333&amp;Initiative=false&amp;Year=2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SB 5333<\/a> \u2013 that will protect the rights of children while\nensuring the privacy of donor information. <\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Working with\nconstituents to solve complex challenges remains among the most rewarding parts\nof serving you in the legislature. I reflect frequently on how fortunate I am\nto live in and represent such an engaged community. Please continue to reach\nout to me with ideas or issues: it\u2019s how our state government works best. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often the best ideas for new laws originate with friends and neighbors who are willing to tell their stories and put in hours of work to develop and advance legislation. One example close to my heart this week is the story of Ann Donovan, a Capitol Hill neighbor and mom. Already battling cancer, Ann met with me starting in 2015 and encouraged me to introduce the Right-to-Try bill, giving terminally ill patients the right to try medical products that have been through preliminary safety testing but have not been finally approved by the FDA. After a couple of years of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2019 Session Review: For the people, by the people - Sen. 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