Where a citizens' initiative failed, a governor's effort may succeed. Recall that one of the dizzying array of ballot measures in November was Initiative 1082, pushed by the Building Industry Association of Washington, among other business backers. The initiative would have ended the state's monopoly on workers' compensation insurance, also known as industrial insurance, and allowed private insurers to compete for that business, as they can do in 46 states.
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YAKIMA, Wash. -- Two Yakima businesses expressed opposition Wednesday to an initiative that would privatize the workers compensation insurance market. Initiative 1082, which was sponsored by the Building Industry Association of Washington, allows private insurance companies to sell workers compensation insurance.
Deciding on Initiative 1082 requires learning about numerous nuances of a complex industry. Compounding that difficulty for voters as they review their Nov. 2 ballots (which will be mailed today) is the fact that there are strong arguments both for and against the measure. I-1082 would allow employers to purchase industrial insurance from private companies. This would change the states workers compensation system, which embraces 171,000 employers and 2.5 million workers. Supporters say competition would be good for the system, but it helps to know who some of the supporters are. I-1082 was written by insurance companies and the Building Industry Association of Washington. This led The Seattle Times to describe the measure as a financial cash cow for insurance companies (and the BIAW) .....
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Chairman David A. Keene last night announced Tom McCabe of Olympia, Washington, as the 2011 recipient of the Ronald Reagan Award, an honor given annually to a conservative leader fighting in the trenches for the principles embodied by Ronald Reagan. The award was presented during the conference's annual Ronald Reagan Banquet for which Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels was the keynote speaker. In presenting the award, Chairman Keene said, "Tom McCabe, during his tenure as the Executive Director of the Building Industry Association of Washington (BIAW) for more than 20 years, built the organization into a force for free enterprise and conservative principles. Unlike most business associations...
A bill passed this year requires the Washington State Building Codes Council to adopt more energy-efficiency codes for buildings beginning in 2013. That's not fast enough for Gov. Christine Gregoire, who wants the SBCC to consider 172 code changes to improve energy efficiency in buildings in her state by 30 percent beginning in July 2010. But homebuilders say that's too soon and that the cost impacts of such changes have been grossly underestimated. Changes to the code being considered by the SBCC include increased insulation and new building envelope requirements. According to Department of Commerce energy policy staff, the new codes will add $1 to $1.24 per square foot to construction costs. But Brian Minnick of the Building Industry Association of Washington says those figures were l...
A statewide builders political action committee that state regulators say committed "multiple apparent violations" of the state's election finance law received $122,650 from the Building Industry Association of Clark County. The Public Disclosure Commission this week accused a political arm of the Building Industry Association of Washington of violating the campaign rules in this year's gubernatorial race. Attorney General Rob McKenna is expected to announce today whether his office will investigate the PDC's allegations.
OLYMPIA -- Prompted by a record amount of money spent by third parties in judicial and legislative races this year, the state Public Disclosure Commission on Thursday proposed a series of steps to limit the role that money from unions, corporations and associations plays in the state's elections. The five-member commission voted unanimously to ask Gov. Chris Gregoire and the Legislature to consider prohibiting groups such as the Building Industry Association of Washington and the Service Employees International Union to give their general funds directly to political action committees that support or oppose candidates. The groups would also be prohibited from using general funds for independent expenditures such as TV or radio ads.
SEATTLE -- A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit in which building and farm groups had challenged the federal listing of Puget Sound's resident killer whale population as an endangered species. S. District Judge Thomas S. Zilly dismissed the lawsuit, filed by the Building Industry Association of Washington and the Washington Farm Bureau, with prejudice, meaning it cannot be refiled.
Cheers: The cheers, thoughts and prayers of Clark County are with 7-year-old Trevor Wagner of Vancouver as he struggles to recover from the Aug. 24 hit-and-run accident that left him with a major head injury and facing several more weeks in the hospital. It is of little consolation that police found the driver. Jeers: Nobody can accuse the Building Industry Association of Washington of going out of its way to be "politically correct." Now it's saying a 70-year-old man is too old to be a state Supreme Court justice.
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