Testimonial from entrepreneurs for reopening bill in opposition to opposition from healthcare providers | Community
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Following public testimony for a bill to quickly reopen businesses, co-sponsor Senator John Braun, R-Centralia, praised the “staggering number” of people – mostly business owners – who signed up to speak in support.
“Today’s testimony spoke to the despair people feel,” he said. “Thousands of restaurants and other small family-owned businesses statewide have been lost forever – decimated by rules unsupported by data and science and enforced by government employees who have not had to skip a single salary.”
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With Inauguration Day happening in the other Washington, it’s understandable that legislative action in Olympia on Wednesday, January 20, may have flown under the radar. But state lawmakers introduced a bill that could have a direct impact on the restaurant scene in Seattle one that pushes to bypass part of Gov. Jay Inslee’s reopening plan.
Senate Bill 5114 seeks to reopen all businesses at 25 percent capacity immediately. Currently, the entire state is in phase one of the “Healthy Washington Roadmap to Recovery” plan, with most types of indoor dining banned, among other activities. But each of eight regions in Washington can advance to phase two if the area meets all four of the following metrics: there must be a 10 percent decrease in COVID cases over the previous 14 days; a 10 percent decrease in hospital admission rates; ICU occupancy below 90 percent; and overall COVID test positivity below 10 percent. If passed, the bill would basically bypass those con
Legislators consider bill circumventing Governor Insleeâs phased reopening
Bill aims to reopening Washington businesses
A yoga studio owner responds to the pandemic and the hundreds of thousands in loans she had to take out in order to stay in business during the state s restrictions.
ISSAQUAH, Wash. - A bill circling in Olympia aims to circumvent Governor Jay Inslee’s Healthy Washington Roadmap to Recovery plan that regulates which business can open and when amid an ongoing pandemic.
The legislation would push businesses across the state into Phase 2, and allow most restaurants, gyms, theaters and others, which follow strict guidelines to reopen before the current phased restrictions.
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