Our Man in Olympia: Ranker sponsors bills

Former County Councilman Kevin Ranker, now the State Senator for the 40th Legislative district, has been the primary sponsor for bills

• to add the ferry route and roads on Orcas and San Juan Islands to the state scenic and recreational highway system,
• provide for emergency oil response (from the current bill: “contingency plans for covered vessels entering any portion of the Strait of Juan de Fuca west of the city of Port Angeles must include a specific catastrophic event response provision requiring the vessel owner or operator to have a valid contract for the specific vessel with a multimission tug on station and available to provide assistance and response for the vessel any hour of any day that the that the vessel may be in the western portion of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.”)
• establish a state climate leadership agency
• research and analyze transportation fundingamong other bills. These bills are before the current legislative session in Olympia and are listed as follows:

SB 5289
Adding a certain ferry route and roads to the scenic and recreational highway system.

SB 5344
Providing an emergency response system for the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

SB 5363
Designating certain state routes as highways of statewide significance.

SB 5427
Addressing the release of certified abstracts of full driving records.

SB 5560
Regarding state agency climate leadership.

SB 5689
Requiring the joint transportation committee to conduct a comprehensive research and analysis effort on transportation funding.

Ranker is Vice-Chair of the Agriculture & Rural Economic Development and of the Natural Resources Ocean & Recreation committees
committees, and also serves on the Environment Water & Energy Transportation committee.

For more information and to see Ranker’s sponsorship of other bills in this legislative session, go to /www1.leg.wa.gov/Senate/Ranker/SponsoredBills