Action Alert for Bills in Committee: 1 Pro, 2 Con, and interview on CHD cancelled due to tech issues
3 actions: Register PRO on HB 1620 Parenting Plan Limits; CON against HB 1296 Public Education (Undoing Parent's Bill of Rights); CON against HB 1531 Communicable Diseases. &Don't miss Misty on CHD-TV
Edited 7:30 AM - the Interview with Misty Gehrke was cancelled due to technical issues. Such is live interviewing.
Action Alerts for week of March 17
We will need the luck of the Irish (Happy St. Patrick’s day btw) and hard work to turn back the bad bills that made it out of the House of Representatives in Olympia. Luckily, we also have a bill that we can support that was amended just before the bill cutoff deadline last week.
Starting with the good bill first, especially since it has a 7 am Tuesday March 18 deadline.
Please Support HB 1620 - Parenting Plan Limitations
HB 1620 was brought to our attention by members as a bill ICWA could support - now that it has been heavily amended. A favorable striker bill was adopted in the late hours of Saturday March 8 (in actuality, the notification went out at 3:30 AM Sunday! What are they trying to hide?)
The original version of HB 1620 is revising RCW 26.09.191(3)(e) which currently allows a discretionary judicial finding called "abusive use of conflict." This vague, all-encompassing term permits family courts to remove parental decision-making authority (including medical decisions) from those accused of being domestic violence abusers. While this sounds beneficial at first glance, in practice, it is inverted and used as a weapon against parents who question orthodoxy or hold a religious, medical, or personal belief that certain medical procedures are unwanted for themselves or their children.
The last-minute striker amendment, now passed by the House as ESHB 1620, removes the ‘abusive use of conflict’ labeling, narrowing judges discretionary power. Domestic violence survivors and those who have been wronged by family court orders are working hard for this improved law to be passed, while several well-funded groups are mobilizing to kill the revised bill.
Please support this bill as long as it continues to omit 'abusive use of conflict' language.
Deadline to Register Pro: 7 AM Tuesday March 18, 1 hour before the actual public hearing.
You can further support all those parents who’ve ended up on the wrong side of this policy by sending the Senate Law & Justice committee your written comments, show up to testify in person, or testify remotely.
See our Call to Action sent to the ICWA Action Team mailing list for more background on why you should support this bill in its current form.
NOTE: HB 1620 could still be improved if it contained provisions in the bill we helped file SB 5783 to stop the weaponization of vaccine status in family courts and parenting plans. We will work to have this bill heard in 2026.
Please Oppose HB 1296 Safe & Supportive Public Education System (aka Undoing the Parent’s Bill of Rights initiative I-2081)
This bill passed the house last Wednesday the 12th at bill cutoff. Now the majority party is rushing it through the next phase, scheduling it for the Senate committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 10:30 am on Thursday March 20th.
HB 1296 in its current form would still reverse one of the key provisions of the Parent’s Bill of Rights - the right to know your school child’s health information. This regards the widely-acknowledged issue of schools aiding rebellious minors who want to hide the fact that they’re having mental health issues, transitioning gender as encouraged by the progressive agenda, or seeking other protected healthcare services (abortions). Each of those scenarios involves risky medical interventions with lifelong implications and parents are being denied informed consent for their children. Probably all ICWA members signed I-2081 to give parents more transparency into what schools are supporting and teaching. Now, the Democrat majority, who won’t even allow into testimony the pornographic material available through schools, continue to act against the 354,000 parents who signed I-2081 and their passage of the Parent’s Bill of Rights in the last session.
Until HB 1296 (and keep watch on the similar SB 5181) replaces transparency on student health-related information, our members are encouraged to oppose it.
Deadline to Register Con: 9:30 am Thursday, 1 hour before start of the hearing.
You can also send in your written comments, show up to testify in person, or testify remotely.
Please Oppose HB 1531 Preserving the ability of public officials to address communicable diseases
HB 1531 is being heard by the Senate Health Committee at 8 am Friday March 21.
After explicitly mentioning vaccines as the main measure they want to preserve, the most substantive part of this bill says: “The state and its political subdivisions may not enact statutes, ordinances, rules, or policies that prohibit the implementation and promotion of such measures.”
When this bill was introduced by its prime sponsor - in his own committee - Rep. Bronoske stated “…I am the prime sponsor of this policy and it came to me from my local Tacoma Pierce County Department of Health They were concerned with Some policies and other states that basically prohibited the local health departments from going out and sharing quality information with the general public.”
What states? Could he be referring to Idaho, wherein the Southwest Regional Health District pulled COVID shots from their clinics? Were they concerned by Washington’s Franklin County Resolution on February 19, condemning the COVID gene therapy shots? We think so.
This bill is strange in that they claim it doesn’t really give the state any increased power. We agree in that they already have massive budgets and Local Health Officer tentacles in every county who parrot what has been declared as their one truth. We’ve seen during COVID a blind obedience to their own misinformation. Now, they want to shut down any dissent. Isn’t that an increase in power?
HB 1531 would shut down any debate that might occur in any state jurisdiction when it comes to a communicable disease. It might also be laying the foundation to cement their mandate capability for risky medical products. Do not be fooled by the misdirecting fluff that was added to the bill’s intent during floor debate where concern is expressed about avian flu and sexually transmitted diseases (HPV being the only one targeted by a vaccine). This is about the next plandemic.
Senate Legislators reading this Alert must vote no, or amend it so that promotion of such measures is limited to FDA Labeling (see SB 5781)
ICWA members are strongly encouraged to Register CON.
Deadline to Register Con: 7 AM Friday March 21, one hour before hearing start.
You can also send in your written comments, show up to testify in person, or testify remotely.
What can happen after taking the MMR vaccine?
Please watch the live interview of Misty Gehrke on CHD-TV’s Good Morning CHD show, premiering Tuesday March 18 at around 7:30 am.
Good Morning CHD starts at 7. Misty was going to share her story publicly for the first time at around 7:30. She lives in Washougal, WA, and most of her story has been previously shared in the ICWA News. Her life remains upside down after trying to do the right thing in 2019 by rushing out to take the MMR in the middle of a localized measles outbreak (inbreak?).
The U.S. vaccine injury compensation program low-balled Misty’s settlement and now she’s relegated to an austere life near or in poverty as she raises two teens.
Donate to Misty to help her prepare for the inevitable surprises living expenses and to help the family survive this inflationary environment.
We hope we can figure out Misty’s tech issues - the world needs to hear her story as mainstream is calling for adults to take MMR boosters (her situation).
Stay tuned for further talking points against HB 1531 and 1296.
Thank you!