The Marine Corps League is a member of The Military Coalition and participates in National and State legislative issues that affect military readiness, benefits and entitlements of active duty personnel as well as Veterans Benefits programs effecting former and retired Marines.
Encouraging members to take a position on local and national veterans issues, write letters, phone calls to their representatives sharing their points of view on issues up for a vote by our legislature.
Marines: Please visit the 'Public Relations' 'Legislative Updates' link under the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs window below for a summary of the Veterans bills that were passed this year by the legislature. The Washington Department of Veterans Affairs Publications are available at
http://www.dva.wa.gov/publications.html
you can find the links to download many brochures and the Quarterly Veteran Voices newsletters listed on this page. (A newsletter is about a 1MB PDF file so if you have a dial-up connection it will take a while.)
Department of Veterans Affairs: http://www.va.gov
National Legislation: http://www4.va.gov/oca/Vet_Legis.asp
Washington State Legislative Issues: http://www.dva.wa.gov/legislative%20_updates.html
Dept. of Washington, MCL representatives:
Legislative Officer
Dick Marcelynas
623 Sherman Street, SW
Olympia, WA. 98502-5454
360-352-4314
rmarce1@juno.com
Asst Vet Leg Coalition
Everett Brown
PO Box 14743
Tumwater, WA 98511-4743
360-754-7946
ev147@comcast.net,
Also for your information is the following summary of how a bill becomes a law.
SUMMARY: HOW A BILL BECOMES A LAW
1. A bill may be introduced in either the Senate or House of Representatives by a member.
2. It is referred to a committee for a hearing. The committee studies the bill and may hold public hearings on it. It can then pass, reject or take no action on the bill.
3. The committee report on the passed bill is read in open session of the House or Senate, and the bill is then referred to the Rules Committee.
4. The Rules Committee can either place the bill on the second reading of the calendar for debate before the entire body, or take no action.
5. At the second reading, a bill is subject to debate and amendment before being placed on the third reading calendar for final passage.
6. After passing one house, the bill goes through the same procedure in the other house.
7. If amendments are made, the other house must approve the changes.
8. When the bill is accepted in both houses, it is signed by the respective leaders and sent to the governor.
9. The governor signs the bill into law or may veto all or part of it. If the governor fails to act on the bill, it may become law without a signature.
Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs
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