State v. Schwab, 693 P.2d 108 (1985)

Citation: State v. Schwab, 693 P.2d 108 (1985)
Parent Document: State v. Schwab, 693 P.2d 108 (1985)
Jurisdiction: Washington (state)
Effective Date: 1985-01-11
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1172955/state-v-schwab/ ↗

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Exhaustive efforts on the part of concerned parties and legislators went into the drafting and enactment of the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act of 1973. This work included the following: unsuccessful efforts in pre-1973 legislative sessions to pass such a bill; negotiations extending over a 9-month period by an ad hoc citizens' committee under the auspices of the Joint Interim Judiciary Committee; the introduction in the 1973 legislative session of bills in both the House and the Senate; numerous committee hearings on the bills in both houses; and the fashioning of a compromise bill by a joint House-Senate committee that worked on the bills. In addition, before the bill finally passed the Legislature at the 1973 legislative session, there was considerable floor debate in both houses, including 2 full days of debate on the Senate floor. The consideration of the bill included numerous floor amendments in both *551houses, the adoption of some 22 amendments in the House and the adoption of about half of the 110 floor amendments considered by the Senate.26

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