[NFBSea] Urgent Legislative alert

[Humberto Avila]

Hi,

What does it mean by, court filing fees?

Does that mean that if someone gets in trouble, say through a DUI, so 
they would charge the person being convicted with court fees?

I'm not sure how this would disproportionaly affect certain people, from 
a social / racial / disability justice and equity standpoint, but, I 
mean, if it creates funding for the WTBBL library, it would be great, so 
long as again there are no other inequities caused by the court filing 
fees for people of lowest incomes.

Sorry to take this in an off topic direction, but at least I mentioned 
WTBBL somewhere which is blindness related, and NFB related! :(


On 4/9/2025 5:46 PM, Marci Carpenter via NFBSea wrote:
> HB 1207 would create various court filing fees. A portion of  the 
> money from those fees would go to the Secretary of State. The 
> Secretary of State promises to use some of that money to prevent 
> layoffs at the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library (WTBBL). 
> The reason WTBBL will have to layoff some staff is because President 
> Trump cut off the library’s federal grant as of April 1.
> We still need the state legislature to increase the state budget for 
> WTBBL as part of the State Library.
> Call The Legislative Hotline at 800-562-6000 <tel:800-562-6000>. 
> Here’s what we want them to do:
> 1. Pass HB 1207, including the Part that would give some of that money 
> to the Secretary of State.
> 2. Increase the State Library budget to $6.7 million to maintain 
> Talking Book and Braille Library services.
>
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