• Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
OLYMPIA — Legislation that would make Washington the seventh state to allow surrogate mothers to be compensated for delivering babies continued its path toward the Senate floor without any changes or amendments in committee, despite Republicans’ best efforts.
Sen. Dan Swecker, R-Rochester, and his conservative counterparts on the Senate’s Government Operations Committee proposed 25 amendments ranging from mundane typographical corrections to the bill that passed through the House to ensuring that the surrogate mother and parents were United States and Washington citizens. All were voted down 4-2 along party lines.
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