Category Archives: News Release

Sen. Annette Cleveland (D-Vancouver), chair of the Senate Health & Long Term Care Committee, issued this statement on a proposal announced today to provide a public option for health insurance in Washington state: “I applaud this plan and look forward to ...

Senator Annette Cleveland (D-Vancouver) announced today that the first meeting of the Joint Oregon-Washington Legislative Action Committee, is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at the Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs in Portland. The meeting signals a new level of collaboration between ...

Forty-ninth District residents are invited to attend a town hall hosted Saturday, Jan. 12, by Sen. Annette Cleveland, Rep. Sharon Wylie and Rep. Monica Stonier. The meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. to noon in the combined Clark, Klickitat, Pacific ...

Access, affordability and maintenance of health care coverage will be the three top priorities of the Senate Health & Long Term Care Committee in the 2019 legislative session, Sen. Annette Cleveland said today. Cleveland (D-Vancouver) was selected by her colleagues ...

Dear friends and neighbors, Every session, I have the pleasure of sponsoring legislative pages from our district — and now is the ideal time to apply for one of these exciting and informative five-day opportunities. The pages’ varied responsibilities take ...

In an interview with the Washington State Wire, Sen. Annette Cleveland discusses the need to protect Washingtonians’ access to health care in the face of rollbacks at the federal level and the priorities facing the Senate Health Care Committee that ...

Employees who are paid differently, based on gender, from workplace counterparts who do the same work with the same experience now have better protection under state law. House Bill 1506, signed into law today by Gov. Inslee, modifies the Equal ...

The state Senate took aim at the generations-old practice of pay discrimination by passing legislation today on behalf of employees who are paid differently, based on gender, from workplace counterparts who do the same work with the same experience. “When ...

Legislation passed today by the House will preserve the state’s ability to provide a nationally recognized level of in-home health care at a lower cost than in 37 other states. Having already passed out of the Senate, Senate Bill 6199 ...

A proviso in the supplemental transportation budget passed today by the Senate signals to Oregon officials that Washington is committed to working together on a new I-5 bridge, Sen. Annette Cleveland, D-Vancouver, said today. “The proviso makes it clear that ...