Category Archives: In the News

From State of Reform Sen. Manka Dhingra represents Washington’s 45th Legislative District in King County. Dhingra is the Chair of the Senate Behavioral Health Subcommittee, Vice Chair of the Law & Justice Committee, and is a member of both the Health ...

From King5 SEATTLE — Sex education could soon be required in all Washington state public schools after a comprehensive sexual health bill overcame its first hurdle by passing in the state senate this week. Senate Bill 5395 would require all public ...

From the Kitsap Sun OLYMPIA — Two bills introduced this legislative session would make it easier for women, including public school students, to get menstrual supplies. Senate Bill 6073 would require schools to provide sanitary pads and tampons to students at no ...

From the Washington State Wire Senate Bill 5395 passed 28-21 in the Senate Wednesday after more than a year of efforts to require sex education in schools.  The bill was first introduced during the 2019 session and was ultimately decided by the House ...

SEATTLE (AP) — A grieving mother, a frightened student, prosecutors and law enforcement officers told a Senate panel that setting certain limits on firearms will save lives, while a home-invasion victim, gun store owners and a tribal chairman argued that ...

From the Redmond Reporter The East King Chambers Coalition held its annual legislative breakfast on Jan. 8 at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue in anticipation of the legislative “short session,” which began on Jan. 13. The event, emceed by Q13 anchor ...

From The News Tribune Sharon Winesberry was in high school when she got her first period. “I was in the middle of a class … what is happening to me?,” Winesberry recalled. “Absolutely no supplies whatsoever to take care of ...

From the Yakima Herald-Republic The Washington Legislature convenes Monday in Olympia. Over the next 60 days, lawmakers — lawmakers we elected — will make decisions that affect nearly every aspect of Washington life. Yakima Herald-Republic reporters reached out to people who live ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — A proposal being considered in Olympia might lead to better access to free feminine-hygiene products in schools statewide. The recently prefiled Senate Bill 6073 states “school districts must make menstrual hygiene products available at no cost in all ...

From the Seattle Times  State lawmakers don’t return to Olympia until later this month, but they spent the final weeks of 2019 filing early versions of bills they hope to advance during this year’s short legislative session. The total list of pre-filed ...