Category Archives: News Release

OLYMPIA – The Millionaires Tax, which will provide a major and sustainable funding increase for schools, health care and other essential services, help fix Washington’s broken tax code and provide tax cuts for millions of working Washingtonians and small businesses, ...

OLYMPIA – Leaders from the Washington State Senate and House on Tuesday introduced the Millionaires Tax, a policy that will help fix the state’s broken tax code, provide sustainable funding for schools and health care, and reduce taxes for working ...

House and Senate Democratic budget leaders released an updated legislative package to raise new progressive revenue and fund K-12 education and essential state services this week. It would raise nearly $12 billion over four years. “We’ve updated our proposal to ...

OLYMPIA — Ahead of next week’s full operating budget proposal, Senate Democratic budget leaders released their new revenue proposal for the 2025-27 operating budget. “We’ve spent months discussing our budget, learned about how damaging an all-cuts budget might be, and ...

OLYMPIA — Senate Democratic budget leaders plan to release their new revenue proposal for the 2025-27 operating budget on Thursday, March 20. A press release with information on the proposal’s key elements will be sent at approximately 9 a.m., and ...

Legislation to protect children’s mental and behavioral health from addictive social media algorithms and harmful online content passed the Senate on a 36-12 vote Wednesday. In 2024, the U.S. Surgeon General released a report that stated spending 3 hours online ...

Legislation to make clergy members mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect passed the Washington State Senate Friday on a 28-20 vote. Currently, Washington is one of just five states in the country that does not list clergy as mandatory reporters of ...

Sen. Noel Frame (D-Seattle) introduced SB 5375, legislation to make clergy members mandatory reporters of child abuse or neglect. Currently, Washington is one of just five states in the country that does not list clergy as mandatory reporters of child abuse or neglect. ...

Sen. Noel Frame (D-Seattle) today introduced an updated proposal to make members of the clergy mandatory reporters of child sexual abuse, SB 6298.  Currently, Washington is one of just seven of states in the country that do not list clergy ...