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Local governments would be better able to resolve challenges to unfair electoral processes without incurring costly litigation, thanks to a bill passed late Thursday by the Senate Government Operations Committee. Having already passed the House, House Bill 1413 was amended ...

Hasegawa: State ‘not meeting our responsibilities’ on cannabis The Legislature could finance a state bank that could handle cannabis transactions safely for less money than it will cost to provide armed security for cannabis transactions at Department of Revenue offices ...

OLYMPIA — Public employees and students in public schools would be allowed to take up to two days off each year for reasons of faith or conscience under legislation that passed the Senate on a 47-0 vote this week. Senate ...

Sen. Hasegawa speaks of student hurdles – 2/14/2014

Before voting against the Legislature's tax-cut package for The Boeing Co. on Saturday, Sen. Bob Hasegawa took to the Senate floor to articulate his skepticism over the merits of the legislation.

One of my keener disappointments in the final days of the 2013 Legislature was the failure to fully and permanently fund basic education as required by the state Supreme Court’s McCleary ruling. Rather than create a permanent revenue stream by ...

Sen. Bob Hasegawa took the Senate floor today to explain how a Republican proposal to change worker compensation would shift business costs onto the taxpaying public.

Sen. Bob Hasegawa took to the Senate floor today to make the case to fully fund education but not in a way that comes at the expense of other vital services.

In this video update, Sen. Bob Hasegawa voices his concerns with the Senate budget passed by the Republican majority this session and its reliance on fiscal gimmicks instead of sound accounting principles.