OLYMPIA — A bill to protect libraries cleared the Senate with unanimous support Wednesday. In 2023, petitioners in Columbia County gathered enough signatures to put a measure on the ballot to dissolve the Dayton library. However, this was stopped by ...
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State Sen. Sam Hunt, D-Olympia, has introduced a bill to make voting compulsory in Washington. But under Hunt’s legislation, there’d be no punishment for citizens who ignore the requirement. Senate Bill 5209 calls for adding a sentence on every ballot that ...
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Dear friends and neighbors, Welcome to week three of the legislative session! We’ve got just about a week and a half left before our first deadline of the session—Jan. 31. That’s when policy bills will need to make it through ...
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Dear friends and neighbors, Week one of the legislative session was packed with public hearings on so many important bills. Click the photo below to see powerful testimony on a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow voters to ...
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OLYMPIA— A resolution introduced in the Senate calls for a Washington state constitutional amendment to allow school bond issues to pass with support from a simple majority of school district voters. Currently, a 60% supermajority is needed to approve bonds ...
Read MoreDear friends and neighbors, It’s week one of the 2024 legislative session! We have A LOT of important things to accomplish in just 60 days. Here’s what I have going on this week: On Tuesday, in the Senate State Government ...
Read MoreDear friends and neighbors, I’m happy to welcome my colleagues back to our district as we get ready to kick off the 2024 legislative session on Jan. 8. During the last session we approved our biennial budgets, and this year, ...
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