OLYMPIA — A large bipartisan, bicameral group of Washington state legislators has signed a strong letter of protest urging the Biden administration to withdraw its challenge to the Washington state law strengthening workers’ compensation access for workers at the Hanford ...
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Dear neighbors, As the Puget Sound grows, Sea-Tac Airport is getting busier and busier. It has the smallest physical footprint of any major airport in the country. Those of us who live around the airport know that its capacity is ...
Read MoreOLYMPIA — Sen. Karen Keiser (D-Des Moines), chair of the Senate Labor, Commerce & Tribal Affairs Committee, released this statement after the announcement that the Biden administration will continue a Trump administration challenge to the Washington state law strengthening workers’ ...
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Dear neighbors, Now that we have finished the 2021 legislative session, my seatmates and I want to hear from you, as well as update you on our work on your behalf. Please join all three lawmakers from the 33rd District—Rep. ...
Read MorePlease join your lawmakers from the 33rd Legislative District for a town hall meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 24. This is their chance to hear from you as well as update you on their work in Olympia on your ...
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OLYMPIA — The 86,000 patients in Washington with kidney disease now have a greater hope of someday receiving a transplant—the only lifesaving treatment—under a bill signed into law today. “Organ donors who give the gift of new life to another ...
Read MoreBy Karen Keiser and Mike Sells / For The Herald We have heard a lot of talk about “essential workers” over the past year, as we depend on people whose work cannot be done remotely; tens of thousands of workers ...
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OLYMPIA — With the passage of Senate Bill 5478 today, the Legislature has now put $2.2 billion in unemployment insurance (UI) tax cuts back into the pockets of Washington’s employers. “Businesses around our state have been suffering during this pandemic,” ...
Read MoreOLYMPIA — A bill to provide hard-hit businesses with $500 million from a state funded unemployment relief account to reduce unemployment insurance (UI) premium taxes in 2022 passed the Senate today on a unanimous vote of 49-0. “This awful pandemic ...
Read MoreOLYMPIA — The businesses hit hardest by the pandemic would see $500 million in state assistance for their unemployment insurance (UI) premium taxes in 2022, under a bill introduced by Sen. Karen Keiser (D-Des Moines) and passed out of the ...
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