Category Archives: E-News

Dear friends and neighbors, With just a few weeks left in the legislative session, I wanted to tell you about two bills we just passed and the story of how these ideas came to us here in the Legislature. Folks ...

Dear friends and neighbors, Last week I gave you an update about the capital budget, which funds our state’s construction projects and physical infrastructure, where I’m the lead budget writer. If you missed that email, I don’t blame you – ...

Dear friends and neighbors, I’m proud to announce that the Senate just passed the capital budget proposal that I led the development of. What’s the capital budget? It’s the state’s infrastructure budget, which makes investments in all sorts of construction ...

Dear friends and neighbors, We’ve now passed one of the most important deadlines in the legislative session – the “house of origin” cutoff. With a few exceptions, bills introduced in the Senate had until this Wednesday, March 8, to be ...

Dear friends and neighbors, I wanted to send along an update on some of the legislation we’re passing this session. I’ve written to you about two of the most important bills of session – reforming our drug possession laws to ...

One of the most serious topics we have before us this session is addressing the crisis of drug addiction that’s affecting far too many families across Washington state. The grip of addiction causes untold pain and death, and connects to ...

One issue I’ve been working on for my entire legislative career is to help folks to save for retirement, especially people who work for small businesses or lower wage jobs that don’t have easy access to an IRA or a ...

Dear friends and neighbors, I wanted to update you all on one of the Legislature’s top priorities this session – raising the cap on special education funding and making sure we’re providing the support that teachers need to provide every ...

Dear friends and neighbors, One issue that’s been flying a bit under the radar this session but is hugely consequential for all of us has to do with nursing – we just don’t have enough nurses in Washington state to ...

Dear friends and neighbors, It’s week 3 of the legislative session and much is happening. We passed our first bills off the Senate floor yesterday, a few non-controversial “good little bills,” but there’s a lot to do. We’re seeing policy ...