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OLYMPIA – The Washington State Senate today honored Tahoma High School’s “We the People” team with a resolution sponsored by Sen. Mark Mullet, D-Issaquah, and Sen. Joe Fain, R-Auburn, in recognition of the school’s 22nd state championship. “Since I was ...

OLYMPIA – The Senate today approved a bill to eliminate the fees that credit bureaus charge customers who want to freeze their credit reports to protect their personal information. Sen. Mark Mullet, D-Issaquah, sponsored Senate Bill 6018 in response to ...

WHAT: The Senate Higher Education & Workforce Development Committee will hear legislation creating a means for holders of Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) accounts to directly share in investment gains that the program experienced in recent years. WHEN: 8 a.m. Tuesday ...

OLYMPIA – A bill passed today by the Senate Financial Institutions & Insurance Committee would eliminate the fees that credit bureaus charge customers who want to freeze their credit reports to protect their personal information. Sen. Mark Mullet, D-Issaquah, the ...

OLYMPIA- In recognition of their 20th state championship, Tahoma High School’s “We the People” team was honored on Wednesday by the Washington State Senate with a resolution sponsored by Sen. Mark Mullet, D-Issaquah and Sen. Joe Fain, R-Auburn. “Every time ...

OLYMPIA – Senate Bill 6120 that cleared the Senate today, is evidence that citizen engagement can lead to legislative action. Last spring, Joe Grez, the president of PropEle Electric Boat Motors and a resident of the 5th Legislative District, approached ...

Olympia – Legislation authorizing the new Washington College Savings Program passed the Senate late Tuesday night. SB 6601 permits the Committee for Advanced Tuition Payment (the Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) Committee) to begin a 529 defined-contribution state savings plan.  The ...

OLYMPIA- Today, Tahoma High School’s state champion “We the People” team was honored by the Washington State Senate with a resolution sponsored by Sen. Mark Mullet, D-Issaquah and Sen. Joe Fain, R-Auburn. Last month, the Tahoma team won the state ...

OLYMPIA… Public charter schools would remain available to Washington students under bipartisan legislation passed today by the Washington State Senate. The plan, sponsored by Sen. Steve Litzow and Sen. Mark Mullet, directs charter school funding to come from the state’s ...

Parks projects in Issaquah and Snoqualmie and at Lake Sammamish State Park, along with road access improvements at the High Point Tiger Mountain trailhead, are funded in the 2015 Capital Budget proposed today by the Senate, Sen. Mark Mullet, D-Issaquah, ...