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Sen. Mark Mullet (D-Issaquah) has received the Gene Cotton Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC). “Sen. Mullet showed tremendous leadership during the Washington legislative session,” Steven Strachan, WASPC executive director, said. “He worked tirelessly to improve laws that help balance the need for public safety and ensure law enforcement is accountable to ...

Sen. Mark Mullet (D-Issaquah) will be named an Economic Development Champion during a reception tonight at the Washington Economic Development Association (WEDA) Winter Conference. “Economic development is just another way of saying it’s important that our communities are healthy and thriving,” Mullet said. “All the little things we do to promote and further prosperity in local communities add up to make ...

Sen. Mark Mullet, Rep. Lisa Callan and Rep. Bill Ramos will host a virtual town hall meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24. The 5^th Legislative District seatmates are conducting the town hall virtually to maintain accessibility and to enable constituents to easily share concerns while maintaining safe practices during the pandemic. The meeting will be streamed live on Facebook and can ...

Move Ahead Washington, the $16 billion transportation revenue package passed tonight by the Senate, would fully fund safety and widening improvements to Highway 18 over Tiger Mountain and several other projects to improve travel in and around communities in the 5th Legislative District. “Just a few weeks ago, a bad collision on Highway 18 reminded us of the urgent need to ...

Students would graduate from public high schools with a grasp of financial literacy that would serve them throughout life, under legislation passed today by the Senate. “Throughout our adult lives, we make financial choices that shape, for better or worse, our life path and our financial security,” said Sen. Mark Mullet (D-Issaquah). “The quality of those choices will depend on whether ...

Move Ahead Washington, the transportation revenue package introduced Monday by Senate and House Democrats, would fund a range of projects to improve travel in and around communities in the 5th Legislative District. “I’m a big fan of this transportation package for two reasons: it will give us the funds to finish Highway 18 and it will do it without raising the ...

Housing would be built more quickly without compromising construction requirements, increasing the supply of affordable housing, under legislation approved Monday by the Senate Ways & Means Committee. “The state has allocated lots of funding for affordable housing in recent years, but the backlog in building permits has limited the industry’s ability to actually build the homes,” said Sen. Mark Mullet (D-Issaquah). ...

Tragic deaths of senior citizens and other residents in adult family homes during severe heat waves might be avoided, under legislation awaiting action in the Senate Ways & Means Committee. “In adult family homes, up to six residents can receive room and board and help with laundry, personal care and other aspects of daily living,” said Sen. Mark Mullet (D-Issaquah). “But ...

Students would be charged little or nothing to take college courses like Running Start or College in the High School while still in high school, under legislation recently passed out of the Senate Early Learning and K-12 Education Committee. “No students should have to pay college course fees while they’re still in high school,” said Sen. Mark Mullet (D-Issaquah). “We should ...

Police accountability laws passed in 2021 would be improved in several areas by legislation introduced early this legislative session by Sen. Kevin Van De Wege (D-Sequim) and cosponsored by Sen. Mark Mullet (D-Issaquah). “Every year the Legislature passes laws that wind up getting adjusted and updated with clean-up legislation in subsequent years, and it’s no different with the police accountability bills ...