{"id":3665,"date":"2024-02-17T10:21:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T17:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/orwall\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:28:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:28:49","slug":"newsletter-town-hall-today-update-on-my-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/orwall\/2024\/02\/17\/newsletter-town-hall-today-update-on-my-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter: Town hall TODAY &#038; update on my bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends and neighbors,<\/p>\n<p>We are roughly three weeks away from the conclusion of this 60-day session. This week we had two full days of floor action and now we\u2019re back in our committees, but this time we are hearing and passing Senate bills out of policy committees until the next cutoff, which is February 21.<\/p>\n<p>I realize that government can seem divided and gridlocked. Fortunately, at the state level we agree more often than not, in fact, almost 80 percent of all the bills we have passed in the House so far this year have received strong bipartisan support. I believe we are all here, on both sides of the aisle, with a shared purpose: to do the best we can for the people and communities we serve.<\/p>\n<p>In this short newsletter I\u2019ll give you an update on where my bills are. I\u2019ve written about them in previous communications,\u00a0here\u00a0and\u00a0here, so this is just a quick list, in case you are tracking their progress. But first, a reminder about our community town hall TODAY from 2 to 3 p.m. at Highline College in Des Moines.<\/p>\n<h2>Where are my bills?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>HB 1300 \u2013 Assisted Reproduction Fraud: Executive action scheduled in Senate Law &amp; Justice Committee on February 20 at 10:30 AM<\/li>\n<li>HB 1637 \u2013 Unclaimed Property Fees: Referred to Senate Law &amp; Justice Committee on January 26, no hearing scheduled yet<\/li>\n<li>HB 1939 \u2013 Social Work Compact: Passed by the Senate Health &amp; Long-Term Care Committee on February 16 and referred to Senate Ways &amp; Means<\/li>\n<li>HB 1999 \u2013 Fabricated Intimate Images: Executive action scheduled in Senate Law &amp; Justice Committee on February 20 at 10:30AM<\/li>\n<li>HB 2088 \u2013 Crisis Teams \/ Liability: Hearing scheduled in Senate Law &amp; Justice Committee on February 19 at 10:30 AM<\/li>\n<li>HB 2221 \u2013 American Sign Language Workgroup: While this bill did not pass, I was able to include it in the operating budget as a proviso, so it will get funded!<\/li>\n<li>SB 5955\u00a0\/ HB 2103 \u2013 Large port Districts: Hearing scheduled in House Local Government Committee on February 20 at 10:30 AM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>See you at the town hall in a few hours!<\/h2>\n<p>I look forward to the opportunity of telling you more about these bills, as well as other measures that are still moving through the legislative process, this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>As always, be sure to call or email my office with any feedback, questions or concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3548\" src=\"https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/orwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/02\/Orwall-sig-300x80.jpg\" alt=\"Signature of Sen. 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Fortunately, at the state level we agree more often than not, in fact, almost 80 percent of all the bills we have passed in the House so far this year have received strong bipartisan support&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":3891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Newsletter: Town hall TODAY &amp; update on my bills - Sen. Tina Orwall<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We are roughly three weeks away from the conclusion of this 60-day session. 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