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OLYMPIA, Wash. – Lawmakers in Olympia are back in full-swing debating gun control reforms. Monday morning, the Senate Law & Justice Committee heard public testimony for several bills.

Senate Bill 6077 would prohibit any person in Washington state from manufacturing, possessing, distributing, importing, transferring, selling, or purchasing “large-capacity magazines.”

Exceptions include people who already own such magazines, as well as law enforcement officers. The bill defines “large-capacity magazines” as “an ammunition feeding device ...

OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee pressed lawmakers Tuesday to show greater resolve in reducing the number of unsheltered people and to advance the fight against climate change by passing a clean fuel standard.

Inslee focused on those priorities in his State of the State address, a reflection of their importance to him and the political limits for one’s agenda in a 60-day legislative session in an election year.

Neither ...

EVERETT — Funding transportation, addressing homelessness, expanding early learning and combating climate change are among the topics lawmakers predict will consume their attention in the upcoming legislative session. That’s the message six delivered Friday to civic officials, community leaders and business owners at the 2020 legislative kick-off sponsored by Economic Alliance Snohomish County. The two-hour event drew roughly 120 people to the Jackson Center at Everett Community College. The session begins Jan. 13 and is slated to last 60 days. One task will ...