Rep. Lytton’s Legislative Update: Week 7
Dear Friends and Neighbors, Here we are in Week Seven and Friday marks the Fiscal Committee Cutoff date – the last day to vote bills out of the Appropriations Committee;…
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Tuesday, Feb 24
PRINT Associated Press City of Seattle employees may get 4 weeks off for new child Washington justices weigh warrantless searches of records State had big highway fund increase in…
Monday, Feb 23
PRINT Associated Press Fuel-hauling trains could derail about 10 times a year in U.S., report says Infrastructure payment alternatives Big increase in highway spending in Washington Aberdeen Daily World…
Week 6 Update: An outdated and broken tax system, the minumum wage and carbon pricing
This week’s newsletter features three important “hot button” topics: the state’s outdated tax structure, minimum wage, and carbon pricing. Washington ranks 35th in the country in the combined total of…
Healthy Families Bills Clear Cut-Off Milestone
Greetings from YOUR state capitol in Olympia. Today is “Cut-Off Day,” the deadline for most bills to pass out of their first committee. I’ve been working on a series of bills to keep…