By: Tim Gruver / The Washington Observer
Your first session in Olympia as an elected official often means watching more of your bills die than seeing them signed into law, save for the creative few who beat the odds. Here’s a look at the first-timers whose inaugural year in the capital yielded notable results.
Before we go further, here’s how lawmakers made our list. Each of their sessions were measured in terms of their productivity and consequence, by which we mean the ratio of bills passed to bills filed plus what they actually did. We focused on modern-day lawmakers because parsing the record from the distant past is a daunting task. We found a dozen lawmakers who made the most out of their first weeks in office, whether they were in their chamber’s minority or not.
