What you need to know about WA’s proposed $70B budget For the past two weeks, state lawmakers have been rolling out tentative budget plans. It’s still early — and lawmakers…
Friday, March 31
Traffic safety, ferries, State Patrol targeted in proposed transportation budgets Lawmakers for House and Senate Transportation committees each released budget proposals this week for the 2023-25 biennium, with a focus…
Freshman Legislator Clyde Shavers Passes Two Bills to Governor
OLYMPIA – Last Wednesday marked Senate passage of two important pieces of legislation, House Bill 1458 and House Bill 1499, for freshman Rep. Clyde Shavers’, D-Oak Harbor. HB 1458 establishes…
Gregerson’s bill to combat hunger now heads to the Governor’s desk
OLYMPIA—Food costs are up 13 percent from one year ago. While everybody is noticing the highest levels of inflation this country has experienced since the 1980s, our most vulnerable are…
Thursday, March 30
House committee members amend Senate’s version of drug possession bill. Here’s what’s different A bill to address the Washington state Supreme Court’s Blake decision on drug possession was amended Tuesday…