OLYMPIA – Today, the state House passed a bill from Rep. Mari Leavitt (D-University Place) to provide food and cash assistance to low-income families and update the standards of need…
Leavitt bill to help struggling families passes state House
Thursday, February 25
Washington state owes a big debt to its eviction moratorium. But now the bill is coming due Almost half of the Washingtonians behind on rent told Census Bureau pollsters that…
Taylor Passes First Bill Out of House to Provide More Respiratory Care During Pandemic
OLYMPIA – Strain on the health care system during the COVID-19 pandemic has show how valuable respiratory therapy practitioners are to treating the disease and how desperately they are needed in Washington communities. That is…
Wednesday, February 24
Washington House aims to close Northwest immigration jail The Washington House of Representatives voted Tuesday to ban for-profit, private detention facilities in the state, in a move aimed at shutting…
Simmons’ voting-rights bill OK’d by House
OLYMPIA — The state House passed a key civil-rights bill Wednesday in virtual Olympia, opting to automatically restore voting rights to persons who have been released from full incarceration by…