Friends and neighbors, This will be my last email update until this fall. During election years, state ethics law requires certain restrictions on a legislator’s communications. This prevents the use…
Category: Alicia Rule
District Update: A Closer Look at How State Dollars are Spent in Whatcom County
Dear friends and neighbors, I’ve been back home for a couple of weeks now, and it’s been so nice seeing so many of you out and about. Throughout the legislative…
Legislative Update: The 2024 Legislative Session Concludes + Protecting Reproductive Rights
Dear friends and neighbors, The 2024 legislative session is a wrap! It concluded at 5:49 p.m. on March 7 and I’m now back home in Blaine working on issues important…
Rule sends bill to the governor’s desk
OLYMPIA—Rep. Alicia Rule, D-Blaine, remembers the enormous toll Whatcom County communities faced in the aftermath of the fall 2021 floods in the Nooksack River Valley. While people in the affected…
Legislative Update: Protecting our Kids: A Look Student Mental Health, Homelessness, and Learning Loss & Disabilities
Dear friends and neighbors, Did you know I get ideas for the legislation I introduce from so many of you? When I meet with you 1:1 or at community events…
Legislative Update: Washington Leads the Way in Nature-Based Learning + Join Us at a Town Hall on Saturday
Dear friends and neighbors, We’re now in week six of this year’s legislative session. For the past week, my fellow legislators and I have been debating various bills on the…
Rule bill about mutual aid concerning emergency services passes House unanimously
OLYMPIA—Devastating floods ravaged Whatcom County in the fall of 2021. The damage to roads, as well as the uprooting of families and businesses and the loss of life took an…
Rule bill to keep our kids safe passes the House with strong bipartisan support
OLYMPIA— Rep. Alicia Rule (D-Blaine) has been protecting our most vulnerable since she’s been in the legislature—and that’s why Rule introduced House Bill 2224, which is about keeping our kids…
MEDIA ADVISORY: Shewmake, Rule, & Timmons to Hold Town Hall on February 17
Please join your lawmakers from the 42nd Legislative District for a town hall meeting from 1-2:30 PM on Saturday, Feb. 17 at Horizon Middle School in Ferndale. This is their…
Legislative Update: A Public Safety Caucus + Protecting Our Kids, Pocketbooks & Bodily Autonomy
Dear friends and neighbors, It’s been a couple of weeks since my last newsletter to you. We’re now in week four of this year’s legislative session. In a week’s time,…