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Simmons Bill to Open Pathways for Community-Based Health Care in Jails to Hear Public Testimony in the House Civil Rights & Judiciary Committee
OLYMPIA – Most Washington residents are able to shop around for health insurance that fits their family’s circumstances and wallets. This is not the case incarcerated individuals, and the communities...
Training Requirement Improvements for Long Term Care Passes House
OLYMPIA—As the population in the United States ages, more of us will need to access long-term care. Washington state led the nation by becoming the first state in the nation...
Duerr bill cuts potent greenhouse gases
OLYMPIA—Carbon dioxide gets a lot of attention as a greenhouse gas—but the gases commonly used for air conditioners, heat pumps, and supermarkets have two thousand to four thousand times more...
House Passes Bipartisan Bill to Help Public Employees Retire
OLYMPIA – Some state employees, particularly those in the Department of Corrections, are working well past retirement. They are unable to retire because they rely on employer-provided medical coverage and...
Committee passes Walen bill to make clergy mandatory reporters
OLYMPIA – The House Early Learning & Human Services committee has passed a piece of legislation designed to protect kids from abuse by requiring clergy, like priests, rabbis, imams, or other...
Speaker Jinkins, Majority Leader Pedersen: “We stand behind the attorney general’s efforts to defeat the president’s latest unlawful action”
Speaker Laurie Jinkins (D-Tacoma) and Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen (D-Seattle) issued the statement below on Attorney General Nick Brown’s legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive order regarding gender-affirming...
Nance bill: Salmon and orca get help from kelp
OLYMPIA—House Bill 1631, introduced by Rep. Greg Nance (D-Kitsap) to establish bull kelp as Washington state’s marine forest was passed out of the House Committee on State Government & Tribal...
House Passes Tyler’s Law to Restrict Sales of Lethal Substance
OLYMPIA – The Washington State House of Representatives has passed House Bill 1209, also known as Tyler’s Law, to regulate the sale of highly concentrated sodium nitrite, a product linked...
Taylor introduces Keep our Care Act to protect access to quality, affordable health care in WA
OLYMPIA—Rep. Jamila Taylor (D-Federal Way) introduced House Bill 1881 today to protect access to quality, affordable healthcare in WA, including the full range of reproductive, end-of-life, and 5 gender-affirming health...
Stearns bill to retroactively remove juvenile points from adult sentencing passes committee
OLYMPIA— A bill sponsored by Rep. Chris Stearns (D-Auburn) that would allow for the resentencing of adults whose juvenile record influenced the length of their sentence passed out of the...