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Week Overview General Update The beginning of last week was focused on getting bills passed off the floor by house of origin cutoff on...

Week Overview General Update We have officially passed the halfway point in the 2021 legislative session! Both chambers were mostly on the...

Week Overview General Update Last Monday, February 22nd was house of origin fiscal cutoff where all bills referred to a fiscal committee...

Week Overview General Update Last Monday, February 15th was house of origin policy cutoff where all bills referred to a policy committee had...

Week Overview General Update The past week was largely focused on getting bills heard and passed out of their house of origin policy committee...

Week Overview General Update During week four of the 2021 legislative session we saw continuation of public hearings on bills as well as...

Week Overview General Update Week three of session continued with a focus on policy committee activity that again included work sessions,...

Week Overview General Update The second week of the legislative session saw more work sessions and hearings, committee votes on bills (known...

Week Overview General Update The legislature convened for the 2021 legislative session on Monday, January 11th. Given the COVID-19 pandemic,...

BUDGET AND TAXES The business community, especially small, locally owned businesses, have been se- verely impacted by the Covid-19 crisis. Many are...

TRANSPORTATION Highway maintenance, capacity and safety improvements beyond the Connecting Washington funding package passed in 2015 are needed,...

ECONOMIC REVITALIZATION The COVID-19 pandemic is negatively affecting small businesses across our state, and East King County was the first...