The 2025 legislative session came to an end at 6:30 p.m. on April 27. In the final hours of the 2025 session, the legislature passed all three biennial budgets, the bills under the Democrat’s revenue package, and a few final NTIB (necessary to implement the budget) bills through the... Continue Reading
Business coalition leaders respond to legislature’s massive tax package. Continue Reading
The beginning of the week focused on getting bills passed by the opposite house floor cutoff on Wednesday, April 16th. All bills except those deemed necessary to implement the budget had to pass off the floor of the opposite chamber by 5pm that day or they are considered dead. Legislators worked... Continue Reading
Tuesday April 8th was the last day for bills to be passed out of the opposite house fiscal committees. The days leading up to that cutoff were filled with marathon committee meetings where bills and amendments were briefed, caucused on, and then brought to a vote. There were several bills that... Continue Reading
Last week was another busy week with budget action, a key cutoff, and long hours for legislators, staff, and lobbyists. Wednesday, April 2nd was the last day for bills to be passed out of their opposite house policy committees. With many bills dying due to the challenging fiscal climate, a lot of... Continue Reading
This week was filled with policy hearings and executive sessions as the Legislature worked toward the opposite house policy cutoff on April 2nd. While moving bills along trying to get them out of committee by policy cutoff was a big focus, a lot of attention was shifted to fiscal activity as both... Continue Reading
Last week focused on policy committee hearings of bills sent over from the opposite chamber. We also saw some bills start to get voted out of committee. This will continue to be the focus in the coming week as we work towards the opposite house policy cutoff where all bills must move out of those... Continue Reading
In response to a 2025-27 revenue proposal put forward by Democratic leadership in the Washington State Senate, the Association of Washington Business, Bellevue Chamber of Commerce, Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, and Washington Roundtable issued this joint statement: Continue Reading
The beginning of the week focused on getting bills passed off the floor by house of origin cutoff on Wednesday. Legislators worked long hours with some House floor debates going late into the night. Bills that did not pass out of the chamber in which they were introduced by that day are considered... Continue Reading
We have officially passed the halfway point in the 2025 legislative session. Both chambers were on the floor last week debating and voting on bills. The House was on the floor late into the night on some days and was also on the floor on Saturday. All bills must pass off the floor of the chamber... Continue Reading
This last week was fiscal week, which meant there were long days - going into the evening - of hearings and executive sessions to move bills out of fiscal committees by house of origin fiscal cutoff on Friday, Feb 28th. The committee meetings are marathons, sometimes having over 30 bill hearings... Continue Reading
Friday, February 21st was house of origin policy cutoff where all bills referred to a policy committee had to be passed out of committee by that date. The week was filled with packed hearings and committee votes. Those that didn’t get out of committee are now considered dead. The exception... Continue Reading
