Olympia Update

End of Session Report At 10:05 p.m. on April 23, the legislature adjourned the 2023 legislative session, Sine Die. The 2023 Washington State...

Weekly Update The beginning of the week focused on getting bills passed by the opposite house floor cutoff on Wednesday. All bills except those...

Weekly Legislative Report Last week both chambers were focused mostly on floor action, working to pass bills sent over from the other chamber by...

Weekly Legislative Report Wednesday, March 29 was the last day for bills to be passed out of their opposite house policy committees. Following that...

Weekly Update This week was filled with policy hearings and executive sessions as the Legislature works toward the opposite house policy cutoff on...

Weekly Update Last week was focused on policy committee hearings of bills sent over from the opposite chamber. We also saw some bills start to get...

Weekly Update The beginning of the week focused on getting bills passed off the floor by house of origin cutoff on Wednesday. Legislators worked...

Weekly Update As a reminder, last Friday, February 24th, was the cut-off for bills to get out of the house of origin fiscal committees. Click here...

Weekly Update This last week was fiscal week, which meant there were long days, sometimes going into the evening, of hearings and executive sessions...

Weekly Update Friday, February 17 was house of origin policy cutoff where all bills referred to a policy committee had to be passed out of...

Weekly Update One third of the 2023 session is done, and committees were busy voting on bills before the first deadline next Friday, February 17 ....

Weekly Update The fourth week of session continued at a rapid pace with many hearings and bills moving out of committee. Both chambers continued to...