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Wellman and fellow Sen. Sam Hunt, D-Olympia, have prefiled Senate Bill 5823. The proposed legislation aims to lower the threshold that school districts need to approve capital bonds, from a 60% ...
(The Center Square) – Washington state Rep. Jim Walsh, R-Aberdeen, is hoping the third try is the charm for legislation that would allow families to bury loved ones on privately owned land under ...
Citizens and the state legislature both have the ability to place new legislation, or legislation recently passed by the state legislature, on the ballot for a popular vote. Washington has three types of ballot measures that can be voted on in a general election: initiatives, referendums, and legislatively referred constitutional amendments.
The bill passed the Senate Committee on Early Learning and K-12 Education on Monday and is on track for a floor vote sometime this week. If passed in the Senate, it would go to the governor’s ...
Pursuant to the state constitution, the Washington State Legislature has enacted legislation.Its session laws are published in the Laws of Washington, which in turn have been codified, compiled, and/or consolidated in the Revised Code of Washington (RCW). [1]
The Washington State Senate is the upper house of the Washington State Legislature. The body consists of 49 members, each representing a district with a population of nearly 160,000. The body consists of 49 members, each representing a district with a population of nearly 160,000.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the national rate fell by 3% to 54.5 last year; meanwhile, according to March for Dimes, Washington dropped by over 3.5% to 51.4 in 2023.
In the 2020 presidential election, Democrat Joe Biden won 34 of Washington State's legislative districts while Republican Donald Trump won 15. Going into the 2024 election, Republicans hold 10 House of Representatives seats in 5 different districts that Joe Biden won in 2020: district 12 (Biden +3); majority-minority district 14 (Biden +14); district 17 (Biden +6); district 25 (Biden +2); and ...