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The WVRA was introduced as SB 6002 in the 2018 session of the Washington State Legislature. On January 19, 2018, it passed the Washington State Senate by a vote of 29 in favor and 19 against. On February 27, 2018, it passed the Washington House of Representatives as amended by a vote of 52 in favor and 46 against. The amended bill was then ...
The Washington State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Washington. It is a bicameral body, composed of the lower Washington House of Representatives , composed of 98 Representatives, and the upper Washington State Senate , with 49 Senators plus the Lieutenant Governor acting as president. [ 1 ]
Initiative 1639 was a Washington state ballot initiative concerning firearms regulation that was passed into law on November 6, 2018. The initiative altered the gun laws in Washington by defining the term "semiautomatic assault rifle" to include all semiautomatic rifles, [1] [2] raising the minimum age for purchasing semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21.
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The Washington state House overwhelmingly approved legislation Wednesday that would ban police from hog-tying suspects, a restraint technique that has long drawn concern because of the risk of ...
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 Washington State cap and invest program was established in 2021 by the Climate Commitment Act (CCA). It combines a cap and trade system with a program to directly invest the generated revenue into addressing climate change.