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WASHINGTON - House Republicans passed an $895.2 billion defense policy bill on Wednesday that includes a contentious provision to ban certain types of medical care for transgender children of ...
House Armed Services Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Smith, a Washington state Democrat, listens during a House Rules Committee meeting in the US Capitol on June 11. - Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call ...
WASHINGTON − The House of Representatives passed a spending bill Friday evening to avert a government shutdown that would leave thousands of federal employees furloughed just days before the ...
The bill then passed the state House of Representatives by a vote of 66–32, and had to go back to the Senate for another vote due to some amendments. The Senate later passed the amended bill by a vote of 33–16. Governor Jay Inslee signed it into law on March 28, 2018. [88]
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 .
In 1997, the Washington State Legislature, in response to events in Hawaii that suggested that the state might legalize same-sex marriage, [1] passed a bill that would define marriage as the "union of a man and a woman" and deny legal recognition to same-sex marriages established elsewhere.
The no-income-tax guarantee upholds what has been law in Washington for nearly a century; the police pursuit law rolls back progressive-backed restrictions passed in 2021; and the parent's bill of ...
GOP lawmakers in over 30 states have introduced or passed bills to restrict or regulate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, according to an NBC News analysis.