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At a time when the housing market is on many people’s minds, a new state law promises to change the relationship between real estate brokers and buyers in Washington.. State Senate Bill 5191 ...
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 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 ]
[8] [9] The legislation was given a first reading in the House on March 9, passing out of the Finance committee on April 16 and passing the state legislature on April 21 by a vote of 52-46. [8] [10] At that time, the legislature removed language from the bill that would have referred the capital gains tax bill to the voters as a referendum. [10]
The House passed the legislation earlier this month, but will have to take up the bill again if the Senate passes it, as expected, since the Senate amended the legislation.
The Washington state Senate unanimously approved legislation Tuesday that would ban police from hog-tying suspects, a restraint technique that has long drawn concern due to the risk of suffocation.
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 ...
Washington state Democrats appeared to have accidentally emailed their internal tax proposals and talking points to the full Evergreen State Senate, leading to outcry. ... Bills begin Super Bowl ...