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List of Washington State Insurance Commissioners [5] [6] Name Years Party J. H. Schively: 1909–1913 Republican H.O.Fishback 1913–1933 Republican William A. Sullivan 1933–1961 Democratic Lee I. Kueckelhan 1961–1969 Democratic Karl Herrmann 1969–1977 Democratic Richard G. Marquardt 1977–1993 Republican Deborah Senn: 1993–2001 Democratic
The State Senate Chamber of the Washington State Capitol. The Washington State Legislature is the state's legislative branch. The state legislature is bicameral and is composed of a lower House of Representatives and an upper State Senate. The state is divided into 49 legislative districts of equal population, each of which elects two ...
The Exchange has a close working relationship with the Washington State Health Care Authority, Office of the Insurance Commissioner, and the Department of Social and Health Services. In 2012, legislation was passed [ 2 ] that established market rules, requirements for qualified health plans (QHPs), essential health benefits, and other key ...
Kreidler has focused on health reform most of his career and worked to implement the Affordable Care Act in Washington state. He was the first insurance commissioner [10] to reject President Obama's proposal to give insurers another year to sell pre-Affordable Care Act plans and testified before Congress on the law's impact on Washington state.
Washington was named after President George Washington by an act of the United States Congress during the creation of Washington Territory in 1853; the territory was to be named "Columbia", for the Columbia River and the Columbia District, but Kentucky representative Richard H. Stanton found the name too similar to the District of Columbia (the national capital, itself containing the city of ...
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [3] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
The state treasurer is the chief banker, financier, and investment officer for the state of Washington. [5] In this capacity, the state treasurer receives payments made to the state, accounts for and manages the state's cash flows, and disburses public monies in redemption of warrants drawn by state agencies. [6] [7] [8] The state treasurer is ...