Legislative Updates

It is now the first week in between the regular and special sessions: The legislature adjourned on April 28th, the 105th day of the regular session. Shortly after adjourning, the Governor held a press conference and announced that he would be...

Welcome to Week 15 of the 2013 Legislative Session! SINE DIE is this Sunday, April 28th!! Over the past 15 weeks, 384 House bills that were introduced passed the House, 294 Senate bills passed the Senate, and as of today, 307 bills have passed...

Welcome to Week 13 of the 2013 Legislative Session! As anticipated, on Wednesday, April 10th, the House Democrats released their budget and held a press conference and a public hearing.  The Appropriations Committee amended and passed the budget on...

Welcome to Week 12 of the 2013 Legislative Session! Last week the release of the Governor's budget.  This week the release of the Senate budget.  Next week... the House budget?  Stay tuned! The Senate budget was released and heard on April 3rd,...

WELCOME TO WEEK 11 OF THE 2013 LEGISLATIVE SESSION! The big news this week was the release of Governor Inslee's budget priorities on March 28th.  While a full budget document was not released, he offered highlights of his spending and revenue plan (...

WELCOME TO WEEK 10 OF THE 2013 LEGISLATIVE SESSION!   Legislative hearings resumed and will continue throughout next week.  Governor Inslee’s priorities could come out as early as next week. The big news from this week, however, was the revenue...

Welcome to Week 9 of the 2013 Legislative Session! Cut-off for bills to get out of their house of origin has come and gone. Committees are now meeting again, and bills from the opposite side are being heard. There have been 2,864 bills introduced so...

Welcome to Week 8 of the 2013 Legislative Session! Since Monday, most of the activity has been on the floor of the House and Senate. The Rules committees have also been busy --- pulling bills out of Rules and onto the floor calendars... a necessary...

Welcome to Week 7 of the Legislative Session! Last Friday was the cut-off for bills to be out of the policy committees in their house of origin.  Today is the cut-off for bills to be out of the fiscal committees.  The House and Senate fiscal...

In August of 2011, the United States Congress formed the “super committee” – a bipartisan group of twelve legislators tasked with finding a way to reduce the federal deficit by $1.2 trillion. When the super committee was formed, they agreed that if...