Advocacy
Legislative Update: Week 6
Review legislative priority areas including: Paid Family Medical Leave, safely opening Washington, economic recovery, housing, and climate change
Legislative Update: Week 5
Review legislative priority areas including: Paid Family Medical Leave, safely opening Washington, climate change and environment, housing, and revenue
Legislative Update: Week 4
Review legislative priority areas including: Paid Family Medical Leave, safely opening Washington, climate change and environment, housing, and revenue
Legislative Update: Week 3
Review legislative priority areas including: Paid Family Medical Leave, safely opening Washington, climate change and environment, housing, and revenue
Legislative Update: Week 2
Review legislative priority areas including: Covid business impacts, climate change and the environment, housing, land use, revenue, and transportation
Legislative Update: Week 1
Review legislative priority areas including: Covid business impacts, climate change and the environment, housing, land use, revenue, and transportation
Legislative Update: End of Session
At 8:00pm on March 12th, the legislature adjourned the 2020 legislative session sine die. The 2020 Washington State legislative session was a short session, which means it moved at a rapid pace as legislators worked diligently to pass bills and end on time.
Legislative Update: Week 8
Opposite house fiscal cutoff was on Monday, March 2nd, which means any bill that did not pass out of the fiscal committee in the opposite house by that day is considered dead. There were 482 bills that were alive following Monday’s cutoff.
Legislative Update: Week 7
Bellevue Chamber Weekly Legislative Report: Week 7 Week Overview General Update The past week was packed with every type of session activity. The flurry started on Monday when the Senate released their proposed operating budget and the House released their proposed operating, capital and transportation budgets. It was anticipated the House was going to release... Read More
Legislative Report: Week 5
Bellevue Chamber Weekly Report February 16, 2020 Page 1 of 11 Bellevue Chamber Weekly Legislative Report: Week 5 Week Overview General Update Tuesday, February 11th marked the second cutoff of session – House of Origin Fiscal Cutoff. By this date all bills referred to fiscal committees (Appropriations, Finance and Capital Budget Committees in the House... Read More