Legislative Updates and Election News
The 2024 Legislative Session Ended March 7th
Thank you to everyone who participated in the "Click and Send" email campaign. It was a tremendous success. Your voice in Olympia was heard. *See report below
Stay tuned for election information after candidate filing in May. There are big changes coming as several or more legislators in both the state House and Senate have announced their retirement or candidacy for other offices.
November's election will only include three of the six original initiatives on the ballot.
Three of the initiatives were given hearing and passed into law: I-2081, which establishes a Parents’ Bill of Rights; I-2111, which prohibits state and local personal income taxes; and I-2113, which restores vehicular pursuits. More information to come.
Read: Big wins, a few losses in the 2024 legislative session from the House Republicans' The Current
*Click and Send Report
65% of the Bills that we sent to you did NOT PASS.....35% DID!
Bills that passed
-the climate change agenda is prominent among the bills that passed - examples: requiring disclosures of greenhouse gas emissions in public building materials, eliminating natural gas hookups in new housing construction, purchasing electric school buses
-bills giving money to tribes for education and health care passed
-most bills that gave money to failing K-12 schools passed
-bills that chipped away at 2nd Amendment rights passed
-bills that give taxpayer money to illegal immigrants and allow them to receive professional licenses passed
--the bill that required construction companies to provide extra facilities for menstruating and lactating women passed
-the bill that established a hate crimes and bias incidents hotline passed
-the bill that allows tolling along the entire SR-520 (floating bridge) corridor passed, coming your way next!
-the bill that puts cameras on roads to catch speeding vehicles passed
-the bill that changed the definition of a vaccine passed
Bills that failed:
rent control, tripling property tax increases, giving unemployment to striking workers, free college,
wildlife bridges, mandatory voting, basic income, and humane treatment of diseased elk ( this is not good news), language assistance to illegals in elections ( I added illegals) B & O Tax on Landlords, funding social housing, off shore wind study, social equity land trust, transfering public property to Tribes, state hood for Wash. D.C., Anti-Police office of independent prosecutions, even number election years, voter registration challenges, Climate Change energy in buildings and many more.
GOP Convention 2024
For information on the State Convention in Spokane on April 18-20, 2024 visit the WAGOP website
Thank you to everyone who participated in the "Click and Send" email campaign. It was a tremendous success. Your voice in Olympia was heard. *See report below
Stay tuned for election information after candidate filing in May. There are big changes coming as several or more legislators in both the state House and Senate have announced their retirement or candidacy for other offices.
November's election will only include three of the six original initiatives on the ballot.
Three of the initiatives were given hearing and passed into law: I-2081, which establishes a Parents’ Bill of Rights; I-2111, which prohibits state and local personal income taxes; and I-2113, which restores vehicular pursuits. More information to come.
Read: Big wins, a few losses in the 2024 legislative session from the House Republicans' The Current
*Click and Send Report
65% of the Bills that we sent to you did NOT PASS.....35% DID!
Bills that passed
-the climate change agenda is prominent among the bills that passed - examples: requiring disclosures of greenhouse gas emissions in public building materials, eliminating natural gas hookups in new housing construction, purchasing electric school buses
-bills giving money to tribes for education and health care passed
-most bills that gave money to failing K-12 schools passed
-bills that chipped away at 2nd Amendment rights passed
-bills that give taxpayer money to illegal immigrants and allow them to receive professional licenses passed
--the bill that required construction companies to provide extra facilities for menstruating and lactating women passed
-the bill that established a hate crimes and bias incidents hotline passed
-the bill that allows tolling along the entire SR-520 (floating bridge) corridor passed, coming your way next!
-the bill that puts cameras on roads to catch speeding vehicles passed
-the bill that changed the definition of a vaccine passed
Bills that failed:
rent control, tripling property tax increases, giving unemployment to striking workers, free college,
wildlife bridges, mandatory voting, basic income, and humane treatment of diseased elk ( this is not good news), language assistance to illegals in elections ( I added illegals) B & O Tax on Landlords, funding social housing, off shore wind study, social equity land trust, transfering public property to Tribes, state hood for Wash. D.C., Anti-Police office of independent prosecutions, even number election years, voter registration challenges, Climate Change energy in buildings and many more.
GOP Convention 2024
For information on the State Convention in Spokane on April 18-20, 2024 visit the WAGOP website