Parents will likely be hyper-aware this year as their high school students are engaging in “youth voter registration.” This is legal and was passed through the Washington legislature in 2018 in HB 1513 in an effort to address low youth voter turnout and encourage participation of youth in the election process.
Week 4 is sure to be another game of "legislative whack-a-mole." Wednesday is session cutoff, so the committees will be working fast and furiously to move their favored bills out of the house of origin. There will be fewer public hearings as the committees focus on...
HB 2459: The Public Investment Impact Disclosure Act is a proposed bill that would require the attorney general to prepare a public investment impact disclosure for any ballot measure that affects state revenue and services.
Last session Conservative Ladies testified in opposition to SB 5209 on January 31st in the Senate State Government & Elections Committee. We believe this bill interferes with our First Amendment Rights. This bill would establish “universal civic duty voting,” which would require citizens to vote, by law. Of course, we think all citizens who are legally eligible to vote should exercise this duty and privilege. However, we do not believe it should be mandated and this law would create an “opt OUT” system, rather than opt in. A citizen would have to submit a waiver in order to get out of their “legal” obligation to cast a ballot.
Tuesday, January 16th will be a big day in the House Civil Rights & Judiciary Committee as they have a full agenda with bills to demolish what's left of your 2nd Amendment rights in Washington state. CALL TO ACTION Scroll through the bills and click on each red...
Welcome to WEEK 1 of Washington’s 2024 Legislative Session. There’s a LOT going on this week – a lot of bills have hearings and we’ll be telling you about more throughout the week. If you only have a limited amount of time to dedicate to taking action, these are our “top 5” that we believe are most consequential and positioned to move quickly through the legislative process.
*By Jeannie Magdua, Legislative Action Team Lead The Democrats in the Washington state legislature are relentless in their pursuit of your money to fill the insatiable coffers of our public education system. Two bills regarding levies are set for a hearing on...
Week 1 has a full schedule of public hearings of both carryover bills from 2023 and new bills dropped in December. The following list are the ones within our scope of work (1A, 2A, parental rights, education and right to life) that we feel are the biggest priority in week 1, with ways you can take action!
A response to SB 5956: "An act relating to enrichment levies." By Jeff Heckathorn, School Data Project After the McCleary 1.0 Decision, taxpayers were told that local school district levies would be eliminated - The Levy Swap, remember? Then taxpayers were told that...
We complied the voting records of Washington legislators on a sampling of 10 of the bills our team testified on and issued calls to action on during the 2023 session.
