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.
Happy New Year! It’s amazing to see how much Conservative Ladies of Washington has accomplished in less than 3 years, when we began in 2021. We have experienced remarkable growth and most importantly, reaching, and engaging citizens who have never been politically...
We have one final call to action as we wrap up 2023… 2023 was the first full legislative session that Conservative Ladies of Washington worked to influence legislation and engage citizens in the lawmaking process in Olympia. It was also the first year we formed a...
This year, a republican, Stephanie McClintock, has proposed a bill that would ask families that have opted to withdraw their children from public schools WHY they’re doing so via a voluntary exit survey. She notes in her bill (HB 2038) that enrollment in private schools and the number of homeschooling families have increased while enrollment in public schools has simultaneously decreased.
Washington legislators have been busy all month long prefiling bills in advance of the 2024 session. Unfortunately, we have not yet seen a bill we can get excited about. However, we've seen a lot of bills we don't like. Today, Senator Andy Billig dropped SB 5917...
Democrats intentionally and strategically creating a homeless youth crisis Washington state has launched its “Teen Health Club” in collaboration with the Youth Advisory Council. This “hub” is primarily a place where teens can go to learn about “trans”...
