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February 23, 2026

Legislative session enters final weeks before March 12 end

February 23, 2026 Dear Friends and Neighbors, This year’s 60-day session has entered its final three weeks. But there is still much to do between now and the final day on March 12, including passing supplemental operating, capital and transportation budgets that make adjustments to these original two-year budgets that were passed by the Legislature...
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February 05, 2026

ACTION ALERT! Democrats schedule hearing Friday on bill creating state income tax

February 5, 2026 Dear Friends and Neighbors, This year’s legislative session reached a key deadline yesterday. It was the “policy cutoff,” the last day that Senate policy committees could pass Senate bills that were sent there. With this cutoff behind us, many bills that were introduced this year are now considered dead, although sometimes “dead”...
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April 23, 2025

Governor signs Holy bill helping law-enforcement officers, firefighters

Gov. Bob Ferguson yesterday signed his name on two bills introduced this year by 6th Legislative District Sen. Jeff Holy, including one that will help law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Senate Bill 5306 permits members of the Law Enforcement Officers’ and Firefighters’ Retirement System Plan 2 (LEOFF 2) on authorized leaves of absence to purchase up...
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March 20, 2025

Holy attends ribbon-cutting event for new law-enforcement training center

Sen. Jeff Holy, the Republican leader on the Senate Law and Justice Committee, joined a handful of other legislators and statewide officials at today’s ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new law-enforcement training center in Arlington. Gov. Bob Ferguson and Monica Alexander, executive director of the state Criminal Justice Training Commission, spoke at the event. “This new...
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March 18, 2025

6th District legislators to host telephone town hall on Tuesday, April 1

Residents of the 6th Legislative District are invited to take part in a “telephone town hall meeting” with their state legislators on Tuesday, April 1. The community conversation, which is similar to a call-in radio format, will begin at 6:30 p.m. and last one hour. The 6th District’s legislative team – Sen. Jeff Holy, R-Cheney;...
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January 29, 2025

2025 session underway

January 29, 2025 Dear Friends and Neighbors, Greetings from Olympia, where the Legislature is in its third week of this year’s 105-day session. During this “long” session, the Legislature’s main responsibility will be to develop and approve new two-year state operating, capital and transportation budgets. However, those budget proposals won’t be released by the House...
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