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...

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...

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...