Jeff Holy

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A bipartisan bill prime-sponsored by Sen. Jeff Holy to increase public safety by boosting the number of law-enforcement officers in Washington communities was approved by the Senate Law and Justice Committee today. Senate Bill 5060 would have the state Criminal Justice Training Commission develop and implement a grant program to...

A bipartisan bill prime-sponsored by Sen. Jeff Holy, R-Cheney, to increase public safety by boosting the number of law-enforcement officers in Washington communities will receive a public hearing in the Senate Law and Justice Committee at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 21. Senate Bill 5060 would have the state Criminal...

Sen. Jeff Holy, the new Republican leader on the Senate Law and Justice Committee, has introduced a bipartisan bill ahead of the 2025 legislative session that aims to increase public safety by boosting the number of law-enforcement officers in Washington communities. Holy’s proposal, Senate Bill 5060, would have the state...