Washington Votes Forum

Governor Gregoire signed SB 6130 as adopted by the Legislature . There was some question as to whether the Governor would veto the 2-year repeal of the non-binding advisory votes. She said that she delayed the bill signing today to consider the requests to veto that section of the bill. As a result of...

Tuesday, February 9 is the cutoff for bills to move from fiscal committees in the House. The fiscal cutoff for Senate bills was last Friday. Here is a good report highlighting many of the bills that did not pass the cutoff in the Senate . Of course the caveat to all of this is that the Legislature can...

Today's Bill of the Day is HB 2872 , which would require the Legislature to take a 72-hour timeout before voting on the state's operating, capital and transportation budgets. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Alexander , is being heard by the House Ways & Means Committee today at 3:30 PM. Here...