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News >  WA Government

Bump stock owners can turn in devices for $150 check from state under new bill

UPDATED: Thu., March 14, 2019

Washington owners of bump stocks can turn them in to the Washington State Patrol for $150 on four days in March.

News >  WA Government

Health care measures pass legislative hurdles before deadline

UPDATED: Wed., March 13, 2019

Proposals to study universal health care and a new psychiatric hospital for the University of Washington in Seattle clear major hurdles in the Legislature.

News >  WA Government

Washington Senate approves bill backing permanent daylight saving time

UPDATED: Wed., March 13, 2019

Senate votes to ask Congress, voters to keep Washington on daylight saving time all year.

News >  WA Government

School bond levies will still need supermajority after Senate rejects constitutional amendement

UPDATED: Wed., March 13, 2019

Senate rejects effort to reduce the supermajority needed to pass school construction bond issues.

News >  Spokane

Gun rules for child care centers pass Senate

Tue., March 12, 2019

Senate passes restrictions on guns in day care centers.

News >  Pacific NW

Senate approves guarantee, new name for state Need Grant

UPDATED: Tue., March 12, 2019

Senate votes to give state Need Grant program more money, change its name and its requirements.

News >  WA Government

Spin Control: Washington Democrats may not use presidential primary to award delegates

Sun., March 10, 2019

Legislative Democrats change Washington presidential primary so the results can be used to pick the nominee. Will state party use it?

News >  WA Government

Washington state House votes for permanent daylight saving time

UPDATED: Sat., March 9, 2019

Not happy about losing an hour’s sleep to daylight saving time? Legislature is trying to do away with the semi-annual clock change.

News >  Washington

House approves new plan for health insurance

Sat., March 9, 2019

House passes proposal to set up affordable health insurance plans for individuals within 500 percent of the poverty level.

News >  WA Government

WSU plans to add 20 students to Spokane medical school faces budget hurdle

UPDATED: Sat., March 9, 2019

Washington State University’s plan to increase enrollment at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine caught in budget negotiations.

News >  WA Government

Gun dealers must follow gun control initiative, Inslee and Ferguson warn

UPDATED: Thu., March 7, 2019

Washington gun dealers will be required to conduct enhanced background checks when selling semi-automatic rifles starting July 1, even if they disagree with the initiative that requires them, Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson warned today.

News >  WA Government

Car thieves could face community supervision after prison

Tue., March 5, 2019

Convicted car thieves could be placed in community supervision after being released from prison as part of an effort to keep them from going back stealing again.

News >  WA Government

Emergency homeless ‘camps’ would be exempt from some state rules

UPDATED: Tue., March 5, 2019

Local governments could set up homeless “camps” in an emergency without following some state environmental rules, under a Senate-approved bill.

News >  Spokane

Lawmakers vote to make license plates easier for Gold Star families

UPDATED: Tue., March 5, 2019

Legislature could change the rules for Gold Star license plates.

News >  Spokane

Bill would set lower pressure standards for trains carrying oil

UPDATED: Mon., March 4, 2019

Trains carrying crude oil through Spokane and the rest of the state to Washington refineries would have to keep it under lower pressure under a bill supporters say will reduce the chance of catastrophic accidents.

News >  WA Government

Washington presidential primary heads to March

UPDATED: Mon., March 4, 2019

The Washington House sends Gov. Jay Inslee a bill to change Washington’s presidential primary to March and require voters declare their party affiliation.

News >  WA Government

GOP stalls energy bill vote, gives Inslee a win

Sun., March 3, 2019

Senate Republicans’ maneuver gave Gov. Jay Inslee a win just as he was announcing his run for president.

News >  WA Government

Timeline: Jay Inslee’s political career started in 1985

UPDATED: Fri., March 1, 2019

A partial time line of the key elements in Jay Inslee’s political career.

News >  WA Government

Who’s more likely to be the next president: Tom Brady or Jay Inslee? Betting sites place the odds as long for both.

UPDATED: Mon., March 4, 2019

The odds are long on whether Jay Inslee can win the White House in 2020 – if you can find them.

News >  WA Government

Inslee’s in the 2020 White House race and he’s headed to Iowa

UPDATED: Fri., March 1, 2019

Jay Inslee makes it official: He’s running for president.

News >  WA Government

Jay Inslee is running for president. Here’s what he brings to the Democratic field.

UPDATED: Fri., March 1, 2019

Inslee’s singular focus on climate change and his experience as a governor could boost his campaign, but the Democratic field is large and his strategy has downsides.

News >  WA Government

All public schools would need anti-bullying policies for transgender students under bill passed by Washington Senate

UPDATED: Wed., Feb. 27, 2019

OLYMPIA – Washington public schools should have a policy to prevent transgender students from being bullied, a divided Senate decided Wednesday. After a debate that bounced between Democrats who called it a bill for basic school safety and Republicans who called it state government interference in local school districts’ decisions, the proposal was sent to the House on a mostly party-line vote.

News >  WA Government

Citizenship status could be added to anti-discrimination law under Washington bill

Wed., Feb. 27, 2019

Washington Senate votes to add anti-discrimination protections to residents regardless of citizenship or immigration status.

News >  WA Government

‘Faithless electors’ would lose their position under Senate bill

UPDATED: Tue., Feb. 26, 2019

Members of the Electoral College in Washington would lose their position if they voted for someone who didn’t win the presidential election that year, a bill that passed the Senate says.

News >  WA Government

Spin Control: Sometimes, but not always, the Legislature is a funny place

Sun., Feb. 24, 2019

In the Legislature, sometimes it’s better to pass when given a chance to make a pun.