UWPNW Washington Legislative Update - January 15, 2020
The 2020 Legislative Session started with a new speaker and lots of energy for our key issues. We appreciate your engagement during this upcoming, short session.
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Washington Legislative Update - 2020 Session to Start
We are firing up our weekly legislative updates in time for this year's legislative session.
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Washington Legislative Update - November 2019
We're getting ready for the 2020 Legislative Session including preparing for two December issue webinars.
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Washington Legislative Update -Fall 2019
We are little less than four months from the 2020 Legislative Session which makes it the right time to start thinking about state policy issues and their impact on your work. We'd like to offer some free webinars in the weeks leading up to session and would like your help determining which issues to focus on. So please read to the end and answer our quick poll on this.
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Washington Legislative Summer 2019 Update
Happy July. Today, we take notice of some of the effects of recent legislation and a HUD rulemaking. You can read up on the key achievements of the 2019 session here.
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Washington Legislative Update -May 1 , 2019 Sine Die!
The 2019 Legislature finished on time and in the nick of time to avoid a special session. In doing so, the Legislature passed new two-year operating and capital budgets and some legislation that offers good news regarding our agenda.
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Washington Legislative Update -April 23, 2019
The regular Legislative session ends this Sunday. As of today, four bills on our legislative tracking list are headed to the Governor for his consideration. One bill is still in limbo between the House and Senate version. And, of course, the star of the 105-day show is the biennial budget.
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Washington Legislative Update -April 17, 2019
Olympia legislative activity winds down after today with the focus turning toward the budget and working out compromises on bills that have passed both houses but in different form, such as S.B 5600 which extends protections to tenants.
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Washington Legislative Update -April 10, 2019
Yesterday was the committee deadline for bills not related or necessary to the state budget. Meanwhile, budget conferences have begun to sort out the differences between the House and Senate versions of our state’s two-year plans for operating and capital spending. Read on about what that may mean for United Way priorities.
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Washington Legislative Update -April 3, 2019
It's been an active week with the House and Senate releasing budget and revenue proposals and their fiscal committees cranking through bills to meet the April 9 deadline for passing bills on to the floor. And. . . good news about the Working Families Tax Credit.
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