WA Legislative Actions for Feb 10th
Contacting the House Rules Committee
House of Representatives: https://leg.wa.gov/about-the-legislature/committees/house-of-representatives/rul/
Chair: Laurie Jinkins laurie.jinkins@leg.wa.gov
Legislative Assistants: Gretchen Mazikowski Gretchen.Mazikowski@leg.wa.gov and/or Stefanie Skar Stefanie.Skar@leg.wa.gov
Immigration/Migrant Workers
• HB 2105 Concerning immigrant worker protections.
• HB 2464 Concerning reporting requirements and law enforcement responses for incidents at private detention facilities.Economic
• HB 2122 Requiring hospitals to offer immunizations for influenza in certain cases.
• HB 2191 Concerning workers’ wages and benefits in the construction industry.
• HB 2238 Concerning statewide food security.
• HB 2297 Incentivizing grocery stores located in underserved communities.Criminal Justice
• HB 1085 Improving school safety by extending penalties for interference by, or intimidation by threat of, force or violence at schools and extracurricular activities and requiring schools to notify the public of such penalties.
• HB 1152 Enhancing public safety by establishing secure storage requirements for firearms in vehicles and residences.
• HB 1604 Providing parameters for conducting searches of transgender and intersex individuals confined in a local jail in compliance with federal law.
• HB 2165 Concerning false identification as a peace officer.
• HB 2389 Modifying provisions related to individuals found to have committed criminal offenses when under the age of 18.Environment
• HB 2515 Addressing emerging large energy use facilities (data centers)
• HB 2245 Updating provisions for consumer-owned utilities, including port districts, and affected market customers under the clean energy transformation act.
• HB 1303 Increasing environmental justice by improving government decisions. (formerly CURB Act).
• HB 2134 Concerning regional transportation plans, of regional transportation planning organizations containing certain counties, providing for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and vehicle miles traveled.
• HB 1607 Concerning recycling and waste reduction.
• HB 2215 Concerning climate commitment act compliance obligations for fuels supplied or otherwise sold into Washington.
• HB 2251 Concerning climate commitment act accounts.
• HB 2367Eliminating preferential treatment related to a coal-fired electric generating plant.
• HB 2388 Concerning the siting of distributed energy generation resources on agricultural lands.
• HB 1903 Establishing a statewide low-income energy assistance program.Tribal
• HB 2496 Concerning tribal consultation conducted by the energy facility site evaluation council.
• HB 2532 Concerning the sale and distribution of nitrous oxide.
• HB 2554 Recognizing judicially affirmed and treaty-reserved fishing rights and promoting state-tribal cooperative agreements in the management of salmon, trout, and steelhead resources.
• HB 2685 Concerning sharing and protection of tribal data.
Other (Elections, Multiculturalism, Worship)
• HB 2210 Protecting local representation by strengthening and securing fair elections in local governments (rank choice voting)
Contact the Senate Rules Committee
Senate: https://leg.wa.gov/about-the-legislature/committees/senate/rule/
Chair: Denny Heck ltgov@ltgov.wa.gov,
Vice Chair: Steve Conway steve.conway@leg.wa.gov
Legislative Assistant: Alexis Weathers alexis.weathers@leg.wa.gov
Immigration/Migrant Workers
• SB 5906 Establishing data and personal safety protections within areas of public accommodation for all Washington residents.
• SB 5947 Establishing the Washington health care board.
• SB 6045 Placing agricultural employees under the jurisdiction of the public employment relations commission for the purpose of collective bargaining.
• SB 6053 Establishing labor protections for domestic workers.Criminal Justice
• SB 5974 Modernizing and strengthening laws concerning sheriffs, police chiefs, town marshals, law enforcement agency volunteers, youth cadets, specially commissioned officers, and police matrons.
• SSB 5490 / HB 1604 Providing parameters for conducting searches of transgender and intersex individuals confined in a local jail in compliance with federal law.Environment
• SB 5982 Updating provisions for consumer-owned utilities, including port districts, and affected market customers under the clean energy transformation act.
• SB 6172 Eliminating preferential treatment related to a coal-fired electric generating plant.Tribal
• HB 2685 Concerning sharing and protection of tribal data.
• HB 2496 / SB 6010 Concerning tribal consultation conducted by the energy facility site evaluation council.
• HB 2554 Recognizing judicially affirmed and treaty-reserved fishing rights and promoting state-tribal cooperative agreements in the management of salmon, trout, and steelhead resources.
• HB 2532 Concerning the sale and distribution of nitrous oxide.
• SB 5838 Adding tribal members to the board of natural resources.
• SSB 5374 Including tribal representation in certain transportation activities.
• SB 6034 Concerning statutory establishment of the governor’s office of Indian affairs.
• SB 6035 Ensuring access to voting services for military, overseas, Native American, and disabled voters.
• SB 6097 Adding federally recognized Indian tribes to the list of entities that may participate in the conservation futures program.Other (Elections, Multiculturalism, Worship)
• SB 5917 Improving access to abortion medications.
• SB 5973 Protecting the integrity of the state initiative and referendum process by requiring a demonstration of support before issuance of a ballot measure title and authorizing citizen actions for certain signature gatherer compensation violations.
• SB 6081 Protecting Washingtonians from invasion of privacy, including the unauthorized disclosure of sex designation information and historic sex designation changes in official government records.Contact Your Legislators
The next step is to contact your representative and senator on their chamber bills. HB are House bills and SB are Senate bills. You can contact your legislator several different ways. If you're not sure who your legislators are, click here.
Go to leg.wa.gov
On the dark green menu bar, click on "Legislators."
Click on the yellow "Find Legislator" button. Type in their last name and click "Apply."
Below the search box, your legislator's photo should appear. Click on the link in the photo box.
You should be on your legislator's screen where there is information as to how to contact them and their legislative assistants. If you use their contact form, you can copy and paste the bills into the body of the email and get them all in one shot. It will also ask you if you want to include your other legislators.Go to leg.wa.gov
In the "Find Bill or Initiative" box, type in the bill number you want to notify your legislator on.
When you get to the bill tracking page, click on the "Send a Comment to your legislators" button.
Fill in required information in the contract screen.
*This will have to be done for each bill.