Season 4
It's the last week of the Washington State Legislative Session! Megan and Gloria discuss all the work that still needs to get done as well as the show down between the Legislature and the Governor's office. Will we have a special session or not? Resources: List of Governor Bill Signings www.TVW.org
It’s week 14 of the Washington State Legislative session! Megan & Gloria talk about all the things that still need to get done before session is over in 1.5 weeks. Resources: Legislator emails Session calendar
It's week 13 of the Washington State Legislative session! Megan & Gloria talk about where we are in the budget process. We are also very grateful to the legislature for protecting public health funding in the budgets. Resources: Health Policy News by Foundation for Healthy Generations House Floor Activity and Senate Floor Activity
It's week 12 of the Washington State legislative process! Megan and Gloria talk about bills still on track to pass by Sine Die, April 27th, 2025. They also talk about sunsets and revenue! Resources: WA Budget Universe Senate Revenue Bills Hearing - W&M 3/31 4pm
It's week 11 of the Washington State Legislative Process! Megan & Gloria talk about the draft budgets that dropped this week! They talk about proposed revenue options and ways the legislature plans to flip the tax code to be less regressive. Resources: www.fiscal.wa.gov (look at Senate and House Operating budgets) Senate and House Budget Rollout recordings
It's week 10 of the Washington State Legislative Process. Megan & Gloria talk about some dead bills and budget updates. We also talk about how Federal changes could impact our State budget and potentially throw us into a Special Session. Resources: Excellent visual about our State's Budget (done by Senate Ways & Means) HB 1531 (Communicable Disease Prevention) - Sign in PRO by 3/21 @ 7am
It's week 9 of the Washington State legislative process! Megan & Gloria talk about last minute floor action before the House of Origin cutoff on March 12th at 5pm. After floor action is done, bills will get shuffled to their respective policy committees in the opposite chamber. Resources: Send thank you's to your legislators (emails) TVW - March 8th Floor action on HB 1531
It's the 8th week of the Washington Legislative process! Megan and Gloria talk about the next cutoff, March 12th, and what needs to happen before then. Then they answer questions from students in the RN-BSN degree program at Western Washington University! Resources: Email your legislators (and their LA) TVW for Floor Debate Senate Floor Calendar House Floor Calendar
It's week 7 in the Washington State Legislative process and bills are currently being heard in their House or Origin Fiscal Committees. Fiscal committee line-ups mixed with budget news, mixed with Federal updates are making us a little politically charged and we need to take a breather. Correction: Megan makes a mistake by saying the local resolution came from Lincoln County, when it actually came from Franklin County, WA. Resources: House Democrats relsease the "No New Revenue" or "all cuts" budget (it's bad!) Lobbying vs. Advocacy webinar ( 4 mintutes) Legislator emails
Megan & Gloria talk about the looming cutoff and bills that are at risk of not making it through. They also talk about budget rumors, that if implemented, would be a code red emergency for public health funding. We need people to be talking to their legislators! Resources: Using the Legislative Hotline (3 min webinar) Find your legislative district Legislator emails (make sure you cc their L.A.)