Dear Friends and Neighbors,
Thursday, March 12, marked Sine Die, the final day of the scheduled 60-day legislative session. Like most sessions in Olympia, the past two months included long floor debates, late nights, and more bills than most people could keep up with. Some were good ideas. Others… not so much.
There is a lot to unpack from this legislative session. Instead of sending one very long update, I will share a few shorter newsletters over the next several days.
In this first update, I want to focus on two major developments from the closing days of the session: the passage of a new state income tax and the approval of my legislation, ESSSB 6066, aimed at improving safety on some of Washington’s most dangerous highways.