With Washington’s 2023 legislative session now underway, legislators are focusing on some of the state’s toughest issues and Microsoft would once again like to share our legislative agenda in clear, transparent terms with Washington lawmakers, other st
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Pacific Time to watch the governor's State of the State speech live. 2023 Legislature: What's on the docket We are less than a week away from the Washington state legislative session. Some new laws that are on the docket include lowering the legal alcohol limit, stronger robocall protections...
2.Speaking of pro-housing bills going awry: Watch for an attempt by state legislators to re-do last year’sstalled Transit-Oriented Development bill—legislation that would upzone land around light rail stations and bus lines—to disappoint pro-housing urbanists this year. Withthe original senate...
Two legislative bills boosted 2021 incomes. In late December 2020, President Trump signed a $900 billion Covid relief act, providing $600-per-person stimulus checks, among other things. In March 2021, President Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, sending $1,400 checks to ...
During the legislative session, Washington passed two bills that impact how PAs are licensed and practicing in the state. House Bill 1917 creates the Physician Assistant Compact, which allows licensed PAs to practice... read more « Older Entries ...
after Kennedy's assassination in Dallas in November of 1963. It outlawed discrimination based on race, sex and other protected classes, prohibited discrimination against voters of color and racial segregation in schools. It would be one of the most important legislative bills passed in Americ...
The reforms that center on implementing the principle of "only patriots govern Hong Kong" have made it theoretically impossible for the US-controlled puppets to infiltrate into the SAR's legislative bodies, government departments and schools at ...
Washington State recently passed a trio of draconian gun control bills that punishes legal gun owners and has no provisions to keep guns from the hands of criminals. Washington State is not the first to enact such laws; it is the latest and perhaps the worst. HB 1240 has taken the laws ...
One of the first legislative attempts to reduce gender discrimination in the workplace was the Equal Pay Act. The act was to give equal wages to workers across the board for the same work regardless of race, religion, national origin, or sex. [Pictured: President John F. Kennedy signs the...