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Public drug use is rampant in cities around the state, and deaths have soared. Several Washington cities have already contemplated or passed new drug laws in the absence of legislative action. Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison and two City Council members, Sara Nelson and Alex Peders...
in Laws of 1994, ch. 303, § 5, the Legislature appropriated $145,609,000 to the Washington State Patrol Field Operations Bureau, but conditioned the appropriation by stating in § 5(4) only commissioned officers may be issued motor vehicles by the Washington State Patrol...
Ferguson, who is a strong advocate of the bill, said the legislature is "saving thousands of Washingtonians from a lifetime of addiction and smoking-related illness through this bill." Hawaii was the first U.S. state to raise the smoking age to 21 when its governor signed a bill in 2015...
Prompted by concerns that water banks are consolidating a public resource for private gain,2the Washington State Legislature last year contemplated legislation that would have fundamentally changed the state’s Trust Water regime.3H.B. 1385 would have banned the downstream transfer of water rights in...
Washington’s My Health My Data Act and Related State and Federal Developments," on Tuesday, February 27. State legislatures and the Federal Trade Commission have begun ushering in far-reaching new laws and rules to protect “consumer health data...
Amid growing skepticism of punitive drug possession laws among politicians on the left and right, lawmakers seem unlikely to vote to make illegal drug possession a felony again. But a specific policy that can both get consensus in the Legislature and effectively tackle the complexity of addiction ...
OLYMPIA — The Washington Legislature has passed a measure that makes Juneteenth a legal state holiday. The measure making June 19 a paid day off for state workers passed the Democratic-led Senate on a bipartisan 47-1 vote and now heads to Gov. Jay Inslee for his signature. The House ...
The Washington State Legislature has already tackled a variety of issues in 2019. But when it comes to what should be prioritized, state Senator Hans Zeiger points toward one, prevalent issue: Mental health.
English said she's unaware of whether other states are trying to pass laws similar to Washington's. However, "these kinds of things tend to spawn offspring in other states," she said. The age at which adolescents can consent to different types of care on their own varies in state laws,...