Action Alerts - January 29, 2023Click on the links below to take action on bills. Want to know more about a bill and why we support it? Review our 2023 Legislative Issues. |
Making Democracy Work
| Social & Economic Policy |
Making Democracy Work
Environment
CLIMATE CRISIS & ENERGY
Sign-in PRO on the following bills:
- SB 5312: Residential property assessed clean energy and resiliency (R-PACER) program
- HB 1012: Creating an extreme weather response grant program
- HB 1391: Increasing energy efficiency in buildings for overburdened and low-income communities
- HB 1480: Energy resilience, cyber security, and all-hazard emergency management
FORESTS
No action alerts this week.
GROWTH MANAGEMENT
Sign-in PRO on the following bills:
- SB 5456: Encouraging transit-oriented development through a prohibition on the imposition of minimum parking requirements
- SB 5466: Promoting transit-oriented development
- HB 1401: Allowing cities and counties to create a simple, standardized housing permit process for affordable housing units in areas designated for housing
- HB 1611: Concerning local government permitting
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
Sign-in PRO on the following bills:
- SB 5464: Right to Repair (digital electronic repair) (companion bill to HB 1392)
- HB 1392: Right to Repair (digital electronic repair) (companion bill to SB 5464)
- HB 1422: Clarifying that certain reusable packing exempt from sales & use tax
- HB 1551: Reducing lead in cookware
TRANSPORTATION
No action alerts this week.Social & Economic Policy
HOUSING & HOMELESSNESS
Sign-in PRO on the following bills:
- SB 5334: Providing a local government option for the funding of essential affordable housing programs
- HB 1252: Concerning impact fee deferrals
- HB 1293: Relating to streamlining development regulations
- HB 1343: Providing local governments with options to grant rent relief and preserve affordable housing in their communities
- HB 1350: Expanding the multifamily tax exemption program to include converting existing multifamily units
HEALTH CARE & BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
Health Care
Sign-in PRO on the following bills:
- SB 5179: Increasing access to the provisions of the Death with Dignity Act
Behavioral Health
Sign-in PRO on the following bills:
- SB 5506: Establishing an enhanced behavior support homes model
- HB 1168: Providing prevention services, diagnoses, treatment, and support for prenatal substance exposure
CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS
Sign-in PRO on the following bills:
- HB 1451: Expand the child care workforce
- HB 1511: Calculation of income for certain early learning and child care programs
- HB 1525: Eligibility for Working Connections Child Care
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Sign-in CON on the following bills:
- HB 1363: Vehicular pursuits
Sign-in PRO on the following bills:
- SB 5046: Postconviction Access to Counsel
- SB 5128: Jury Diversity
- SB 5434: Raise the age for juvenile court
- SB 5474: Eliminating juvenile legal financial obligations (companion bill HB 1479)
- SB 5533: Vehicle pursuits workgroup
- HB 1024: Real Labor Real Wages Act
- HB 1087: Ending Long-Term Solitary Confinement
- HB 1432: Eliminating juvenile legal financial obligations (companion bill SB 5474)
- HB 1479: Banning use of restraints and isolation in public schools
- HB 1513: Improving traffic safety
- HB 1586: Vehicle pursuits workgroup
REVENUE
Sign-in PRO on the following bills:
- SB 5302: Establishing a property tax exemption for adult family homes that serve people with intellectual or developmental disabilities and are owned by a nonprofit
- SB 5509: Creating the Washington state public infrastructure bank
- HB 1000: Providing sales tax relief by expanding the working families' tax credit
- HB 1075: Expanding eligibility for the working families' tax credit to everyone age 18 and older
- HB 1371: Providing incentives to improve freight railroad infrastructure
- HB 1477: Making changes to the working families' tax credit