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Washington plans to tap its Climate Commitment Act revenue for wildfire prevention, aiming to raise $60 million and restore funding under HB 1168 for forest health and community resilience

There are a host of issues the Washington farming community is watching very closely this legislative session.  One that sparks some of the strongest emotions has to do with the Climate Commitment Act.  Despite being told the farming community would be exempt from the CCA, the Department of Ecology has yet to implement a system in which farmers and growers get what they were promised.   Jon DeVane

Proposed legislation in the Washington state Senate would provide a sales and use tax exemption for qualifying farm machinery and equipment purchases.  Under Senate Bill 5092, the equipment must have a minimum price tag of $10,000, while the farmer must have a gross income of less than $2 million.  Jesse Johnso...

The measure, which has passed the legislature, will give a tax exemption for senior and disabled people who have a 'detached' ADU on their property.

The legislation requires insurance companies to cover the entire cost of ambulance rides.

Ranked choice voting is a method of casting ballots in which voters may rank multiple candidates in order of preference.

Spokane Valley Republican Senator Mike Padden has a bipartisan bill that would keep Washington on standard time permanently.

The increase of nearly $14 million applies specifically to non-emergency Medicaid calls, which had not had a boost in funding for 19 years.

Inslee said he spoke to both Republicans and Democrats before setting May 16th as the date for the legislature to begin drafting a new drug possession law.

The Center Square reports SB 5352 makes changes to 2021 legislation enacted under HB 1054 that raised the threshold to trigger a police vehicular pursuit from "reasonable suspicion" to "probable cause" that a suspect had committed a crime for certain crimes.