The state Senate passed a bill Friday to ban one potentially cancer-causing flame retardant from kids’ products but not another that is more widely used.
The state Supreme Court, prodded into action by a 2009 case involving a reprimanded Federal Way judge, is weighing a rule to underscore that court administrative records are public.
The Legislature met for several hours Saturday and took the following actions.
Moderate lawmakers hogged the spotlight in the first half of the legislative session, their positions on same-sex marriage under intense scrutiny.
The Legislature’s job of closing the state’s $1.5 billion budget shortfall got a little easier on Friday with news of at least a $200 million windfall due to reduced demands for state services.
Giving adopted children in Washington state greater access to their birth records is an idea that hits close to home for state Reps. Tina Orwall and Ann Rivers.
To understand the “no” vote cast on same-sex marriage by Rep. Steve Kirby, a Tacoman who usually sides with his fellow Democrats, look at how the people in his district voted in 2009 on the successful referendum giving gay couples “everything but marriage.”
A bill that would offer greater protections for stalking victims will not get a full hearing by the Legislature after an intense lobbying campaign by state judges.
To understand the “no” vote cast on same-sex marriage by Rep. Steve Kirby, a Tacoman who usually sides with his fellow Democrats, look at how the people in his district voted in 2009 on the successful referendum giving gay couples “everything but marriage.”
An initiative to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana in Washington probably won’t get fast-tracked by the Legislature before it sees the ballot this fall, the campaign supporting it says.
The owner of a court reporting business announced this week that he will run for a 30th District House seat as a Democrat.
Service Employees International Union 775 Healthcare is headed back to court in a dispute with the state over its reduction in home-care aid for certain Medicaid clients who are disabled or elderly.
Residents testified Wednesday night that increasing the cost to cross the Tacoma Narrows Bridge would take a toll on families living on the peninsula and its economy.
Washington is one step closer to legalizing gay marriage, and also to a citizen referendum against it, after the state House approved a same-sex marriage proposal Wednesday.
Medicaid soon won’t cover emergency-room treatment that state officials decide afterward was “not medically necessary.”
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