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Sep
12
Jul
09
NAIOPWA Legislative Session Lookback
Krystelle Purkey and Ehren Flygare, State Lobbyists
The 2025 Washington State legislative session was one of the most tumultuous and emotionally charged sessions in recent memory, marked by significant political tension, major fiscal challenges, and the deaths of two beloved legislators. From the opening days, the atmosphere was fraught with division. Deep ideological splits over how to address the state’s financial crisis created a highly charged environment where lawmakers frequently clashed not only along party lines but also within their own caucuses.
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Apr
25
NAIOPWA Legislative Session Report - Week 15
Krystelle Purkey and Ehren Flygare, State Lobbyists
With just two days left of the 2025 regular legislative session, there is speculation that we may be headed into a special session if lawmakers are unable to agree on a budget by sine die.
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Apr
22
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Apr
18
NAIOPWA Legislative Session Report - Week 14
Krystelle Purkey and Ehren Flygare, State Lobbyists
The Opposite House floor cutoff on Wednesday came and went quietly, leaving many policy bills dead on the calendar—a disappointing outcome for advocates who had hoped for progress on their legislation and a win for legislators and lobbyists wishing for the demise of certain proposed policies. Despite the looming deadline, neither the House nor the Senate designated a “5 p.m. bill,” and both chambers adjourned their sessions promptly at or before 5 p.m. Meanwhile, members of the Senate Ways and Means Committee quickly transitioned to a 5:30 p.m. scheduled hearing focused on new revenue proposals, underscoring the ongoing discussions about the state's fiscal strategy even as a major legislative deadline passed.
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NAIOPWA Student Engagement Committee Partners with Alaska Airlines for 2025 Real Estate Challenge
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Apr
17
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Apr
11
NAIOPWA Legislative Session Report - Week 13
Krystelle Purkey and Ehren Flygare, State Lobbyists
With the passing of the Tuesday, April 8 deadline for bills to be voted out of fiscal committees, the legislative process now enters its next phase. Both the House and Senate will shift their focus to floor debates, caucus, and conference committee negotiations as they work through the last two weeks of the 2025 regular legislative session. The next deadline of consequence is the Opposite Floor Cutoff on April 16 by which bills must be voted out of the opposite chamber.
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Apr
05
NAIOPWA Legislative Session Report - Week 12
Krystelle Purkey and Ehren Flygare, State Lobbyists
As the iconic campus cherry blossoms bloom and the deadline for bills to be voted out of fiscal committees approaches on Tuesday, April 8, the Washington State Legislature is entering the final stretch of the 2025 regular session. This marks a crucial phase in the legislative process, where lawmakers race against time to advance their proposals before critical cutoff dates.
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Mar
28
NAIOPWA Legislative Session Report - Week 11
Krystelle Purkey and Ehren Flygare, State Lobbyists
With just one month left of the 2025 regular legislative session, the deadline for bills to be voted out of policy committees is Wednesday, April 2. After this date, there is a very tight six-day turnaround for bills that have an impact on the state budget to be voted out of fiscal committees. This brief window of time means that lawmakers will have to act quickly to ensure that bills with fiscal implications, but are not NTIB, receive the necessary attention before they can move forward in the legislative process.
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Mar
21
NAIOPWA Legislative Session Report - Week 10
Krystelle Purkey and Ehren Flygare, State Lobbyists
This week, regular legislative activity primarily revolved around policy committee hearings, where lawmakers reviewed and debated bills that had recently advanced from the opposite chamber.
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Mar
14
NAIOPWA Legislative Session Report - Week 9
Krystelle Purkey and Ehren Flygare, State Lobbyists
Wednesday, March 12, marked the critical deadline for bills to advance out of their chambers of origin. With this milestone passed, legislative focus now shifts to the next phase: bills making their way across the rotunda to be considered by policy committees in the opposite chamber.
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Mar
07
NAIOPWA Legislative Session Report - Week 8
Krystelle Purkey and Ehren Flygare, State Lobbyists
The Washington State Legislature has reached the midpoint of its 2025 session, with members working long hours on the floor and in caucus as they approach the March 12 deadline for bills to pass out of their chambers of origin. As of this week, 1051 House Bills have been introduced, and 519 have made it to the Rules Committee for further consideration. Over in the Senate, 805 bills have been introduced, with 271 entering the Senate Rules process. Bills that do not clear this stage of Rules committee pulls and floor action — unless deemed "necessary to implement the budget" (NTIB) — are generally considered dead for the session. However, it’s worth noting that no bill is entirely off the table until the biennium ends.
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Mar
01
NAIOPWA Legislative Session Report - Week 7
Krystelle Purkey and Ehren Flygare, State Lobbyists
The most significant development of the week besides fiscal committee actions prior to the February 28 Fiscal Committee cutoff was Governor Bob Ferguson’s news conference, where he outlined approximately $4 billion in additional budget cuts for the legislature to consider. These cuts, on top of those in Governor Inslee’s proposed budget, could cover nearly half of the state’s projected shortfall.
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Feb
21
NAIOPWA Legislative Session Report - Week 6
Krystelle Purkey and Ehren Flygare, State Lobbyists
The 2025 legislative session is now one third of the way over. Friday, February 21 was the cutoff for bills to be voted out of policy committees in the House of Origin. Fewer than 20% of bills introduced become law and this was the first of the hurdles bills must jump to stay alive. It is a very quick turnaround until the next cutoff Friday, February 28, where bills with a fiscal impact to the state budgets must be voted out of the main fiscal committees, Finance, Appropriations, Transportation, and Ways & Means.
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Feb
14
NAIOPWA Legislative Session Report - Week 5
Krystelle Purkey and Ehren Flygare, State Lobbyists
This week saw several supply-side bills work their way through committee. Bills have until Friday of next week to pass out of their original Policy Committee in the chamber where they were introduced.
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Feb
14
NAIOPWA Legislative Session Report - Week 4
Krystelle Purkey and Ehren Flygare, State Lobbyists
With only two more weeks until the February 21 policy committee cutoff, Washington State legislators have been busy introducing, hearing, and passing broadly consequential bills out of committee and sending them to the Rules committee for further consideration in the coming weeks.
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Jan
31
NAIOPWA Legislative Session Report - Week 3
Krystelle Purkey and Ehren Flygare, State Lobbyists
We are now three weeks into the 2025 session, 1,442 bills have been introduced, and legislative business is moving quickly. At the same time, Majority Democrats are forging a path with the new governor, Bob Ferguson (D) as well as their Republican colleagues, and drawing firm lines with the new Trump Administration.
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Jan
25
NAIOPWA Legislative Session Report - Week 2
Krystelle Purkey and Ehren Flygare, State Lobbyists
This week saw movement on several major legislative issues, including waste management, rental housing, and gun violence prevention. House Bill 1217, on Rent Caps, passed out of the Housing Committee and now awaits a committee hearing in House Appropriations. Its Senate Companion Bill, SB 5222, had its first hearing on Wednesday. This week also included several appointments in both the Legislative and Executive branches.
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Jan
17
NAIOPWA Legislative Session Report - Week 1
Krystelle Purkey and Ehren Flygare, State Lobbyists
The Washington State Legislature started off with a bang this session. On Day 1 the rent cap bill was up for a public hearing in the House of Representatives Housing Committee. Over 700 people signed in to testify on the bill. Ultimately, the House kept the hearing to less than an hour and wrapped before panels were completed. The House Bill, HB 1217, will be voted out of the House Housing Committee on Monday.
The Senate Bill, SB 5222, sponsored by Senator Trudeau, will be heard in the Senate Housing Committee on Wednesday, January 22, at 1:30 p.m. The second sponsor on the bill is now-Senator Mike Chapman, who voted against the bill on the House Floor last year.