Legislative Report By Boswell Consulting The 105-day, 2025 legislative session officially adjourned on April 27 (click here to watch the Sine Die ceremony). During the last week of the session, the legislature focused on reconciling differences on bills passed by the...
Legislative Report By Boswell Consulting Only one week remains of the 2025 legislative session. April 16 was the last day for the House and Senate to vote on bills that came over from the other chamber. Bills that are considered necessary to implement the budget,...
Legislative Report By Boswell Consulting Only two weeks remain in the 2025 legislative session. Last week, legislators focused their attention on moving legislation through fiscal committees by the opposite chamber fiscal committee cutoff on April 8. Many majority...
Legislators worked long hours last week to ensure priority support legislation survived two key deadlines on Feb. 26 and March 1. The final cutoff date will be Sine Die (last day of...
Opposite policy house committee cutoff was on Wednesday, February 21, and opposite house fiscal cutoff is today, February 26. Starting on February 27, both the House and Senate will...
A critical cutoff for the 2024 legislative session just passed on Feb. 12 - all proposed legislation was required to advance to its opposite house to remain alive. Legislators will...
Currently, State lawmakers in Olympia are still considering a myriad of bills relevant to our business community here in King County. In his proposed budget released late last year,...
Feb. 5 marked the House of Origin Fiscal Committee cutoff, which required all bills to be moved out of their fiscal committees to remain alive for the session. Following this...
We have finished the fourth week of the legislative session, with five weeks remaining. On Jan. 31, we reached the deadline for bills to pass out of their policy committees to remain...
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Today's featured member, Hayleigh Hayhurst, founder of Espresso Podcast Production, says she is driven by a mission to amplify voices that spread knowledge and positivity. Tell us...
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On Friday, July 4, President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). The bill includes tax cuts for businesses and high income earners and significant increases in...
Gov. Bob Ferguson recently signed off on the first legislative session of his first term—passing a $9.4 billion budget, with historic tax increases and programmatic cuts for the...
On June 25, the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce's Executive Committee voted to endorse King County Proposition 1, renewing the King County Parks Levy, in the Aug. 5 primary...
Today's featured member, Alicia Anderson Pieri, franchise owner of Pure Green Downtown Seattle, says she is thrilled to have the first location of Pure Green in Seattle, which will be...
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