Are your lawmakers doing what you want them to do in Olympia?
Following is a list of some of the bills they have sponsored this session.
Arlington – District 39
•Sen. Kirk Pearson has sponsored 28 bills including: Medal of valor to persons; coffee signs at rest stops; supervise domestic violence offenders; expand duties of geological survey; creates Washington Water Commission; provides at-risk fishing permits; and revitalize farm-to-school program.
•Rep. Dan Kristianson has sponsored 0 bills.
•Rep. Elizabeth Scott has sponsored 24 bills, including: Celebrates the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival; requires a balanced budget; parents can excuse their children from taking statewide assessments; eliminates Common Core standards; eliminates automated traffic safety cameras; and establishes life at conception act.
Marysville – District 38
•Sen. John McCoy has sponsored 12 bills including: authorizes dental health aide for tribes; creates office of Native early child care and
education; eliminates certificate of academic achievement to graduate from high school; March 31 as Cesar Chavez Day; get rid of Daylight Savings Time; and eliminates the board of education.
•Rep. June Robinson has sponsored 14 bills, including: workers care for family members or themselves with serious health conditions; all residents have accessible, affordable and comprehensive health care by 2020; addresses healthy housing improvements; exemptions from immunizations with regard to personal objection; and grow aerospace industry workforce to 100,500 jobs by 2040.
•Rep. Mike Sells sponsored 13 bills including: special license plates for funds for workforce training programs; incentives to hire workers with permanent disabilities; reimburse employees for cell-phone use; pay three times the regular rate for Thanksgiving Day; and mandatory liability insurance for motorcycle riders.
The Arlington lawmakers are all Republicans, the Marysville ones are all Democrats.
For more information on bills your legislators are part of go to leg.wa.gov and search bills.