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Marko Liias D

State Senator
Washington Senate District 21
Term: — – Jan. 3, 2026
5 Total

Biography

Photo URL: https://leg.wa.gov/memberphoto/13546.jpg

On Record (66)

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Advancing transportation electrification by expanding access to electric vehicles already being sold in Washington and increasing associated funding.
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Concerning transportation resources.
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Making transportation projects on state-owned highways subject to certain contracting conditions.
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Prohibiting the use of paraquat unless authorized for research conducted under strict safety and reporting protocols.
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Creating the capitol centennial stewardship account and authorizing members of the legislature and statewide elected officials to solicit gifts, grants, and donations to the account.
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Providing for continuous, safe, and accessible pedestrian passage during certain construction projects.
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Providing for enhanced municipal permitting tools for high capacity transit projects.
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Providing consumer protections for artificial intelligence systems.
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Concerning the design and operation of buildings to protect birds.
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Regarding trainee real estate appraisers.
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Regulating sewage grinder pumps for new residential buildings.
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Concerning penalties for sale of covered animal species.
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Authorizing bonds for transportation funding.
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Concerning coverage for HIV antiviral drugs.
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Eliminating preferential treatment related to a coal-fired electric generating plant.
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Concerning wildfire prevention and creating the Washington wildfire prevention and protection council.
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Modifying the maximum terms of regional transit authority bond issues.
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Assessing the feasibility of developing an affordability index for appliances sold into Washington state.
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Concerning 6PPD and regrettable 6PPD substitutes in tires.
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Raising the exemption from garnishment of earnings for judgments arising from medical debt.
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Protecting elected officials and candidates, executive state officers, election officials, and criminal justice participants against threats and incidents of political violence.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibiting real estate brokers from marketing residential properties to an exclusive group of prospective buyers or real estate brokers.
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Expanding the use of distributed energy resources.
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Concerning the professional engineers' registration act.
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Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium.
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Exempting land classified under current use that is sold or transferred to a governmental entity from additional tax in certain circumstances.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Rebalancing statutory fund transfers and revenue dedications for transportation.
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Concerning transportation resources.
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Concerning alternative procurement and delivery models for transportation projects.
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Clarifying the business and occupation tax treatment of the investment income of passive investment vehicles managed by a person subject to business and occupation tax under RCW 82.04.290(1).
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Concerning the interstate bridge replacement toll bond authority.
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Concerning record checks for certain volunteers and contractors who will have access to children or persons with developmental disabilities.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Improving traffic safety by modifying penalty amounts for certain traffic infractions.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Improving young driver safety.
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Creating a Washington state supply chain competitiveness infrastructure program.
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Promoting transit-oriented development.
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Advancing the production and use of alternative jet fuels in Washington.
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Concerning recreational fishing and hunting licenses.
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Concerning medicaid coverage for HIV antiviral drugs.
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Concerning county local roads.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Concerning the installation of transportation electrification infrastructure.
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Concerning the regulation of tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, and vapor products.
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Concerning the use of dogs to hunt black bear, cougar, or bobcat.
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Providing tax relief for certain incidental uses on open space land.
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Expanding opportunities for organic, regenerative, climate-smart, and sustainable producers.
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Addressing license plate production issues.
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Supporting local news journalism.
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Revised for 1st substitute: Supporting the continued employment of individuals applying for federal aviation administration medical certificates.
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Revised for 1st substitute: Addressing student use of mobile devices in public schools.
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Concerning enforcement of laws regulating the installation of smoke detection devices.
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Adding fusion energy to facilities that may obtain site certification for the purposes of chapter 80.50 RCW.
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Establishing the ninth grade success grant program.
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Revised for 1st substitute: Addressing transportation fiscal matters.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Revised for 1st substitute: Concerning additive transportation funding and appropriations.
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Enhancing requirements relating to the purchase, transfer, and possession of firearms.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Updating the professional engineers' registration act.
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Prohibiting the use of certain animals in traveling animal acts.
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Creating an advisory council on rare diseases.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Concerning Washington state ferries captains.
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Adding tribal designation information to driver's licenses, identicards, and driver's instruction permits.
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Revising the responsibilities of the state transportation commission.
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Modifying school district allocations for utilities and insurance operating costs.
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Concerning motor vehicle dealer license requirements.
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Protecting revenues devoted to the workforce education investment account.
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Modernizing the definition of motor fuel in the motor fuel quality act.
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Transferring ownership of a vehicle to an insurer under certain circumstances.
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Concerning public transportation benefit area governing bodies.
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Concerning department of corrections supervision of individuals convicted of stalking.
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Concerning requirements of oil tankers operating in restricted waters.
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Supporting public school students by improving their access to surplus technology hardware.
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Directing the withholding of state payments to the federal government if federal funding is withheld due to the existence of a valid Washington state law.
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Concerning renters' and mobile home occupants' ability to install portable cooling devices.
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Concerning the enforcement of failure to renew an expired vehicle registration.
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Concerning property tax reform.
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Concerning department of health information on dementia.
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Improving government efficiency related to reports by state agencies.
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Adopting national standards for factory built housing and commercial structures.
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Concerning special parking privileges for persons with disabilities.
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Concerning local government permits for replacing existing culverts.
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Protecting children online.
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Addressing electric-assisted bicycles and electric motorcycles.
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Adding federally recognized Indian tribes to the list of entities that may participate in the conservation futures program.
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Concerning fair treatment of waste to energy facilities under the climate commitment act.
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Strengthening security for Washington state judicial officers and court personnel.
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Protecting Washingtonians from invasion of privacy, including the unauthorized disclosure of sex designation information and historic sex designation changes in official government records.
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Supporting the recovery of missing persons.
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Concerning the administration of the international fire code.
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Establishing a tourism self-supported assessment program to fund statewide tourism promotion.
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Modernizing methods of communications by the department of labor and industries.
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Ensuring access to voting services for military, overseas, Native American, and disabled voters.
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Concerning statutory establishment of the governor's office of Indian affairs.
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Enhancing public safety and enforcement of crimes that impact insurance.
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Concerning permit-ready residential building plans.
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Exempting schools from retail sales tax imposed on certain services.
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Incentivizing grid-connected residential battery energy storage systems.
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Exempting food banks from the retail sales tax imposed on certain services.
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Concerning scissor stair regulations in the state building code.
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Creating the youth development fund account to increase access to positive youth development programs.
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Updating provisions for consumer-owned utilities, including port districts, and affected market customers under the clean energy transformation act.
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Establishing the Washington guaranteed admissions program and requiring student notifications.
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Establishing a green fertilizer incentive program to support the production and adoption of low-carbon nitrogen fertilizer in Washington state.
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Improving regulatory efficiency by integrating executive order 25-03, concerning permitting and licensing processes, into chapter 43.42A RCW.
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Preserving access to preventive services by clarifying state authority and definitions.
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Facilitating the rapid sharing of overdose mapping information for overdose prevention.
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Improving access to abortion medications.
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Creating a license endorsement to allow qualified licensed chiropractors to perform chiropractic diagnosis and adjustments on nonhuman animals.
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Restoring the 1985 tax exemptions for the sale of precious metals and bullion.
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Concerning protection of the voter registration database.
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Concerning eligibility for membership in the school employees' benefits board programs during the second school year of employment.
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Offering plant-based food options in schools.
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Encouraging community representation in education.
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Concerning school board compensation.
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Providing for donations to the sea lion predation control account at the time of vessel registration for the purpose of salmon level preservation.
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Addressing the issuance of confidential identification to investigators employed by the office of the attorney general.
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Concerning access at public postsecondary educational institutions to medication abortion.
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Regulating tobacco and nicotine products.
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Concerning impaired driving.
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Addressing maple syrup processing operations.
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Increasing the working families' tax credit to reflect the economic impact of property taxes incorporated into rental amounts charged to residential tenants.
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Establishing a driver work zone and first responder safety course requirement.
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Expanding the locations where a person can be guilty of unlawful transit conduct to include the Washington state ferries.
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Concerning coverage requirements for prosthetic limbs and custom orthotic braces.
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Establishing age restrictions on diet pills and dietary supplements.
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Codifying the rights of children and youth in foster care.
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Creating a categorical exemption for multiunit housing development within the incorporated areas in an urban growth area under the state environmental policy act.
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Improving cardiac and stroke outcomes.
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Establishing shared streets.
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Concerning manufacturers and vehicle dealers.
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Implementing safe system approach strategies for active transportation infrastructure.
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Expanding secondary training for careers in natural resources and conservation.
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Concerning students attending approved apprenticeship programs.
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Codifying emergency rules to protect the right of a pregnant person to access treatment for emergency medical conditions in hospital emergency departments.
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Providing a sales and use tax incentive for multifamily affordable housing.
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Concerning the creation of building codes for kit homes.
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Concerning school library information and technology programs.
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Concerning fair access to community solar.
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Authorizing middle housing in unincorporated growth areas and unincorporated urban growth areas, certain limited areas of more intensive rural development, and fully contained communities.
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Concerning the duties of industrial insurance self-insured employers and third-party administrators.
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Concerning broadcasters.
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Extending the dairy inspection program until June 30, 2031.
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Concerning approval of electric utility wildfire mitigation plans.
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Supporting the servicing and right to repair of certain products with digital electronics in a secure and reliable manner.
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Concerning parking privileges for veterans.
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Modifying financial aid eligibility.
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Including tribal representation in certain transportation activities.
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Shifting general elections for local governments to even-numbered years to increase voter participation.
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Creating the medicaid access program.
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Enhancing youth mental health and well-being through advanced training and expansion of the workforce in schools.
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Concerning exceptional sentences for offenses which result in the pregnancy of a victim of rape.
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Concerning career and technical education in sixth grade.
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Increasing student access to free meals served at public schools.
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Establishing the essential worker health care program.
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Concerning special education funding.
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Prohibiting the purchase of small unmanned aircrafts manufactured or assembled by a covered foreign entity.
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Updating Washington's sexual assault survivor bill of rights.
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Concerning the prevailing wages on public works.
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Concerning policing costs driven by proximity to state hospitals.
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Incentivizing cities and counties to increase employment of commissioned law enforcement officers.
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Improving Washington's solid waste management outcomes.
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Changing the vessel length requirement in obtaining nonresident vessel permits.
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Modifying retail taxes compacts between the state of Washington and federally recognized tribes located in Washington state by increasing the revenue-sharing percentages when a compacting tribe has completed a qualified capital investment.
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Extending special education services to students with disabilities until the end of the school year in which the student turns 22.
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Creating a work group to make recommendations concerning bridge collisions by large commercial vessels.
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Developing the Washington health trust.
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Ensuring connectivity for Washington wildlife through safe passages.
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Ensuring that local government planning complies with the growth management act.
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Supporting remote testing options for students enrolled in online school programs.
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Prohibiting the sale of certain tobacco and nicotine products.
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Protecting public health and safety by regulating the transfer of sodium nitrite.
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Providing student navigational supports to increase postsecondary enrollment.
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Concerning elevator standards in smaller apartment buildings.
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Extending a program to streamline the environmental permitting process for salmon recovery projects.
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Ensuring compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act.
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Creating additional requirements for collector vehicle and horseless carriage license plates to improve compliance and public safety.
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Establishing a statewide network for student mental and behavioral health.
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Calculating the provider rate for certain community residential services.
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Concerning health plan coverage of fertility-related services.
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Paying state retirement benefits until the end of the month in which the retiree or beneficiary dies.
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Expanding access to leave and safety accommodations to include workers who are victims of hate crimes or bias incidents.
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Protecting the public from gun violence by establishing additional requirements for the business operations of licensed firearms dealers.
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Concerning dignity in pregnancy loss.
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Authorizing counties to impose a public utility tax.
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Ensuring access to primary care, behavioral health, and affordable hospital services.
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Creating a housing assistance program for youth enrolled in extended foster care.
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Making financial education instruction a graduation requirement.
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Addressing the burden of unintentional overpayments on older adults and adults with disabilities served by the department of social and health services.
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Requiring the secretary of state to print and distribute a voters' pamphlet for the primary in each even-numbered year and for the general election every year.
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Requiring certain wages in public works contracts to be at least the prevailing wage in effect when the work is performed.
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Allowing collective bargaining over contributions for certain supplemental retirement benefits.
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Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting correctional facility workers.
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Clarifying a hate crime offense.
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Establishing a loan repayment program for public defense attorneys and prosecutors.
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Concerning law enforcement agency and prosecutor offices hiring.
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Adopting national standards for uniformed and overseas civilian voting, including conforming amendments to existing statute.
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Concerning election security.
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Requiring arbitration for tort claims against the state of Washington and its subdivisions.
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Concerning residential development in commercial and mixed-use zones.
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Establishing the preK promise account.
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Protecting patient access to discounted medications and health care services through Washington's health care safety net by preventing manufacturer limitations on the 340B drug pricing program.
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Adding a tribal member to the board of natural resources.
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Concerning the corporate practice of medicine.
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Creating a law enforcement hiring grant program.
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Concerning transparency, public safety, and independent oversight of the city, county, and regional jail system in Washington state.
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Preventing cruelty to animals.
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