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Sharon Shewmake D

State Senator
Washington Senate District 42
Term: — – Jan. 3, 2026
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On Record (37)

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WA state Sen. Sharon Shewmake not running for reelection in 2026  Washington State Standard
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Concerning collection and publishing of disaggregated data to inform state-funded programs, services, and activities.
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Concerning sustainability and safety in cannabis product packaging and vapor devices.
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Modernizing the definition of motor fuel in the motor fuel quality act.
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Updating timber sale process efficiencies and adopting consistent language for the department's land sales.
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Addressing emerging large energy use facilities.
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Revised for 1st substitute: Updating the role of the Washington traffic safety commission in identifying the contributing factors that lead to roadway fatalities.
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Addressing electric-assisted bicycles and electric motorcycles.
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Concerning tribal consultation conducted by the energy facility site evaluation council.
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Addressing maple syrup processing operations.
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Designating the Pacific geoduck as the state clam.
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Implementing safe system approach strategies for active transportation infrastructure.
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Concerning workers' compensation benefits.
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Concerning fair access to community solar.
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Increasing compliance pathways for the clean buildings performance standard.
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Concerning conservation district revenue limitations.
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Improving reliability and capacity of the electric transmission system in Washington state.
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Authorizing electrical companies to securitize certain wildfire-related costs to lower costs to customers.
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Allowing small business establishments in residential zones.
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Concerning the sustainable farms and fields grant program.
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Revised for 1st substitute: Accelerating the development of clean energy.
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Concerning mobile dwellings.
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Establishing surface mine reclamation permit fees.
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Issuing water right permits for nonconsumptive hydropower use in water resource inventory areas in which minimum instream flows are not being met.
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Creating a sales and use tax exemption for bait purchased for commercial fishing.
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Removing the acreage limit on the property tax exemption for nonprofit public assembly halls and meeting places.
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Facilitating predictable and timely application decisions by the energy facility site evaluation council.
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Concerning snowmobile registration fees.
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Modifying small works roster requirements for cities.
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Concerning green energy community funds to support school districts and nonprofit organizations that service the communities where renewable energy projects are located.
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Concerning mobile market programs.
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Concerning filing of adjudication claims for precode uses of groundwater and surface water in the water resource inventory area 1 water rights adjudication.
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Concerning the photovoltaic module stewardship and takeback program.
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Concerning wood burning devices.
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Establishing trick-or-treat day.
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Concerning county ferry district authority.
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Accelerating the development of clean energy and transmission.
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Concerning the electric transmission system.
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Adding tribal designation information to driver's licenses, identicards, and driver's instruction permits.
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Establishing a tax on millionaires.
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Providing tax relief to Washington residents impacted by the atmospheric river and winter weather event.
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Enhancing higher education procedures.
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Sustaining life-saving and prosperity-building scientific research in Washington by establishing the Washington institute for scientific advancement.
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Providing for continuous, safe, and accessible pedestrian passage during certain construction projects.
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Concerning on-site wastewater treatment system inspections.
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Creating a statewide economic development and competitiveness strategic plan.
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Concerning the preparation, distribution, and sale of kratom products.
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Providing consumer protections for artificial intelligence systems.
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Protecting revenues devoted to the workforce education investment account.
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Concerning the design and operation of buildings to protect birds.
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Concerning mattress producer responsibility organizations.
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Transferring ownership of a vehicle to an insurer under certain circumstances.
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Updating school district public bid limits.
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Creating a nondisciplinary pathway for relinquishing licenses issued by the Washington medical commission.
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Concerning tax exemptions for unoccupied property used for affordable housing that is owned by a nonprofit entity.
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Concerning emissions from emissions-intensive, trade-exposed facilities under the climate commitment act.
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Concerning rental property disclosures of flooding history and flood risk.
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Supporting public school students by improving their access to surplus technology hardware.
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Establishing a pilot program that incentivizes child care providers to care for children of first responders.
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Establishing producer responsibility for textiles.
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Concerning the sale and distribution of nitrous oxide.
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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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Strengthening public hospitals.
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Adopting national standards for factory built housing and commercial structures.
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Concerning dedicated accounts for fees collected for the implementation of environmental programs.
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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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Establishing the heritage orchard program.
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Concerning unreasonable restrictions on wildfire home hardening practices in common interest communities.
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Expanding the use of distributed energy resources.
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Concerning the manner and method for receiving promotional entries.
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Concerning fire protection districts.
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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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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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Authorizing certain public entities to contract for the capability of renewable or nonemitting electric generation projects.
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Concerning driver privacy protections.
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Concerning scissor stair regulations in the state building code.
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Expanding revenue generation and economic opportunities from natural climate solutions and ecosystem services.
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Preserving timber tax distributions for school districts with recent school district levy failures.
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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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Modifying funding for the passport to careers program and eligibility for the Washington college grant.
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Addressing artificial intelligence, student discipline, and surveillance in public schools.
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Creating a housing assistance pilot program for youth enrolled in extended foster care.
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Concerning wildfire risk models and score disclosure.
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Expanding prescriptive authority for pharmacists.
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Concerning critical access hospital designations in Skagit county.
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Concerning psilocybin.
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Concerning public defense services.
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Concerning the use of nursing titles.
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Concerning effective voter notifications and forms.
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Addressing appropriations for long-term forest health and wildfire reduction.
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Preserving records and artifacts regarding the historical treatment of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities at Northern state hospital.
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Addressing reckless driving in cases involving excessive speed.
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Expanding the limited sales and use tax incentive program to encourage redevelopment of underutilized property.
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Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting local correctional facility workers.
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Offering plant-based food options in schools.
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Establishing civil liability for suicide linked to the use of artificial intelligence systems.
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Concerning the preservation and inspection of state historical records.
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Concerning the use of face coverings by law enforcement officers.
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Concerning access to medical care in workers' compensation.
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Concerning the display of previous campaign memorabilia within a legislative office.
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Enacting the uniform mortgage modification act.
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Concerning access at public postsecondary educational institutions to medication abortion.
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Concerning fifth-wheel travel trailers.
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Integrating advanced nuclear energy into the state energy strategy.
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Concerning the responsibility of certain counties to include freight rail dependent use overlay as part of the transportation element of their comprehensive plan.
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Reducing the state sales and use tax rate.
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Establishing African diaspora heritage week.
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Establishing intercity passenger rail improvement priorities.
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Creating a Washington state supply chain competitiveness infrastructure program.
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Creating Mount St. Helens special license plates.
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Improving accessibility of community solar projects in Washington state.
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Improving safe excavation practices and preventing damage to underground utilities.
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Concerning the operation, authorization, and permitting of microenterprise home kitchens.
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Advancing the production and use of alternative jet fuels in Washington.
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Establishing shared streets.
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Adjusting enrichment levies and local effort assistance.
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Concerning the registration of certain corporations and trusts that own single-family homes and condominium units.
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Concerning medicaid coverage for HIV antiviral drugs.
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Expanding secondary training for careers in natural resources and conservation.
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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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Protecting Washington communities from lead-based paint.
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Establishing a prescribed fire claims fund pilot program.
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Prohibiting algorithmic rent fixing and noncompete agreements in the rental housing market.
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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 advancement of quantum economic development.
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Concerning requirements for fund-raising events of bona fide charitable or nonprofit organizations.
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Prohibiting noncompetition agreements and clarifying nonsolicitation agreements.
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Establishing balanced legislative oversight of gubernatorial powers during a declared emergency.
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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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Modifying reports of fire losses.
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Modifying financial aid eligibility.
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Supporting local news journalism.
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Shifting general elections for local governments to even-numbered years to increase voter participation.
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Ensuring patient choice and access to care by prohibiting unfair and deceptive dental insurance practices.
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Concerning the veterans affairs advisory committee.
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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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Concerning the availability of community violence prevention and intervention services.
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Requiring school districts of the first class to employ a school nurse.
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Correcting obsolete or erroneous references in statutes administered by the insurance commissioner.
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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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Restricting the use of health care premiums for political lobbying.
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Establishing an interactive screening program to improve access to behavioral health resources for health care providers.
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Developing the Washington health trust.
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Authorizing payment for parental caregivers of minor children with developmental disabilities.
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Establishing the ninth grade success grant program.
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Ensuring connectivity for Washington wildlife through safe passages.
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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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Modernizing the child fatality statute.
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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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Concerning state employee access to peer-reviewed journals.
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Establishing a prescribing psychologist certification in Washington state.
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Concerning school districts' authority to contract indebtedness for school construction.
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Updating the professional engineers' registration act.
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Making financial education instruction a graduation requirement.
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Concerning cost sharing for prenatal and postnatal care.
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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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Enacting the uniform custodial trust act.
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Concerning residential development in commercial and mixed-use zones.
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Establishing the Washington state commission on boys and men.
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Transferring the imagination library program from the department of children, youth, and families to the office of the superintendent of public instruction.
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Establishing the preK promise account.
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Adding a tribal member to the board of natural resources.
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Concerning officer certification definitions, processes, and commissioning.
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