Legislative

We’ve got some very, very good news to share. Drumroll please…. 🎉🎉 HB 1220 and HB 1099 are on their way to the Senate!! 🎉🎉  We launched the Washington Can’t Wait campaign last fall with grand ambitions: to pass the biggest updates to the … Continue reading →

Welcome to Week 8! We’re pressing up against a deadline – March 9th – to get all three Futurewise bills (SB 5042, HB 1099, and HB 1220) passed out of their house of origin. This week’s legislative update is focused on what you can do to get … Continue reading →

We’re in week 7 of the legislative session and we’re calling on all of our supporters to help us make sure that SB 5042, Futurewise’s GMA vesting bill, and HB 1099, Futurewise’s climate GMA bill, keep moving! Can you take two quick actions … Continue reading →

Welcome to the sixth legislative update from Futurewise’s Washington Can’t Wait Campaign! The session continues to fly by and we are thrilled to announce that both HB1099 and HB1220 have been voted out of their policy committees and are now in the House Committee on … Continue reading →

We’re back with another legislative update! The first thing to note: we’re just one week away from our first major legislative deadline. February 15th marks the cutoff for bills to be passed out of a policy committee in order to continue … Continue reading →

Welcome to our weekly legislative update. The session continues to move along at an often unpredictable pace, and we will continue to do our best to keep you informed on where our priority legislation sits in the process. Quick Bill … Continue reading →

Welcome to our first legislative update for the Washington Can’t Wait Campaign and Futurewise’s other legislative priorities! Stay tuned for a new post every Monday to get information on our priorities as our various bills move through the legislature and any relevant calls to action that … Continue reading →

Welcome to our third week of session! Our first order of business is to give a big virtual round of applause to the 271 people who signed in “pro” or provided written testimony for our first committee hearing for HB 1099. We … Continue reading →

Session is officially in swing! Here at Futurewise, we’re keeping all our supporters in the loop about top land-use priorities, as well as other important legislation that we think you should know about. Let’s kick off with a big thank you … Continue reading →

If there is anything that the wildfires this summer have taught us, it is that climate change has arrived at our doorstep in Washington and we are running out of time to take substantive action on an issue that is having … Continue reading →