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Action Alerts
Click on the links below to learn more about bills currently being reviewed in the state legislature. You can “take action” on these most pressing bills by following the links below. Please sign in as individuals and not as representing the League of Women Voters. Thank you for taking action!
Priority Actions
Fix Our Broken Recycling System
The Recycling Reform Act (SB 5284/HB 1150), sponsored by Sen Liz Lovelett and Rep Liz Berry, would modernize our recycling system in Washington and establish extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging—which would improve recycling outcomes in our state. It would create a producer responsibility program in which manufacturers and brands come together to reduce unnecessary packaging and paper, fund statewide recycling services, and ensure that materials are actually recycled. Specific incentives are built in to reduce plastic packaging.
⚠️Write to your Senator and Representatives HERE and tell them to bring these bills to a floor vote—and VOTE YES by March 12.
Friday was the cutoff for bills to pass from the fiscal and transportation committees. This meant that any bill assigned to one of those committees that was not passed by the committees became "dead" for the remainder of the session. The only exceptions are those considered "necessary to implement the budget" (NTIB)—but which ones those are will only be known once the budgets are prepared.
The transition now is to action on the floors of the House and Senate, where all of the legislators debate and vote on bills moved forward from their respective Rules Committees. The bills that are identified in the weekly updates below as now in Rules will be "pulled" for floor action according to operating rules specific to each Rules Committee. These bills will be listed every so often throughout each day until March 12, the cutoff for bills to pass their house of origin, in an Order of Consideration report. This report tells which bills are next on the agenda for whichever chamber they are reporting.
After March 12, both chambers will return to their committee work, addressing bills that passed the other house.
Thank you to all of our readers who have sent in testimony or signed in pro or con pursuant to our action alerts. We appreciate your help very much!
The 2025 Legislative Issues
LWVWA Legislative Issues From the 2025 Washington State Legislative Session
Click on an issue overview to learn more about the bills the League is following and "This Week's Updates" to read the issue chair's report on this past week. When a "⚠️" appears next to an overview, it indicates there are actions to take for this week. Click on the "⚠️" to be taken to the actions for that issue.
*Please note that additional issues will be available in next week's issue.
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