Hello 50th. Session gavels in tomorrow. Here is what your office is bringing into the building.
Finish the housing fight. HB 1452, the omnibus we have been drafting and redrafting since 2024, gets its first hearing on the 22nd. If you live in the 50th and have a rent story you want me to read on the record, the office wants to hear it. Email [email protected] by the 19th.
Carry the workplace-AI bill across the finish line. HB 1170 passed the House last session and died in Senate Ways and Means. We are bringing the House version back, and a stronger companion (HB 2031, which would require human sign-off on AI-driven employment decisions). I expect a fight on both. I expect to win one of them.
Hold the line on transit. There will be a coordinated push this session to roll back the Sound Transit 3 expansion timeline. The 50th is the district where every Sound Transit promise meets concrete reality. I will be loud.
On the side: in-language voter materials for school board elections, and an update to the state's hate-crime data-collection statute. A budget ask for a small state AI Office is in the same document but I am not optimistic about getting it fully funded this session. I will write again when there is news.
Office hours in district are Thursdays 4–6 PM at Crossroads through the end of session. Walk in. No appointment.
With gratitude,
Stephanie
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