One of the closely watched bills they passed imposes a state income tax of 9.9% on households earning more than $1 million annually. The so-called millionaires’ tax garnered a record-breaking 25-hour ...

Beginning January 1, 2029, ESSB 6346 is set to repeal the ESSB 5814 expansion of Washington State's retail sales tax to numerous service categories, with the exception of advertising services which ...

Several high-profile bills, including a 32-hour work week mandate and new regulations for social media algorithms, have failed to advance as the Washington State legislative session enters its final ...

Depending on who you ask, this year’s short 60-day session of the Washington state Legislature was either history-making, troubling, or both. Lawmakers passed a bill to tax incomes over a million ...

OLYMPIA — The curtain fell Thursday night on the Washington Legislature’s 60-day session. A lot happened before it did. Passage of Democrats’ income tax on millionaire earners was the big storyline.

With less than a week to go, policy proposals are nearing the finish line to becoming law in the Washington Legislature. But the last deadline of the legislative session Friday stopped some of them in ...

On a rainy April morning, Ed Orcutt was tramping through the woods, looking for trees to measure. Orcutt is a Republican state representative, serving Centralia and Chehalis. But when the Legislature ...