End of Session Report 2020
By RPEC Lobbyist Emily Murphy
April 15, 2020
This report can also be downloaded here.
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic escalating in the closing days of the 2020 legislative session, it was a wild ride for RPEC’s priorities, which hung in the balance to the very end in this dramatic and truly unprecedented legislative session.
Budget and Revenue
In December of 2019, Governor Inslee put forward his proposed supplemental operating budget, as he is required to do every year. Progressive revenue like the RPEC-supported proposal to close the tax break on…