Affordable housing would get more funding under proposed budgets
OLYMPIA [By: Anika Hauer] — State investments of $138 million to about $216 million toward building and preserving affordable housing would build on last year’s $605 million investment. Washington writes its budgets on a two‑year cycle, or “biennium.” Last year, the legislature approved hundreds of millions in affordable housing investments. This year, the House and […]
WA lawmakers push for state to embrace nuclear energy
OLYMPIA [By: Ayeda Masood] – The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is looking for a home for a new nuclear energy site – the Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus (NLIC) – and “Washington is the perfect place to put that,” Rep. Stephanie Barnard, R-Pasco, said in an interview. Many nuclear energy-related bills introduced in Washington’s […]
Bill proposes expanding admissibility of child hearsay
OLYMPIA [By: Cassie Diamond] – Legislation that would expand the circumstances under which a child’s hearsay statements are admissible as evidence in court received a public hearing before the House Civil Rights and Judiciary Committee Feb. 20. Hearsay is an out-of-court statement offered as evidence used to prove the truth of the statement’s contents. Such […]
Lawmakers want to crack down on crypto kiosk scams
OLYMPIA [By: Cassie Diamond] – An effort by Washington legislators to introduce tighter regulations on cryptocurrency kiosks as these machines increasingly become sites of fraud is dead for this session after failing to pass out of committee Feb. 25. According to bankrate.com, a cryptocurrency kiosk lets a user buy — and in some cases, sell […]
