2024 Bill Summary

65% of the Bills that we sent to you did NOT PASS.....35% DID!

 

Some thoughts our team has about this session:

 1. Many of these bad bills had bi-partisan support. Meaning our representatives voted for them.

 2. Look at the number of people (pros and cons) that signed in on these bad bills. It appears

     that in several cases our representatives didn't pay any attention to the will of the people.

 3. Massive spending.....no end to our tax and spend legislature!!!

 4. Get your kids out of Public Schools....all schools are now forced to teach the LGBTQ (Queer) 

     curriculum...there is NO opting out. 

 

Each bill that did pass takes just a little more of our freedoms away, like a thousand cuts.

-the climate change agenda is prominent among the bills that passed - 
examples: requiring disclosures of greenhouse gas emissions in public 
building materials, eliminating natural gas hookups in new housing 
construction, purchasing electric school buses
-bills giving money to tribes for education and health care passed
-most bills that gave money to failing K-12 schools passed
-bills that chipped away at 2nd Amendment rights passed
-bills that give taxpayer money to illegal immigrants and allow them to 
receive professional licenses passed
--the bill that required construction companies to provide extra 
facilities for menstruating and lactating women passed
-the bill that established a hate crimes and bias incidents hotline passed
-the bill that allows tolling along the entire SR-520 (floating bridge) 
corridor passed, coming your way next!
-the bill that puts cameras on roads to catch speeding vehicles passed
-the bill that changed the definition of a vaccine passed

 

The good news:

-3 initiatives passed (Parent Rights, Police Pursuit, No Taxes on 
Personal Income)

-bills that FAILED..... include rent control, tripling property tax 
increases, giving unemployment to striking workers, free college, 
wildlife bridges, mandatory voting, basic income, and humane treatment 
of diseased elk ( this is not good news), language assistance to illegals in elections ( I added illegals)

B & O Tax on Landlords, funding social housing, offshore wind study, social

equity land trust, transferring public property to Tribes, statehood for Wash. D.C.,

Anti-police office of independent prosecutions, even number of election years, voter

registration challenges, Climate Change energy in buildings, and many more.

 

Attached is the PDF file of the results.

 

Thank you for Participating in this year's session. Next year's session is a long session,

90 days, and will begin in January 2025. Our world will have many changes by that time!!

 

The Skagit County Click and Send Team