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WA Legislature - Regular Session - 2025 - Calendar
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WA Legislature - Biennium - 2025-26
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WA Legislature - Regular Session - 2025
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Observations
WA Legislature - Update
(March 26, 2025)
Legislators heard the omnibus, production unions, and data dashboard bills on Tuesday and planned to hear two more Wednesday in addition to moving legislation that could revise buffer zone measurement.
WA Legislature - Update
(March 25, 2025)
An unusual omnibus bill would be presented publicly on Tuesday along with the WSLCB data dashboard legislation and the production unionization bill before hearings on the freshly proposed operating budgets.
The Week Ahead
(March 24, 2025)
A busy week was planned for cannabis-related legislation and budgets at the legislature while the City of Lynnwood had fallen behind on an effort to open for retail businesses.
WA Legislature - Update
(March 24, 2025)
After advancing legislation to enable DOH data sharing and the confirmations of two WSLCB board members, legislators planned to introduce a bill which would step back State support for ESOPs.
WA Legislature - Update
(March 21, 2025)
Wrapping up a low-attention week for cannabis bills, senators planned to advance patient data sharing legislation without a hearing as well as the appointment confirmations of two WSLCB board members.
WA Legislature - Update
(March 20, 2025)
Legislators heard supportive testimony to revise buffer zones while committee schedules for the following week showed nearly all cannabis-related legislation and the operating budget would be considered.
WA Legislature - Update
(March 19, 2025)
The first cannabis-related bill scheduled for a public hearing by the opposite house in 2025 was SB 5758 concerning revision of local buffer zones to assist social equity business siting.
WA Legislature - Update
(March 18, 2025)
Attention in the Washington State Legislature remained elsewhere other than cannabis-related policymaking in the early part of the week.
WA House - Session
(March 11, 2025) - HB 1141 - Second and Third Reading
A divide over legislation to extend collective bargaining rights to cannabis production employees stoked partisan tensions related to whether the policy would be expanded to farm workers more generally.
The Week Ahead
(March 17, 2024)
Legislators appeared in no hurry to consider cannabis-related bills from the opposite house but regulatory bodies planned to provide updates and signal research directions.