Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy
Retirement & Health Benefits for March 6, 2020
Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy
Author: Fred Yancey • Date: March 6, 2020
The session is moving toward Sine Die and there’s a great deal of unknowns still to come. It’s the part of the session where bills...
The Immunization Rules are Changing. Here’s What You Need to Know.
Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy, Resource
Author: Dan Jasker • Date: March 4, 2020
A change is coming in August 2020 that you don’t want to miss. The way schools collect immunization records and comply with immunization rules will...
Retirement & Health Benefits for February 28, 2020
Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy
Author: Fred Yancey • Date: February 28, 2020
Proposed bills dealing with providing a benefit increase to those members in TRS1 and PERS 1 plans can easily be seen as NTIB (Necessary to...
Retirement & Health Benefits for February 21, 2020
Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy
Author: Fred Yancey • Date: February 21, 2020
Proposed bills have now either passed their respective chambers and are awaiting further action in the opposite house, or they are ‘dead’. Remember that no...
Retirement & Health Benefits for February 14, 2020
Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy
Author: Fred Yancey • Date: February 13, 2020
The first deadlines have come and gone. Action now shifts to the floor of each chamber. A bill needs to be brought out of the...
Two Washington Students Selected for United States Senate Youth Program
Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy
Author: Roz Thompson • Date: February 13, 2020
The United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP) announces that high school students Ms. Dana S. Ahmed and Mr. Andre James Ramsey will join Senator Patty...
January 2020 Leadership & Advocacy Meeting Summary
Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy
Author: AWSP Staff • Date: February 7, 2020
Our AWSP and Foundation Board met January 25–26, our Grade Level Leadership Committees met on the 26th and 27th, and on the 28th, members of...
Retirement & Health Benefits for February 7, 2020
Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy
Author: Fred Yancey • Date: February 7, 2020
Legislative actions continue. As this is being written, the deadline for policy bills to leave committees has arrived. The next cut-off is February 11 for...
Retirement & Health Benefits for January 31, 2020
Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy
Author: Fred Yancey • Date: January 31, 2020
The big push has begun as bills will be moving out of their house of origin in order to clear the policy and fiscal deadlines...