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(The Center Square) – Democratic lawmakers in Washington state are moving closer to repealing a 2025 law that raised the state’s top estate tax rate to 35%, the highest in the nation. Senate Bill 6347, introduced in early February, has already cleared the full Senate. On Thursday, the legislation received its first hearing in the House Finance Committee. “This is a very straightforward adjustment to our estate tax,” said bill sponsor Sen. Claudia Kauffman, D-Kent.
(The Center Square) – Committees in the state House and Senate advanced their respective chambers’ supplemental capital budget proposals on Thursday, setting them up for floor votes in the coming days. The proposals are in addition to the $7.6 billion enacted 2025-27 capital budget, not a brand new one. The Senate has proposed an additional $723.5 million in total budgeted funds, taking the total capital budget to about $8.3 billion. The House proposal adds $914.2
(The Center Square) – One of the first of an expected 656 signs stating that city property in Seattle cannot be used by federal authorities for civil immigration enforcement efforts has been posted at Jefferson Park in the Beacon Hill neighborhood. The signs are part of Mayor Katie Wilson’s Jan. 29 executive order to prevent the Trump administration from using city property as part of its campaign to detain and deport illegal immigrants. Wilson said
(The Center Square) – House Majority Leader Joe Fitzgibbon, D-West Seattle, admits he was intoxicated during a House Appropriations Committee meeting on Wednesday evening. So much so that the committee chair at one point called a recess to take him out of the hearing room, only to have him return moments later. The 4 p.m. hearing was an executive session on House Bill 2289: Making 2025-2027 fiscal biennium supplemental operating appropriation. Just over two hours
