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Yakima City Council member Matthew Brown says city officials are also researching and talking about enacting local laws.

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee has called lawmakers back for a third special session, saying that "the clock is running out" before the state faces a partial government shutdown. Lawmakers have been struggling to reach consensus on how write a budget that also satisfies a state Supreme Court mandate on education funding and have not been able to reach an agreement on a new two-yea

OLYMPIA  (AP) — Washington lawmakers have adjourned their first special session but were immediately called back into overtime by Gov. Jay Inslee. The second special session started Tuesday, immediately after adjournment of the first one...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Unable to agree to negotiate, much less reach, a state budget deal during their regularly scheduled legislative session, Washington lawmakers are likely to start an overtime special session on Monday. Lawmakers are expected to break for the weekend on Friday, with just a few lawmakers on hand Sunday to officially end the 105-day session...

  OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington lawmakers, in their second week of an overtime special session, continue working toward a supplemental budget deal but have not yet reached an agreement. Republican Sen. Andy Hill, one of the negotiators, said Tuesday that "significant progress" was made in the last week and that there was still a possibility that lawmakers could finish their work by th

A major push to get state lawmakers to pass the DREAM Act is the aim of the immigrant rights group One America. Rep. Charles Ross of Naches supports the measure but he is not confident it will pass in the special session now underway in Olympia...

State Representative David Taylor of Moxee is not confident lawmakers will agree on a state budget in a special session that started Monday in Olympia. Taylor says passing a budget is the number one priority. But he says the Governor wants lawmakers to also take action on the reproductive parity and DUI bills among others policy issues...

One policy bill that could make a comeback during the Special Session is the state's DREAM Act. A spokesperson for OneAmerica, a pro-immigration reform group said the bill is referenced in the House Budget, which essentially keeps it alive...