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This will be my last email update to you until December. On Monday, May 14, election-year restrictions go into effect, which prohibit further email updates until after Dec. 7. Read our 10th District...

May 11, 2018

We are just hours away from the end of the scheduled 60-day session. I wanted to take a few minutes to provide this update. Tenth District Town Hall Meetings this Saturday I’d...

March 7, 2018

It’s been just over two months since I last communicated with you via this e-newsletter. I hope your holidays were enjoyable and that your new year is going well. We’ve completed...

Jan. 22, 2018

It’s hard to believe that only two months remain before the Legislature begins the 2018 session on Jan. 8. We had intended to be in session for only the scheduled 105...

Nov. 7, 2017

It seems surreal to be writing a review of the legislative sessions in August, but that’s where we are after a regular session that began Jan. 9 and three special sessions...

Aug. 4, 2017

This Sunday, April 23, is the scheduled end of the 2017 regular session. Unfortunately, the Legislature was unable to complete all of its business within the allotted 105 days. While we...

April 21, 2017

Earlier this afternoon, we were advised by House leadership that lawmakers will be voting sometime today and into the evening on part or all of the House Democrats’ proposed state operating...

March 30, 2017

It’s Day 73 of the scheduled 105-day legislative session in Olympia. This is the time of the session when we get our first views of the budget proposals that pay for...

March 23, 2017

Tomorrow is halftime in the scheduled 105-day legislative session. However, unlike the halftime at a game which provides some rest, we are taking no breaks. Instead, the first committee cutoff dates...

Feb. 28, 2017

Rep. Dave Hayes discusses priorities of the 2017 legislative session in this email update.

Jan. 28, 2017