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Vote Yes on this bill if you want strict limits on license plate surveillance, short data-retention and sharing rules, bans on immigration and protected health care tracking and near sensitive sites, required registration, audits, and public reporting, penalties for misuse, and continued use only for stolen cars, missing persons, parking, tolls, traffic, and trucking enforcement.
Organizations that support this bill may include civil liberties and privacy advocates, reproductive health and patient safety groups, immigrant rights organizations, consumer protection groups, and communities concerned about surveillance near schools, clinics, and places of worship.
Vote No on this bill if you want fewer restrictions on ALPR use, longer retention and broader data sharing, ALPR hits alone to justify traffic stops, greater access for federal partners, continued public disclosure of ALPR data, and to avoid new registration, logging, audit, and penalty requirements.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include law enforcement associations seeking broader investigative flexibility, ALPR and data vendors, some transportation or parking authorities facing new limits, and open-government groups concerned about exempting ALPR data from public records.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want tougher penalties on buyers, felony charges for repeat offenses, high fees that mostly fund survivor-led services, service referrals over arrest for sellers, protections when they report crimes, and felony penalties for assaulting them.
Organizations that support this bill may include anti–sex trafficking groups, survivor-led service providers, victim advocacy nonprofits, and some law enforcement and community safety organizations.
Vote No on this bill if you want to avoid higher criminalization and fees, keep greater judicial discretion and local revenue control, and oppose measures that may push sex work underground or increase enforcement costs.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include sex worker rights groups, civil liberties organizations, and fiscal conservatives concerned about costs and expanded criminal penalties.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want stronger online privacy for minors, limits on addictive algorithmic feeds and late-night or school-hour push alerts, less data collection and location tracking, and easy tools like time limits, private accounts, and nonpersonalized feeds.
Organizations that support this bill may include child safety and mental health advocacy groups, pediatric associations, parent-teacher organizations, and consumer protection groups.
Vote No on this bill if you want to avoid statewide age-assurance mandates and notification curfews, keep personalized algorithmic feeds for minors, reduce regulatory and legal exposure for platforms, and prevent potential privacy, speech, and access impacts.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include digital rights and civil liberties groups, technology and social media industry associations, small app developers, and business groups concerned about compliance costs and age verification risks.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want a larger refundable child tax credit, a $2,800 pregnancy credit at 20+ weeks, stricter SSN rules and a six-child cap, a simplified EITC with lower maximums for larger families, elimination of Head of Household status and the child care credit for kids, and removal of the SALT deduction starting in 2026.
Organizations that support this bill may include pro-life and family policy groups, conservative tax reform advocates, and think tanks that favor bigger refundable child credits and ending SALT and Head of Household preferences.
Vote No on this bill if you want to keep Head of Household filing and the child and dependent care credit, preserve the SALT deduction, maintain current EITC levels for bigger families, and avoid tying a pregnancy credit to abortion restrictions.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include reproductive rights and women's health groups, single-parent and anti-poverty advocates, childcare providers and labor organizations, and associations representing high-tax states that oppose eliminating the SALT deduction.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want tougher penalties and mandatory prison time for assaults, manslaughter, or murder of officers and certain workers, a broader definition of who counts as law enforcement, higher sentencing scores for battery on them, and a rule that people cannot use force to resist arrest when an officer acts in good faith.
Organizations that support this bill may include police unions, sheriffs’ offices, prosecutors’ associations, corrections organizations, and victims’ rights groups.
Vote No on this bill if you want to avoid new mandatory minimums and longer sentences, limit prison growth and costs, keep current rules on resisting arrest instead of expanding them with a good‑faith standard, and prevent broader use of officer-status sentence enhancements.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include civil liberties groups, criminal justice reform advocates, public defender associations, and budget watchdogs concerned about increased prison costs.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want appeals of Fish and Wildlife decisions filed in the county where the wildlife is, boosting local voices and reducing court shopping.
Organizations that support this bill may include rural county governments, local hunting and fishing clubs, farm and ranch associations, and community groups near wildlife areas that want cases heard close to home.
Vote No on this bill if you want to keep current filing options, allowing cases in more centralized or convenient courts for uniform outcomes and lower travel costs.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include statewide environmental and animal protection nonprofits, statewide industry associations, and legal advocacy groups that prefer centralized courts and consistent rulings.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want Washington to set firm deadlines, increase transparency and public input, and speed work toward a universal, more affordable health care system.
Organizations that support this bill may include patient advocacy groups, public health nonprofits, community health clinics, labor unions, equity-focused groups, and consumer organizations seeking universal coverage and lower costs.
Vote No on this bill if you want to slow or stop movement toward a single-payer or unified financing model, avoid new committees and potential taxes, and keep health care changes in the private market.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include private health insurers and their trade associations, business and taxpayer groups wary of new taxes, and free-market policy organizations concerned about expanded government control.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want Washington to end private Medicaid managed care, pay providers directly at Medicare rates, fund care coordination separately, create one inclusive statewide network, ban AI-generated denials, publish public data, and add local oversight to improve access and equity.
Organizations that support this bill may include community health centers, patient and disability advocates, tribal and rural health providers, behavioral health organizations, public health departments, and transparency and equity coalitions seeking lower administrative costs and faster access to care.
Vote No on this bill if you want to keep insurer-run managed care with capitated payments and private networks, avoid a large state administrative transition, preserve current prior authorization practices, and maintain the existing Medicaid contracting model.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include managed care organizations and health insurers, risk-bearing intermediaries and their vendors, and some hospital and consultant groups concerned about losing capitation, network control, and facing state-run administration.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want Washington to seek federal approval to expand Medicaid eligibility to 300% of the federal poverty level, reducing the uninsured rate and medical debt.
Organizations that support this bill may include patient advocacy groups, community health clinics, hospitals, unions, and anti-poverty and public health organizations that want broader Medicaid coverage up to 300% of the federal poverty level.
Vote No on this bill if you want to avoid expanding Medicaid eligibility and potential state costs, keeping current income limits and relying more on private insurance or existing programs.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include taxpayer associations, fiscally conservative groups, and some private insurers or employer groups concerned about higher state spending and shifting people from private plans to Medicaid.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want Washington to create a statewide health trust that covers all residents with comprehensive care, ends most premiums and copays, negotiates drug and provider prices, funds care through employer and worker contributions and higher capital gains taxes, and uses global budgets to control costs.
Organizations that support this bill may include labor unions, patient and disability advocates, community health clinics, and public health groups that favor universal, publicly financed health care.
Vote No on this bill if you want to keep the current mixed insurance system, avoid new payroll and self-employment contributions and capital gains tax increases, prevent a state-run single-payer financing model with global hospital budgets, and preserve employer-based coverage as it is.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include private health insurers, some hospital and provider associations, chambers of commerce and large employer groups, and anti-tax organizations concerned about new payroll and capital gains taxes.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want Washington to create a board to design and, with federal approval and funding, launch a universal health plan that covers all medically necessary care for all residents.
Organizations that support this bill may include patient and consumer health advocates, labor unions, community clinics and public health groups, and some provider associations seeking broader coverage and simpler payment.
Vote No on this bill if you want to avoid creating a new health board and moving toward a state-run universal plan, preferring to keep the current system and prevent potential new taxes or mandates.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include private health insurers, some business and employer groups worried about costs, anti-tax organizations, and free-market policy groups skeptical of a state-run plan.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want higher taxes on cigarettes, vapes, and tobacco to reduce use and to fund emergency heart and stroke care, stronger enforcement against illegal sales, cancer research, and core public health services.
Organizations that support this bill may include public health advocates, hospitals and emergency medical groups, cancer research foundations, and anti-tobacco and youth prevention coalitions.
Vote No on this bill if you want to avoid higher prices on cigarettes, vapes, and tobacco, keep bigger tax discounts for products marketed as lower risk and the current vape tax system, and stop new earmarks of tobacco revenue.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include tobacco and vaping manufacturers, convenience and smoke shop associations, cigar industry groups, and anti-tax or small business coalitions.