Each legislative session, our elected officials read through and vote on thousands of bills in hopes that some will make it to the governor’s desk and be signed into law. For those of us advocating for bills that promote justice, equity, and care for our neighbors and creation, it can sometimes be difficult to understand the changes proposed by each bill.
Each Issue Fact Sheet will help you understand the basics and articulate the major points when asking your legislators to consider these bills.
See FAN’s Legislative Agenda for bills FAN is supporting this year, and check out our Learn the Basics page in our Advocacy Toolkit to learn more about how to read bills and how a bill becomes a law.
Advocating for a Biennial Budget that Reflects our Values as a State
- Closing the Tax Break on Capital Gains Info Sheet (Budget & Policy Center)
- Balance Our Tax Code 2021 Legislative Platform (Balance Our Tax Code)
- Working Families Tax Credit One Pager (Budget & Policy Center)
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) One Pager (Statewide Poverty Action Network)
- Community and Technical Colleges Funding One Pager (Communities For Our Colleges)
- Communities for Our Colleges Policy Platform (Communities For Our Colleges)
- Fruit and Vegetable Incentive Programs Info Sheet (Anti-Hunger Nutrition Coalition)
- Expanding Food and Cash Assistance One Pager (Anti-Hunger Nutrition Coalition)
Other coalitions involved in this work:
- Statewide Poverty Action Network
- Washington Anti-Poverty Advocates Group
Reforming our Policing & Criminal Justice Systems
- Washington Coalition for Police Accountability (WCPA) 2021 Legislative Agenda
- Police Officer Accountability Info Sheet (Washington Coalition for Police Accountability)
- Use of Force Info Sheet (Washington Coalition for Police Accountability)
- Independent Investigations Info Sheet (Washington Coalition for Police Accountability)
- Prohibiting Unnecessary Police Tactics Info Sheet (Washington Coalition for Police Accountability)
- Driving While License Suspended 3 (DWLS3) Info Sheet (American Civil Liberties Union)
- Increased Earned Time One Pager (Advocates for Racial Justice in Sentencing)
Creating Housing Opportunities and Preventing Homelessness
Other coalitions involved in this work:
Other coalitions involved in this work:
Protecting Immigrants, Civil and Human Rights for All
- Ranked Choice Voting Information Page (Fix Democracy First)
- Voting Rights Restoration ACLU One Pager, WA State Voting Rights Restoration One Pager
- Alliance for Gun Responsibility 2021 Policy Agenda
- Insurance Credit Score Prohibition One Pager (Office of the Insurance Commissioner)
- Private Prisons Prohibition Fact Sheet (English & Spanish) (Columbia Legal Services)
Other coalitions involved in this work:
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