Issue Fact Sheets

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 One Pager (Budget & Policy Center)
  • Capital Gains Tax Backgrounder (Budget & Policy Center)
  • Progressive Revenue Options Overview (Economic Opportunity Institute)
• Balance Our Tax Code 2021 Legislative Platform (Balance Our Tax Code)
• Working Families Tax Credit One Pager (Budget & Policy Center)
  • WFTC Coalition One Pager
• 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 Talking Points (Communities For Our Colleges)
  • Communities for Our Colleges Policy Platform (Communities For Our Colleges)
  • Community and Technical Colleges Student Stories and Policy Recommendations (Communities For Our Colleges)
• Fruit and Vegetable Incentive Programs Info Sheet (Anti-Hunger Nutrition Coalition)
  • Northwest Harvest 2021 Food and Nutrition Priorities (Northwest Harvest)
• Expanding Food and Cash Assistance One Pager (Anti-Hunger Nutrition Coalition)

Creating Housing Opportunities and Preventing Homelessness

• Fair Chance Housing Toolkit (National Housing Law Project

Addressing Climate Change

• Clean Fuels Fact Sheet (Environmental Priorities Coalition)
• Healthy Environment for all (HEAL) Act Fact Sheet (Earth Ministry)
• Clean Cars 2030 Backgrounder (Coltura)
  • Clean Cars 2030 Letter of Support
• WA Strong Information Page (Carbon WA)
  • WA Strong Fact Sheet
  • WA Strong One-Pager
  • WA Strong FAQs (Carbon WA)

 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)

Ensuring Health Care and Mental Health Access

• Dental Therapy One Pager (Washington Dental Access Campaign)