In Olympia we work with state legislative champions to pass policies and protect and grow investments for transit, walking and biking across the state. We bring together environmental, social justice and health partners to ensure policies are holistic and equitable. Major priorities include growing the multimodal account, supporting transit agencies and ensuring an equity lens is used for transportation policy development.
Yesterday, the TCC team testified in Senate Transportation Committee hearings for SB 5955, SB 6601 and SB 6303. Below is our testimony on each bill. SB 5955: Concerning the collection of a motor vehicle excise tax approved by voters of a regional transit authority in...
Posted by Carla Chavez at Jan 12, 2018 06:13 PM | Permalink The 2018 Legislative Session started on Monday – and a 60-day session thus begins. With one party controlling both the House and Senate, a few items on the Democratic wish list are gathering momentum. For...
Next Monday, January 8th, marks the beginning of the 2018 Washington State legislative session. As an even year, this legislative session will be a shorter 60-day session, which will end on March 9th. In recent years, shorter sessions were frequently followed by...
We expect the House of Representatives to pass House Bill 2201 tomorrow morning. This bill, which was introduced in 2017, would require Sound Transit to reimburse taxpayers for a portion of the Motor Vehicle Excise Tax (MVET) that voters approved in 2016 when they...
Posted by Carla Chavez at Jul 26, 2017 07:29 PM | Permalink The third and final 30-day special session concluded last Thursday, July 20th. The only outstanding item the legislature was expected to take up during this special session was passing a capital budget, which...
Last year, Transportation Choices Coalition led the winning Sound Transit 3 campaign to expand the Sound Transit light rail, commuter rail, and regional express system. This measure was strongly approved by 54% of the region after several years of extensive public...
Posted by Carla Chavez at Jul 03, 2017 07:31 PM | Permalink Late Friday evening the legislature passed a $43.7 billion operating budget for 2017-2019, barely meeting the constitutional June 30 deadline and narrowly avoiding a government shutdown. The biggest sticking...
Last Tuesday, the Washington State Legislature began its second 30-day special session. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, the first 30-day special session concluded without addressing two outstanding legislative items: agreeing to capital and operating budgets. The...
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