Sign on now! 2024 Washington State Legislative Agenda

Sign on now!: 2024 Washington Legislative Agenda

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The 2024 Washington State legislative session begins in January and lawmakers will be making tough choices. Now is the time to remind our lawmakers that the one-of-a-kind care infrastructure that we have in Washington State needs to be accessible by as many people as it can for many years to come. We also need to make sure we don’t allow book bans in our communities and schools. Our families deserve a strong publicly-funded care infrastructure, and children deserve access to literature that will expand their minds.

Let’s rally to show that we want our lawmakers to strengthen Washington State’s care infrastructure and that we don’t want book bans in our state. We have several weeks before the legislative session begins. Our lawmakers need to be reminded that we want them to continue to focus on investing in early learning and child care, stopping book bans by extremists, removing age restrictions on the Working Families Tax Credit, and making paid leave more accessible to families.

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Dear Washington Lawmakers,

Thank you for representing our diverse communities. As you plan for the 2024 legislative session, families are writing to urge you to champion policies that help our families thrive, including:

Continue investing in Early Learning and Child Care: Expand infant and early childhood mental health consultation slots, increase the non-traditional hours bonus, expand WCCC eligibility for newly adopted or guardianship families, and increase the reimbursement rate for infant care.

Ban Book Bans: Stop book bans by extremists. We are outraged and horrified by the work of extremists to ban books that center: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, and the continuously expanding and new understanding of gender and sexual identities; and stories from People of the Global Majority¹ in our local schools and public libraries.

Remove age restrictions in the Working Families Tax Credit (HB 1075/SB 5249): Remove age restrictions on the WFTC and allow anyone over the age of 18 who earns less than $22,000 a year to receive the tax credit.
Make paid leave more accessible to families: Expand the family member definition in paid sick leave to match that in paid family and medical leave and include chosen family. Further, paid sick days need to be expanded to cover extreme weather events — like snow storms or extreme heat - when schools close and workers cannot leave their children home alone. We can also improve families’ experience with the state’s paid family and medical leave system by improving the medical certification process for patients by requiring a timely turnaround process from health care institutions.

Our state has made great progress in creating a one-of-a-kind care infrastructure. Let's continue to hold each other accountable so that this infrastructure can be accessed by as many people as it can for many years to come. Thank you again for your leadership and for all that you do.

Sincerely,

¹People of the Global Majority

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