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King County reviews 2025 Washington legislative session: housing, transportation and behavioral-health wins and gaps
Summary
Mac Nicholson, director of government relations, gave the Committee of the Whole an overview of the 105‑day 2025 session, noting budget shortfalls, a package of new state revenues, transportation funding changes, partial behavioral‑health investments and mixed results on King County legislative priorities.
Mac Nicholson, King County’s director of government relations, briefed the Metropolitan King County Council Committee of the Whole on the 2025 Washington legislative session during the May 27 meeting, summarizing enacted budgets, major bills and how the session affected King County priorities.
Nicholson said the session ran 105 days, produced roughly 1,900 introduced bills with 423 enacted, and that the state adopted operating, transportation and capital budgets after an initial revenue shortfall estimate grew from roughly $10–12 billion to $15–16 billion in the forecast. He highlighted a state revenue package that raises approximately $4 billion in the next biennium through measures including changes to business-and-occupation taxes and expansion of the sales-tax base…
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