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Governor Ferguson signs more than 50 bills on veterans, housing, ferries and public safety
Summary
Governor Ferguson held a bill‑signing event to enact roughly 51 bills covering veterans outreach and parking for veterans with service animals, ferry-worker pay comparisons, driver education expansion, WSDOT leasing flexibility for community uses, civil asset forfeiture reform and other measures. Legislators and community members joined for photos as the bills were signed into law.
Governor Ferguson signed more than 50 bills during a ceremonial event in Olympia, saying the measures will expand services for veterans, improve transportation and advance public‑safety and housing goals.
"Reaching out proactively to ensure that all veterans receive the benefits they're entitled to is an important way to ensure we're centering the people in state government, especially our veterans," Governor Ferguson said as he opened the series of signings.
The bills touched a range of state functions. Among them: a law requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs to contact veterans after discharge and expanding eligibility for counties to apply for veteran service officers; a measure to allow special parking privileges for disabled veterans who use service animals; legislation directing the Office of Financial Management to compare ferry‑worker wages with similar positions during bargaining; and a change giving the Washington State Department of Transportation more flexibility to lease unused property for local community uses such as affordable housing and parks.
Several bills address safety and worker protections.…
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