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Governor signs package of bills on housing, health care, tribal revenue sharing and more
Summary
At a bill-signing ceremony, the governor signed a multi-bill package into law that includes measures on tribal revenue sharing, medical-debt reporting, birth-control supply coverage, affordable housing code changes, and local flexibility for mental-health funds.
At a public bill-signing event, the governor signed a package of measures into law covering tribal revenue sharing, parking rules, farming tax treatment, housing, juvenile diversion, health-care data sharing, medical-debt reporting and other matters.
The ceremony brought together legislative sponsors, stakeholders and community representatives for brief remarks and photos. The bills the governor signed ranged from technical changes to state programs to new consumer-protection requirements intended to increase access and reduce burden for Washington residents.
Among the measures the governor described as particularly important were a law to increase revenue-sharing for certain federally recognized tribes that completed qualified capital investments, and a provision that prohibits reporting medical debt…
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