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Governor signs package of bills on elections security, juvenile debt, housing and more
Summary
At a bill-signing event in Olympia, the governor signed a bundle of bills including measures on election security intrusion detection, juvenile-fine cancellation, expanded legal counsel for children in dependency cases, urban-growth land swaps to aid housing, and updates to workplace and public-safety laws.
The governor signed a broad package of bills at a public signing in Olympia that included measures on election security, juvenile debt relief, housing planning, and public-safety funding.
The most high-profile among the bills, Senate Bill 5843, requires counties to use intrusion detection systems to monitor voting-system networks and authorizes the secretary of state to certify results if a county refuses to certify an election without cause. The governor framed the measure as a response to “persistent disinformation” campaigns and cited recent FBI and CISA warnings about threats to government infrastructure. No county-level votes or objections were recorded in the signing event transcript.
Other bills the governor signed…
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