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2026 Legislative Session Short Recap:   The 60-day legislative session opened at a rapid pace, with nearly 600 bills prefiled before convening and hundreds more introduced in the first week…

Over the course of four days last fall, community leaders from across eastern Washington came together for the re:power Spokane Summit to build connections and skills to advance community power…

March 6 Legislative Update   We’ve entered the final week of the short session, and legislators and advocates are working nonstop ahead of the March 12 deadline. Monday’s bill cutoff eliminated…

CALL TO ACTION: The Land Bank Bill Needs Your Support   HB 1974, the Land Bank Bill, needs your support! Please let the Senate know our community supports this important…

February 20 Legislative Update   This week marked a major milestone: the House of Origin cutoff, meaning bills had to pass their original chamber to stay alive, with limited exceptions…

CALL TO ACTION: Surveillance Safeguards   Things are heating up in Olympia! We will be sending out more frequent calls to action during the next couple weeks.   Please fill…

February 13 Legislative Update   We’re now halfway through the session!   Over the next few weeks we’ll see which bills advance to Governor Ferguson and where the budget ultimately…

February 6 Legislative Update! As we wrap up week four of the legislative session — and pass our first cutoff — we wanted to share a concise update on fast-moving…

Advocates line the steps of the Capitol for Housing and Homelessness Advocacy Day on January 26.       Hello Waters Meet Action Fund Partners! It’s been great to connect…

Hello Waters Meet Action Fund Partners! We’re in the first week of the short session and things are moving fast and furiously. A few issues are rising to the top…

Introduction: This is our first Legislative Brief for the 2026 Session. In these briefs — which will be briefer in the future — we update community partners on legislation impacting…

In 2023, Waters Meet Action Fund supported the Justice Not Jails campaign to defeat Measure 1 — a Spokane County proposal that promoted incarceration as a community safety priority. EHCAF backed a multi-racial coalition of stakeholders, many with lived experience with the criminal justice system, in this effort. The campaign was a resounding success and the ballot measure failed by a nearly 2 to 1 margin.