HomeMy WebLinkAboutReg 2025-07-21 Item 4A - Presentation - 2025 WA State LEgislative Post Session UpdateCity of Tukwila
2025 Post Session Update
Monday, July 21, 2025
Brandon Miles & David Foster
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City of Tukwila - 2025 Post Session Update
Governor Bob Ferguson (D)
Newly elected in 2024
House of Representatives (98 total members)
59 Democrats (+l from 2024)
39 Republicans (-1 from 2024)
Senate (49 total members)
30 Democrats (+l from 2024)
19 Republicans (-1 from 2024)
City of Tukwila - 2025 Post Session Update
City of Tukwila Representation:
11 th Legislative District
• Representative Steve Bergquist
• Representative David Hackney
•Senator Bob Hasegawa
City of Tukwila - 2025 Post Session Update
105-day session
• Began Monday, January 13
• Ended Sunday, April 27
Three biennial budgets
• Operating
• Capital
• Transportation
2,387 bills filed M 431 bills passed
City of Tukwila - 2025 Post Session Update
2025-2027 Biennial Budgets Overview
Three biennial budgets:
• Operating - $16 billion/4-year shortfall (SB 5167)
• Capital (SB 5195)
• Transportation - $8 billion/6-year shortfall (SB 5161)
Economic Environment: Budget shortfalls, negative revenue
forecasts, high interest rates, inflationary pressure, and federal
funding uncertainty.
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City of Tukwila - 2025 Post Session Update
Tukwila Priorities:
• Tukwila Community Center - $773,000 in capital budget
• 42nd Ave Bridge Funding Shift - Funding mistakenly pushed
beyond 2031
• Immigration support - $25 million (Office of Refugee &
Immigrant Assistance)
• Local Funding Options
➢HB 2015 -Public Safety Sales Tax and Grant Program
➢No change to the 1 %property tax cap
City of Tukwila - 2025 Post Session Update
HB 2015 - Public Safety Sales Tax and Grant Program
Public Safety Sales Tax
• 1 % Councilmanic Sales Tax (optional)
• Broad usages: Officers, public defenders, DV programs,
behavioral health, alternative responses, etc.
Grant Program - $100 million
• Criminal Justice Training Commission administered
• New officer recruitment, hiring, and retention
• 75% of salary for up to three years (max $125,000/position)
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City of Tukwila - 2025 Post Session Update
Housing and Land Use
• H B 1491 -Transit Oriented Development (TOD)
zoning
• SB 5184 - Parking requirements
• HB 1757 - Building conversions
• SB 5509 - Childcare centers zoning
• HB 1217 - Residential Rent Caps
City of Tukwila - 2025 Post Session Update
Environmental SustainabilityM
• SB 5284 -WRAP Act (Producer Responsibility)
Labor Relations
• HB
1213
-Paid Family &Medical
Leave (PFMLA)
• SB
5041 -
UI benefits for
striking workers
General Government
• HB 1201 - Planning for pet sheltering during an emergency
• HB 1515 - Libation Zones
Homelessness
• No state preemptions to local ordinances
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City of Tukwila - 2025 Post Session Update
What's Next?
Due to the high number of appointments to the legislature after the
2024electionsthere are nine special elections.
• Senate races in the 5th126th, 33rd, 34th and 48th
• House races in the 33rd, 34th, 41 St and 48th
• Does not include the recent House appointment in the 5th LD
The 2026 session runs January 12 - March 2026