<div dir="ltr">Sophia, thank you for sharing these bills and their current status.   Yvonne</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 10:20 AM Sophia Agtarap via DEOC <<a href="mailto:deoc@lists.ctc.edu" target="_blank">deoc@lists.ctc.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>




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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Sharing some bills that came on our radar this week: </span><a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5616&Chamber=Senate&Year=2023" title="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5616&Chamber=Senate&Year=2023" id="m_-5564320868742358574m_8913598718365462414LPlnk820062" style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">SB
 5616</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> and companion </span><a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1541&Year=2023&Initiative=false" title="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1541&Year=2023&Initiative=false" id="m_-5564320868742358574m_8913598718365462414LPlnk640966" style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">HB
 1541</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">also called, "Establishing the nothing
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">HB 1541 was r</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">ead for the first time 01/24/23 and referred
 to the Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">It
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">is scheduled for public hearing on February 3 and you can submit comments to either bill from the links.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The bills call for the legislature to include persons with lived experience</span><span style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> in
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 from people with direct lived experience on each statutorily created or statutorily mandated multimember task force, work group, advisory committee, board, commission, council, or other similar entity tasked with examining policies or issues that directly
 and tangibly affect historically underrepresented communities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">Peace,</span></div>
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