Legislative Advocacy 2025

This year's Legislative Session begins January 13, 2025. To keep up to date on the the bills and hearings, check out the following sites, know who your legislators are https://leg.wa.gov/legislators/, and sign up for the Action Alerts with the Arc of WA at https://arcwa.org/advocacy/

Advocacy Days, part of The Arc’s Advocacy Partnership Project, are held during each legislative session to involve individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD), their families and their service providers in the legislative process, giving them opportunities to make their voices heard by their legislators and to have an impact on policy and budget legislation that affects the services and supports available to them.

For the schedule and to register, go to https://arcwa.org/advocacy/advocacy-days/

The Bill Tracker lists all the current bills effecting people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) and where they are in the legislative process.

https://arcwa.org/advocacy/bill-tracker/

The Legislative Notebook is your resource for advocacy. It includes public policy ideas that community members are working on and information to help you understand how health, education and social services affect people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) https://arcwa.org/advocacy/2025-legislative-notebook/

Kittitas County Parent Coalition http://kc-parentcoalition.blogspot.com/