Newsriver Home :: Track Bills
Welcome to Olympia Newsriver, a Northwest Progressive Institute project that makes tracking priority legislation simple and easy.
The Newsriver aggregates feeds for key bills supported and opposed by Washington’s progressive movement, providing an up-to-date view of what’s moving in the statehouse at any given time during session.
Bill actions are sorted by topic and presented in reverse chronological order, so new bill actions appear at the top of the topical newsriver and “flow” downwards as they are displaced. An “action” is simply something that happens to a bill at some point during its life in the legislative process. (See this diagram for a visual explanation of how a bill becomes a law.)
To see a description for any bill in the newsriver, simply place the cursor over an action item for that bill. The official summary will be instantly displayed. This handy feature obviates the need to memorize what bill numbers stand for.