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Legislative Action
2018 Legislative
Outcomes
These charts demonstrate the success of the WEA
lobby team in the 2018 legislative session. As you
can see, 25 of the 70 bills we directly followed went
the way we hoped! And while it may look as though
we weren't as successful with the bills we supported
that ultimately failed, it is important to point out that
the majority of those were bills to try to find long-term
funding streams for education, but the Senate as a
whole was just dead set against any of those—they
were more interested in mandating additional cuts, not
new revenue streams. Considering this mindset, WEA
had great success in minimizing the intended cuts.
Please remember, too, that this was a budget session,
the so-called "short session," where it takes a 2/3s
majority vote to bring non-budget bills to the floor for
consideration; many bills died because they were not
budget-related and did not receive the requisite vote
for consideration.
