My opponent has been in office since 2012 and many of the bills she has supported have resulted in increases in crime and taxes and decreases in affordability, public school enrollment, test scores and insurance premiums.
Below is a summary of the bills Tana Senn has supported and summary of each bill's intent. If you would like to review the bills in detail they can be looked up using the link below. Please make sure to choose the correct year when looking up the bills.
GO TO: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/
Tana's Voting Record
Public Safety:
1. 2021 HB 1169, lighter sentences for crimes involving firearms
2. 2022 SB 5263, potential legal action against police for doing their jobs
3. 2021 SB 5164, removing robbery as a second-degree offense
4. 2020 HB 2231, jail jumping bill, reducing bail
5. 2019 SB 5488, removing sentencing for violent crimes
6. 2019 SB 5290, eliminating juvenile detention and promoting restorative justice
7. 2019 SB 5288, removing robbery as a qualification for persistent offenders
8. 2019 HB 1742, lower consequences for juveniles involved in depiction
9. 2021 HB 1054, established tactics and equipments used by police officers, including limitation on police pursuit.
10. 2024 HB 1324: ends the practice of automatically enhancing adult sentences based on juvenile offenses, and reduce racial disparities
11. 2019 HB 1646: allows youth to remain in juvenile rehabilitation facilities until age 25, rather than being transferred to adult prisons, for serious offenses
12. 2023 House Bill: retroactively eliminates the use of juvenile points in adult sentencing, and reduce racial disparities
Education:
1. 2021 SB 5044, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) bill:
2. 2021 SB 5229, DEI continuing education mandate for healthcare providers:
3. 2021 SB 5227, DEI mandate for higher education:
4. 2021 SB 6066, Ethnic and Global Citizenship education for grades K-6:
5. 2019 SB 5395, Sex Education and Social Emotional Learning (SEL):
6. SB5054 Reduce teacher instructional time up to four hours per week for unspecified training
7. 2024 SB 6264 Supporting the implementation of competency-based education. Sponsored by Wellman, failed
8. 2024 ESHB 2331, require public schools to teach state mandate CRT and DEI. Cut funding to those do not comply
9. 2024 House Bill 1368: mandates the transition to zero-emission school buses by 2027. The bill establishes a funding program to cover the cost difference between diesel and electric buses, as well as the necessary charging infrastructure. Grants will be prioritized for overburdened communities to ensure equitable access to cleaner transportation options. The funding is supported by the Climate Commitment Act, and the Department of Ecology will administer the grant program, focusing initially on communities most impacted by environmental disparities.
Affordability:
1. 2021 SB 5096, capital gains tax
2. 2021 SB 5126, Climate Commitment Act gas tax:
3. 2019 HB 1087, long-term healthcare:
4. 2024 Sponsored HB1670 to raise property tax up to 3%, failed, Tana Senn
5. 2024 SB 5770, increase cap property tax increases from 1% up to 3%, sponsored by Wellman.
6. Senate Bill 5335. This bill aims to increase the capital gains tax rate from 7% to 8.5% and reduce the threshold from $250,000 to $15,000.
Housing and Homelessness
1. 2022 SB 5566: Expands eligibility under the Independent Youth Housing Program to include formerly dependent youth up to age 25 and youth receiving extended foster care services, which includes rent, utilities, move-in cost, first and last month’s rent, and security deposit.
2. 2022 HB 1866: Providing permanent housing through Apple Health for chronic homeless individuals with low barrier entry. “Provide eligible persons with a permanent supportive housing benefit and a community support services benefit. Permanent supportive housing is low barrier, subsidized, leased housing with no limit on length of stay that provides voluntary support services and housing to people with complex and disabling behavioral health or physical health conditions who were experiencing homelessness or are at imminent risk of homelessness.”
3. 2022 HB 1738: The Housing Finance Commission's debt limit is increased from $8 billion to $14 billion. The Commission issues both tax-exempt and taxable bonds to provide below market-rate financing to nonprofit and for-profit housing developers who set aside a certain percentage of their units for low-income individuals and families. In addition, the Commission issues tax exempt bonds to provide below market-rate financing for sustainable energy projects, nonprofit facilities, and beginning farmers and ranchers.
4. 2021 SB 5160: Addressing landlord-tenant relations by providing certain tenant protections during the public health emergency, providing for legal representation in eviction cases, establishing an eviction resolution pilot program for nonpayment of rent cases, and authorizing landlord access to certain rental assistance programs.
5. 2021 E2SHB 1277: Providing for an additional revenue source for eviction prevention and housing stability services.
6. 2021 HB 1236: Protecting residential tenants from the beginning to end of their tenancies by penalizing the inclusion of unlawful lease provisions and limiting the reasons for eviction, refusal to continue, and termination.
7. Senate Bill 5232 aimed to prevent landlords from conducting criminal background checks on prospective tenants.
8. 2021 HB 1220: Supporting emergency shelters and housing through local planning and development regulations. Counties are required to designate urban grow areas to accommodate a planned 20-year population projection range. Green belts and open spaces are subject for permit urban density.
9. 2021 HB 5043: Providing housing to school district employees
Access Health Care
1. 2022 SB 5883: Permits an unaccompanied homeless minor to provide informed consent for non-emergency, outpatient, primary health care services. • Allows, but does not require, a health care provider to request documentation signed under penalty of perjury, that a patient is an unaccompanied homeless minor.
2. 2021 SB 5399: The Universal Health Care Commission (Commission) is established for the purpose of creating immediate and impactful changes in Washington's health care access and delivery system and to prepare the state for the creation of a health care system to provide coverage and access through a universal financing system, including a unified financing system, once federal authority has been acquired.
3. 2019 SB 5822: The Health Care Authority (HCA) must convene a work group on establishing a universal health care system in Washington.