Jessica Hauffe
Director of Government Affairs
Advocacy toolkit
Get involved and make your voice heard! There are many ways that you can take action and advocate for the issues that are important to you. Please see below for actions you can take.
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Table of contents
- Sign the petition to save public health in Seattle/King County
- Join WSNA's PAC
- Legislator voting records
- How WSNA develops the legislative agenda
- Look up bill information on the legislature’s website
- Find your legislative district
- Register to vote or update registration
- Introduction to Legislative Advocacy
Public health is a foundation of thriving communities. Yet, much of King County’s public health system now risks being shuttered away permanently. Sign the petition urging King County to retain public health services that support nearly 80,000 vulnerable clients a year.
Join the WSNA Political Action Committee (WSNA-PAC) and help invest in growing the voice of nurses in Olympia. WSNA-PAC is focused on supporting people running for state legislative office who support nurses and to help support nurses who want to run for legislative office themselves.
WSNA's legislator voting records are developed based on the priority bills we supported during a given year's Washington state legislative session. Not all WSNA priority bills are always voted on in both chambers, which is why the list of bills tracked on the report may differ from Senate to House. As the voting records indicate, most nursing issues have bipartisan support in Olympia.
To see how legislators voted on other labor priorities during the 2023 session, check out the Washington State Labor Council’s voting record (PDF).
Not every idea is created equal. There are several questions that the Legislative & Health Policy Council must consider before deciding to adopt an idea as a legislative priority for an upcoming session. Read more...
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