A more diverse Legislature
But the changing makeup of the Legislature may have also played a role in the advancement of some proposals this year.
The 2021 session ushered in the largest number of Black lawmakers in Washington history. Six Black women and three Black men now serve in the Legislature, nearly double the number that served the year before. Overall, people of color now make up nearly 20% of the Legislature and about a third of the Democratic caucuses, which control both legislative chambers.
“You can’t bring people who have this life experience, who actually experience all the things that we work on, and expect that we are not going to do
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