Paul Harris

Several proposals introduced this year by 17th District Sen. Paul Harris, R-Vancouver, are still alive this session after being approved by the Senate ahead of today’s “floor cutoff” deadline for the Senate to pass its own bills. “I’m very encouraged to see these bills receive approval by my Senate colleagues,”...

March 4, 2025 Dear Friends and Neighbors, Greetings from Olympia! The 2025 legislative session recently reached another key deadline. Last Friday was the deadline for the Senate’s two budget committees – Ways and Means, and Transportation – to pass Senate bills sent to them. With that “cutoff” for voting behind...

The state Senate has unanimously approved two bills introduced this year by 17th District Sen. Paul Harris, R-Vancouver. The Senate today passed Substitute Senate Bill 5370, which would give voters in seven Washington port districts the option of extending the terms of their port commissioners to six years, rather than...

State Sen. Paul Harris, R-Vancouver, today joined his Republican colleagues in voting against a Senate proposal that would undermine the parental-rights law approved by the Legislature last year. Senate Bill 5181 was passed along party lines, 30-19, after a floor debate during which Harris and other Republicans argued against its...

January 22, 2025 Dear Friends and Neighbors, I hope all of you are doing well. I’m reporting to you from Olympia, where the Legislature is in its second week of the 2025 session, which is scheduled to last 105 days and end April 27. The first week was busy for...

I hope this letter finds you well. As we head toward summer and much of what happened during the 2024 legislative session becomes history, I wanted to reach out and remind you that I’m still hard at work representing the people of the 17th District.  The 2024 legislative session ended...

Rep. Paul Harris recaps the 2024 legislative session together with Rep. Kevin Waters and Sen. Lynda Wilson, including public safety, the state budgets, and the six public initiatives introduced to the Legislature earlier this year.

On Tuesday, the governor signed into law a bipartisan bill from Rep. Paul Harris that will provide a much-needed boost to the semiconductor industry in Washington. House Bill 2482 will extend two tax preferences for semiconductor manufacturing until Jan. 1, 2034. The legislation also reinstates six tax preferences that expired...

The 2024 legislative session ended as scheduled, on Thursday, March 7. This 60-day session was packed full of state business covering numerous issues. As with any session, we had some wins and losses, but overall House Republicans made a real difference for Washingtonians, despite being in the minority. As your...