Paul Harris

Residents of the 17th Legislative District will have an opportunity to learn more about the 2018 legislative session by meeting with their legislators at a town hall meeting Saturday, March 24. The meeting, open to the public, will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Dengerink Administrative...

Rep. Paul Harris, R-Vancouver, discusses his legislation that would prohibit the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and vapor products to individuals under the age of 21. Harris says the bill would provide long-term savings for the state.

The 2018 legislative session is off to a good start. Less than two weeks into the session an agreement was reached on the Hirst decision, leading to the passage of the capital budget. Hirst solution After extensive negotiations over many months, and with the leadership of the House Republican Caucus, a...

Residents of the 17th Legislative District will have a chance to learn more about the upcoming 2018 legislative session in Olympia and talk with their legislators by attending a district town hall meeting on Saturday, Dec. 9. The meeting, open to the public, will be held from 11 a.m. to...

The 2018 legislative session is just around the corner. Sen. Lynda Wilson, Rep. Vicki Kraft and I will be holding a town hall meeting on Dec. 9. The meeting will be held from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Firstenburg Community Center, 700 NE 136th Ave. in Vancouver. We will...

After many months of negotiations the Legislature was able to reach an agreement and pass an operating budget, Senate Bill 5883, on June 30 and avoid a government shutdown. Of the two-year, $43.7 billion spending plan, 53 percent of that will go toward education. For the first time since the early 1980s...

Rep. Paul Harris, R-Vancouver, has received the Washington Business Alliance 2017 Career and Technical Education (CTE) Legislator of the Year Award for his leadership on behalf of CTE students statewide. Harris who co-chairs the Joint Select Committee on Article IX Litigation, also known as the McCleary committee, was recognized for his work on...

Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the Washington state House of Representatives are once again calling for immediate approval of HB 1046, which would delink high-stakes standardized tests as a requirement for students to earn a diploma. Nearly 16,000 current high school seniors have not passed the English Language Arts (ELA), math,...

We are down to the last month of the legislative session. We have passed a number of cutoff dates, including the house-of-origin cutoff date. Getting past this deadline is helpful in telling us which bills are likely dead and which bills may be deemed necessary to implement the budget or (NTIB). You...