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Believe it or not, this short 60-day session is scheduled to adjourn a week from tomorrow. We've now passed some additional policy cutoff deadlines, hundreds of bills have passed back and...

March 4, 2020

Rep. Chris Gildon, R-Puyallup, 25th District shares some of the positive road construction efforts going on in the Puyallup area to help ease traffic congestion and encourage economic development.

Feb. 25, 2020

We're now four weeks into the 2020 legislative session. Friday will be policy cut-off, which means lawmakers have been busy introducing, hearing, and passing legislation. To date, we've seen nearly 1,400...

Feb. 6, 2020

The 2020 legislative session is barely two weeks old, and Olympia is already in full swing with over 1,000 new bills being introduced. I've personally filed a number of bills that...

Jan. 24, 2020

The 2020 legislative session is underway and there's a lot to talk about. Rep. Chris Gildon, R-Puyallup, discusses the new Speaker of the House, his higher education bills, $30 car-tabs, title-only...

Jan. 17, 2020

As the leaves fall and winter approaches, it's time to look ahead to the 2020 legislative session. My fellow state lawmakers and I will be discussing several key issues that are...

Nov. 21, 2019

The 2019 legislative session adjourned at midnight on Sunday, April 28. I've provided some highlights of the session below but before that, I want to thank everyone who took time out...

May 3, 2019

The Washington State House of Representatives unanimously approved Rep. Chris Gildon's House Bill 1707 today, which would make license plates affordable to more veterans. Under current law, veterans with a 100...

March 13, 2019

Rep. Chris Gildon, R-Puyallup, co-sponsored three bills during the 2019 legislative session related to Sound Transit and the $54 billion ST3 package. House Bill 1868 (prime-sponsored by Rep. Jesse Young): would...

March 13, 2019

First, I want to thank everyone who attended the Coffee and Conversation events on Saturday, Feb. 16. At both venues, we were at or near max capacity, and we all engaged...

Feb. 25, 2019