Washington voters want their lawmakers working all year long, poll finds

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Most Washington voters want their lawmakers to be at the Legislature in session during the entire year, according to a new poll from the Northwest Progressive Institute, a non-profit based in Redmond.

Of the 615 voters polled, 59% said they would support changing the Washington Constitution to allow the state House and state Senate to be in regular session year-round. The Constitution currently limits odd-year sessions to 105 days and even-year sessions to 60 days. The Legislature or the governor can call a special session, but those can’t last longer than 30 days.

These session limits might have worked back when they were first put in place, said Andrew Villeneuve, executive director of Northwest Progressive Institute, but now Washington has a much larger population, with much more complex needs.

“We’re now a state of over seven million people,” Villenueve said. “We’re a bustling state. We have a lot of challenges because of our growth and growing pains. So we should have a Legislature that’s meeting year-round to address all those issues, instead of trying to cram all the work into 60-, 105-day sessions.”

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/washington-voters-want-their-lawmakers-working-all-year-long-poll-finds/

I imagine they'd want to be paid more to work full time.

[jimfields33]

1. They better get paid more.

Some probably have jobs that they will have to leave if they change the rules. They must be compensated.

They currently make 57,000 a year. Per diem if they travel to other places. Definitely it needs to go up by each day they are in session under the new rules. It won’t be cheap but this is what the citizens request.