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Services

Every part of a government affairs program, in one firm: the bill, the sponsor, the votes, the hearing, the agency, and the members who decide it.

At a glance

Nine things we do for clients. Pick the one you came for.

Bill Tracking & Reporting

A weekly written report on your bills, built to be handed to members.

Strategy & Bill Drafting

We draft the measure, pick the sponsor, and carry it through every stage.

Vote Count & Member Education

A maintained count of where every member stands, and what it would take.

Direct Lobbying & Testimony

Your case made in the rooms where it is decided, by us or by you, prepared.

Candidate Events

45+ small lunches with legislative candidates in the 2026 cycle. Nobody else runs this.

Coalitions

One consistent case from allies, agencies, and industry, instead of six.

Agency & Rulemaking

The agency at the table before the bill, and in the rulemaking after it.

Defensive Advocacy

Bills stopped, or made smaller, before they reach your members.

PDC Compliance

Registration and monthly reporting handled; the annual L3 prepared for you.

Before session

The outcome is mostly decided before January.

An engagement that starts in the interim arrives at opening day with a sponsor, agreed language, a vote count, and an agency already consulted.

Candidate Engagement & Legislative Events

A candidate event program no other firm in Olympia runs in this form: more than 45 fundraising lunches for legislative candidates in both caucuses during the 2026 cycle, continuing through the interim with the members who won.

  • Small and substantive, built around our clients rather than around us.
  • Members leave educated by the people the policy affects, before positions harden.
  • Also: candidate interviews, bipartisan PAC strategy, Legislative Days, receptions, and advocacy training for your members.
Legislators and clients gathered at a Lobby Washington candidate lunch in 2024
A candidate lunch, spring 2024
A legislative candidate with a Lobby Washington client at a 2025 event
Candidate event, summer 2025

Legislative Strategy & Bill Drafting

We set the priorities with you, draft the measure, and carry it through every stage.

  • Bill language worked through Code Reviser drafting, not handed to a sponsor as a concept.
  • Sponsors recruited in both chambers and educated before their names go on the bill. The right sponsor sits on the committee of jurisdiction and is trusted by the chair; some years that is a Republican, some years a Democrat.
  • Introduction, hearings, and floor action managed office by office. Significant policy routinely takes more than one session; our relationships shorten that, the work does not change.

Coalition & Stakeholder Engagement

On most bills the fastest route to a result is a broader table. We build it and hold it.

  • Supportive legislators, agency staff, and industry groups identified and recruited.
  • Their testimony and written comment coordinated so the committee hears one case, not six.
  • Opposition mapped early, so surprises happen to the other side.

During session

Session moves every week. So does your report.

Real-Time Bill Tracking & Legislative Reporting

Every week of session you get a written report on your bills. Not a database export: a document written to be forwarded to your members.

  • Titles that say what the bill does. “Regulating gas companies” becomes “Banning natural gas.”
  • A segment code on every bill: commercial, residential, manufactured housing, or all of it, so members read what applies to them.
  • Introduced text beside current text, so you see exactly what the advocacy bought.
  • Status by chamber, including where a bill died. Killed on the floor and killed in committee are different futures.

The report re-baselines at every cutoff and ends the session as a scoreboard. Behind it: continuous monitoring of introductions, hearings, and floor action, regular update calls, and direct access to the lobbyists on your file.

Vote Count & Member Education

You always know where you stand, who is realistically gettable, and what it would take.

  • Individual meetings with committee members, leadership, and caucus staff in both chambers.
  • Briefing materials tailored to each member.
  • A written vote count maintained through the interim and the session.

Direct Lobbying & Testimony

Your objectives carried directly to lawmakers, chairs, and caucus staff.

  • Testimony, talking points, fact sheets, bill analyses, and hearing materials, written and delivered.
  • Any representative of yours who appears before a committee is prepared and staffed by us.

Defensive Advocacy

Not every session is about passing something. A bill stopped is worth as much as a bill passed.

  • Legislation and rulemaking that would restrict your industry, expand private rights of action, or raise your exposure, monitored and answered.
  • When a bill cannot be stopped, it is made smaller, and we write down what moved.

Year-round

Agencies write the rules. We stay for that part.

Agency & Regulatory Coordination

A bill should arrive with agency input rather than agency objection.

  • Licensing structure, examination authority, disclosure standards, and enforcement negotiated with the agency before the hearing, not imposed by amendment.
  • Rulemaking and implementation followed after passage so the law works in practice.

PDC Registration & Compliance

Registered with the Public Disclosure Commission as your lobbyist, with the paperwork handled.

  • Lobbyist registration and monthly reporting filed by us.
  • The lobbyist employer’s annual report under chapter 42.17A RCW remains yours to sign; we prepare it for filing.

Let's talk about your legislative priorities.

Whether you are heading into session with a bill to pass, a rule to change, or a threat to head off, we will tell you plainly what is achievable and what it will take.

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