Services

Every week of session you get a written report on your bills. Not a database export, but a document written to be handed to your members. Four things in it that a raw bill list cannot give you:

• Titles that say what the bill actually does. Official titles are drafted to be neutral. Ours are drafted to be understood: “Regulating gas companies” becomes “Banning natural gas.” If a title in our report surprises you, that is the point of it.
• A segment code on every bill, so a member can see at a glance which part of their business it touches: commercial, residential, manufactured housing, or all of it. Members read the lines that apply to them and skip the rest.
• What the bill said when it was introduced, and what it says now. Where the language moved, we show both versions, so you can see exactly what the advocacy bought.
• Status by chamber, including where a bill died. A bill killed on the floor comes back stronger than one that never left committee. That difference decides how you plan for next session, so we report it rather than marking both “dead.”

The report re-baselines at every cutoff: policy, fiscal, floor, then again in the opposite chamber, so it reads as current rather than repetitive. Bills necessary to implement the budget stay flagged as live until sine die, because they are. At the end of session it becomes a scoreboard: what passed, what died, and where that leaves you.

Behind the report, continuous platform monitoring of introductions, hearings, and floor action so nothing is missed, regular update calls, and direct access to the lobbyists working your file. Between sessions, agency rulemaking and political developments.

We evaluate and establish your legislative priorities, strategy, and political strengths, then execute. We draft the measure and work the language through bill drafting, identify and recruit sponsors in both chambers, educate each of them before they put their names on it, secure introduction and committee hearings, and advance the bill through every stage.

Choosing the sponsor is a tactical decision, not a political one. The right member is the one who sits on the committee of jurisdiction, is trusted by the chair, and has the standing to hold the bill together on the floor, and in any given year that member may be a Republican or a Democrat. Our bills have been prime-sponsored by both, and several have passed without a no vote in either chamber.

Most bills do not pass in their first year, and significant policy change routinely takes several sessions. That is the normal path, not a warning sign. Our relationships compress that timeline, but the work itself does not change: we take our clients into every office, meeting by meeting, through the committee of jurisdiction and then leadership.

We arrange and lead individual meetings with committee members, leadership, and caucus staff in both chambers, prepare briefing materials tailored to each member, and maintain a written vote count delivered to you through the interim and the session.

You always know where you stand, which members are realistically gettable, and what it would take to get them.

We meet with key lawmakers, committee chairs, and caucus staff to carry your objectives directly. We write and deliver testimony, talking points, fact sheets, bill analyses, and hearing materials, and we prepare and staff any representative of yours who appears before a committee.

Lobby Washington hosts a candidate event program that no other firm in Olympia runs in this form. In the 2026 election cycle we put on more than 45 fundraising lunches for legislative candidates in both caucuses, and the program continues through the interim with the members who won.

Each lunch is small and substantive, and it is built around our clients rather than around us. Lawmakers tell us these are among the most useful events they attend, because they leave having been educated directly by the people the policy affects. It is the fastest route to member education, and it puts you in front of incoming committee members before positions harden.

We also organize candidate interviews for statewide offices and legislative seats, PAC contribution strategy on a bipartisan basis, Legislative Days and receptions in Olympia, and grassroots advocacy training for your members.

We identify and recruit supportive legislators, agency staff, and business and industry organizations, and manage their testimony and written comment so the committee hears one consistent and persuasive case. On most bills the fastest route to a result is a broader table, so we build and hold that table for you.

We engage the agencies that will administer your issue on licensing structure, examination authority, disclosure standards, and enforcement, so a bill arrives with agency input rather than agency objection, and so any provisions affecting you are negotiated deliberately rather than imposed by amendment. We coordinate on rulemaking implications and implementation details to make sure the legislation works in practice.

Not every session is about passing something. We monitor and respond to legislation and rulemaking that would restrict your industry, expand private rights of action, or increase your regulatory exposure, and a bill stopped is worth as much as a bill passed.

We register with the Washington Public Disclosure Commission as your lobbyist and handle all associated PDC registration and monthly reporting obligations. You remain responsible for the lobbyist employer's annual report required under chapter 42.17A RCW, and we prepare it for filing.