City of Renton 2025 Legislative Agenda

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Before the start of the legislative session, the mayor, city councilmembers, city staff, residents, and state legislators work together to determine the city's priorities for the session. During the November 25 Renton City Council meeting, Eric Perry, City of Renton Government Affairs Manager, and David Foster, the City of Renton's lobbyist, presented the 2025 Legislative Review to Mayor Armondo Pavone and councilmembers. City councilmembers approved the 2025 Legislative Agenda later in the meeting.

Renton's legislative agenda is a list of priorities and positions that the city will advocate for at the Washington State Legislature. The 2025 Legislative Agenda is the city's advocacy guide for funding requests, policy changes, and resource that are important for local projects and services. The agenda ensures that the city's needs and concerns are represented to state lawmakers, strengthens the relationship between the city and state government, and increases the chances of getting support for local priorities.

The 2025 Legislative Session begins Monday, January 13. At the end of the Legislative Session on April 27, 2025, the city's Government Affairs Manager and lobbyist will update the Mayor, councilmembers, and community on the 2025 Legislative Session during a regularly scheduled city council meeting.


2025 Key Priorities:

  • Behavioral Health: Support more grants, expanded training opportunities, and resources to establish and support local behavioral health co-responder programs for alternative responses for people in crisis, like FD Cares or Project Be Free.

  • Human Services: Support increased funding for the Washington State Office of Refugee and Immigrant Assistance. This will help support centralized and statewide efforts to provide for the needs of refugees and asylum seekers across the state, including in the Puget Sound region.

  • Transportation and Regional Connectivity: Request that funded WSDOT projects impacting the Renton community aren’t delayed because of budget shortfalls on other I-405 projects. We support advancing the Renton to Bellevue I-405 “Move Ahead Washington” Phase 3 projects, approved in 2022, by exploring all funding options and conducting a collaborative "Practical Solutions" process with city involvement.

  • Public Safety: Support “upstream” investments, early intervention, and community-based programs to help youth and positively impact accountability within the juvenile justice system.

Before the start of the legislative session, the mayor, city councilmembers, city staff, residents, and state legislators work together to determine the city's priorities for the session. During the November 25 Renton City Council meeting, Eric Perry, City of Renton Government Affairs Manager, and David Foster, the City of Renton's lobbyist, presented the 2025 Legislative Review to Mayor Armondo Pavone and councilmembers. City councilmembers approved the 2025 Legislative Agenda later in the meeting.

Renton's legislative agenda is a list of priorities and positions that the city will advocate for at the Washington State Legislature. The 2025 Legislative Agenda is the city's advocacy guide for funding requests, policy changes, and resource that are important for local projects and services. The agenda ensures that the city's needs and concerns are represented to state lawmakers, strengthens the relationship between the city and state government, and increases the chances of getting support for local priorities.

The 2025 Legislative Session begins Monday, January 13. At the end of the Legislative Session on April 27, 2025, the city's Government Affairs Manager and lobbyist will update the Mayor, councilmembers, and community on the 2025 Legislative Session during a regularly scheduled city council meeting.


2025 Key Priorities:

  • Behavioral Health: Support more grants, expanded training opportunities, and resources to establish and support local behavioral health co-responder programs for alternative responses for people in crisis, like FD Cares or Project Be Free.

  • Human Services: Support increased funding for the Washington State Office of Refugee and Immigrant Assistance. This will help support centralized and statewide efforts to provide for the needs of refugees and asylum seekers across the state, including in the Puget Sound region.

  • Transportation and Regional Connectivity: Request that funded WSDOT projects impacting the Renton community aren’t delayed because of budget shortfalls on other I-405 projects. We support advancing the Renton to Bellevue I-405 “Move Ahead Washington” Phase 3 projects, approved in 2022, by exploring all funding options and conducting a collaborative "Practical Solutions" process with city involvement.

  • Public Safety: Support “upstream” investments, early intervention, and community-based programs to help youth and positively impact accountability within the juvenile justice system.

  • 2025 Legislative Session Recap

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    On Monday, June 23, the city's Government Affairs Manager, Eric Perry, and David Foster, the city's lobbyist, returned to Renton City Council to recap the 2025 Legislative Session, which began on January 13 and ended on April 27.

    The 2025 Legislative Session was complex and one in which the legislature and the state’s new governor navigated fiscal uncertainty across all three state budgets, volatile federal funding and policy decisions, and a large host of new legislators who were new to the policymaking process. 2,387 bills were filed during the session, and 431 bills were passed.

    The city's priorities for 2025 were public safety, behavioral health, human services, and transportation & regional connectivity.

    Of those categories, the following bills were passed:

    Public safety

    • HB 2015 – New Public Safety Sales Tax and Grant Program for officers, public defenders, domestic violence programs, behavioral health, and alternative mental health and substance use responses.
    • HB 1596 – Speed-limiting technology for repeat speeding offenders.

    Behavioral Health and Human Services

    • SB 5176 – Operating Budget funding for the Washington Office of Refugee and Immigrant Assistance (ORIA) and alternative response teams.
    • HB 2015 – Public Safety Sales Tax and Grant Program for officers, public defenders, domestic violence programs, behavioral health, and alternative mental health and substance use responses.

    Transportation and Regional Connectivity

    • SB 5801 – Increased transportation resources via shared revenue sources.
    • SB 5595 – "Shared streets" designation in residential areas to become the extension of front yards, places to meet neighbors, and build communities.
    • SB 5161 – Transportation Budget funding for "Safe Routes to School" and pedestrian and bike safety.


    Other bills passed by the state legislature which will have an impact on the City of Renton included new Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) zoning requirements, updates to the Paid Family & Medical Leave Act (PFMLA), state preemptions on local parking requirements, updates to the state’s building conversion laws, new requirements for childcare centers zoning, a statewide residential rent cap, a new requirement for cities to plan for pet sheltering in an emergency, mandatory diaper changing stations in public restroom, libation zones, and the Washington Recycling and Packaging (WRAP) Act.

    In addition, several pieces of legislation which were being tracked by the City of Renton failed to pass into law, including updates to the state’s property tax cap and proposed requirements for city ordinances on public encampments.

    For the complete list of bills passed this year, visit https://leg.wa.gov/bills-meetings-and-session/bills


  • Renton City Council passes proposed 2025 Regional and Federal Legislative Agendas

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    On Monday, March 3, the city's Government Affairs Manager, Eric Perry presented to the Renton City Council during the Committee of the Whole the proposed 2025 Regional and Federal Legislative Agendas. Later that evening during the council meeting, the council passed the proposed legislative agendas.

    Agendas available here:


  • 2025 Legislative Agenda updates - November 25, 2024

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    On Monday, November 25, 2024, the city's Government Affairs Manager and lobbyist presented the 2025 Legislative Review at the Renton City Council meeting.

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