Shelly Short

Dear Friends and Neighbors, Welcome from Olympia! It is such an honor to be your voice in our state Senate. I’m excited to send you my first e-newsletter of the 2019 legislative session. We are in the third week of the 105-day session. Committee meetings are in full swing and...

State Sen. Shelly Short’s effort to make housing more affordable and available in Washington took an important step when the Senate Local Government Committee held public hearings last Thursday on five bills (SB 5193, SB 5194, SB 5242, SB 5243 and SB 5245) she’s introduced to make adjustments to the...

Sen. Short gives an update on the second week of the 2019 legislative session, including efforts to address Washington’s housing crisis, her bills to change the Growth Management Act, and Gov. Inslee’s proposal to provide more broadband service to rural Washington. From Jan. 28, 2019.

Sen. Shelly Short (7th District) talks about Gov. Inslee’s State of the State address, her thoughts about the governor’s budget plan, her Senate committee assignments and leadership position this session, and her bill (SB 5244) to create a domestic violence registry. From Jan. 22, 2019.

All three members of the 7th District’s legislative team – Sen. Shelly Short and Reps. Joel Kretz and Jacquelin Maycumber – will serve in leadership posts when the 2019 legislative session begins in January. During their reorganization meeting Monday, House Republican members re-elected Kretz as their Deputy Leader. They also elected...

Senate Republicans announced today they will introduce a package of bills in 2019 to address one of the main causes of Washington’s homelessness problem: the lack of affordable and available housing. At a news conference held at Quixote Village, an Olympia-based community of 30 tiny cabins for the homeless, three...

OLYMPIA…Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday signed into law two bills introduced by Sen. Shelly Short – one that  increases awareness of the need for bone-marrow donors, while the other helps patients have access to the health-care benefits for which they have already paid in their health plans.   In February,...

Kirsten Hallock, a junior at Mead High School, spent a week working as a page for the Washington State Senate at the Capitol in Olympia. Kirsten was one of 30 students who served as Senate pages for the eighth week of the 2018 legislative session. She was sponsored by 7th...

Alexandria Stickney, a freshman at Colville High School, spent a week working as a page for the Washington State Senate at the Capitol in Olympia. Alexandria was one of 30 students who served as Senate pages for the eighth week of the 2018 legislative session. She was sponsored by 7th...