S-0019.2
SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 8001
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By Senators Hasegawa, Conway, Trudeau, Valdez, and Wellman
Prefiled 12/23/24. Read first time 01/13/25. Referred to Committee on State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections.
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE MAJORITY LEADER OF THE SENATE AND MINORITY LEADERS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:
We, your Memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Washington, in legislative session assembled, respectfully represent and petition as follows:
WHEREAS, Congress and the several states have for many years exercised the authority to regulate and restrict the size of financial contributions to political candidates and ballot issues, to bar the anonymous use of such funds, and to require that individual candidates approve publicly the messages used on their behalf; and
WHEREAS, There has been a sudden and substantial increase in large financial contributions, in donations made and used anonymously, and in donations made to entities nominally separate from the candidates and outside their control to affect the state and federal elections since 2012, and such contributions may reasonably be expected to grow in number and size; and