EP-01 Season Two – Preview of Wa Leg 2026
Erica Engelhart and Jay Fratt return to the Positive Intentions Media studio in Olympia, Washington to cover the 2026 Washington State Legislative Session.
Representative Matt Marshall (R) from the 2nd Legislative District joined Oly Insider to answer a couple questions about what to expect from the 2026 legislative session.
Highlights from last season of Oly Insider:
- We learned about OPR, the Office of Program Research
- We exposed opaque rules on Legislators presence when voting on bills
- We stopped a dangerous bill – SB-5068
- We learned about Agency Request Bills
- We exposed misinformation used as foundational testimony in anti second amendment legislation
- We were there at the legislature late at night participating in the process
- We interviewed key legislators about the legislative process and the insider’s notes in live time
- We made testimony in committee, and exposed just how ignored the people’s voice is in the process
Bills Oly Insider has an early eye on for the 2026 session:
- HB-2105 & SB-5852 Agency Request Bills by Attorney General Office
- Concerning immigrant worker protections.
- HB-2122 – 28 Sponsors … this is going to move forward
- Requiring hospitals to offer immunizations for influenza in certain cases.
- HB-2096 & SB-5829 Agency Request Bills by Attorney General Office
- Addressing the issuance of confidential identification to investigators employed by the office of the attorney general.
- HB-2156 Agency Request Bill by Attorney General Office
- Concerning the authority of investigators of the attorney general’s office.
- HB-2100 – Enacting an excise tax on large operating companies on the amount of payroll expenses above the minimum wage threshold of the additional Medicare tax to fund services to benefit Washingtonians and establishing the Well Washington fund account.
- HB-2123 – Concerning foreign national participation in Washington state elections.
- SB-5926 – AN ACT Relating to expanding the public records exemption for personal information of family home child care providers to all licensed or certified child care providers.
Oly Insider is a production of Positive Intentions Media, and a citizen journalistic mission of Erica Engelhart and Jay Fratt. No advertising, sponsorship, or monetary incentive is paid in any way to support this journalistic civic education program.
Erica Engelhart has a special interest in election integrity. She has trained for years learning and understanding the processes and procedures of the Washington State election process becoming one of the leading citizen experts in the state on election processes and issues.
Jay Fratt is a reality investigator, citizen volunteer, and journalist. He has traveled the country on the Boerner Presidential campaign promoting a Fusion Future plan. During season one of Oly Insider he had an article published on misinformation in the legislative process in Clark County Today – Scientific Approach Needed for Gender-Affirming Care.
