Jay Inslee signs affirmative action legislation into law.

Seattle Times, April 29, 2019
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As Washington Legislature wraps up, Gov. Inslee takes victory lap and lawmakers OK affirmative-action measure

OLYMPIA – In his six years as governor, Jay Inslee has watched lawmakers block his climate-change legislation, ignore wide swaths of his proposed budgets and plunge a divided Legislature repeatedly into standoffs over taxes and spending that threatened to shutter state government.

But as the Legislature adjourned Sunday night at the end of its 105-day session, Inslee had reason to be happy.

This year’s strong Democratic majorities in the House and Senate helped deliver much of his clean-energy legislation, along with a bill that creates a public option for the state health-insurance exchange. And in the closing hours, they unexpectedly pushed through Initiative 1000, a measure championed by Inslee, to repeal Washington’s ban on affirmative action.

(snip)The Legislature passed a series of bills sought by Inslee and Democratic lawmakers that amount to an expansive climate-change package. Those bills phase out the use of fossil fuels in power generation, cut hydrofluorocarbons, implement new energy standards for large buildings and create efficiency standards for some appliances.