State and Local Government Publications: Washington State

The state's official webpage, with links to information on doing business in Washington, employment, government, and more.

Information on state government, law, elections, maps, and more. . .

Publicly available state agency databases on crime, courts, health, transportation, and more.

An in-depth chart showing where to go for information on bills, laws, codes, and much more...Print sources here in the UW Libraries are included.

Find bills requested by the governor.

Links to the Revised Code of Washington (RCW) for permanent laws now in force; the Session Laws for enactments of the Legislature; the Washington State Register for proposed rules; and the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) which describe how statutes should be put into effect.

How to find enactments of the legislature, compiled year by year, beginning with the 1854 territorial legislature.

Washington state public affairs programming, including online audio and video archives of legislative events.

Research current and past bills, members of the legislature, legislative committees, daily legislative activity, and more.

Open data portal for WA State

Includes data related to the state budget, public policy and demographics, including health care, human services and education. See also their Washington State Data Book.

Data on infectious diseases, injury & trauma, maternal & child health and more.

Use "Create a Report" tool to download tables on gross business income, taxable retail sales, local tax distributions and more.

Annual mileage, collisions and traffic data.

Business and trade data.

Data on employment/unemployment, occupations, industries and wages.

Campaign finance and lobbyist expenditures for public officials and candidates.

State justice-related data

Criminal justice, demographics, the economy, local government finance, and human services