Lynda Wilson

Legislation now named for Tiffany Hill, killed by estranged husband despite protection order OLYMPIA… Sen. Lynda Wilson hopes 2020 will finally bring the passage of her bill to allow the use of real-time victim-notification technology, a tool that might have saved the life of a Clark County mother of three...

Tacoma’s News Tribune recently editorialized in favor of a change that could be made by my Senate Bill 6042. Click on the link to read the full editorial. https://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/editorials/article238478033.html  

If you obtain a protection order against someone, wouldn’t you want to be alerted if that person comes near you? For the past few years I sponsored a bill that would make that possible, in real time. If Tiffany Hill had been able to get an alert on her phone,...

Sen. Lynda Wilson has filed legislation for 2020 aimed at ending a lawmaking shortcut and improving how all three branches of state government go about making and interpreting the all-important administrative rules that are used to enforce many laws. Her Senate Bill 6042 would prohibit the use of “title-only” bills,...

Published in The Reflector, Battle Ground — Nov. 12, 2019: Washington State Sen. Lynda Wilson has recently been appointed to a legislative committee that makes recommendations on veterans and military issues, the Senate Republican Caucus announced earlier this month. (Click here for the full story)

The Columbian, Vancouver, Nov. 11, 2019 Warm weather Sunday and a lack of birds made for poor hunting, but that did not seem to bother the participants. The second annual Veteran’s Day waterfowl hunt at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge had 20 veterans take part, a sizable increase over last...

VANCOUVER… Sen. Lynda Wilson is the newest member of the state Legislature’s Joint Committee on Veterans’ and Military Affairs, giving the proud daughter of a U.S. Air Force veteran another venue for supporting Washington residents who have served or are serving in the nation’s armed forces. “While I’ve appreciated being...

Many new laws need to be accompanied by changes in state-agency rules, and an example is the hunter-pink law created by my Senate Bill 5148, which was passed unanimously by the Legislature this year. As reported in The Columbian’s Oct. 24 “Out and About” column, the state Fish and Wildlife...

I was delighted to spend part of a recent Saturday visiting with members of the new Washington National Guard unit now based in Vancouver. I’m grateful for their service to our state and nation and welcome them to Clark County! Click on the link for the story and photos. National...

The inaugural class of WSU’s medical school began its studies while I was chair of the Senate Higher Education Committee, so it was fitting that a member of that class, Clark County native David Choi, showed me around the new WSU mobile medical unit when it visited Vancouver. What an...