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Ballotpedia’s coverage of COVID-19 includes how federal, state, and local governments are responding, and how those responses are influencing election rules and operations, political campaigns, the economy, schools, and more.

This article contains coverage of eight kinds of state government responses to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. The article tracks developments in these areas that took place between the start of the pandemic in March 2020 through Dec. 4, 2020. The government responses covered here include:

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Changes to election dates and procedures, March 16 through November 19

See also: Changes to election dates, procedures, and administration in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020

General election changes

Washington did not modify any procedures for the November 3, 2020, general election.

For a full timeline about election modifications made in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, click here.

Primary election changes

Washington made no changes to its primary election.

For a full timeline about election modifications made in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, click here.

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Statewide stay-at-home order, March 23 through December 4

See also: States with lockdown and stay-at-home orders in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020

Gov. Jay Inslee (D) declared a state of emergency on February 29, 2020, and directed state agencies and departments "to utilize state resources and do everything reasonably possible to assist affected communities responding to and recovering from COVID-19 cases."[2]

On March 23, 2020, Inslee issued Proclamation 20-25, which directed residents to stay home, except as needed to maintain continuity of operation of critical infrastructure.[3] The order was initially set to expire April 6. On April 2, Inslee announced the order was extended through May 4.[4] Inslee announced on May 1 that he would extend the order through May 31.[5]

Washington's stay-at-home order expired on May 31.[6]

Below is a list of essential businesses, per the state of Washington.[7]

“

Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers

  • Healthcare/ Public Health Sector:
    • Workers providing COVID-19 testing and workers that perform critical clinical research and development needed for COVID-19 response.
    • Health care providers and caregivers
    • Hospital and laboratory personnel
    • Workers in other medical facilities (including Ambulatory Health and Surgical, Blood Banks, Clinics, Community Mental Health, Comprehensive Outpatient rehabilitation, End Stage Renal Disease, Health Departments, Home Health care, Hospices, Hospitals, Long Term Care, Organ Pharmacies, Procurement Organizations, Psychiatric, Residential, Rural Health Clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers, biotechnology therapies, consumer health products, cannabis retailers).
    • Manufacturers, technicians, logistics and warehouse operators, and distributors of medical equipment, medical devices, diagnostics, personal protective equipment (PPE), medical gases, pharmaceuticals, blood and blood products, vaccines, testing materials, laboratory supplies, cleaning, sanitizing, disinfecting or sterilization supplies, and tissue and paper towel products.
    • Public health / community health workers, including those who compile, model, analyze and communicate public health information.
    • Behavioral health workers (including mental and substance use disorder) responsible for coordination, outreach, engagement, and treatment to individuals in need of mental health and/or substance use disorder services.
    • Blood and plasma donors and the employees of the organizations that operate and manage related activities.
    • Workers that manage health plans, billing, and health information, who cannot practically work remotely.
    • Workers who conduct community-based public health functions, conducting epidemiologic surveillance, compiling, analyzing and communicating public health information, who cannot practically work remotely.
    • Workers who provide support to vulnerable populations to ensure their health and well-being including family care providers.
    • Workers performing cybersecurity functions at healthcare and public health facilities, who cannot practically work remotely.
    • Workers conducting research critical to COVID-19 response. Workers performing security, incident management, and emergency operations functions at or on behalf of healthcare entities including healthcare coalitions, who cannot practically work remotely.
    • Workers who support food, shelter, and social services, and other necessities of life for economically disadvantaged or otherwise needy individuals, such as those residing in shelters.
    • Pharmacy employees necessary for filling prescriptions.
    • Workers performing mortuary services, including funeral homes, crematoriums, and cemetery workers.
    • Workers who coordinate with other organizations to ensure the proper recovery, handling, identification, transportation, tracking, storage, and disposal of human remains and personal effects; certify cause of death; and facilitate access to behavioral health services to the family members, responders, and survivors of an incident.
    • Workers supporting veterinary hospitals and clinics.
  • Emergency Services Sector:
    • Law Enforcement, Public Safety, and First Responders
    • Military personnel, including National Guard personnel and Coast Guard personnel.
    • Emergency Medical Technicians.
    • Public Safety Answering Points and 911 call center employees.
    • Fusion Center employees.
    • Fire Mitigation Activities.
    • Hazardous material responders and hazardous devices teams, from government and the private sector.
    • Workers – including contracted vendors -- who maintain digital systems infrastructure supporting law enforcement and emergency service operations.
    • Private security, private fire departments, and private emergency medical services personnel.
    • Protective services workers responsible for mission-critical functions in state institutions, programs, and community facilities, including homeless shelters.
  • Public Works:
    • Workers who support the operation, inspection, and maintenance of essential dams, locks and levees.
    • Workers who support the operation, inspection, and maintenance of essential public works facilities and operations, including bridges, water and sewer main breaks, fleet maintenance personnel, construction of critical or strategic infrastructure, traffic signal maintenance, emergency location services for buried utilities, maintenance of digital systems infrastructure supporting public works operations, and other emergent issues.
    • Workers such as plumbers, electricians, exterminators, and other service providers who provide services that are necessary to maintain the safety, sanitation, and essential operation of residences.
    • Support, such as road and line clearing, to ensure the availability of needed facilities, transportation, energy and communications. Support to ensure the effective removal, storage, and disposal of residential and commercial solid waste and hazardous waste.
  • Food and Agricultural Sector:
    • Workers supporting groceries, pharmacies, and other retail that sells food and beverage products, including but not limited to Grocery stores, Corner stores and convenience stores, including liquor stores that sell food, Farmers’ markets, Food banks, Farm and produce stands, Supermarkets, Similar food retail establishments, Big box stores that sell groceries and essentials.
    • Restaurant carry-out and quick-serve food operations – including food preparation, carry-out and delivery food employees.
    • Food manufacturer employees and their supplier employees—to include those employed in food processing (packers, meat processing, cheese plants, milk plants, produce, etc.) facilities; livestock, poultry, seafood slaughter facilities; pet and animal feed processing facilities; human food facilities producing by-products for animal food; beverage production facilities; shellfish facilities including hatcheries and nurseries and growing areas; brewery and wine-making facilities; coffee production facilities; artisan food production; and the production of food packaging.
    • Farmworkers to include those employed in animal food, feed, and ingredient production, packaging, and distribution; manufacturing, packaging, and distribution of veterinary drugs; truck delivery and transport; farm and fishery labor needed to produce our food supply domestically.
    • Farmworkers and support service workers to include those who field crops; commodity inspection; fuel ethanol facilities; storage facilities; and other agricultural inputs.
    • Employees and firms supporting food, feed, and beverage distribution (including curbside distribution and deliveries), including warehouse workers, vendor-managed inventory controllers, blockchain managers, distribution.
    • Workers supporting the sanitation of all food manufacturing processes and operations from wholesale to retail.
    • Company cafeterias - in-plant cafeterias used to feed employees.
    • Workers in food testing labs in private industries and in institutions of higher education.
    • Workers essential for assistance programs and government payments.
    • Workers supporting cannabis retail and dietary supplement retail.
    • Employees of companies engaged in the production of chemicals, medicines, vaccines, and other substances used by the food and agriculture industry, including pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, minerals, enrichments, and other agricultural production aids.
    • Animal agriculture workers to include those employed in veterinary health; manufacturing and distribution of animal medical materials, animal vaccines, animal drugs, feed. ingredients, feed, and bedding, etc.; transportation of live animals, animal medical materials; transportation of deceased animals for disposal; raising of animals for food; animal production operations; slaughter and packing plants and associated regulatory and government workforce.
    • Workers who support the manufacture and distribution of forest products, including, but not limited to timber, paper, and other wood products.
    • Employees engaged in the manufacture and maintenance of equipment and other infrastructure necessary to agricultural production and distribution.
  • Energy Sector:
    • Electricity industry:
      • Workers who maintain, ensure, or restore the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power, including call centers, utility workers, reliability engineers and fleet maintenance technicians.
      • Workers needed for hydroelectric, biofuels, biogas, geothermal energy, wind, biomass, solar and coal energy generation.
      • Workers who maintain emergency management, risk management, safety and security, and business continuity at all energy generation, transmission, distribution, delivery, production, processing or refining facilities that provide critical community services to Washington state.
      • Workers needed for safe and secure operations at nuclear generation.
      • Workers at generation, transmission, and electric blackstart facilities.
      • Workers at Reliability Coordinator (RC), Balancing Authorities (BA), and primary and backup Control Centers (CC), including but not limited to independent system operators, regional transmission organizations, and balancing authorities.
      • Mutual assistance personnel.
      • IT and OT technology staff – for Energy Management System and Supervisory Controland Data.
      • Acquisition (SCADA) systems, and utility data centers; Cybersecurity engineers; cybersecurity risk management.
      • Vegetation management crews and traffic workers who support.
      • Environmental remediation/monitoring technicians.
      • Instrumentation, protection, and control technicians.
    • Petroleum workers:
      • Petroleum product storage, pipeline, marine transport, terminals, rail transport, road transport.
      • Crude oil storage facilities, pipeline, and marine transport.
      • Petroleum refinery facilities.
      • Petroleum security operations center employees and workers who support emergency response services
      • Petroleum operations control rooms/centers.
      • Petroleum drilling, extraction, production, processing, refining, terminal operations, transporting, and retail for use as end-use fuels or feedstocks for chemical manufacturing
      • Onshore and offshore operations for maintenance and emergency response.
      • Retail fuel centers such as gas stations and truck stops, and the distribution systems that support them.
    • Natural and propane gas workers:
      • Natural gas transmission and distribution pipelines, including compressor stations.
      • Underground storage of natural gas.
      • Natural gas processing plants, and those that deal with natural gas liquids.
      • Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facilities.
      • Natural gas security operations center, natural gas operations dispatch and control rooms/centers natural gas emergency response and customer emergencies, including natural gas leak calls.
      • Drilling, production, processing, refining, and transporting natural gas for use as end-use fuels, feedstocks for chemical manufacturing, or use in electricity generation.
      • Propane gas dispatch and control rooms and emergency response and customer emergencies, including propane leak calls.
      • Propane gas service maintenance and restoration, including call centers.
      • Processing, refining, and transporting natural liquids, including propane gas, for use as end-use fuels or feedstocks for chemical manufacturing.
      • Propane gas storage, transmission, and distribution centers.
  • Water and Wastewater Sector:
    • Operational staff at water authorities.
    • Operational staff at community water systems.
    • Operational staff at wastewater treatment facilities.
    • Workers repairing water and wastewater conveyances and performing required sampling or monitoring.
    • Operational staff for water distribution and testing.
    • Operational staff at wastewater collection facilities.
    • Operational staff and technical support for SCADA Control systems.
    • Chemical disinfectant suppliers for wastewater and personnel protection.
    • Workers that maintain digital systems infrastructure supporting water and wastewater operations.

[8]

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Executive orders, March 30 through June 29

See also: Executive orders issued by governors and state agencies in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020


Legislative session changes, March 20 through October 1

See also: Changes to state legislative session dates in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020

No modifications to state legislative activity in Washington were made.

Proposed and enacted legislation, March 25 through August 19

See also: State laws in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020

See below for a complete list of bills related to the coronavirus pandemic in Washington. To learn more about a particular bill, click its title. This information is provided by BillTrack50 and LegiScan.

Rent, mortgage, eviction, and foreclosure policies, April 9 through November 24

See also: Changes to rent, mortgage, eviction, and foreclosure policies in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020


  • October 8, 2020: Gov. Jay Inslee (D) announced that he intended to extend the state’s moratorium on evictions through December 31. The moratorium was set to expire on October 15.[9]
  • June 3, 2020: Gov. Jay Inslee (D) extended the state’s moratorium on evictions through August 1. The moratorium had been in place since March and was extended from April 17 through June 4.[10]
  • April 17, 2020: Gov. Jay Inslee (D) extended the state’s moratorium on evictions through June 4.[11]
  • March 18, 2020: Gov. Jay Inslee (D) suspended foreclosures and evictions for 30 days.[12]


Prison inmate release responses, March 30 through July 1

See also: State and local governments that released prison inmates in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020
  • April 23, 2020: The Washington Supreme Court rejected an emergency petition seeking to compel Gov. Jay Inslee (D) to order the mass release of thousands of inmates. In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled that the plaintiffs in the case, which was filed by Columbia Legal Services, had not proved that the state failed in its duties to incarcerated individuals. The decision is not expected to affect current efforts the state is undertaking to release certain inmate populations in an effort to reduce the number of people incarcerated in Washington.[13]
  • April 22, 2020: Officials in Washington announced that more than 300 inmates have been released due to the coronavirus pandemic. As of April 21, Gov. Jay Inslee had commuted the sentences of 293 inmates who were due to be released in 60 days. An additional 600 inmates are being considered for the Washington Department of Correction's "rapid re-entry" program, which would allow inmates to be released with electronic monitoring.[14]
  • April 13, 2020: Gov. Jay Inslee announced that the state plans to release almost 1,000 inmates early to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The inmates considered for early release are those vulnerable to the disease and nonviolent offenders already scheduled to be released.[15] The Spokane Municipal Court issued an emergency order which suspended court operations, and resulted in the release of some pretrial prisoners and those with "low-level" offenses.[16]


Debate in Washington over responses to the coronavirus

See also: Debate in Washington over responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020

Ballotpedia is covering the debate over continuing restrictions and closures in Washington in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Click on the links below to read more about these debates.

Status of industries, May 15 through July 31

Between May 15 and July 31, we conducted detailed tracking of industries and activities in each state daily.

  • "Yes" means an activity was allowed or an industry was permitted to open. "No" means an activity was not allowed or an industry was not permitted to reopen.
  • Some rules were applied regionally rather than statewide. Each cell shows the loosest restriction in place at the time, or the broadest level of an activity permitted in the state, even if that activity was only permitted regionally. Where applicable, we indicated that an activity was only permitted regionally, and provided details in a cell note. For example, if gyms were permitted to open in half of a state, the spreadsheet would say "Yes (regionally)," and differences between the regions would be explained in a note.
  • A lack of detail in a note or parentheses does not necessarily mean that an activity or industry was "back to normal." We did our best to capture caveats, exceptions, and modifications to activities. We acknowledge, though, that states put forth a large number of requirements for many industries and activities.

Initial reopening plan from March and April 2020 closures

Washington released an initial reopening plan from March and April 2020 closures on May 4, 2020. An analysis of this plan appeared in our Documenting America's Path to Recovery newsletter on May 6. The sections below include an analysis of the plan, the details of the plan, and reactions from officials to the plan.

Summary from Documenting America's Path to Recovery

See also: Documenting America's Path to Recovery: May 6, 2020

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) implemented Phase 1 of his four-phase reopening plan, "Safe Start Washington," Tuesday. Each phase will last at least three weeks.

Monday, Inslee extended the state's stay-at-home order until May 31 with modifications allowing for Phase 1.

Industry-specific guidelines will be issued for businesses allowed to reopen in each phase. Phase 1-permitted reopenings and activities include drive-in spiritual services, some outdoor recreation, construction, landscaping, auto sales, and retail curbside pickup. As of Wednesday, guidelines for outdoor recreation and construction were available. The remaining guidelines will be released by May 15.

Inslee's plan also details physical distancing, hygiene, and sanitation guidance and requirements for individuals and employers to follow throughout each phase.

Inslee said he was "mindful of regional differences and impacts across the state with regard to the spread of COVID-19 and our response. ... Therefore, some counties with lower numbers of cases and deaths, as well appropriate levels of [personal protective equipment] and hospital capacity, may explore plans for reopening businesses sooner."

Counties with populations under 75,000 that haven't identified a resident with COVID-19 in the most recent three weeks may apply for a variance, or permission to move to Phase 2 earlier than the rest of the state.

Specified disease burden and readiness indicators will determine when the state moves to subsequent phases.

Context

  • Inslee declared a state of emergency February 29. The original stay-at-home order was effective March 25-April 6. Inslee extended it until May 4, then until May 31 with modifications.
  • As of May 4, Washington had 15,594 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 862 deaths. As of July 2019, Washington's population was 7.6 million. A total of 219,453 tests were administered, with a positive rate of 7.1%. Per 100,000 residents, there have been 204.8 confirmed cases and 11.3 deaths.
  • Washington is a Democratic trifecta, with a Democratic governor and Democratic majorities in both chambers of the state legislature.

Plan details

Guidance for individuals and requirements for employers in all phases The plan states, "Until there is an effective vaccine, effective treatment or herd immunity, it is crucial to maintain some level of community interventions to suppress the spread of COVID-19 throughout all phases of recovery."

Individuals:

  • Stay at least six feet from other people
  • Wear cloth face coverings in public places when not eating or drinking
  • Stay home when sick
  • Avoid others who are sick
  • Wash hands with soap and water frequently/use hand sanitizer when soap and water not available
  • Cover coughs and sneezes
  • Don't touch eyes, nose, or mouth with unwashed hands
  • Regularly disinfect surfaces/objects

Employers:

  • Maintain the six-foot physical distancing requirements for employees and patrons. When not possible, adopt other measures, such as barriers to block sneezes/coughs
  • Limit close interactions with patrons
  • Provide adequate sanitation and hygiene for workers, vendors, and patrons. Ensure employees can wash hands frequently with soap and running water
  • Ensure frequent cleaning and disinfecting, especially of high-touch surfaces
  • Identify and provide to employees personal protective equipment and face coverings in accordance with Department of Labor & Industries requirements on facial coverings and industry-specific COVID-19 standards.
  • Identify strategies for addressing ill employees, which should include:
    • requiring COVID-19-positive employees to stay home and potentially restricting employees who were directly exposed to COVID-19-positive employees
    • following CDC cleaning guidelines to deep clean after reports of an employee with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, possibly closing the business until the location is properly disinfected
  • Educate employees about COVID-19, including signs, symptoms and risk factors and how to prevent its spread, in a language they best understand
  • As directed by federal, state, and local public health and workplace safety officials, implement other business-specific practices, such as screening employees for illness and exposure upon entry or requiring non-cash transactions
  • Follow requirements in Governor Inslee’s Proclamation 20-46 High-Risk Employees – Workers’ Rights
  • Comply with state and federal law for healthy workplaces and with COVID-19 worksite-specific safety practices outlined in "Stay Home, Stay Healthy" Proclamation 20-25, and in accordance with the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries General Coronavirus Prevention Under Stay Home, Stay Healthy Order and the Washington State Department of Health Workplace and Employer Resources & Recommendations

Businesses and activities allowed to resume

Phase 1 For individuals:

  • Some outdoor recreation (hunting, fishing, golf, and more) according to guidance issued April 27
  • Limited nonessential travel to engage in Phase 1-permitted activities
  • Drive-in spiritual services, one household per vehicle

Businesses:

  • Construction, according to guidance issued April 29
  • Landscaping
  • Auto and boat sales
  • Retail for curbside pickup
  • Car washes
  • Pet walkers

Phase 2 For individuals:

  • Outdoor recreation involving no more than five people outside one's household (i.e., camping, beaches)
  • Gathering with no more than five people outside one's household per week
  • Limited nonessential travel for Phase 1- and Phase 2-permitted activities

Businesses:

  • Remaining manufacturing and construction businesses
  • Restaurants/taverns at less than 50% capacity and with a maximum table size of five people. No bar seating.
  • Hair and nail salons
  • In-store retail, with restrictions
  • Real estate
  • Professional services/office-based businesses (telework still strongly encouraged)
  • In-home services (i.e., nannies, housecleaning)
  • Pet grooming

Phase 3 For individuals:

  • Outdoor group sports with no more than 50 people
  • Gatherings of no more than 50 people
  • Resume nonessential travel

Businesses:

  • Gyms, pools, and other recreational facilities at less than 50% capacity
  • Professional sports without audience participation
  • Restaurants/taverns at less than 75% capacity and with a maximum table size of 10 people. Bar areas at less than 25% capacity.
  • Movie theaters at less than 50% capacity
  • Customer-facing government services (telework still strongly encouraged)
  • Libraries
  • Museums
  • All other business activities except nightclubs/events with more than 50 people

Phase 4 For individuals:

  • For high-risk populations, public interactions resume with physical distancing
  • All recreational activity resumes
  • Gatherings with more than 50 people allowed

Businesses:

  • Nightclubs
  • Concert venues
  • Large sporting events
  • Resume unrestricted worksite staffing, with continued physical distancing and good hygiene

County variance Counties with populations under 75,000 that have not identified a COVID-19-positive resident in three weeks may apply to move to Phase 2 before the state as a whole. Secretary of Health John Wiesman will approve or deny applications.

On May 4, Inslee said 10 counties met that criteria: Columbia, Garfield, Jefferson, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Skamania, Wahkiakum, Kittitas, Ferry, and Grays Harbor.

Inslee's plan says he and the Department of Health will consider additional criteria for allowing other counties to apply for a variance, including cases per capita, in the next two weeks.

Steps for counties to follow when applying for a variance can be found on page 7 here.

Reactions

  • Republican state Reps. Drew MacEwen, Andrew Barkis, Chris Corry, and Brandon Vick sued Inslee in federal court Tuesday over his stay-at-home order extension. Their complaint stated the following:
“ Today, we know far more than we knew in early March about COVID-19. We know that the emergency has been averted. We know that the threat to vulnerable populations remains. We know that there is no longer an emergency in the State. ...

Unfortunately, the Governor insists that he, and he alone, can determine whether an emergency exists. He claims that it's an emergency if he says it's an emergency, and that no one—not the legislature, and not the courts—can gainsay him. He claims that the emergency can continue as long as he thinks it continues, and no one but he can say otherwise.

The Governor has assumed the sole power to determine whether a person in Washington can worship, can peaceably assemble, can work, can build needed housing, can offer living space for rent, can engage in any activity.

But the facts, and the science, are clear: when the entirety of public knowledge is examined, there is no public disorder or threat to public order in the State of Washington.[8]

”
  • Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib (D) tweeted in response to the lawsuit, "I am deeply disappointed that any legislator would advance a frivolous lawsuit like this that, if taken seriously by the public, is incredibly dangerous. There is no road to economic recovery that skips limiting the transmission of #COVID19. Until then, we must #StayHome."
  • Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward wanted Inslee to consider allowing Spokane County to move to Phase 2 early. Woodward said, "We're seeing new cases in single digits for a county with a half-million population, and we have no new deaths. We have 10 people in the hospital right now. … I think we have to start looking at those numbers too."
  • Washington Hospitality Association President Anthony Anton wrote, "This has been a difficult time for our industry. Restaurants are not only eager but ready to serve guests in our restaurants once the state moves forward into Phase 2 of reopening." We want to thank the governor for working collaboratively with the Washington Hospitality Association, and for his trust in our industry’s preparedness to serve the community safely as soon as we get the green light."

Coronavirus resources

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Office of the Governor of Washington, "Proclamation 20-53," May 5, 2020
  2. ↑ Governor of Washington, "Inslee issues COVID-19 emergency proclamation," February 29, 2020
  3. ↑ State of Washington - Office of the Governor, "Proclamation by The Governor Amending Proclamation 20-05 - 20-25 - Stay Home – Stay Healthy," March 23, 2020
  4. ↑ The Seattle Times, "Gov. Inslee extends Washington state’s coronavirus stay-home order through May 4," April 2, 2020
  5. ↑ The Tacoma News-Tribune, "Governor extends Washington state stay-at-home order through May 31," May 1, 2020
  6. ↑ K5, "Washington's stay-home order ends as more counties gradually reopen," May 29, 2020
  7. ↑ Washington State Coronavirus Response (COVID-19), "Essential business," March 23, 2020
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  9. ↑ Seattle Times, "Inslee extends Washington’s moratorium on evictions through Dec. 31," October 8, 2020
  10. ↑ NBC King 5, "Washington eviction moratorium extended to August 1 amid coronavirus crisis," June 4, 2020
  11. ↑ NBC King 5, "Gov. Inslee extends state eviction moratorium through June 4," April 17, 2020
  12. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named EvictMA
  13. ↑ The Seattle Times, "Washington Supreme Court rejects lawsuit seeking additional release of prisoners due to coronavirus threat," April 23, 2020
  14. ↑ Q13 Fox, "More than 300 inmates released from Washington prisons due to COVID-19 concerns," April 22, 2020
  15. ↑ KOMO News, "State to release nearly 1,000 nonviolent prison inmates early to limit COVID-19 spread," April 13, 2020
  16. ↑ The Spokesman-Review, "Dozens released from Spokane County custody following Municipal Court emergency order," March 17, 2020
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