Senator Noel Frame

I’m tired of an upside-down tax code that asks so much more from small businesses and working families than it does from the people making untold millions from the tech economic boom. The Millionaires Tax will do so much to fix our tax code, ask the people making more than $1 million a year to pay a bit more, so we can more than double the small business tax credit and offer the largest tax benefit for small businesses in the history of our state AND make the investments in our schools and health care that we all know we need.

I’ve spent ten years in the Legislature working to fix our upside-down and regressive tax code. That passion comes out of my own childhood in the Battle Ground School District, where I felt the impact of what happens when school levies fail, and students and their schools are let down by their communities. The Millionaires Tax is a transformative piece of legislation to make the changes people in our community are demanding and provide the funding for schools we all know we need!

I shared a very personal story on the floor of the Senate this week while we were passing SB 5917 - a bill to help expand the availability of mifepristone and misoprostol, a pair of drugs important for both inducing an abortion and for managing a miscarriage. The speech was about my own health and a miscarriage I personally experienced and it was something I haven't publicly shared until now. I hope you'll take a few minutes to watch this. This bill is about women's health care. These are medications that are safe, they have been approved by the FDA for more than 25 years, and they are still hard to get access to. I am proud that Washington state, after passage of this bill, will be a another step closer to being a state where you can manage a miscarriage with dignity. That's what we're trying to do here and I look forward to the House acting on this bill to ensure we have good, strong access to women's health in our state.