12th District State Senator Brad Hawkins is spending the week before the Legislature convenes next Monday getting settled with his committee work. Hawkins is serving on three committees this session, one of which is the Education Committee:
Another of Hawkins' committee assignments is the Transportation Committee, which will deal with the Transportation Budget:
The Senator also has a new assignment this session, the Higher Education Committee:
Hawkins says he hopes to work with lawmakers on the other side of the aisle; he says all of the things he's worked on in the legislature have been bipartisan, that a lot of the things worked on in Olympia are not controversial.
The next legislative session starts on Monday.