State and local offices across Washington are being directed to remove the word 'alien' from state statutes and replace it ...
Washington will replace “alien” with “noncitizen” in most state laws; the change applies to statutes enacted after July 1, 2026.
State and local offices across Washington are now under direction to remove “alien” from statutes. Instead, instances of that phrasing will be replaced with “noncitizen." We look at the full timeline ...
Washington lawmakers say the change aligns the state with similar efforts on the West Coast. California and Oregon are the only other states with laws making the same change across all statutes ...
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