Washington
updated Feb. 21, 2018
In the 2017-2018 legislative cycle, two anti-BDS non-binding resolutions were introduced in the Washington state legislature: HJM 4004 and HJM 4009. Both failed to pass.
In 2017, Washington State Senator Michael Baumgartner stated intentions to introduce a bill that would prohibit public universities and private universities that receive State Need Grant funding from participating in boycott activities. The bill was never introduced.
In an interview, Sen. Baumgartner said:
If students want to protest on campus and do what students do, that’s just fine. But we’ll settle the question for them, the adults in legislature.