Where April stands.
Five issue areas April has built her record around — with the bills, programs, and positions behind each. Click through to see exactly what has passed, what’s in motion, and what’s next.
More supply. Less red tape. Real solutions for first-time buyers.
April’s housing work draws directly on more than two decades as a Tri-Cities real-estate broker.
Her signature bill — HB 1191, passed unanimously by both chambers and signed into law in 2025 — lets owners of manufactured homes in cooperatively-owned communities qualify for traditional mortgages, ending the high-cost chattel-loan trap that has locked Washington families out of real-estate-backed lending. The Pew Charitable Trusts called it “a step in the right direction” for expanding home-ownership access.
She has also championed Homes for Heroes — a down-payment and closing-cost program for first responders, teachers, and essential workers, endorsed by Gov. Ferguson in his 2025 inaugural address — HB 1438 to fast-track housing permits, and the 2026 tenant-notice bills signed into law to fix a breakdown in how renters receive legally required notices.
- HB 1191 — signed 2025
- Homes for Heroes
- HB 1438
- Tenant-notice bills — signed 2026
Career and technical education is real, family-wage work.
More than 186,000 Washington high-schoolers take CTE coursework each year. April’s 2025 package opened doors for them.
HB 1414 and HB 1722, both signed into law in 2025, opened the workforce door for trained students ready to step into the fields they were credentialed for. HB 1414 expanded the state’s CTE task force to identify the regulatory barriers keeping graduates out of those very fields. HB 1722 lets trained 16- and 17-year-olds test for licenses to work as certified nursing assistants, firefighter trainees, and emergency medical services professionals.
Tri-Tech Skills Center and the Washington State Skills Center Association jointly presented April with the 2025 Legislative Superhero Award for the package. She has also fought to keep parents at the table in their children’s education.
- HB 1414 — signed 2025
- HB 1722 — signed 2025
- 2025 Tri-Tech Superhero Award
Backing the people who keep our community safe.
Public safety in the Tri-Cities means funding the front lines, listening to communities, and real treatment for people who need it.
April pushed a 2025 budget amendment that would have funded $200 million in ongoing law-enforcement hiring grants — redirecting dollars from nonfaculty higher-education staffing back to the front lines of public safety. In January 2026 she led a Tri-Cities lawmakers’ bill package tightening rules on the placement of sexually violent predators after community concerns in Kennewick, and helped convene an overflow town hall that drew hundreds.
She has also been a long-time advocate for the Columbia Valley Center for Recovery — the inpatient behavioral-health and addiction-treatment facility the Tri-Cities has needed for years, and that the region still doesn’t have in any other form.
- $200M LE hiring grants — amendment
- SVP placement package — 2026
- Columbia Valley Center for Recovery
Defending the energy that powers Eastern Washington.
The Tri-Cities is one of the country’s most important clean-energy hubs — from Hanford to the Columbia River dams to the farmland that depends on both.
April has co-sponsored legislation protecting the Hanford site’s cleanup mission and the federal hydroelectric system on the Columbia River. She consistently opposes energy policy that would shutter reliable baseload generation before Washington has affordable, dependable replacements in place.
Affordable, reliable energy isn’t a partisan issue in the 8th District — it’s what keeps farms irrigated, families employed, and the regional clean-energy economy growing.
- Hanford cleanup mission
- Columbia River hydroelectric defense
- Wind-turbine light-pollution fix — signed 2023
Holding the line on taxes Tri-Cities families can’t afford.
As House Republican Floor Leader and Assistant Ranking Member on House Appropriations, April leads the caucus’s effort to keep Washington’s tax burden in check.
In March 2026 April coordinated the longest floor debate House Clerk Bernard Dean could recall in 26 years on the chamber floor — a 24-hour, 33-minute, 50-second effort against SB 6346. The Democratic majority ultimately forced the bill through on a narrow 51–46 vote the following evening — eight Democrats joining all Republicans in opposition — enacting Washington’s first state income tax. She voted against the 2025 Democratic operating budget’s multi-billion-dollar tax package, opposes rent control, and consistently flags the hidden tax increases tucked into transportation and licensing-fee legislation.
Government should justify every dollar it asks Washington families to send to Olympia.
- 24-hour income-tax floor debate
- Voted no on 2025–27 tax package
- Opposed rent control
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