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Good afternoon. From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle now.

I'm Paige Browning with a roundup of today's top stories.

It's Wednesday, March 11th.

Tonight it could finally happen, folks, a state income tax in Washington hitting incomes

over a million dollars. The state house approved it after a marathon 25-hour debate last night.

Tonight, it's in the Senate's hands. We'll have more on this in our feature story coming up in a few

minutes. Here's one that's already been approved.

The legislature has approved limits on how automated license plate readers and their data can be

used. Now it's sitting on the governor's desk. The bill bans local police departments from sharing

license plate footage with civil immigration enforcement agents.

It also calls for license plate data that's not being used in a police investigation to be scrubbed after 21 days.

And Washington Governor Bob Ferguson has signed into law a coal tax that's intended to keep coal-fired power plants closed.

The Washington State Standard reports,

the new law makes it prohibitively expensive to operate a coal plant.

It applies a sales tax to coal deliveries,

and also requires coal operator TransAlta to purchase climate pollution credits

through the state's auctions.

A transalta coal plant in Lewis County shuttered in December, but the Trump administration

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