Legislative Internship Program

The Legislative Internship Program provides an opportunity for students to both work within the legislature as full-time, paid staff to legislative members, and to receive school credit. Students are matched with legislative offices based on expressed interests and strengths, and work 40 hours per week through either winter quarter or spring semester. Interns' work experience is enhanced by an academic program, which includes seminars, budget exercises, mock hearings and floor debates, and so on. For application information, and for program details, visit the Washington Legislative Intern page here.

Senate Page Program

The Senate Page program provides a unique opportunity for students aged 14-16 years old to engage with the state legislative process, and to become familiar with the Washington State Legislature itself. Pages spend a week performing a variety of tasks essential to the administration of the state Senate, including distributing bills and other relevant documents to Senate members, and fulfilling ceremonial duties. For more information, including application materials, visit the Washington State Legislature Senate Page Program site here.

Legislative youth Advisory Council

The Legislative Youth Advisory Council (LYAC) is a nonpartisan youth-led committee empowered by state law to represent the official voice of Washington youth to the Legislature. Each year, a select group of 14-18 year old students from a diverse range of political, geographic, and socioeconomic backgrounds are appointed to the council by the Lt. Governor’s Office. On the council, students spend two years learning about and engaging directly with the legislative process by making meaningful policy recommendations to the Legislature. Established in 2005 as the brainchild of then-12 year old Alex Jonlin, a semi-finalist for the Harvard Kennedy School's Innovations in Government award, LYAC is enduring proof of teenagers' ability to make change in their communities.