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Jillian England

Republican
Washington State SenateDistrict 36
Submitted July 29, 2026

Q1 America has a growing artificial intelligence (AI) industry, supporting cutting edge innovation and reshaping businesses, but raising concerns about education, ownership, and security. Application of AI technology has increased the demand placed on data centers, controversial for their resource use (such as water and land) and raising utility costs. What are your policy positions in regards to data centers and AI? What sources of evidence informed these policies?

Artificial Intelligence

We should reduce barriers that prevent people from u sing AI and computers to improve their productivity. There is nothing wrong with doing things manually but higher quality and easier learning are a great thing for everyone.

KEYWORDS: Exegesis Role Context Prompt Examples”Think Carefully/ Reason rigerous”

Q2 What are your top funding priorities for environmental projects and research in our state? If you do not have specific priorities, how would you approach setting those priorities to ensure effective environmental stewardship?

Environment

Build more nuclear power plants to provide more reliable power and less expensive energy for more people. Our economy and lives depend on this.

KEYWORDS: Oceans Life Oxygen Forests Rain Quiet Wild

Q3 What are your opinions on the current state of science literacy, and how could K-12 education standards be adapted to improve the public understanding of and relationship building in science?

K-12 Science Education

Science literacy has tremendous potential now that everyone has access to AI to learn and patiently teach them basic abstract mathematics and history There is no reason that special relativity should be an abstract remote concept anymore.

KEYWORDS: Deep learning engagement practice egalitarian everyday everyone

Q4 The Bear Gulch Fire, one of 2000 recorded fires in 2025, was the biggest on the Olympic Peninsula in 70 years, burning over 20,000 hectares and causing $42 million in damages. What are your policies around fire risk management for the state?

ClimateEnvironment

Fires are part of the forest life cycle. We need to prosecute arson and do yearly controlled burns and timber harvesting to to control insects and reduce larger wildfires.

Protect people and water

KEYWORDS: Forest management independent ownership water management trail and road maintenance

Q5 Puget Sound and the Washington coast are experiencing rapid changes, such as warming waters, ocean acidification, and ecosystem shifts, that have major impacts on Washington’s wildlife and fisheries. What policies and funding, if any, would you prioritize for fisheries management, scientific monitoring, and to help communities adapt to these shifts?

Environment

Enforcement of fish pouching laws to prevent foreign fleets from poaching and overfishing our coasts

KEYWORDS: International treaties poaching factory fishing creation protection noise offshore “wind farm prohibitions”

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