On February 22, the Washington State Senate Government Operations Committee heard HB 1534, a bill to improve ballot access for minor parties and independent candidates. Activists asked that the bill be amended to be even more favorable. The Committee seemed willing to ease the petition deadline (for non-presidential candidates) from May to June, but wasn’t so sure about putting an urgency clause on the bill so that it can go into effect this year.
The Committee will probably act on the bill next week.
There is a February 29 deadline for passage out of the subject committee of the non-initiating house; any changes at this point, including an emergency clause, would require concurrence from the House; and the SCOTUS could rule on the Top 2 Primary any day, week, or month now.
I doubt now is the time to be making changes in a session that is under time constraints, assuming that it is desired that some legislation actually pass.