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Operating budget proposals released, federal action effects heard in House higher education committee
Grappling with a projected nearly $16 billion budget shortfall over the next four years, House and Senate budget writers on Monday released their versions of the 2025-27 operating budget and 2025 supplemental budget. Committees heard testimony on the proposals on Tuesday.
State Board-requested bills heard in House higher education committee
House and Senate policy committees spent their first full week after the House of Origin cutoff with a mix of hearing testimony on bills and learning more about issues facing higher education in the state. The House Postsecondary Education and Workforce Committee heard all of the State Board-requ...
Customized Training Program tax extension bill passes Senate, policy committees resume work
Session reached its third cutoff deadline Wednesday at 5 p.m. when bills need to be passed by their originating chamber in order to continue in the legislative process. Ahead of that, the Senate on Tuesday passed the bill that would extend the Customized Training Program's business and occupation...
State Board-requested bills on College Bound Scholarship, high school completion tuition waivers heard in committee
Hearings continued into their fourth week, with House and Senate higher education committees hearing State Board-requested bills on expanding eligibility for the College Bound Scholarship and waiving tuition for students in high school completion courses. In the Senate, members of the Senate High...
Committees hear tuition-free college, financial aid support bills
House and Senate policy committees continued their work this week hearing bills with potentially big impacts on colleges and college-going students in Washington state. On dockets were bills that would make college tuition free for graduates of the state's public high schools and expanding a fina...
Legislature kicks off 2024 session with budgets, corrections education, K-12 student support bills
The Legislature on Monday kicked off its 2024 session Monday, picking up where it left off at the end of its 2023 session in April. The short 60-day convening means fast-paced work to pass supplemental operating and capital budgets and any policy bills.
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