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Mollie Kuwahara here. I am a Tacoma Community College student and one of the SBCTC’s student legislative interns for the 2024 session. Last Friday, for the first time ever, I testified on a bill.
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.
Legislature adjourns after passing operating, capital budgets
The Legislature adjourned sine die Sunday just after 10 p.m., passing the capital budget on Saturday and the operating budget on Sunday. The Senate also spent time Saturday and Sunday voting to confirm trustees to college boards of trustees and to the State Board.
Strengthening skills throughout the session
Being a person who learns best by seeing and doing, my time serving as a legislative intern this session has been a truly optimal environment for learning and growing both personally and professionally.
With session's end in two days, Legislature awaits budget deals
With sine die just two days away, House and Senate budget writers are expected to release the negotiated capital budget today and the operating budget tomorrow. Look next week for a special edition of Legislative News to see how the budgets will impact community and technical colleges.
Last cutoff passes, session heads into final full week
With just over a week to go in the 2023 legislative session, the House and Senate on Wednesday reached their last major cutoff deadline, when bills coming from the opposite chamber needed to receive a vote. Community and technical college system-supported bills on dual credit, College Bound Schol...
College system-supported bills moving as session passes last committee cutoff
Tuesday marked the last committee cutoff of the 2023 legislative session when bills with a fiscal impact needed to be voted out of those committees in order to continue in the legislative process. For the community and technical college system, bills on Running Start, nursing education, data shar...
Finding the momentum to fight burnout
Some big “ends” are rapidly approaching, which means new beginnings as well. My last quarter at Columbia Basin College just began, which is exciting and terrifying because it means beginning the next part of my journey.
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