Feb
25
Today is the first policy committee cutoff in Olympia (fiscal committees have until Monday to act on the bills they receive — expect long hearings in those committees the next few days). All of the UW request bills (simplifying public works, protecting private investment information given to the endowment, making permanent tuition policy for graduate school) remain alive.
Earlier this session we reported on efforts to establish a four-year college in Snohomish County (either a standalone school or a UW branch campus). As of the cutoff, a proposal to create a new four-year school remains alive, but the version approved does not specify governance or when the school would be built. Expect more discussion on this as the session continues.
