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May 2, 2016
OPB Briefs: 2016 Bill Summary and 2016 Fiscal Note Summary Now Available
OPB has posted two summaries concerning the 2016 legislative session to the Briefs tab of our website: The 2016 Bill Summary lists the bills OPB tracked during session that were passed by the legislature. Links to veto messages are provided for bills that were vetoed or partially vetoed by the Governor. Of the nearly 600 bills…
April 18, 2016
Updated OPB Brief: Governor Action on 2016 Compromise Supplemental Operating and Capital Budgets
On April 18, Governor Inslee signed the final compromise operating budget after vetoing several sections. One of the Governor’s vetoes reversed a plan to convert activities conducted by the Office of Financial Management (OFM) into a “central service.” As a result of the veto, the UW will no longer be billed approximately $2.03 million from…
March 30, 2016
OPB Brief: Final 2016 Supplemental Operating and Capital Budgets
The 2016 Legislature concluded its business having passed supplemental operating and capital budgets before the scheduled close of the 30-day special session. Please see the OPB brief for a detailed overview of the final compromise budgets. While the compromise operating budget includes $3.513 million in additional biennial funding to “true up” the tuition backfill associated…
March 14, 2016
Special Session and Senate Second Supplemental Budget Offer
The House and Senate did not come to an agreement on a 2016 supplemental budget by the end of the 60-day regular session, which was slated to end March 10. Several news outlets reported the tense ending, which featured Governor Inslee vetoing 27 bills (see an example here). The Governor convened a 30-day special session,…
February 22, 2016
2016 Supplemental Budget – House Appropriations Committee Proposal
Earlier today, the leadership in the House Appropriations Committee released their 2016 supplemental operating budget proposal. Toward the end of this week, the leadership in the Senate Ways & Means Committee will release their budget. Following that release, we will post a brief here outlining the differences between Governor Inslee’s proposed budget and the House…
January 25, 2016
New York expands student loan forgiveness program to include lower earners
New York state has recently instituted the “Get on Your Feet” loan forgiveness program in an effort to keep young college graduates living and working in the state. The program, originally introduced as a part of Governor Cuomo’s 2015 Opportunity Agenda, is designed to help struggling recent graduates in the state pay back their student…
December 21, 2015
Governor Inslee’s 2016 Supplemental Operating and Capital Budgets
Governor Jay Inslee released his supplemental operating and capital budget proposals on Thursday, both of which include technical corrections and minor appropriation changes to the current 2015-17 biennial budgets (fiscal years 2016 and 2017). This budget release marks the first step of the 2016 legislative session – set to begin on Monday, January 11, 2016….
July 6, 2015
2015-17 Final State Operating and Capital Budgets
Leadership in both House and Senate passed a compromise operating budget in the form of Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6052. All of higher education including financial aid would receive $3.5 billion of Near General Fund (NGF) for the biennium which is 9.2 percent of the overall NGF appropriation of $38.2 billion. The compromise budget adopts the…
June 2, 2015
Special Session 2015-17 House “Offer” Operating Budget Proposal
Leadership in the House Committee released a new Operating budget proposal in the form of P2SHB 1106 as a counter offer to the Senate budget released last week. This proposal still differs from the Senate budget and varies slightly from the engrossed House operating budget, ESHB 1106. All of higher education (including financial aid) would…
April 9, 2015
2015-17 Senate Capital & Engrossed Senate Operating Budget
The Senate capital budget appropriates $102 million in new funding from the State Building Construction Account, which is significantly more than the House capital budget appropriation of $41 million. Here are some of the major funding items from the Senate capital budget: $32.5 million for computer science and engineering expansion. $16 million for UW Tacoma…
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