WSU unveils 2016 legislative agenda

Washington State University’s 2016 legislative agenda, found here, is appropriately modest heading into this year’s 60-day supplemental session.

Gavels fall at noon Monday for a session scheduled to adjourn March 10. The Legislature is tasked, in part, with making mid-term adjustments to the two year budget it approved in July.

The university’s four point agenda includes its two supplemental operating budget requests — $832,000 to establish an academic program and associated research to support Western Washington agriculture and $1 million to expand its network of Small Business Development Centers.

It also includes a call to preserve investments to enhance college affordability and approve new legislation providing regulatory relief for universities.