The Legislature enters the eighth week of its 105 day session today and as of this morning will spend the next 10 days voting bills off the floor of the House and Senate. Below you’ll find a few odds and ends to start the week. You’ll find a listing of all bills that survived Friday’s […]
The House Appropriations Committee tonight gave the WSU medical school bill a do pass recommendation, sending it to the Rules Committee where it will await a vote of the full House of Representatives. House Bill 1559 passed out on a 24-9 vote. The Senate version of the bill passed out of the Senate Ways & Means […]
WSU testified before the House Appropriations Committee last night in a final push to move its medical school bill HB 1559 through the committee before this Friday’s deadline. This comes a day after HB 1559’s companion bill SB 5487 was given a do-pass recommendation on a 21-0 vote and referred to Rules during Tuesday’s night’s Senate […]
Today marked the first in a series of legislative deadlines that regulates the flow of bills during the course of session. All policy bills had to be moved out of their policy committee in order to stay alive. Among the advancing bills that WSU is tracking are bills in the House and Senate authorizing WSU […]
WSU President Elson Floyd visited the capitol this week to testify before the Senate Ways & Means committee on SB 5487, a piece of legislation that would amend a nearly 100-year old statute and give WSU the clearance to establish a medical school. Video of President Floyd’s testimony can be viewed below.
It was a zoo today in Olympia as about 150 WSU students from across the state descended on the state Capitol to talk with legislators and press their legislative agenda. The Associated Students of Washington State University stages its Coug Day event every year to help drum up support for higher education and articulate student […]
Identical bills authorizing WSU to establish a medical school were passed out of the higher education committees in the state House and Senate today. House Bill 1559 was given a do pass recommendation on a 12-1 vote and Senate Bill 5487 was given a do pass recommendation on a 6-1 vote. Both bills still have […]
The board of regents approved designs last week for WSU’s top capital budget priority, the development of a University Center in North Puget Sound. The Herald Business Journal featured an article on the construction plans and deadlines for the project, also including WSU’s recent developments in Everett. You can read the article here.
Legislation that would allow WSU to establish an independently accredited school of medicine was heard in the House Higher Education Committee this morning. Presenting for WSU were President Elson Floyd and Ken Roberts, acting dean of the WSU College of Medical Science. You can watch the hearing below.
Washington State University President Elson Floyd presented the university’s vision for a community based school of medicine to the Senate Higher Education Committee this afternoon. Bills to authorize WSU to pursue medicine as an academic discipline were introduced in the Legislature this week. Joining Dr. Floyd today was Ken Roberts, acting dean of WSU’s College […]