The state Senate Ways and Means Committee considered legislation Monday that would ask voters whether to dedicate two thirds of new state revenue for K-12 education, early learning programs and higher education. New revenue would include existing fund balances, adjusted for any transfers to or from the state general fund and related funds, but exclude […]
Last Thursday the Association for Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) Council for Government Affairs (CGA) kicked off their winter meeting. The conference provided a series of panel discussions around federal priorities and important opportunities for the APLU community. During the course of the conference Glynda Becker, Director of the Office of Federal Relations, led a […]
The state Senate Friday passed an amended version of House Bill 2613 off the floor with a vote of 49-0. The amendment would match the House bill to its Senate companion Senate Bill 6362. The legislation would streamline reporting requirements and reduce inflationary costs on some construction projects, improving efficiency in business practices. You can […]
The state Senate today approved a resolution honoring the 1915 Washington State College football team, which went undefeated and won the 1916 Rose Bowl. Current coach Mike Leach watched from the rostrum and spoke to the chamber during a morning visit featuring brief visits with legislators. You can read the Spokesman-Review’s coverage here. Senate Resolution […]
The state House of Representatives voted its proposed operating and capital budgets off the chamber floor this afternoon. The House proposed operating budget passed with a vote of 53-44 and the House proposed capital budget passed with a vote of 92-4. The operating proposal funds WSU’s top legislative request for $750,000, $500,000 of which would […]
The state Senate on Tuesday voted Senate Bill 6518 off the floor with a vote of 47-0. The measure would transfer one Innovate Washington building in Spokane to Washington State University as well as the master lease to another. Created in 2011, Innovate Washington is the successor agency to the Washington Technology Center and Spokane […]
The state Senate on Thursday passed their proposed operating budget, Senate Bill 6002, off the floor with a vote of 41-8 and on Friday passed their proposed capital budget, Senate Bill 6020, with a vote of 31-18. WSU’s top operating and top capital budget requests were funded in the Senate proposals: $750,000 to WSU, $500,000 […]
On Wednesday budget writers in the state House of Representatives released their proposed capital budget and presented their proposed supplemental operating budget, which provides funding for WSU’s top legislative priority. As in the state Senate’s proposed operating budget, the House proposal would allocate $750,000 to WSU to provide a state match for grant funding WSU […]
On Monday, several Washington State University (WSU) faculty members participated in a wine roundtable hosted by Congresswoman Suzan Delbene. Dr. Stephen Jones, director of the WSU Mount Vernon Research and Extension Center, Dr. Carol Miles, a researcher at the WSU Mount Vernon Research and Extension Center and Dr. Thomas Henick Kling, director of the WSU […]
Leaders in the state Senate on Monday unveiled proposed supplemental operating and capital budgets that funded WSU’s top legislative priority. The Senate’s proposed operating budget would provide $750,000 to WSU, $500,000 of which would be ongoing funding annually, to provide a match for grant funding WSU will receive as part of its recent designation by […]