When the Legislature convenes for the short, 60-day session, it’s usually to make some tweaks to the biennial budgets passed during the previous session, along with some policy work.
Consider that in the first week of regular session, rather than focusing on the projected $1 billion operating budget shortfall, legislators have managed to introduce nearly 500 new bills since Monday. That’s right, 500. Of those, about 15 percent are on the WSSDA watch list.
Education is a hot commodity this session, and you can expect lots of action in committee meetings before the first deadline to move policy bills – tentatively January 31 in the House and February 3 in the Senate.
See the WSSDA Legislative web page Friday, January 13 for the rest of the story.
