March 7, 2022
This week the legislature passed two major cutoffs, on Monday, February 28th was the opposite house fiscal cutoff, and Friday, March 4th was the opposite house floor cutoff.
Tag: legislature
March 16, 2020
The 2020 Legislative Session officially adjourned on time on Thursday, March 12th. This was the second half of the biennial budget session in which legislators meet in Olympia for just 60 days to pass policy bills and pass supplemental budgets. Although “short” sessions are historically intended to be limited to making minor budgetary adjustments and […]
March 24, 2014
By Jon Talton, Originally published by Seattle Times It is not true that the recent session of the Washington Legislature failed to accomplish anything. In fact, legislators delivered a sledgehammer to state competitiveness by killing the nearly 20-year-old research and development incentives that have helped Washington keep up with rivals worldwide. Lawmakers also energetically […]
March 10, 2014
UPDATE March 13, 2014 – The legislative bodies are finalizing the supplemental budget and are working on other final outstanding issues. The budget negotiators released their proposed supplemental budget but did not include renewal of the technology sector Research and Development (R&D) incentive program. They did, however, end on a positive note with the Governor’s Clean […]
March 3, 2014
The Legislature is moving in to the final phase of session with opposite House committee cut off Friday. Non-budget bills must have passed out of the opposite chamber policy committee or they are dead for this session. In other words House bills must pass out of Senate policy committee and vice verse. Both the House […]
February 24, 2014
The Legislature has reached the halfway point of session with chamber cut off on Tuesday. All legislation that is not budget related must have passed out of its original Chamber or it is considered dead and will not have any further activity this session. HB 1301/HB 2176 Related to solar incentives and leased solar infrastructure […]
February 3, 2014
Full Report Here Clean energy jobs | Declares an intent to: (1) Attract a vibrant clean technology sector to the state; and (2) Improve the use of tax incentives, created in the act, by state residents and businesses, streamline program administration, and incubate the development of clean energy technology by modifying the existing renewable energy investment cost […]
August 30, 2013
Next meeting of the Climate Legislative and Executive Workgroup is scheduled for September 11, 2013 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in House Hearing Room A on the State Capitol Campus, Olympia. The scheduled three public hearings are: October 16, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. | WSU Spokane School of Nursing – 103 East Spokane Falls Boulevard […]