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Lawmakers nearly went down to the wire to pass one of Gov. Jay Inslee’s marquee bills on Wednesday as the House and Senate raced toward their 5 p.m. deadline for passing bills to the opposite chamber. It was unclear until late morning which chamber would act on Inslee’s climate change study proposal. But by lunchtime, a watered-down version of Inslee’s proposal – which creates a legislative work group and hires a consultant to consider the state’s options for reducing greenhouse gases – had passed the Senate on a 37-12 vote.