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| With budget deal in hand, state lawmakers expected to vote Friday | Budget negotiators in the House and Senate reached a handshake agreement on an operating budget Thursday morning, and Gov. Jay Inslee said the pending deal can avert the shutdown of many state services that would have begun Monday. The Senate was poised to start voting on the $33.5… |
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| $33.6B budget gets tentative OK; gives $1B boost to schools | One-hundred and fifty days of contentious budget negotiations — and the threat of a government shutdown — ended Thursday morning with a handshake. |
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| Deal or no deal? Conflicting claims fly as state budget bickering persists | In a sign of just how dysfunctional the state Legislature has become, lawmakers Wednesday argued about whether they had completed a budget deal — or not. |
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| State Legislature nearing a deal, at least on education | State lawmakers are said to be in general agreement about the way forward for the state’s higher education system. When it comes to Olympia, its never real until the votes are counted but this Seattle Times story foreshadows a possible budget deal. Naturally some lawmakers are quoted as saying… |
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| Wash. budget talks now focused on smaller details | Negotiators in Olympia have agreed to the large components of a new state budget and are now working through the smaller details. A spokeswoman for Gov. Jay Inslee said Tuesday there have been no setbacks in the talks and that lawmakers are close to agreement on a final deal. Inslee had… |
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| News from Olympia: None | June 23rd seemed like a perfectly good time to book a wedding in the Capitol Rotunda. |
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| Budget Office releases summaries of state budget proposals | |||
| The big unknowns: Inslee's cabinet unsure of key shutdown questions | The shape of any partial state government shutdown on July 1 is one giant question mark. |
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| Part-time school, college staff may lose state health benefits | Thousands of part-time school employees and college instructors would be switched from state-funded health insurance to Affordable Care Act insurance exchanges under a complicated Senate budget proposal that backers say would save the state up to $57 million over the next two years. … |
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| In case budget doesn’t pass, state readies for shutdown | Gov. Jay Inslee is making plans for a possible government shutdown in case the current state budget expires June 30 without a new one to take its place. |