| 1995 Legislature adjourns after approving capital budget | May 26, 1995 No. 22 |
| May 26, 1995, Taking their 137-day contest into double overtime, legislators adjourned Thursday night. But not before they sunk $65.17
million in general fund state dollars into WSU capital construction
projects. | |
| WSU Praises the 1995 Legislature`s Higher Education Budget | May 25, 1995 No. 21 |
| Washington State University supports the Legislature’s 1995-97 operating budget for higher education as contained in Engrossed
Substitute House Bill 1410 and urges Gov. Mike Lowry to sign it.
The bill was approved by the Legislature Wednesday night. | |
| Four percent tuition hike, $408.3 million WSU operating budget considered by 1995 Legislature | May 23, 1995 No. 20 |
| The 1995 Legislature couldn`t quite wind down its business by midnight Tuesday but lawmakers were preparing for a 2-3 day second special session of the Legislature. There was late-session
agreement on the higher education budget, most notably a decision
to set tuition at a 4 percent per year increase | |
| 1995 budget negotiators agree to full funding of enrollments | May 22, 1995 No. 19 |
| House and Senate operating budget negotiators announced Saturday they had agreed to fully fund enrollment increases at the state`s public colleges and universities. That`s particularly good news for the branch campuses of WSU at Vancouver, Tri-Cities and Spokane, campuses which have often been operating without adequate support services for students. | |
| Higher education issues among the last considered by the 1995 Legislature | May 16, 1995 No. 18 |
| House and Senate budget conferees agreed Monday that higher education
issues would be among the last considered by legislative negotiators
trying to hammer out a compromise 1995-97 operating budget. There
is just one week remaining in this 30-day special session. The
Legislature has been in session for 128 consecutive days. | |
| 1995 Legislature approves veterinary equipment, library network | May 4, 1995 No. 17 |
| A $1.62 million appropriation to complete equipment purchases for the new Washington State University veterinary teaching hospital
and $717,000 for the university`s participation in a state-wide
library network were included in a compromise supplemental operating
budget for this current biennium which passed the State Legislature
this week.
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| 1995 regular session to end without major issues resolved | April 21, 1995 No. 16 |
| As expected, the 1995 regular 105-day session of the Washington
Legislature will end Sunday without major issues resolved. Look
for the governor to call an immediate 30-day special session.
However, lawmakers have cleared the decks on hundreds of smaller
bills. | |
| WSU letter to the 1995 House-Senate budget conference committee | April 20, 1995 No. 15 |
| In priority order, here are the seven major concerns
WSU has asked operating budget conferees to address. | |
| 1995 Senate budget is better for WSU students and employees | April 17, 1995 No. 14 |
| House and Senate leaders are meeting in conference committee
to resolve substantial differences in the way they address state
universities. Whether Legislators decide to follow the Senate
approach or the House approach will make a tremendous difference
in how public higher education is funded for the 1995-97 biennium
and years to come | |
| State House votes in 1995 for high tuition model | April 13, 1995 No. 13 |
| With just 10 days remaining in the regularly scheduled legislative
session, the State House of Representatives rewrote its earlier
tuition policy and narrowly voted 51-43 to provide for increases
in tuition by up to 25 percent during the 1995-97 biennium. Ten
percent of the tuition increase would be considered permanent
with revenues going to the state general fund while up to an additional
15 percent surcharge could be imposed by each institution. | |
| 1995 Senate capital budget provides $64.7 million for WSU Pullman | April 11, 1995 No. 12 |
| The Democratic-controlled Senate has announced
a proposed $64.7 million 1995-97 capital construction budget for
Washington State University with few differences from the $63.1
million House-passed capital budget crafted by Republicans.
These budgets are a bipartisan boost to the WSU branch campuses
which each have identical projects approved in both House and
Senate versions of the construction budget, funding that was not
recommended by Gov. Mike Lowry | |
| Three Republicans support Senate 1995-97 biennial operating budget | April 4, 1995 No. 11 |
| State Sen. Gene Prince, R-Thornton, whose district includes WSU
Pullman, was among three Republicans that joined with the Democratic
majority to pass the Senate operating budget on a 28-19
vote. Also voting for the proposal were Sen. Jeannette Wood,
R-Woodinville, and Sen. Shirley Winsley, R-Fircrest. | |
| WSU supports the Senate pro-education budget proposal | March 30, 1995 No. 10 |
| Senate Ways and Means Chair Nita Rinehart will be asking her committee
to consider today a 1995-97 operating budget that seeks to make
education, from K-12 to higher education, the number one priority
of the State of Washington. | |
| House tuition bill emerges | March 22, 1995 No. 9 |
| The state House Appropriations Committee voted 16-11 along partisan lines Tuesday night for a proposal that will raise tuition for
all students at Washington State University by at least 10.2 percent
or 5 percent annually over the next two years. After 1997,
annual tuition base increases would be 4-6 percent annually. | |
| House capital budget funds WSU Tri-Cities, WSU Vancouver buildings | March 21, 1995 No. 8 |
| A $9.7 million 70,000-square foot Consolidated Information
Center Building at WSU Tri-Cities and a $9.066 million 103,000-square foot Early Childhood Education Building at WSUs new Vancouver
campus have been funded in a state capital construction budget
proposal made public by House Capital Budget Chairman Barry Sehlin,
R-Oak Harbor. | |
| House Republicans unveil 95-97 operating budget proposal | March 20, 1995 No. 7 |
| House Majority Leader Dale Foreman, Appropriations Chair Jean Silver and other members of the Republican caucus made public their 1995-97 biennial budget proposal Monday. | |
| WSU pushes for critical K-12, higher education projects | February 11, 1995 No. 6 |
| In testimony before the House Capital Budget Committee, Washington
State University has urged House members to take one-time supplemental
operating budget reserves available for this current biennium
and spend more of them on K-12 school construction projects.
Additional cash spending for K-12 school projects will allow the
state to match voter-approved school bond elections across the
state. | |
| Senate poised to pass Rinehart tuition bill | February 3, 1995 No. 5 |
| State general fund monies for higher education should increase
if tuition increases, according to legislation that the State
Senate appears poised to pass. | |
| Overall state general fund grows about 20 times the rate proposed for higher education | January 19, 1995 No. 4 |
| Jan. 19, 1995, In testimony before the Senate Ways and Means Committee, House
Higher Education Committee and Senate Higher Education Committee
this week, Washington State University called for legislators
to first consider stabilizing general state funding for higher
education before assessing tuition increases on students.
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| Governor Mike Lowry`s capital budget announced | December 19, 1994 No. 3 |
| Construction funds for a new $17.1 million engineering building,
a $6.5 million Animal Science Building, a state-of the art wheat
research facility, and expansion of physical education facilities
to achieve gender equity highlight a $60.8 million Washington
State University state capital budget recommended today by Gov.
Mike Lowry. | |
| Governors operating budget plan released | December 19, 1994 No. 2 |
| Governor Mike Lowry today proposed a 1995-97 operating budget that provides for additional enrollment at the four WSU campuses. The Governor said the baby boom-echo has now reached college
age. He went on to say he expects another 50,000 college
age students within the next 15 years. | |
| Gov. Mike Lowry sponsors business and occupation tax credit for higher education | December 14, 1994 No. 1 |
| Firms which donate to state financial aid programs at WSU and
other public institutions will be eligible for business and occupation
tax credits under a proposal unveiled by the governor to the capitol
press corps.
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