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Governor signs $31.6
million appropriations for the Spokane Academic Center; Vetoes Pullman
Wastewater Project.
Supplemental operating budget veto blocks private
institutions from competing for high-demand enrollments. Substitute House
Bill 2707 guides branch campuses. |
April 1, 2004
No. 9 |
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Capital construction
budget - Funding the Spokane Academic Center - Passes Overwhelmingly
Puyallup lands issue settled in late House-Senate
capital compromise. No changes at Buckley. |
March 16, 2004
No. 8 |
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House-Senate Supplemental
Operating Budget Compromise Provides Additional Students for WSU
At least 191 additional students will now have the
opportunity to attend WSU campuses under a House-Senate supplemental operating
budget proposal expected to pass the Legislature today. |
March 11, 2004
No. 7 |
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Full House approves the
Spokane Academic Center building at $31.6 million.
After much maneuvering in caucus, eleven Republicans
joined with most majority Democrats late Monday night to pass through the
state House of Representatives a $31.6 million appropriation to construct the
Spokane Academic Center Building. However, concerns are being raised by the
governor. |
March 9, 2004
No. 6 |
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House stokes operating
budget with research, enrollment funding. Senate sidetracks higher educaiton
enhancements.
State Appropriations Chair Helen Sommers, D-Seattle,
made good her commitment to university education and engineered a supplemental
operating budget that went steaming out of the House loaded with research,
enrollment and financial aid funding. The Senate spent considerably less. |
March 4, 2004
No. 5 |
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House Capital Budget
Committee and Senate Ways and Means proposals include $31.6 million to completely construct the Spokane Academic
Center
State Senate leaders this afternoon released a proposed
capital construction budget bill (SB 6233) that fully funds $31.6 million in
construction of the Academic Center Building. Funding is also provided for the
Pullman Wastewater and WSUNet projects. |
February 27, 2004
No. 4 |
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State House and Senate
supplemental operating and capital budget may be released next week.
State Senate Memorial calls for more federal "Mad Cow"
Research and Testing at WSU |
February 20, 2004
No. 3 |
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Governor, Legislature slide
higher education to the front burner.
Higher education becomes a hot discussion item as the 2004 Legislature warms
up an unusually large pot of supplemental session issues. |
February 11, 2004
No. 2 |
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Governor boosts WSU
enrollments, supports limited phase of the Spokane Academic Center |
December
18, 2003 No. 1 |
