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• Teacher Conditional Scholarships- $2 million • Dual Enrollment Scholarships- $1.6 million • National Guard Scholarships- $1.05 million What else is in the budget?
Oftentimes policy initiatives that don’t make it through the bill process and other initiatives find their way into the budget documents. These directives are good for the two-year duration of the budget bill. Here are some of the activities and directives in the budget. Work Groups: • The Office of the Superintendent for Public Instruction must study and make recommendations on ways to make dual credit programs cost free for low-income students. (Sec. 501(1)(s)). • William D. Ruckelshaus Center must coordinate a work group to make recommendations on improving consistency and accountability in higher education data systems . (Sec. 607(22)). • The budget establishes the Career Connected Learning Cross-Agency Work Group (E2SHB 2158, Sec. 54) Unfunded mandates: The budget requires public baccalaureates to: • grant binding interest arbitration rights to campus police officers. (SB 5022) • employ at least one full-time mental health counselor who has experience working with active members of the military and veterans. (Sec. 603(3)). • print the crisis hotline numbers on Connection Cards. (Sec. 601(6)) • report accounting data to OFM for enhanced transparency. (Sec. 601(9) and Sec. 131(13). SHB 1102 CAPITAL BUDGET Health Sciences: $32 million to complete construction, $3 million more than the legislature had budgeted in previous biennia. The completion phase of this project had been projected to cost $29 million, but CWU staff were able to argue for the need for increased funding due to construction inflation. Health Education: $5 million to design the renovation and expansion of Nicholson Pavilion Minor Works includes small capital projects, each valued at less than $2 million for higher education, and can be completed within one biennium. They are funded in three categories: • Preservation - $7 million for “projects that maintain, preserve, and extend the life of existing state facilities and assets and do not significantly change the facility to address current or anticipated program changes. Examples include renovating building systems, upgrading utility systems, and making other significant repairs.” • Preventive Facility Maintenance & Building System Repairs - $2.422 million • Program - $1 million for projects that “achieve a programmatic goal, such as changing or improving an existing space to meet program requirements.”
2019-2021 State Legislative Summary
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