On February 25, beginning at 1:00 p.m., the State Board of Education (SBE) will host a special meeting where the Board will review and discuss a draft of emergency rules about the emergency graduation requirements waiver program. The draft is available to the public. The Board will receive public comment, scheduled for 2:00 p.m. SBE will also collect written public comment (email SBE@k12.wa.us).
Recently, the focus has been on floor action and budget negotiations and last week's Opposite House Cutoff (the deadline by when bills must be passed out of the second house). Bills that did not pass are considered “dead” unless they are revived as “Necessary to Implement the Budget” (NTIB).
Bills that have made it this far are very likely to become law; however, there are a few remaining steps in the legislative process:
