Transportation & Public Works
Senate Transportation Budget Released
Senate Releases Proposed 2017-19 Transportation Budget The Senate released its nearly $8.7 billion spending plan for the 2017-19 biennium today. The plan includes an increase of $166 million over the February 2016 forecast. The budget provides $9.7 million for 2017-19 along with $25.1 million in direct distributions to counties that was adopted under the Connecting Washington Act in 2015. These funds are in addition
Transportation & Public Works Update
Legislative Update: March 10, 2017 The legislature reached the cutoff where bills needed to pass out of the house of origin over to the opposite chamber for hearings. Attention will now turn to the state budget. The budget is expected to be out shortly after the new state revenue forecast comes out next week. There are a couple of
Transportation & Public Works Update (2-28-17)
The legislature’s fiscal bill cutoff was Friday, February 2oth, so several bills have been moved to the dead bill list. Several infrastructure financing bills did not make it past cutoff. The Senate is focused on passing SB 5033 (Keiser), which gives authority to the Public Works Board to develop a bond-pooling program. This bond-pooling program requires a constitutional amendment to put
Transportation & Public Works Update (2-20-17)
The 2017 legislative session passed its first cut-off milestone last Friday at which time policy bills needed to be reported out of committee. Fiscal bills, including transportation and capital budget committee bills have until Friday, February 24th to get their bills reported out of committee. HB 1367, which allows counties to spend public funds on private roads, did not make