Budget proposals (cutting BHP by 42-43%)

[uppityperson]

http://leap.leg.wa.gov/leap/budget/detail/proposals.asp

[eridani]

1. Jeebus. We need an income tax n/t

[uppityperson]

2. There are links to pdfs from house and senate there, just checked bhp

because I am very interested in health care. Need to check education also. It looks bad.

Tuition, higher ed
Senate:
"In keeping with core provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the proposed
Senate budget uses $99.5 million of federal stimulus funds to assure that resident undergraduate tuition goes up by no more than the 7 percent and 5 percent annual levels. Without the federal funds, tuition would need to increase by 14 percent each year at the public four-year institutions and by 10 percent each year at the community and technical colleges in order to sustain the enrollment and outcome levels in the Senate budget."

2-4% less students

House:
The Legislature authorizes higher education institutions to implement no greater than
10 percent tuition increases at the research and regional institutions and no greater
than 7 percent tuition increases at the community and technical college system for
each year of the biennium. This results in an estimated additional $231.3 million in
tuition revenues collected during the 2009-11 biennium.