Tomorrow marks the passage of another major deadline in the Legislature. All bills, from the opposite chamber, must have moved out of policy committees either to an appropriation committee or the floor by the end of day.

The last two weeks have been a rush of activity as the House and Senate consider what bills to move forward through the process.

Several bills have been considered that will impact higher education. Legislators have heard public comment on bills ranging from mentoring programs at higher education institutions to efforts to provide great flexibility for higher education with regard to purchasing and contracts.

A handful of these bills are moving forward in the process and the fate of several more will be know after 5:00 p.m. tomorrow. Among the bills that have passed tomorrow’s deadline is legislation that would ease the transfer of advanced placement credits and other pre-college credits from high school to college and a bill that would restructure Washington’s Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) program.