Today at 5:00 p.m.  the third cut-off of the 2010 session will come to fruition. By end of day today the Senate and House must have moved bills from their chamber of origin to the opposite chamber for consideration.

The Senate and the House have been on the floor since February 10 moving bills forward through the process. Between 25-30% of the bills Evergreen has tracked this session remain active and have moved onto the next step in the process.  Many of these bills have been the focus on the blogs leading up to today.

So what is next. Tomorrow policy committees in both the House and Senate charge full steam ahead on moving bills from the opposite chamber to either the floor or an appropriations committee.  Legislative policy committees will have one week to hold public hearings and executive sessions on the bills referred to their committees.

At the same time those of us on The Hill await the presentation of Governor Gregoires’ proposed plan for revenue.  Word on the street is that Gregoire will release a series of tax proposals to buy back approximately $800 million in state programs and services sometime this week.

In addition, the House and Senate are expected to release their proposed 2010 supplemental budgets soon. Rumor has it the proposed budgets could be released as early as Thursday and as late as Monday.