In another turn of events, Democrats in the Washington House of Representatives introduced a new budget this morning.

The House Democrats introduced a striking amendment to the Senate supplemental budget. This striker, if passed on the House floor, will replace the Senate Republican language adopted late last week when Republicans took control of the budget on the Senate floor. If passed in the House, it will move back to the Senate where Democrats must find one additional vote to move it forward.

This new budget looks much the same as the Senate Democratic budget introduced early last week in that there are no additional cuts to higher education. However, there is language in the bill that requires Evergreen to use $639,000 of its own appropriations solely for the expansion in enrollments in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). There are no cuts to financial aid.