Today marked the last meetings of the higher education policy committees.  Tomorrow, April 1 marks the deadline for policy bills to move to either a fiscal committee or the floor of the opposite chamber.

The Senate Higher Education committee finished its work last week. The House Higher Education completed its work this morning.

The committee advanced five bills including legislation to study cost drivers at public higher education institutions (SB 5133), align state residency requirements with federal requirements (SB 5355), establish a certified public accounting scholarship program (SB 5534), create a task force on sexual violence prevention (SB 5719), and add Everett Community College to the list of approved aerospace training/educational programs (SB 5746).

Policy bills advanced to a fiscal committee must move out of those committees by end of day on April 7.