WA Lege Spec Session: House passes budget, Senate passes tax plan
OLYMPIA -- The Legislature chugged toward adjournment tonight as budgets and tax plans passed by narrow margins.
The Senate just passed the $668 million tax package 25-21, the bare minimum it needed.
About an hour earlier, the House passed the supplemental operating budget with spending, cuts and tax plans to fill the state's estimated $2.8 billion budget gap.
The two houses still have bills to work on, but members are expecting to be done before midnight.