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Leaders outline budget trade-offs, charity-care limits and bills on housing, recycling and education
Summary
At a leadership media availability, officials previewed a package of priorities including a review of higher-education scholarship funding, a proposed limit on charity care for nonresidents, delayed housing legislation (HB 2049), recycling bill HB 1607, and discussion of an income-tax proposal and tort-liability assumptions.
Legislative leaders used a media availability to preview budget and policy priorities for the session, addressing higher-education scholarships, charity-care pressures in border communities, a delayed housing bill, a proposed income-tax draft and recycling legislation.
Unidentified Speaker 6 raised a proposal to restore funding to Washington College Grant and College Bound scholarships cut in 2025; Speaker 8 said such restorations would be considered as part of operating-budget planning but it was too early to promise reversals.
Border hospitals and charity care were a focus. Unidentified Speaker 9…
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