Lots and lots of talk about carbon fuels and financial aid

OLYMPIA, Jan. 30, 2020 — Wow, how wacky was Wednesday?

Talkfests broke out in both chambers. And one won’t be finished until today.

In the House, the low carbon-fuel standard bill was the subject of passionate and colorful debate. It went for a couple hours around lunchtime. They took a break and returned to finish at dinner time. To no one’s surprise, House Bill 1110 passed on a 52-44 vote. What might surprise some is that House Majority Leader Pat Sullivan voted against the bill. Last year he was for it.

In the Senate, they labored over Senate Bill 6492, which converts a surcharge on 82,000 businesses to a tax on about 16,000. Money from the tax, which would be collected starting April 1 (no joke), is for financial aid for college students. This is the entitlement program Democratic lawmakers created last year, but to fund it they pushed through a surcharge which is too complicated to administer and doesn’t generate enough money.

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