Boeing tax-break repeal is still pending as clock ticks down

OLYMPIA, March 9, 2020 —Good Monday morning.

Welcome to the final four days of the regular session. With less than 100 hours to go, the to-do list comes into very sharp focus.

• Agreements on supplemental budgets need to be wrapped up today, or tonight, but certainly by early Tuesday. That’s the only way there will be enough time to get them printed and in front of legislators in time to be voted on by Thursday’s scheduled adjournment.

• Negotiations continued over the weekend on a bill repealing a tax break for the Boeing Co. in hopes of ending a trade dispute There’s no doubt lawmakers want to take it away as the company requested. The conversation is on whether Boeing should face new conditions if it is to ever get the tax break back later.

• The House still needs to take final action on a $100 million emergency funding package to cover costs incurred by state agencies and local health districts responding to the coronavirus crisis. There’s no controversy. It just hasn’t happened yet.

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