Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen has kept her bill alive to get a state college built in Snohomish County.
The Senate Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee split along party lines in endorsing the legislation to establish a four-year university somewhere in the county at some point in the future.
The bill does not specify whether UW or WSU or some other university will run the college if it ever gets built.
“It’s a major step getting it out of the committee,” Haugen said. “This is really a bill about the future. We know we can’t move forward today with a college but this will give us hope for the future.”
Two other Senate bills dealing with the launch of a new college died in the same Senate panel. So did a bill converting Bellevue Community College into a four-year university.
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