WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
2017-19 Operating Budget
2017-2019 OPERATING BUDGET SIDE-BY-SIDE
| $ in millions | State Appropriations | |
| WSU Request Budget | Compromise Budget | |
| 2017-19 Maintenance Level | $ 451.1 | $ 449.4 |
| Medical Student Education | $ 10.8 | $ 10.0 |
| Retention, Compensaion, Benefits | $ 37.9 | $ 15.4 |
| Center for Engineering & Science in Advaned Manufacturing and Materials | $ 5.0 | - |
| M&O for New Facilities | $ 1.0 | - |
| Research for Spokane - One Health | $ 1.2 | - |
| State Backfill for Tution Freeze | - | - |
| Resident Undergraduate/STEM Enrollment | - | - |
| Tuition Waiver Reduction | - | $ (1.6) |
| Children's Mental Health Residency | - | $ 0.6 |
| Other | - | $ 2.8 |
| Total 2017-19 Biennial Budget (State Appropriations) | $ 507.6 | $ 476.6 |
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ENACTED 2017-19 BIENNIAL BUDGET
The legislature reconvened for a third special session on June 21st and on June 30th the compromise 2017-19 biennial operating budget was enacted.
Key provisions of Substitute Senate Bill 5883 are described below.
Operating Budget
In summary, the budget:
- Assumes inflationary increases in resident undergraduate tuition of 2.2% in FY 2018 and 2.0% in FY 2019.
- Funds $10.0M of WSU’s $10.8M request for funding to support the first class of 60 students at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine beginning fall of 2017.
- Provides for salary increases for state employees for both years of the biennium.
- Provides funding for implementation of Initiative 1433, which increases the minimum wage incrementally beginning January 2017 through 2020.
- Reduces the General Fund-State appropriation to WSU by $1.6M and assumes a reduction in tuition waivers to offset the reduction in state support.
- Provides $1.5M to the WSU College of Veterinary Medicine to develop an elk hoof disease-monitoring program.
- Suspends $1.0M in new marijuana research funding.
- Funds a twenty-four month child and adolescent psychiatry residency position in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine.
- Funds an assessment of the State’s growth management framework by the William D. Ruckelshaus Center
- Increases the state employee health insurance funding rate from $888/month to $913/month per employee in fiscal year 2018 and to $957/month per employee in fiscal year 2019.
- Expands the State Need Grant program to serve an additional 875 eligible students annually and awards are increased to keep pace with the assumed tuition increases.
WSU 2017-19 Biennial Budget Requested Submitted to OFM