Casualties and survivors

After the fiscal cutoff, a look at what died and what lived

The Washington Legislature’s graveyard for dead bills has a few more headstones following a Friday’s fiscal cutoff. Many were ambitious, expensive ideas that fell afoul of the “we can’t afford that” cops in House Appropriations and Senate Ways & Means.

Below we look at the fate of a few bills that we’ve written about before and a few that popped up on our radar during last week’s marathon hearings before Friday’s deadline. Here’s why you should care about this: Bright shiny ideas tend to get a lot of ink when they’re rolled out; their quiet deaths in the labyrinths of the legislative process frequently go unremarked.