It's policy cutoff week

A couple of things that probably won't make it

This Friday marks the first important deadline for the 2023 Legislature — the cutoff for most bills to clear policy committees. We really enjoy these deadlines because it gives us an opportunity to write about how and why ideas die in Olympia. We’ll have more about the survivors and the casualties later in the week. But first, a couple of things that we figure won’t make it:

Rolling back farm overtime pay

Farmhands tilling the earth for more than 40 hours per week can look forward to overtime pay beginning next year under a 2021 law that phases out agriculture’s exemption from overtime. Don’t expect a bill to roll that back to go anywhere this year.