New tax revenue
- $1.6 billion from an increase in the state property tax earmarked for education.
• $431.8 million from expansion of online sales-tax collections.
• $15.6 million from eliminating tax breaks on bottled water and extracted fuels.
New spending
• $1.8 billion added to public schools.
• $618 million for state-worker pay raises.
• $102 million to improve Washington’s troubled mental-health system.
• $75 million added to higher education.
• $25 million to expand early-childhood education.
• $6.3 million to create a new state Department of Children, Youth and Families.
• $4.6 million to fund a clean-air program that caps carbon emissions from a handful of businesses.
• $3.2 million to the Department of Corrections to hire records staffers and beef up its IT systems in the wake of a long-running mistaken release of prisoners.
resource: seattletimes.com

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