{"id":256,"date":"2015-02-10T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/extra\/?p=256"},"modified":"2025-10-08T15:51:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:51:44","slug":"wsu-medical-school-bills-pass-first-test-in-olympia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/campus-community\/wsu-medical-school-bills-pass-first-test-in-olympia\/","title":{"rendered":"WSU Medical School Bills Pass First Test in Olympia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-spokane\/uploads\/sites\/456\/2015\/01\/WashingtonStateCapitol.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-190\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-spokane\/uploads\/sites\/456\/2015\/01\/WashingtonStateCapitol-396x297.jpg\" alt=\"Washington State Capitol\" width=\"528\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-spokane\/uploads\/sites\/456\/2015\/01\/WashingtonStateCapitol-396x297.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-spokane\/uploads\/sites\/456\/2015\/01\/WashingtonStateCapitol.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/billinfo\/summary.aspx?bill=1559&amp;year=2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Bill 1559<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/billinfo\/summary.aspx?bill=5487&amp;year=2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 5487<\/a> &#8211; both of which would\u00a0allow WSU to operate a medical school at WSU Spokane &#8211; both passed their respective committees today.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Marcus Riccelli (D-Spokane) sponsored the bill in the House, while Senator Michael Baumgartner (R-Spokane) sponsored the bill in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>There is still a lot of road ahead, and the process is ongoing, but today&#8217;s actions were positive steps for our university.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about WSU&#8217;s pursuit of a medical school, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>medicine.wsu.edu<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Bill 1559 and Senate Bill 5487 &#8211; both of which would\u00a0allow WSU to operate a medical school at WSU Spokane &#8211; both passed their respective committees today. Representative Marcus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":[],"featured_media":190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1513],"tags":[472,474,504,446,447],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5296,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/5296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}