Good Government

Senator Testin

MAKING YOUR STATE GOVERNMENT WORK FOR YOU

• $1.5 billion in total tax relief
• Cut more than 300 positions from state government
• Substantive reform to the UW system including:
  • Extending the current hiring freeze to stop administrative bloat
  • Implementing a faculty workload requirement to get more resources into the classroom
  • Requiring systemwide credit transferability for general education requirements
• $8 million cut to the UW general operations budget to offset more targeted investments
• $1 million shift from DPI general operations to the JFC supplemental to right size the education bureaucracy
• Prohibiting state employees from cashing out their compensatory time
• $50 million GPR cut to the Medicaid cost-to-continue, to right-size the governor’s estimates. Total fiscal estimate of more than $250 million annually.
• Two-year pilot program to ease the regulatory burden on child care centers to open more slots
• Eliminated the sales tax on residential electricity and natural gas