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Originally published Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 12:26 PM

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Wash. lawmakers push reforms as budget looms

With the Washington state Legislature having passed a key deadline for advancing non-budgetary bills, some prominent measures are still in play while others appear to be dead.

Associated Press

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OLYMPIA, Wash. —

With the Washington state Legislature having passed a key deadline for advancing non-budgetary bills, some prominent measures are still in play while others appear to be dead.

Among those surviving the Wednesday cutoff are a package of business friendly changes to workers' compensation rules, a bill to require most insurers to pay for abortions and one creating a firearms offender registry accessible by law enforcement.

Those that didn't make the cut include a high-profile bill to mandate universal background checks for all gun purchases, a measure to allow small businesses to pay some workers a temporary training wage and a proposal to require minors seeking an abortion to first notify a parent.

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