Sen. Karen Keiser’s (D-33, Kent) bill to create a healthcare plan that will cover all state residents by 2012 “through the private health care sector” is getting a hearing today at 1:30. (Along with her Plan B bill, this is one of Sen. Keiser’s bills that I hyped in a column this week laying out some high expectations for the Democrats this session.)

Keisers’s co-sponsor on the health care bill is Seattle-area Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D-36, Ballard).

With about 600,000 uninsured adults in Washington, it’s not encouraging that the bill doesn’t identify a funding source.

Another bill in play today—no number yet, so I can’t link it—deals with WASL. The K-12 Education Committee is hearing a bill that looks at “using multiple measures to meet high school requirements.”

I talked to several offices at the beginning of the session last week because I’d heard chatter that there was bi-partisan support to snuff WASL. Everybody was vague about it, though. We’ll see if this bill-without-a-number offers some clarity.

Meanwhile, both the Senate and Transportation committees are meeting this afternoon. These are committees to keep your eyes on.

Last week, I slogged that Senate Transportation Chair, Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen (D-10, Camino Island), was circulating a draft bill that would dissolve Sound Transit.