SENATE BILL REPORT
ESSB 6002
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As Passed Senate, February 27, 2014
Title: An act relating to fiscal matters.
Brief Description: Making 2014 supplemental operating appropriations.
Sponsors: Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Hill and Hargrove; by request of Governor Inslee).
Brief History:
Committee Activity: Ways & Means: 1/15/14, 2/25/14, 2/26/14 [DPS, DNP].
Passed Senate: 2/27/14, 41-8.
SENATE COMMITTEE ON WAYS & MEANS |
Majority Report: That Substitute Senate Bill No. 6002 be substituted therefor, and the substitute bill do pass.
Signed by Senators Hill, Chair; Baumgartner, Vice Chair; Honeyford, Capital Budget Chair; Hargrove, Ranking Member; Keiser, Assistant Ranking Member on the Capital Budget; Ranker, Assistant Ranking Member on the Operating Budget; Bailey, Becker, Billig, Braun, Dammeier, Fraser, Frockt, Hatfield, Hewitt, Padden, Parlette, Rivers, Schoesler and Tom.
Minority Report: Do not pass.
Signed by Senator Hasegawa.
Staff: Steve Jones (786-7440)
Background: The operating expenses of the state government and its agencies and programs are funded on a biennial basis by an omnibus operations budget adopted by the Legislature in odd-numbered years. In subsequent legislative sessions, a supplemental budget is adopted, making various modifications to agency appropriations. State operating expenses are paid from the state general fund and from various dedicated funds and accounts.
Summary of Engrossed Substitute Bill: The 2013-15 biennial appropriations for the various agencies and programs of the state are modified. Detailed information is posted on the website of the Senate Ways & Means Committee: http://www.leg.wa.gov/Senate/Committees/WM/Pages/default.aspx.
Appropriation: Various appropriations.
Fiscal Note: Not requested.
[OFM requested ten-year cost projection pursuant to I-960.]
Committee/Commission/Task Force Created: Yes.
Effective Date: The bill contains an emergency clause and takes effect immediately.