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2SSB 6194 - S AMD 518

By Senator Rolfes

ADOPTED 01/20/2016

    On page 45, after line 27, insert the following:

"NEW SECTION. Sec. 304.  (1) The sum of eighteen million dollars is appropriated for the fiscal biennium ending June 30, 2017, from the general fund to the office of financial management for the purposes of ensuring that the appropriation from the Washington opportunity pathways account in section 303 this act does not reduce the total funding available for the other programs that have received appropriations from the Washington opportunity pathways account.  The office of financial management shall allocate the appropriation in this subsection to (a) the student achievement council for the purposes of the state need grant and college bound scholarship programs; and (b) the department of early learning for the early childhood education and assistance program.

(2) The office of financial management shall place in reserve status eighteen million dollars from Washington opportunity pathways account appropriations in chapter 4, Laws of 2015 3rd sp. sess. to the student achievement council and the department of early learning.  The amount placed in reserve status under this subsection shall remain unallotted and shall not be expended."

 

 

    EFFECT:   Appropriates $18 million from the state General Fund to OFM for allocation to the state need grant program, the college bound program, and the early childhood education and assistance program (ECEAP) to ensure that appropriations from the Opportunity Pathways Account for charter schools does not reduce funding available for those programs.  An equal amount from the Opportunity Pathways Account appropriations to those programs is placed in reserve status.

 

 

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