SENATE BILL REPORT

                                   ESHB 1427

           AS REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ON WAYS & MEANS, APRIL 24, 1991

Brief Description:  Adopting the capital budget.

SPONSORS:House Committee on Capital Facilities & Financing (originally sponsored by Representatives H. Sommers and Schmidt; by request of Governor Gardner).

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON CAPITAL FACILITIES & FINANCING

SENATE COMMITTEE ON WAYS & MEANS

Majority Report:  Do pass as amended.

      Signed by Senators McDonald, Chairman; Craswell, Vice Chairman; Bailey, Bauer, Bluechel, Cantu, Gaspard, Hayner, Johnson, Matson, Newhouse, Rinehart, Saling, L. Smith, and West.

Staff:  Mike Groesch (786‑7715)

Hearing Dates:April 24, 1991

BACKGROUND:

Expenditures of money for design, construction, and other capital purposes relating to the facilities of the agencies and institutions of state government are authorized by the Legislature for fiscal periods of two years, beginning on July 1 in odd-numbered years.  These expenditures are financed either by cash revenue to the state's funds and accounts or by the issuance of general obligation bonds payable over a period of up to 20 years.

SUMMARY:

Appropriations from the state building construction account and other special funds and accounts are made for the capital facilities of state government for the fiscal biennium beginning July 1, 1991 and ending June 30, 1993.  The capital budget contains both new appropriations and reappropriations of amounts that remain unexpended from the 1989-91 fiscal biennium.

Appropriation:  $1.86 billion new appropriations

 $1.24 billion reappropriations

Revenue:  none

Fiscal Note:  none requested

Effective Date:  The bill contains an emergency clause and takes effect immediately.

EFFECT OF PROPOSED SENATE AMENDMENT:

Various appropriations and capital projects are modified.  New appropriations are $1.54 billion; reappropriations are $1.22 billion.

TESTIMONY FOR:  None

TESTIMONY AGAINST:  None

TESTIFIED:  No one