HOUSE BILL REPORT

                 SSB 5968

                  As Passed House - Amended

                       April 16, 1993

Title:  An act relating to fiscal matters.

Brief Description:  Making appropriations.

Sponsors:  Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Rinehart and Gaspard; by request of Office of Financial Management).

Brief History:

  Reported by House Committee on:

Appropriations, April 14, 1993, DPA;

  Passed House - Amended, April 16, 1993, 57-41.

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

Majority Report:  Do pass as amended.  Signed by 18 members:  Representatives Locke, Chair; Valle, Vice Chair; Appelwick; Basich; Dellwo; Dorn; Dunshee; G. Fisher; Jacobsen; Lemmon; Leonard; Linville; Peery; Rust; Sommers; Wang; Wineberry; and Wolfe.

Minority Report:  Do not pass.  Signed by 9 members:  Representatives Silver, Ranking Minority Member; Carlson, Assistant Ranking Minority Member; Ballasiotes; Cooke; Morton; Sehlin; Sheahan; Stevens; and Talcott.

Staff:  Victor Moore (786-7143).

Background:  The state government operates on the basis of a fiscal biennium that begins on July 1 of each odd numbered year.

Summary of Bill:  The 1993-95 omnibus appropriations act.

Appropriation:  Yes.