SENATE BILL REPORT

                            SB 5968

   AS REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ON WAYS & MEANS, MARCH 31, 1993

Brief Description:  Making appropriations.

SPONSORS: Senators Rinehart and Gaspard; by request of Office of Financial Management

SENATE COMMITTEE ON WAYS & MEANS

Majority Report:  That Substitute Senate Bill No. 5968 be substituted therefor, and the substitute bill do pass. 

     Signed by Senators Rinehart, Chairman; Spanel, Vice Chairman; Bauer, Gaspard, Hargrove, Niemi, Owen, Pelz, Quigley, Snyder, Sutherland, Talmadge, Williams, and Wojahn.

Staff:  Steve Jones (786‑7440)

Hearing Dates: March 30, 1993; March 31, 1993

BACKGROUND:

The operations of the agencies and institutions of state government are funded by an omnibus appropriations act that authorizes specified expenditures for each state agency for the two-year fiscal period beginning on July 1 of odd-numbered years.  Appropriations are made from the state General Fund as well as numerous other dedicated funds and accounts.  Separate appropriations bills are enacted for transportation agencies and for capital construction projects.

SUMMARY:

The omnibus biennial appropriations act is enacted for the fiscal period beginning July 1, 1993, and ending June 30, 1995.  Total state General Fund appropriations under Governor Lowry's budget proposal for the 1993-95 fiscal biennium are $16.3 billion.

EFFECT OF PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE:

Appropriations are revised.  Total state General Fund appropriations are $16.0 billion.

Appropriation:  yes

Revenue:  none

Fiscal Note:  none requested

Effective Date:  July 1, 1993