FINAL BILL REPORT

 

                           ESSB 6084

 

                         PARTIAL VETO

 

                          C 303 L 94

 

                      SYNOPSIS AS ENACTED

 

 

Brief Description:  Making transportation appropriations.

 

SPONSORS: Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senator Vognild; by request of Office of Financial Management)

 

SENATE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

 

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

 

 

BACKGROUND:

 

Appropriation authority is required for the expenditure of state funds.  State government operates on the basis of a fiscal biennium that begins on July 1 of each odd-numbered year.  A biennial budget was enacted during the 1993 legislative session.

 

SUMMARY:

 

$122 million is added to the Governor's recommended transportation supplemental budget.  Enhanced funding is provided for the regular category C program, including accelerated work on high occupancy vehicle lanes on non-interstate highways. 

 

$27 million is provided for preliminary engineering and right-of-way on a group of category C projects.  Another group of category C projects will go to construction between now and the end of the biennium.  $93.9 million from the general fund-state is appropriated to the regular category C program. 

 

The Washington State Patrol operating and capital budgets are reduced by nearly $5 million.

 

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

 

Senate    46   2

House     88   0    (House amended)

Senate    46   0    (Senate concurred)

 

EFFECTIVE:April 2, 1994

 

Partial Veto Summary:  Most of the $5 million reductions made in the Washington State Patrol (WSP) were vetoed.  The transfer of the Traffic Safety Commission (TSC) to the Washington State Patrol was also vetoed.  The appropriation authority contained in the WSP supplemental budget for the activities of the TSC will be transferred back to the TSC through OFM's allotment process.

 

The $5 million appropriation to the Community Economic Revitalization Board (CERB) dedicated for transportation infrastructure related to a new horse race track if approved by the Horse Racing Commission is vetoed.

 

There were several other vetoes made by the Governor.