FINAL BILL REPORT

                           ESSB 6244

PARTIAL VETO

                          C 6 L 94 E1

                      SYNOPSIS AS ENACTED

Brief Description:  Making appropriations.

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

SENATE COMMITTEE ON WAYS & MEANS

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

BACKGROUND:

The state government operates on a fiscal biennium that begins on July 1 of each odd-numbered year.  Funds for the 1993-95 operations of the agencies and institutions of state government were appropriated during the 1993 legislative session (Chapter 24, Laws of 1993 sp. sess.).  Proposals for supplemental appropriations are considered during legislative sessions in even-numbered years.

SUMMARY:

Appropriations from the state General Fund and other dedicated funds and accounts for the 1993-95 fiscal biennium for the operations of state agencies and institutions are modified.  Net appropriations from the General Fund are $69 million in the supplemental budget.  Total biennial General Fund expenditures are $16.3 billion.

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

Senate    39   9

House     60   33   (House amended)

Senate             (Senate refused to concur)

First Special Session

Conference Committee

House     54   39

Senate    33   14

EFFECTIVE:April 6, 1994

Partial Veto Summary:  Fourteen partial vetoes were made in the appropriations act.  The Governor vetoed legislative appropriations, or restrictions on expenditures, relating to the long-term care ombudsman program, growth management planning, oil spill education and training, rural economic development, water rights permits, state park fees, warm water fish enhancement, higher education financial aid, and studies or planning for developmental disability services, tax assistance to businesses, statewide collocation of state facilities, and the Employment Security Department's use of computer technology.