CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5182

                        54th Legislature

                      1995 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate April 17, 1995   YEAS 43   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House April 4, 1995   YEAS 95   NAYS 2

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5182 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Secretary

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                            SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5182

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                              AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

                     Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session

State of Washington              54th Legislature             1995 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Government Operations (originally sponsored by Senators Haugen, Winsley, Hale, Deccio and Palmer)

Read first time 02/22/95.

Allowing county fiscal biennium budgets.

     AN ACT Relating to county fiscal biennium budgets; and adding a new section to chapter 36.32 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 36.32 RCW to read as follows:

     In lieu of adopting an annual budget, the county legislative authority of any county may adopt an ordinance providing for biennial budgets with a mid-biennium review and modification for the second year of the biennium.  The county legislative authority may repeal such an ordinance and revert to adopting annual budgets for a period commencing after the end of a biennial budget cycle.   The county legislative authority of a county with a biennial budget cycle may adopt supplemental and emergency budgets in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as the county legislative authority in a county with an annual budget cycle.

     The procedure and steps for adopting a biennial budget shall conform with the procedure and steps for adopting an annual budget and with requirements established by the state auditor.  The state auditor shall establish requirements for preparing and adopting the mid-biennium review and modification for the second year of the biennium.

     Expenditures included in the biennial budget, mid-term modification budget, supplemental budget, or emergency budget shall constitute the appropriations for the county during the applicable period of the budget and every county official shall be limited in making expenditures or incurring liabilities to the amount of the detailed appropriation item or classes in the budget.

     The county legislative authority shall hold a public hearing on the proposed county property taxes and proposed road district property taxes prior to imposing the property tax levies.

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