FINAL BILL REPORT

                 SHB 1010

                          C 94 L 97

                     Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Establishing procedures for federal transportation pass‑through moneys.

Sponsors:  By House Committee on Transportation Policy & Budget (originally sponsored by  Representatives Mitchell, Hankins, Cairnes, Skinner and Mielke).

House Committee on Transportation Policy & Budget

Senate Committee on Transportation

Background:  The Department of Transportation (DOT) serves as the conduit for federal transportation funds distributed to counties, cities, metropolitan planning organizations, and transit agencies.  The DOT also provides 100 percent reimbursable transportation services for local jurisdictions and private entities.  Both federal pass-through and local reimbursable expenditures must be appropriated in the DOT=s biennial budget.  In the 1997-99 biennium, the DOT will pass through about $255 million of federal funding and provide about $20 million in 100 percent reimbursable services to others.

Summary:  Federal funds that are administered by the Department of Transportation (DOT) and are passed through to municipal corporations or political subdivisions of the state, and moneys that are received as total reimbursement for services provided by the DOT to other entities, are removed from the transportation budget.  To process and account for these expenditures, a new nonappropriated treasury account, named the miscellaneous transportation program account, is created.  The DOT is required to provide an annual report to the Legislative Transportation Committee and the Office of Financial Management on expenditures and full-time equivalents processed through this account.

Votes on Final Passage:

House950

Senate450

Effective: July 1, 1997