SENATE BILL REPORT

                  SHB 1165

              As Reported By Senate Committee On:

                 Ways & Means, April 12, 1999

Title:  An act relating to the capital budget.

Brief Description:  Making appropriations and authorizing expenditures for capital improvements.

Sponsors:  House Committee on Capital Budget (originally sponsored by Representatives Murray, Mitchell, Radcliff, Hankins and O'Brien; by request of Governor Locke).

Brief History:

Committee Activity:  Ways & Means:  4/12/99 [DPA].

SENATE COMMITTEE ON WAYS & MEANS

Majority Report:  Do pass as amended.

  Signed by Senators Loveland, Chair; Bauer, Vice Chair; Brown, Vice Chair; Fairley, Fraser, Honeyford, Kohl-Welles, Long, McDonald, Rasmussen, Roach, Rossi, B. Sheldon, Snyder, Spanel, West, Winsley, Wojahn and Zarelli.

Staff:  Michael Groesch (786-7434)

Background:  The programs and agencies of state government are funded on a two-year basis, with each fiscal biennium beginning on July 1 of odd-numbered years.  The capital budget generally includes appropriations for the acquisition, construction, and repair of capital assets such as land, buildings, and other infrastructure improvements.  Funding for the capital budget is primarily from state general obligation bonds, with other funding derived from various dedicated taxes, fees, and state trust land timber revenues.

Summary of Amended Bill:  The omnibus 1999-01 capital budget authorizes $2 billion in new capital projects, of which $982.6 million is from new state bonds authorized for the 1999-01 biennium.  Reappropriations of $1.2 billion are made for uncompleted projects approved in prior biennia.

The capital budget also authorizes state agencies to undertake various lease-purchase and lease development projects.

Amended Bill Compared to Substitute Bill:  Various appropriations and provisions are changed.  The substitute bill contained $987.6 million in appropriations from new state lands.

Appropriation:  The sum of $982.6 million from general fund-supported bonds and $1.306 billion from other funds for new capital projects for 1999-01.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

Effective Date:  The bill contains an emergency clause and takes effect immediately.

Testimony For:  None.

Testimony Against:  None.

Testified:  No one.