SENATE BILL REPORT

                  SSB 5181

              As Passed Senate, January 27, 1999

Title:  An act relating to fiscal matters.

Brief Description:  Making fiscal year 1999 supplemental operating appropriations.

Sponsors:  Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Loveland, West, Brown and Winsley; by request of Governor Locke).

Brief History:

Committee Activity:  Ways & Means:  1/25/99, 1/26/99 [DPS].

Passed Senate, 1/27/99, 43-4.

SENATE COMMITTEE ON WAYS & MEANS

Majority Report:  That Substitute Senate Bill No. 5181 be substituted therefor, and the substitute bill do pass.

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

Staff:  Steve Jones (786-7440)

Background:  The operating expenses of state government and its agencies and programs are funded on a biennial basis by an omnibus operations budget adopted by the Legislature in odd-numbered years.  The budget for the 1997-99 fiscal biennium was adopted by the 1997 Legislature and a supplemental budget was adopted in 1998.

State operating expenses are paid from the state General Fund and from various dedicated funds and accounts.  The 1997 and 1998 Legislatures appropriated $19.084 billion from the state General Fund.

Summary of Bill:  Appropriations from various agencies are modified, with a net increase of $50.8 million in appropriations from the state General Fund.  For additional information, see "1999 Supplemental Operating & Capital Budget Summary" and "Statewide Summary and Agency Detail" published by the Senate Ways & Means Committee.

Appropriation:  See above.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

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