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SSB 5403 - S AMD 003

By Senator Fairley

NOT ADOPTED 01/29/03

On page 72, after line 15, insert the following and adjust the total appropriation accordingly:

General Fund--State Appropriation (FY 2003)..........$15,351,000"

On page 75, beginning on line 4, strike all material down to and including "act." on line 6 and insert the following:

"(9) The health care authority shall admit new enrollees to the subsidized basic health plan sufficient to maintain an average monthly enrollment of 140,575 persons after the effective date of this 2003 act."

On page 174, after line 24, insert the following:

"NEW SECTION. Sec. 707. A new section is added to 2001 2^nd sp.s. c 7 (uncodified) to read as follows:

The office of financial management shall uniformly reduce allotments for all agencies for salaries, wages, benefits, and other costs associated with general fund--state expenditures for members of the Washington management service by $15,351,000 from 2001-03 biennial general fund--state appropriations. The general fund allotment reduction shall be placed in unalloted status and remain unexpended."

Renumber the sections consecutively and correct any internal references accordingly.

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EFFECT: Restores funding to maintain current enrollments in the Basic Health Plan. The $15.3 million cost of this item is offset by an across-the-board reduction in state agency GF-S expenditures for FTE staff in the Washington Management Service.