FINAL BILL REPORT

SSB 5403

PARTIAL VETO

C 10 L 03

Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description: Making supplemental operating appropriations.

Sponsors: Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Rossi and Fairley; by request of Governor Locke).

Senate Committee on Ways & Means

House Committee on Appropriations

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. In even-numbered years, a supplemental budget is adopted, making various modifications to agency appropriations.

State operating expenses are paid from the state General Fund and from various dedicated funds and accounts.

Summary: Appropriations for various agencies are modified. For additional information, see "Supplemental Operating Budget Summary" and "Statewide Summary and Agency Detail" published by the Senate Ways & Means Committee.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate       29  20

House       94   1  (House amended)

Senate                   (Senate refused to concur)

Conference Committee

House       95   1

Senate       34  14

Effective: April 9, 2003

Partial Veto Summary: The Governor vetoed four portions of the 2001-03 Supplemental Appropriations Act: (1) an appropriation reduction of $3.8 million for the Children and Family Services Program of the Department of Social and Health Services was vetoed; (2) an appropriation reduction of $433,000 from the State Toxics Control Account to the Department of Agriculture was vetoed; (3) a $10 million reduction in state expenditures for travel, equipment, and personal services contracts was vetoed; and (4) a section restricting the authority of state agencies to create new staff positions or fill vacant positions was vetoed.