FINAL BILL REPORT

ESSB 5404

PARTIAL VETO

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Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description: Making 2003-05 operating appropriations.

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

Senate Committee on Ways & Means

House Committee on Appropriations

Background: Appropriations for the operations of state government and its various agencies and institutions are made on the basis of a fiscal biennium that begins on July 1 of each odd-numbered year.

Summary: Appropriations are made for the 2003-05 fiscal biennium.

For additional information, see the Statewide Summary & Agency Detail published by the Senate Ways & Means Committee.

Detailed information is also available at www.leg.wa.gov/senate/scs/wm.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate       28  20

House       52  46  (House amended)

First Special Session

Conference Committee

Senate       28  19

House       67  30

Effective: June 26, 2003

Partial Veto Summary: The Governor vetoed 14 sections or parts of sections (appropriation items) in the omnibus appropriations act. The net effect of the 14 vetoes is to increase state appropriations by $23.3 million.