Brief Description: Making 2003-05 and 2005-07 operating appropriations.

Sponsors: Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Prentice and Zarelli; by request of Governor Gregoire).

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 2005-07 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      25   23
House      55   41   (House amended)
Senate            (Senate refused to concur)

Conference Committee
House      56   42
Senate      25   22

Effective: May 17, 2005
         June 30, 2005 (Section 931)
         July 1, 2006 (Section 923)

Partial Veto Summary: The Governor vetoed sixteen sections or subsections of the operating appropriations bill. For additional information see www.leg.wa.gov.