1694-S.E AMS ZARE MOOR 014

ESHB 1694 - S AMD TO S COMM AMD (S-1682.2) 11

By Senator Zarelli

NOT ADOPTED 2/13/2009

    On page 302, after line 29 of the Ways & Means Committee Amendment, insert the following:

    "NEW SECTION.  Sec. 706.  AGENCY ALLOTMENT REDUCTIONS.  The office of financial management shall reduce allotments from fiscal year 2009 state general fund and related funds appropriations for state agencies and institutions by $99,710,000 to reflect the elimination of expenditures as specified in this section.  The allotment reductions required by this section shall be placed in unallotted status and remain unexpended.  The allotment reductions shall reflect the following expenditure reductions, restrictions, and eliminations:

    (1) No new enrollments in the basic health plan as of the effective date of this section;

    (2)  Termination of any expenditures for tobacco prevention or smoking cessation programs in the department of health;

    (3)  A freeze of all salary increases for state employees pursuant to a declaration of a significant revenue shortfall pursuant to RCW 41.80.010(6), which the legislature hereby declares;

    (4)  Limiting enrollments in the children's health program to families whose income do not exceed 250 percent of the federal poverty level;

    (5)  In institutions of higher education, a reduction of state support of tuition waivers by ten percent;

    (6)  Verification of medical assistance eligibility at least once every six months;

    (7)  Limiting children's health program benefits for undocumented children to the level provided under the basic health plan;

    (8)  Elimination of noncitizen coverage under the basic health plan;

    (9)  Elimination of expenditures from the auto theft prevention authority account by the criminal justice training commission;

    (10) Elimination of the 2007 and 2008 enhancements in state funding for family planning programs;

    (11)  Elimination of the 2007 vendor rate increases for behavioral rehabilitation services, crisis residential services, and secure crisis residential centers;

    (12)  Health care authority termination of dual medicaid and basic health plan enrollments;

    (13)  Elimination by the department of health of universal coverage of the five most-costly vaccines and phase-in discontinuation of the universal vaccine program by January 2010;

    (14)  Reduction of department of social and health services reimbursement for non-medicare prescription drugs to the average wholesale price, less sixteen percent;

    (15)  Modification of the superintendent of public instruction's exit criteria for the transitional bilingual program that allows exiting the program as a result of passing the Washington language proficiency test or the Washington assessment of student learning;

    (16)  In institutions of higher education, eliminating state subsidy for the instruction of students who have earned more than 125 percent of the credits required for a baccalaureate degree;

    (17) Elimination of cash benefits to workfirst recipients who have participated longer than sixty months;

    (18) Elimination of the 2007 increased child-support pass-through option made available through the federal deficit reduction act;

    (19)  Immediate deportation by the department of corrections of all non-citizen drug and property offenders;

    (20)   Reduced employer contributions to state retirement systems reflecting a change in the actuarial salary growth assumption from 4.25 percent to 4 percent; and

    (21)  Termination of any transfers to the life sciences discovery fund authority."

EFFECT:         Directs state agencies to reduce or eliminate

               expenditures in twenty-one programs, resulting in a

               cumulative reduction of approximately $100 million

for the 2007-09 biennium, carrying forward to over            

 $750 million in the 2009-11 biennium.

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