FINAL BILL REPORT

SSB 5804

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Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description: Addressing federal receipts reporting requirements.

Sponsors: Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Baumgartner and Hill).

Senate Committee on Ways & Means

House Committee on Appropriations

Background: State agencies administer funds allocated to the state by the federal government for a variety of programs, both as one-time grants and as on-going matching funds for federal programs administered by the state. State agencies may be authorized to expend federal funds either by an appropriation from the Legislature or by the unanticipated receipts process, where an agency receives approval from the Office of Financial Management to expend federal funds that were received by the agency while the Legislature is not is session.

Summary: The Department of Social and Health Services, the Department of Health, the Health Care Authority, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Ecology, the Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Department of Early Learning, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction must prepare a biennial report on the amount of federal funds received and expended by the agency, and the percentage that the federal funds represents of the overall agency budget. The designated agencies must also develop contingency plans that reflect both a 5 percent and a 25 percent reduction in federal funding. The report must be submitted as part of the agencies' biennial budget request documents.

Votes on Final Passage:

Second Special Session