SENATE BILL REPORT

ESSB 6201

As Passed Senate, February 26, 2016

Title: An act relating to the capital budget.

Brief Description: Concerning the supplemental capital budget.

Sponsors: Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Honeyford and Keiser; by request of Office of Financial Management).

Brief History:

Committee Activity: Ways & Means: 1/14/16, 2/24/16, 2/25/16 [DPS, DNP].

Passed Senate: 2/26/16, 39-10.

Majority Report: That Substitute Senate Bill No. 6201 be substituted therefor, and the substitute bill do pass.

Signed by Senators Hill, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Dammeier, Vice Chair; Honeyford, Vice Chair, Capital Budget Chair; Hargrove, Ranking Member; Keiser, Assistant Ranking Member on the Capital Budget; Ranker, Ranking Minority Member, Operating; Bailey, Becker, Billig, Brown, Conway, Darneille, Hasegawa, Hewitt, Nelson, O'Ban, Padden, Parlette, Schoesler and Warnick.

Minority Report: Do not pass.

Signed by Senators Pedersen and Rolfes.

Staff: Richard Ramsey (786-7412)

Background: Washington State operates on a biennial budget cycle. The Legislature authorizes expenditures for capital needs in the capital budget for a two-year period, and authorizes bond sales through passage of a bond bill associated with the capital budget to fund a portion of these expenditures. Approximately one-half of the capital budget is financed by these state-issued general obligation bonds, and the balance is funded by dedicated accounts, trust revenue, and federal funding sources. The primary two-year budget is passed in the odd-numbered years, and a supplemental budget making adjustments to the two-year budget often is passed during the even-numbered years. The current capital budget covers the period from July 1, 2015, through June 30, 2017.

Summary of Engrossed Substitute Bill: Supplemental capital budget appropriation adjustments and alternative financing authorizations are made for the 2015-17 biennium.

Appropriation: Various.

Fiscal Note: Not requested.

Committee/Commission/Task Force Created: Yes.

Effective Date: The bill contains an emergency clause and takes effect immediately.

Staff Summary of Public Testimony: Please refer to the February 24, 2016 recording of the public hearing.

Persons Testifying: PRO: James McMahan, WA Assoc Sheriffs and Police Chiefs; Mitch Denning, Alliance of Educational Associations; Ken Kanikeberg, Office Superintendent of Public Instruction; Joanna Grist, Puget Sound Clean Air Agency; Gerry O'Keefe, Washington Public Ports Association; Lisa Thatcher, Port of Tacoma; Jim Hedrick, Port of Everett; Seth Dawson, National Alliance of Mental Illness; Mike True, Fort Vancouver Historic Trust; Jean Hernandez, Edmonds Community College; Marty Mattes, Bates Technical College, Executive Director of Facilities and Operations; Robert Pasquariello, Olympic College.

OTHER: Hillary Madsen, Columbia Legal Services; Doug Levy, Cities of Everett, Renton, Redmond, Puyallup, Fife, Issaquah; Michael Transue, Washington State Conference of Mason Contractors | Masonry Institute of Washington; Gary Smith, Independent Business Association; Carl Schroeder, Association of Washington; Michele Thomas, Washington Low Income Housing Alliance; J Peter Shapiro, Washington Housing Action Fund board member; Chris Pegg, Longview Housing Authority and Joint Pacific County Housing Authority; Liz Mills, YWCA Seattle, King and Snohomish; Bryan Ketcham, Catholic Charities Housing Services; Jeff Clare, Washington Association for Children and Families; Sarah Perry, Cornish College of the Arts.

Persons Signed In To Testify But Not Testifying: OTHER: Melissa Johnson, Washington State Association of Headstart/ECEAP Programs.