FINAL BILL REPORT

ESSB 6032

PARTIAL VETO

C 299 L 18

Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description: Making 2018 supplemental operating appropriations.

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

Senate Committee on Ways & Means

Background: The operating expenses of state government and its agencies and programs are funded on a biennial basis by an omnibus operating budget adopted by the Legislature in odd-numbered years. In subsequent legislative sessions, a supplemental budget is adopted, making various modifications to agency appropriations. State operating expenses are paid from the state general fund and from various dedicated funds and accounts.

Summary: The 2017-19 biennial operating budget appropriations for the various agencies and programs of the state are modified. Budget summary materials are available online at www.fiscal.wa.gov under the Budget Bills and Documents header.

Votes on Final Passage:

Partial Veto Summary: Twenty-one sections or subsections of the operating budget bill were vetoed: a study related to automatic voter registration; a redundant provision related to the 2020 census; a publicly available online searchable database of all taxes and tax rates; authorizing access to the Capitol dome; FY 18 General Fund-State appropriation reduction for the Department of Fish and Wildlife; local matching funds for a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant; a redundant provision establishing a hold harmless policy for public school funding; language related to delaying public school professional development learning days; a requirement for specific state agencies to develop higher education funding options using a Washington State Institute for Public Policy study; Law Enforcement Officers' and Fire Fighters' retirement system; and eleven vetoes of appropriations related to bills that did not pass the Legislature resulting in the lapse of funding.