HOUSE BILL REPORT

SSB 6407

BYSenate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators McDonald, Gaspard, Rasmussen and Conner; by request of Governor)

Adopting the supplemental operating budget.

House Committe on Appropriations

Majority Report:  Do pass as amended.  (17)

      Signed by Representatives Locke, Chair; Grant, Vice Chair; H. Sommers, Vice Chair; Appelwick, Belcher, Brekke, Dorn, Ferguson, Hine, Inslee, Peery, Rust, Sayan, Spanel, Sprenkle, Wang and Wineberry.

Minority Report:  Do not pass.  (7)

      Signed by Representatives Silver, Ranking Republican Member; Bowman, Doty, May, McLean, Nealey and Padden.

House Staff:Jim Lux (786-7136)

AS PASSED HOUSE MARCH 9, 1990

BACKGROUND:

Biennial appropriations made to state agencies are sometimes insufficient to cover the agencies' operations for a full 24 month fiscal period. The need for additional funding usually results from: emergencies, actual workloads exceeding budgeted workloads, recognized errors in the biennial budget or other exceptional circumstances. Supplemental budgets are necessary to allow state government operations to continue without adversely affecting services to clients for an entire biennial period.

SUMMARY:

The 1990 supplemental operating budget passed by the House Appropriations Committee totalled $908.1 million. Of that amount, $447.2 million was from the State General Fund. The supplemental budget affects 134 governmental entities (state agencies and programs) and their expenditure levels for the remainder of the 1989-91 biennium. Also included are increased state funds to local governments (revenues for distribution).

See attached spreadsheets for detail.

VOTE ON FINAL PASSAGE:

      Yeas 67; Nays 26; Excused 5 - 2/27

Voting Nay: Representatives Ballard, Beck, Betrozoff, Bowman, Brooks, Brough, Brumsickle, Forner, Fuhrman, Hankins, Horn, May, McLean, Miller, Nealey, Padden, Prince, Schoon, Silver, Smith, D. Sommers, Tate,  Walker, Wolfe, Wood and Youngsman

Excused:    Representatives Chandler, Doty, Moyer, Wang and Zellinsky

VOTE ON FINAL PASSAGE:

      Yeas 67; Nays 29; Excused 1 - 3/09

Voting Nay: Representatives Ballard, Beck, Betrozoff, Bowman, Brooks, Brough, Brumsickle, Ferguson, Forner, Fuhrman, Hankins, Horn, May, McLean, Miller, Moyer, Nealey, Padden, Prince, Schoon, Silver, Smith, D. Sommers, Tate,  Walker, S. Wilson, Wolfe, Wood and Youngsman

Excused:    Representative Baugher