HOUSE BILL REPORT

                 ESSB 6244

                  As Passed House - Amended

                      February 25, 1994

Title:  An act relating to fiscal matters.

Brief Description:  Making appropriations.

Sponsors:  Senators Rinehart and Quigley; by request of Office of Financial Management.

Brief History:

  Reported by House Committee on:

Appropriations, February 23, 1994, DPA;

  Passed House - Amended, February 25, 1994, 60-33.

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

Majority Report:  Do pass as amended.  Signed by 17 members:  Representatives Sommers, Chair; Valle, Vice Chair; Appelwick; Basich; Dellwo; Dorn; Dunshee; Jacobsen; Lemmon; Leonard; Linville; H. Myers; Peery; Rust; Wang; Wineberry and Wolfe.

Minority Report:  Do not pass.  Signed by 9 members:  Representatives Silver, Ranking Minority Member; Ballasiotes; Cooke; G. Fisher; Foreman; Sehlin; Sheahan; Stevens and Talcott.

Staff:  Victor Moore (786-7143).

Background:  The state government operates on the basis of a fiscal biennium that begins on July 1 of each odd-numbered year.  A biennial operating budget was enacted in the 1993 legislative session.

Summary of Bill:  The 1993-95 operating appropriations act is amended.

Appropriation:  See bill.

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