HOUSE BILL REPORT

                  HB 1524

             As Reported By House Committee On:

                       Appropriations

Title:  An act relating to fiscal matters.

Brief Description:  Making supplemental appropriations.

Sponsors:  Representatives Locke, Silver and Valle; by request of Office of Financial Management.

Brief History:

  Reported by House Committee on:

Appropriations, March 18, 1993, DPS.

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

Majority Report:  The substitute bill be substituted therefor and the substitute bill do pass.  Signed by 22 members:  Representatives Locke, Chair; Valle, Vice Chair; Silver, Ranking Minority Member; Carlson, Assistant Ranking Minority Member; Appelwick; Ballasiotes; Basich; Cooke; Dorn; Dunshee; Jacobsen; Lemmon; Leonard; Linville; Rust; Sehlin; Sommers; Stevens; Talcott; Wang; Wineberry; and Wolfe.

Minority Report:  Without recommendation.  Signed by 2 members:  Representatives Morton and Sheahan.

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 1991 special legislative session and amended in the 1992 legislative session.

Summary of Substitute Bill:  The 1991-93 operating appropriations act is amended.  The general fund-state appropriation not in reserve is increased by $36 million.

Substitute Bill Compared to Original Bill:  The substitute bill reduces the general fund-state appropriation increase from $36 million to $31 million.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

Appropriation:  Refer to bill.

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

Testimony For:  The appropriations, as amended in the substitute bill, are necessary to fund agency obligations for the remainder of the 1991-93 biennium.

Testimony Against:  None.

Witnesses:  (All for) Ann Daley, Director of the Office of Financial Management; Ruta Fanning, Deputy Director of the Office of Financial Management; Randy Acker, Department of Natural Resources; Scott Morgan, State Board for Technical & Community Colleges; and David Akana, Commission on Judicial Conduct.