FINAL BILL REPORT

                  ESSB 5180

                         PARTIAL VETO

                          C 309 L 99

                      Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Making operating appropriations.

Sponsors:  Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Loveland, West, Brown and Winsley; by request of Governor Locke).

Senate Committee on Ways & Means

Background:  Appropriations for the operations of state government and its various agencies and institutions are made on the basis of a fiscal biennium that begins on July 1 of each odd-numbered year.

Summary:  Appropriations are made for the 1997-99 and 1999-01 fiscal biennia.  The supplemental appropriation for the 1997-99 biennia provides a net $71.9 million increase to expenditures from the state General Fund.  The total appropriation for the 1999-01 fiscal biennium is $32.361 billion, of which $20.575 billion is from the state General Fund.

For additional information, see AStatewide Summary & Agency Detail@ published by the Senate Ways & Means Committee.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate 29 17

House     53 44 (House amended)

Senate    34 15 (Senate concurred)

Effective:  May 14, 1999 (Sections 927, 928, 931, 1101-1902)

          July 1, 1999

          September 1, 2000 (Section 929)

Partial Veto Summary:  The Governor vetoed provisions affecting five state agencies:  Attorney General=s Office, Department of Social and Health Services Mental Health Program, Department of Social and Health Services Medical Assistance Program, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Department of Retirement Systems.  The vetoes do not affect any state General Fund appropriations.  For more information, see ALegislative Budget Notes@ published by the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives and the Senate Ways & Means Committee.