SENATE BILL REPORT

                  ESSB 5180

               As Passed Senate, April 21, 1999

Title:  An act relating to fiscal matters.

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).

Brief History:

Committee Activity:  Ways & Means:  4/19/99, 4/20/99 [DPS, DNP].

Passed Senate, 4/21/99, 29-17.

SENATE COMMITTEE ON WAYS & MEANS

Majority Report:  That Substitute Senate Bill No. 5180 be substituted therefor, and the substitute bill do pass.

  Signed by Senators Loveland, Chair; Bauer, Vice Chair; Brown, Vice Chair; Fairley, Fraser, Kline, Kohl-Welles, Long, Rasmussen, B. Sheldon, Snyder, Spanel, Thibaudeau, Winsley and Wojahn.

Minority Report:  Do not pass.

  Signed by Senators Honeyford, McDonald, Rossi and West.

Staff:  Steve Jones (786-7440)

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 of Bill:  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 $32.253 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.

Appropriation:  Various.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

Effective Date:  The bill contains several effective dates.  Please refer to the bill.