FINAL BILL REPORT

                 E2SSB 6499

                         PARTIAL VETO

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                      Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Funding transportation.

Sponsors:  Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Haugen, Goings, Gardner and Patterson; by request of Governor Locke).

Senate Committee on Transportation

House Committee on Transportation

Background:  The transportation budget provides appropriations to the major transportation agencies:  the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Washington State Patrol (WSP), the Department of Licensing (DOL), the Transportation Improvement Board (TIB), and the County Road Administration Board (CRAB).  It also provides appropriations out of transportation funds to many smaller transportation agencies and general government agencies.

Summary:  The 1999-01 transportation budget totaled approximately $4 billion.  Subsequently, Initiative 695 passed in the November 1999 general election.  The 2000 supplemental transportation budget reflects adjustments made as a result of the passage of Initiative 695.

For additional information, see the A2000 Supplemental Transportation Budget Highlights@ and the A2000 Supplemental Budget Notes.@

Appropriation:  $3.28 billion.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate 42 6

First Special Session

Senate 26 19

House     98 0 (House amended)

Second Special Session

Senate 45 1

House     96 2

Effective:  May 2, 2000

Partial Veto Summary:  The Governor vetoed a definition in the budget of "enacted in the form passed by the legislature."  The definition defined "enacted in the form passed by the legislature" as a bill that passed without any provisions vetoed or with only ministerial changes resulting from a partial veto.