AN
ACT Relating to school safety programs; amending 1999 c 309 s 221 (uncodified);
creating new sections; making appropriations; providing an effective date; and
declaring an emergency.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 1. The
sum of four million dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is
appropriated from the general fund to the superintendent of public instruction
for the biennium ending June 30, 2001, for:
(1)
Alternative school start-up grants which are in addition to the grants funded
in the two million dollars alternative school start-up appropriation contained
in section 501(2)(l), chapter 309, Laws of 1999, and these grants shall be
awarded in the same manner and for the same purposes;
(2)
School safety programs for prevention and intervention. School districts may
apply for and administer these grants independently or jointly with other
school districts or educational service districts. The funds may be expended
for proven-effective programs to improve safety in schools, including:
Security assessments of school facilities; violence prevention and reporting
training for staff as appropriate to the particular duties and responsibilities
of the specific staff, including administrators; nonviolence and leadership
training for staff and students; and school safety plans. The educational
service districts and school districts may contract for any services under this
subsection.
(3)
The superintendent of public instruction shall report to the education
committees of the house of representatives and senate on the number and types
of programs administered through these grants by February 15, 2001, and
February 15th of every two years thereafter.
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 2. For
the fiscal biennium ending June 30, 2001, the sum of three million dollars, or
as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the general
fund--state to the superintendent of public instruction for matching grants to
enhance security in schools. This appropriation is a supplement to the five
million nine hundred twenty-three thousand dollar appropriation for school
security contained in section 501(2)(e), chapter 309, Laws of 1999, and shall
be expended in the same manner and for the same purposes.
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 3. The
biennial appropriations in sections 1 and 2 of this act shall be allotted by
the office of financial management evenly between fiscal year 2000 and fiscal
year 2001.
Sec.
4. 1999
c 309 s 221 (uncodified) is amended to read as follows:
FOR
THE DEPARTMENT
OF HEALTH
General
Fund‑-State Appropriation (FY 2000).... $ ((68,937,000))
65,437,000
General
Fund‑-State Appropriation (FY 2001).... $ ((69,635,000))
66,135,000
General
Fund‑-Federal Appropriation............. $.................................. 268,710,000
General
Fund‑-Private/Local Appropriation...... $ 68,648,000
Hospital
Commission Account‑-State
Appropriation.............................. $ 3,128,000
Health
Professions Account‑-State
Appropriation................. ............ $ 37,529,000
Emergency
Medical Services and Trauma Care Systems
Trust
Account‑-State Appropriation......... $ 14,856,000
State
Drinking Water Account‑-State
Appropriation.............................. $ 2,531,000
Drinking
Water Assistance Account‑-Federal
Appropriation.............................. $ 5,456,000
Waterworks
Operator Certification‑-State
Appropriation.............................. $ 593,000
Water
Quality Account‑-State Appropriation..... $ 3,124,000
Accident
Account‑-State Appropriation.......... $ 258,000
Medical
Aid Account‑-State Appropriation........ $ 45,000
State
Toxics Control Account‑-State
Appropriation.............................. $ 2,614,000
Health
Services Account Appropriation.......... $ 7,000,000
Medical
Test Site Licensure Account‑-State
Appropriation.............................. $ 1,651,000
Youth
Tobacco Prevention Account‑-State
Appropriation.............................. $ 1,804,000
Tobacco
Prevention and Control Account‑-State
Appropriation.............................. $ 620,000
TOTAL
APPROPRIATION................. $ 550,139,000
The
appropriations in this section are subject to the following conditions and
limitations:
(1)
$2,434,000 of the health professions account appropriation is provided solely
for the development and implementation of a licensing and disciplinary
management system. Expenditures are conditioned upon compliance with section
902 of this act. These funds shall not be expended without appropriate project
approval by the department of information systems.
(2)
The department or any successor agency is authorized to raise existing fees
charged to the nursing assistants, podiatrists, and osteopaths; for certificate
of need; for temporary worker housing; for state institution inspection; for
residential care facilities and for transient accommodations, in excess of the
fiscal growth factor established by Initiative Measure No. 601, if necessary,
to meet the actual costs of conducting business and the appropriation levels in
this section.
(3)
$339,000 of the general fund‑-state appropriation for fiscal year 2000,
$339,000 of the general fund‑-state appropriation for fiscal year 2001,
and $678,000 of the general fund‑-federal appropriation are provided
solely for technical assistance to local governments and special districts on
water conservation and reuse. $339,000 of the general fund‑-federal
amount may be expended in each fiscal year of the biennium, only if the state
receives greater than $25,000,000 from the federal government for salmon
recovery activities in that fiscal year. Funds authorized for expenditure in
fiscal year 2000 may be expended in fiscal year 2001.
(4)
$1,685,000 of the general fund‑-state fiscal year 2000 appropriation and
$1,686,000 of the general fund‑-state fiscal year 2001 appropriation are
provided solely for the implementation of the Puget Sound water work plan and
agency action items, DOH-01, DOH-02, DOH-03, and DOH-04.
(5)
(($4,645,000 of the general fund‑-state fiscal year 2000 appropriation
and $4,645,000 of the general fund‑-state fiscal year 2001 appropriation
are provided solely for distribution to local health departments.
(6))) The
department of health shall not initiate any services that will require
expenditure of state general fund moneys unless expressly authorized in this
act or other law. The department may seek, receive, and spend, under RCW
43.79.260 through 43.79.282, federal moneys not anticipated in this act as long
as the federal funding does not require expenditure of state moneys for the
program in excess of amounts anticipated in this act. If the department
receives unanticipated unrestricted federal moneys, those moneys shall be spent
for services authorized in this act or in any other legislation that provides
appropriation authority, and an equal amount of appropriated state moneys shall
lapse. Upon the lapsing of any moneys under this subsection, the office of
financial management shall notify the legislative fiscal committees. As used
in this subsection, "unrestricted federal moneys" includes block
grants and other funds that federal law does not require to be spent on
specifically defined projects or matched on a formula basis by state funds.
(((7)))
(6) $620,000 of the tobacco prevention and control account appropriation
and $209,000 of the general fund‑-federal appropriation are provided
solely for implementation of Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill No. 5516 or, if
the bill is not enacted, for the development of a sustainable, long-term,
comprehensive tobacco control program. The plan shall identify a specific set
of outcome measures that shall be used to track long range progress in reducing
the use of tobacco. Nationally accepted measures that can be used to compare
progress with other states shall be included. The plan shall emphasize
programs that have demonstrated effectiveness in achieving progress towards the
specified outcome measures. Components of the plan that do not have a record of
success may be included, provided that the plan also includes the means of
evaluating those components. The plan shall also include an inventory of
existing publically funded programs that seek to prevent the use of tobacco,
alcohol, or other drugs by children and youth and recommendations to coordinate
and consolidate these programs in order to achieve greatest positive outcomes
within total available resources. A preliminary plan shall be submitted to the
appropriate committees of the legislature by December 1, 1999, with the final
plan submitted by September 1, 2000.
(((8)))
(7) $2,075,000 of fiscal year 2000 general fund‑-state
appropriation and $2,075,000 of fiscal year 2001 general fund‑-state
appropriation are provided for the Washington poison center. The department
shall require the center to develop a long range financing plan that identifies
options for diversifying funding for center operations, including, but not
limited to, federal grants, private sector grants and sponsorships, and multistate
or regional operating agreements. The plan shall be submitted to the
appropriate committees of the legislature by December 1, 2000.
(((9)))
(8) $50,000 of fiscal year 2000 general fund--state appropriation and
$50,000 of fiscal year 2001 general fund--state appropriation are provided
solely for fund raising and other activities for the development of early
hearing loss clinics. The development plan for these clinics shall not assume
ongoing general fund‑-state appropriations.
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 5. This
act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or
safety, or support of the state government and its existing public
institutions, and takes effect July 1, 1999.
