5967 AMS BROW GREJ 008

SB 5967 - S AMD TO S  AMD  (S-5227.3) 224

By Senators Brown, Murray, Kilmer

NOT ADOPTED 03/02/2012

    On page 66, line 8, increase the General Fund--State Appropriation for fiscal year 2013 by $13,884,000

    On page 69, starting on line 14 strike all material down through and including line 18, and insert the following:

"(8) To ensure expenditures remain within available funds appropriated in this section, the legislature establishes the benefit under the state food assistance program, pursuant to RCW 74.08A.120, to be fifty percent of the federal supplemental nutrition assistance program benefit amount."

EFFECT:  Restores state food assistance program to the level currently in law, which is 50 percent of the federal supplemental nutrition assistance program benefit.

Fiscal Impact: $13.884 million in GF-S

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