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Ways & Means adopts 20 amendments to capital-budget substitute, rolls substitute Senate Bill 5,195 to Rules
Summary
The Senate Ways & Means Committee considered and adopted 20 amendments to substitute Senate Bill 5,195 (capital budget), rolled the adopted amendments into a substitute bill, and gave the substitute a due‑pass recommendation to the Rules Committee subject to signatures.
The Senate Ways & Means Committee on April 3 adopted a package of 20 amendments to substitute Senate Bill 5,195, the capital budget bill, and voted to roll the amendments into a substitute and give the substitute a due‑pass recommendation to the Rules Committee.
The amendment package included technical corrections and added and adjusted project appropriations across multiple programs. Staff described the package in detail during the committee briefing: technical fixes to administrative rates in the early learning facilities grant program; additions to behavioral health and recovery housing projects; multiple local and community projects including energy‑efficiency, workforce training, sports complex and vocational education projects; corrections to Department of Ecology accounts; restoration of heritage barn grants omitted from the chair’s proposal; and an increase in broadband federal grant authorization based on new information from Commerce. Committee staff said some amendments had no net fiscal effect while others carried explicit state bond or general‑fund amounts or net savings (for example, a $37,000 saving for a technical admin‑rate correction and a $24.4 million increase in federal grant authorization for broadband identified after the chair’s budget was released).
Committee members moved and adopted each amendment by voice vote. Sponsors named on amendments included Senator Trudeau (multiple amendments and the federal broadband increase), Senator Torres (an amendment adding a behavioral‑health facility project), Senator Peterson, Senator Behnke, Senator Richeli, Senator Braun, Senator Conway, Senator Schussler, Senator Gildan and Senator Dozier. Several amendment explanations noted local‑project fiscal effects: examples cited in the staff briefing included $5,050,000 for Trouve Healthcare behavioral health; $2,050,000 for a Weld Seattle Recovery Housing Project; $4,050,000 for the Nisqually vocational education facility; $2,050,000 for a Pierce County healthcare workforce investment project; and smaller local projects ranging from $145,000 to $1,000,000.
After adopting amendment 20, the committee voted that the adopted amendments be rolled into substitute Senate Bill 5,195 and then voted that the substitute bill receive a due‑pass recommendation to the Rules Committee. By voice vote the committee chair announced that substitute Senate Bill 5,195 had received a due‑pass recommendation subject to signatures and assent of the Rules Committee.
The committee also said it would not take action that day on Senate Bill 5804 to allow time for technical corrections and further feedback.
The capital budget amendment briefing and the adoption roll call occurred in executive session; committee staff provided the fiscal effects cited above during the public briefing earlier in the meeting. The committee did not change the base project amounts for the grant programs described in staff briefing but applied corrected administrative rates or reallocated competitive amounts where noted.
