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Staff describe temporary suspensions of transportation fund transfers in proposed substitute bill
Summary
A substitute for Senate Bill 5802 would delay or suspend several planned transfers and sales‑tax deferrals that support the transportation budget, producing short‑term general fund gains but long‑term transportation revenue changes; public testimony urged protecting general fund services and warned of long‑term impacts.
A substitute to Senate Bill 5802 would temporarily suspend or accelerate a series of transfers and sales‑tax deferrals that have funded the state’s transportation programs, Ways & Means staff and Transportation Committee staff told the committee at a briefing and public hearing on April 16.
Brian Moore, staff to the Senate Transportation Committee, outlined a set of items that together shift timing and permanence of transfers originally tied to the 2016 Connecting Washington and 2022 Move Ahead packages. He told the committee that some transfers scheduled for the 2023‑25 and 2025‑27 biennia would be canceled or deferred, and that one provision would make a 0.1 percent…
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