Washington HB 2747: Establishing the state microanimal.

Bill Text

AN ACT Relating to budget sustainability; and amending RCW 1
43.88.030 and 43.88.055.2
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:3
Sec. 1. RCW 43.88.030 and 2025 c 414 s 8034 are each amended to 4
read as follows:5
(1) The director of financial management shall provide all 6
agencies with a complete set of instructions for submitting biennial 7
budget requests to the director at least three months before agency 8
budget documents are due into the office of financial management. The 9
budget document or documents shall consist of the governor's budget 10
message which shall be explanatory of the budget and shall contain an 11
outline of the proposed financial policies of the state for the 12
ensuing fiscal period, as well as an outline of the proposed six-year 13
financial policies where applicable, and shall describe in connection 14
therewith the important features of the budget. The biennial budget 15
document or documents shall also describe performance indicators that 16
demonstrate measurable progress towards priority results. The message 17
shall set forth the reasons for salient changes from the previous 18
fiscal period in expenditure and revenue items and shall explain any 19
major changes in financial policy. Attached to the budget message 20
shall be such supporting schedules, exhibits and other explanatory 21
H-3794.1
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2747
State of Washington 69th Legislature 2026 Regular Session
By House Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives
Ormsby, Gregerson, Berg, Macri, and Salahuddin)
READ FIRST TIME 03/06/26.
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material in respect to both current operations and capital 1
improvements as the governor shall deem to be useful to the 2
legislature. The budget document or documents shall set forth a 3
proposal for expenditures in the ensuing fiscal period, or six-year 4
period where applicable, based upon the estimated revenues and 5
caseloads as approved by the economic and revenue forecast council 6
and caseload forecast council or upon the estimated revenues and 7
caseloads of the office of financial management for those funds, 8
accounts, sources, and programs for which the forecast councils do 9
not prepare an official forecast. Revenues shall be estimated for 10
such fiscal period from the source and at the rates existing by law 11
at the time of submission of the budget document, including the 12
supplemental budgets submitted in the even-numbered years of a 13
biennium. However, the estimated revenues and caseloads for use in 14
the governor's budget document may be adjusted to reflect budgetary 15
revenue transfers and revenue and caseload estimates dependent upon 16
budgetary assumptions of enrollments, workloads, and caseloads. All 17
adjustments to the approved estimated revenues and caseloads must be 18
set forth in the budget document. The governor may additionally 19
submit, as an appendix to each supplemental, biennial, or six-year 20
agency budget or to the budget document or documents, a proposal for 21
expenditures in the ensuing fiscal period from revenue sources 22
derived from proposed changes in existing statutes.23
The budget document or documents shall also contain:24
(a) Revenues classified by fund and source for the immediately 25
past fiscal period, those received or anticipated for the current 26
fiscal period, and those anticipated for the ensuing biennium;27
(b) The undesignated fund balance or deficit, by fund;28
(c) Such additional information dealing with expenditures, 29
revenues, workload, performance, and personnel as the legislature may 30
direct by law or concurrent resolution;31
(d) Such additional information dealing with revenues and 32
expenditures as the governor shall deem pertinent and useful to the 33
legislature;34
(e) Tabulations showing expenditures classified by fund, 35
function, and agency;36
(f) The expenditures that include nonbudgeted, nonappropriated 37
accounts outside the state treasury;38
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(g) Identification of all proposed direct expenditures to 1
implement the Puget Sound water quality plan under chapter 90.71 RCW, 2
shown by agency and in total; and3
(h) Tabulations showing each postretirement adjustment by 4
retirement system established after fiscal year 1991, to include, but 5
not be limited to, estimated total payments made to the end of the 6
previous biennial period, estimated payments for the present 7
biennium, and estimated payments for the ensuing biennium.8
(2) The budget document or documents shall include detailed 9
estimates of all anticipated revenues applicable to proposed 10
operating or capital expenditures and shall also include all proposed 11
operating or capital expenditures. The total of beginning 12
undesignated fund balance and estimated revenues less working capital 13
and other reserves shall equal or exceed the total of proposed 14
applicable expenditures. The budget document or documents shall 15
further include:16
(a) Interest, amortiza