House Appropriations Committee #
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Membership; reports; and meeting schedules, agendas, documents, and videos available on website.
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“The House Appropriations Committee considers the operating budget bill and related legislation, budget processes, and fiscal issues, such as pension policy and compensation. The committee also considers bills with operating budget fiscal impacts” (committee website).
House Finance Committee #
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Membership; reports; and meeting schedules, agendas, documents, and videos available on website.
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“The House Finance Committee considers issues relating to state and local revenues, such as increases or decreases in taxes; exemptions from taxes; and changes in the administration of taxes. (Note: Issues involving revenue for transportation purposes are usually considered by the House Transportation Committee)” (committee website).
Legislative Evaluation & Accountability Program Committee #
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Publications, budgets, reports, and legislative proposals available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“During legislative sessions, LEAP provides round-the-clock support to the staffs of the budget-writing committees of the Legislature (Senate Ways and Means, House Appropriations, Senate Transportation, House Transportation, and House Capital Committees). These staffs use LEAP systems to analyze budget requests, to prepare budget proposals, and to record and communicate budget assumptions. Throughout the Legislature, LEAP Fiscal Reporting Systems are used to provide detail and statewide fiscal reports and to compare budget versions.
“The Washington state fiscal website, fiscal.wa.gov, was developed and is maintained by LEAP. This site displays data that are routinely updated: for budgets as budget proposals are made public; for revenues, expenditures, and staffing, on a monthly basis as monthly actual data are finalized; for historical data, as those data are updated to reflect changes in budget formats; and for workloads, caseloads, performance measures, and performance audits, as websites that display those data are updated. The fiscal website improves public access to state fiscal data and promotes government transparency through greater government accountability” (committee website).
Senate Ways & Means Committee #
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Publications; budgets; reports; citizen’s guides to budgets; and meeting schedules, agendas, documents, videos, and livestreams available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“The Senate Ways and Means Committee considers issues relating to:
- Operating budget
- Capital budget
- Authorization of state debt
- Tax policy
- Pension policy
- Bills with large state fiscal impacts” (committee website).
