Other LanguagesRCW 42.17.190 does not require a state agency to include, in its quarterly reports to the Public Disclosure Commission under subsection (4) thereof an itemized listing of expenditures incurred by such agency in connection with the submission of requests for appropriations.
Discussion of constitutional criteria to be applied under Article VIII, § 5 of the state constitution with respect to appropriations made by the legislature for the relief of certain individuals or organizations for legally unenforceable claims against the state.
In the event that a special session of the legislature is convened by the Governor sometime during the winter or early spring of 1978, that session of the legislature would not be either constitutionally or statutorily precluded from enacting a bill making appropriations for designated capital projects pursuant to which expenditures for such projects could be made during the period commencing on July 1, 1978 and ending June 30, 1980.
(1) It would be legal under the state constitution and applicable statutes for the Washington state data processing authority to agree to a proposed revision in the payment schedule provided for in an existing contract for the purchase of a computer whereby certain payments due during the remainder of the current (1975-77) biennium would be deferred until the next (1977-79) biennium. (2) In the event of such a revision in the payment schedule, the data processing authority may, in theory, change the charges made to users of the computer involved to reflect its own new payment schedule; it may, however, only pass on the new cost figures to those user agencies funded through legislative appropriations to the extent that the revised charges still reflect the actual "true and full value" of the facilities and services received by that user agency in exchange.
Where a claim against the state for old age assistance accrued during the previous biennium and a judgment for the amount of such claim was entered in the current biennium, such claim was merged with the judgment and effective as of the date of entry of the judgment. The state auditor should issue a warrant for the amount of the judgment and costs.
Section 86, chapter 137, Laws of 1973, 1st Ex. Sess., does not require the higher education personnel board to adopt, and the various affected educational institutions to accept, a revised salary schedule for those classified employees who are under its jurisdiction that will fully implement 50% of the salary increase for those employees proposed in the board's July, 1972, salary survey, where the appropriations contained therein are insufficient to enable those institutions to fund such salary increases as would be payable under that schedule; the board is, however, required to adopt a salary schedule which will bring the employees covered as close to the board's determination of prevailing wages as is possible within the appropriations.
To the extent that the funds appropriated by § 86, chapter 137, Laws of 1973, 1st Ex. Sess., for continuation of the $40 per month salary increase provided by chapter 8, Laws of 1973, for school district classified employees are sufficient for that stated purpose, they are to be distributed on the basis of the amount necessary for each district to continue such increase, independent of the substantive provisions of the school apportionment formula.
It is not legally necessary for the legislature to make an appropriation from the state employees' insurance revolving fund in order to permit expenditures therefrom; where, however, an appropriation from this fund is made it constitutes a limitation upon the amount that may be expended during the period covered by the appropriation.
Proper disbursements may be made from the alcoholism account in the state treasury under the appropriation contained in § 7, chapter 136, Laws of 1957.
Legislative appropriations made for the purpose of constructing school buildings used in carrying out day school programs may not be used to construct an educational building on the grounds of a state institution which provides residential care, training and education for children of this state.