Instead, the budget provides: (1) $122,000 to the Attorney General’s Office to defend the bill in an expected lawsuit; and (2) $6.7 million to the Department of Revenue to take the necessary steps to implement and administer the new tax. [...] (NOTE: The House would appropriate the same $6.7 million to the Department of Revenue to implement the new Capital Gains Tax, but does not include funding to the Attorney General’s Office to defend an assumed lawsuit, if the bill passes.) The House’s proposal would balance over four years, leaving $199 million in reserve (plus another $1.1 billion in the BSA, for a total of $1.32 billion) in 2023–. [...] Although the House would drain $1.8 billion from the BSA, like the Senate, the funding is appropriated to a new “Washington Rescue Plan Transition Account.” Funding in the Account could be used to respond “to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic including those related to education, human services, health care, and the economy. [...] The $155 million for broadband is provided for grants and loans to improve and expand broadband access to unserved and underserved communities across the state through the following programs: ● $75 million is provided for loans and grants to be competitively awarded by the Public Works Board to promote expanding access to broadband service in unserved areas of the state; ● $50 million is provided. [...] In the development of school seismic safety retrofit projects, OSPI must give consideration to the following: ● Prioritizing improvements of school buildings used for the instruction of students in kindergarten through 12th grade; ● The financial capacity of low property value school districts in the sizing of grant awards; and ● Facilities’ seismic needs in light of the useful life of the facilit.
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