To make s appropriations from the operating budget for the 2011-13 biennium. This act allows the Legislature to transfer of excess funds from designated accounts to the general fund or other designated accounts. This act also allows the Governor to request additional funds from the Office of Financial Management, after October 1, 2011, if necessary, to fund the collective bargaining agreements for state employees once ratified. (Companion: SB 5094).   Official Text and Analysis.

Makes changes in appropriations for the 2011-13 operating budget.

To require the department to keep Francis Haddon Morgan Center and Yakima Valley School open until there are sufficient community options available to serve the clients who currently reside in them.

To provide the Department of Social and Health Services Division of Developmental Disabilities with flexibility on the implementation of the adult working policy reform and the new day services option. The Department is required to inform clients on each of their service options equally and clients may choose which service option best meets their needs. The Department will provide quarterly reports to the Legislature that identify the number of clients served by each service option and the number of clients who have opted to move from one service option into another service option.

To clarify that the K-12 Information Technology Academy Program will be provided under a public-private partnership.

To add to the Office of the Governor a proviso for existing funds for the Office of the Education Ombudsman.

To eliminate a proviso dedicated to the Latino/a Educational Achievement Project (LEAP) bilingual teacher mentoring program in the amount of $75,000 in each year ($150,000 total) in the OSPI. Redirects this funding to the Professional Educator Standards Board (PESB) for alternate route and teacher recruitment programs, including pipeline for paraeducators, retooling to teach math and science, and the recruiting Washington teachers program.

To restore funding for the youth suicide prevention program in the Department of Health.

To direct the Executive Ethics Board, housed within the Office of the Attorney General, to develop a statewide plan for direction and accountability within executive and statewide elected offices. Directs the Executive Ethics Boards to coordinate with the Judicial Conduct Commission and Legislative Ethics Board; to assess and evaluate agency's ethical culture through surveys, review Washington State Quality Award feedback reports, and produce an annual report on the results; and to solicit outside evaluation and recommendations from entities with experience in ethics, integrity and the public sector.

To provide $50,000 each fiscal year out of the existing appropriation for the Office of Financial Management to contract with the Washington State Quality Award for training, outreach and assessments for public agencies and their vendors. Directs all community colleges to complete a Washington State Quality Award assessment by June 30, 2013. Instructs all state agencies to track and report employees trained in performance management; provide to the Government Management and Accountability Program (GMAP), State Auditor's Office and the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee copies of their Washington State Quality Award assessment, and to post the results to the GMAP's website; to integrate performance management, including the Washington State Quality Award assessment, into agencies strategic plans.

To delete the requirement for community colleges to conduct a full Washington State Quality Award assessment by June 30, 2013.

To direct the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to work in consultation with the Public School Employees of Washington and the Washington School Counselors' Association when developing a model policy on graduation coaches.

To direct the Office of Financial Management to estimate on an annual basis the percentage of Washington households with incomes in the middle-income bracket or higher, and provide a report to the Governor and appropriate committees of the legislature. Directs the Work Force Training and Education Board to include in its comprehensive plan specific strategies to increase the percentage of middle-income bracket or higher households, as calculation by the Office of Financial Management and developed by the agency or educational institution that will lead each strategy.

To include the community and technical colleges in the list of higher education employers that may provide salary increases from other sources.

To make biennial operating appropriations for the 2011-13 biennium and supplemental operating appropriations for the 2009-11 biennium.

To make adjustments to the 2011-13 biennial budget, replacing the House appropriations proposal with the Senate proposal.

To direct the department to keep all residential habilitation centers (RHCs) open until sufficient community services are available and that any fiscal assumptions related to moving RHC residents to the community take into account the full costs of providing services.

To direct the medical assistance program to collaborate with the hospital and medical associations to assure that diagnostic codes used to determine whether an emergency room visit is for a non-emergency condition accurately screen for conditions that could in fact require emergency treatment.

To adjusts the appropriations and provisos to reflect the continued operation of all residential habilitation centers.

To direct that, to the extent permitted by collective bargaining agreements, an employee whose position is eliminated as a result of the management position cuts provided in section 729 may not revert to a classified position to which the employee would ordinarily be able to "bump", unless the employee occupied either that position or a substantially similar classified position within the last three years. Additionally, a manager whose position is eliminated and who is subsequently transferred or hired into another position may not be compensated at a level higher than that which is commensurate with the duties of new position.

To require the Department of Agriculture, the state conservation commission and the department of ecology to collaborate for a process and report about water quality activities as they related to livestock operations. The report shall be provided to the Legislature by December 31, 2011.

To adjust appropriations and provisos for the Department of Social and Health Services Aging and Adult Services and Division of Developmental Disabilities for the assumed full elimination of the enhanced training requirements of Initiative 1029. Makes no changes to the assumed Trust contribution for training and adjusts salary schedules and K-12 program appropriations to exempt certain certificated instructional staff CIS) from the 3 percent salary reduction for school years 2011-12 and 2012-13. Exempted CIS include employees with education of a baccalaureate degree plus 30 credits and less, and employees with two years or fewer of experience.

To offer a striking amendment that makes several appropriation changes to the underlying bill.

To prohibit the department from moving clients from Frances Haddon Morgan Center or Yakima Valley School until the department has appropriate community options as specified in the client's individual habilitation plan.

To make several technical changes to correct drafting errors.

To remove language in the Department of Natural Resources that requires the Department to prepare recommendations to the legislature for making the Forest Practices Division completely fee supported.

To change the fiscal year split of the general fund-state reduction for the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.

To eliminate funding for the Commute Trip Reduction Program. Directs the Office of Financial Management to reduce each agency's allotments from GFS and other funds to reflect the elimination of funding for the program. The amounts by which the allotments are reduced will not be spent.

To clarify that the State Parks and Recreation Commission may use state general fund dollars for the operation and maintenance of state parks as the Commission implements a new fee structure.

To increase the State Near General Fund appropriations for the 2009-11 biennium $29.4 million; the total budget is increased by $109.4 million. The State Near General Fund appropriations for the 2011-13 biennium total $32.2 billion. The total budget (all funds) is $62.1 billion.