The House proposal for the 2011-13 budget (including a final 2011 supplemental to close out the 2009-11 biennium) is now public.

In Near General Fund-State plus Opportunity Pathways (NGF-P) terms, the 2011 supplemental would reduce spending in the current biennium by $93 million (on top of reductions made in the early action supplementals), to bring total 2009-11 spending down to $30.3 billion.  Many of these additional reductions come from “strategic printing savings” and “information technology savings”, but the proposal also delays the school apportionment payments from June to July, which reduces 2009-11 spending by $253 million.  Maintenance level changes increase spending in some areas.  All told, the biennium would close with a positive balance of $36 million.

For 2011-13, the proposal would appropriate $32.4 billion.  Assuming $33.3 billion coming in, there would be an ending balance of $795 million.  As the budget summary notes, “In many cases, the reductions included in this proposal simply are the continuation of reductions first begun in either HB 3225 or ESHB 1086 (sometimes at a lower or higher level).”

Among the policy reductions are reducing personal care hours in developmental disabilities and long-term care, eliminating the Disability Lifeline-Unemployable cash grants (and reducing grants for all Disability Lifeline clients), reducing state food assistance, suspending I-728 and I-732, and eliminating the K-4 class size reduction.

The chart below shows the 2011-13 spending, by area.  We’ll have much more on this, so stay tuned.