Last month the state distributed $74.5 million from the disaster response account (DRA) and $13.3 million from the general fund­–federal (GFF) in response to COVID-19.

The Office of Financial Management (OFM) reports that it has distributed more funds:

• $30 million from the DRA for the Department of Health,
• $10 million from the DRA for the Department of Agriculture “to purchase food and food distribution supplies for food banks and other non-profit organizations,” and
• $5 million from the DRA for the Department of Commerce “to distribute to the 29 federally recognized tribes in Washington to assist them in responding to the COVID-19 outbreak.”

These distributions are all from funds appropriated in EHB 2965. With the new distributions, the Department of Health has received a total of $63.3 million and the Department of Commerce has received a total of $28.0 million.

Of the $200 million appropriated in EHB 2965 for COVID-19 response, $175 million was in the DRA and $25 million was from the GFF. After the state’s distributions, there is $55.5 million left of the DRA COVID-19 funds and $11.7 million left of the GFF funds.