 | WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE | |
| Legislative Digest No. 57 | ||
| SIXTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE | ||
| Tuesday, April 14, 2009 | 93rd Day - 2009 Regular Session | |
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| HOUSE |
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This publication includes digest and history for bills, joint memorials, joint resolutions, concurrent resolutions, initiatives, and substitutes. Engrossed measures may be republished if the amendment makes a substantive change.
Electronic versions of Legislative Digests are available at http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/digests.aspx?year=2009.
HB 2318-S
by House Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Sells, Ericks, Kenney, Liias, Simpson, Hope, McCoy, Conway, and Roberts)
Creating the Washington institute of aerospace technology and manufacturing studies.
Creates the Washington institute of aerospace technology and advanced manufacturing to serve the aerospace industry.Requires the institute to: (1) Be operated and administered as a multidimensional education, training, and certification center specifically designed to train a skilled workforce and foster the creation and retention of family wage jobs in the aerospace industry and growth and innovation in the aerospace industry sector;(2) House education, research, and job skills training programs specifically targeted at meeting the needs of the aerospace industry sector and its workers;(3) Emphasize public-private partnerships to support the institute's education, training, and research activities;(4) Provide a forum for effective interaction, collaboration, and partnership between and among the state's aerospace industry, labor, and institutions of higher education;(5) Be headquartered in Snohomish county and the aerospace convergence zone designated by the director of the department of community, trade, and economic development as an innovation partnership zone; and(6) Report to the department of community, trade, and economic development.
| Mar 27 | Public hearing in the House Committee on Higher Education at 9:00 AM. | |
| Apr 9 | HE - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Executive action taken in the House Committee on Higher Education at 8:30 AM. | ||
HB 2340
by Representatives Anderson, Rodne, McCune, Pearson, Dammeier, Priest, and Roach
Creating the child predatory drug act.
Requires the prosecuting attorney, in a prosecution for manufacturing, selling, delivering, or possessing with intent to manufacture, sell, or deliver a controlled substance listed in RCW 69.50.401, to file a special allegation of promoting a child predatory drug whenever sufficient admissible evidence exists, which, when considered with the most plausible, reasonably foreseeable defense that could be raised under the evidence, would justify a finding by a reasonable and objective fact finder that the controlled substance was flavored, colored, shaped, packaged, or otherwise altered in a way that was designed with the intent to make the controlled substance more appealing to a minor.
| Apr 13 | First reading, referred to Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness. | |
HB 2341
by Representative Cody
Modifying the basic health plan program.
Makes changes to the basic health plan program necessary to implement the 2009-2011 operating budget.
| Apr 13 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
HB 2342
by Representative Cody
Creating the universal vaccine purchase account.
Creates the universal vaccine purchase account. Receipts from private and public sources for the purpose of increasing access to vaccines for children must be deposited into the account. Expenditures from the account must be used for the purchase of vaccines, at no cost to health care providers in Washington, to administer to children under nineteen years old who are not eligible to receive vaccines at no cost through federal programs.Requires the department of health to: (1) Determine which vaccines shall be purchased with funds available in the universal vaccine purchase account; and(2) Coordinate purchasing decisions through federal programs that receive discounts for the purchase of large quantities of vaccines.
| Apr 13 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
HB 2343
by Representative Haigh
Achieving savings in education programs.
Achieves savings in education programs by revising provisions relating to: (1) Norm-referenced assessments--diagnostic assessments;(2) Classified instructional assistants--training;(3) Conditional scholarship programs--requirements--recipients;(4) Professional development learning opportunities--partnerships;(5) Career and technical student organizations--support services;(6) Teacher assistance program--provisions for mentor teachers; and(7) Bonuses--national board for professional standards certification.
| Apr 13 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
HB 2344
by Representative Haigh
Regarding resident undergraduate tuition.
Provides that, beginning with the 2009-10 academic year and ending with the 2016-17 academic year, tuition fees charged to full-time resident undergraduate students in any institution of higher education shall be as provided in the omnibus appropriations act.
| Apr 13 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
HB 2345
by Representative Pettigrew
Eliminating the juvenile offender basic training camp program.
Repeals RCW 13.40.320 (juvenile offender basic training camp program).
| Apr 13 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
HB 2346
by Representative Kagi
Concerning crisis residential centers.
Requires services or programs authorized or required to be provided by the department of social and health services under RCW 74.13.032 (crisis residential centers--secure and semi-secure facilities) to be provided to the extent funding is appropriated in the omnibus appropriations act or otherwise available to the department for such specific services and programs.Provides that the department of social and health services has no responsibility to provide specific services or programs under RCW 74.13.032 if funds are not specifically appropriated or available.
| Apr 13 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
HB 2347
by Representative Kagi
Concerning the review of support payments.
Authorizes the secretary of the department of social and health services to make adjustments in child support payments at the time of a review, or at other times, if the secretary finds that circumstances have changed and warrant an adjustment in payments.
| Apr 13 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
HB 2348
by Representative Moeller
Regarding surcharges on fee-based activities related to public health.
Requires a surcharge to be assessed upon each health care provider credential at an annual rate of seven dollars for all credentialed health care providers regulated by a disciplining authority identified in RCW 18.130.040.Requires a surcharge of eight dollars to be charged to each transaction related to the purchase of certified copies of birth and death certificates.Requires a local health jurisdiction, in addition to any regular fee for an inspection of a food establishment conducted by the local health jurisdiction, to assess an additional surcharge of ten dollars upon the establishment.
| Apr 13 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
HB 2349
by Representative Cody
Concerning disproportionate share hospital adjustments.
Requires the department of social and health services, in establishing Title XIX payments for inpatient hospital services, to provide a disproportionate share hospital adjustment considering certain components, only to the extent funds are appropriated specifically for this purpose, and subject to any conditions placed on appropriations made for this purpose.
| Apr 13 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 6156
by Senators Zarelli, Stevens, Becker, Delvin, Honeyford, Swecker, Schoesler, Hewitt, Parlette, Carrell, King, and Pflug
Providing economically responsible solutions for higher education funding and access.
Provides economically responsible solutions for higher education funding and access by: (1) Establishing a surcharge that results in students at institutions of higher education paying the equivalent of the full cost of instruction for students not on track to complete their course of study in a timely fashion;(2) Lowering the percent of operating fees that may be waived by each institution of higher education. This revision expires July 1, 2011;(3) Requiring tracking student demand for specified science programs and adding private colleges and universities to the entities to be included in tracking and reporting information;(4) Authorizing contracting with private colleges and universities to meet the demand for courses in the specified science fields;(5) Limiting the percentage of nonresident undergraduate students at institutions of higher education for fiscal years 2010 and 2011;(6) Establishing a minimum tuition amount for adult education at community and technical colleges for fiscal years 2010 and 2011;(7) Requiring institutions of higher education, within available funds, to use common online technologies; and(8) Authorizing the governing boards of state colleges and universities to establish a surcharge for courses determined to be significantly more expensive to offer.
| Apr 10 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 6157
by Senators Prentice, Tom, Hobbs, and Fraser
Calculating compensation for public retirement purposes during the 2009-2011 fiscal biennium.
Requires the department of retirement systems, in calculating average final compensation under RCW 41.40.010(17) for a member of plan 1, 2, or 3, to include any compensation forgone by the member during the 2009-2011 fiscal biennium as a result of reduced work hours, voluntary leave without pay, or temporary furloughs if the reduced compensation is an integral part of the employer's expenditure reduction efforts, as certified by the employer.
| Apr 13 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 6158
by Senators Keiser, Brown, Prentice, and Tom
Delaying the implementation of the family leave insurance program.
Delays implementation of the family leave insurance program to October 1, 2012.
| Apr 13 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |