HB 2178 - DIGEST

Establishes the county and city regulatory sanctuary act.

States that a county legislative authority, a metropolitan municipal corporation, or the legislative body of a code city has the power to designate, by ordinance, the county, the municipal corporation, or the code city to be a regulatory sanctuary county, municipal corporation, or code city, as appropriate, and identify within the ordinance which state agency policies, sections of the WAC, and sections of the RCW to which the county, the municipal corporation, or the code city, as appropriate, has granted itself and its people sanctuary.

Prohibits a state or local agency or state court from compelling a person acting within a regulatory sanctuary county, municipal corporation, or code city to comply with the enumerated provisions of law in the ordinance designating the county, municipal corporation, or code city to be a regulatory sanctuary county, municipal corporation, or code city.