 | WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE | |
| Legislative Digest No. 30 | ||
| SIXTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE | ||
| Monday, February 21, 2011 | 43rd Day - 2011 Regular Session | |
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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=2011.
HB 1994
by Representatives Parker, Condotta, Buys, Schmick, Shea, Chandler, Wilcox, Fagan, Taylor, and Overstreet
Addressing information contained in rate notices under the industrial insurance laws.
Requires the department of labor and industries to include in all rate notices sent to state fund and self-insured employers an accounting that clearly identifies all programs and services that are financed by state fund premiums or self-insurers' administrative assessments.
| Feb 18 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
HB 1995
by Representatives Finn and McCune
Concerning on-site sewage proprietary treatment products.
Requires the state board of health to adopt rules requiring certification by a third-party certification body accredited to international laboratory and conformity assessment standards for on-site sewage proprietary treatment products.
| Feb 18 | First reading, referred to Environment. | |
HB 1996
by Representatives Zeiger, Blake, Rivers, Finn, Orcutt, Hurst, Short, Sells, Wilcox, and Bailey
Providing tax exemptions for storm water mitigation projects.
Provides a tax exemption for storm water mitigation projects.
| Feb 18 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
HJM 4011
by Representatives Schmick, Blake, Warnick, and Fagan
Requesting support for Phase II of the Columbia Basin Project.
Requests the President and Congress to support the vitally important Columbia Basin Project and directs the United States Bureau of Reclamation to continue its study and implementation of "Phase II" of the Columbia River Basin Project.
| Feb 18 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. | |
SB 5829
by Senator McAuliffe
Providing school districts with temporary flexibility in implementing compensation adjustments made in the omnibus appropriations act.
Requires school districts to submit to the state board of education a compensation adjustment plan explaining how each district intends to achieve the compensation reductions in the 2011-2013 omnibus appropriations act, excluding any reductions to the anticipated cost-of-living increases provided under RCW 28A.400.205 and any reductions to national board bonuses provided under RCW 28A.405.415.Allows the compensation adjustment plan of each school district to include employee leave without pay, including mandatory and voluntary temporary layoffs that result in a shortened school year or reduced work day up to a maximum of five days.Requires any plan that includes provisions for a shortened school year or reduced work day to include a waiver request for the day or hour provisions of RCW 28A.150.200 through 28A.150.220, as appropriate, and must provide that the school district will maintain a quality instructional program.Requires any plan for a shortened school year or reduced work day to be applicable to all full and part-time school district staff in a proportionally equal manner in terms of number of days or hours of mandatory temporary layoffs or employee leave without pay. For the purposes of determining continuing health benefit eligibility during the applicability of the compensation adjustment plan, an employee's hours shall be calculated as if the reductions in hours or days required under the school district plan did not occur.
| Feb 18 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5830
by Senators Delvin, Eide, Schoesler, Benton, Morton, Zarelli, Ranker, Ericksen, Swecker, Honeyford, and Murray
Increasing access to state government through accessible parking.
Prohibits local authorities from enacting any ordinance or resolution that restricts parking on any street within five hundred yards of specified state buildings on the Capitol campus.Allows a time restriction of four hours on parking in this restricted area between 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily during the week between Monday morning and Friday evening.
| Feb 18 | First reading, referred to Government Operations, Tribal Relations & Elections. | |
SB 5831
by Senators Chase and Kohl-Welles
Incorporating state tax expenditures into the state budget process.
Incorporates state tax expenditures into the state budget process.
| Feb 18 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5832
by Senators Chase and Roach
Concerning information included in the voters' pamphlet.
Requires the office of financial management, for each voters' pamphlet prepared for the general election, to provide information about how Washington municipal governments, state government, and the federal government receive their income, how they distribute it, and how the tax structure works.
| Feb 18 | First reading, referred to Government Operations, Tribal Relations & Elections. | |
SB 5833
by Senator Fraser
Addressing the employment of members of the public employees' retirement system plan 1 by labor guilds, associations, or organizations.
Modifies provisions relating to employees of labor guilds, associations, or organizations who are members of certain retirement plans.
| Feb 18 | First reading, referred to Labor, Commerce & Consumer Protection. | |
SB 5834
by Senators Murray, Litzow, McAuliffe, Nelson, Hill, White, Kohl-Welles, Fain, and Eide
Permitting counties to direct an existing portion of local lodging taxes to programs for arts and heritage.
Reinstates arts and heritage program funding in King County to the distributions established in 2008 legislation.
| Feb 18 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SJM 8008
by Senators Brown, Hewitt, Kohl-Welles, Holmquist Newbry, Conway, Parlette, Fraser, Kilmer, White, and Hatfield
Requesting that the United States Department of Labor provide Washington with unemployment tax relief equal to any benefit provided to other states.
Requests the United States department of labor to provide Washington state and Washington state unemployment tax paying employers with federal unemployment tax relief or a financial benefit equal to any benefit provided to employers in states who have had to borrow from the federal unemployment account.
| Feb 18 | First reading, referred to Labor, Commerce & Consumer Protection. | |