 | WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE | |
| Legislative Digest No. 9 | ||
| SIXTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE | ||
| Friday, January 24, 2014 | 12th Day - 2014 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=2014.
HB 1279-S
by House Committee on Government Operations & Elections (originally sponsored by Representatives Bergquist, Riccelli, S. Hunt, Sawyer, Farrell, Stonier, Reykdal, Fitzgibbon, Lytton, Liias, Maxwell, Orwall, Jinkins, Upthegrove, Pedersen, Ryu, Carlyle, Roberts, Tharinger, Hudgins, Fey, Morrell, Santos, Pollet, Hansen, and Ormsby)
Allowing motor voter preregistration for sixteen and seventeen year olds.
Establishes the young voter registration equality act.Allows eligible youth at least sixteen years of age to preregister to vote.Exempts from public inspection and copying under the public records act, information contained in voter preregistration records.
| Feb 6 | Public hearing in the House Committee on Government Operations & Elections at 1:30 PM. | |
| Feb 12 | Executive action taken in the House Committee on Government Operations & Elections at 8:00 AM. | |
| Mar 26 | Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Governmental Operations at 10:00 AM. | |
| Jan 14 | Public hearing in the House Committee on Government Operations & Elections at 10:00 AM. | |
| Jan 21 | GOE - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Executive action taken in the House Committee on Government Operations & Elections at 10:00 AM. | ||
| Jan 23 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1960-S2
by House Committee on Finance (originally sponsored by Representative Seaquist)
Establishing benefit assessment charges for metropolitan park districts.
Authorizes the governing board of a metropolitan park district to fix and impose a benefit charge on certain real property that is located within the district.
| Feb 26 | Public hearing in the House Committee on Finance at 8:00 AM. | |
| Feb 28 | Executive action taken in the House Committee on Finance at 8:00 AM. | |
| Mar 26 | Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Governmental Operations at 10:00 AM. | |
| Jan 16 | FIN - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Executive action taken in the House Committee on Finance at 1:30 PM. | ||
| Jan 21 | Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | |
HB 2102-S
by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Sawyer, Muri, Kirby, Zeiger, Fey, Seaquist, Green, Morrell, Jinkins, Liias, Van De Wege, Ryu, and Bergquist)
Requiring a prisoner to seek authorization from a court before commencing a civil action against the victim of the prisoner's crimes.
Requires a person convicted and confined for a serious violent offense, before commencing a civil action in state court against the victim of the offense or the victim's family, to first obtain from the sentencing judge, if available, or the presiding judge in the county of conviction, an order authorizing the action to proceed.
| Jan 16 | Public hearing in the House Committee on Judiciary at 8:00 AM. | |
| Jan 21 | JUDI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Executive action taken in the House Committee on Judiciary at 1:30 PM. | ||
| Jan 23 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 2150-S
by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representative Blake)
Encouraging recreational access to private property.
Allows a landowner to exclude an individual who violates rules or conditions of access established by the landowner.Provides that the following are not fees: (1) Payments from state or local governments to a landowner to facilitate or manage public access;(2) A daily charge of up to twenty-five dollars for the cutting, gathering, and removing of firewood; and(3) An annual charge of up to twenty-five dollars per person for recreation, including hunting and fishing access, on certain lands.
| Jan 14 | Public hearing in the House Committee on Judiciary at 1:30 PM. | |
| Jan 21 | JUDI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Executive action taken in the House Committee on Judiciary at 1:30 PM. | ||
| Jan 23 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 2164-S
by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Orwall, Appleton, Carlyle, and Ryu)
Requiring evidence-based and research-based interventions for juvenile firearm offenders in certain circumstances.
Addresses a juvenile's participation in an aggression replacement training program, a functional family therapy program, or other program applicable to the juvenile firearm offender population.
| Jan 14 | Public hearing in the House Committee on Judiciary at 1:30 PM. | |
| Jan 21 | JUDI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Executive action taken in the House Committee on Judiciary at 1:30 PM. | ||
| Jan 23 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 2171-S
by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Orwall, Johnson, Tarleton, Ross, Nealey, Hayes, Sullivan, Farrell, Kirby, Hansen, Chandler, Green, Shea, Moscoso, Parker, Smith, Magendanz, Klippert, Rodne, Pollet, Seaquist, Appleton, Carlyle, Stanford, Buys, Morrell, Goodman, Liias, Haigh, Short, Fagan, Bergquist, Fey, Riccelli, and Ryu; by request of Governor Inslee and Attorney General)
Strengthening economic protections for veterans and military personnel.
Strengthens economic protections for veterans and military personnel.
| Jan 14 | Public hearing in the House Committee on Judiciary at 1:30 PM. | |
| Jan 21 | JUDI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Executive action taken in the House Committee on Judiciary at 1:30 PM. | ||
| Jan 23 | Referred to Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government & Information Technology. | |
HB 2195-S
by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Morrell, Kochmar, Hurst, Green, and Jinkins)
Concerning involuntary medication for maintaining the level of restoration in jail.
Addresses the determination of a court to authorize involuntary medication for maintaining the level of restoration in a jail following a restoration period.
| Jan 17 | Public hearing in the House Committee on Judiciary at 1:30 PM. | |
| Jan 21 | JUDI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Executive action taken in the House Committee on Judiciary at 1:30 PM. | ||
| Jan 23 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 2196-S
by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representative Jinkins)
Concerning the use of the judicial information system by courts before granting certain orders.
Authorizes a court, before granting certain orders, to consult the judicial information system or related databases to determine criminal history or the pendency of other proceedings involving the parties, with regard to: (1) A parenting plan, placement of a child, or contact with a child;(2) Vulnerable children or adults;(3) Letters of guardianship or administration or letters testamentary;(4) Relief under Title 71 RCW (mental illness); and(5) Relief in a juvenile proceeding.
| Jan 16 | Public hearing in the House Committee on Judiciary at 8:00 AM. | |
| Jan 21 | JUDI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Executive action taken in the House Committee on Judiciary at 1:30 PM. | ||
| Jan 23 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 2197-S
by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representative Jinkins)
Concerning objecting to relocation in child custody cases.
Addresses objections to relocation in child custody cases.
| Jan 16 | Public hearing in the House Committee on Judiciary at 8:00 AM. | |
| Jan 21 | JUDI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Executive action taken in the House Committee on Judiciary at 1:30 PM. | ||
| Jan 23 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 2627
by Representatives Roberts, Hayes, and Moscoso
Concerning the arrest of individuals who suffer from chemical dependency.
Allows a police officer who has reasonable cause to believe that an individual has committed acts constituting a nonfelony crime that is not a serious offense, and has not committed a possible violation of DUI or physical control laws, and is known by history to suffer from a chemical dependency, to: (1) Take the individual to an approved chemical dependency treatment provider for treatment;(2) Take the individual to an emergency medical service customarily used for incapacitated persons, if no approved treatment program is readily available;(3) Refer the individual to a chemical dependency professional for initial detention and proceeding; or(4) Release the individual upon agreement to voluntary participation in outpatient treatment.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2628
by Representative Klippert
Concerning government ownership of vacant or undeveloped land for extended periods of time.
Requires a public agency that owns vacant or otherwise undeveloped property that was obtained through transfers, intergovernmental exchanges, gifts, foreclosures, or other nonpayment methods to: (1) Develop a list of these properties, by parcel number; and(2) Develop, adopt, and implement a master real estate plan to use or dispose of the properties on the list.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2629
by Representatives Springer, Rodne, Magendanz, Pettigrew, Farrell, Freeman, Moscoso, Senn, Gregerson, Pollet, and Tarleton
Authorizing the imposition of a filing fee for certain property assessment appeal petitions.
Authorizes a county legislative authority to require that a petition to the county board of equalization challenging the assessed value of a commercial property be accompanied by a reasonable filing fee, to be waived in cases of indigence.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2630
by Representative Condotta
Requiring the labeling of transgenic fish during sale.
Prohibits the sale, at wholesale or retail, of any fresh, frozen, or processed salmon without identifying transgenic salmon or salmon products as transgenic.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2631
by Representatives Seaquist and Young
Providing fee immunity for certain water facilities.
Provides fee immunity for certain water facilities.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2632
by Representatives Jinkins, Harris, and Tharinger; by request of Department of Social and Health Services
Concerning each area agency on aging's oversight of timekeeping with regard to case management services.
Includes in the case management responsibilities of each area agency on aging verification of a sample of worker time sheets until the ProviderOne compensation subsystem and services is available for individual providers to record their hours.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2633
by Representatives Moeller, Schmick, Harris, and Tharinger; by request of Department of Social and Health Services
Concerning investigations involving vulnerable adults.
Revises the definition of "vulnerable adult," for purposes of chapter 74.34 RCW (abuse of vulnerable adults), to include a person who the department of social and health services reasonably believes has a developmental disability.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2634
by Representatives Kagi and Tharinger; by request of Department of Social and Health Services
Concerning enforcement standards for residential services and support providers.
Revises community protection program provisions regarding enforcement standards for residential services and support providers.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & Human Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2635
by Representative Tharinger
Modifying the tax appeal process.
Declares it is the intent of the legislature that this act foster the settlement or other resolution of tax disputes to the extent possible and, in cases in which litigation is necessary, to provide the people of this state with a fair, independent, prepayment procedure to determine a dispute with tax administration agencies.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2636
by Representatives Smith and Tarleton; by request of Department of Ecology
Streamlining statutorily required environmental reports by government entities.
Streamlines certain environmental reports by the department of ecology.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Environment (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2637
by Representatives Stonier, Vick, and Harris
Concerning annexations by code cities in counties with four hundred thousand or more residents.
Requires the question of annexation, for areas within a county with a population of at least four hundred thousand that is bordered by the Columbia river, to be submitted to the voters of the area if the area contains at least one hundred voters.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Local Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2638
by Representative Wylie
Concerning the establishment of state preemption of laws and ordinances of local governments regarding provisions of the controlled substances act, chapter 69.50 RCW.
Provides that the state fully occupies and preempts the entire field of the regulation of controlled substances under the uniform controlled substances act and the statutory provisions pertaining to licensing, marketing, taxation, production, processing, and retail sale of marijuana.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Government Accountability & Oversight (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2639
by Representatives Moeller, Harris, Green, Cody, Morrell, Clibborn, Riccelli, and Van De Wege; by request of Governor Inslee
Concerning state purchasing of mental health and chemical dependency treatment services.
Addresses mental health and chemical dependency treatment services purchased by this state.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
| Jan 27 | Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM. (Subject to change) | |
HB 2640
by Representatives Riccelli, Zeiger, Farrell, Seaquist, Orcutt, Pollet, Buys, Parker, Haler, and Gregerson
Creating a sales tax holiday for school instructional material for higher education students.
Provides a sales and use tax exemption on school instructional material for personal or nonbusiness use for higher education students.Expires July 1, 2019.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2641
by Representatives Sawyer, Zeiger, Walsh, and Kagi
Establishing the WorkFirst reform program.
Requires the department of social and health services to: (1) Operate a WorkFirst reform program to provide assistance to individuals who meet the eligibility requirements of the temporary assistance for needy families program; and(2) Partner with the department of commerce, the department of early learning, the employment security department, the office of financial management, and the state board for community and technical colleges to carry out the program.Requires the legislative-executive WorkFirst oversight task force to oversee implementation of the WorkFirst reform program to ensure that the program is achieving its goals.Makes an appropriation.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & Human Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2642
by Representatives Walkinshaw, Kochmar, Clibborn, and Klippert; by request of Utilities & Transportation Commission
Modifying the deadline for annual regulatory fees for charter party and excursion service carriers.
Changes the deadline from December 31st of each year to May 1st of each year for annual regulatory fees for charter party and excursion service carriers.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2643
by Representatives Farrell, Riccelli, Cody, Bergquist, Stanford, Gregerson, Sawyer, Tarleton, Fey, Stonier, and Robinson; by request of Governor Inslee
Concerning efforts with private and public partnerships to help produce Washington's healthiest next generation.
Creates the governor's council for the healthiest next generation to identify policy-related action plans and funding recommendations based on data, best practices, and expert opinion that protect children's health and support community-level changes.Directs the governor to discontinue the council upon a determination of reduced need or resources.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
| Jan 29 | Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 8:00 AM. (Subject to change) | |
HB 2644
by Representatives Ryu, Nealey, Moscoso, Sells, Appleton, Kagi, Haler, Gregerson, Orwall, Wylie, Roberts, Reykdal, Senn, Robinson, Farrell, Tarleton, Tharinger, Freeman, Walkinshaw, Jinkins, Morrell, Clibborn, Haigh, Pettigrew, Rodne, Moeller, Pollet, Bergquist, S. Hunt, Sawyer, and Green
Concerning coercion of involuntary servitude.
Includes in the crime of coercion of involuntary servitude, coercing another person to perform labor or services by: (1) Withholding or threatening to withhold or destroy documents relating to a person's immigration status; or(2) Threatening to notify law enforcement officials that a person is present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2645
by Representative Moeller
Concerning hardship property tax waivers for interest and penalties.
Addresses waivers for the interest and penalties on delinquent property taxes when notice for the taxes was not sent to a taxpayer due to error by the United States postal service.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2646
by Representatives Cody, Tharinger, and Harris; by request of Department of Social and Health Services
Providing certification exemptions and training requirements for certain individual provider long-term care workers.
Exempts from certain training and certification requirements until July 1, 2016, a long-term care worker who: (1) Works as an individual provider;(2) Provides only respite services; and(3) Works less than three hundred hours in any calendar year.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Appropriations Subcommittee on Health & Human Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2647
by Representatives Jinkins, Harris, Tharinger, and Cody; by request of Department of Social and Health Services
Concerning electronic timekeeping for in-home personal care or respite services.
Provides an exception for electronic timekeeping for in-home personal care or respite services.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Appropriations Subcommittee on Health & Human Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2648
by Representatives Orcutt, Harris, and Pike
Addressing legislative members' voting rights on regional transportation planning organization policy boards.
Addresses legislators' voting rights on regional transportation planning organization policy boards.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2649
by Representatives Jinkins and Rodne; by request of Department of Social and Health Services
Concerning placement of a defendant determined to be incompetent.
Encourages the department of social and health services to develop, on a phased-in basis, alternative locations and increased access to competency restoration services under chapter 10.77 RCW (criminally insane--procedures) for individuals who do not require in-patient psychiatric hospitalization level services.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2650
by Representatives Fitzgibbon, Pettigrew, Sullivan, and Orwall
Allowing the use of lodging taxes for financing workforce housing.
Authorizes a municipality to issue general obligation bonds to finance loans or grants to nonprofit organizations or public housing authorities for affordable workforce housing within one-half mile of a transit station.Authorizes the legislative body of a municipality to issue revenue bonds to finance a fund to make loans or grants to nonprofit organizations or public housing authorities for affordable workforce housing within one-half mile of a transit station.Authorizes revenue from the lodging tax to repay the general obligation bonds and the revenue bonds.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2651
by Representatives Hansen, Haler, and Zeiger
Requiring creation of a higher education transparency web site.
Requires the student achievement council to create a higher education transparency web site as a means for providing easily accessible information on revenues and expenditures for each institution of higher education.Requires the institutions of higher education and the state board for community and technical colleges to provide the student achievement council with revenue and expenditure information including certain information provided to the office of financial management and the legislative evaluation and accountability program committee.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2652
by Representative Reykdal
Requiring contractor registration numbers on vehicles.
Requires contractor registration numbers on vehicles.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2653
by Representatives Zeiger, Pollet, and Haler
Providing higher education degree production incentives.
Creates the degree production incentive account and requires expenditures from the account to be used for providing incentives to the state universities, the regional universities, and The Evergreen State College to meet degree production goals to increase certain degrees and to increase the proportion of in-state students accepted compared to out-of-state students.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2654
by Representative Seaquist
Codifying the existence of the climate impacts group without making modifications to its current mission.
Codifies the existence of the climate impacts group without making modifications to its current mission.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Environment (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2655
by Representative Seaquist
Setting the salaries for members of the legislature.
Requires the citizens' commission on salaries for elected officials to fix the salary for each member of the legislature at the average starting salary for an elementary school science teacher.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2656
by Representative Hudgins
Addressing civil infractions involving deeds of trust.
Addresses civil infractions involving deeds of trust.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2657
by Representative Hudgins
Requiring residential real property transfers and assignments to be recorded.
Requires transfers and assignments of residential real property to be recorded in the office of the recording officer of the county where the property is situated.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2658
by Representative Hudgins
Prescribing penalties for false declarations by a beneficiary regarding a trustee's sale.
Prescribes penalties for false declarations by a beneficiary regarding a trustee's sale.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2659
by Representative Hudgins
Addressing the restraint of a sale by a trustee.
Modifies provisions relating to the restraint of a sale by a trustee.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2660
by Representatives Haler, Klippert, Hayes, and Walsh
Concerning a business and occupation tax credit for businesses that hire individuals with developmental disabilities.
Provides a business and occupation tax credit equal to one thousand dollars per calendar year for each full-time employment position filled by an individual with a developmental disability.Allows a partial credit for a part-time employment position filled by an individual with a developmental disability.Expires July 1, 2019.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2661
by Representative Seaquist
Creating the Washington research institute for teaching excellence.
Creates the Washington research institute for teaching excellence to conduct research on teaching to inform policy decisions related to teaching and to improve the practice of teaching in K-12 and higher education, including teacher preparation.Requires the education data center, the office of the superintendent of public instruction, the professional educator standards board, the state board of education, the state board for community and technical colleges, the student achievement council, and the workforce training and education coordinating board to assist the institute in achieving its mission by providing staff expertise, data, and research.Requires the student achievement council to provide staff expertise, data, and research to the institute in partnership with staff of Washington State University to support the mission, duties, and functions of the institute.Provides that sections 3 and 4 of this act are null and void if appropriations are not approved.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HJR 4217
by Representatives Pollet, Muri, Hargrove, Seaquist, Farrell, Kretz, Haler, Sells, Short, Moscoso, Orwall, and Sawyer
Amending the Constitution regarding the people's right of access to information concerning the conduct of the people's business.
Proposes an amendment to the state Constitution regarding the people's right of access to information concerning the conduct of the people's business.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
SB 5996-S
by Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Senators Angel, Fain, and McAuliffe)
Requiring the department of licensing to adopt rules regarding online learning for training in cosmetology, manicuring, barbering, esthetics, master esthetics, and instruction.
Supports and encourages online learning opportunities and believes that online learning is an appropriate and efficient method for the study of theory for cosmetology, manicuring, barbering, esthetics, and instructor-training.Requires the director of the department of licensing to adopt rules regarding distance or online learning that include a limit on the number of hours of online learning that can be used toward licensing requirements in the areas of cosmetology, manicuring, barbering, esthetics, master esthetics, and instructor-training.
| Jan 20 | Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor at 1:30 PM. | |
| Jan 22 | Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor at 1:30 PM. | |
| Jan 23 | CL - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
SB 6046-S
by Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Senators Keiser, Rolfes, Conway, Kohl-Welles, Braun, Honeyford, and Kline)
Implementing procedures concerning certain whistleblowers.
Requires the human rights commission, once it has completed an investigation of a complaint alleging workplace reprisal or retaliatory action against a whistleblower, to notify the complainant of the completion of the investigation.
| Jan 20 | Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor at 1:30 PM. | |
| Jan 22 | Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor at 1:30 PM. | |
| Jan 23 | CL - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
SB 6377
by Senator Ranker
Concerning the reduction of greenhouse gas and particulate emissions by state ferry vessels.
Requires the department of transportation to: (1) Beginning September 1, 2014, report to the legislature the annual amount of greenhouse gases and particulate matter released by the operation of state ferry vessels; and(2) Reduce the average greenhouse gas and particulate emissions from the state ferry vessel fleet by the following dates and percentages over the levels reported for fiscal year 2013: Five percent by June 1, 2016; fifteen percent by June 1, 2018; and twenty percent by June 1, 2020.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 6378
by Senator Ranker
Concerning penalties associated with a recreational pass or permit.
Prohibits the reduction of the monetary penalty associated with discover pass, vehicle access pass, and day-use permit provisions.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Natural Resources & Parks. | |
SB 6379
by Senator Hill
Concerning the period of time the department of revenue must grant or deny a refund request.
Requires the department of revenue to make a judgment of a refund request made by a taxpayer, to either grant or deny the request, within ninety days of receiving the application for refund, unless: (1) The basis for the refund is currently being litigated in court by the taxpayer or by another taxpayer with similar circumstances;(2) The basis for the refund request is an issue of first impression for which the department reasonably needs additional time to review; or(3) The department and taxpayer mutually agree to extend the ninety-day period for a specified term.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 6380
by Senator O'Ban
Concerning deficit reimbursement agreements with counties owning and operating ferry systems.
Increases the reimbursement, from the department of transportation, to Pierce, Skagit, and Whatcom counties for deficits incurred in the operation and maintenance of the ferry system owned and operated by the counties.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 6381
by Senators Ranker and Rolfes
Concerning watershed councils in the Puget Sound basin.
Requires the Puget Sound partnership to conduct a review of the role of watershed councils in accomplishing the goals and objectives of Puget Sound recovery.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications. | |
| Jan 29 | Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Energy and Environment & Telecommunications at 8:00 AM. (Subject to change) | |
SB 6382
by Senators Angel and Sheldon
Extending the timeline for short plats.
Addresses deadlines for submitting approved short plats for final plat approval.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 6383
by Senators Becker, Pedersen, and Kohl-Welles; by request of Governor Inslee
Concerning efforts with private and public partnerships to help produce Washington's healthiest next generation.
Creates the governor's council for the healthiest next generation to identify policy-related action plans and funding recommendations based on data, best practices, and expert opinion that protect children's health and support community-level changes.Directs the governor to discontinue the council upon a determination of reduced need or resources.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 6384
by Senators Padden and Schoesler
Modifying certain venue of action provisions.
Permits a defendant, that resides in the county that is bringing an action, to move the action to either of the two nearest judicial districts by making the request in accordance with court rules for civil proceedings.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 6385
by Senators Keiser and Frockt
Designating a disciplining authority for dental hygienists.
Changes the name of the dental hygiene examining committee to the board of dental hygiene.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 6386
by Senators Holmquist Newbry, Kohl-Welles, Hewitt, and Brown
Clarifying provisions that allow for the tasting of alcohol by students under twenty-one years of age.
Clarifies provisions relating to the tasting of alcohol by students under twenty-one years of age.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 6387
by Senators Hill, Hargrove, Ranker, Fain, Braun, Tom, Dammeier, Parlette, Becker, Schoesler, Hewitt, Bailey, King, Angel, Roach, Keiser, Litzow, Kohl-Welles, O'Ban, and Conway
Concerning individuals with developmental disabilities who have requested a service from a program that is already at capacity.
Authorizes a person, after the secretary of the department of social and health services has determined that the person is eligible for services, to request an assessment for eligibility for medicaid programs and specific services administered by the developmental disabilities administration.Requires the secretary of the department of social and health services to prioritize services to medicaid eligible clients.Requires the department of social and health services to establish and maintain a service request list database for individuals who are found to be eligible and have an assessed and unmet need for programs and services offered under a home and community-based services waiver.Makes appropriations.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 6388
by Senator Padden
Concerning pass-through wholesale food distributors.
Requires the department of licensing to issue a license to operate as a pass-through wholesale food distributor to sell prepackaged foods from a food processor and to deliver the food directly to consumers.Exempts pass-through wholesale food distributors from the state board of health's food service rules and any food service regulations adopted by local health jurisdictions.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 6389
by Senators Darneille and Chase
Concerning mandatory multiple consecutive enhancements in imposing a sentence outside the standard sentence range.
Addresses the imposition of a sentence outside the standard sentence range with regard to mandatory multiple consecutive enhancements.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 6390
by Senators Darneille and Chase
Forming the juvenile sentencing task force to review and make recommendations regarding juvenile sentencing matters.
Requires the legislature to convene a task force to examine juvenile sentencing reform by: (1) Undertaking a thorough review of juvenile sentencing as it relates to the intersection of the adult and juvenile justice systems; and(2) Making recommendations for reform that promote improved outcomes for youth, public safety, and taxpayer resources.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 6391
by Senators Fain and Mullet; by request of Insurance Commissioner
Addressing the financial solvency of insurance companies.
Repeals chapter 48.31B RCW (insurer holding company act) and chapter 48.31C RCW (holding company act for health care service contractors and health maintenance organizations).Creates the insurer holding company act and the risk management and solvency assessment act.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions, Housing & Insurance. | |
SB 6392
by Senator Baumgartner
Establishing community service standards for individuals receiving unemployment benefits.
Requires a person who is receiving unemployment benefits to perform at least eight hours of community service for every four weeks of unemployment benefits received unless the commissioner of the employment security department determines that: (1) The individual is younger than eighteen years of age or older than sixty-five years of age; or(2) There is justifiable cause for the failure to perform community service.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 6393
by Senator Baumgartner
Concerning the distribution of marijuana tax revenues for local law enforcement officers.
Requires the liquor control board to disburse certain marijuana tax revenues as follows: Twenty million dollars to cities and towns and five million dollars to counties to be used for additional law enforcement officers.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 6394
by Senator Darneille; by request of Department of Social and Health Services
Concerning income eligibility for temporary assistance for needy families benefits for a child.
Authorizes the department of social and health services to, by rule, exempt fifty percent of a caregiver's unearned income in determining temporary assistance for needy families eligibility and benefit standards.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 6395
by Senator Darneille; by request of Department of Social and Health Services
Concerning placement of a defendant determined to be incompetent.
Encourages the department of social and health services to develop, on a phased-in basis, alternative locations and increased access to competency restoration services under chapter 10.77 RCW (criminally insane--procedures) for individuals who do not require in-patient psychiatric hospitalization level services.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 6396
by Senators Darneille, Cleveland, Kohl-Welles, Chase, and McAuliffe
Allowing youthful offenders who complete their sentences prior to age twenty-one equal access to a full continuum of rehabilitative and reentry services.
Allows equal access to a full continuum of rehabilitative and reentry services to certain offenders who complete their sentences before the age of twenty-one.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 6397
by Senators Liias, Honeyford, and Conway; by request of LEOFF Plan 2 Retirement Board
Placing restrictions on retired law enforcement officers and firefighters employed in certain public positions.
Places restrictions on plan 2 retirees of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system with regard to continuing in a law enforcement officer or firefighter career and still collecting their retirement allowance.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 6398
by Senators Darneille and Chase
Concerning child support.
Requires certain persons or entities doing business in this state to report to the state support registry the hiring of an independent contractor who resides or works in this state to whom the person or entity anticipates paying compensation.Requires the department of social and health services to: (1) Pass through child support that does not exceed one hundred dollars per month collected on behalf of a family, or in the case of a family that includes two or more children, an amount that is not more than two hundred dollars per month;(2) Establish a gambling payment intercept program to require licensees to withhold payments from winning players who owe past due child support;(3) Develop and maintain a gambling payment intercept registry to allow licensees to determine if a winning player owes past due child support; and(4) Work with the gambling commission to include participation in the gambling payment intercept program when the commission is negotiating tribal gaming compacts with the tribes.Requires certain licensees authorized to conduct a gambling activity, class 1 associations licensed to conduct parimutuel wagering, and operators of advance deposit wagering systems to participate in the gambling payment intercept program.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 6399
by Senators Darneille, O'Ban, Cleveland, Kohl-Welles, McAuliffe, and Conway
Creating an office of corrections ombuds.
Creates an office of corrections ombuds within the office of the governor to: (1) Provide information to offenders and their families;(2) Promote public awareness and understanding of the rights and responsibilities of offenders;(3) Identify system issues and responses for the governor and the legislature to act upon; and(4) Ensure compliance with relevant statutes, rules, and policies pertaining to corrections facilities, services, and treatment of offenders under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 6400
by Senators Hobbs, O'Ban, Tom, and Conway
Concerning insurance for enlisted members of the Washington national guard.
Provides a premium-based health plan and a premium-based dental plan for certain Washington national guard members.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 6401
by Senators Liias, Hobbs, McCoy, and McAuliffe
Concerning electronic salary and wage payments by counties.
Authorizes counties, in disbursing funds for payment of salaries and wages of employees, to elect to use the following payment methods: (1) For employees who have an account in a financial institution, payment to the financial institution for credit to the employees' accounts in the financial institution or immediate transfer therefrom to the employees' accounts in any other financial institutions; and(2) For employees who do not have an account in a financial institution, payment by alternate methods such as payroll cards.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 6402
by Senators Honeyford, Hatfield, Brown, Dansel, Parlette, and Bailey
Defining honey bee products and services as an agricultural product.
Revises the definition of "agricultural product," for purposes of the business and occupation tax, to include honey bee products and bee pollination services.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Agriculture, Water & Rural Economic Development. | |
SB 6403
by Senators Sheldon and Roach
Concerning the availability of juvenile offender court records.
Requires official juvenile court files to be available for bulk distribution through the judicial information system records of the administrative office of the courts.Requires the administrative office of the courts to display information from an official juvenile court file on a public web site that is a statewide index of court cases.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 6404
by Senator Benton
Concerning annexations by code cities in counties with four hundred thousand or more residents.
Requires the question of annexation, for areas within a county with a population of at least four hundred thousand that is bordered by the Columbia river, to be submitted to the voters of the area if the area contains at least one hundred voters.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 6405
by Senators Baumgartner, Padden, Hargrove, and Cleveland; by request of Department of Revenue
Providing greater consistency in how nonprofit tax-exempt property may be used without jeopardizing the property's tax-exempt status.
Provides greater consistency in how nonprofit tax-exempt property may be used without jeopardizing the property's tax-exempt status.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SJM 8013
by Senators Hobbs, King, Eide, Chase, McAuliffe, and Conway
Requesting that a portion of state route number 395 be named the Thomas Stephen "Tom" Foley Memorial Highway.
Requests that a portion of state route number 395 be named the Thomas Stephen "Tom" Foley Memorial Highway.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SJR 8215
by Senators Padden, O'Ban, and Roach
Amending the state Constitution so that only persons who are qualified voters in a county are elected or appointed to the office of judge of the superior court for that county.
Proposes an amendment to the state Constitution prohibiting a person from being elected or appointed to the office of judge of the superior court unless he or she is a qualified voter in a county served by that superior court.
| Jan 23 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |