 | WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE | |
| Legislative Digest No. 6 | ||
| SIXTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE | ||
| Tuesday, January 22, 2013 | 9th Day - 2013 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=2013.
HB 1208
by Representatives Reykdal, Haler, Lytton, Carlyle, Seaquist, Wylie, Pollet, Jinkins, Ryu, Zeiger, Scott, and Fagan
Establishing the digital college in the high school pilot project.
Establishes the digital college in the high school as a pilot project to expand free access to online college courses for high school students.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction and the state board for community and technical colleges to establish a single online portal for eligible high school students to apply and enroll in college courses offered by community and technical colleges through the Washington online system, regardless of which college offers the course.Requires the state board for community and technical colleges, in consultation with the colleges, to establish a common admission standard for students enrolling in the digital college in the high school.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Conduct a marketing and communications campaign to inform parents, students, and school districts about the digital college in the high school; and(2) In consultation with the state board for community and technical colleges, evaluate the digital college in the high school and submit a report to the education and higher education committees of the legislature.Expires August 31, 2015.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1209
by Representatives MacEwen, Blake, Chandler, Stonier, and Wilcox
Extending the program establishing Christmas tree grower licensure.
Delays, until July 1, 2020, the expiration of the program establishing Christmas tree grower licensure.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. | |
HB 1210
by Representatives Fey, Upthegrove, Fitzgibbon, and Liias
Expanding the membership of the capital projects advisory review board.
Adds a member, to be selected by regional transit authorities, to the capital projects advisory review board.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Capital Budget. | |
HB 1211
by Representatives Alexander and Hunt; by request of Secretary of State
Concerning primary election voters' pamphlets.
Directs a voter's pamphlet to be printed and distributed for the primary in each even-numbered year and for the general election every year.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections. | |
HB 1212
by Representatives Condotta and Kirby
Prohibiting the use of credit history in insurance coverage related to a residence.
Prohibits credit history from being used to determine rates, premiums, or eligibility for homeowners insurance, dwelling property coverage, or earthquake coverage for a residence.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Business & Financial Services. | |
HB 1213
by Representatives Orwall and Pettigrew
Concerning social worker licensing.
Requires licensed advanced social workers and licensed independent clinical social workers to both be considered the top tier of licensure for the profession for purposes of job classification.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. | |
HB 1214
by Representatives Zeiger, Orwall, Morrell, and Smith
Providing property tax relief for active duty military personnel injured in the line of duty.
Exempts certain active duty members of the armed forces, national guard, or reserves from certain property tax obligations.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Finance. | |
HB 1215
by Representatives Sells and McCoy
Concerning the exemption for property owned by nonprofit religious organizations.
Addresses property tax exemptions for property owned by nonprofit religious organizations.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Finance. | |
HB 1216
by Representatives Habib, Clibborn, and Jinkins
Concerning insurance coverage of treatment of eosinophilia gastrointestinal associated disorders.
Requires certain insurance contracts to include formulas necessary for the treatment of eosinophilia gastrointestinal associated disorders, regardless of the delivery method of the formula.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. | |
HB 1217
by Representative Takko
Strengthening the integrity, fairness, and equity in Washington's property assessment system.
Requires an appellant, filing a petition challenging the assessed value of a commercial property, to provide the assessor with income and expense statements for the three years prior to the assessment date.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Local Government. | |
HB 1218
by Representatives Takko, Klippert, Blake, Orcutt, Kirby, Buys, Lytton, Goodman, Kretz, Van De Wege, Nealey, Hudgins, Wilcox, Stanford, Short, and Warnick; by request of Department of Fish and Wildlife
Concerning department of fish and wildlife license suspensions.
Addresses child support-based license suspensions by the department of fish and wildlife.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. | |
HB 1219
by Representatives Kretz, Lytton, Klippert, Stanford, Orcutt, Blake, Wilcox, Warnick, Nealey, and Buys; by request of Department of Fish and Wildlife
Concerning large wild carnivore conflict management.
Creates Washington's wolves special license plates.Prohibits the department of fish and wildlife from: (1) Paying more than fifty thousand dollars per fiscal year from the state wildlife account for claims and assessment costs for injury or loss of certain livestock; and(2) Expending any money deposited into the state wildlife account that is received from the sale of Washington's wolves license plates for the purposes of lethal wolf management.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. | |
HB 1220
by Representatives Blake, Chandler, Lytton, and Buys
Concerning milk and milk products.
Revises provisions relating to milk and milk products.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. | |
HB 1221
by Representatives Upthegrove and Short
Regarding coal transition power.
Modifies the energy independence act by revising the definition of "load" and adding a definition for "coal transition power."
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Environment. | |
HB 1222
by Representatives Upthegrove and Short
Concerning coal transition power.
Addresses coal transition power with regard to qualifying utilities under the energy independence act.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Environment. | |
HB 1223
by Representatives Kretz, Blake, and Orcutt
Regarding denials of forest practices applications.
Prohibits the department of natural resources from denying certain forest practices applications due to the presence of an archaeological object.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs. | |
HB 1224
by Representatives Kretz and Takko
Providing a process for county legislative authorities to withdraw from voluntary planning under the growth management act.
Provides a process for county legislative authorities to withdraw from voluntary planning under the growth management act.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Local Government. | |
HB 1225
by Representatives Hunt and Reykdal
Regarding cost savings and efficiencies in mailing notices of revocation to habitual traffic offenders.
Requires the department of licensing to notify a person of the revocation of his or her license by first-class mail instead of certified mail.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Public Safety. | |
HB 1226
by Representatives Ormsby, Alexander, and Sullivan; by request of Select Committee on Pension Policy
Addressing the restrictions on collecting a pension in the public employees' retirement system for retirees returning to work in an ineligible position or a position covered by another state retirement system.
Modifies state retirement system provisions relating to collecting a pension and returning to work.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Appropriations. | |
HB 1227
by Representatives Hunt and Reykdal
Regarding cost savings and efficiencies in mailing notices of possible license suspension for noncompliance with child support orders.
Addresses notifications of driver's license suspension for noncompliance of a child support order.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
HB 1228
by Representative Hunt
Exempting certain family day care providers who have been operating for at least five years from any requirement to have a high school diploma or equivalent education.
Exempts certain family day care providers from high school diploma requirements.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & Human Services. | |
HB 1229
by Representatives Haigh, Haler, Dunshee, Hunt, Roberts, Sullivan, Ryu, Fitzgibbon, Liias, Pollet, Reykdal, Sells, Stanford, Appleton, and Goodman
Creating the companion animal safety, population control, and spay/neuter assistance program.
Establishes the companion animal safety, population control, and spay/neuter assistance program to provide for spaying and neutering of feral and free-roaming cats and companion animals owned by low-income individuals.Provides that the department of social and health services will administer the program.Creates the companion animal spay/neuter assistance account.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. | |
HB 1230
by Representatives Green, Warnick, Jinkins, Harris, Cody, Moeller, Clibborn, and Morrell
Concerning persons who are pursuing a course of study leading to a degree as a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant.
Addresses persons pursuing a course of study leading to a degree as a physical therapist or a physical therapist assistant.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. | |
HB 1231
by Representatives Stanford, Kirby, Manweller, Ross, Nealey, Ryu, Warnick, Hudgins, and Van De Wege
Establishing continuing education requirements for engineers.
Requires professional engineers to complete fifteen hours of continuing professional development every year for renewal of a certificate of registration.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Business & Financial Services. | |
| Jan 23 | Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Business & Financial Services at 1:30 PM. (Subject to change) | |
| Jan 24 | Scheduled for executive session in the House Committee on Business & Financial Services at 10:00 AM. (Subject to change) | |
HB 1232
by Representatives Sells, Zeiger, Morrell, Hayes, McCoy, Klippert, Fey, and Holy
Asserting conditions under which the department of corrections provides rental vouchers to a registered sex offender.
Places restrictions on the department of corrections with regard to providing rental vouchers to registered sex offenders.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Public Safety. | |
HB 1233
by Representatives Jinkins, Moscoso, Fitzgibbon, Sells, Morrell, Green, Dunshee, Van De Wege, Moeller, and Bergquist
Including health in the state transportation system policy goals.
Expands the existing goals, objectives, and responsibilities related to the operation of an efficient statewide transportation system by including improving the health of the state's citizens and reducing health care costs by considering health implications when designing, building, and maintaining the state's transportation system.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
HB 1234
by Representatives Pike and Harris
Delaying new storm water requirements for phase I jurisdictions.
Requires the department of ecology to: (1) Reissue, without modification and for a term of two years, phase I national pollutant discharge elimination system municipal storm water general permits in effect on September 1, 2012; and(2) Modify the date the updated permits reissued on August 1, 2012, becomes effective from August 1, 2013, to August 1, 2015.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Environment. | |
HB 1235
by Representatives Pike, Takko, and Harris
Prioritizing state investments in storm water control.
Requires the department of ecology, when providing grants, loans, or other financial assistance to a unit of local government intended to aid in the management, treatment, or control of storm water runoff, to give priority funding to activities or projects that are required by the applicable operational state municipal storm water permit approved by the department under the water resources act of 1971.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Environment. | |
HB 1236
by Representatives Pike, Zeiger, Shea, Chandler, Harris, Smith, Alexander, and Fagan
Establishing consistent standards for agency decision making.
Creates uniform standards and timelines for certain state agency decision-making procedures.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Government Accountability & Oversight. | |
HB 1237
by Representatives Pike, Van De Wege, Chandler, Takko, Harris, Hope, Moeller, Hayes, Moscoso, and Wylie
Regarding the creation of a storm water compliance project.
Requires the department of ecology to conduct a municipal storm water control pilot project to evaluate the net environmental effects of an alternative approach to municipal storm water management and determine if alternative approaches can satisfy the water quality requirements of the state and federal clean water acts and have merit for greater statewide application.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Environment. | |
HB 1238
by Representatives Moscoso, Hargrove, Kirby, Shea, Moeller, Upthegrove, Hunt, Orcutt, Short, and Tharinger
Allowing motorcycles to stop and proceed through traffic control signals under certain conditions.
Allows the operator of a street legal motorcycle to stop and proceed through traffic control signals under certain conditions.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
HB 1239
by Representatives Takko and Crouse
Concerning the powers of water-sewer districts.
Modifies certain powers of water-sewer districts.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Local Government. | |
HB 1240
by Representatives Takko, Kochmar, Fitzgibbon, Crouse, and Upthegrove
Authorizing certain water-sewer districts to use the job order contracting procedure.
Authorizes certain water-sewer districts to use the job order contracting procedure.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Local Government. | |
HB 1241
by Representatives Takko, Kochmar, Fitzgibbon, Crouse, and Upthegrove
Concerning contractor's bond.
Modifies contractor bond provisions relating to water-sewer districts.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Local Government. | |
HB 1242
by Representatives Moscoso, Zeiger, Morrell, Johnson, and Roberts
Concerning the authority of a vehicle subagent to recommend a successor.
Grants vehicle subagents the authority to recommend a successor.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
HB 1243
by Representatives Haigh, MacEwen, Blake, Sullivan, Orcutt, Ryu, Maxwell, Upthegrove, Lytton, Van De Wege, Kretz, and Warnick; by request of Department of Natural Resources
Modifying expiration dates affecting the department of natural resources' timber sale program.
Extends certain expiration dates affecting the department of natural resources' timber sale program.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. | |
HB 1244
by Representatives Stanford, Orcutt, Ryu, Warnick, Maxwell, Blake, Upthegrove, Lytton, MacEwen, and Van De Wege; by request of Department of Natural Resources
Clarifying the department of natural resources' authority to enter into cooperative agreements.
Provides clarification of the department of natural resources' authority to enter into cooperative agreements.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. | |
HB 1245
by Representatives Hansen, Smith, Ryu, Wilcox, Maxwell, Warnick, Blake, Upthegrove, MacEwen, Lytton, Van De Wege, Takko, and Walsh; by request of Department of Natural Resources
Regarding derelict and abandoned vessels in state waters.
Develops tools to maintain funding, increase prevention, increase owner accountability, provide for early action, and facilitate enforcement of existing rules governing derelict and abandoned vessels in state waters.Requires the department of natural resources to: (1) Develop and administer a vessel turn-in program; and(2) Reevaluate criteria regarding the prioritization of vessel removals funded by the derelict vessel removal account.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. | |
HB 1246
by Representatives Blake, Kretz, Kirby, Orcutt, Haler, Warnick, Condotta, Dahlquist, MacEwen, Taylor, Shea, Upthegrove, Hargrove, Short, Holy, and Ross
Removing certain requirements for motorcycle helmet use.
Removes certain requirements for motorcycle helmet use.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
HB 1247
by Representatives Hansen, Warnick, Smith, Zeiger, Fey, and Springer
Modifying job skills program provisions.
Modifies job skills program provisions.Creates the job skills program account and the job skills program trust account.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
HB 1248
by Representatives Maxwell, Pettigrew, Lytton, Stonier, Orwall, McCoy, Bergquist, Freeman, Tarleton, and Morrell
Supporting music education for young children in public schools.
Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction, subject to funds appropriated specifically for this purpose, to allocate grants for a music does matter program to support music education for young children.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1249
by Representatives Warnick, Manweller, Kretz, and Chandler
Exempting from prevailing wage requirements public works projects undertaken to repair fire damage.
Exempts public works projects undertaken to repair fire damage from prevailing wage requirements.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
HB 1250
by Representatives Orwall, Carlyle, Pollet, Goodman, Roberts, Appleton, Maxwell, Hunt, Moscoso, Zeiger, Walsh, Green, and Fitzgibbon
Concerning juveniles and runaway children.
Modifies reporting requirements for certain individuals and organizations that shelter a child and know at the time of providing the shelter that the child is away from a lawfully prescribed residence or home without parental permission.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & Human Services. | |
HB 1251
by Representatives Stonier, Carlyle, Seaquist, Harris, Maxwell, Takko, Kochmar, Vick, MacEwen, Fitzgibbon, Morrell, and Tarleton
Increasing membership on the opportunity scholarship board.
Changes the composition of the opportunity scholarship board.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Higher Education. | |
HB 1252
by Representatives Stonier, Carlyle, Sullivan, Lytton, Hunt, Maxwell, Harris, Takko, Fitzgibbon, Morrell, and Tarleton
Establishing the Washington K-12 online professional development project.
Establishes the Washington K-12 online professional development project to make online professional development modules for K-12 teachers and principals available on demand and at no cost to any educator who chooses to use them.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to develop a request for proposals and select through a competitive process an applicant to serve as the contracted facilitator and administrator for the project.Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to conduct an analysis of K-12 professional development for teachers and principals.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1253
by Representatives Blake, Orcutt, Takko, Dahlquist, Haigh, Hunt, Walsh, Lytton, Nealey, Morris, Hudgins, and McCoy
Concerning the lodging tax.
Changes application requirements for the use of lodging tax revenue.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Finance. | |
HB 1254
by Representatives Manweller and Condotta
Addressing prevailing wage filings.
Prohibits the department of labor and industries from requiring an individual or entity, exempt from paying the prevailing wage rate, to file a statement of intent to pay prevailing wages or an affidavit of wages paid.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
HB 1255
by Representative Manweller
Concerning exemptions from prevailing wage for school plant facilities receiving state funding assistance through the school construction assistance program.
Exempts certain school plant facilities from prevailing wage requirements.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
HB 1256
by Representatives Fey, Orcutt, and Tarleton; by request of Freight Mobility Strategic Investment Board
Addressing project selection by the freight mobility strategic investment board.
Revises project selection requirements for the freight mobility strategic investment board.Changes expenditure requirements for the freight mobility investment account.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
HB 1257
by Representatives Shea, Taylor, Buys, Klippert, and Kristiansen
Establishing parental notification requirements for abortion.
Requires a physician, under certain circumstances, to notify a parent or legal guardian before performing an abortion on certain women under the age of eighteen.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. | |
HB 1258
by Representative Kretz
Ensuring that all Washingtonians share in the benefits of an expanding wolf population.
Requires the department of fish and wildlife to translocate gray wolves in areas of the state where wolf numbers are plentiful to areas currently deprived of their ecological contributions.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. | |
HB 1259
by Representatives Overstreet, Klippert, Taylor, Shea, Condotta, Buys, Short, and Kristiansen
Declaring that the right to life begins at the moment the individual comes into being.
Establishes the Washington state life at conception act.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. | |
HB 1260
by Representatives Warnick and Stanford; by request of Washington State Department of Commerce
Concerning public facilities' grants and loans.
Changes the composition and duties of the community economic revitalization board.Authorizes flexibility for the board to help fund planning, predevelopment, and construction costs of infrastructure and facilities and sites that foster economic vitality and diversification.Requires the department of commerce to provide management services to assist the board in implementing its duties.Changes disbursement and loan repayment requirements for the public facilities construction loan revolving account.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development. | |
HJR 4204
by Representatives Manweller, Johnson, Short, Klippert, Kristiansen, Vick, and Smith
Amending the Constitution to require legislative approval of certain agency rules.
Proposes an amendment to the state Constitution to require legislative approval of certain agency rules.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections. | |
SB 5129
by Senators Hobbs, Shin, Padden, Bailey, Hatfield, Ranker, Delvin, Eide, Braun, Billig, Pearson, Tom, Sheldon, Conway, Rolfes, Kohl-Welles, Schlicher, and Roach
Authorizing the establishment and use of veterans' treatment courts.
Authorizes the chief justice of the supreme court to establish veterans' treatment courts for veterans and members of the armed forces.Authorizes jurisdictions that establish a veterans' treatment court to seek federal funding for veterans' treatment courts and for the provision by participating agencies of treatment to participating veterans.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5130
by Senators Frockt, Conway, Keiser, Tom, Kohl-Welles, and Schlicher
Concerning insurance coverage of treatment of eosinophilia gastrointestinal associated disorders.
Requires certain insurance contracts to include formulas necessary for the treatment of eosinophilia gastrointestinal associated disorders, regardless of the delivery method of the formula.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5131
by Senators Honeyford, Benton, Dammeier, Shin, Hobbs, Becker, Bailey, Tom, Holmquist Newbry, Rivers, Carrell, Braun, Padden, Parlette, and Roach
Providing tax incentives for donations of modern laboratory equipment to higher education institutions and vocational skills centers.
Provides a business and occupation tax credit for donations of modern laboratory equipment to higher education institutions and vocational skills centers.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Higher Education. | |
SB 5132
by Senators Honeyford, Dammeier, and Padden
Concerning the disclosure of estimated debt service costs.
Requires certain appropriations bills to include an itemization, by functional areas of government, of estimated general fund debt service costs.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5133
by Senator Honeyford
Ensuring growth management hearings board members meet qualifications relating to land use experience.
Requires at least three members of the growth management hearings board to be engaged in the legal profession with a focus on land use at the time of his or her appointment.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 5134
by Senators Honeyford, King, Benton, Becker, Holmquist Newbry, and Sheldon
Concerning reserve studies for certain homeowners' associations.
Modifies condominium act provisions relating to the board of directors updating the reserve study.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance. | |
SB 5135
by Senators Pearson, Kline, and Padden
Concerning judicial proceedings and forms.
Modifies judicial proceedings provisions relating to: (1) Notification to the county auditor of undeliverable jury duty summons;(2) Commencement of judicial proceeding as a new action; and(3) Public inspection of final order and subsequent documents or pleadings in a proceeding to adjudicate parentage.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5136
by Senators Padden and Kline; by request of Department of Enterprise Services
Concerning electronic presentment of claims against the state arising out of tortious conduct.
Allows claims against the state, for damages arising out of tortious conduct, to be presented electronically to the office of risk management.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5137
by Senators Hargrove, Carrell, Sheldon, Dammeier, Fraser, Roach, Hatfield, Schoesler, Hewitt, Billig, Smith, Honeyford, and Shin; by request of Department of Fish and Wildlife
Concerning department of fish and wildlife license suspensions.
Addresses child support-based license suspensions by the department of fish and wildlife.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Natural Resources & Parks. | |
SB 5138
by Senators Parlette and Hargrove; by request of State Treasurer
Creating a council on state debt.
Creates the council on state debt to advise and make recommendations to the governor and the legislature on prudent levels and types of state debt to fund essential capital and transportation projects.Requires budget documents to include debt service required to be paid from any fund for bonds, including payment requirements on projects financed by other methods for the full term of the financing.Requires the state treasurer to: (1) Publish a debt affordability study that provides an assessment of the state's current debt portfolio and an analysis of the impact of future debt issuance; and(2) Convene and staff a work group to assist with the study.Requires the governor, to the extent any budget document or documents set forth a proposal to issue debt, to prepare a bond authorization bill that reflects the amount and type of debt proposed to be issued.Prohibits budget documents from setting forth a proposal that relies on an amount of state debt that exceeds the bond authorization bill.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5139
by Senators Hatfield, Schoesler, Hobbs, Honeyford, and Shin
Concerning milk and milk products.
Revises provisions relating to milk and milk products.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Agriculture, Water & Rural Economic Development. | |
SB 5140
by Senators Pearson and Carrell
Limiting alternatives to confinement for certain offenders who violate terms of community custody.
Prohibits an alternative to confinement for offenders who violate terms of community custody and are being supervised for a domestic violence offense or commit a violation while armed with a deadly weapon.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 5141
by Senators King, Eide, Rivers, Sheldon, Hatfield, Delvin, Ericksen, Carrell, Padden, Harper, Keiser, Rolfes, Shin, Holmquist Newbry, Roach, and Kline
Allowing motorcycles to stop and proceed through traffic control signals under certain conditions.
Allows the operator of a street legal motorcycle to stop and proceed through traffic control signals under certain conditions.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5142
by Senators Rolfes, Benton, Hargrove, Sheldon, Hatfield, Delvin, Ericksen, Keiser, Conway, Schlicher, and Roach
Incorporating motorcycles into certain transportation planning.
Allows motorcyclists to use high occupancy vehicle lanes.Gives preferential parking and reduced parking charges to motorcyclists.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5143
by Senators Benton, Hargrove, Carrell, Rivers, Braun, Delvin, Smith, Roach, Sheldon, Hatfield, and Holmquist Newbry
Limiting mandatory motorcycle helmet use to persons under the age of eighteen.
Removes mandatory motorcycle helmet use for persons eighteen years of age and older.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5144
by Senators Keiser and Schlicher
Modifying medical assistant provisions.
Modifies provisions relating to medical assistants.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5145
by Senators Keiser, Conway, Eide, Kohl-Welles, Shin, and Schlicher
Allowing fire departments to develop a community assistance referral and education services program.
Allows the development, by certain fire departments, of a community assistance referral and education services program to provide community outreach and assistance to residents of its district.Allows a participating fire department to seek grant opportunities and private gifts in order to support its program.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 5146
by Senators Frockt, Litzow, Mullet, Kohl-Welles, Ranker, Dammeier, Harper, Darneille, Shin, Tom, Rolfes, and Kline
Creating a competitive grant program for informal science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.
Creates a competitive grant program to assist nonprofit organizations in acquiring, constructing, or rehabilitating science or technology center, zoo, and aquarium facilities.Gives the department of commerce certain duties relating to the program.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5147
by Senators Hargrove, Carrell, Hewitt, Darneille, and Shin
Concerning juveniles and runaway children.
Modifies reporting requirements for certain individuals and organizations that shelter a child and know at the time of providing the shelter that the child is away from a lawfully prescribed residence or home without parental permission.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 5148
by Senators Keiser, Becker, Cleveland, Conway, Frockt, Parlette, Rolfes, Kohl-Welles, Schlicher, and Kline
Allowing for redistribution of medications under certain conditions.
Allows practitioners, pharmacists, medical facilities, drug manufacturers, and drug wholesalers to donate prescription drugs and supplies to pharmacies for redistribution without compensation or the expectation of compensation to individuals who meet certain criteria.Requires pharmacies, pharmacists, and prescribing practitioners that elect to dispense donated prescription drugs and supplies to give priority to individuals who are uninsured and at or below two hundred percent of the federal poverty level.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5149
by Senators Carrell, Conway, Padden, Pearson, Braun, Dammeier, and Parlette
Concerning crimes against pharmacies.
Modifies standard sentencing provisions with regard to committing a robbery of a pharmacy.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5150
by Senators Carrell, Darneille, Pearson, Kohl-Welles, Tom, Keiser, and Conway
Creating a task force to examine reform of the mental health system.
Directs the legislature to convene a task force to undertake a systemwide review of the public mental health system and make recommendations for reform.Requires the expenses of the task force to be paid jointly by the senate and house.Expires June 1, 2014.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 5151
by Senators Carrell, Pearson, and Keiser
Authorizing criminal defendants to plead "guilty and mentally ill."
Provides that a person who offers a timely defense of insanity under RCW 10.77.030 (establishing insanity as a defense) may be found guilty and mentally ill at trial under certain circumstances.Allows a person who waives the right to trial to plead guilty and mentally ill.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 5152
by Senators Eide, King, Hobbs, Fain, Hatfield, Delvin, Murray, Frockt, Conway, Kohl-Welles, and Shin; by request of Lieutenant Governor
Creating Seattle Sounders FC and Seattle Seahawks special license plates.
Creates Seattle Sounders FC and Seattle Seahawks special license plates.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5153
by Senators Kohl-Welles, Carrell, Darneille, Pearson, and Schlicher
Concerning transfers of clients between regional support networks.
Prohibits a regional support network from refusing to allow a client to transfer from one regional support network to another when the motivation for the transfer request is to bring the client closer to relatives or other strong personal supports.Authorizes the department of social and health services to establish rules and procedures governing transfers of clients between regional support networks and assume the authority to resolve disputes that arise.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 5154
by Senators Becker, Ranker, Schoesler, Carrell, and Conway
Exempting from business and occupation tax certain amounts received by cooperative finance organizations.
Provides a business and occupation tax exemption on amounts received by a cooperative finance organization where the amounts are derived from loans to rural electric cooperatives or other nonprofit or governmental providers of utility services.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications. | |
SB 5155
by Senators McAuliffe, Rolfes, Kohl-Welles, Eide, Shin, Darneille, and Kline
Regarding long-term suspension or expulsion from school.
Addresses long-term suspension and expulsion of students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5156
by Senators Benton, Sheldon, Holmquist Newbry, Padden, Honeyford, Carrell, Hewitt, Delvin, Ericksen, Dammeier, Braun, Rivers, King, Smith, Bailey, Pearson, Shin, and Roach
Requiring notification to parents or guardians in cases of abortion.
Establishes the parental notification of abortion act.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5157
by Senators Carrell, Pearson, Schoesler, Hill, and Fain
Regulating provision of child care.
Allows certain family members, neighbors, friends, and acquaintances to provide child care for one year from the date child care is first provided and thereafter, to continue to provide child care the person must become licensed.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
| Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Human Services & Corrections at 10:00 AM. | ||
SB 5158
by Senators Braun, Holmquist Newbry, Becker, Bailey, Roach, Sheldon, Dammeier, Schoesler, and Honeyford
Creating a good faith defense for certain minimum wage and overtime compensation complaints.
Creates a good faith defense for certain minimum wage and overtime compensation complaints.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 5159
by Senators Braun, Holmquist Newbry, Becker, Bailey, Carrell, Padden, Tom, Sheldon, Schoesler, Honeyford, and Parlette
Repealing the family and medical leave insurance act.
Repeals the family and medical leave insurance act.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
| Jan 25 | Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor at 8:00 AM. (Subject to change) | |
SB 5160
by Senators Holmquist Newbry, Becker, Braun, Carrell, Sheldon, Schoesler, Honeyford, and Roach
Creating a process for administrative reassignment of public employees.
Allows an employee to be placed on administrative reassignment if the employee's manager determines that administrative reassignment is necessary to ensure a full, thorough, and impartial investigation of a workplace complaint.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
| Jan 25 | Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor at 8:00 AM. (Subject to change) | |
SB 5161
by Senators Braun, Carrell, Padden, Bailey, Becker, Fain, Roach, Sheldon, Dammeier, Honeyford, Schoesler, Conway, Rolfes, and Kohl-Welles
Authorizing certain eligible family members of United States armed forces members who died while in service or as a result of service to apply for gold star license plates.
Allows additional family members to apply for special gold star license plates.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SJM 8001
by Senators Sheldon, Bailey, Holmquist Newbry, Becker, Cleveland, Carrell, Frockt, Delvin, Padden, Ericksen, Dammeier, Rivers, Benton, Honeyford, Braun, Hill, Parlette, Roach, Tom, Schoesler, King, Hewitt, and Conway
Requesting that Interstate 5 be named the "Purple Heart Trail."
Requests that Interstate 5 be named the Purple Heart Trail.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |