 | WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE | |
| Legislative Digest No. 11 | ||
| SIXTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE | ||
| Tuesday, January 29, 2013 | 16th 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.
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HB 1430
by Representatives Shea, Overstreet, and Taylor
Reducing property tax delinquencies by modifying collection practices.
Requires a county treasurer to accept partial payments on taxes due and for delinquent taxes including interest and penalties if the payment is made electronically.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Finance. | |
HB 1431
by Representatives Santos, Dahlquist, Bergquist, and Pollet; by request of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Regarding alternative learning experience courses.
Revises alternative learning experience provisions relating to: (1) Expanding the definition of "online course";(2) Approval criteria for online providers;(3) School districts claiming state funding, assessing educational progress of enrolled students, and awarding grades for online high school courses; and(4) Changing the term "alternative learning experience program" to "alternative learning experience course."
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1432
by Representatives Stanford, Hope, Moscoso, Springer, Hayes, Roberts, McCoy, Liias, Kristiansen, and Sells
Concerning county property tax levies.
Addresses county property tax levies.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Finance. | |
HB 1433
by Representatives Takko, Sawyer, Farrell, Haigh, Walsh, Seaquist, Haler, Fey, and Santos
Creating a sentence for treatment program for juvenile offenders.
Establishes a sentence for treatment program for juvenile offenders.Requires the department of social and health services to maintain a medium security forestry camp at the Naselle youth camp to fulfill the department's obligation to provide education, treatment, and job training to certain juvenile offenders.Authorizes a court to impose a sentence for treatment if a juvenile offender is subject to a disposition of more than fifteen weeks and is not deemed to require confinement in a close security facility by the department of social and health services.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & Human Services. | |
HB 1434
by Representatives Pollet, Upthegrove, McCoy, Fitzgibbon, Ryu, Moscoso, Reykdal, Orwall, Fey, Hudgins, Liias, and Kagi
Regarding the inclusion of community involvement in environmental decision making.
Requires state agencies, to the extent practical, to make achieving environmental justice part of their mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, the disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of their programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low-income populations in the state.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Environment. | |
HB 1435
by Representatives Goodman and Nealey
Clarifying agency relationships in reconveyances of deeds of trust.
Clarifies agency relationships in reconveyances of deeds of trust.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
HB 1436
by Representatives Rodne, Pedersen, Shea, and Jinkins
Concerning privileging and professional conduct reviews by health care professional review bodies.
Addresses hospitals' coordinated quality improvement programs and the provision of exclusive remedies in lawsuits by health care providers.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
HB 1437
by Representatives Reykdal, Blake, Haigh, Orcutt, Lytton, Van De Wege, and Zeiger
Concerning small farms under the current use property tax program for farm and agricultural lands.
Provides that farms under twenty acres meeting the income requirements of the current use property tax program for farm and agricultural lands are eligible for current use valuation of the land underlying the residential structures the same as farms twenty acres and over.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. | |
HB 1438
by Representatives Buys, Blake, Chandler, Warnick, Schmick, and Fagan
Concerning de facto changes in water rights for irrigation purposes that involved conversion to more efficient irrigation technologies.
Establishes that the standards for a change of use application for certain types of water rights are the laws in place at the time the change of use was implemented.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. | |
HB 1439
by Representatives Buys and Magendanz
Concerning autonomous vehicles.
Authorizes autonomous vehicles to be operated on the public roads of the state if the manufacturer of the vehicle certifies, in a manner to be determined by the state patrol, that the vehicle meets all safety standards and performance requirements adopted by the state patrol.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
HB 1440
by Representatives McCoy, Sullivan, Ryu, Sells, Green, Cody, Moscoso, Goodman, Bergquist, Riccelli, Hunt, Fitzgibbon, Pollet, Seaquist, Roberts, Ormsby, Stonier, Pettigrew, Van De Wege, Hudgins, Reykdal, Blake, Freeman, Moeller, Jinkins, Appleton, and Kagi
Ensuring fairness to employers by protecting employees.
Finds that improving compliance with wage-related laws will help address the problems of the underground economy, level the playing field for honest employers and contractors, and protect workers.Establishes the employee fair classification act.Creates the employee fair classification act account.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
| Jan 31 | Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Labor & Workforce Development at 1:30 PM. (Subject to change) | |
HB 1441
by Representatives Van De Wege, Morrell, Jinkins, Cody, and Bergquist; by request of Insurance Commissioner
Addressing long-term care insurance.
Decreases the time in which denials of long-term care insurance must be made.Requires the insurance commissioner to adopt by rule prompt payment requirements for long-term care insurance.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. | |
HB 1442
by Representatives Schmick, Cody, Hunt, Condotta, Blake, and Sullivan
Providing increased access to parimutuel satellite locations in counties with a population exceeding one million.
Authorizes the horse racing commission to approve two parimutuel satellite locations in counties with a population exceeding one million.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Government Accountability & Oversight. | |
HB 1443
by Representatives Sells and Hope
Providing for property tax exemption for the value of new construction of industrial/manufacturing facilities in targeted urban areas.
Provides property tax exemptions to encourage new manufacturing and industrial uses on undeveloped or underutilized lands zoned for industrial and manufacturing uses in targeted urban areas.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development. | |
HB 1444
by Representatives Hunt, Tharinger, Takko, Morris, Fey, and Pollet
Concerning stewardship of household mercury-containing lights.
Provides flexibility for mercury light manufacturers in order to provide a sustainable funding mechanism and effective state protections to producer-operated product stewardship programs.Provides for termination and review, under the sunset act, of the product stewardship program for the disposal of mercury-containing lights.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Environment. | |
HB 1445
by Representatives Cody, Green, Jinkins, and Morrell
Concerning complex rehabilitation technology products.
Requires the state health care authority to establish a separate recognition for medically necessary, individually configured, complex rehabilitation technology products and services for complex needs patients with the medical assistance program.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. | |
HB 1446
by Representatives Kirby, Nealey, and Goodman
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 28 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
HB 1447
by Representatives Fey, Hargrove, Clibborn, and Zeiger
Modifying the boundaries of certain heavy haul corridors.
Changes the boundaries of certain heavy haul corridors.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
HB 1448
by Representatives Bergquist, Ross, Cody, Harris, Green, Rodne, Tharinger, Johnson, Manweller, Magendanz, and Morrell
Regarding telemedicine.
Recognizes the application of telemedicine as a reimbursable service by which an individual receives medical services from a health care provider without face-to-face contact with the provider.Reduces the compliance requirements on hospitals when granting privileges or associations to telemedicine physicians.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. | |
HB 1449
by Representatives Bergquist, Hope, Hunt, Buys, Orwall, Manweller, and Freeman
Making specific prosecution and defense documents and materials exempt from public inspection and copying.
Exempts from public inspection and copying under the public records act, victim impact statements and certain documents and other materials provided by the attorney for the defendant, or by the defendant when acting pro se, to the prosecuting attorney.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections. | |
HB 1450
by Representatives Hunt and Pollet; by request of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Regarding assessments in public schools.
Declares an intent to: (1) Begin administering the college-ready and career-ready assessments that are being developed to measure the common core state standards in the 2014-2015 school year;(2) Combine the current reading and writing assessments into English language arts assessments;(3) Reduce the number of different assessments that will be required for students to graduate beginning with the class of 2015; and(4) Decentralize the scoring of the collections of evidence.Requires the student achievement council to convene a workgroup to determine how the results of the college and career assessment could be incorporated into college and university admissions, scholarship, and course placement decisions.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to develop a process for periodically auditing school districts to ensure fair and reliable scoring of the collections.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1451
by Representatives Hurst, Freeman, Takko, Carlyle, and Pollet; by request of State Auditor
Providing a process for the state auditor's office to apply for investigative subpoenas.
Provides a process for the state auditor and his or her authorized assistants to apply for and obtain a superior court order approving and authorizing a subpoena in advance of its issuance.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
HB 1452
by Representatives Dahlquist, Magendanz, Angel, Buys, Fagan, Pike, and Smith
Establishing accountability for student performance in third grade.
Allows school districts to exempt certain students from the performance standard for promotion to fourth grade.Requires school districts to provide: (1) Certain remedial measures for students who did not meet the state standard on the third grade statewide assessment in English language arts in the previous school year; and(2) Supplemental learning opportunities through an extended school day or school year or through a summer school program for certain students retained in third grade or eligible to be retained but promoted to fourth grade.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1453
by Representatives Seaquist, Bergquist, Fey, Pollet, and Santos
Changing state need grant eligibility provisions.
Changes eligibility requirements for a state need grant.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Higher Education. | |
HB 1454
by Representatives Overstreet, Shea, Taylor, Scott, and Condotta
Creating the Washington state freedom of travel act.
Establishes the Washington state freedom of travel act.Addresses the act of a public servant committing an offense of official oppression.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Public Safety. | |
HB 1455
by Representatives Overstreet, Hurst, Orcutt, Haigh, Shea, Condotta, Morris, Buys, Taylor, Kretz, Scott, Upthegrove, Short, Harris, Hargrove, O'Ban, Holy, Schmick, Fagan, and Kristiansen
Eliminating the use of automated traffic safety cameras.
Repeals statutes authorizing the use of automated traffic safety cameras.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
HB 1456
by Representatives Hunt, Moscoso, Seaquist, Blake, Riccelli, Reykdal, Stanford, Fitzgibbon, and Bergquist
Authorizing pretax payroll deductions for qualified transit and parking benefits.
Authorizes, under certain conditions, pretax payroll deductions for qualified transit and parking benefits.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections. | |
HB 1457
by Representatives Green, Sawyer, Reykdal, Appleton, Sells, Ormsby, Bergquist, Jinkins, Pollet, Fey, Moeller, Kagi, Freeman, and Hudgins
Implementing family and medical leave insurance.
Allows workers to care for family members with a serious health condition or to recover from their own serious health condition.Expands duties of the employment security department.Requires each employer, for each individual, to pay a premium to the employment security department based on the amount of the employee's wages.Provides a business and occupation tax credit for certain employers.Changes the name of the family leave insurance program to the family and medical leave insurance program.Changes the name of the family leave insurance account to the family and medical leave insurance account.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
HB 1458
by Representative Green
Repealing provisions restricting outings from state facilities.
Repeals statutes that prohibit certain confined persons from leaving the facility in which they are confined.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
HB 1459
by Representatives Haler, Springer, Walsh, Wylie, Seaquist, Wilcox, Johnson, Condotta, Fagan, Maxwell, and Pollet
Authorizing students under the age of twenty-one to taste wine in viticulture and enology programs.
Allows students between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one, who are enrolled in a viticulture or enology degree program at certain educational facilities, to taste but not ingest wine for instructional purposes.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Government Accountability & Oversight. | |
HB 1460
by Representatives Manweller and Condotta
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 28 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections. | |
HB 1461
by Representatives Manweller and Condotta
Requiring notice of employees' rights related to unions.
Requires the department of labor and industries to include information regarding employees' rights related to union membership and dues in certain workplace posters.Requires the public employment relations commission to develop language to educate and advise employees regarding their rights related to union membership and dues and transmit the language to the department of labor and industries for inclusion in the workplace poster.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
HB 1462
by Representatives Manweller and Condotta
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 28 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
HB 1463
by Representatives Manweller and Condotta
Addressing compensation for injured workers.
Modifies provisions relating to compensation for injured workers.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
HB 1464
by Representatives Manweller and Condotta
Simplifying and adding certainty to the calculation of workers' compensation benefits.
Simplifies the calculation of workers' compensation benefits.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
HB 1465
by Representatives Manweller and Condotta
Concerning recovery for purposes of legal actions under the industrial insurance statutes.
Specifies that the act is an explicit restatement of the legislature's original intent to grant the department of labor and industries or a self-insured employer the authority to reimburse itself from a third-party recovery for the amount paid on behalf of the worker or beneficiary for all economic and noneconomic damages except loss of consortium.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
HB 1466
by Representatives Haigh, Warnick, Dunshee, Fey, Kristiansen, and Reykdal
Revising alternative public works contracting procedures.
Revises procedures regarding alternative public works contracts.Changes the composition of the capital projects advisory review board.Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee, if the sunset review process expires before June 30, 2021, to conduct a program and fiscal review of the alternative public works contracting procedures by June 30, 2021. Expires July 1, 2022.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Capital Budget. | |
HB 1467
by Representatives Green, Sells, Reykdal, Ormsby, McCoy, Van De Wege, Appleton, and Bergquist; by request of Department of Labor & Industries
Addressing the collection of unpaid wages.
Modifies procedures for the collection of unpaid wages.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
HB 1468
by Representatives Sells, Reykdal, Manweller, Condotta, Ormsby, Van De Wege, Fagan, and Green; by request of Department of Labor & Industries
Modifying payment methods on certain claimants' benefits.
Modifies the payment process for certain claimants' benefits with regard to victims of crime and the industrial insurance act.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
HB 1469
by Representatives Schmick, Sells, Reykdal, Fagan, Green, Condotta, Short, Ormsby, and Van De Wege; by request of Department of Labor & Industries
Addressing industrial insurance for horse racing employment.
Modifies provisions relating to industrial insurance coverage for horse racing employment.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
HB 1470
by Representatives Ormsby, Manweller, Sells, Reykdal, Fagan, Green, Van De Wege, and Condotta; by request of Department of Labor & Industries
Addressing the recommendations of the vocational rehabilitation subcommittee for workers' compensation.
Addresses recommendations of the vocational rehabilitation subcommittee for workers' compensation.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
HB 1471
by Representatives Riccelli, Schmick, Cody, Clibborn, Ross, Short, Rodne, Green, Angel, and Morrell; by request of Department of Health
Updating and aligning with federal requirements hospital health care-associated infection rate reporting.
Updates and aligns hospital health care-associated infection rate reporting with federal requirements.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. | |
HB 1472
by Representatives Hansen, Habib, Freeman, and Magendanz
Providing initiatives to improve and expand access to computer science education.
Improves and expands access to computer science education.Requires high school and school district boards of directors to approve AP computer science courses as equivalent to high school mathematics.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to allocate grants to certain school districts to increase the number of courses coinstructed by computer science professionals.Requires the workforce training and education coordinating board to convene and provide staff support for a computer science professional shortage task force to develop a strategic plan to increase the number of graduates from high schools, colleges, and universities who are prepared to enter the workforce or continue their education in computer science.Requires the office of online learning to actively seek: (1) Additional providers of online computer science courses to be made available through the office; and(2) Funding from private or federal sources to offset the costs to school districts and students of offering and enrolling in online computer science courses made available through the office.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1473
by Representatives Sells, McCoy, Morrell, Roberts, Takko, Lytton, Green, Ormsby, Bergquist, Freeman, and Pollet
Requiring certain entities to report payments for construction services.
Requires an entity that, in the course of business, makes a payment to a construction service provider of six hundred dollars or more in a taxable year for performing construction services to report the payment to the department of labor and industries and the construction service provider.Requires the department of labor and industries to transmit the report to the commissioner of the employment security department.Exempts from public disclosure under the public records act, the reports filed with the department of labor and industries.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
| Jan 31 | Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Labor & Workforce Development at 1:30 PM. (Subject to change) | |
HB 1474
by Representatives Pedersen, Rodne, Goodman, Buys, Hunt, Hunter, Hudgins, Carlyle, Fey, and Pollet
Giving general election voters the power to choose between the top two candidates for nonpartisan offices.
Gives voters the power to choose between the top two candidates for nonpartisan offices in a general election.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections. | |
HB 1475
by Representatives Magendanz, Dahlquist, Haigh, Zeiger, Hargrove, and Fagan
Authorizing waivers of state requirements for school districts.
Provides a process for school district boards of directors to waive certain state education requirements when the local board determines it is necessary to do so.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1476
by Representatives Dahlquist, Magendanz, Zeiger, Smith, Hargrove, Fagan, Buys, and Scott
Establishing a performance-based grading system for schools and school districts.
Requires the accountability index developed by the state board of education to identify five categories of schools and school districts, which must be labeled using a letter A through F grading system based on relative performance on the criteria used in the index.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1477
by Representatives Magendanz, Pedersen, Dahlquist, Lytton, Hargrove, Fagan, and Santos
Providing flexibility for how school districts address truancy of students.
Provides flexibility to school districts when addressing truancy to reduce the administrative and paperwork load for school districts and the court system.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
HB 1478
by Representatives Orcutt, Taylor, Short, Smith, Angel, Pike, Condotta, Vick, Haler, Hargrove, Buys, Fagan, Scott, and Kristiansen
Providing a moratorium on rule making.
Imposes a moratorium on formal and informal rule making by state agencies, except in certain specified instances, to last for three years or until the state is no longer facing financial deficits.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections. | |
HB 1479
by Representatives Orcutt, Pike, Hargrove, Buys, and Morrell
Allowing leased land used for the placement of a mobile home to qualify for the senior, disabled, and veteran property tax exemption.
Exempts certain real property from taxation if it is leased to the owner of a mobile home, meeting certain requirements, who places such mobile home on the property.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Finance. | |
SB 5323
by Senators Roach, Darneille, Conway, and Carrell
Authorizing assessments for nuisance abatement in cities and towns.
Authorizes cities and towns to: (1) Declare by ordinance what is deemed to be a nuisance within the city or town, including litter and potentially dangerous litter;(2) Prevent, remove, and abate a nuisance at the expense of the parties creating the nuisance; and(3) Levy a special assessment on the land or premises on which the nuisance is situated.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 5324
by Senators Honeyford, Fraser, and Ericksen
Concerning mosquito abatement in storm water control retention ponds.
Requires local governments to use integrated pest management mosquito control abatement methods in storm water control retention ponds.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications. | |
SB 5325
by Senators Rivers, Cleveland, Benton, and King
Concerning the definition of a rural county for public facilities' sales and use tax purposes.
Revises the definition of "rural county" for purposes of public facilities' sales and use tax.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Trade & Economic Development. | |
SB 5326
by Senators Rivers, Benton, King, Ericksen, and Shin
Delaying new storm water requirements.
Requires the department of ecology to: (1) Reissue, without modification and for a term of three 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, become effective from August 1, 2013, to August 1, 2016.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications. | |
SB 5327
by Senators Fraser, Hobbs, and Becker
Concerning small farms under the current use property tax program for farm and agricultural lands.
Provides that farms under twenty acres meeting the income requirements of the current use property tax program for farm and agricultural lands are eligible for current use valuation of the land underlying the residential structures the same as farms twenty acres and over.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Agriculture, Water & Rural Economic Development. | |
SB 5328
by Senators Litzow, Hobbs, Dammeier, Hatfield, Baumgartner, Roach, Hill, Braun, Shin, and Tom
Creating a school-grading program that relies on the accountability index.
Requires the state board of education to implement a school-grading program that relies on the accountability index.Creates the Washington school recognition program to provide financial awards to certain public schools.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
| Jan 30 | Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 1:30 PM. (Subject to change) | |
SB 5329
by Senators Litzow, Hobbs, Fain, Hatfield, Tom, Frockt, and Roach
Creating the state superintendent school district.
Establishes the state superintendent district as a statewide school district within the state to provide a transformation of school governance, staffing, leadership, and management.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
| Jan 30 | Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 1:30 PM. (Subject to change) | |
SB 5330
by Senators Hargrove, Shin, and Hill
Improving student achievement and student outcomes.
Makes changes to the program of basic education in those areas where emerging research and evidence shows there are better and more efficient strategies for improving student achievement and student outcomes.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5331
by Senators Hobbs, Roach, Conway, Fain, and Delvin
Concerning voter-approved benefit charges for regional fire protection service authorities.
Modifies provisions relating to voter-approved benefit charges for regional fire protection service authorities.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 5332
by Senators Roach, Nelson, Rolfes, Conway, Fain, and Delvin
Modifying the percentage of votes required to approve benefit charges for fire protection districts.
Changes the percentage of votes required to approve benefit charges for fire protection districts.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 5333
by Senators Keiser, McAuliffe, Rolfes, Becker, Schlicher, Harper, Nelson, Hobbs, Frockt, Kline, and Shin
Providing mental health first-aid training to teachers and educational staff.
Requires the department of social and health services to provide funds for mental health first-aid training targeted at teachers and educational staff.Makes an appropriation.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 5334
by Senator Hewitt; 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 28 | First reading, referred to Trade & Economic Development. | |
SB 5335
by Senators Dammeier, Eide, King, Hobbs, and Fain
Modifying the boundaries of certain heavy haul corridors.
Changes the boundaries of certain heavy haul corridors.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5336
by Senators Roach, Sheldon, Benton, and Shin
Concerning the standard of evidence for appeals of valuation of property for purposes of taxation.
Addresses the standard of evidence for appeals of valuation of property for purposes of taxation.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 5337
by Senators Pearson, Fraser, Hargrove, Nelson, Smith, Fain, Kline, Hobbs, Shin, Tom, and Parlette; 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 28 | First reading, referred to Natural Resources & Parks. | |
SB 5338
by Senators Hobbs, Mullet, Fain, and Benton
Addressing nonprofit debt adjusters.
Allows nonprofit debt adjusters to retain and receive fair share contributions.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions, Housing & Insurance. | |
SB 5339
by Senators Becker, Schlicher, Dammeier, Billig, Keiser, Tom, and Mullet
Addressing wellness programs under the insurance code.
Revises insurance code provisions relating to wellness programs.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5340
by Senators Chase, Darneille, Schlicher, Kline, Nelson, Keiser, Shin, and Conway
Limiting maximum capital and reserves accumulations by health care service contractors and health maintenance organizations.
Limits the amount of capital and reserves health care service contractors and health maintenance organizations may accumulate.Requires excesses of this amount to be returned to policyholders.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5341
by Senators Darneille, Benton, Harper, Kohl-Welles, and Kline
Concerning the use of nonconviction records for employment and housing opportunities.
Requests the supreme court to adopt court rules that limit public access to nonconviction records.Prohibits certain employers and landlords from considering nonconviction data on employment and rental applications.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5342
by Senators Dammeier, Murray, Mullet, Harper, Parlette, Schlicher, Tom, Sheldon, and Kohl-Welles
Concerning a sales and use tax exemption for restaurants in respect to certain items that impart flavor to food during the cooking process.
Provides a sales and use tax exemption to restaurants on products that impart flavor to food during the cooking process.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5343
by Senators Bailey, Rivers, Hobbs, Kline, Mullet, Fain, Frockt, Billig, Shin, Tom, Conway, and Roach; by request of Washington State Bar Association
Concerning the rights of higher education students involved in military service.
Provides certain protections for higher education students involved in military service who incur absences or miss assignments or exams due to requirements of their service.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Higher Education. | |
SB 5344
by Senators Mullet, Hobbs, Kline, Fain, and Benton
Revising state statutes concerning trusts.
Revises statutes that govern trusts.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions, Housing & Insurance. | |
SB 5345
by Senators Pearson, Kline, Roach, Carrell, and Kohl-Welles
Adding persons who serve legal process to assault in the third degree provisions.
Modifies assault in the third degree provisions to include the assault of a person in the act of serving legal process.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5346
by Senators Keiser, Kohl-Welles, Kline, Rolfes, Chase, McAuliffe, Billig, Conway, Hasegawa, Nelson, Fraser, Frockt, and Shin
Restoring funding to in-home care services.
Requires the department of social and health services to provide certain eligible individuals with the hours of in-home care designated as the base hours for their in-home group, as it existed on December 1, 2010.Repeals the sales tax exemption for nonresidents on the sale of tangible personal property, digital goods, and digital codes for use outside the state.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5347
by Senators Rivers and Roach
Assuring the people's right to vote on initiatives that submit sufficient valid voter signatures.
Requires state and local initiatives, for which sufficient valid voter signatures are submitted, to be submitted to a vote of the people at the next election date.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 5348
by Senators Nelson, Kohl-Welles, and Kline
Directing the department of health to review the impact of chemicals on public health.
Requires the department of health to assess existing and developing scientific information and provide updates to the legislature to provide current information in which to better understand the potential implications for public health from exposure to chemicals and chemical mixtures.Makes an appropriation.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications. | |
SB 5349
by Senators Dammeier, Hasegawa, Hewitt, Keiser, Rivers, Hobbs, and Kline
Revising alternative public works contracting procedures.
Revises procedures regarding alternative public works contracts.Changes the composition of the capital projects advisory review board.Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee, if the sunset review process expires before June 30, 2021, to conduct a program and fiscal review of the alternative public works contracting procedures by June 30, 2021. Expires July 1, 2022.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 5350
by Senators Kohl-Welles, Hasegawa, Conway, Nelson, Keiser, Harper, Rolfes, Darneille, Kline, Chase, Billig, Delvin, Frockt, and Shin
Modifying collective bargaining law related to providing additional compensation for academic employees at community and technical colleges.
Authorizes community college boards of trustees to use the collective bargaining process to provide qualifying academic employees with step increases.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 5351
by Senator Ericksen
Creating a state universal communications service program.
Establishes a state universal communications service program that: (1) Enhances the public network;(2) Is funded with a network connection fee paid by communications providers based upon working telephone numbers;(3) Is administered by a neutral third party selected by the utilities and transportation commission;(4) Is operated pursuant to rules adopted by the utilities and transportation commission; and(5) Advances universal service in a manner not inconsistent with the requirements of the federal telecommunications act.Expires June 30, 2019.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications. | |
SB 5352
by Senators Holmquist Newbry, Conway, and Hewitt
Clarifying the terminology and duties of the real estate agency relationship law to be consistent with other existing laws.
Clarifies the terminology and duties of the laws governing the real estate agency relationship to make them consistent with other existing laws.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 5353
by Senators Roach and Holmquist Newbry; by request of Employment Security Department
Providing information to assist in unemployment insurance overpayment recovery.
Requires the department of fish and wildlife to disclose personally identifying information, including social security number, to the employment security department for the purpose of unemployment insurance overpayment recovery.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 5354
by Senators Holmquist Newbry and Conway; by request of Employment Security Department
Changing the employment security department's settlement authority.
Changes the settlement authority of the employment security department.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 5355
by Senators Holmquist Newbry, Conway, Kohl-Welles, and Keiser; by request of Employment Security Department
Implementing the unemployment insurance integrity provisions of the federal trade adjustment assistance extension act of 2011.
Implements the unemployment insurance integrity provisions of the federal trade adjustment assistance extension act of 2011.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 5356
by Senators Holmquist Newbry, Conway, Kohl-Welles, Rolfes, and Kline; by request of Employment Security Department
Changing the unemployment insurance shared work program by adopting short-time compensation provisions in the federal middle class tax relief and job creation act of 2012.
Adopts short-time compensation provisions in the federal middle class tax relief and job creation act of 2012 to change the unemployment insurance shared work program.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 5357
by Senators Honeyford, Delvin, Ericksen, Hobbs, Hatfield, and Rolfes
Directing state investments of existing litter tax revenues under chapter 82.19 RCW in material waste management efforts without increasing the tax rate.
Requires the department of ecology to coordinate and expend funds collected from the litter tax with priority given to products identified under RCW 82.19.020 and solely for the purposes of recycling, composting, and litter collection, reduction, and control programs.Changes the distribution of money from the waste reduction, recycling, and litter control account.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications. | |
SB 5358
by Senators Becker, Keiser, Conway, Schlicher, Dammeier, Cleveland, Bailey, Parlette, Ericksen, Shin, Kohl-Welles, and Kline
Concerning people with disabilities who receive no paid services from the department of social and health services' division of developmental disabilities.
Requires the department of social and health services to: (1) Expand the informing families building trust communication project to provide information about the developmental disabilities system to individuals and families on the no paid services case load;(2) Hire the number of case managers necessary to conduct assessments to determine the level of needs of those who ask for services and those who may appear eligible for medicaid personal care; and(3) Provide respite care for four thousand individuals on the no paid services case load for certain fiscal years.Requires the caseload forecast council to forecast the no paid services case load portion of the department of social and health services' division of developmental disabilities to assist the legislature in developing respite needs and budget requirements for the population of persons with developmental disabilities.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5359
by Senator Carrell
Concerning mandatory reporting of child abuse or neglect by supervised persons.
Clarifies the meaning of certain terms for the purposes of mandatory reporting requirements of child abuse and neglect.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 5360
by Senators Conway, Keiser, Hasegawa, Kohl-Welles, Frockt, and Kline; by request of Department of Labor & Industries
Addressing the collection of unpaid wages.
Modifies procedures for the collection of unpaid wages.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 5361
by Senators Holmquist Newbry, Conway, Keiser, Hasegawa, Kohl-Welles, and Kline; by request of Department of Labor & Industries
Modifying payment methods on certain claimants' benefits.
Modifies the payment process for certain claimants' benefits with regard to victims of crime and the industrial insurance act.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 5362
by Senators Conway, Holmquist Newbry, Keiser, and Kohl-Welles; by request of Department of Labor & Industries
Addressing the recommendations of the vocational rehabilitation subcommittee for workers' compensation.
Addresses recommendations of the vocational rehabilitation subcommittee for workers' compensation.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 5363
by Senators Holmquist Newbry, Conway, Keiser, Hasegawa, and Kohl-Welles; by request of Department of Labor & Industries
Addressing industrial insurance for horse racing employment.
Modifies provisions relating to industrial insurance coverage for horse racing employment.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 5364
by Senators Kline and Padden
Concerning court reporters, communication access real-time translation, and real-time captioning services.
Regulates the certification and practice of court reporters, communication access real-time translation providers, and real-time captioning service providers.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5365
by Senators Rolfes, Cleveland, Frockt, Kohl-Welles, and Kline
Increasing the capacity of school districts to recognize and respond to troubled youth.
Increases the capacity for school districts to recognize and respond to troubled youth through additional training, more comprehensive planning, and emphasis on partnerships between schools and communities.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5366
by Senators Rolfes, Hobbs, McAuliffe, Chase, Frockt, and Shin
Requiring the office of the superintendent of public instruction to assist school districts in disclosing information about required assessments.
Requires school districts to notify parents or guardians of enrolled students about information on each standardized assessment from kindergarten through twelfth grade that is required by the state or by the federal government.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to provide to school districts regularly updated information necessary for the district to notify parents of the standardized assessment information.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5367
by Senators Honeyford, Hatfield, Fraser, King, Nelson, Delvin, and Shin; by request of Governor Inslee
Concerning Yakima river basin water resource management.
Authorizes the department of ecology to: (1) Implement the integrated water resource management plan in the Yakima river basin;(2) Develop water supply solutions that provide concurrent benefits to both instream and out-of-stream uses; and(3) Address a variety of water resource and ecosystem problems affecting fish passage, habitat functions, and agricultural, municipal, and domestic water supply in the Yakima river basin, consistent with the integrated plan.Creates the Yakima integrated plan implementation account, the Yakima integrated plan implementation taxable bond account, and the Yakima integrated plan implementation revenue recovery account.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Agriculture, Water & Rural Economic Development. | |
SB 5368
by Senators Honeyford and King
Determining the proportion of supplemental income to be paid by component cities, towns, and counties.
Requires the method for the determination of supplemental income to be obtained from component cities, towns, or counties for implementation and enforcement of federal clean air laws and regulations to exclude consideration of either the assessed valuation of property or population located within a federally recognized Indian reservation.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications. | |
SB 5369
by Senators Kline, King, Honeyford, and Mullet
Concerning the use of geothermal resources.
Clarifies that ownership of geothermal resources resides with the surface owner unless the interest is otherwise reserved or conveyed.Provides that no water uses associated with a geothermal well impair any water use authorized through appropriation under Title 90 RCW (water rights--environment).Creates the geothermal account.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications. | |
SB 5370
by Senators Kline, Keiser, and Shin
Implementing the recommendation of the developmental disabilities service system task force relating to community living safeguards.
Requires the department of social and health services to certify community residential programs by: (1) Establishing supported living certification requirements and fees; and(2) Authorizing civil fines, stop placements, conditions on certifications, and specific plans of correction for supported living providers.Creates the community residential program account.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5371
by Senators Kline, King, Keiser, and Shin
Implementing the recommendations of the developmental disability service system task force.
Modifies provisions governing residential habilitation centers to implement the recommendations of the developmental disability service system task force.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5372
by Senators Kline, Kohl-Welles, Murray, Hasegawa, Nelson, Keiser, and Billig
Reducing criminal justice expenses by eliminating the death penalty in favor of life incarceration.
Eliminates the death penalty in favor of a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of release or parole.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5373
by Senator Kline
Concerning confidential informants.
Implements policies and procedures governing the use of confidential informants by law enforcement agencies.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5374
by Senators Kline and Keiser
Concerning photographs, microphotographs, and electronic images from traffic safety cameras and toll systems.
Specifies that records, photographs, digital photographs, microphotographs, videotapes, and other recorded images from traffic safety cameras and toll systems are available to law enforcement pursuant to a lawfully issued search warrant.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5375
by Senators Kline, Conway, Litzow, Keiser, Chase, Hasegawa, Kohl-Welles, Schoesler, and Roach
Modifying assault in the third degree provisions.
Includes in the crime of assault in the third degree, the assault of a utility worker, or employee of any publicly or privately owned utility company or agency, who is at the time of the act engaged in his or her official duties.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5376
by Senators Kline, Fain, Shin, Nelson, Keiser, Carrell, McAuliffe, Hill, Litzow, Tom, and Kohl-Welles
Concerning juvenile firearms and weapons crimes.
Addresses juvenile firearms and weapons crimes.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 5377
by Senators Rivers, Hatfield, Bailey, Becker, and Hargrove
Extending the program establishing Christmas tree grower licensure.
Delays, until July 1, 2020, the expiration of the program establishing Christmas tree grower licensure.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Agriculture, Water & Rural Economic Development. | |
SB 5378
by Senators Benton, Schoesler, Bailey, Carrell, Becker, Holmquist Newbry, Sheldon, Ericksen, and Dammeier
Creating a six-year time frame for substantial building code amendments.
Extends time requirements so substantial revisions to the building codes occur less frequently.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 5379
by Senator Benton
Concerning nighttime vision acuity testing for driver's license applicants.
Requires the director of the department of licensing, if he or she requires an applicant to be examined by a competent vision authority regarding nighttime visual acuity, to require the vision authority to verify only that the applicant can see adequately to safely operate a vehicle at night.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5380
by Senators Benton, Carrell, and Rivers
Concerning the verification of voter registration qualifications.
Provides additional duties to the director of the department of licensing and the secretary of state with regard to verification of voter registration qualifications.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 5381
by Senators Benton and Padden
Concerning cellular telephone use by state employees.
Requires the office of the chief information officer to: (1) Contract with a private optimization specialist to develop a strategy to match the state's actual cellular telephone usage with the most cost-effective delivery of those services; and(2) Assist state agencies in developing and implementing agency-wide cellular telephone use policies.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 5382
by Senators Benton, Holmquist Newbry, Rivers, Carrell, Padden, and Shin
Promoting economic development through tax relief for start-up firms.
Provides businesses with a fifty percent credit against business and occupation tax owed for the first five years of their operation.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Trade & Economic Development. | |
SB 5383
by Senators Benton, Cleveland, and Rivers
Removing one of the restrictions on collecting a pension in the public employees' retirement system for retirees returning to work.
Removes a restriction on collecting a pension and returning to work for retirees under the state retirement system.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SJM 8002
by Senators Kline, Kohl-Welles, Billig, Rolfes, Nelson, Harper, Darneille, McAuliffe, Hargrove, and Frockt
Requesting an amendment to the United States Constitution to return the authority to regulate election campaign contributions to congress and state legislatures.
Requests an amendment to the United States Constitution to return the authority to regulate election campaign contributions to congress and state legislatures.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |