 | WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE | |
| Legislative Digest No. 17 | ||
| SIXTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE | ||
| Wednesday, February 6, 2013 | 24th 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 1657
by Representatives Stanford, Kirby, Clibborn, Pettigrew, Blake, Hurst, Parker, Morris, Takko, Liias, Springer, Kristiansen, Kochmar, MacEwen, Chandler, and Vick
Authorizing small consumer installment loans.
Establishes the small consumer installment loan act.Authorizes licensed longer term loans with a maximum authorized interest rate of thirty-six percent per year.Provides that if any portion of the act is vetoed by the governor, the entire act is null and void.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Business & Financial Services. | |
HB 1658
by Representatives Kirby, Blake, Hurst, Rodne, and Clibborn
Raising the cap on the total number of small loans a borrower may have in a twelve-month period.
Changes the number of loans, from eight to twelve, that a borrower is allowed to receive.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Business & Financial Services. | |
HB 1659
by Representatives Sells, Manweller, Green, Condotta, and Moeller
Clarifying the employment status of independent contractors in the news business.
Clarifies the employment status of independent contractors in the news business.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
HB 1660
by Representatives Hansen, Cody, Clibborn, Green, Morrell, and Riccelli
Convening a work group to develop a standardized clinical affiliation agreement for clinical placements for physicians and nurses.
Requires the department of health to convene a work group to study and recommend language for standardized clinical affiliation agreements for clinical placements associated with the education and training of physicians, osteopathic physicians and surgeons, and nurses.Expires July 1, 2015.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. | |
HB 1661
by Representatives Fitzgibbon, Condotta, Roberts, Jinkins, Green, Upthegrove, Walsh, Moscoso, Tharinger, Cody, Kagi, Hunt, Appleton, Ryu, Lytton, Farrell, Pollet, Van De Wege, Ormsby, Liias, and Reykdal
Addressing misdemeanor marijuana offense convictions.
Authorizes a person convicted of a misdemeanor marijuana offense to apply to the sentencing court for a vacation of the applicant's record of conviction for the offense.Requires the court to vacate the record of conviction.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Public Safety. | |
HB 1662
by Representatives Appleton, Goodman, Hunt, Sawyer, Pollet, Tharinger, Farrell, Freeman, Reykdal, Fitzgibbon, Ryu, Riccelli, Roberts, Jinkins, and Moeller
Concerning the medical use of cannabis.
Modifies the medical use of cannabis act.Provides that licensed access points, licensed producers, and licensed processors, who are in compliance with the act, are not subject to penalties.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. | |
HB 1663
by Representatives Tharinger, Nealey, Van De Wege, Johnson, Takko, Blake, Haigh, and Kretz
Extending the sales and use tax exemption for hog fuel used to produce electricity, steam, heat, or biofuel.
Delays, until June 30, 2024, the expiration of the sales and use tax exemption for hog fuel used to produce electricity, steam, heat, or biofuel.Requires taxpayers claiming the exemption to file a complete annual survey with the department of revenue.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development. | |
HB 1664
by Representatives Liias, Hope, Santos, Maxwell, Clibborn, and Green
Clarifying the authority of a nurse working in a school setting.
Reaffirms the authority of a licensed nurse working in a school setting to practice nursing without the supervision of a person who is not a licensed nurse.Authorizes a registered nurse or an advanced registered nurse practitioner to supervise, direct, or evaluate a licensed nurse working in a school setting.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1665
by Representatives Hunt, Pollet, Appleton, Sells, Moscoso, Reykdal, and Cody
Providing retirement benefits at earlier ages in the plans 2 and 3 of the public employees' retirement system, the teachers' retirement system, and the school employees' retirement system.
Allows retirement benefits at earlier ages in plans 2 and 3 of the public employees' retirement system, the teachers' retirement system, and the school employees' retirement system.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Appropriations. | |
HB 1666
by Representatives Reykdal, Appleton, Hunt, Moscoso, Sells, Pollet, Ormsby, Morrell, Cody, and Dunshee
Providing for vesting after five years of service in the defined benefit portion of the public employees' retirement system, the school employees' retirement system, and the teachers' retirement system plan 3.
Provides for vesting after five years of service in the defined benefit portion of the public employees' retirement system, the school employees' retirement system, and the teachers' retirement system plan 3.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Appropriations. | |
HB 1667
by Representatives Moscoso, Appleton, Hunt, Pollet, Sells, Reykdal, Ormsby, Morrell, Cody, and Dunshee
Concerning postretirement employment.
Revises postretirement employment provisions.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Appropriations. | |
HB 1668
by Representatives Cody, Reykdal, Hunt, Moscoso, Sells, Pollet, Wylie, Morrell, Appleton, and Dunshee
Allowing certain separated plan 2 members of the retirement systems to participate in insurance plans and contracts.
Allows participation in insurance plans and contracts by certain separated plan 2 members of the retirement systems.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Appropriations. | |
HB 1669
by Representatives Pollet, Haler, Cody, Tarleton, Johnson, Seaquist, Farrell, Magendanz, and Riccelli
Concerning self-supporting, fee-based programs at four-year institutions of higher education.
Requires the governing boards of the state and regional universities and The Evergreen State College, when a decision is made to establish a new self-supporting, fee-based degree program or change a degree program that is supported by state funding to a program that is self-supporting and fee-based, to notify enrolled and prospective students and undergraduate and graduate student government associations at least six months before implementation with an estimate of tuition and fees.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Higher Education. | |
HB 1670
by Representatives Farrell and Pollet
Clarifying the use of automated traffic safety cameras at intersections with two or more arterial highways.
Allows the use of automated traffic safety cameras at certain intersections of only two or more arterials.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
HB 1671
by Representatives Farrell, Walsh, Kagi, Green, Sullivan, Jinkins, Pettigrew, Hunt, Ormsby, Stonier, Fitzgibbon, Goodman, Cody, Morrell, Maxwell, Appleton, Wylie, Orwall, Reykdal, Freeman, and Riccelli
Concerning child care reform.
Establishes an early achievers program for supporting and rewarding child care providers for providing high-quality child care.Requires the department of early learning to provide a ten percent increase in the working connections child care subsidy rate to those providers who accept children eligible for the subsidy.Requires the department of early learning and the department of social and health services to convene a parent and provider oversight board.Establishes a legislative task force on child care improvements for the future.Allows all licensed and certified child care programs to enroll in the early achievers program.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & Human Services. | |
HB 1672
by Representative Condotta
Addressing determinations of prevailing wage rates on public works projects.
Requires the department of labor and industries and the industrial statistician to provide improved transparency so that determinations regarding the correct prevailing wage for specific types of construction work are made available to employers and their employees.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
HB 1673
by Representatives Liias, Sells, Appleton, Maxwell, Morrell, Lytton, Pollet, Hunt, McCoy, Seaquist, and Santos
Enhancing the basic education allocation formula to adopt the staffing resources recommended by the quality education council.
Declares an intent to: (1) Establish a vision for what defines a fully implemented prototypical school model for the 2018-2019 school year; and(2) Achieve this vision through annual incremental improvements in staffing levels, with a priority on staffing schools with a high level of poverty students first.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1674
by Representatives Santos and Morris
Increasing the regulatory oversight and accountability of the office of minority and women's business enterprises.
Addresses prohibited activities, penalties, compliance, and remedies with regard to the office of minority and women's business enterprises.Establishes an investigation unit within the office of minority and women's business enterprises for the purpose of detecting and investigating fraud and violations.Directs certain civil penalties to be deposited in the minority and women's business enterprises account.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development. | |
HB 1675
by Representatives Roberts, Orwall, Goodman, Kirby, Jinkins, Pedersen, Farrell, Kagi, and Freeman
Improving the adoption process.
Revises the definition of "individual approved by the court" and "qualified salaried court employee" for purposes of chapter 26.33 RCW (adoption).Changes requirements of the preplacement and postplacement reports to include an investigation of disciplinary and punishment philosophies and practices of the person requesting the report.Requires the secretary of the department of social and health services to establish procedures and requirements for identifying, tracking, and reporting adoption disruption and dissolution, including requiring regular reports from child-placing agencies relating to children placed for adoption.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
HB 1676
by Representatives Kagi, Jinkins, Cody, Pedersen, Roberts, Freeman, Fitzgibbon, Hunt, Orwall, and Appleton
Encouraging safe storage of firearms.
Includes in the crime of reckless endangerment, a person who stores or leaves a loaded firearm in a location where a child is likely to gain access, and the child obtains possession of the loaded firearm.Requires a dealer, when selling a firearm, to offer to sell or give the purchaser a locked box, a lock, or a device that prevents the firearm from discharging.Requires certain stores, shops, and sales outlets where firearms are sold, to post a warning sign to inform patrons of the requirements on storing and securing loaded firearms.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
HB 1677
by Representatives Klippert, Morrell, Hope, Cody, Nealey, Walsh, and Fagan
Concerning operators of multiple adult family homes.
Requires the department of social and health services to accept applications for licensure of additional adult family homes when less than twelve months have passed since the previous adult family home license.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. | |
HB 1678
by Representatives Klippert, Blake, Hayes, Takko, Holy, Hope, and Ross
Concerning peace officer liability.
Provides immunity from liability for certain peace officers with regard to the use of a less lethal weapon.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
HB 1679
by Representatives Cody and Jinkins
Regarding the disclosure of health care information.
Addresses the disclosure of health care information relating to mental health, sexually transmitted diseases, and sexually transmitted infections.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. | |
HB 1680
by Representative Santos
Implementing strategies to close the educational opportunity gap, based on the recommendations of the educational opportunity gap oversight and accountability committee.
Adopts policies and programs to implement recommendations of the educational opportunity gap oversight and accountability committee relating to: (1) Disproportionality in student discipline;(2) Educator cultural competence;(3) Instructing English language learners;(4) English language learner accountability;(5) Disaggregated student data; and(6) Recruitment and retention of educators.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1681
by Representatives Taylor, Shea, Overstreet, and Short
Concerning criminal trespass on private property.
Eliminates special immunities from prosecution for trespass, whether those immunities have been legislatively granted to the government or to private persons or entities.Declares that it is not the intent of the legislature to change the elements of the crime of trespass, but only to make all persons subject to the same law with exceptions from uniform application of that law only for the kinds of entries onto property by law enforcement officers that are lawful as of the effective date of the act and those entries onto property by government personnel that are specified in the act.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections. | |
HB 1682
by Representative Fitzgibbon
Incentivizing up-front environmental planning, review, and infrastructure construction actions of local governments.
Authorizes a local government to: (1) Recover its reasonable expenses of preparation of a nonproject environmental impact statement, prepared under RCW 43.21C.229 regarding infill development and under RCW 43.21C.440 regarding planned actions, through access to financial assistance, with funding from private sources, and by the assessment of certain fees; and(2) Assess a fee upon subsequent development.Addresses requirements for contracts with owners of real estate for water or sewer facilities and reimbursement of costs by subsequent users.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Local Government. | |
HB 1683
by Representatives Reykdal and Haler
Authorizing recognition of institutions of postsecondary study in order to retain federal financial aid eligibility.
Recognizes that recent federal changes in federal regulations require the adjustment of definitions of certain postsecondary institutions to ensure that those schools that currently meet the requirements are eligible for student financial aid programs provided by the federal government.Recognizes schools as institutions of postsecondary study.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Higher Education. | |
HB 1684
by Representatives Reykdal, Manweller, and Sells
Defining suitable work to include a minimum age requirement.
Revises the definition of "suitable work," for purposes of chapter 50.20 RCW (unemployment compensation--benefits and claims), to include a minimum age requirement.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
HB 1685
by Representatives Wilcox, Blake, and Chandler
Utilizing a portion of public utility tax collected for water distribution to fund the health programs of the departments of ecology and health.
Requires ten percent of the public utility taxes collected from water distribution businesses to be deposited into the water rights processing account and ten percent to be deposited into the safe drinking water account.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Appropriations. | |
HB 1686
by Representatives Seaquist, Haler, Roberts, Zeiger, Reykdal, Springer, Pettigrew, Pollet, Dahlquist, McCoy, Maxwell, and Fagan; by request of State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
Concerning high school equivalency certificates.
Replaces general equivalency degrees and general educational development tests with high school equivalency certificates and tests.Establishes a high school equivalency certificate which is a certificate issued jointly by the state board for community and technical colleges and the office of the superintendent of public instruction that indicates that the holder has attained standard scores at or above the minimum proficiency level prescribed by the state board on a high school equivalency test.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Higher Education. | |
HB 1687
by Representatives Ormsby, Haler, Sullivan, Parker, Pettigrew, and Liias
Concerning the taxing authority of public facilities districts.
Changes the time in which the sales and use tax for regional centers expires.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Finance. | |
HB 1688
by Representatives Stonier, Pike, Santos, Hayes, Orwall, Bergquist, and McCoy
Establishing a requirement and system for reporting incidents of student restraint and isolation in public schools.
Requires public school personnel to report incidents of student restraint and isolation and establishes a system for making and maintaining the reports.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1689
by Representatives Appleton and Cody
Creating a silver alert system.
Requires the Washington state patrol to develop and implement a plan, commonly known as a silver alert plan, to enhance the public's ability to assist in recovering senior citizens with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, dementia, or other mental disability.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Public Safety. | |
HB 1690
by Representative Orcutt
Permitting entities to qualify for cost recovery incentives from solar energy systems located on real property of the entity's controlling owner.
Allows entities to qualify for cost recovery incentives from certain solar energy systems.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Finance. | |
HB 1691
by Representatives Haigh and Maxwell
Authorizing the educational service district board or local school board to fill vacancies on the board of directors in second-class school districts with an at-large appointment if after one hundred twenty days a candidate from the director district cannot be recruited.
Modifies provisions relating to filling vacancies on the board of directors of second-class school districts.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1692
by Representatives Sullivan, Pettigrew, and Maxwell
Implementing career and college ready graduation requirements.
Authorizes, and provides sufficient resources for, implementation of the opportunity for: (1) Students to complete twenty-four credits for graduation through a comprehensive approach that includes increased instructional hours;(2) Expansion of the learning assistance program and transitional bilingual instructional programs; and(3) Resources to support additional family engagement and counseling.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1693
by Representatives Habib, Magendanz, Morris, and Tarleton
Providing tax relief for new businesses in high growth business sectors.
Authorizes certain new businesses to deduct up to two million dollars of business and occupation taxes in each calendar year.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development. | |
SB 5589
by Senators Mullet, Kline, Eide, McAuliffe, Kohl-Welles, Frockt, Keiser, Shin, and Chase
Providing for a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds.
Allows a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds.Takes effect if the proposed amendment to Article VII, section 2 and Article VIII, section 6 of the state Constitution, relating to providing for a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds, is approved by the voters at the next general election and certified by the secretary of state.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 5590
by Senators Eide, King, and Shin; by request of Department of Licensing
Modifying requirements for the operation of commercial motor vehicles in compliance with federal regulations.
Changes certain requirements for the operation of commercial motor vehicles in order to comply with federal regulations.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5591
by Senators Eide, King, and Shin; by request of Department of Licensing
Concerning confidential license plates, drivers' licenses, identicards, and vessel registrations.
Addresses the department of licensing's processes for issuing and allowing access to information about confidential license plates, drivers' licenses, identicards, and vessel registrations.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5592
by Senators Schlicher, King, Rolfes, Hobbs, and Eide
Modifying the use of certain toll bridge revenue.
Modifies certain toll bridge revenue use requirements.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5593
by Senators Smith and Parlette
Concerning filing requirements for property tax exemption claims for certain improvements to benefit fish and wildlife habitat, water quality, or water quantity.
Revises the filing requirements for property tax exemption claims for certain improvements to benefit fish and wildlife habitat, water quality, and water quantity.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Natural Resources & Parks. | |
SB 5594
by Senators Harper, Conway, Keiser, Nelson, Kohl-Welles, Hasegawa, Kline, Frockt, Shin, and Chase
Establishing minimum standards for sick and safe leave from employment.
Provides minimum requirements for sick and safe leave from employment.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 5595
by Senators Billig, Litzow, Darneille, Fain, Hargrove, McAuliffe, Harper, Nelson, Hobbs, Mullet, Frockt, Cleveland, Rolfes, Kohl-Welles, Shin, Kline, and Conway
Concerning child care reform.
Establishes an early achievers program for supporting and rewarding child care providers for providing high-quality child care.Requires the department of early learning to provide a ten percent increase in the working connections child care subsidy rate to those providers who accept children eligible for the subsidy.Requires the department of early learning and the department of social and health services to convene a parent and provider oversight board.Establishes a legislative task force on child care improvements for the future.Allows all licensed and certified child care programs to enroll in the early achievers program.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 5596
by Senator Carrell
Regarding certain lake management activities on lands owned by the state of Washington.
Authorizes certain code cities to take action necessary to remove harmful sediment from the deepest portions of any lake located within the boundaries of the code city.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Natural Resources & Parks. | |
SB 5597
by Senators Conway, Hasegawa, King, and Holmquist Newbry
Concerning locksmith services.
Implements regulations for individuals engaged in locksmith services and how they represent themselves in local telephone directories.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 5598
by Senators Mullet, Litzow, McAuliffe, Fain, Kohl-Welles, Shin, Nelson, Chase, and Frockt; by request of Washington State Housing Finance Commission
Concerning the disposition of surplus property for the development of affordable housing.
Authorizes port commissions, regional transit authorities, the department of social and health services, the department of corrections, the department of enterprise services, the parks and recreation commission, the department of natural resources, and the department of transportation to sell, lease, or exchange real property for less than fair market value to certain eligible organizations, or create beneficial sales terms, if the affordable housing to be developed on the property is to be occupied primarily by extremely low-income, very low-income, federally qualified low-income, or low-income households.Authorizes local governments to sell surplus property at a discount for affordable housing if the affordable housing complies with certain guidelines.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions, Housing & Insurance. | |
SB 5599
by Senators Fain, Baumgartner, Billig, Harper, Fraser, and Cleveland
Concerning the taxing authority of public facilities districts.
Changes the time in which the sales and use tax for regional centers expires.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5600
by Senators Hargrove, Darneille, Kohl-Welles, Hasegawa, Kline, McAuliffe, Frockt, Harper, Billig, and Shin
Concerning the definition of work activity for the purposes of the WorkFirst program.
Revises the definition of "work activity" for purposes of the WorkFirst program.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 5601
by Senators Becker, Cleveland, Dammeier, and Schlicher
Concerning interpretation of state law regarding rebating practices by health care entities.
Adds language to chapter 19.68 RCW (rebating by practitioners of healing professions) to ensure that it is interpreted in a manner consistent with the federal antikickback statute, except with respect to arrangements involving an entity which principally operates as a clinical laboratory.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5602
by Senators Bailey, Keiser, Kohl-Welles, Schlicher, and Kline
Creating a silver alert system.
Requires the Washington state patrol to develop and implement a plan, commonly known as a silver alert plan, to enhance the public's ability to assist in recovering senior citizens with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, dementia, or other mental disability.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5603
by Senators Hatfield, Kohl-Welles, Shin, and Ranker
Establishing the Washington coastal marine advisory council.
Creates the Washington coastal marine advisory council in the executive office of the governor to serve as a forum for communication in order to seek consistency in state, local, and tribal policies concerning coastal waters issues relating to resource management, fisheries, shellfish aquaculture, marine and coastal hazards, ocean energy, open ocean aquaculture, coastal waters research, education, and other coastal marine-related issues.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications. | |
SB 5604
by Senators Hatfield and Roach
Creating "National Rifle Association" special license plates.
Creates national rifle association special license plates.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5605
by Senators Becker, Sheldon, Hatfield, and Parlette
Addressing health plans provided through associations or member-governed groups.
Implements measures to continue certain association health care plans as a means of providing health care as the affordable care act is implemented.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5606
by Senators Roach, Hasegawa, Litzow, Nelson, Mullet, Harper, and Rivers
Concerning fire suppression water facilities and services provided by municipal and other water purveyors.
Determines appropriate methods of organizing public services and the authority of water purveyors with respect to critical public services.Clarifies the authority of water purveyors to provide fire suppression water facilities and services and to recover the costs for those facilities and services.Provides liability protections appropriate for water purveyors engaged in this vital public service.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 5607
by Senators Harper, Hewitt, Kohl-Welles, and Kline
Concerning beer, wine, and spirits theater licenses.
Creates a theater license to sell beer, including strong beer, wine, spirits, or all, at retail, for consumption on theater premises.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 5608
by Senators Holmquist Newbry and Benton
Authorizing certain corporate officers to receive unemployment benefits.
Authorizes unemployment benefits to certain corporate officers.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 5609
by Senators Rivers and Benton
Concerning requirements governing and associated with plat approvals.
Changes certain time limitations governing and associated with plat approvals.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 5610
by Senator Benton
Concerning local government selection of appropriate sewer systems in urban areas.
Authorizes counties and cities, in providing urban governmental services within the urban growth areas, to choose as the main source of sewage treatment for any location any approved systems for sewage and solid waste handling systems, plants, sites, or facilities, which includes approved on-site sewage systems.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 5611
by Senators Benton and Rivers
Concerning representation on the transportation commission for regions impacted by tolling.
Changes the composition of the transportation commission.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5612
by Senators Schoesler and Becker
Designating facilities and infrastructure of water purveyors as essential public facilities under growth management planning requirements.
Designates that facilities and infrastructure of water purveyors are essential public facilities under growth management planning requirements.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 5613
by Senators Murray, Fain, Kohl-Welles, and Keiser
Providing that certain cover charges for the opportunity to dance are not considered retail sales.
Specifies that amusement and recreation services do not include the opportunity to dance provided by an establishment in exchange for a cover charge for the purposes of business and occupation taxes.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5614
by Senators Benton, Carrell, Hargrove, Padden, Delvin, Dammeier, Shin, Harper, and Hewitt
Encouraging reconciliation and nonadversarial approaches to dissolution.
Establishes the family second chances act.Changes requirements for the family law handbook.Extends the waiting period to one year for a dissolution of marriage.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5615
by Senators Frockt, Becker, Cleveland, Keiser, Kohl-Welles, Schlicher, Kline, Conway, and Chase
Concerning the health professional loan repayment and scholarship program.
Specifies that loan repayment awards and scholarships issued by the health professional loan repayment and scholarship program are to be made available to medical residents and dental students who agree to work with hospitals and federally qualified health centers.Requires the planning committee of the office of student financial assistance to seek funding sources to help pay for the loan repayment and scholarship program.Changes the composition of the planning committee.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5616
by Senators Sheldon, Smith, Schoesler, Hargrove, Hatfield, Hewitt, and Shin
Concerning the use of farm vehicles on public highways.
Allows certain farm vehicles to be operated on public highways.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5617
by Senators Carrell, Darneille, and Pearson
Concerning service of petitions for release by persons committed as criminally insane.
Specifies that petitions for release by persons committed as criminally insane shall be served upon the court, the prosecuting attorney, and the secretary of the department of social and health services.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 5618
by Senators Carrell, Padden, Pearson, Harper, and Darneille
Including searches by school resource officers and local police school liaison officers within the warrantless school search exception.
Authorizes school resource officers and local police school liaison officers to conduct searches under the warrantless school search exception.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5619
by Senator Holmquist Newbry
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.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SJR 8208
by Senators Mullet, Kline, Eide, McAuliffe, Kohl-Welles, Frockt, Keiser, and Shin
Amending the Constitution to allow a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds.
Proposes an amendment to the state Constitution to allow a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds.
| Feb 5 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |