Concerning the definition of school-age child for purposes of school-age child care.

Concerning the enforcement of employment rights arising from state active duty service by a member of the national guard.

Concerning county payroll draw days.

Concerning pesticide exposure and notification of certain pesticide applications.

Provides that the legislature declares: (1) That community members should be protected from pesticide exposure and notified of certain pesticide applications to prevent unnecessary exposure; and

Addressing liability insurance requirements for motorcycles.

Creating the parent to parent program for individuals with developmental disabilities.

Declares it is the legislature's goal to continue, support, and enhance the existing parent to parent programs for individuals with developmental disabilities and expand these programs statewide by 2021.

Supporting affordable housing with a local government fee on condominium conversions.

Authorizes the governing body of a city to fix and impose a conversion fee for the recording of a declaration of a conversion condominium.

Concerning access to nonemergency, outpatient, primary health care services for unaccompanied homeless youth under the federal McKinney-Vento homeless assistance act.

Supporting affordable housing by permitting a local government fee on demolitions that reduce potential housing stock.

Authorizes the governing body of a city to fix and impose a demolition fee for a city permit issued for the demolition of residential dwellings within the city.

Clarifying current requirements for public purchases of goods and services from nonprofit agencies for the blind.

Prohibiting the consideration of the number of citations for traffic infractions issued by a law enforcement officer in the performance review of the officer.

Clarifying that the provisions of chapter 70.95 RCW do not apply to steel slag that is a product of production in the electric arc steel-making process and is managed as an item of commercial value and placed in commerce.

Providing procedures to allow court orders for visitation with adults.

Requiring a guardian or limited guardian to provide certain communications with relatives of incapacitated persons.

Concerning Down syndrome resources.

Requires the department of health to develop the following resources regarding Down syndrome: (1) Up-to-date, evidence-based, written information about Down syndrome and people born with Down syndrome that has been reviewed by medical experts and national Down syndrome organizations; and

(2) Contact information regarding support services, including information hotlines specific to Down syndrome, resource centers or clearinghouses, national and local Down syndrome organizations, and other education and support programs.

Requires the following, who provide a parent with a positive prenatal or postnatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, to provide the parent with the information prepared by the department of health: (1) A midwife;

(2) An osteopathic physician and surgeon;

(3) An osteopathic physician's assistant;

(4) A physician;

(5) A physician assistant;

(6) A nurse;

(7) A genetic counselor;

(8) A hospital; and

Requiring reasonable accommodations in the workplace for pregnant women.

Concerning the role of parties in cases related to certain notices and records.

Addressing employment noncompetition agreements.

Prohibiting regulation of the amount of rent for commercial properties.

Mitigating barriers to patient access to care resulting from health insurance contracting practices.

Prohibits a health plan offered to employees and their covered dependents under chapter 41.05 RCW from requiring a covered person's cost sharing, including copayments, for habilitative, rehabilitative, East Asian medicine, or chiropractic care to exceed the cost-sharing amount the plan requires for primary care.

Increasing supports for special needs students.

Requires a school district, beginning in the 2016-2017 school year, to: (1) Prepare a postsecondary transition plan for a high school student who qualifies under section 504 of the rehabilitation act of 1973; and

Requiring information about certain criminal defendants be included in the felony firearm offense conviction database.

Removing the marriage element from the crime of rape of a child in the first degree.

Concerning the apple commission.

Concerning aircraft registration simplification and fairness.

Creating a bistate bridge project legislative work group.

Creates the bistate bridge project legislative work group and requires the work group to facilitate strong public participation and input throughout the initial development stages to identify the most affordable, efficient project that improves freight mobility and safety, relieves traffic congestion, and meets the future needs of the region and the transportation corridor.

Establishing a pilot project to create and expand instructional worksite learning.

Establishes the creating and expanding instructional worksite learning pilot project to: (1) Expand traditional and nontraditional instructional worksite learning opportunities for students by incentivizing high growth advanced industry companies in the southwest Washington community to start or grow instructional worksite learning programs; and

(2) Fund the work of school worksite learning coordinators.

Concerning correctional industries' insurance costs.

Modifying certain driver's license requirements.

Establishes the better driver act.

Modifying the membership and appointment process of the growth management hearings board.

Authorizing the department of licensing to not issue front license plates for certain vehicles.

Authorizes the department of licensing to issue one license plate if the vehicle was originally manufactured without an installed bracket, device, or other means to display and secure a license plate on the front of the vehicle.

Concerning small parcels of land used for agricultural or rural development purposes.

Makes clear that: (1) Agricultural activities can occur on small parcels of land; and

Directing that the state may not regulate greenhouse gas emissions beyond the requirements established by federal law.

Providing funding for steelhead conservation through the issuance of Washington's fish license plate collection.

Creating an office of the homeowners' association ombuds.

Creates the office of the homeowners' association ombuds within the office of the attorney general.

Providing for hospital discharge planning with lay caregivers.

Addresses lay caregivers providing assistance to a patient after the patient's discharge from a hospital.

Concerning massage therapists.

Changes the term "massage practitioner" to "massage therapist."

Changes the term "animal massage practitioner" to "animal massage therapist."

Modifying the appointment process for trustees of rural county library districts in counties with one million or more residents.

Concerning local government modernization.

Exempting documents recording a special purpose district lien from the surcharge for local homeless housing and assistance.

Concerning the provision of assessment results to students and their parents or guardians.

Preserving water resources for an array of water supply needs, including irrigated agriculture, fish and wildlife habitat, and municipal use, by updating water conservation standards for appliances.

Allowing the prescription of schedule II controlled substances to treat certain disease states and conditions.

Allows schedule II controlled substances to be prescribed for the treatment of: (1) Binge eating disorder; and

Concerning substance abuse monitoring for licensed veterinarians, osteopathic physicians and surgeons, and osteopathic physician assistants.

Requires the state board of osteopathic medicine and surgery to enter into a contract with a voluntary substance abuse monitoring program when implementing an impaired osteopathic practitioner program.

Increases the surcharge for new licenses and license renewals for osteopathic physician assistants and those enrolled in physician assistant training programs.

Concerning certified public accountant firm mobility.

Concerning Washington state's space exploration sector.

Creates the Washington state space exploration center of excellence to: (1) Pursue joint industry-university research in developing and supporting new and existing technologies that can be used in space exploration firms;

(2) Recruit future space exploration sector leaders;

(3) Work directly with existing small, medium, and large-sized space firms and space industry associations;

(4) Provide a centralized Washington space exploration industry hub;

(5) Promote and foster local space exploration industry efforts; and

(6) Coordinate efforts with other governmental entities, nongovernmental organizations, and academics to solicit significant industry conferences and meetings to Washington.

Requires the department of commerce to select an academic, government, or nongovernmental entity to host and oversee the center.

Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to conduct an evaluation of the performance of the center.

Enhancing election reconciliation reports.

Requires the county auditor to: (1) Make election reconciliation reports available to the public at the auditor's office;

(2) Publish the reports on the auditor's web site at the time of certification; and

(3) Submit the reports to the secretary of state at the time of certification.

Equalizing access to permanent ballot drop boxes for every Washington citizen.

Concerning election year restrictions on state legislators.

Concerning gradually increasing the local government share of excess liquor revenues until the percentage-based method for distributions is restored.

Declares an intent to: (1) Remove the statutory cap on excess liquor revenues and gradually return the distributions to cities and counties to the percentage amounts before Initiative Measure No. 1183; and

Increasing access to adequate and appropriate mental health services for children and youth.

Creates the children's mental health work group to identify barriers to access of mental health services for children and families and to advise the legislature on statewide mental health services for this population.

Requires the state health care authority and the department of social and health services to report to the appropriate legislative committees on the status of access to behavioral health services for children from birth through age seventeen.

Requires the state health care authority to require universal screening and provider payment for depression for children ages eleven through twenty-one as recommended by the bright futures guidelines of the American academy of pediatrics.

Concerning host home programs for youth.

Restricting the social security offset to disability compensation.

Providing a property tax exemption for certain property within an affordable housing incentive zone.

Allows local governments to promote affordable housing through the designation of affordable housing incentive zones.

Concerning the compliance of certain conversion vending units and medical units with certain department of labor and industries requirements.

Addresses conversion vending units and medical units and their compliance with certain requirements of the department of labor and industries.

Eliminating the reference to the standard industrial classification system in the worker and community right to know fund.

Addressing third-party administrators and benefits managers.

Creates a new chapter regarding third-party administrators.

Concerning the distinction among the roles of governmental employee participants and nongovernmental employee participants on work groups established by the director of the department of fish and wildlife.

Authorizes the director of the department of fish and wildlife, in his or her execution of this act or other duty or responsibility of the department, to appoint and use work groups, task forces, subcommittees, and other formally recognized and designated processes that are intended to collect, process, or disseminate expertise and opinions from other state agencies, other levels of government, Indian tribes, constituent groups, and unaffiliated citizens.

Addressing emergency health care services balanced billing.

Concerning the practice of certain East Asian medicine therapies.

Revises the definition of "East Asian medicine," for purposes of chapter 18.06 RCW (East Asian medicine practitioners), to expand the definition of "point injection therapy" to include injection of substances, as defined in rule by the department of health, consistent with the practice of East Asian medicine.

States that point injection therapy does not include injection of controlled substances contained in schedules I through V of the uniform controlled substances act or steroids.

Revises the definition of "practitioner," for purposes of chapter 69.41 RCW (legend drugs--prescription drugs), to include East Asian medicine practitioners to the extent authorized under chapter 18.06 RCW.

Providing court-based and school-based intervention and prevention efforts to promote attendance and reduce truancy.

Establishes the keeping kids in school act.

Puts in place consistent practices and procedures, beginning in kindergarten, in which schools share information with families about the importance of consistent attendance and the consequences of excessive absences, involves families early, and provides families with information, services, and tools that they may access to improve and maintain their children's school attendance.

Requires an initial stay of truancy petition in order to allow for appropriate intervention and prevention before using a court order to enforce attendance laws.

Encourages efforts by county juvenile courts and school districts to establish and maintain therapeutic truancy boards and employ other best practices.

Allowing critical access hospitals participating in the Washington rural health access preservation pilot to resume critical access hospital payment and licensure.

Requiring a statewide program to map, track, and improve partnerships between postsecondary education institutions and K-12 schools.

Requires the Washington campus compact, a statewide consortium of public and private institutions of higher education hosted at Western Washington University, to develop a statewide program to map, track, and improve partnerships between identified postsecondary educational institutions and K-12 schools.

Creating the interstate medical licensure compact.

Improving oversight of the state hospitals.

Creates the position of the legislative state hospital authority who will serve as a consultant to the legislature on funding and policy matters related to eastern state hospital and western state hospital and as an oversight authority over the operations and management of eastern state hospital and western state hospital.

Requires the legislative state hospital authority to monitor the operations of eastern state hospital and western state hospital.

Creates the joint select committee on state hospital oversight to: (1) Review candidates and contract for the services of a legislative state hospital authority;

(2) Receive reports from the legislative state hospital authority regarding the operations of eastern state hospital and western state hospital;

(3) Submit specific investigative inquiries to the legislative state hospital authority; and

Authorizing cities and counties to facilitate the maintenance and repair of private roadways impacting the public interest.

Prohibits a local jurisdiction from: (1) Authorizing the financing for the construction, reconstruction, or repair of a private roadway under this act unless the jurisdiction receives a petition signed by the owners abutting the roadway; and

Allowing incremental electricity produced as a result of certain capital investment projects to qualify as an eligible renewable resource under the energy independence act.

Concerning the taxation and permitting of vessels in Washington.

Addresses sales and use taxes on vessels.

Concerning recorded interests in easements by an electric utility.

Concerning participation in the prescription drug donation program.

Establishes the cancer can't charitable pharmacy act.

Authorizes a person to whom a prescription drug was prescribed, or the person's representative, to donate prescription drugs if the person, or the person's representative, has completed and signed a donor form, adopted by the department of health, to release the prescription drug for distribution and certifying that the donated prescription drug has been properly stored and has never been opened, used, adulterated, or misbranded.

Concerning city or county comprehensive plans or development regulations arising from the economic development element of the growth management act in counties and cities experiencing economic deterioration.

Providing local authorities with the authority to regulate firearms in certain public places.

Authorizes cities, towns, counties, and other municipalities to enact laws and ordinances restricting the possession of firearms in any designated public park space and recreational facilities.

Authorizes cities, towns, counties, municipal corporations, and the governing body of any public transportation authority to enact laws and rules restricting the possession of firearms on any mode of public transportation and any associated transit facilities.

Concerning extreme risk protection orders.

Concerning surrender of person under surety's bond.

Concerning the courts' consultation of the judicial information system before granting orders.

Addressing insurance coverage for abuse-deterrent opioids.

Requiring private health insurers and the medicaid program to reimburse for a twelve-month supply of contraceptive drugs.

Requires a health benefit plan issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2017, that includes coverage for contraceptive drugs, to provide reimbursement for a twelve-month supply of contraceptive drugs obtained at one time by the enrollee, unless the enrollee requests a smaller supply or the prescribing provider instructs that the enrollee must receive a smaller supply.

Regulating nursing home facilities.

Establishing licensing of recreational motorized mineral prospecting in Washington state streams and rivers equivalent to the licensing of recreational fishing.

Allows recreational motorized mineral prospecting only during the season established by the department of fish and wildlife in the gold and fish pamphlet.

Requires the department of fish and wildlife to: (1) Develop a recreational motorized mineral prospecting record card similar to the catch record card required for recreational fishing;

(2) Initiate and complete a scientific study that evaluates the effects of motorized mineral prospecting on native fish species and related habitat; and

Concerning rail dependent uses for purposes of the growth management act and related development regulations.

Authorizes counties and cities to adopt development regulations to assure that agriculture, forest, and mineral resource lands adjacent to short line railroads may be developed for freight rail dependent uses.

Authorizes the transportation element required by RCW 36.70A.070 to include development of freight dependent uses on land proximate or adjacent to railroad lines and infrastructure.

Concerning candidate filing fee petitions.

Requires the secretary of state to adopt rules governing the following: In accordance with standards, guidelines, or policies established by the chief information officer, the format, standards, and procedures for the acceptance and verification of electronic signatures on an electronic filing fee petition.

Authorizes a candidate, in lieu of a filing fee, to submit a filing fee petition with his or her declaration of candidacy.

Concerning coroners and medical examiners regarding death investigations.

Repealing the warrant authority of coroners.

Requires the coroner, if a jury finds that a person was killed and the party committing the homicide is ascertained by the inquisition but is not in custody, to deliver, to the prosecuting attorney of the county where the inquest was held, the findings of the jury and all documents, testimony, and records generated, possessed, or used during the inquest.

Improving the recruitment and retention of qualified teachers by raising salaries and strengthening teacher mentoring.

Raises the minimum base salary for beginning teachers to forty thousand dollars per year and increases by at lease one percent the salary for all other teachers.

Supports robust mentoring for beginning teachers to keep them in the classroom.

Concerning the definitions of culpability in the criminal code.

Concerning vehicle transfer administration and enforcement.

Establishes the vehicle transfer protection act.

Allowing the disclosure of health care information with persons with a close relationship with a patient.

Concerning waivers from the one hundred eighty-day school year requirement.

Addresses waivers from the one hundred eighty-day school year requirement.

Concerning candidate filing fee petitions.

Authorizes a candidate to submit with his or her declaration of candidacy, a filing fee petition in lieu of paying the filing fee.

Supporting agricultural production, including that of apiarists, through the preservation of forage for pollinators.

Requires the state noxious weed control board to conduct a pilot project that evaluates the options, methods, and costs of purposefully replacing pollen-rich and nectar-rich noxious weeds with either native or noninvasive, nonnative forage plants that can produce similar levels of pollen and nectar with a similar bloom succession to support populations of honey bees and other pollinators.

Requires all agencies, while conducting planned projects to ensure compliance with chapter 17.10 RCW, to give preference to replacing pollen-rich or nectar-rich noxious weeds with native forage plants that are beneficial for all pollinators, including honey bees.

Investing in education by modifying and improving the fairness of Washington's excise tax system by narrowing or eliminating tax preferences.

Invests in education by: (1) Narrowing the use tax exemption for extracted fuel;

(2) Repealing the nonresident sales and use tax exemption;

(3) Eliminating the sales and use tax exemption for bottled water; and

(4) Eliminating the real estate excise tax exemption for transfers that occur in foreclosures except in circumstances where the tax would impact the owner of the property and restructuring the existing statute to preserve the exemption for deeds given in lieu of the foreclosure process and transfers made to extinguish existing security interests.

Concerning state natural resource-related agencies providing financial assistance to agencies of the federal government.

Concerning short-barreled rifles.

Establishing drug-free zone enhancements.

Protecting minors from sexual exploitation.

Authorizes law enforcement to use the limited use of administrative subpoena authority in this act for the sole purpose of investigating crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children.

-- 2016 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13	First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).