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

Establishing a joint select committee to consider the political, economic, and security issues at Washington's largest ports.

Creates the joint select committee on Washington's largest ports and requires the committee to develop recommendations that: (1) Consider the political, economic, and security issues facing the largest ports;

(2) Promote regulatory consistency and certainty in the areas of land use planning, permitting, and business development in a manner that supports the largest ports;

(3) Encourage cooperation and partnerships between local, state, federal, and private sectors to foster increased use of the largest ports; and

Concerning wildfire management.

Requires the department of enterprise services, in coordination with the department of natural resources, to use: (1) A request for information to a broad base of wildfire insurance carriers to gain an understanding of insurance requirements and data needed for an accurate quote; and

(2) A request for quote to a broad base of wildfire insurance carriers to discern how each carrier would meet the needs of the state and the cost of annual premiums.

Authorizes a county to, by action of its legislative authority, create a local forest fire protection division that is responsible for preventing and responding to forest fires in the county.

Requires the department of natural resources to: (1) Take charge of and direct the work of suppressing forest fires in counties that have not created a local forest fire protection division;

(2) Develop a twenty-year strategic plan to treat the 2.7 million acres of state forestland identified by the department as being in poor forest health condition;

(3) Create a prescribed burn manager certification program for those who practice prescribed burning in the state; and

Concerning the marine resources advisory council.

Addressing military service credit for members of the Washington state patrol retirement system.

Allowing fire protection district annexations and mergers within a reasonable geographic proximity and eliminating cross-county restrictions for annexations to a fire protection district.

Eliminates cross-county restrictions for annexations to fire protection districts.

Providing consumer protections for military members on active duty.

Authorizes a service member, who has been called into active service, to terminate or suspend the following services upon written notice, including electronic mail, to the service provider: (1) Telecommunication services from a telecommunications company;

(2) Internet services provided from an internet service provider;

(3) Health studio services from a health studio; and

Concerning public works assistance account program interest rates, project ranking, board membership, and other requirements.

Changes the composition of the public works board.

Requires the public works board to: (1) When establishing interest rates for loan programs, base interest rates on the average daily market interest rate for tax-exempt municipal bonds; and

Concerning an assessment on cattle.

Increases the assessment, from one dollar to two dollars, on each head of cattle sold.

Authorizing nonmedical tattoo removal procedures for minors by licensed tattoo artists.

Changing high school science assessment requirements.

Removes certain requirements for the high school science assessment.

-- 2016 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 3	First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education.