Addressing the limited exoneration of bail forfeitures in instances where the prosecuting agency declines extradition of a defendant.

Allowing authorized health care providers to prescribe epinephrine autoinjectors.

Authorizes an authorized health care provider to prescribe epinephrine autoinjectors in the name of an authorized entity.

Concerning domestic violence.

Modifies domestic violence provisions relating to: (1) Offender scores for assault of a child and criminal mistreatment; and

(2) Revising the crime of fourth degree assault.

Requires a biological sample to be collected for purposes of DNA identification analysis from an adult or juvenile convicted of assault in the fourth degree, where domestic violence was pleaded and proven, or an equivalent municipal ordinance.

Authorizes a sheriff to waive fees associated with service of a writ of habeas corpus that was issued for the return of a child when the person who was granted the writ is, by reason of poverty, unable to pay the cost of service.

Regulating the institutions of higher education, including for-profit institutions and private vocational schools, to protect students from unfair business practices.

Creates, within the student achievement council, the office of the ombuds serving students of for-profit degree granting institutions and private vocational schools to provide assistance to students of for-profit postsecondary institutions and private vocational schools.

Requires the council, in coordination with the workforce training and education coordinating board, to appoint an ombuds.

Requires the council, the board, and the department of licensing to work together to design and oversee a study, to be administered by the council, that objectively analyzes and makes recommendations about systemic overlaps and gaps in jurisdiction regarding for-profit degree granting institutions and private vocational schools in the state.

Authorizes the council to deny, revoke, or suspend the authorization of an institution that is found to have engaged in a substantial number of unfair business practices or that has engaged in significant unfair business practices.

Providing reasonable accommodations in the workplace for pregnant women. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Requiring reasonable accommodations in employment for pregnancy, childbirth, or pregnancy-related health conditions. )

Makes it an unfair practice for an employer to fail or refuse to make reasonable accommodation in employment for pregnancy, childbirth, or pregnancy-related health conditions.

Addressing health care provider credentialing.

Requires a health carrier to use the database selected pursuant to RCW 48.165.035 (lead organization tasks--uniform electronic process) to accept and manage credentialing applications from health care providers.

Requires a health care provider to: (1) When submitting a credentialing application to a health carrier, submit the application using that same database; and

Concerning cybercrime.

Establishes the Washington cybercrime act.

Concerning flamethrowing devices.

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

Concerning massage therapists.

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

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

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.

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

Creates the children's mental health work group to identify barriers in accessing 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: (1) Expand the partnership access line service by selecting a rural inclusive region of the state to offer an additional level of child mental health care support services for primary care (referred to as the PAL plus pilot program);

(2) For purposes of the PAL plus pilot program, work in collaboration with faculty from the University of Washington working on the integration of mental health and medical care; and

(3) Require universal annual 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.

Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to conduct an inventory of the mental health service models available to students in schools, school districts, and educational service districts.

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, limited to saline, sterile water, herbs, minerals, vitamins in liquid form, and homeopathic and nutritional substances, 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.

Requires the department of health, in consultation with the East Asian medicine advisory committee, to establish by rule the definition of "point injection therapy" and adopt rules regarding substances administered as part of point injection therapy consistent with the practice of East Asian medicine.

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

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 to donate the prescription drug if, as determined by the professional judgment of a pharmacist, the prescription drugs were stored under required temperature conditions using the prescription drugs' time temperature indicator information and the person 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 never been opened, used, adulterated, or misbranded.

Concerning child care center licensing requirements.

Promoting the reduction of intergenerational poverty.

Creates the Washington intergenerational poverty reduction commission to reduce intergenerational poverty.

Creates the intergenerational poverty advisory committee to assist the commission.

Requires the department of social and health services to establish and maintain a system to track intergenerational poverty, which must: (1) Identify groups that have a high risk of experiencing intergenerational poverty;

(2) Identify incidents, patterns, and trends that explain or contribute to intergenerational poverty;

(3) Assist case workers, social scientists, and government officials in the study and development of effective and efficient plans and programs to help individuals and families in the state to break the cycle of poverty; and

Regulating nursing home facilities.

Increasing the availability of sexual assault nurse examiners.

Requires the office of crime victims advocacy to study the availability of sexual assault nurse examiners throughout the state.

Addressing the authority of pharmacists to dispense prescription drugs.

Concerning hospital privileges for advanced registered nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

Requires a hospital and other approved facilities, before granting or renewing clinical privileges or association of an advanced registered nurse practitioner or a physician assistant, to request certain information from the advanced registered nurse practitioner or the physician assistant.

Requires the medical quality assurance commission or the board of osteopathic medicine and surgery to be advised within thirty days of the name of a physician assistant denied staff privileges, association, or employment on the basis of adverse findings.

Prohibiting the confiscation of an individual's private real and personal property during an emergency.

Prohibits a state agency or political subdivision, while acting in support of relief from a major disaster or emergency, from: (1) Temporarily or permanently seizing, or authorizing the seizure of, the real and personal property of a private individual; or

Establishing the Washington state firearms civil rights act.

Establishes the Washington state firearms civil rights act.

Provides that a person employed by the state or a political subdivision, or any agency thereof, and any elected or appointed officials thereof, are guilty of denial of firearms civil rights if he or she: (1) Denies the issuance or renewal of a concealed pistol license to an applicant who is qualified for the license;

(2) Requires or requests an applicant for a concealed pistol license to provide additional information beyond what is required;

(3) Confiscates or orders forfeiture of, without authority of state law or due process of law, a citizen's firearm or firearm parts, accessories, or ammunition;

(4) Prohibits a seller of a firearm or firearm parts, accessories, or ammunition, without the authority of state law or due process of law, from delivering the firearm or firearm parts, accessories, or ammunition to a purchaser; or

(5) Orders or impedes, without authority of state law or due process of law, a licensed seller to delay delivery of a firearm to a purchaser beyond the time limit.

Repealing the authority for transfers to the Clarke-McNary account.

Repeals RCW 43.88.550 (forest firefighting expenses--transfers to the Clarke-McNary fund).

-- 2016 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 5	First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).