WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE
Legislative Digest No. 5

SIXTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE
Monday, January 19, 20158th Day - 2015 Regular Session

SENATE
SB 5230SB 5231SB 5232SB 5233SB 5234SB 5235SB 5236
SB 5237SB 5238SB 5239SB 5240SB 5241SB 5242SB 5243
SB 5244SB 5245SB 5246SB 5247SB 5248SB 5249SB 5250
SB 5251SB 5252SB 5253SB 5254SB 5255SB 5256SB 5257
SB 5258SB 5259SB 5260SB 5261SB 5262SB 5263SB 5264
SB 5265SB 5266SB 5267SB 5268SB 5269SB 5270SB 5271
SB 5272SB 5273SB 5274SB 5275SB 5276SB 5277SB 5278
SB 5279
HOUSE
HB 1244HB 1245HB 1246HB 1247HB 1248HB 1249HB 1250
HB 1251HB 1252HB 1253HB 1254HB 1255HB 1256HB 1257
HB 1258HB 1259HB 1260HB 1261HB 1262HB 1263HB 1264
HB 1265HB 1266HB 1267HB 1268HB 1269HB 1270HB 1271
HB 1272HB 1273HB 1274HB 1275HB 1276HB 1277HB 1278
HB 1279HB 1280HB 1281HB 1282HB 1283HB 1284HB 1285
HB 1286HB 1287HB 1288HB 1289HB 1290HB 1291HB 1292
HB 1293HB 1294HB 1295HB 1296HB 1297HB 1298HB 1299
HB 1300HB 1301HB 1302HB 1303HB 1304

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=2015.


House Bills

HB 1244

by Representatives Shea, Scott, Taylor, Holy, G. Hunt, Griffey, Young, McCaslin, and Magendanz


Addressing motorcycle rider liability for actions required of helmet manufacturers.


Revises the definition of "motorcycle helmet" to remove a federal regulation reference to remove liability from the rider for whether the manufacturer complied with the federal regulation as indicated on the helmet.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1245

by Representatives Shea, Taylor, G. Hunt, Scott, Griffey, Rodne, MacEwen, Young, Haler, Short, and Buys


Repealing background check provisions for gun sales and transfers relating to Initiative Measure No. 594.


Eliminates provisions relating to background checks for gun sales and transfers relating to Initiative Measure No. 594.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1246

by Representatives Shea, Scott, Taylor, G. Hunt, Griffey, Rodne, Young, Holy, McCaslin, Buys, and Magendanz


Protecting citizens from the application of foreign laws that would result in a violation of a constitutional right.


Prohibits a court, arbitrator, administrative agency, and any other adjudicative, mediation, or enforcement authority from enforcing a foreign law if doing so would violate any right guaranteed by the state Constitution or the United States Constitution.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1247

by Representatives Shea, Scott, Taylor, Holy, G. Hunt, Griffey, Rodne, Young, Haler, McCaslin, and Buys


Making human decapitation an aggravating circumstance for purposes of aggravated first degree murder.


Makes human decapitation an aggravating circumstance for purposes of aggravated first degree murder.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1248

by Representatives Shea, Sawyer, Rodne, Jinkins, Walkinshaw, Fitzgibbon, Kilduff, and Pollet


Concerning court proceedings.


Modifies court proceeding provisions relating to civil jurisdiction, jurisdictional limit of district courts, mandatory arbitration of civil actions, and adjudication claim filing fee.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1249

by Representatives Clibborn, Fagan, and Santos


Providing authority for two or more nonprofit corporations to participate in a joint self-insurance program covering property or liability risks.


Authorizes two or more nonprofit corporations to participate in a joint self-insurance program covering property or liability risks.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Business & Financial Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1250

by Representatives Holy and S. Hunt; by request of Office of Financial Management


Concerning notice and review processes for annexations, deannexations, incorporations, disincorporations, consolidations, and boundary line adjustments under Titles 35 and 35A RCW.


Revises Title 35 RCW (cities and towns) and Title 35A RCW (optional municipal code) relating to notice and review processes for annexations, deannexations, incorporations, disincorporations, consolidations, and boundary line adjustments.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Local Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1251

by Representatives Van De Wege, Fey, Fitzgibbon, and Pollet


Providing for increased funding for emergency medical services by adjusting the emergency medical services' levy cap.


Adjusts the emergency medical services' levy cap to increase funding for emergency medical services.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1252

by Representatives Wylie, Harris, Moeller, Jinkins, Vick, and S. Hunt


Prescribing penalties for allowing or permitting unlicensed practice of massage therapy or reflexology.


Imposes penalties on an owner of a massage business or reflexology business where the unlicensed practice of massage therapy or reflexology has been committed.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1253

by Representatives Manweller, G. Hunt, and Buys


Addressing worker reporting of workplace injuries for purposes of industrial insurance.


Modifies reporting requirements for workplace injuries for purposes of industrial insurance.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Labor (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1254

by Representatives Manweller, Short, McCaslin, and Buys


Creating a pilot project to determine the prevailing wage of certain trades.


Creates a pilot project to establish the prevailing rate of wage for the following trades: Cement masons, operating engineers, laborers in utilities construction, plasterers, telecommunications technicians, and divers.

Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee, in consultation with the department of labor and industries and the prevailing wage advisory committee, to conduct an assessment of the pilot project.

Expires August 1, 2021.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Labor (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1255

by Representatives Tarleton, Ryu, Kirby, Sawyer, Riccelli, Santos, and Gregerson; by request of Office of Minority and Women's Business Enterprises


Concerning the office of minority and women's business enterprises account.


Addresses the minority and women's business enterprises account.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1256

by Representatives Tharinger, Fitzgibbon, Buys, Hansen, Lytton, Wylie, Fey, Dunshee, Riccelli, Jinkins, Reykdal, Stanford, and Clibborn


Providing the department of natural resources with discretionary authority to use resources available in the derelict vessel removal account to fund complementary derelict vessel prevention programs.


Authorizes the department of natural resources to use expenditures from the derelict vessel removal account to provide grants to authorized public entities to help fund locally focused derelict vessel prevention programs by identifying potential problem vessels and connecting owners with relevant community resources before they become derelict or abandoned.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1257

by Representatives Walkinshaw, Senn, Robinson, Stanford, Farrell, Ormsby, Riccelli, Gregerson, Jinkins, Fitzgibbon, Peterson, Bergquist, Santos, and Pollet


Concerning tenant screening.


Addresses comprehensive tenant screening reports.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1258

by Representatives Walkinshaw, Rodne, Jinkins, Haler, Cody, Harris, Goodman, Muri, Fagan, Hansen, Buys, Orwall, Kilduff, Springer, Senn, Walsh, Pettigrew, Robinson, Bergquist, Stanford, Fitzgibbon, Pollet, Stokesbary, Sells, Peterson, McBride, Pike, Farrell, Ortiz-Self, Zeiger, Van De Wege, Tharinger, Hunter, Sullivan, Lytton, Riccelli, Carlyle, Clibborn, Magendanz, and Gregerson


Concerning court review of detention decisions under the involuntary treatment act.


Allows an immediate family member, guardian, or conservator of a person to petition the superior court for review of a designated mental health professional's decision, if the designated mental health professional decides not to detain a person for evaluation and treatment or forty-eight hours have elapsed since the designated mental health professional received notice of the person and has not taken action to have the person detained.

Requires the department of social and health services and each regional support network or agency employing designated mental health professionals to publish information in an easily accessible format describing the process for an immediate family member, guardian, or conservator to petition for court review of a detention decision.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1259

by Representatives Cody, Schmick, Clibborn, Harris, Jinkins, Robinson, and Buys


Allowing advanced registered nurse practitioners to sign and attest to certain documentation.


Authorizes an advanced registered nurse practitioner to sign and attest to certain required documentation that a physician may sign, so long as it is within his or her scope of practice.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1260

by Representatives Kilduff, Muri, Goodman, Rodne, Klippert, Kirby, Walkinshaw, Stokesbary, Jinkins, and Stanford


Providing credit towards child support obligations for veterans benefits.


Provides credit towards child support obligations for veterans' benefits.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1261

by Representatives Sawyer, Appleton, Stanford, and Pollet


Limiting enforcement action against tribal hunters.


Exempts tribal hunters from certain enforcement actions under the fish and wildlife enforcement code.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1262

by Representatives Blake, Takko, Kretz, Springer, Short, Lytton, Wilcox, Pike, Reykdal, Haler, McCaslin, and Buys


Creating a task force to examine land ownership by the federal government in Washington.


Creates a legislative task force on the transfer of federal lands to study the risks, options, and benefits of transferring federal lands in this state to an alternative ownership.

Expires July 1, 2017.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Capital Budget (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1263

by Representatives Stokesbary, Kirby, Vick, Hurst, and Buys


Exempting certified public accountants from private investigator regulations.


Exempts from private investigator laws, a certified public accountant or an employee of a certified public accountant performing duties within the scope of public accountancy.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Business & Financial Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1264

by Representatives Wilcox, Blake, MacEwen, Gregerson, Lytton, and Zeiger


Concerning conservation districts' rates and charges.


Modifies provisions relating to rates and charges of conservation districts.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Local Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1265

by Representatives Fey, Kochmar, Jinkins, and Gregory


Creating a bond issuance exemption for qualifying local revitalization financing projects.


Exempts qualifying local revitalization financing projects from issuing certain bonds.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1266

by Representatives Buys and Haler


Creating a task force on elections for irrigation districts.


Creates a task force on irrigation district elections to review various election processes and technology and make recommendations for statutory changes that would provide an improved, transparent, and accountable voting process for irrigation districts.

Expires July 1, 2016.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to State Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1267

by Representative Buys


Concerning de facto changes in water rights for irrigation purposes that involved conversion to more efficient irrigation technologies.


Requires the department of ecology to initiate a process to enable water right holders to change the current status of certain water rights.

Expires June 30, 2020.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1268

by Representatives Buys, Lytton, Shea, Wilcox, Young, Holy, and McCaslin


Regarding hemp as a component of commercial animal feed.


Requires the department of agriculture to conduct a study evaluating whether hemp and hemp products should be an allowable component of commercial feed in the state.

Expires June 30, 2018.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1269

by Representatives Buys and Van Werven


Extending the dairy inspection program assessment expiration date.


Delays, until June 30, 2020, the expiration of the dairy inspection program assessment.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1270

by Representatives Buys, Blake, and Haler


Increasing salmon populations in Washington through the implementation of a new fish hatchery management structure that is modeled on the proven, successful structure utilized by the state of Alaska for the past forty years.


Requires the department of fish and wildlife to issue at least three permits to qualified regional aquaculture associations to construct and operate individual salmon hatcheries.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1271

by Representative Buys


Increasing rock collecting opportunities on state lands.


Requires one or more rock collecting endorsements to be made available: (1) To any person purchasing a discover pass or day-use permit; and

(2) As a free standing purchase.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1272

by Representatives Buys, Orwall, and Pollet


Creating the crime of wrongfully distributing intimate images.


Creates the crime of wrongfully distributing intimate images which is a misdemeanor on the first conviction, a gross misdemeanor on the second conviction, and a class C felony on the third and subsequent convictions.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1273

by Representatives Robinson, Sells, Farrell, Hudgins, Kagi, Wylie, Sawyer, Walkinshaw, Moscoso, Ryu, Ormsby, Riccelli, Jinkins, Senn, McBride, Gregerson, Fitzgibbon, Moeller, Reykdal, S. Hunt, Stanford, Bergquist, Santos, Pollet, Fey, and Tarleton


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.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Labor (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1274

by Representatives Cody, Jinkins, Johnson, Harris, and Tharinger


Implementing a value-based system for nursing home rates.


Adopts a new system for establishing nursing home payment rates.

Requires the department of social and health services, in cooperation with nursing facility provider associations, to design and develop a new system that matches payments to patient care needs, reward efficiency, incentivize controlling costs, and promote quality of care.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1275

by Representatives Cody and Haler


Increasing the number of members on the board of osteopathic medicine and surgery.


Changes the composition of the state board of osteopathic medicine and surgery.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1276

by Representatives Klippert, Goodman, Hayes, Orwall, Moscoso, Pettigrew, Zeiger, Kilduff, and Fey


Concerning impaired driving.


Modifies impaired driving provisions.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1277

by Representatives Klippert, Appleton, MacEwen, Muri, Orwall, Goodman, Shea, Haler, Moscoso, Young, Scott, Zeiger, and McCaslin


Concerning transient lodging for military service members in armories.


Addresses transient lodging of service personnel in armories.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1278

by Representatives Fitzgibbon, Dunshee, Farrell, S. Hunt, Peterson, Fey, and Tarleton


Concerning building energy use disclosure requirements.


Addresses disclosure requirements for building energy use.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Environment (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1279

by Representatives Kochmar and Gregory


Modifying the definition of legislative authority for purposes of local tourism promotion areas.


Revises the definition of "legislative authority" for purposes of local tourism promotion areas.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1280

by Representatives Sawyer, Appleton, Reykdal, S. Hunt, Riccelli, Fitzgibbon, Robinson, Santos, Gregerson, and Tarleton


Establishing a commission on government-to-government relations in Washington.


Creates the commission on Indian services to provide and support efforts to identify and facilitate effective government-to-government communications and foster resolution of issues of mutual concern between the state and tribes.

Creates an Indian services office within the legislature.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1281

by Representatives Sawyer, Orwall, Hurst, Blake, Stokesbary, Tarleton, Walsh, Kirby, Appleton, G. Hunt, Pettigrew, Jinkins, Carlyle, Fey, Ortiz-Self, Senn, Walkinshaw, Moeller, Kilduff, Robinson, Van De Wege, Stanford, Ryu, Lytton, Sells, Riccelli, Kagi, Bergquist, Clibborn, Santos, Buys, and Gregerson


Concerning the sexual exploitation of minors.


Assesses a fee, on a person who is convicted of possession of depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, of one thousand dollars for each depiction or image of visual or printed matter that constitutes a separate conviction.

Creates the internet crimes against children account.

Requires one-third of unclaimed prize money in the state lottery account to be deposited in the internet crimes against children account.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1282

by Representatives Zeiger, Goodman, Klippert, Orwall, Appleton, Sawyer, and Gregerson


Addressing the crime of driving while license suspended where the suspension is based on noncompliance with a child support order.


Addresses suspended drivers' licenses when the suspension is based on noncompliance with a child support order.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1283

by Representatives Parker, Kirby, and Vick


Concerning nonprofit organizations engaged in debt adjusting.


Modifies debt adjusting provisions relating to nonprofit organizations.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Business & Financial Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1284

by Representatives Haler, Sells, Zeiger, Takko, Harris, Tarleton, Rodne, Stanford, Muri, Santos, Stokesbary, Walkinshaw, Hayes, Riccelli, Vick, Fitzgibbon, McCaslin, Ryu, Kochmar, Sawyer, Blake, Dunshee, Holy, Moeller, Jinkins, Reykdal, S. Hunt, Farrell, Clibborn, Moscoso, and Pollet


Concerning hours of service for certain railroad employees.


Regulates the hours of service for yardmasters.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Labor (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1285

by Representatives Riccelli, G. Hunt, Van De Wege, Harris, Cody, Holy, Jinkins, Clibborn, Robinson, Walkinshaw, Peterson, Fitzgibbon, Ormsby, Bergquist, Tarleton, Farrell, Moeller, S. Hunt, Tharinger, Stanford, and Gregerson


Requiring critical congenital heart disease screening for newborns.


Requires a hospital, or a health care provider attending a birth outside of a hospital, to perform critical congenital heart disease screening using pulse oximetry before discharge of the newborn.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1286

by Representatives Tharinger, Harris, Jinkins, Johnson, Caldier, G. Hunt, Wylie, McBride, Kilduff, Takko, and Peterson


Requiring a study for funding options for long-term care services and supports.


Requires the department of social and health services to contract for an independent feasibility study and actuarial modeling of public and private options for leveraging private resources to help individuals prepare for long-term services and supports needs.

Requires the joint legislative executive committee on aging and disability to provide oversight and direction for this analysis and convene interested stakeholders to provide input on the study design.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1287

by Representatives Orwall and Jinkins


Concerning less restrictive alternative orders under the involuntary treatment act.


Modifies involuntary treatment act provisions relating to less restrictive alternative orders.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1288

by Representatives Orwall, Rodne, Jinkins, Walkinshaw, Cody, Moeller, Tharinger, and Gregerson


Directing the Washington state institute for public policy to complete a study regarding the involuntary treatment act.


Requires the state institute for public policy to complete a study regarding the implementation of certain aspects of the involuntary treatment act.

Expires June 30, 2016.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1289

by Representatives Buys, Takko, Short, and Blake


Modifying the procedure for adoption and amendment of the Washington state energy code.


Modifies state energy code provisions relating to adoption and amendment procedures.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1290

by Representatives Condotta, Hurst, and Sawyer


Increasing the number of tasting rooms allowed under a domestic winery license.


Increases, from two to four, the number of tasting rooms allowed under a domestic winery license.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Commerce & Gaming (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1291

by Representatives Buys, Takko, and Blake


Concerning credentialing requirements for the design and installation of residential fire protection sprinkler systems.


Modifies fire sprinkler system contractor provisions relating to credentialing requirements for the design and installation of sprinkler systems.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Labor (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1292

by Representatives Young and Caldier


Providing fee immunity for certain water facilities.


Provides certain water facilities with fee immunity.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1293

by Representatives Bergquist, Magendanz, Santos, Muri, Ortiz-Self, Reykdal, S. Hunt, Pollet, and Gregerson


Concerning paraeducators.


Addresses minimum employment standards for paraeducators who work in the learning assistance program, the federal disadvantaged program, and English language learner programs.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1294

by Representatives Bergquist, Stambaugh, S. Hunt, Appleton, Riccelli, Walkinshaw, Ortiz-Self, Blake, Wylie, Fitzgibbon, Carlyle, Moscoso, Goodman, Tarleton, Stanford, Senn, Pettigrew, Orwall, Jinkins, Sawyer, Tharinger, Cody, Lytton, Farrell, Gregerson, Moeller, Gregory, Robinson, Takko, Pollet, Sullivan, McBride, Reykdal, Dunshee, Sells, Kagi, Springer, Van De Wege, Kilduff, Peterson, Hudgins, and Fey


Enhancing youth voter registration.


Establishes the young voter registration equality act.

Allows a person who is sixteen or seventeen years old to preregister to vote at the department of licensing.

Allows a person who is seventeen years old to preregister to vote at all other locations and through electronic means.

Exempts from public inspection and copying under the public records act, information contained in voter preregistration records.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to State Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1295

by Representatives Hudgins, Magendanz, S. Hunt, Walsh, Walkinshaw, Lytton, Senn, Jinkins, Sawyer, Stokesbary, Reykdal, Robinson, McBride, Stanford, Tharinger, Bergquist, Clibborn, Pollet, Fey, Gregerson, and Tarleton


Concerning breakfast after the bell programs.


Requires each high-needs school to offer breakfast after the bell to each student and provide adequate time for students to eat.

Requires the state to provide financial assistance to support the costs of implementing breakfast after the bell programs at participating high-needs schools.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Develop and distribute procedures and guidelines for the implementation of this act; and

(2) Dedicate staff within the office to offer training and technical and marketing assistance to public schools and school districts related to offering breakfast after the bell.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1296

by Representatives Vick, Kirby, Pettigrew, Blake, Buys, MacEwen, Rodne, Walsh, Condotta, G. Hunt, Hayes, Carlyle, and Sawyer


Establishing special license endorsements for cigar lounges and retail tobacconist shops.


Authorizes a person holding a tobacco products retailer's license to apply through the business licensing system for a special endorsement as a cigar lounge or retail tobacconist shop.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Commerce & Gaming (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1297

by Representatives Clibborn and Fey; by request of Governor Inslee


Making 2013-2015 supplemental transportation appropriations.


Makes 2013-2015 supplemental transportation appropriations.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1298

by Representatives Clibborn and Fey; by request of Governor Inslee


Authorizing bonds for the financing of transportation projects.


Requires the state finance committee, in order to provide funds necessary to finance the projects described and authorized by the legislature in the omnibus transportation appropriations act for the 2015-2017 fiscal biennium, to issue and sell upon the request of the department of transportation a total of three billion one hundred million dollars of general obligation bonds of the state.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1299

by Representatives Clibborn and Fey; by request of Governor Inslee


Making transportation appropriations for the 2015-2017 fiscal biennium.


Makes transportation appropriations for the 2015-2017 fiscal biennium.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1300

by Representatives Clibborn and Fey; by request of Governor Inslee


Concerning transportation revenue.


Addresses transportation revenue relating to: (1) Creating, increasing, and modifying transportation-related fees;

(2) Distribution of revenue;

(3) Distribution of driver's license fees;

(4) Tax exemptions and authority to modify and impose new taxes; and

(5) Local revenue options.

Requires the department of licensing, a county auditor or other agent, or a subagent appointed by the director to issue a studded tire permit authorizing the use of studded tires.

Authorizes a registered owner to apply to the department of licensing, a county auditor or other agent, or a subagent appointed by the director for an intermittent-use trailer license plate for an intermittent-use trailer.

Authorizes a governing body of a public transportation benefit area to establish one or more passenger-only ferry service districts.

Creates an electric vehicle infrastructure bank to provide financial assistance for the installation of publicly accessible electric vehicle charging stations within the state.

Creates the bicycle and pedestrian grant program account, the complete streets grant program account, the local green initiatives account, the public transportation grant program account, the safe routes to school grant program account, and the sustainability account.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1301

by Representatives Pettigrew, Vick, Buys, Stokesbary, Van De Wege, Reykdal, McCaslin, and Magendanz


Classifying fantasy sports contests as contests of skill.


Exempts from any classification of gambling, fantasy competitions which are considered by the state as games of skill.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Commerce & Gaming (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1302

by Representatives Haler, Tarleton, and Jinkins


Clarifying the applicability of child abduction statutes to residential provisions ordered by a court.


Clarifies the applicability of child abduction statutes to residential provisions ordered by a court.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1303

by Representatives Haler, Pollet, Zeiger, and Bergquist


Creating the degree production incentive program.


Creates the degree production incentive program to incentivize the regional universities and The Evergreen State College to increase the production of degrees awarded to resident undergraduate students who are low income or first generation, or who earn a degree in science, engineering, math, technology (STEM), or other high employer demand fields.

Requires the student achievement council to annually disburse degree production incentive money to each of the regional universities and The Evergreen State College.

Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to conduct an evaluation of the effectiveness of the degree production incentive program in meeting its stated goals.

Creates the degree production incentive account.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1304

by Representatives Kirby and Vick


Allowing a public depository to arrange for reciprocal deposits of public funds.


Authorizes public funds to be deposited in institutions located outside of the state if certain conditions are met.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Business & Financial Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).


Senate Bills

SB 5230

by Senators Brown, Chase, Angel, Benton, Rivers, Schoesler, Bailey, Parlette, Becker, Warnick, and Dammeier


Creating a pilot program that provides incentives for investments in Washington state job creation and economic development.


Establishes the invest in Washington act.

Creates a pilot program to evaluate the effectiveness of a program that provides businesses with the latitude to invest their business and occupation tax back into their business or to locate a business in the state.

Provides a business and occupation tax credit for a portion of the costs incurred by a person for the construction of a qualified industrial facility.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Trade & Economic Development.

SB 5231

by Senators Sheldon, Dansel, Becker, Hobbs, and Chase


Modifying collective bargaining law to authorize the right of state workers employed in the community and technical college system as nontenured part-time academic employees to form a collective bargaining unit for the protection of their common interests.


Authorizes state employees who are employed in the community and technical college system as nontenured part-time academic employees to form a collective bargaining unit for the protection of their common interests.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor.

SB 5232

by Senators Sheldon, Padden, Dansel, Schoesler, and Honeyford


Modifying indigent defense provisions.


Modifies indigent defense services provisions relating to: (1) Determining if a person is indigent or indigent and able to contribute; and

(2) Requiring a person receiving the appointment of counsel to sign an affidavit swearing under penalty of perjury that all income, assets, and living costs reported are complete and accurate.

Requires the office of public defense to: (1) Offer training for the offices and individuals designated by the courts as responsible for determining indigency; and

(2) Survey attorneys' fees statewide and publish the results to assist courts and their designees in identifying the usual and customary charges for retaining private counsel.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Law & Justice.

SB 5233

by Senators Sheldon, Dansel, Dammeier, Becker, Schoesler, and Honeyford


Concerning notice against trespass.


Adds the definition of "posting in a conspicuous manner" to chapter 9A.52 RCW (burglary and trespass).
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Law & Justice.

SB 5234

by Senators Sheldon, Dansel, Dammeier, Becker, Schoesler, Honeyford, and Conway


Regarding miniature hobby boilers.


Exempts certain miniature hobby boilers from the requirements of chapter 70.79 RCW (boilers and unfired pressure vessels).
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor.

SB 5235

by Senators Sheldon, Rivers, Angel, and Chase


Requiring a state resident preference for all newly hired state classified employees and lower level Washington management service employees.


Establishes the state employment resident hiring preference act.

Requires state agencies that employ one hundred or more people to submit a report to the human resources director within the office of financial management, with copies to the superintendent of public instruction and state university and college administrators. The report must include the following information: (1) The number of employees hired during the previous calendar year and hired from outside the state;

(2) A list of reasons why the jobs could not be filled by a resident of this state;

(3) The number of planned hires for the current year; and

(4) Opportunities for internships for job types with a history of being filled by out-of-state residents.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Government Operations & State Security.

SB 5236

by Senators Sheldon and Rivers


Concerning the ratification of budgets for certain homeowners' associations.


Addresses homeowners' associations' budgets.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance.

SB 5237

by Senators Hewitt, Baumgartner, King, Braun, Honeyford, and Fraser


Placing restrictions on when representation under a public collective bargaining agreement may be challenged.


Increases the time in which representation under a public collective bargaining agreement may be challenged.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor.

SB 5238

by Senators Angel, Liias, Honeyford, McCoy, Dammeier, and Chase


Concerning public water systems' public participation notice provisions.


Modifies public participation requirements of the growth management act relating to group A public water systems required to develop water system plans consistent with state board of health rules.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Government Operations & State Security.

SB 5239

by Senators Roach, Fain, Liias, and Keiser


Adding certain commissioned court marshals of county sheriff's offices to the definition of uniformed personnel for the purposes of public employees' collective bargaining.


Revises the definition of "uniformed personnel," for purposes of public employees' collective bargaining, to include court marshals of a county who are employed by, trained for, and commissioned by the county sheriff.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor.

SB 5240

by Senators Darneille, O'Ban, Mullet, Pearson, and Fraser


Collecting DNA samples from persons acquitted by reason of insanity.


Requires a biological sample to be collected for purposes of DNA identification analysis from adults and juvenile individuals acquitted by reason of insanity of certain felonies.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Law & Justice.

SB 5241

by Senators Litzow, Hatfield, Fain, Rolfes, and Pedersen


Concerning ivory and rhinoceros horn trafficking.


Prohibits the sale, offering to sell, purchasing, trading, trafficking, bartering for, or distribution of any ivory article or rhinoceros horn.

Expands the crime of unlawful trafficking in fish, shellfish, or wildlife in the second degree.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Natural Resources & Parks.

SB 5242

by Senators Angel, Rolfes, Sheldon, and Dammeier


Creating passenger-only ferry service districts.


Authorizes the governing body of a certain public transportation benefit area to establish one or more passenger-only ferry service districts within all or a portion of the boundaries of the public transportation benefit area establishing the passenger-only ferry service district.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Transportation.

SB 5243

by Senators Honeyford, King, Keiser, Conway, and Chase


Concerning services provided by residential habilitation centers.


Requires the department of social and health services to continue to: (1) Provide respite services in residential habilitation centers; and

(2) Develop respite care in the community with a goal of allowing clients to access services where they choose.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Health Care.

SB 5244

by Senators Darneille, Conway, Jayapal, and Chase


Disposing tax foreclosed property to cities for affordable housing purposes.


Requires a county legislative authority to give notice to a city in which a tax foreclosed property is located within at least sixty days of acquiring the property.

Prohibits the county from disposing of the property at public auction or by private negotiation before giving the notice.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing .

SB 5245

by Senators Dammeier, Kohl-Welles, McAuliffe, Angel, and Conway; by request of Department of Social and Health Services


Concerning substance abuse prevention and treatment programs funded by the marijuana excise tax.


Provides funding from marijuana excise taxes for the development and evaluation of programs and practices aimed at the prevention or reduction of substance use.

Requires the department of social and health services, in consultation with the state institute for public policy, the University of Washington social development research group, and faculty from Washington State University, to determine a definition of cost-beneficial as it relates to prevention and treatment programming.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing .

SB 5246

by Senators Roach, Conway, Liias, Keiser, Rolfes, Mullet, Benton, McAuliffe, Frockt, Jayapal, Angel, and Chase; by request of LEOFF Plan 2 Retirement Board


Addressing the death benefits of a surviving spouse of a member of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system or the state patrol retirement system.


Requires the continuation of life-long monthly benefits for a surviving spouse of a member of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system or the state patrol retirement system.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor.

SB 5247

by Senators O'Ban, Dammeier, Kohl-Welles, and Chase


Concerning driving while license suspended when the suspension is based on noncompliance with a child support order.


Addresses suspended drivers' licenses when the suspension is based on noncompliance with a child support order.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Transportation.

SB 5248

by Senators Honeyford, Conway, Rivers, Keiser, Warnick, Kohl-Welles, King, and Braun


Expanding authorized personal services by liquor industry members to retailers.


Authorizes the performance of certain personal services offered by a distiller, importer, manufacturer of spirits, or spirits importer to retailers.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor.

SB 5249

by Senators Darneille, Conway, and Miloscia


Creating a bond issuance exemption for qualifying local revitalization financing projects.


Exempts qualifying local revitalization financing projects from issuing certain bonds.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Government Operations & State Security.

SB 5250

by Senators Dammeier, Darneille, O'Ban, McAuliffe, and Chase


Allowing for an arrest without a warrant when a police officer has probable cause to believe a person has violated certain temporary protection orders.


Authorizes a peace officer to arrest without a warrant and take into custody a person whom the peace officer has probable cause to believe has violated any temporary order for protection granted under chapter 7.40 RCW (injunctions) pursuant to chapter 74.34 RCW (abuse of vulnerable adults).
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Law & Justice.

SB 5251

by Senators Honeyford and Keiser; by request of Department of Health


Transferring public water system financial assistance activities from the public works board and the department of commerce to the department of health.


Transfers, from the public works board and the department of commerce to the department of health, public water system financial assistance activities.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Agriculture, Water & Rural Economic Development.

SB 5252

by Senators Dammeier, McAuliffe, King, Litzow, and Angel


Creating a pilot program to implement regional school safety and security centers.


Requires three educational service districts to implement a pilot program to create regional school safety and security centers in each of the districts.

Expires December 31, 2017.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education.

SB 5253

by Senators Darneille and Fraser


Concerning preservation of DNA work product.


Addresses the preservation of a DNA work product.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Law & Justice.

SB 5254

by Senators McCoy, Hasegawa, Chase, and Keiser; by request of Office of Minority and Women's Business Enterprises


Concerning the office of minority and women's business enterprises account.


Addresses the minority and women's business enterprises account.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor.

SB 5255

by Senators Hasegawa, McCoy, Chase, Hatfield, and Keiser; by request of Office of Minority and Women's Business Enterprises


Concerning the linked deposit program.


Addresses the duties of the director of the office of minority and women's business enterprises with regard to the linked deposit program.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance.

SB 5256

by Senators Darneille, Rolfes, and Chase


Requiring reasonable suspicion before allowing strip searches of juveniles in juvenile detention facilities.


Requires reasonable suspicion before allowing a strip search of a juvenile in a juvenile detention facility.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing .

SB 5257

by Senators Hargrove, Hill, Hatfield, and Braun


Providing a reduced public utility tax for log transportation businesses.


Provides permanent tax relief to the forest products industry by lowering the public utility tax rate attributable to log transportation businesses.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Ways & Means.

SB 5258

by Senators Bailey, Keiser, Dammeier, Darneille, Fraser, Rolfes, Frockt, Warnick, and Conway


Requiring a study for funding options for long-term care services and supports.


Requires the department of social and health services to contract for an independent feasibility study and actuarial modeling of public and private options for leveraging private resources to help individuals prepare for long-term services and supports needs.

Requires the joint legislative executive committee on aging and disability to provide oversight and direction for this analysis and convene interested stakeholders to provide input on the study design.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Health Care.

SB 5259

by Senators Billig, Liias, Frockt, Keiser, and Jayapal


Improving voter registration by providing new residential tenants with voter registration information.


Requires a landlord to provide a voter registration form or a link to the electronic voter registration form on the secretary of state's web site to a new residential tenant at the time the tenant signs a lease with the landlord.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance.

SB 5260

by Senators Honeyford and Hewitt


Exempting cider makers from the wine commission assessment.


Prohibits agricultural commodity assessments from being levied on the production of cider.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor.

SB 5261

by Senators O'Ban, Conway, Darneille, and Chase


Concerning community policing at and around western state hospital.


Requires western state hospital to enter into a contract with the city in which it is located for the provision of community policing services at the hospital and in the surrounding areas.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing .

SB 5262

by Senators O'Ban, Pedersen, Darneille, Dammeier, and Honeyford


Releasing juvenile case records to the Washington state office of civil legal aid.


Requires a court to release to the state office of civil legal aid juvenile records needed to implement the agency's oversight, technical assistance, and other functions.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing .

SB 5263

by Senators Pedersen, Benton, Mullet, Fraser, Roach, Hobbs, Rivers, and Fain; by request of Uniform Law Commission


Concerning the Washington uniform common interest ownership act.


Establishes the Washington uniform common interest ownership act.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance.

SB 5264

by Senators Bailey, Parlette, Warnick, Keiser, Jayapal, and Braun


Creating a silver alert system.


Requires the Washington state patrol to develop and implement a silver alert plan. Silver alert is a quick response system designed to issue and coordinate alerts following the disappearance of a missing endangered person.

Revises the definition of "missing endangered person" to include a person who has been diagnosed as having Alzheimer's disease, dementia, or other mental disability.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Health Care.

SB 5265

by Senators Benton, Mullet, Angel, and Keiser


Allowing a public depository to arrange for reciprocal deposits of public funds.


Authorizes public funds to be deposited in institutions located outside of the state if certain conditions are met.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance.

SB 5266

by Senators O'Ban and Darneille; by request of Department of Social and Health Services


Concerning secure facilities for the criminally insane.


Eliminates the expiration of RCW 10.77.091 relating to secure facilities for the criminally insane.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing .

SB 5267

by Senators Habib, Roach, Liias, Pearson, Keiser, Mullet, and Chase; by request of Secretary of State


Ordering development of processes to allow prerecorded video testimony and written testimony on pending legislation.


Establishes the accessible legislative testimony act.

Requires the legislature and legislative agencies, through the joint legislative systems committee, to develop processes to allow the public to provide testimony on pending legislation through prerecorded videos and written statements.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Government Operations & State Security.

SB 5268

by Senators Parlette, Kohl-Welles, Hatfield, Angel, and Fraser


Concerning refilling eye drop prescriptions.


Authorizes a pharmacist, without consulting a physician or obtaining a new prescription or refill from a physician, to provide one early refill of a prescription for eye drops to treat glaucoma if certain criteria are met.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Health Care.

SB 5269

by Senators O'Ban, Darneille, Rolfes, Dansel, Miloscia, Pearson, Bailey, Padden, Becker, Frockt, Habib, and Pedersen


Concerning court review of detention decisions under the involuntary treatment act.


Allows an immediate family member, guardian, or conservator of a person to petition the superior court for review of a designated mental health professional's decision, if the designated mental health professional decides not to detain a person for evaluation and treatment or forty-eight hours have elapsed since the designated mental health professional received notice of the person and has not taken action to have the person detained.

Requires the department of social and health services and each regional support network or agency employing designated mental health professionals to publish information in an easily accessible format describing the process for an immediate family member, guardian, or conservator to petition for court review of a detention decision.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing .

SB 5270

by Senators Roach, Liias, and Benton; by request of Washington State Patrol


Concerning a nonoperating advisory board reporting to the state patrol.


Eliminates the advisory board on missing and exploited children.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Law & Justice.

SB 5271

by Senators Roach, Hasegawa, Liias, and Benton; by request of Washington State Patrol


Concerning standards adopted by the national fire protection association and the state building code council.


Transfers certain duties from the chief of the Washington state patrol to the state building code council relating to smoke detection devices in dwelling units.

Modifies alternative fuel source placard provisions.

Transfers certain duties of the state fire protection board to the state building code council relating to above-ground used oil collection tanks.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Government Operations & State Security.

SB 5272

by Senators Schoesler, Sheldon, Fain, Hatfield, King, Hewitt, and Parlette


Concerning heavy haul industrial corridors.


Requires the department of transportation to designate certain portions of state route number 128 and state route number 193 as a heavy haul industrial corridor for the movement of overweight vehicles.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Transportation.

SB 5273

by Senators Schoesler, Hatfield, Sheldon, and King


Concerning native and reclamation seeds.


Addresses packaging, standards, and labeling for native seeds and reclamation seeds.

Prohibits selling, exposing for sale, or transporting for sale native seeds or reclamation seeds within this state unless certain conditions are met.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Agriculture, Water & Rural Economic Development.

SB 5274

by Senators Schoesler, Sheldon, and Hewitt


Revising the responsibilities of the joint administrative rules review committee.


Changes the duties of the joint administrative rules review committee relating to administrative rules.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Accountability and Reform .

SB 5275

by Senators Schoesler, Hargrove, Hill, Sheldon, and Hewitt


Concerning tax code improvements that do not affect state revenue collections.


Provides tax code improvements relating to: (1) Eliminating obsolete and redundant statutory provisions;

(2) Promoting administrative efficiencies;

(3) Providing greater clarity and consistency; and

(4) The taxability matrix.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Ways & Means.

SB 5276

by Senators Kohl-Welles, Roach, and Keiser


Concerning refunds of property taxes paid as a result of manifest errors in descriptions of property.


Allows a county legislative authority to authorize a refund of property taxes paid as a result of manifest errors in descriptions of property.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Government Operations & State Security.

SB 5277

by Senators Kohl-Welles, Darneille, Padden, Pedersen, Fain, Frockt, Keiser, Chase, and Fraser


Making the crime of patronizing a prostitute a gross misdemeanor.


Changes the crime of patronizing a prostitute to a gross misdemeanor.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Law & Justice.

SB 5278

by Senators Miloscia, Jayapal, Hill, Keiser, and Chase


Concerning legislative oversight of state agency performance.


Requires the office of financial management to report to the legislative fiscal committees on its analysis, including pertinent performance measures, of state agency performance.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Accountability and Reform .

SB 5279

by Senators Miloscia, Jayapal, Hill, Frockt, Keiser, Conway, and Chase


Concerning lean management and performance management strategies for economic and revenue forecasts.


Requires the economic and revenue forecast supervisor, as part of the supervisor's forecasts, to provide estimated savings resulting from application of lean management and performance management strategies at state agencies.

Requires the official state budget outlook to clearly state the savings resulting from application of lean management and performance management strategies at state agencies.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16First reading, referred to Accountability and Reform .