Providing enhanced disclosure requirements for large campaign contributions.

Requires treasurers to electronically file with the public disclosure commission a special report when a contribution of twenty-five thousand dollars or more is received from a single entity outside of a special reporting period.

Requires a political committee to electronically file with the public disclosure commission a special report when it makes a contribution of twenty-five thousand dollars or more outside of a special reporting period.

Providing surplus campaign funds account reporting requirements.

Standardizing disclosure requirements for political committees.

Concerning the definition of "contribution" for the purposes of campaign disclosure provisions.

Concerning electronic filing requirements for campaign-related expenditures and contributions.

Revises the fair campaign practices act.

Requires the following to electronically file certain information with the public disclosure commission: Candidates, political committees, treasurers, sponsors of political advertising, lobbyists, employers of lobbyists, elected officials, and executive state officers, appointees, and candidates.

Concerning the property tax exemption for public burying grounds and cemeteries.

Reducing the frequency of local sales and use tax changes.

Facilitating the disposal of contaminated dredged sediments.

Revises the model toxics control act to facilitate the disposal of contaminated dredged sediments.

Correcting certain manifest drafting errors in chapter 44, Laws of 2015 3rd sp. sess. (transportation revenue).

Managing Capitol lake as an estuarine environment.

Requires the state capitol committee to provide for the management, protection, preservation, and coordination of Capitol lake as an estuarine environment.

Requires Capitol lake to be: (1) Managed and maintained in coordination with interests within the Deschutes watershed and Budd Inlet; and

(2) Comanaged by certain Indian tribes.

Requires the department of enterprise services to: (1) Coordinate with the jurisdictions with interest within the Deschutes watershed and Budd Inlet; and

Authorizing the use of high occupancy vehicle lanes by law enforcement and fire department vehicles.

Prohibits the following vehicles from being restricted from a highway in the state designated as a high occupancy vehicle lane: (1) An officially marked law enforcement or fire department vehicle equipped with emergency lights and siren operated by on-duty state patrol or local law enforcement personnel or on-duty local or special district fire department personnel; and

Limiting the subpoena power of special inquiry judges.

Prohibits a public attorney, corporation counsel, city attorney, special inquiry judge, or certain other persons from searching or seizing personal banking records without: (1) The informed consent of the account holder;

(2) A warrant, based upon probable cause, describing the person, place, or thing to be searched or seized; or

Concerning sales of personal property used in conducting a farm activity where the sale is made by or through an auctioneer.

Concerning a sales and use tax exemption for replacement parts for agricultural aircraft.

Concerning the shortage of public school teachers and substitute teachers.

Requires the superintendent of public instruction, in consultation with school district and educational service district personnel, to develop and implement a comprehensive, statewide initiative to increase the number of qualified individuals who apply for teaching positions in the state.

Authorizes, under certain circumstances and in addition to postretirement employment options, a teacher in plan 2 or plan 3 who has retired under alternate early retirement provisions to be employed with an employer that has documented a shortage of certificated substitute teachers without a suspension of the retiree's benefit.

Requires a professional certificate to be issued to certain experienced out-of-state teachers if the teacher: (1) Holds a valid teaching certificate issued by the national board for professional teaching standards; or

(2) Has a second-level teacher certificate from another state.

Enhancing public safety by reducing distracted driving incidents caused by the use of personal wireless communications devices.

Revises existing cell phone laws in order to qualify for federal funds that have been set aside to combat the emerging national problem of distracted driving.

Continuing state efforts to increase oil transportation safety.

Requires the department of ecology to: (1) Update the study of oil shipment through the state that was conducted pursuant to the operating budget proviso in 2014;

(2) Update the study and associated recommendations and submit the update to the appropriate legislative policy and fiscal committees;

(3) Consult with the emergency management division of the state military department, the utilities and transportation commission, the department of transportation, and, as appropriate, other federal and state agencies, tribal governments and commissions, and public and private organizations;

(4) Compile a master document that summarizes the anticipated cumulative environmental impacts associated with oil facility infrastructure development proposals that were active as of January 1, 2016; and

(5) Contract with an eligible independent third party to update the October 2006 report to the state emergency response commission regarding statewide response to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive materials.

Concerning public records act requests to local agencies.

Revises the public records act with regard to requests to local agencies.

Creates the public records commission to administer the provisions of the public records act.

Authorizes public agencies to recover their costs for public records requests by charging a reasonable fee when records are requested for the purpose of sale or resale.

Authorizing preferential pricing for spirits and wine sold to on-premises licensees.

Addressing job search requirements for unemployment compensation claimants.

Concerning prefire mitigation.

Requires the director of fire protection to develop a statewide plan for prefire mitigation that will require coordination with local fire departments to develop individualized community-wide protection plans that include public education such as firewise, partnership building, and personal wildfire action plans in the event of a wildfire.

Requires the office of the state fire marshal to identify priority interface zones and work to develop a grant program to assist local jurisdictions in the voluntary adoption of the international wildland urban interface code.

Establishing a public registry for the transparency of blood establishments.

Prohibits a blood-collecting or distributing establishment from collecting or distributing blood for transfusion in the state, unless it is registered by the department of health.

Requires the department of health to: (1) Deny or revoke the registration of an establishment upon a determination that it no longer holds a license issued by the federal food and drug administration; and

Concerning the alcohol content of cider.

Modifying provisions of the Washington advanced college tuition payment program.

Recharges the Washington advanced college tuition payment program by: (1) Allowing purchasers to buy more tuition units per beneficiary;

(2) Allowing beneficiaries to use more units per year; and

Authorizing specified local governments to designate a portion of their territory as a creative district subject to certification by the Washington arts commission.

Authorizes a local government to designate a creative district within its territorial boundaries subject to certification as a state-certified creative district by the state arts commission.

Concerning public disclosure of information submitted to the liquor and cannabis board regarding marijuana product traceability and operations.

Exempts the following from disclosure under the public records act: (1) Financial, commercial operations, and security-related information supplied to the state liquor and cannabis board when filed by or on behalf of a licensee or prospective licensee for the purpose of obtaining, maintaining, or renewing a license to produce, process, transport, or sell marijuana; and

Concerning private activity bond allocation.

Allowing school siting outside of urban growth areas.

Requires a county that is required or chooses to plan under the growth management act, to allow school districts to site common schools on lands located outside of urban growth areas when certain criteria are met.

Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to review the impacts of schools that are sited outside of urban growth areas under the authority provided by this act.

Concerning the superior court judges' association.

Concerning vapor products in respect to provisions concerning certain child-resistant packaging, definitions related to "vapor product," signage requirements prohibiting vapor product sales to minors, prohibition of the purchase and possession of vapor products by minors, the liquor and cannabis board's enforcement authority over vapor products, preemption of certain local regulation of vapor products, and a requirement for vendor-assisted sales of vapor products in retail establishments.

Allowing the use of gender-segregated facilities.

Provides that nothing in the state civil rights act: (1) Prohibits a public or private entity from limiting access to a private facility segregated by gender to a person if the person is preoperative, nonoperative, or otherwise has genitalia of a different gender from that for which the facility is segregated; and

Concerning county road administration and maintenance.

Notifying foster parents of dependency hearings and their opportunity to be heard in those hearings.

Addresses timely and adequate notice by the department of social and health services or supervising agency to a child's foster parents, preadoptive parents, or other caregivers of their right to be heard before each proceeding held with respect to a child in juvenile court.

Providing benefits for certain retirement system members who die or become disabled in the course of providing emergency management services.

Making community and technical colleges more affordable by eliminating the application fee for low-income students and reviewing placement testing fees.

Simplifying the taxation of amenities owned by homeowners' associations.

Concerning safe technology use and digital citizenship in public schools.

Requires the state school directors' association to: (1) Revise and distribute its model policy and procedure on electronic resources and internet safety to all school districts in the state; and

(2) In revising its model policy and procedure and with the assistance of the office of the superintendent of public instruction, convene and consult with an advisory committee.

Reducing the occurrences of small wildland fires escalating into catastrophic fires through the creation of a mechanism to better equip local wildland fire suppression entities in their immediate, local suppression activities.

Creates the local wildland fire response account.

Authorizes a local suppression entity to, upon confirmation of the start of a wildland fire within its jurisdiction or area of response, submit a request to the department of natural resources for an expenditure from the local wildland fire response account to fund an immediate local suppression effort.

Requiring school districts to include sexual abuse as a topic in plans addressing students' emotional or behavioral distress.

Authorizing the use of certain cargo extensions that connect to a recreational vehicle frame.

Authorizing the freight mobility strategic investment board to remove funding allocation for projects after a certain number of years without construction occurring.

Allowing the expansion of counties qualifying for the farm internship program, including certain southwest Washington counties.

Includes Clark, Cowlitz, and Lewis counties as qualifying counties for the farm internship pilot project.

Restricting aggressive panhandling at public rest stops and rest areas.

Addressing prescription drugs and capping consumer costs.

Concerning firearms access by a person detained for involuntary mental health treatment.

Concerning disclosure of financial, commercial, and proprietary information of employees of private employers.

Creating a special permit by a manufacturer of beer to hold a private event for the purpose of tasting and selling beer of its own production.

Allowing physical therapists to perform dry needling.

Concerning integrated student services and family engagement.

Creates the Washington integrated student supports protocol to integrate the delivery of various academic and nonacademic programs and services through a single protocol.

Concerning student and teacher data.

Requires the superintendent of public instruction to collect, and school districts to submit, all student-level data using the United States department of education 2007 race and ethnicity reporting guidelines.

Requires the K-12 data governance group to develop the data protocols and guidance for school districts in the collection of data.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Modify the statewide student data system as needed;

(2) Convene a task force to review the United States department of education 2007 race and ethnicity reporting guidelines and develop race and ethnicity guidance for the state; and

Concerning educator cultural competence.

Requires the state school directors' association, in consultation with the office of the superintendent of public instruction, the professional educator standards board, the steering committee established in RCW 28A.405.100, and the educational opportunity gap oversight and accountability committee, to develop a plan for the creation and delivery of cultural competency training for school board directors and superintendents.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction, in consultation with the professional educator standards board, the steering committee established in RCW 28A.405.100, and the educational opportunity gap oversight and accountability committee, to integrate the content for cultural competence into the overall training for principals, administrators, and teachers.

Concerning county commissioner elections.

Concerning vehicle weight limits for the movement of agricultural commodities.

Authorizing the termination of all legal responsibilities of a nonparent if genetic testing shows by clear and convincing evidence that a man is not the genetic father of a child.

Establishes the Brandon Jones act.

Modifying retail sale and use tax exemptions for certain clean alternative fuel and electrically powered vehicles.

Providing for flood risk reduction and habitat restoration projects in the state.

Creates the office of flood risk reduction and habitat restoration in the department of ecology with the primary purpose of the office being to administer a competitive grant program that actively supports the implementation of projects that reduce the risk of flooding, protect against damage caused by floods, and protect or restore naturally functioning areas where floods occur.

Authorizes the state finance committee to issue general obligation bonds of the state, in the sum of one billion dollars or as much thereof as may be required, for the purpose of providing funds to finance legislatively approved flood risk reduction and habitat restoration projects, and all costs incidental thereto.

Creates the flood risk reduction and habitat restoration account and the flood risk reduction and habitat restoration taxable account.

Improving student success at community and technical colleges by considering benefits of full-time faculty and staff.

Develops a planning process through which the colleges and the state board for community and technical colleges develop a long-term strategic plan and timeline for faculty and student support staff conversions.

Requires the colleges and the state board for community and technical colleges to use research support from the Evans School for Public Policy at the University of Washington and use and build upon the 2005 task force report on best employment practices for part-time faculty.

Requires the state board for community and technical colleges and the student achievement council to conduct a joint study on priorities and impacts of the overuse of part-time faculty in the community college system.

-- 2016 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 15	First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).