Requesting that the United States Coast Guard name a Coast Guard cutter in honor of Petty Officer Matthew E. Schlimme.

Requests that the United States Coast Guard name a Coast Guard cutter in honor of Petty Officer Matthew E. Schlimme.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 15	First reading, referred to Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).
Feb 16	Scheduled for public hearing, executive session in the House Committee on Community Development, and Housing & Tribal Affairs at 1:30 PM. (Subject to change)

by Representatives Manweller, McDonald, Haler, Harris, Buys, Klippert, MacEwen, Chandler, Taylor, Caldier, Vick, Condotta, Schmick, J. Walsh, Hayes, Graves, Irwin, McCaslin, Van Werven, McCabe, Muri, Maycumber, Volz, Barkis, Wilcox, Kristiansen, Kretz, Shea, Griffey, Rodne, Harmsworth, Steele, Kraft, Jenkin, Holy, Dent, Hargrove, Pike, Stokesbary, Smith, Johnson, and Young

Amending the Constitution to prohibit the taxation of individual income.

Amending the Constitution to provide a homestead exemption from property taxes.

Proposes an amendment to the state Constitution to provide a homestead exemption from property taxes.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 15	First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

by Senate Committee on Agriculture, Water, Trade & Economic Development (originally sponsored by Senators Honeyford, Takko, and Warnick)

Concerning outdoor burning of organic waste derived from pruning by commercial berry growers.

Providing prepaid postage for all election ballots.

Requires return envelopes for election ballots to include prepaid postage.

Concerning nondefault or early termination provisions in state land leases for agricultural or grazing purposes.

Requires a nondefault or early termination provision included in a state land lease for agricultural or grazing purposes to: (1) Require advance written notice of at least one hundred eighty days by the department of natural resources to the lessee before termination of the lease; and

Clarifying the taxation of pet adoption fees.

Concerning loss prevention reviews by state agencies.

Concerning the public disclosure of global positioning system data corresponding to residential addresses of public employees and volunteers.

Defining veteran for the purpose of receiving certain benefits.

Concerning state reimbursement of election costs.

Concerning the distribution of monetary penalties to local courts and state agencies paid for failure to comply with discover pass requirements.

Requires a county treasurer to remit, to the state treasurer, seventy-five percent of the money received from penalties with regard to the display of a discover pass, vehicle access pass, or day-use permit.

Requires the balance of noninterest money received by a county treasurer to be: (1) Deposited in the county current expense fund; and

Providing a housing allowance for certificated and classified school staff in school districts with above average residential housing costs.

Concerning crimes against minors.

States that, in a prosecution under chapter 9A.40 RCW (kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, custodial interference, luring, trafficking, and coercion of involuntary servitude) in which the offense or degree of the offense depends on the victim's age, it is not a defense that the perpetrator did not know the victim's age or that the perpetrator believed the victim to be older.

Changes the following crimes from a class C felony to a class B felony: (1) Second degree possession of depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct;

(2) Second degree dealing in depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct; and

Concerning asphalt pavement sealer products.

Revises the following definitions for purposes of chapter 70.295 RCW (storm water pollution): (1) Changes "coal tar" to "asphalt pavement sealer"; and

Concerning the hospital safety net assessment.

Modifies provisions regarding the hospital safety net assessment.

Designating Sasquatch the official cryptid or crypto-animal of Washington.

Nullifying the imposition of certain taxes within regional transit authority boundaries.

Providing public assistance to certain victims of human trafficking.

Requires the department of social and health services to establish a food assistance program for victims of human trafficking.

Makes victims of human trafficking eligible for state family assistance programs, as provided in rule on the effective date of this act, who otherwise meet program eligibility requirements.

Requires medical care services to be provided to victims of human trafficking, who are not eligible for medicaid, who otherwise qualify for the state family assistance program.

Requires the state health care authority, to the extent possible, to: (1) Add the medical care services enrollees into the apple health for kids, with the same benefits and services provided to medicaid apple health for kids enrollees; and

Concerning the board of pilotage commissioners.

Prohibits the board of pilotage commissioners, until six years after the effective date of this act, from increasing the pilotage tariffs that are in existence on January 1, 2017.

Changes the functions of the pilotage account.

Makes the annual license fee twenty-six thousand dollars for a pilot.

Concerning financial aid at institutions of higher education.

Changes the following requirements from the duty of the office of student financial assistance to the duty of the omnibus appropriations act: Specifying grant award criteria and methods of disbursement based on level of need and other factors that promote degree completion and enrollment in high-demand degrees.

Prohibits the institutions of higher education, when awarding grants, from implementing a first-come, first-served policy unless specifically directed by the omnibus appropriations act.

Funding the state need grant by repealing tax preferences.

Repeals tax preferences to fund the state need grant.

Improving workers' compensation system costs and administration and worker outcomes through modification of procedures for claims to self-insureds, clarification of recovery in third-party legal actions, clarification of occupational disease claims, and lowering age barriers for structured settlements.

Revises the state industrial insurance act.

Adopts a series of targeted reforms to address the costs and administration of workers' compensation.

Clarifies the standards for occupational disease coverage and provides injured workers with a clear time period in which an occupational disease claim must be filed.

Reduces the age restriction originally placed upon eligibility for the program.

Concerning quality ambulance services for medicaid beneficiaries by applying the medicare payment rate for ambulance services furnished under medicaid by providers of ambulance services.

Conducting a comprehensive study of aerial imagery needs for state agencies and local governments.

Requires the department of natural resources to conduct an aerial imagery needs assessment study for state agencies and local governments statewide to: (1) Identify the needs of state agencies and local governments;

(2) Determine the appropriate agency for hosting a statewide imagery repository; and

Addressing the state's paramount duty to fully fund K-12 education by creating a new partnership between the state and local school districts.

Addresses the duty to fund education by: (1) Authorizing a school district regular property tax levy;

(2) Reforming state levy equalization;

(3) Improving fiscal accountability and transparency;

(4) Revising provisions with regard to compensation for full-time and part-time certificated instructional staff; and

(5) Establishing a per pupil funding model for general education expenditures.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 15	First reading, referred to Ways & Means.