Concerning freedom of expression rights of students at public schools and institutions of higher education.

States that students at institutions of higher education have the right to exercise freedom of speech and freedom of the press in school-sponsored media.

Concerning recommendations from the joint legislative task force on the use of deadly force in community policing.

Responds to the recommendations considered by the joint legislative task force on the use of deadly force in community policing on the following subject matter: The state deadly force statute; training and community outreach; law enforcement accountability to its community; data collection; behavioral health; less lethal weapons; and funding and oversight.

Preventing breed-based dog regulations.

Prohibits a city or county, unless certain conditions are met, from: (1) Prohibiting the possession of a dog based upon its breed;

(2) Imposing requirements specific to possession of a dog based upon its breed; or

Concerning snack bar licenses.

Authorizes a snack bar licensee to sell, at retail, wine by the glass.

Requires the wine and beer to be consumed in a designated seating area where an instructor leads group activities.

Concerning safe injection sites in Washington state.

Declares that the state fully occupies and preempts the entire field of safe injection site regulation within the boundaries of the state, including the registration, licensing, possession, purchase, sale, acquisition, transfer, use, authorization, or any other element relating to safe injection sites.

Creating the Washington academic, innovation, and mentoring (AIM) program.

Changing the designation of the state behavioral health authority from the department of social and health services to the health care authority and transferring the related powers, functions, and duties to the health care authority and the department of health.

Transfers the powers, duties, and functions of the department of social and health services pertaining to the behavioral health system and purchasing function of the behavioral health administration, except for oversight and management of state-run mental health institutions and licensing and certification activities, to the state health care authority to the extent necessary to carry out the purposes of this act.

Transfers the powers, duties, and functions of the department of social and health services pertaining to licensing and certification of behavioral health provider agencies and facilities, except for state-run mental health institutions, to the department of health to the extent necessary to carry out the purposes of this act.

Addressing state audit findings of noncompliance with state law.

Requires a state agency, within thirty days of receipt of an audit containing findings of noncompliance with state law, to submit a response and a plan for remediation to the office of financial management.

Concerning digital citizenship, media literacy, and internet safety in schools.

Requires the Washington state school directors' association to: (1) Review and revise its model policy and procedures on electronic resources and internet safety to better support digital citizenship, media literacy, and internet safety in schools; and

(2) Develop a checklist of items for school districts to consider when updating their policy and procedures.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Survey teacher-librarians, principals, and technology directors to understand how they are currently integrating digital citizenship and media literacy education in their curriculum; and

Concerning statewide cybersecurity performance.

Requires the consolidated technology services agency to: (1) Mutually develop procedures with the legislature, including enforceable nondisclosure agreements, for providing information about the state's cybersecurity infrastructure, performance, and posture with members of the state legislature to enable them to effectively perform their constitutional duties;

(2) Provide excellence assessments of the agency's operations every two years; and

(3) Transmit completed excellence assessments and feedback reports to pertinent legislative committees and the office of the governor.

Concerning the reimbursement rate primary care providers receive to participate in medicaid.

Allowing retired teachers and retired principals to be employed as mentors.

Expands postretirement options for educators to allow retired teachers or retired principals to be employed as: (1) A substitute teacher in an instructional capacity;

(2) A mentor to teachers; or

Concerning the state building code council.

Allows substantial amendments to the codes to be adopted no more frequently than every six years after the adoption and implementation of the 2016 codes referenced in RCW 19.27.031.

Authorizes the state building code council to enact emergency statewide amendments to the state building codes if an amendment is needed: (1) To address a critical life and safety need;

(2) To address a specific new or amended statute;

(3) For consistency with state or federal regulations; or

(4) To correct errors or omissions.

Requires the department of enterprise services, with the advice and input from the members of the state building code council, to employ permanent and temporary staff and contract for services for the state building code council.

Creating an oral health pilot program for adults with diabetes and pregnant women.

Requires the state health care authority to begin a three-year pilot program with the Washington dental service foundation to test enhanced dental benefits for medicaid apple health adults with diabetes and pregnant women.

Concerning employment laws regarding transportation contractors, including the definition of "truck."

Concerning sex offender registry information.

Requires local law enforcement agencies to share sex offender registry information, for offenders classified as risk level I, with an individual who requests the information.

Authorizes a person to petition the superior court to be relieved of the duty to register if the person: (1) Is required to register for a conviction in this state;

(2) Is classified as a risk level I; and

(3) Is not prohibited from petitioning for relief from registration.

Limiting the enforcement of administrative rules and policies.

Prohibits a rule or policy of a state agency from being enforced unless and until the rule or policy has been: (1) Adopted pursuant to the administrative procedure act;

(2) Codified in the Washington Administrative Code; and

Concerning withdrawal of candidacy.

Concerning the siting of schools and school facilities.

Authorizes a county to designate public school projects as an essential public facility within its jurisdiction and allows school projects to be sited outside the urban growth area based on certain criteria.

Requires a county that is required or chooses to plan under the growth management act, to: (1) As an alternative to designating school projects as an essential public facility, establish, in consultation with affected school districts and affected cities, a process for approving school projects outside of the urban growth area based on certain criteria; and

Concerning the hosting of the homeless by religious organizations.

Concerning the authority of port districts to provide telecommunications services.

Authorizes a port district, within a county that has at least one border along the southern, eastern, or northern border of the state, to: (1) Construct, purchase, acquire, develop, finance, lease, license, handle, provide, add to, contract for, interconnect, alter, improve, repair, operate, and maintain telecommunications facilities within or without the district's limits; and

Concerning student participation in breakfast after the beginning of the school day.

Concerning the mitigation of public facilities in certain cities.

Requires certain cities, that permit, construct, or operate a public facility in a neighborhood with a high poverty level and a high rate of ethnic diversity, to: (1) Assume the responsibility for the negative impacts that facility has had or might have on the surrounding neighborhood;

(2) Consider the potential or actual disparate racial, social, and economic impacts of the public facility on residents nearby; and

Concerning legislative technology.

Changes the following terms in chapter 44.68 RCW: (1) The joint legislative systems administrative committee to the joint legislative technology administrative committee;

(2) The legislative service center to the office of legislative technology solutions;

(3) The legislative systems coordinator to the legislative technology director; and

Addressing prescription coverage and the use of mail order service.

Requires health carriers, for health plans that include prescription drug coverage, to: (1) Ensure enrollees are protected from unintentional use of or enrollment in mail order prescription drug services; and

Concerning livestock inspection.

Requires a licensee, when a livestock inspection is required, to collect from the consignor and pay to the state department of agriculture a per head inspection fee for each animal inspected or a time and mileage fee, whichever is greater.

Increases fees for the following: (1) Inspection of cattle at a processing plant where the United States department of agriculture maintains a meat inspection program;

(2) Issuance of an inspection certificate by the director of the state department of agriculture; and

(3) The time and mileage fee.

Simplifying the population growth criteria for planning required by the growth management act.

Increasing college and career readiness and graduation rates in public schools.

Creates the high school graduation and college and career readiness account.

Requires the legislature, at each regular session in an odd-numbered year, to appropriate from the account amounts equaling not less than four hundred dollars per full-time equivalent student enrolled in a public middle school and high school per school year, for state support of the requirements of this act during the ensuing biennium.

Requires the amounts distributed to school districts to be used to establish or expand: (1) Career and technical education programs in middle schools, high schools, or skill centers;

(2) College-level courses in high schools;

(3) Drop-out prevention strategies in middle schools and high schools; and

(4) Courses, counseling, and coaching in middle school and high school to provide early exposure for students to employment opportunities and requirements and options for postsecondary education.

Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to review and report on the performance of school districts receiving certain funds under this act.

Establishing a joint legislative task force on certain fish and shellfish enforcement issues.

Creates the joint legislative task force on fish and shellfish enforcement issues to review issues relating to fish and shellfish enforcement, recordkeeping, and public records.

Requires the department of fish and wildlife to cooperate with the task force and provide information as the task force may request.

Concerning special occasion and banquet provisions for charitable or nonprofit organizations.

Concerning the economic development element of the growth management act.

Establishes the economic revitalization act.

Changing rule-making requirements to require a yearly expiration.

Adopting retail sale nexus standards to require retail sales tax collection by remote sellers selling into Washington.

Adopting retail sale nexus standards to require sales tax collection by remote sellers in order to fund safety net programs.

Concerning automatic voter registration.

Expands the voter registration process to increase opportunities for voter registration.

Concerning professional certification for teachers and school administrators.

Requires the professional educator standards board to adopt rules: (1) For professional administrator certification that are substantially similar to the professional development credit option for professional teacher certification; and

(2) That provide three options for professional certification for teachers that meet certain requirements.

Creates the professional educator collaborative to: (1) Review the integration of, and smooth the transitions between, educator certificates; and

(2) Make recommendations on how to improve and strengthen the pathways that lead to highly effective educators at each level of the public school system.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 27	First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education.