Ensuring adequacy of buildable lands and zoning in urban growth areas and providing funding for low-income housing and homelessness programs.

Concerning the sentencing of persons under the age of twenty-one years at the time of the commission of a crime.

Establishing a special allegation for habitual property offenders.

Increases the sanctions for habitual property offenders to provide more effective deterrents to recidivism.

Enhances the courts' discretion to more appropriately sentence habitual property offenders with significant histories of burglary and theft.

Concerning inspection and review of state contracted behavioral health and recovery agencies.

Declares that the state: (1) Finds that the department of social and health services should not reduce the number of license violations found by field inspectors for the purpose of allowing agency licensees to avoid liability in a manner that permits the violating agency to stay open at the risk of public safety; and

(2) Recognizes the need to prohibit sham transfers of licenses between behavioral health licensees found in violation of the terms of their license agreement and their family members.

Developing a bilingual educational workforce.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to administer the bilingual educator initiative, which is a long-term program to recruit, prepare, and mentor bilingual high school students to become future bilingual teachers and counselors.

Requires pilot projects to be implemented in two school districts east and two school districts west of the crest of the Cascade mountains.

Creating a labor and industries ombuds within the department of commerce.

Creates the ombuds for employers in the department of commerce.

Requires the ombuds to have training or experience, or both, in the following areas: (1) Programs administered by the department of labor and industries, including industrial insurance, occupational safety and health, and employment standards;

(2) The state legal system; and

(3) Dispute or problem resolution techniques, including investigation, mediation, and negotiation.

Addressing contaminated drinking water stemming from the lead content in drinking water infrastructure, including pipes, connections, and fixtures.

Requires public water systems to: (1) By July 1, 2020, fully replace all utility-owned lead service lines to a school or an early childhood program;

(2) By July 1, 2030, fully replace all utility-owned lead service lines located within its service area;

(3) Bear the cost associated with the replacement; and

(4) Perform utility-owned lead service line replacements in coordination with the school district, school or early childhood program, or relevant local government, as applicable.

Requires educational service districts to: (1) For the health and safety of educational staff and students and consistent with the United States environmental protection agency guidance manual, ensure testing of drinking water and drinking water fixtures at public schools;

(2) Prioritize schools for testing drinking water and drinking water fixtures for lead; and

(3) Make results available to the community and schools where the testing has taken place.

Requires the department of health to: (1) Develop guidance and testing protocols, consistent with the United States environmental protection agency guidance manual, for the educational service districts' testing drinking water and drinking water fixtures in public schools;

(2) Contract with qualified independent third parties to complete the testing when the educational service district is unable to do so; and

Concerning paperwork reduction in order to improve the availability of mental health services to protect children and families.

Requires the department of social and health services to: (1) Perform a review of casework documentation and paperwork requirements for social workers with the department who provide services to children; and

Concerning the financing of early learning facilities.

Creates the early learning facilities revolving account.

Requires the department of early learning, in consultation with stakeholders, to review existing licensing standards related to facility requirements to eliminate potential barriers to licensing.

Requires the department of commerce to: (1) In consultation with the department of early learning, oversee the early learning facilities revolving account;

(2) Act as the lead state agency for early learning facilities grant and loan program development;

(3) Expend money from the account to provide state matching funds for grants or loans to provide classrooms necessary for children to participate in the early childhood education and assistance program and working connections child care;

(4) Implement and administer grants or loans funded through the account for school districts;

(5) Monitor performance of the grant and loan program; and

(6) Convene a committee of early learning facilities experts to advise the department regarding the prioritization methodology of grant applications for certain projects.

Provides a list of: (1) Activities eligible for funding through the account; and

Exempting multipurpose senior citizen centers from property taxation.

Exempts the following from property taxes: One or more contiguous real property parcels and personal property owned by a senior citizen organization, if the property is used for the actual operation of a multipurpose senior citizen center.

Concerning preliminary work to develop a process for planning for a new Interstate 5 bridge spanning the Columbia river.

Creates the joint Oregon-Washington legislative action committee.

Declares that, on behalf of the state, the Washington state legislature invites the Oregon state legislature to participate in the joint legislative action committee regarding the construction of a new Interstate 5 bridge spanning the Columbia river.

Concerning the hospital safety net assessment.

Modifies provisions regarding the hospital safety net assessment.

Concerning the board of pilotage commissioners.

Requires the board of pilotage commissioners to, until July 1, 2023, annually deposit the first one million dollars collected through the Puget Sound pilotage district tariff to the pilotage account solely for the expenditure of self-insurance premiums.

Prohibits the board of pilotage commissioners, until July 1, 2023, from increasing the pilotage tariffs that are in existence on January 1, 2017.

Concerning definitions and reporting requirements for municipalities receiving lodging tax revenues.

Addressing the minimum retirement allowance under the teachers' retirement system, plan 1.

Promoting healthy outcomes for pregnant women and infants.

Requires the state health care authority to: (1) Require that health care facilities that provide newborn delivery services to medical assistance clients establish certain policies and procedures regarding placement of a newborn on the mother's chest and room-in practices where the newborn and mother share the same room;

(2) Provide guidelines for hospitals to use when establishing the policies and procedures;

(3) Require managed care organizations to report on the frequency in which they are able to adhere to the policies and procedures; and

(4) Include advanced registered nurse practitioners and certified nurse midwives when establishing certain performance measures.

Requires the department of labor and industries to provide online education materials explaining the respective rights and responsibilities of employers and employees who have a health condition related to pregnancy or childbirth.

Requires the attorney general to investigate complaints and provide enforcement.

Creates the healthy pregnancy advisory committee to: (1) Develop a strategy for improving maternal and infant health outcomes; and

(2) Conduct its activities in consultation with the maternal mortality review panel.

Addressing high occupancy vehicle lane access for blood-collecting or distributing establishment vehicles.

Encourages the department of transportation to engage in a transparent, public process to reexamine its rules surrounding access to high occupancy vehicle lanes to consider the benefits and impacts of allowing vehicles that deliver or collect blood, tissue, or blood components for a blood-collecting or distributing establishment into the high occupancy vehicle lanes.

Adopting citizen commission 2016 recommendations and making adjustments to the commission's review process.

Repeals certain tax exemptions, credits, and incentives regarding: (1) Semiconductor materials manufacturing;

(2) Gases and chemicals used to manufacture semiconductor materials;

(3) Semiconductor microchips; and

(4) Semiconductor microchip fabrication facility siting and operation.

Requires the citizen commission for performance measurement of tax preferences to include a review of tax preferences that have a statutory expiration date at least one year before the expiration of the tax preference.

Authorizes the joint legislative audit and review committee, in reviewing tax preferences, to use a different economic model if that model is approved by the committee and the office of financial management as a more relevant economic model than the input-output model.

Concerning the goal of ending homelessness.

Addresses the homelessness crisis in the state and the goal of ending that crisis.

Makes appropriations from the general fund to the department of commerce to be distributed to five housing authorities and five community action agencies to: (1) Implement a quality management system; and

(2) Prepare and submit an application to the Washington quality awards program.

Makes an appropriation from the performance audits of government account to the state auditor's office for an audit to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of state homeless programs.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Mar 16	Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 3:30 PM.
Mar 20	WM - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
	Minority; do not pass.
	Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 3:30 PM.
Mar 22	Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.