WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE
Legislative Digest No. 62

SIXTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE
Thursday, May 4, 201711th Day - 2017 1st Special Session

SENATE
SB 5328-SSB 5926SB 5927SB 5928SB 5929SB 5930SB 5931
SB 5932SB 5933SB 5934SJM 8012SCR 8404
HOUSE
HB 2204HB 2205HB 2206HB 2207HCR 4403HCR 4404

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=2017.


House Bills

HB 2204

by Representatives Fey and Muri


Concerning registration of land titles.


Repeals chapter 65.12 RCW (registration of land titles) and creates new language regarding the withdrawal of real property from the registry system in accordance with chapter 65.12 RCW.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Apr 20First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).
-- 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION --
Apr 24By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.

HB 2205

by Representatives Bergquist, Muri, Stanford, and Gregerson


Increasing the dependability and program demand of the guaranteed education tuition and Washington college savings programs.


Revises provisions of the guaranteed education tuition and Washington college savings programs to increase the dependability and demand of the programs.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Apr 20First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).
-- 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION --
Apr 24By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.

HB 2206

by Representatives Pollet, Dolan, and Kloba


Concerning taxation of transportation network companies.


Requires each prearranged ride provided by a transportation network company driver to a transportation network company rider to be assessed a ten cent per trip surcharge to offset costs associated with: (1) Improving transportation options for individuals with disabilities; and

(2) Providing transportation to students experiencing homelessness.

Authorizes any municipality or county to operate a wheelchair-accessible transportation program.

Includes in the definition of "sale at retail" or "retail sale," for purposes of business and occupation taxes, the amount charged for or sale of labor and services, however labeled, received by a transportation network company driver for providing a prearranged ride to a transportation network company rider.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Apr 21First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).
-- 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION --
Apr 24By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.

HB 2207

by Representatives MacEwen and Taylor


Prohibiting state health care plans from covering individuals for repeated treatment for hepatitis C infection.


Prohibits the public employees' benefits board from designing, and the administrator of the board from providing, a health plan through a contract with insuring entities that provides individuals with coverage for more than a single infection of hepatitis C during the individual's lifetime.
-- 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION --
Apr 26First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).


House Concurrent Resolutions

HCR 4403

by Representatives Sullivan and Kretz


Returning bills to their house of origin.


(AS OF HOUSE 2ND READING 4/23/17)


Returns bills to their house of origin.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Apr 21Read first time, rules suspended, and placed on second reading calendar.
Apr 23Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
Third reading, adopted.
-- IN THE SENATE --
First Reading.
Placed on second reading.
Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
Third reading, adopted.
-- IN THE HOUSE --
Speaker signed.
Delivered to Governor.
Filed with Secretary of State.

HCR 4404

by Representatives Sullivan and Kretz


Adjourning SINE DIE.


(AS OF HOUSE 2ND READING 4/23/17)


Adjourns SINE DIE.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Apr 21Read first time, rules suspended, and placed on second reading calendar.
Apr 23Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
Third reading, adopted.
-- IN THE SENATE --
First Reading.
Placed on second reading.
Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
Third reading, adopted.
-- IN THE HOUSE --
Speaker signed.
Delivered to Governor.
Filed with Secretary of State.


Senate Bills

SB 5328-S

by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Honeyford, Hobbs, Bailey, Becker, Miloscia, Angel, Brown, Sheldon, Rivers, Warnick, and Rossi)


Creating a community aviation revitalization board.


(DIGEST OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE)


Creates the community aviation revitalization board and authorizes the board to: (1) Make direct loans to political subdivisions of the state and privately owned airports for the purpose of improvements at public use airports that primarily support general aviation activities; and

(2) Provide loans to privately owned airports for the purpose of airport improvements if certain conditions are met.

Requires the department of transportation to provide management services, including fiscal and contract services, to assist the board in implementing this act.

Creates the public use general aviation airport loan revolving account.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 9Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 3:30 PM.
Apr 19WM - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 9:00 AM.
Apr 20Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
-- 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION --
Apr 24By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.

SB 5926

by Senators Honeyford, Keiser, and Hunt


Authorizing theaters with more than four screens to obtain a license to sell beer and wine.


Authorizes theaters with more than four screens to obtain a theater license to sell beer, including strong beer, and/or wine at retail for consumption on theater premises.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Apr 19First reading, referred to Commerce, Labor & Sports.
-- 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION --
Apr 24By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.

SB 5927

by Senators Keiser and Hunt


Concerning liquor licenses.


Authorizes theaters with more than four screens to obtain a theater license to sell beer, including strong beer, and/or wine at retail for consumption on theater premises.

Allows a grocery store licensee to be issued an endorsement to offer beer and wine tasting if the licensee derives at least fifty percent of its revenue from the sale of any combination of fresh meat, fresh poultry, seafood, or cheese.

Authorizes the state liquor and cannabis board to issue a caterer's endorsement to a beer and wine retailer's license (designated as a tavern license) to allow the licensee to remove from the liquor stocks at the licensed premises, only those types of liquor that are authorized under the on-premises license privileges for sale and service at event locations at a specified date and place not currently licensed by the board.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Apr 19First reading, referred to Commerce, Labor & Sports.
-- 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION --
Apr 24By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.

SB 5928

by Senators Rivers, Palumbo, and Hasegawa


Making financial services available to marijuana producers, processors, retailers, qualifying patients, health care professionals, and designated providers as authorized under chapters 69.50 and 69.51A RCW.


Authorizes a financial institution to receive deposits, extend credit, conduct funds transfers, and provide other financial services for marijuana producers, processors, and retailers, qualifying patients, health care professionals, and designated providers.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Apr 23First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance.
-- 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION --
Apr 24By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.

SB 5929

by Senator Rossi


Concerning investing in Washington families by improving the fairness of the state's excise tax system by narrowing or eliminating tax preferences, imposing a business and occupation tax surcharge while eliminating tax liability for small businesses, enacting an excise tax on capital gains, modifying the real estate excise tax, making administrative changes, and implementing marketplace fairness in Washington.


Addresses the state's tax system with regard to: (1) Capital gains taxes;

(2) Business and occupation tax rate change and deduction;

(3) Eliminating the sales and use tax exemption for bottled water;

(4) Repealing the preferential business and occupation tax rate for warehousing and reselling prescription drugs;

(5) Narrowing a use tax exemption for self-produced fuel;

(6) Eliminating the preferential business and occupation tax rate for international investment management services;

(7) Nonresident sales tax exemption remittances;

(8) Graduated real estate excise tax rates;

(9) Real estate excise tax on foreclosures;

(10) Requiring local governments that issue building permits to supply subcontractor information to the department of revenue;

(11) Sales and use tax collection regarding remote sellers, referrers, and marketplace facilitators;

(12) The expansion of individual liability for an entity's unpaid tax obligations;

(13) Reducing interest on tax refunds; and

(14) Transfers to the education legacy trust account.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Apr 23First reading, referred to Ways & Means.
-- 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION --
Apr 24By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
Apr 26Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 3:00 PM.

SB 5930

by Senator Palumbo


Establishing a carbon pollution tax.


Establishes the carbon reduction and environmental resiliency act.

Imposes a carbon pollution tax on the sale or use of fossil fuels, including fossil fuels used in generating electricity.

Requires the department of social and health services to establish and administer a low-income carbon pollution mitigation tax grant for residents to assist in the equitable transition to lower carbon emission energy sources.

Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee, in consultation with the department of revenue, the department of commerce, and the department of ecology, to conduct a review of the carbon pollution tax.

Creates the carbon reduction and environmental resiliency account, the water infrastructure account, the forest resilience and fire suppression account, the carbon reduction investment fund account, and the carbon reduction solutions account.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Apr 23First reading, referred to Ways & Means.
-- 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION --
Apr 24By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.

SB 5931

by Senator Palumbo


Concerning public agency acquisition of electric and alternative fuel vehicles.


Requires all state agencies and local government subdivisions of the state, to the extent determined practicable by rules adopted by the department of commerce, to satisfy the following for the percentage of their fuel use for operating publicly owned vessels, vehicles, and construction equipment from electricity or biofuel: (1) Fifty percent by June 1, 2020;

(2) Seventy-five percent by June 1, 2023; and

(3) One hundred percent by June 1, 2025.

Requires the state agencies and local governments to submit a report to the department of commerce documenting its progress in meeting the fuel use goals.

Requires school districts and educational service districts to be reimbursed for any additional costs to replace a diesel or gasoline bus with a bus powered by an alternative fuel, where the replacement contributes toward the district's compliance with certain goals.

Allows a grant of funds from the multimodal transportation account, the regional mobility grant program account, and the rural mobility grant program account to be made to a transit agency operating buses only when the agency has demonstrated substantial progress toward meeting the goals of replacing gasoline and diesel vehicle with alternative fuel vehicles.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Apr 23First reading, referred to State Government.
-- 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION --
Apr 24By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.

SB 5932

by Senators Fortunato, Rossi, and Miloscia


Concerning new counties.


Establishes procedures for the formation of new counties or consolidation of existing counties and provides for an equitable apportionment of the debts, liabilities, and assets of the parent county or counties between the new county and the remaining portion or portions of each parent county.
-- 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION --
Apr 24First reading, referred to State Government.

SB 5933

by Senator Rivers


Concerning the acquisition of marijuana seeds for certain qualifying patients and designated providers.


Addresses the purchase of marijuana seeds from a licensed marijuana producer.
-- 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION --
Apr 26First reading, referred to Health Care.
May 2Public hearing and executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Health Care at 12:00 PM.

SB 5934

by Senator Padden


Concerning convicted persons.


Modifies the seriousness level of certain crimes.

Addresses the following with regard to convicted persons: (1) Community custody;

(2) Habitual property offenders; and

(3) Identicards for persons released from the department of corrections.

Establishes a pilot program for the supervision of offenders convicted of felonies relating to the theft or taking of a motor vehicle.
-- 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION --
May 1First reading, referred to Law & Justice.
May 2LAW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
Minority; do not pass.
Public hearing and executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 9:30 AM.


Senate Joint Memorials

SJM 8012

by Senators Liias, Pedersen, Fain, Rivers, Walsh, Ranker, Chase, Hasegawa, Darneille, Conway, SaldaƱa, Hunt, Billig, Nelson, Rolfes, McCoy, Palumbo, Cleveland, Wellman, Takko, Kuderer, Mullet, Frockt, Van De Wege, Hobbs, Keiser, and Carlyle


Concerning the victims of the persecution in Chechnya.


Addresses the victims of the persecution in Chechnya.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Apr 21First reading, referred to State Government.
-- 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION --
Apr 24By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.


Senate Concurrent Resolutions

SCR 8404

by Senator Fain


Specifying the status of bills, memorials, and resolutions for the 2017 regular and first special sessions of the Sixty-fifth Legislature.


(AS OF SENATE 2ND READING 4/24/17)


Specifies the status of bills, memorials, and resolutions for the 2017 regular and first special sessions of the sixty-fifth legislature.
-- 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION --
Apr 24Read first time, rules suspended, and placed on second reading calendar.
Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
Third reading, adopted.
-- IN THE HOUSE --
Adopted.
-- IN THE SENATE --
Apr 28President signed.
-- IN THE HOUSE --
May 2Speaker signed.