Modifying the lodging excise tax to remove the exemption for premises with fewer than sixty lodging units and to tax certain vacation rentals, short-term home-sharing arrangements, and other compensated use or occupancy of dwellings.

Concerning the right to control disposition of the remains of a deceased minor child.

Requires the surviving parents to: (1) In a case in which the right to control the disposition of the remains of a deceased minor child vests in the parents and the parents do not agree about the disposition, attempt to resolve disagreements promptly and in good faith through mediation; and

(2) If an agreement cannot be made, file a petition in superior court to decide the matter.

Concerning tax relief for adaptive automotive equipment for veterans and service members with disabilities.

Delays, until July 1, 2028, the expiration of the sales and use tax exemption for adaptive equipment required to customize vehicles for disabled veterans in order to: (1) Provide specific financial relief for severely injured veterans; and

Concerning personal information privacy protections in government entities.

Requires each department or other agency of the state government to designate an agency privacy officer.

Requires an agency privacy officer, in coordination with the office of privacy and data protection, to: (1) Develop an agency personal information minimization policy to reduce the use and retention of personal information wherever possible; and

(2) Create a work plan that uses a Gantt chart or similar project planning tool for certain information.

Prohibits a governmental entity from furnishing without charge or selling, or charging for: (1) Personal financial and health information, except information furnished in an abstract driving record; and

(2) Personal identification numbers issued by a government entity.

Prohibits the department of licensing from releasing the abstract of a person's driving record to a person or entity to be used for a commercial purpose.

Encouraging investment in and reducing the costs of transitioning to the clean energy future.

Establishes the carbon free Washington act.

Reduces the cost of transitioning to electric generation sources that have very low or zero carbon dioxide emissions.

Making 2018 supplemental operating appropriations.

Concerning contractor bonding requirements for public transportation benefit areas and passenger-only ferry service districts.

Addressing collection of DNA biological samples.

Requires a biological sample to also be collected for purposes of DNA identification analysis from an adult or juvenile individual convicted of certain municipal offenses where the municipal prosecuting authority certifies at the time of sentencing that the municipal offense conviction is equivalent to the crimes found in RCW 43.43.754 (section 1 of this act).

Authorizes a municipal jurisdiction to submit a biological sample, collected before the effective date of this act, to the forensic laboratory services bureau of the Washington state patrol for purposes of DNA identification analysis under certain circumstances.

Regulating the use of cannabinoid additives in marijuana products.

Authorizes licensed marijuana producers and processors to use a CBD product: (1) As an additive for the purpose of enhancing the cannabidiol concentration of a product authorized for production, processing, and sale under the uniform controlled substances act; and

(2) Obtained from a source not licensed under the uniform controlled substances act if the CBD product meets certain conditions.

Reducing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with transportation fuels.

Supports the deployment of clean transportation fuel technologies through a carefully designed program that reduces the carbon intensity of fuel used in the state, in order to: (1) Reduce levels of conventional air pollutants from diesel and gasoline that are harmful to public health;

(2) Reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with transportation fuels, which are the state's largest source of greenhouse gas emissions; and

(3) Create jobs and spur economic development based on innovative clean fuel technologies.

Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to: (1) Analyze, by December 1, 2026, the impacts of the initial five years of clean fuels program implementation; and

Designating the pine mushroom as the official state fungus.

Regulating opioid medications at educational institutions.

Increases access to opioid overdose medication at kindergarten through twelfth grade schools and institutions of higher education.

Authorizes a school to obtain and maintain opioid overdose medication through a standing order.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) In consultation with the department of health, develop opioid-related overdose policy guidelines and training requirements for public schools and school districts; and

(2) Develop and administer a grant program to provide funding to public schools with any of grades kindergarten through twelve and public institutions of higher education to train personnel on the administration of the medication to respond to symptoms of an overdose.

Requires a public institution of higher education with a residence hall housing at least one hundred students to develop a plan for: (1) The maintenance and administration of opioid overdose medication in and around the residence hall; and

Concerning the energy independence act.

Concerning implementation of mandatory provisions of the federal rule on flexibility, efficiency, and modernization in child support enforcement programs regarding health care coverage.

Creating the buy clean Washington act.

Establishes the buy clean Washington act.

Requires the University of Washington, led by the college of built environments, and in collaboration with the department of enterprise services, to: (1) Analyze existing embodied carbon policy;

(2) Propose methods to categorize structural materials and report structural material quantities and origins, and global warming potential;

(3) Propose methods to establish maximum global warming potential limit;

(4) Convene a task force to give feedback on the proposed methods; and

(5) Report the developed methods, by January 31, 2019, to the legislature.

Requires the department of enterprise services to coordinate with certain projects.

Defining community health workers and their roles.

Encouraging investments in affordable and supportive housing.

Allows a county legislative authority to authorize, fix, and impose a sales and use tax, however, if a county has not imposed the full tax rate by July 1, 2020, a city legislative authority in that county may authorize, fix, and impose the sales and use tax.

Requires the effective date of a tax imposed in this act to be the first day of a state fiscal year.

Extending the timeline for completing a family assessment response.

Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2017-2019 fiscal biennium.

Concerning the tolling of construction defect claims.

Concerning unemployment compensation for musicians.

Providing a business and occupation tax exemption for accountable communities of health.

Concerning security breaches of election systems or election data.

Requires the secretary of state to: (1) Consult with the attorney general, the state chief information security officer, county auditors, or other designated local election officials to identify instances of security breaches of election systems or election data; and

(2) To the extent possible, identify whether the source of a security breach, if any, is a foreign entity and/or domestic entity.

-- 2018 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 23	First reading, referred to State Government, Elections & Information Technology (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).