 | WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE | |
| Legislative Digest No. 2 | ||
| SIXTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE | ||
| Wednesday, January 11, 2017 | 3rd Day - 2017 Regular Session | |
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| HOUSE |
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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.
HB 1073
by Representatives Kirby and Vick
Concerning commercial transportation services freight deliverers.
Revises certain definitions for purposes of chapter 48.177 RCW (commercial transportation services).
| Jan 10 | First reading, referred to Business & Financial Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1074
by Representative Lytton
Creating the community wildfire protection assessment.
Requires the department of natural resources to annually impose an assessment of twenty dollars on each housing unit in unincorporated areas of counties west of the crest of the Cascade mountains, and thirty dollars on each housing unit in unincorporated areas of counties east of the crest of the Cascade mountains, that is located on department protected lands or lands protected by a fire protection district.Creates the community wildfire protection account.
| Jan 10 | First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1075
by Representative Tharinger; by request of Office of Financial Management
Concerning the capital budget.
Funds capital projects.
| Jan 10 | First reading, referred to Capital Budget (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
| Jan 13 | Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Capital Budget at 8:00 AM. (Subject to change) | |
HB 1076
by Representative Graves
Permitting the donation of home-prepared foods to charitable organizations.
Requires the state board of health to adopt rules that permit distributing organizations to accept the donation of foods prepared in a private residence.
| Jan 10 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1077
by Representative Fitzgibbon
Establishing rules for motorized suction dredge mining in rivers and streams equal to other hydraulic projects by modifying a hydraulic project approval exemption.
Enacts a regulatory system to protect fish habitat in streams and rivers and to protect the state from liability for failing to regulate motorized suction dredge mining.
| Jan 10 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1078
by Representatives Pellicciotti, Klippert, Orwall, Hayes, Goodman, Stokesbary, Chapman, McCabe, and Kilduff; by request of Attorney General
Concerning human trafficking, prostitution, and commercial sexual abuse of a minor.
Addresses the statute of limitations for trafficking, commercial sexual abuse of a minor, and promoting commercial sexual abuse of a minor.
| Jan 10 | First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1079
by Representatives Orwall, Klippert, Goodman, Stokesbary, Kilduff, Chapman, and McCabe; by request of Attorney General
Creating a criminal no-contact order for human trafficking and promoting prostitution-related offenses.
Requires a defendant who is charged by citation, complaint, or information with an offense involving trafficking or promoting prostitution in the first or second degree and not arrested to appear in court for arraignment in person, no later than fourteen days after the next day on which court is in session following the issuance of the citation or the filing of the complaint or information.Requires the court, at that appearance, to determine the necessity of imposing a no-contact order and consider other conditions of pretrial release.
| Jan 10 | First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HJM 4002
by Representatives Riccelli, Clibborn, Johnson, and Ormsby
Requesting that state route number 395 be named the Thomas S. "Tom" Foley Memorial Highway.
Requests that state route number 395 be named the Thomas S. "Tom" Foley Memorial Highway.
| Jan 10 | First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
SB 5026
by Senators Hobbs and Rivers
Concerning commercial transportation services freight deliverers.
Revises certain definitions for purposes of chapter 48.177 RCW (commercial transportation services).
| Jan 10 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5027
by Senators McCoy and Rolfes
Concerning distributed generation.
Reduces the maximum incentive rate provided for each kilowatt-hour of electricity generated by a renewable energy system to increase the effectiveness of the existing renewable energy investment cost recovery program.Transfers the program management, technical review, and tracking responsibilities of the department of revenue to the Washington State University extension energy program.Authorizes a utility or nonprofit organization to organize and administer a community solar project to facilitate broad community investment and access to solar power by utility customers who might otherwise not be able to directly invest in or access the benefits of solar power.Requires the department of ecology to provide guidance for solar module manufacturers on an effective, self-directed solar module collection and recycling program.
| Jan 10 | First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications. | |
SB 5028
by Senators McCoy and Billig
Requiring teacher preparation programs to integrate Native American curriculum developed by the office of the superintendent of public instruction into existing Pacific Northwest history and government requirements.
Requires educator preparation programs to use the Since Time Immemorial curriculum to improve the understanding of students and educators about the past contributions of Indian nations to the state and the contemporary and ongoing tribal and state government relations.
| Jan 10 | First reading, referred to Higher Education. | |
SB 5029
by Senators Padden, Darneille, Hasegawa, Pearson, Pedersen, Miloscia, Frockt, and Rolfes; by request of Attorney General
Creating a criminal no-contact order for human trafficking and promoting prostitution-related offenses.
Requires a defendant who is charged by citation, complaint, or information with an offense involving trafficking or promoting prostitution in the first or second degree and not arrested to appear in court for arraignment in person, no later than fourteen days after the next day on which court is in session following the issuance of the citation or the filing of the complaint or information.Requires the court, at that appearance, to determine the necessity of imposing a no-contact order and consider other conditions of pretrial release.
| Jan 10 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5030
by Senators Darneille, Fain, Hasegawa, and Miloscia; by request of Attorney General
Concerning human trafficking, prostitution, and commercial sexual abuse of a minor.
Addresses the statute of limitations for trafficking, commercial sexual abuse of a minor, and promoting commercial sexual abuse of a minor.
| Jan 10 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5031
by Senators Angel and Mullet; by request of Department of Financial Institutions
Addressing licensing and enforcement provisions applicable to money transmitters and currency exchanges under the uniform money services act.
Revises the uniform money services act with regard to licensing and enforcement provisions applicable to money transmitters and currency exchanges.
| Jan 10 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance. | |
SCR 8400
by Senators Schoesler and Nelson
Establishing cutoff dates for the consideration of legislation during the 2017 regular session of the sixty-fifth legislature.
Establishes cutoff dates for the consideration of legislation during the 2017 regular session of the sixty-fifth legislature.
| Jan 9 | Read first time, rules suspended, and placed on second reading calendar. | |
| Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. | ||
| Third reading, adopted. | ||
| Jan 10 | First Reading. | |