Addressing surplus line broker licensing.

Addressing licensing and enforcement provisions applicable to money transmitters and currency exchanges under the uniform money services act.

Concerning patients' access to investigational medical products.

Prohibiting the sale, donation, or use of aborted fetal body parts.

Preventing purveyors of public water systems from intentional fluoridation in excess of concentrations that are currently recommended by the department of health.

Providing a tax incentive for the labeling of products.

Provides a tax credit, in computing business and occupation taxes, of ten thousand dollars per product line per taxable year for a person who voluntarily labels a line of products: (1) For food offered for retail sale in the state if it is or may have been produced through bioengineering or genetically engineered;

(2) For food offered for retail sale in the state that has not been bioengineered or genetically engineered; and

Concerning school bus safety.

Requires every school bus, beginning September 1, 2018, to be equipped with an automated school bus safety camera.

Requires every school bus manufactured or assembled after September 1, 2018, to be equipped with a shoulder harness-type safety belt assembly for each passenger position.

Concerning eligibility for lifetime veteran's disability passes.

Authorizes disabled veterans, with a service-connected disability of at least thirty percent and who are residents of Washington or Oregon, to receive a lifetime veteran's disability pass at no cost.

Correcting a conflict between state and federal law regarding class I correctional industries work programs.

Recognizing hydroelectricity as an eligible renewable resource in the energy independence act.

Authorizing retail marijuana outlets to give a free lockable drug box to adults age twenty-one years and over and to qualifying patients age eighteen years and over subject to restrictions.

Allows a marijuana retail outlet to donate a lockable box intended for the secure storage of marijuana products and paraphernalia and literature about the lockable box to the following: (1) Adults who are at least twenty-one years old;

(2) Qualifying patients who are at least eighteen years old; and

Concerning the appointment of counsel for youth in dependency court proceedings.

Gives a child the right to be represented by counsel and have counsel appointed for him or her by the court at all stages of a proceeding in which a child is alleged to be dependent.

Transferring authority for low-level radioactive waste management from the department of ecology to the department of health.

Making higher education more affordable by providing incentives for the use of open source instructional materials.

Establishes the textbook affordability via open sourcing act.

Establishing a competitive educational grant program to promote confidence, public speaking, and leadership skills in students.

Establishes the little toasters act.

Directing the department of transportation to identify opportunities and, if appropriate, submit an invitation for bids or request for proposals to contract with concessionaires to operate on and collect tolls for the Tacoma Narrows bridge.

Establishes the Tacoma Narrows bridge toll by coffee act.

Requires the department of transportation's economic partnerships program, in consultation with the toll division, to identify opportunities to create a toll plaza by leasing the property upon which the Tacoma Narrows bridge toll booths are located or contract with the private sector to operate other businesses while collecting tolls, or both.

Reforming the school assessment system to focus on teaching and learning.

Changes school assessment system provisions by: (1) Eliminating nonfederally required tests;

(2) Removing the graduation requirement from statewide tests;

(3) Allowing opting out of standardized tests with no repercussion to students; and

Concerning the release of wild beavers.

Concerning persons with a disability present at the scene of an accident.

Establishes the Travis alert act.

Requires the department of health, in collaboration with certain entities to: (1) Review existing local training programs and training programs being used in other states; and

(2) Design a statewide training program to familiarize first responders and 911 personnel with techniques, procedures, and protocols for best handling situations in which persons with disabilities are present at the scene of an emergency.

Concerning standards for detention of persons with mental disorders or chemical dependency.

Providing for the vacation of misdemeanor marijuana offense convictions.

Concerning the sale of tobacco products in open, unsecured displays.

Concerning accessible parking spaces for people with disabilities.

Concerning powered automatic doors in buildings accessible to the public.

Specifying medical assistance coverage for hearing devices for adults.

Providing tax relief to females by exempting feminine hygiene products from retail sales and use tax.

Concerning petroleum storage tank systems.

Creating the wastewater treatment plant operator certification account.

Exempting the construction of certain pedestrian infrastructure from the requirements of the state environmental policy act.

Concerning access to express toll lanes on Interstate 405 for certain persons undergoing medical treatment.

Improving public safety by encouraging the voluntary purchase and voluntary use of firearm safety products.

Provides a sales and use tax exemption on firearm safety products.

Creating a more equitable penalty for failure to comply with discover pass requirements by setting the penalty at a level equal to the sales price for a discover pass.

Creating a motor vehicle registration hiatus for certain motor vehicles that are not operated on public roads.

Concerning the alignment of state statutes with federal standards for the issuance of nondomiciled commercial drivers' licenses and nondomiciled commercial learners' permits.

Revises the uniform commercial driver's license act.

Exempts the following from providing a social security number when applying for a commercial driver's license or a commercial learner's permit: An applicant for a nondomiciled commercial driver's license or commercial learner's permit who is domiciled in a foreign country and who has not been issued a social security number.

Authorizes the department of licensing to issue a nondomiciled commercial driver's license or commercial learner's permit to a person who is domiciled in: (1) A foreign country as provided in 49 C.F.R. Sec. 383.23(b)(1); or

Concerning the member requirement for bona fide charitable or nonprofit organizations.

Including fish passage barrier removal projects that comply with the forest practices rules in the streamlined permit process provided in RCW 77.55.181.

Requires a forest practices hydraulic project to be approved by the department of natural resources.

Prohibits a person who is aggrieved by the approval, denial, conditioning, or modification of a forest practices hydraulic project from appealing the decision.

Creating a pilot project to test a three-part aim solution that improves health and health care in a manner that lowers overall health care costs in a normally distributed population.

Requires the state health care authority to: (1) Conduct a pilot project for enrollees in the uniform medical plan to test a three-part aim solution that improves health and health care in a manner that lowers overall health care costs in a normally distributed population;

(2) Conduct a matched cohort study to determine the cost containment capabilities of the three-part aim solution; and

Providing immunity from liability for professional or trade associations providing emergency response volunteers.

Enacting the physical therapy licensure compact.

Concerning school safety drills.

Requires a school to: (1) Conduct drills for earthquake safety that include drop, cover, and hold; and

Including referred and diverted youth in establishing community juvenile accountability program guidelines.

Modifying the appointment process for trustees of rural county library districts in counties with one million or more residents.

Concerning career and technical education funding.

Eliminating the collection of anticipated taxes and assessments.

Requiring creation of a statewide school emergency panic button program.

Modifying oath requirements for interpreters in legal proceedings.

Modifying certain vehicle service fees.

Increases service fees for: (1) Changes in a certificate of title;

(2) Verification of record and preparation of an affidavit of lost title;

(3) A registration renewal; and

Addressing collective bargaining.

Additional contribution rates for contributions made after the date the service is rendered for individual employers of the Washington state retirement systems.

Concerning plaques for certain state-funded capital budget projects.

Directs the state arts commission to provide a plaque that must be affixed to buildings or displayed as part of a project receiving a capital budget appropriation of more than ninety-nine thousand dollars.

Directs the department of commerce to require the inclusion of a plaque for capital budget projects that receive more than ninety-nine thousand dollars.

Removing references to faith-based exemptions regarding criminal mistreatment of children and vulnerable adults.

Concerning health care for Pacific Islanders residing in Washington under a compact of free association.

Modifying theft of rental, leased, lease-purchased, or loaned property provisions.

Concerning witnessing a student's college bound scholarship pledge when efforts to obtain a parent's or guardian's signature are unsuccessful.

Requiring development of a model ethnic studies curriculum.

Requires the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Develop a model ethnic studies curriculum for use in grades seven through twelve; and

Improving language access for public school students and families.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Convene a language access advisory committee to develop tools and recommendations to improve language access for public school students and families with limited English proficiency; and

(2) Select two educational service districts, one from each side of the Cascade mountains, that volunteer to act as language access lighthouse collaboratives.

Requires educational service districts to maintain the capacity to offer language access trainings.

Consolidating and simplifying the annual report and annual survey used for economic development tax incentives.

Concerning distillery promotional items and spirit sample sales.

Prohibiting employers from asking about arrests or convictions before an applicant is determined otherwise qualified for a position.

Establishes the Washington fair chance act.

Prohibits an employer from including any question on an application for employment, from inquiring either orally or in writing, from receiving information through a criminal history background check, or from otherwise obtaining information about an applicant's criminal record until after the employer initially determines that the applicant is otherwise qualified for the position.

Including cattle feedlots implementing best management practices within the statutory exemption for odor or fugitive dust caused by agricultural activity.

Simplifying and enforcing employee status under employment laws to ensure fairness to employers and employees and address the underground economy.

Concerning the employee antiretaliation act.

Providing damages for wage violations.

Concerning educational interpreters.

Concerning individuals receiving both employment and community access services.

Requires clients of the department of social and health services who are at least twenty-one years old to have access to both employment services and community access services that are person-centered and appropriate for the needs of the individual client.

Concerning unlawful entry on certain properties.

Authorizes a peace officer to remove a person from the premises and order the person to remain off the premises, when the person is unlawfully entering the premises.

Authorizes an owner of premises to initiate an investigation and request the removal of an unauthorized person from the premises by providing a certain declaration to law enforcement.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16	First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).