Delaying implementation of revisions to the school levy lid.

Creating the interstate medical licensure compact.

Addressing the Washington state health insurance pool.

Providing for restrictions on prescriptions for opioid drugs.

Prohibits a practitioner, when issuing a prescription for an opioid drug to a patient for the first time for outpatient use, from issuing more than a seven-day supply.

Modernizing substance use disorder professional practice.

Changes the name of the chemical dependency certification advisory committee to the substance use disorder certification advisory committee.

Changes the name of the division of alcohol and substance abuse to the behavioral health administration.

Concerning professional certification for teachers and school administrators.

Changes the duties of the professional educator standards board with regard to professional certification for teachers and school administrators.

Allowing voted ballots to be returned electronically.

Modifying the Washington main street program by increasing the total amount of tax credits allowed under the program and making administrative changes to the program.

Extending the period for which a bond levy may be increased.

Modifying certain vehicle filing fees.

Increases the cost for an application for: (1) A vehicle registration or any other right to operate a vehicle; and

Clarifying the authority of a nurse working in a school setting.

Allows only a registered nurse or an advanced registered nurse practitioner to supervise, direct, or evaluate a licensed nurse working in a school setting with respect to the practice of nursing.

Concerning the creation of a countywide port district within a county containing no port districts.

Authorizes a port district, in a county with no port district and coextensive with the limits of the county, to be created by a ballot proposition submitted to the voters authorizing the creation of the port district.

Concerning the priority in the state water code assigned to various beneficial uses.

Declaring any minimal cumulative impacts of permit-exempt groundwater wells on water levels to be overwhelmingly offset by state investments in fish habitat improvement projects.

Concerning local jurisdictions electing to participate in local operated growth management planning.

Establishes the locally operated growth management act.

Addresses local jurisdictions electing to participate in local operated growth management.

Abolishes the growth management hearings board.

Requires the growth management hearings board to transfer its: (1) Reports, documents, surveys, books, records, files, papers, written material, office furnishings and equipment, motor vehicles, and other tangible property to the department of enterprise services; and

(2) Funds, credits, or other assets to the office of financial management.

Requires existing contracts and obligations to be terminated or transferred to the office of financial management.

Prohibits the growth management hearings board from accepting new petitions after July 1, 2017.

Authorizing, under one license, the sale of spirits, beer, and wine at retail for off-premises consumption.

Concerning licensing and regulatory requirements of small business owners.

Requires the attorney general to review the administrative procedure act, as well as related administrative rules, similar statutes, and case law, to identify the current rights and protections afforded to small business owners selected for agency enforcement actions including inspections, audits, site visits, or record review.

Requires the department of agriculture, department of ecology, employment security department, department of labor and industries, department of revenue, and state fire marshal to: (1) Review provisions of their governing statutes, administrative rules, policy statements, guidance, and directives to identify the current rights and protections afforded to small business owners that are selected for inspection, audit, or other enforcement action by the agency; and

(2) No later than August 31, 2017, provide the attorney general with certain information.

Commissioning an elk management pilot project that focuses initially on the Colockum elk herd.

Requires the department of fish and wildlife to: (1) Conduct an elk management pilot project to explore the viability of various wildlife management actions to reduce elk highway collisions and elk damage to private crop lands; and

(2) Work with the department of transportation to explore the viability of various wildlife management actions to reduce elk highway collisions, initially focusing on reducing traffic collisions along interstate highways within the range of the herd.

Addressing the department of social and health services responses to reports of abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation, or neglect in certain long-term care settings.

Concerning the authority of the public safety review panel.

Finds that: (1) Persons subject to commitment following a determination of not guilty by reason of insanity present unique diagnostic, treatment, supervisory, and public safety challenges that differ substantially from other groups subject to civil commitment; and

(2) A centralized, quasi-judicial administrative review board with specialized expertise in the unique nature of this population and their public safety challenges will enhance both patient care and public safety.

Concerning physician limited licenses.

Concerning tribal-state relations.

Addresses issues of mutual concern to the tribes and the state.

Creates the joint summit council on Indian affairs which is part of the legislative branch of state government.

Concerning reimbursement for services provided pursuant to community assistance referral and education services programs.

Requires the state health care authority to adopt standards for the reimbursement of health care services provided to eligible clients by fire departments pursuant to a community assistance referral and education services program.

Concerning notice of charity care availability at time of billing and collection.

Allowing incremental electricity produced as a result of efficiency improvements to hydroelectric generation projects whose energy output is marketed by the Bonneville power administration to qualify as an eligible renewable resource under the energy independence act.

Revises the definition of "eligible renewable resource," for purposes of the energy independence act, to include: (1) That portion of incremental electricity produced as a result of efficiency improvements attributable to a qualifying utility's share of the electricity output from hydroelectric generation projects whose energy output is marketed by the Bonneville power administration where the additional generation does not result in new water diversions or impoundments; and

(2) The environmental attributes, including renewable energy credits, from (1) above, transferred to investor-owned utilities pursuant to the Bonneville power administration's residential exchange program.

Creating the Washington effective licensing port and eliminating various occupational licensure and certification requirements.

Creates a Washington effective licensing port and eliminates certain occupational licensure and certification requirements.

Requires the department of licensing to create the comprehensive and user-friendly web site for public comment on and review of all individuals working in one or more of the following occupations: (1) Animal massage;

(2) Auctioneer;

(3) Boxing announcer;

(4) Food fish or game fishing guide, or both;

(5) Landscape architect;

(6) Manicurist; and

(7) Horse floater.

Creating an academic bill of rights.

Establishes the campus free expression act and the academic freedom and whistleblower protection act.

Updating workforce investment act references and making no substantive changes.

Establishing the practice of dental therapy.

Requiring the use of trained meeting facilitators in certain planning meetings involving children, parents, caregivers, and others.

Concerning family reunification in the child welfare process.

Requires the department of social and health services to convene a parent-child visitation work group to: (1) Engage relevant stakeholders to include biological parents involved in or with experience in the child welfare process; and

(2) Develop and implement changes in policy or practice to increase the amount and quality of parent-child visitation.

Concerning the maintenance and repair of private roadways impacting the public interest.

Requiring transparency in underwriting and rating personal insurance.

Defining veteran for the purpose of receiving certain benefits.

Addressing community safety at eastern and western state hospitals.

Requires western state hospital and eastern state hospital to enter into a contract with the city where the respective hospital is located to compensate the city for providing public safety services, including 911 response service and police calls.

Modifying the infraction of and penalties for distracted driving.

Updating the framework for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Washington based upon best available climate science.

Concerning the means of communication between a buyer or lessee and an auto dealer during the "bushing" period.

Concerning the calculation of years of service for educational staff associate positions for salary allocation purposes.

Providing students at community and technical colleges with the costs of required course materials.

Concerning paint stewardship.

Creates an architectural paint recovery program that will be enforced by the department of ecology.

Requires all producers of architectural paint selling in or into the state to participate in an approved state paint stewardship plan.

Prohibits a producer or paint retailer from selling or offering for sale architectural paint in the state unless the producer or brand of architectural paint is participating in an approved stewardship plan.

Exempts from disclosure under the public records act, records filed with the department of ecology under this act that a court has determined are confidential valuable commercial information.

Improving students' mental health by enhancing nonacademic professional services.

Addresses the role of a school counselor, a social worker, and a psychologist in promoting student achievement and creating a safe learning environment.

Requires first-class school districts to provide at least one hour of professional collaboration for school counselors, social workers, and psychologists that focuses on recognizing signs of emotional or behavioral distress in students.

Creates the professional collaboration lighthouse grant program to assist school districts with early adoption and implementation of mental health professional collaboration time.

Concerning disqualification of judges.

Prohibits a superior court judge from sitting to hear or try an action or proceeding if he or she has been disqualified.

Implementing a comprehensive approach to suicide prevention and behavioral health in higher education.

Repeals the July 2017 expiration date for the mental health and suicide prevention in higher education task force and provides a new July 2019 expiration date for the task force.

Declares an intent to implement task force recommendations.

Requires the department of health to: (1) In collaboration with the student achievement council, develop a statewide resource for behavioral health and suicide prevention for postsecondary institutions; and

(2) Establish the components of the statewide resource by working with the task force and other entities or persons that the department and the task force deem appropriate.

Repealing background check provisions for gun sales and transfers relating to Initiative Measure No. 594.

Increasing reciprocity for concealed pistol licenses.

Establishing a rebuttable presumption that permit-exempt groundwater withdrawals do not impair instream flows or base flows.

Concerning the number of adult family homes permitted in residential neighborhoods.

Requires the rules and standards for adult family homes to recognize the additional vehicular traffic and need for services that adult family homes require in residential neighborhoods.

Concerning sexual assault protection orders.

Concerning the regulation of programs of yoga practice or instruction as private vocational schools.

Concerning the employee status of language translators and interpreters.

Concerning enhanced background checks and licensure for assault weapons and large capacity magazines.

Requires a person to be in possession of an assault weapon license in order to possess, manufacture, transport, purchase, acquire, transfer, deliver, import, sell, or offer to sell an assault weapon or large capacity magazine.

Requires the chief of police of a municipality or the sheriff of a county, within thirty days after the filing of an application of a resident of this state, to issue an assault weapon license for a period of one year from the date of issue.

Changing the designation of the state behavioral health authority from the department of social and health services to the health care authority and transferring the related powers, functions, and duties to the health care authority and the department of health.

Transfers the powers, duties, and functions of the department of social and health services pertaining to the behavioral health system and purchasing function of the behavioral health administration, except for oversight and management of state-run mental health institutions and licensing and certification activities, to the state health care authority to the extent necessary to carry out the purposes of this act.

Concerning dental practice and solicitation by corporations.

Concerning disclosures regarding incentivized evidence and testimony.

Concerning a property tax exemption for land owned by a nonprofit organization and designated as a master planned location for major industrial activity.

Exempts the following from property taxation: Real property owned by a nonprofit and within an area designated as a master planned location for major industrial activity outside urban growth areas on lands formerly used or designated for surface coal mining and supporting uses.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 18	First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).