Providing associate degree education to enhance education opportunities and public safety.

Authorizes the state board for community and technical colleges to authorize a board of trustees within the system to promote and conduct associate degree education and training of incarcerated adults through new or expanded partnerships between the community and technical colleges and the department of corrections.

Making the customized employment training program permanent.

Changing explicit alternative routes to teacher certification program requirements to expectations for program outcomes.

Providing industrial insurance coverage for stress-caused mental disorders and disabilities of members of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system.

States that claims made by a member of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system, based on mental conditions or mental disabilities caused by stress, fall within the definition of "occupational disease."

Establishing a community aviation revitalization loan program.

Creates an airport infrastructure loan program to be known as the community aviation revitalization loan program for local and small airports to acquire loans to fund capital projects.

Requires the aviation division of the department of transportation to administer the loan program and adopt the criteria to be used in evaluating and approving loans to small and local airports.

Creates the community aviation revitalization loan oversight task force to oversee and provide consultation to the department of transportation in relation to the loan program.

Requires the state treasurer's office to establish a new revenue source code to track revenue that is dedicated to the loan program.

Concerning proceedings of the joint administrative rules review committee.

Limiting the enforcement of administrative rules and policies.

Prohibits a rule or policy of a state agency from being enforced unless and until the rule or policy has been: (1) Adopted pursuant to the administrative procedure act;

(2) Codified in the Washington Administrative Code; and

Concerning judicial interpretation of law and other writings without deference to agency interpretation.

Creating a demonstration project for preserving public infrastructure and agricultural lands in floodplains.

Requires the department of agriculture, the department of natural resources, the department of fish and wildlife, and the department of ecology to expedite the permitting of a demonstration project in Pierce county that tests the effectiveness and costs of river management by using various sediment management strategies and techniques as applied to accomplish the following goals: (1) Restoration or enhancement of fish runs;

(2) Protection of public infrastructure and recreational access; and

Creating the department of children, youth, and families.

Creates the department of children, youth, and families.

Creates the office of innovation and alignment, within the office of the governor, with the primary duties and focus on developing and presenting a plan for the establishment of the department of children, youth, and families.

Transitions the office of innovation and alignment from the office of the governor to be an office within the department of children, youth, and families.

Abolishes the department of early learning and transfers its powers, duties, and functions to the department of children, youth, and families.

Modifying tax exemptions for ride-sharing vehicles to include certain electric vehicles.

Concerning imposing a surtax on the possession of hazardous substances.

Requiring waivers of the evidence-based assessment of teaching effectiveness for certain preservice candidates.

Requires the professional educator standards board to waive the requirement that preservice candidates successfully pass the evidence-based assessment of teaching effectiveness: (1) When requested by a school district with a subject endorsement shortage area; and

Providing transparency on the effect of tax expenditures on the state's budget.

Addresses the department of revenue's reporting to the legislature regarding a listing of the amount of reduction for the current and next biennium in the revenues of the state or the revenues of local government collected by the state as a result of tax exemptions.

Requires the governor's operating budget document to clearly state a baseline revenue estimate in the operating budget balance sheet that excludes the impact of any current tax preferences and a revenue adjustment that includes the estimated impact of current tax preferences.

Requires the submitted forecast document to clearly state a baseline revenue estimate that excludes the impact of any current tax preferences and a revenue adjustment that includes the estimated impact of current tax preferences.

Requiring legislative approval of tax preferences as part of the two-year budget process.

Concerning marijuana tax reform.

Exempts the following from marijuana excise taxes: (1) Sales of certain marijuana concentrates, useable marijuana, or marijuana-infused products;

(2) Sales of products containing a certain amount of THC;

(3) Sales of certain topical, noningestible products; and

(4) Certain nonmonetary resources and labor.

Imposes a tax on each sale at wholesale of a hydrocarbon gas-based solvent that is purchased by a licensed marijuana processor to extract or separate resin from marijuana or to produce or process any form of marijuana concentrates or marijuana-infused products.

Enhancing penalties for crimes committed against law enforcement officers.

Establishing minimum crew size on certain trains.

Concerning hours of service for certain railroad employees.

Concerning assistance with activities of daily living.

Concerning the time period for workers to recover wages under prevailing wage laws.

Adding training on public works and prevailing wage requirements to responsible bidder criteria.

Establishing the prevailing rate of wage based on collective bargaining agreements or other methods if collective bargaining agreements are not available.

Improving compliance with prevailing wage procedures.

Concerning crimes involving a dog guide or service animal.

Concerning local government infrastructure funding.

Modifies public works projects provisions with regard to local government infrastructure funding.

Allowing multiple terms of community custody to be served concurrently.

Issuing a two-year identicard for offenders released from prison facilities.

Concerning the sentencing elements worksheet.

Encouraging the annexation of unincorporated urban growth areas.

Concerning actions by the boundary review board.

Requires the boundary review board to: (1) Direct affected jurisdictions to enter into any agreements necessary to address conflicts with the board's factors and objectives before ruling on an annexation proposal;

(2) Consider the following factors affecting a proposal: The logical and reasonable nature of the annexation boundaries to ensure they do not include unincorporated islands, peninsulas, or other jurisdictional irregularities; and

Addressing sewer service within urban growth areas.

Eliminating the reporting requirement for innovative supplemental contracts.

Allowing retired teachers to be employed as mentors.

Aligning definitions relating to the transitional bilingual instruction program.

Eliminating the gangs in schools task force.

Making the open educational resources project permanent.

Revises openly licensed courseware provisions.

Making adjustments to the student transportation allocation system.

Requires the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Evaluate districts whose allocation is less than the districts' prior year transportation expenditures;

(2) Determine which districts qualify for inclusion in the alternate funding process; and

Changing the annual reporting date for the transitional bilingual instruction program.

Removing the expiration date for the teacher and principal evaluation program advisory committee.

Concerning agriculture and farming.

Making crimes and threats against persons because of their occupation as a firefighter or emergency responder a hate crime.

Providing state funding assistance for public school construction.

Concerning the excise taxation of crowdfunding donations.

Concerning presidential electors.

Addressing the cybersecurity and information technology professional shortage by requiring a study of incentive methods for attracting high-demand talent in information technology and cybersecurity to state agencies.

Concerning enhancing public health and safety by implementing emergency preparedness guidance measures related to oil train accidents.

Requires the department of health to: (1) Create emergency preparedness guidance for oil train accidents and directly associated hazards; and

Authorizing a person to take a dog to any place of public resort, accommodation, assemblage, or amusement for the purpose of training the dog as a dog guide or service animal.

Concerning cremation by biochemical hydrolysis.

Lowering the allowed alcohol concentration.

Concerning the authority of port districts to provide telecommunications services.

Concerning comprehensive school safety planning for public and private K-12 schools.

Concerning doula services for incarcerated women.

Authorizing flexibility schools and flexibility zones.

Requiring students to pass a civics test as a prerequisite to graduation from high school.

Requires public and private high schools to require, as a prerequisite to graduation, that students take and pass the civics component of the federally administered naturalization test.

Defining salary for purposes of the Washington state patrol retirement system.

Allowing new government employees the option of opting out of retirement system membership if the employee is age sixty or older when first hired, or when the employee's employer opts into retirement plan participation.

Authorizing the transfer of public employees' retirement system service credit to the public safety employees' retirement system due to differing definitions of full-time.

Authorizes a public employee to elect to have their public employees' retirement system service credit transferred to the public safety employees' retirement system if: (1) They worked under a written employment contract before January 1, 2017, that defined full-time as less than one hundred sixty hours per month;

(2) They have met membership requirements for the public safety employees' retirement system;

(3) Their employer incorrectly reported the employee's service in the public safety employees' retirement system; and

Limiting appeals related to the harvest of damaged forest products.

States that a decision by the department of natural resources to salvage and sell perishable fire-damaged timber is final, is not subject to appeal under the administrative procedure act or section 3 of this act, and may not be the basis for any civil cause of action.

Prioritizing lands to receive forest health treatments.

Requires the department of natural resources to: (1) Develop and implement a policy for prioritizing investments on forest health treatments in strategic defensible areas to protect public lands against losses from wildfire; and

Establishing an endorsement to the marijuana retailer's license to authorize marijuana delivery services.

Implementing recommendations from the children's mental health work group.

Requires the state health care authority to: (1) Oversee the coordination of resources and services through the managed health care system for children who are eligible for medical assistance and have been identified as requiring mental health treatment; and

(2) Require universal screening and provider payment for depression for certain children.

Requires the department of early learning to establish a child care consultation program linking child care providers with resources for caring for infants and young children who present behavioral concerns.

Requires educational service districts to establish a lead staff person for mental health.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to employ a children's mental health services coordinator.

Requires the health workforce council to collect and analyze workforce survey and administrative data for clinicians qualified to provide children's mental health services.

Requires Washington State University to offer one, and the University of Washington to offer one additional, twenty-four month residency position that is approved by the accreditation council for graduate medical education to a resident specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry.

Concerning nursing staffing practices at hospitals.

Establishes the Washington state patient safety act.

Requires the department of health to: (1) With stakeholder input, adopt patient assignment limits and recommend quality indicators;

(2) Upon receipt of a complaint, conduct an audit of a hospital's compliance with this act and investigate complaints of violations of this act; and

(3) Maintain, for public inspection, records of civil penalties, administrative actions, or license suspensions or revocations imposed on hospitals.

Requires a hospital to: (1) Submit a staffing plan to the department of health, implement the staffing plan, and assign nursing personnel to each patient care unit in accordance with the plan; and

Addressing meal and rest breaks and mandatory overtime for certain health care employees.

Addresses meals and rest periods for licensed practical nurses, registered nurses, surgical technologists, diagnostic radiologic technologists, cardiovascular invasive specialists, respiratory care practitioners, and certified nursing assistants.

Prohibits an employer from: (1) Using prescheduled on-call time to fill chronic or foreseeable staff shortages; and

Creating the construction registration inspection account as a dedicated account to fund contractor registration and compliance, manufactured and mobile homes, recreational and commercial vehicles, factory built housing and commercial structures, elevators, lifting devices, and moving walks.

Concerning state agency collection, use, and retention of biometric identifiers.

Creating a special permit for certain wine auctions.

Updating certain department of early learning advising and contracting mechanisms to reflect federal requirements, legislative mandates, and planned system improvements.

Updates certain advising and contracting mechanisms of the department of early learning to reflect federal requirements, legislative mandates, and planned system improvements.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 26	First reading, referred to Early Learning & Human Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).