Enhancing crime victim participation in the criminal justice system process.

Establishes the safety and access for immigrant victims act.

Requires certain entities and law enforcement agencies to complete victim certifications for nonimmigrant visa applications for qualifying victims.

Requires the office of crime victims advocacy to convene a crime victim certification steering committee and provide administrative support for the committee.

Concerning gradually increasing the local government share of excess liquor revenues until the percentage-based method for distributions is restored.

Establishing a deadline for the use and implementation of a marijuana retail license by a licensee.

Maintaining and facilitating court-based and school-based efforts to promote attendance and reduce truancy.

Directing the completion of a study of certain environmental impacts, including ultrafine particulate emissions, associated with aircraft traffic in areas impacted by airport operations.

Requires the department of commerce, in consultation with the department of health and the department of ecology, to complete a study regarding air quality implications of air traffic at the international airport in this state with the highest number of total annual departures and arrivals.

Requires the University of Washington to complete an assessment of the concentrations of ultrafine particulate matter, barium, aluminum, radioactive thorium, cadmium, chromium, and ethylene dibromide in areas surrounding and directly impacted by air traffic generated by the airport.

Concerning the alcoholic beverage mead.

Prohibits the agricultural commodity assessment amounts from being levied on the production of mead.

Allows a licensee holding a license that permits, or a license with an endorsement that permits, the sale of beer to a purchaser in a container supplied by the licensee or a sanitary container brought to the premises by the purchaser and filled at the tap at the time of sale may similarly sell mead in a container.

Concerning the crime of voyeurism.

Establishes the crime of voyeurism in the second degree which is a gross misdemeanor.

Assessing physical education practices in public schools.

Requires school districts to: (1) Conduct an annual review of their physical education programs; and

(2) Submit the results of the review to the district's wellness committee and to the office of the superintendent of public instruction.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to aggregate and analyze the data, summarize the information provided by each district, and post the summarized information on its web site.

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

Gives a child the right to be represented by counsel at all stages of a proceeding in which the child is alleged to be dependent.

Requires the court to appoint an attorney for a child in a dependency proceeding six months after granting a petition to terminate the parent and child relationship and when there is no remaining parent with parental rights.

Concerning school safety drills.

Requires school principals and administrators to assess the threats and hazards most likely to impact their school and practice the following basic functional drills: Shelter-in-place, lockdown, and evacuation, as these drills relate to those threats and hazards.

Concerning educational interpreters.

Concerning the frequency of evaluations for certain educators.

Authorizing certain public facilities districts to acquire, construct, own, remodel, maintain, equip, reequip, repair, finance, and operate one or more recreational facilities other than a ski area with voter approval.

Prohibits a public facilities district, created by a city or town bordered by both the Columbia and Snake rivers, from making a facility, constructed after the effective date of this act, available to a prospective user for an event that is not open to the public if reasonably comparable private facilities are available within the boundaries of the public facilities district.

Allows a facility to include only equipment, amenities, and operations directly related to the primary function of the facility.

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 county with no port district to create, by a ballot proposition, a port district coextensive with the limits of the county.

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

Improving students' mental health by enhancing nonacademic professional services.

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

Requires first-class school districts to provide at least six hours of professional collaboration per year 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.

Requires the superintendent of public instruction to designate two school districts as lighthouse school districts to serve as resources and examples of best practices in designing and operating a professional collaboration program for school counselors, social workers, and psychologists, and local licensed mental health service providers.

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.

Creates the suicide prevention in higher education grant program to provide funding for postsecondary institutions to develop basic infrastructure and strategic plans to support behavioral health promotion and suicide prevention.

Establishing a statute of limitation for toll collections.

Requires certain entities to issue a toll bill within six months of the date of occurrence of the toll transaction for which the toll bill is issued.

Facilitating on-time grade level progression and graduation for certain students.

Requires a school district to incorporate certain procedures to facilitate on-time grade level progression and graduation of students who are at-risk youth or children in need of services or homeless.

Authorizes a school district of origin or of residence to enroll a high school student, who changes residence mid-term, in online courses or school programs for the remainder of the academic term.

Concerning the development of cooperative agreements to expand recreational access on privately owned lands.

Removing disincentives to the voluntary formation of regional fire protection service authorities by establishing parity, equalizing certain provisions with existing laws governing fire protection districts, and clarifying the formation process.

Revises regional fire protection service authority provisions as follows: (1) Removes disincentives to the voluntary formation of the authorities by establishing parity;

(2) Equalizes certain provisions with existing laws governing fire protection districts; and

Concerning pediatric transitional care services.

Addresses an establishment that provides pediatric transitional care services to drug exposed infants and requires the establishment to demonstrate that it is capable of providing services for children who: (1) Are no more than one year of age;

(2) Have been exposed to drugs before birth;

(3) Require twenty-four hour continuous residential care and skilled nursing services as a result of prenatal substance exposure; and

(4) Are referred to the establishment by the department of social and health services, regional hospitals, and private parties.

Incentivizing the development of commercial office space in cities with a population of greater than fifty thousand and located in a county with a population of less than one million five hundred thousand.

Provides certain cities with local options to incentivize the development of commercial office space in urban centers with access to transit, high capacity transportation systems, and other amenities.

Concerning the authorization of and deposit of moneys from department of transportation advertising activities.

Authorizes the department of transportation to: (1) Sell commercial advertising, including product placement, on department web sites and social media; and

(2) Sell a version of its mobile application to users who desire to have access to an application without advertising.

Increasing the punishment for vehicular assault.

Concerning impaired driving.

Using the state environmental policy act to encourage development that is consistent with forward-looking growth plans.

Changes the time frame in which a proposed development may not be challenged in administrative or judicial appeals for noncompliance with the state environmental policy act.

Reducing certain documentation and paperwork requirements in order to improve children's mental health and safety.

Requires the department of social and health services to immediately perform a review of its rules, policies, and procedures related to the documentation requirements for behavioral health services with regard to individual initial assessments to identify areas in which duplicative or inefficient documentation requirements can be eliminated or streamlined for providers.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 1	Public hearing in the House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services at 1:30 PM.
Feb 8	ELHS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
	Executive action taken in the House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services at 1:30 PM.
Feb 13	Referred to Appropriations.
Feb 21	Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 1:30 PM. (Subject to change)