Creating a program for the consolidation of traffic-based financial obligations.

Concerning high capacity magazines.

Prohibits a person from manufacturing, possessing, distributing, importing, transferring, selling, or purchasing, a large capacity magazine.

Concerning the state universal communications services program.

Repeals the July 1, 2020, expiration date of the state universal communications services program.

Correcting the use tax exemption for self-produced fuel.

Extending the validity of temporary elevator licenses.

Concerning the individual provider employment administrator program.

Making residential burglary a crime against persons.

Revises the sentencing reform act to include residential burglary as a crime against persons.

Reducing costs in election ballot production.

Concerning sales and use tax exemptions for durable medical equipment used in the home and prescribed mobility enhancing equipment.

Provides a sales and use tax exemption for: (1) Nebulizers, for other than home use;

(2) Durable medical equipment and its components, for home use and prescribed by a properly licensed person; and

Eliminating the joint legislative oversight committee on trade policy.

Eliminating the joint administrative rules review committee.

Requiring the secretary of state to conduct a study on the state providing prepaid return postage for election ballots.

Requires the secretary of state to: (1) Conduct a study to assess the costs and benefits of the state paying the postage costs for all ballots returned by mail; and

(2) Consult with county auditors, the United States postal service, stakeholder and nonpartisan advocacy groups focused on promoting voter turnout, and state and national groups focused on election policy and research.

Concerning automatic voter registration, including establishing the future voter program for certain persons sixteen and seventeen years of age.

States that it is the intent of the secretary of state and the legislature to: (1) Formalize a registration sign up process for those not yet eighteen years old through the establishment of the future voter program;

(2) Authorize all persons sixteen and seventeen years old to sign up to register to vote; and

Reducing the state property tax in calendar year 2018.

Reducing training requirements for certain respite care providers who provide respite to unpaid caregivers and work three hundred hours or less in any calendar year.

Defining community health workers and their roles.

Encouraging investments in affordable and supportive housing.

Allows a county legislative authority to authorize, fix, and impose a sales and use tax, however, if a county has not imposed the full tax rate by July 1, 2020, a city legislative authority in that county may authorize, fix, and impose the sales and use tax.

Concerning the January 1, 2020, implementation of the school employees' benefits board program.

Addresses the implementation of the school employees' benefits board program, effective January 1, 2020.

Addresses: Compensation and reimbursement related to school employees' benefits board member service; charter schools are employers and school employees' benefits board organizations under certain circumstances; school districts, educational service districts, and charter schools providing contributions to the state health care authority for insurance and health care plans for school employees and their dependents; and functions of the school employees' benefits board in designing and approving insurance benefit plans and establishing eligibility criteria.

Revises the definition of "board," for purposes of chapter 41.05 RCW (state health care authority), to include the school employees' benefits board.

Clarifying the relationship between manufacturers and new motor vehicle dealers by providing tools to resolve disparities including expanding compensation for recalled vehicles.

Concerning the plumbing industry.

Changes the composition of the state advisory board of plumbers.

Increases the monetary penalty to five hundred dollars for an infraction of chapter 18.106 RCW (plumbers).

Preventing and addressing catastrophic wildfires.

Authorizes certain funds collected from the surcharge for local homeless housing and assistance to be used for a county located east of the crest of the Cascade mountain range, that has a population of one hundred thousand or fewer: (1) To educate homeowners about wildfire risk and prevention measures; and

(2) For wildfire prevention and response activities.

Allows expenditures from the home security fund account to be used for wildfire prevention and response activities.

Requires the department of natural resources to provide funding or training for prescribed burning to local authorities in areas at risk for wildfires.

Creating a students protecting students program.

Creates the students protecting students program to provide students with a fast, secure, and anonymous method of reporting activities or the threat of activities that are inappropriate, unsafe, harmful, dangerous, unethical, or illegal.

Adding the Washington State University college of medicine to the family medicine residency network.

Adds the Washington State University college of medicine to the family medicine residency network.

Providing a real estate excise tax exemption for certain transfers of low-income housing.

Concerning online access to health care resources via HEALWA.

Concerning physical therapist supervision of assistive personnel.

Requires supervision by a physical therapist for the reevaluation of a patient, as follows, if patient care is given by a physical therapist assistant or other assistive personnel: The later of every fifth visit or every thirty days if a physical therapist has not treated the patient for any of the five visits or within the thirty days.

Authorizes a physical therapist, at any one time, to: (1) Supervise up to a total of three assistive personnel; or

Concerning practitioner education of opiate risks and pain management alternatives.

Establishes Jeremy's law.

Requires a practitioner who is authorized to prescribe opiates, who writes a prescription for an opiate for the first time during the course of treatment to a patient, to have an in-person discussion with the patient.

Requires the department of health to: (1) Create a brief statement warning individuals about the risks of opiate use and abuse; and

Increasing the availability of housing for developmentally disabled persons.

Exempts the following from the definition of "sale" with regard to real estate excise taxes: A qualified transfer or residential property by a legal representative of a person with developmental disabilities to a nonprofit organization that provides residential supported living for persons with developmental disabilities subject to certain conditions.

Requires the Washington state developmental disabilities council to develop and make available model transfer agreements that legally transfer a residential property from a parent or guardian of a developmentally disabled person to a nonprofit or foundation that provides residential supported living services to persons with developmental disabilities.

Extending the timeline for completing a family assessment response.

Supporting the business of child care.

Requires the department of children, youth, and families to: (1) Develop, in consultation with the statewide child care resource and referral network and the community and technical college system, a community-based training module for child care providers, which will be offered to providers as a pilot program in at least four communities; and

(2) Collaborate with the state board for community and technical colleges to align all or parts of the training module.

Expanding the activities of the children's mental health services consultation program.

Requires the state health care authority, in collaboration with the evidence-based practice institute, to implement a program to: (1) Support certain health care professionals who provide care to pregnant women and new mothers through same-day telephone consultations in the assessment and provision of appropriate diagnosis and treatment of depression;

(2) Facilitate referrals to children's mental health services and other resources for parents and guardians with concerns related to the mental health of the parent or guardian's child; and

Addressing retiree benefits for participants in the public employees' retirement system, the teachers' retirement system, and the public employees' benefits board.

Concerning the reauthorization of the underground storage tank program.

Modifying vehicular assault provisions.

Establishes the Leprechaun Cain act.

Increasing transparency of contributions by creating the Washington state DISCLOSE act of 2018.

Establishes the democracy is strengthened by casting light on spending in elections act of 2018 (the Washington state DISCLOSE act of 2018).

Increasing employment opportunities for spouses of military members.

Requires the department of commerce, the employment security department, and the department of labor and industries to consult local chambers of commerce, associate development organizations, and businesses to initiate a demonstration campaign to increase employment for spouses of military members on active duty.

Directs the commissioner of the employment security department to: (1) Conduct a study of the unemployment insurance program to determine what barriers to eligibility military spouses face while on deployment overseas; and

Concerning timelines in criminal cases involving domestic violence.

Finds that there is a discrepancy in which sentences for nonfelony domestic violence offenses can be suspended for up to five years in district and municipal courts, but only for up to two years in superior courts in most cases.

Requiring the department of health to adopt rules establishing an abbreviated death certificate.

Requires the department of health to adopt rules that establish an abbreviated death certificate that may be requested from a state or local registrar that includes identifying information and information related to the fact of death, but does not include: (1) Information related to the cause of the person's death;

(2) Social security numbers; or

(3) Names of the decedent's parents.

Modifying gender references pertaining to major political party committees.

Concerning incidents requiring a municipal fire department or fire district response.

Concerning the drug offense sentencing grid.

Increasing access to the main street program.

Modifying the adoption provisions on the state comprehensive plan for workforce training and education.

Concerning veteran and national guard tuition waivers.

Modifying the offense of rape in the third degree.

Authorizing law enforcement to arrest persons in violation of certain no-contact orders involving victims of trafficking and promoting prostitution offenses.

Requires a police officer to arrest a person without a warrant and take him or her into custody without a warrant when the officer has probable cause to believe that an order has been issued of which the person has knowledge under: (1) Chapter 9A.40 RCW (kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, custodial interference, luring, trafficking, and coercion of involuntary servitude); or

Addressing joint self-insurance programs for property and liability risks.

Enables qualifying state agencies that are unable to obtain a sufficient amount of property and liability insurance coverage through the private market, or through the state agency self-insurance liability program, to participate in a local government joint self-insurance program covering property and liability risks.

-- 2018 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 9	First reading, referred to Business & Financial Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).