Adding part-time employees to state civil service.

Providing services and supports to pregnant and parenting minors to improve educational attainment.

States that an applicant who is under eighteen years old and is pregnant or has a dependent child or children in his or her care is eligible to receive temporary assistance for needy families regardless of his or her income or available resources.

States that a parent who is under eighteen years old and attending high school or working toward completing a general educational development certificate is eligible to receive working connections child care.

Creates an assistance unit for minor parents within the department of social and health services to provide assistance and support to minor parents.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to establish a competitive application process to provide grants to school districts for the establishment of a graduation, reality, and dual-role skills program.

Requires the state institute for public policy to evaluate the effectiveness of the awarded grants.

Improving the behavioral health of people in the agricultural industry.

Requires the department of health to: (1) Establish a pilot program for behavioral health and suicide prevention for members of the agricultural industry workforce; and

(2) Contract with an entity that has behavioral health and suicide prevention expertise to develop a free resource for workers in the agricultural industry.

Requires the state office of rural health to convene a task force on behavioral health and suicide prevention in the agricultural industry and requires the task force to review the following issues: (1) Data related to the behavioral health status of persons associated with the agricultural industry, including suicide rates, substance use rates, and availability and use of behavioral health services;

(2) Factors unique to the agricultural industry that affect the behavioral health of persons working in those industries;

(3) Components that should be addressed in the pilot program; and

Providing small business tax relief.

Providing a tax preference for nonrural data centers.

Provides a sales and use tax exemption to qualifying businesses and qualifying tenants of: (1) Eligible server equipment to be installed, without intervening use, in an eligible computer data center;

(2) Charges made for labor and services rendered in respect to installing equipment; and

Requiring a public hearing before a local government may remove a recorded restrictive covenant from land owned by the local government.

Modifying the irrigation district election process to correspond with general election laws.

Concerning the responsibility for payment of medical services for jail inmates.

Places responsibility for payment of medical services for jail inmates on the office of financial management.

Requires the office of financial management to: (1) Establish a methodology for the quarterly reimbursement of governing units and medical care providers for the financial responsibilities that governing units and medical care providers have borne as a result of the provision of emergency or necessary health care; and

Establishing permissible methods of parking a motorcycle.

Requires a motorcycle stopped or parked on a two-way or one-way highway to be stopped or parked parallel or at an angle to the curb or edge of the highway with at least one wheel or fender within twelve inches of the curb nearest to which the motorcycle is parked or as close as practicable to the edge of the shoulder nearest to which the motorcycle is parked.

Modifying cybercrime provisions.

Revises the Washington cybercrime act.

Finds a person guilty of computer trespass in the first degree if the person, without authorization, intentionally gains access to a computer system or electronic database of another; and intentionally causes malware to be present on that computer system or electronic database.

Provides definitions for computer, computer software, spyware, and virus, worm, or trojan horse.

Concerning pretrial release programs.

Addresses bail determinations and conditions of release.

Concerning voter registration deadlines.

Implementing the federal produce safety rule.

Establishes the produce safety rule implementation act to assist state produce farmers in implementation of the produce safety rule adopted by the United States food and drug administration pursuant to the federal food, drug, and cosmetic act.

Authorizes the department of agriculture to: (1) Take actions necessary to cooperate in implementation of the produce safety rule, including entering into cooperative agreements with the United States food and drug administration, conducting compliance verification activities, enforcing regulatory compliance, and accepting federal funding to carry out the activities;

(2) Cooperate with the United States food and drug administration in implementation of the produce safety rule only to the extent that the department receives federal funding for the activities; and

(3) Establish a voluntary program for farms exempt or partially exempt from the produce safety rule to verify that the farms comply with the rule.

Exempts the following from disclosure under the public records act: Information obtained from the federal government or others under contract with the federal government or records obtained by the department of agriculture.

Exempting hop grower lot information used in the state department of agriculture export document from public disclosure.

Concerning developmental disability supported employment provider job coaches.

Directs the department of social and health services to require that: (1) Supported employment providers that include job coaches in their program provide training to those job coaches regarding the support required for activities of daily living and identified in the assessment of each individual client that the job coach supports; and

Defining the process for best interest determinations of students in out-of-home care.

Promoting preapprenticeship opportunities for high school students.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) In consultation with the state board for community and technical colleges and the Washington state apprenticeship and training council, examine opportunities for promoting preapprenticeship opportunities for high school students; and

Concerning high school and beyond plans.

Requires the high school and beyond plan to: (1) Be provided to the students' parents or guardians in their native language;

(2) At a minimum, include identification of dual credit programs and the opportunities they create for students, including career and technical education programs, running start programs, and college in the high school programs and information about the college bound scholarship program; and

(3) Include information about options for satisfying state and local graduation requirements and aligning with the student's secondary and postsecondary goals.

Increasing appropriated funding for public defense services.

Requires a county or city to: (1) Provide documentation that attorneys providing public defense services are in compliance with the state supreme court standards for indigent defense and the number and types of private cases from each individual or organization that contracts to perform public defense services; and

(2) Provide information on actual expenditures for the services to the office of public defense.

Requires the office of public defense to: (1) Determine the cost of public defense services, based on an average of expenditures for the services reported by counties and cities;

(2) Monitor trial level criminal public defense services to determine eligibility of counties and cities; and

(3) Establish policies for the distribution of appropriated funds to eligible counties and cities.

Requires the money for eligible counties and cities to be distributed by the office of public defense.

Concerning nonresident pharmacies.

Concerning electronic communication of prescription information.

Clarifying the authority and procedures for contracting by public port districts.

Clarifying the authority and procedures for unit priced contracting by public port districts.

Concerning the minimum monthly salary paid to Washington state patrol troopers and sergeants.

Increasing the mandatory retirement age for Washington state patrol officers.

Authorizing county treasurers to contract with other treasurers for services.

Concerning student access to school libraries and information technology.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to examine and report on student access to school library information and technology resources and associated impacts to student success.

Creates the school library information and technology office, within the office of the superintendent of public instruction, to: (1) Assist districts with implementing school library information and technology programs;

(2) Increase access for students to these programs; and

Concerning medical certificate requirements for applicants and holders of commercial drivers' licenses and commercial learners' permits.

Modifies the uniform commercial driver's license act with regard to: Medical certificate requirements for applicants and holders; traffic infractions for licensees while being downgraded for not maintaining a current medical certificate; excepted or nonexcepted intrastate and excepted or nonexcepted interstate; and revision of the definition of "nonexcepted intrastate" and "excepted intrastate," relating to obtaining a certificate and wishing to maintain a CDL or CLP but not operate a commercial motor vehicle without changing his or her self-certification type.

Limiting industrial insurance benefits for injuries or diseases caused by use of intoxicating liquor or drugs.

Concerning paraeducators.

Gives paraeducators, currently employed and hired before September 1, 2018, until September 1, 2019, to meet certain minimum employment standards.

Requires paraeducators hired on or after September 1, 2018, to meet the standards when they are hired.

Requires non-title I school districts to provide a report, to the professional educator standards paraeducator board, of how many current paraeducators have and how many have not met the minimum employment requirements.

Revises requirements for participation in the pipeline for paraeducators conditional scholarship program.

Gives school districts from September 1, 2019, to September 1, 2020, to provide the fundamental course of study to all paraeducators hired before September 1, 2019.

Exempting alcohol manufacturers from the food storage warehouse license.

Concerning the handling of child forensic interview and child interview digital recordings.

Provides a definition of "child forensic interview" for purposes of chapter 26.44 RCW (abuse of children).

Requires each county to revise and expand its existing child sexual abuse investigation protocol to include the handling of child forensic interview digital recordings.

Subjects a digital recording of a child forensic interview or child interview, disclosed in a criminal or civil proceeding, to a protective order or other order as appropriate.

Addressing the definition of veteran.

Making technical corrections to the family and medical leave program.

Clarifying hours and wages for education employee compensation claims.

Concerning election ballot space and voter informations.

Rearranges the order in which certain positions or offices are placed in a primary consolidated ballot.

Decreases the amount of words allowed in the description of certain ballot titles.

Removes a certain statement from being printed on top of each ballot to being displayed in a prominent position on the election page of each county web site and being printed in the ballot envelope, or the materials that accompany the ballot, or the voters' pamphlet.

Concerning employment laws regarding transportation contractors, including the definition of "truck."

Exempting tow truck operators using the telephone call functionality of a wireless communications device from traffic infractions.

Creating a program for the reinstatement of driving privileges that are suspended because of failure to pay a traffic infraction.

Concerning an ambulance transport quality assurance fee.

Provides for a safety net fee for certain ambulance transports to be used to augment funding from other sources, thereby supporting additional payments to ambulance transport providers for medicaid services.

Imposes a quality assurance fee for each ambulance transport provided by each ambulance transport provider subject to the fee.

Requires the state health care authority to establish the manner and format for ambulance transport providers to report required data.

Concerning the authority of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' plan 2 retirement board to set the salary of the executive director.

Adding proximity to working forests to the residential real estate disclosure statement.

Concerning the creation of housing opportunity zones by cities.

Addresses the need to increase transit oriented housing production.

Finds that more compact and efficient development within a one-half mile distance around transit facilities have shown value in providing affordable housing.

Declares the intent of the legislature is to create an opt-in pilot program for cities to: (1) Enable and encourage compact and efficient development within a one-half mile distance around transit facilities; and

(2) Choose to participate in the opportunity to access financial resources in exchange for streamlined residential project approval and reduced fees charged to specific housing projects.

Requires the department of commerce to maintain maps of housing opportunity zones and areas eligible for designation as housing opportunity zones.

Eliminating lunch copays for students who qualify for reduced-price lunches.

Limiting the application of use tax on purchases of motor vehicles purchased by bona fide nonresidents.

Modifying theater license provisions.

Concerning impaired driving.

Modifies impaired driving provisions with regard to: (1) Loss of good time credits when offense includes minor child enhancements;

(2) Removal of language on qualifications of a forensic phlebotomist;

(3) Liability for the expense of an emergency response by a public agency;

(4) A court's discretion to order electronic home monitoring or ninety days of 24/7 sobriety program monitoring;

(5) Partial or full suspension of a sentence; and

Concerning transportation network companies.

Provides statewide uniform regulation for transportation network companies within the state and encourages technological innovation.

Preserves and enhances access to important transportation options for residents and visitors to the state.

Changes the term "commercial transportation" to "transportation network company."

Concerning public schools.

Recognizes, based on input from school districts, as they attempt to implement the major education funding reforms, changes to the initial policies will be needed to ensure the policies do not negatively impact school districts or their employees and can be carried out as intended; and also recognizes that the state supreme court ruled the state is not on track to meet the September 1, 2018, deadline to fully implement its program of basic education.

Addresses public school provisions regarding compensation, levies, school district education funding, and collective bargaining.

Provides that sections 401 through 403 of this act are null and void if appropriations are approved.

Concerning seizure and forfeiture procedures and reporting.

Concerning the size of cities that must establish a law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 1 disability board.

Concerning student opportunity, assistance, and relief for student loans.

Establishes the student opportunity, assistance, and relief act.

Finds that: (1) The cost of higher education has risen dramatically in recent years;

(2) Students are financing their education with more student loan debt;

(3) In 2014 fifty-eight percent of recent graduates in the state had debt and the average federal student loan debt load for a student graduating from a four-year public or private institution of higher education was twenty-four thousand eight hundred dollars; and

(4) A borrower in this state can have twenty-five percent of his or her disposable earnings garnished or thirty-five times the federal minimum wage.

Declares an intent to: (1) Repeal the statutes regarding professional license or certificate suspension caused by student debt; and

Modifying basic education provisions.

Modifying quick title service fees.

Modifying the types of off-road vehicles subject to local government regulation.

Concerning unemployment compensation for musicians.

States that a base year will not be established unless it is determined, for a musician who earns at least seventy-five percent of his or her base year wages as an employee of a music or entertainment business or as a member of a music or entertainment group, that the individual earned wages in "employment" in not less than five hundred four hours of his or her base year.

-- 2018 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 12	First reading, referred to Labor & Workplace Standards (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).