Protecting consumers by prohibiting blocking, throttling, or paid prioritization in the provision of internet service in Washington state.

Requires a person providing broadband internet access service in the state to publicly disclose accurate information regarding the network management practices, performance characteristics, and commercial terms of its services sufficient for consumers to make informed choices regarding the purchase and use of the services and entrepreneurs and other small businesses to develop, market, and maintain internet offerings.

Prohibits a person engaged in the provision of broadband internet access service in the state from: (1) Blocking lawful content, applications, services, or nonharmful devices;

(2) Impairing or degrading lawful internet traffic on the basis of internet content, application, or service, or use of a nonharmful device; or

(3) Engaging in paid prioritization.

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, the community and technical college system, and one or more community-based organizations with experience in preparing child care providers for entry into the workforce, a community-based training module for child care providers and entrepreneurs interested in developing the business, which will be offered to providers and entrepreneurs as a pilot program in at least four communities; and

(2) Upon completion of the pilot program, collaborate with the state board for community and technical colleges to align all or parts of the training module with course outcomes identified in one or more early childhood education classes that may be offered by the community and technical colleges.

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

Clarifying the collection process for existing vehicle service transactions.

Encouraging low-water landscaping practices as a drought alleviation tool.

Prohibits homeowner association and condominium association restrictions that limit private property owners' ability to install drought resistant landscaping or wildfire ignition resistant landscaping.

Ensures that state-funded buildings achieve the highest landscaping water efficient benchmarks.

Concerning net metering.

Regarding discriminatory provisions found in written instruments related to real property.

Exempting impact fees for low-income housing development.

Providing for railroad community notice requirements.

Requires a railroad company, at least ten days before taking a planned action that may have a significant impact on a community, to notify, in writing, the utilities and transportation commission of the planned action.

Requires the commission, within one business day of receiving the notice, to notify: (1) The governing authority of the community on which the planned action will have a significant impact; and

Concerning bone marrow donation information provided to driver's license and identicard applicants.

Requires the department of licensing to provide each driver's license or identicard applicant with written materials about making a donation of bone marrow and being placed on the bone marrow donor registry.

Concerning the Washington achieving a better life experience program account.

Requires expenditures from the Washington achieving a better life experience program account to be used only for the purposes of administrative and operating expenses of the Washington achieving a better life experience program.

Allows contributions to individual Washington achieving a better life experience program accounts to be invested in self-directed investment options.

Allows an investment manager to perform the same duties as the state investment board with regard to the investment of money.

Concerning tow truck operators.

Finds that currently registered tow truck operators have up to four separate required license plates displayed on the vehicle at all times.

Requires a specific license plate and an indicator tab on a tow truck if it is used: (1) To conduct transporter business; or

(2) For a hulk hauler or scrap processor business; or

Creating a military benefit zone program.

Applying campaign contribution limits to candidates for all special purpose districts authorized to provide freight and passenger transfer and terminal facilities.

Concerning the initial implementation of recommendations from the collaborative process carried out to implement the state parks operating budget proviso on recreational access fee systems.

Modifies provisions regarding the discover pass, day-use permit, vehicle access pass, lifetime veteran's disability access pass, senior citizen's pass, foster home pass, state park pass, and access pass.

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, regarding child abuse, child neglect, or exposure to violence.

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 child forensic interviews, disclosed in a criminal or civil proceeding, to a protective order or other order, unless the court finds good cause that the interview should not be subject to the order.

Concerning private case management of child welfare services.

Concerning the consumer directed employer program.

Authorizes the department of social and health services to establish and implement a consumer directed employer program to provide personal care, respite care, and similar services to individuals with functional impairments under medicaid programs.

-- 2018 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 31	HCW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
	Minority; without recommendation.
	Executive action taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
Feb 2	Referred to Appropriations.
Feb 3	Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 9:00 AM.
Feb 6	APP - Majority; do pass 1st substitute bill proposed by Health Care & Wellness.
	Minority; do not pass.
	Minority; without recommendation.
	Referred to Rules 2 Review.
	Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 10:00 AM.
Feb 8	Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.