Requiring additional criteria to be met for the department of licensing to suspend a driver's license.

Concerning notice to active duty military owners of impounded vehicles.

Prohibits a tow truck operator from selling a vehicle, until criteria provided in the servicemembers civil relief act has been satisfied, if the legal or registered owner shows an active duty military status as provided by the department of licensing.

Concerning opioid overdose medication at schools with grades seven through twelve and higher education institutions.

Authorizes a school to obtain and maintain opioid overdose medication through a standing order.

Requires certain school districts to obtain and maintain at least one set of the medication doses in certain schools.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction: (1) In consultation with the department of health, to develop opioid-related overdose policy guidelines and training requirements for public schools and school districts; and

(2) To develop and administer a grant program to provide funding to certain public schools and institutions of higher education to train personnel on the administration of the medication to respond to an overdose.

Requires certain institutions of higher education to develop a plan for: (1) The maintenance and administration of the medication in and around a residence hall; and

Concerning basic education funding.

Requires funding for additional school nurses, guidance counselors, and family and community engagement coordinators to be phased in beginning with the 2021-2023 biennium, and continue to be phased in each year until fiscal year 2025.

Requires the legislature, beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, to begin phasing in funding for content-specific professional learning days for certain staff, and, at a minimum, allocate funding for three professional learning days in the 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024 school years.

Requires each school district board of directors, by fiscal year 2021 and each fiscal year thereafter, to adopt an unrestricted minimum fund balance for their general fund of no less than 8.5 percent of their prior year's state apportionment.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to calculate the actual minimum fund balance amount for each school district for the directors' review and adoption.

Concerning school district levies.

Extending the tax preferences in RCW 82.04.260(12).

Concerning device registration, civil penalties, and service agent registration for the weights and measures program.

Concerning premium reduction for medicare-eligible retiree participants in the public employees' benefits board program.

Concerning services provided by the office of homeless youth prevention and protection programs.

Allows a child to be placed in a HOPE center by the department of children, youth, and families, upon filing of a child in need of services petition.

Extending the validity of temporary elevator licenses, expanding membership of the elevator safety advisory committee, allowing homeowners to remove certain conveyances from their residences, and eliminating duplicate paperwork.

Revises provisions regarding elevators, lifting devices, and moving walks.

Changes the composition of the elevator safety advisory committee.

Increases the amount of time, from thirty days to one year, in which a temporary elevator mechanic license is valid.

Concerning reporting requirements for common carriers who transport liquor into the state.

Making unemployment benefits accessible to persons with family responsibilities and other availability issues and making clarifying changes.

Revises the employment security act to: (1) Provide unemployment benefits to people with family responsibilities and other availability issues; and

Concerning industrial insurance and self-insurers.

Requires a self-insurer, if he or she has determined to allow an industrial insurance claim, to issue an order allowing the claim to the injured worker, attending medical provider, and the department of labor and industries, for a claim for which the worker may be entitled to benefits other than medical treatment only.

Authorizes a self-insured employer, in the event the department has made an order communicating the closure of a claim of the employer, to serve the department order provided the employer does so using a secure, verifiable nonelectronic means of delivery and includes the department prescribed notice explaining the contents of the order and any protest or appeal rights.

Requires the director of the department of labor and industries to appoint a collaborative work group.

Requires the work group to evaluate issues on whether the current penalties for self-insurers and third-party administrators are sufficient to support: (1) The mandate to provide relief for workers injured in their work, their families, and dependents; and

(2) The legislature's finding that the workers' compensation system should be designed to focus on achieving the best outcomes for injured workers.

Concerning credit retrieval programs under the migrant education program.

Concerning the protection of composting from nuisance lawsuits.

Requiring institutions of higher education to waive application fees for low-income students.

Concerning restraints on persons engaging in lawful professions, trades, or businesses.

Finds that: (1) Workforce mobility is important to economic growth and development; and

(2) Agreements limiting competition or hiring may be contracts of adhesion that may be unreasonable.

Concerning the Washington state credit union act.

Revises the state credit union act and modifies provisions regarding the bylaws of a credit union; investment of a credit union's funds; and a credit union having the same powers and authority as a federal credit union.

Requires the supervisory committee of a credit union to perform or arrange for a verification of its members' accounts at least once every two years and provide related findings and recommendations from the audits and verifications to the board of directors of a credit union.

Concerning the renewal of real estate appraiser certificates, licenses, and registrations.

Establishing a coalition of commissioned officers, detectives, and sergeants of the department of fish and wildlife for the purposes of collective bargaining, including interest arbitration.

Modifying funding of the medical marijuana authorization database.

Changes the account, from the health professions account to the dedicated marijuana account: (1) From which expenses are paid for carrying out health professions licensing activities of the department of health and implementing and administering the medical marijuana authorization database; and

Improving services for individuals with developmental disabilities.

Requires the department of social and health services to track and monitor the following and make the information available to the office of the developmental disabilities ombuds, the legislature, and the public upon request: (1) Clients receiving services from a provider that are taken to hospitals; and

Implementing improvements to the early achievers program as reviewed and recommended by the joint select committee on the early achievers program.

Raises base subsidy rates for licensed child care centers and family homes to the seventy-fifth percentile of market rates.

Provides adequate funding to increase needs-based grants, scholarships, and professional development assistance and reduces early achievers coaching ratios to support providers in continuous improvement.

Supports the work of the department of children, youth, and families' professional equivalencies committee and the development of the proficiency review process.

-- 2019 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 22	First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education.