Revising academic supports associated with high school graduation requirements.

Requires a school district to: (1) Prepare a student learning plan; and

(2) Notify the parent or guardian about the information in the plan that includes, if applicable, the student's individualized education program team.

Requires the student learning plan to include achieving educational and career goals established in the student's high school and beyond plan.

Concerning bilingual educators.

Authorizes annual bonuses for certificated instructional staff and instructional paraeducators who have fulfilled certain requirements.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Develop Spanish language arts standards;

(2) Contract with an organization to conduct a bias and sensitivity review of the proposed Spanish language arts standards; and

(3) Provide professional learning outreach to school districts to help educators implement the Spanish language arts standards.

Authorizes certain teachers to be funded by the transitional bilingual instruction program for two years.

Modifying provisions relating to approaching emergency or work zones and tow truck operators.

Requires certain vehicles, that are making use of flashing lights that meet the requirements of RCW 46.37.300 or warning lights with three hundred sixty degree visibility to reduce the speed of the vehicle to fifty miles per hour or less, on a highway having four or more lanes, and to at least ten miles per hour below the posted speed limit, on a highway having less than four lanes.

Providing incentives for the use of open source instructional materials in higher education.

Establishes the textbook affordability via open sourcing act.

Concerning state board of health rules regarding on-site sewage systems.

Addresses the adoption of rules by the state board of health regarding inspections and failures of on-site sewage systems.

Assisting persons with special transportation needs by providing tax incentives to businesses.

Provides a business and occupation tax credit to an eligible person that provides transportation for persons with special transportation needs.

Providing a right of first repurchase for surplus transportation property.

Providing tax relief to motorists by exempting certain mobile communications technology from retail sales and use tax.

Provides a sales and use tax exemption for hands-free wireless communications devices whether sold as original equipment by the manufacturer of an automobile or as an aftermarket product or service.

Establishing an educational grant program to promote confidence, public speaking, and leadership skills in students.

Establishes the little toasters act.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to establish a pilot project grant program to award grants to two school districts for the promotion of confidence, public speaking, and leadership skills in students in grades two through five.

Concerning contracts for dogs and cats.

Concerning senior students in accredited schools of chiropractic.

Requiring state officials to complete high school assessments required for graduation from a public school.

Building capacity within the educator workforce to improve student mental health and well-being.

Requires the professional educator standards board to: (1) Convene a work group to make recommendations for standards and professional development courses on student mental health and well-being;

(2) Based on the recommendations of the work group, adopt, require educators to meet, and implement a continuing education program that meets the knowledge, skill, and performance standards related to student mental health and well-being; and

(3) Collaborate with the University of Washington Bothell on the development of a series of online courses for school staff related to behavioral health.

Requires school districts to use one of the funded professional learning days to improve the effectiveness of school district staff in addressing student mental health needs and implementing best practices in social-emotional learning.

Streamlining the permitting process for disposing of dredged materials.

Concerning state reimbursement of election costs and payment of prepaid postage return costs.

Requiring the secretary of state to print and distribute a voters' pamphlet for the primary in each even-numbered year and for the general election every year.

Extending the business and occupation deduction for government-funded behavioral health services.

Concerning medicare supplemental insurance policies.

Concerning the appointment of religious coordinators.

Requires the secretary of the department of corrections to: (1) Appoint institutional religious coordinators for the state correctional institutions for convicted felons; and

Concerning delegation of inspection duties for factory built housing and commercial structures.

Authorizes the department of labor and industries to delegate all or part of its duties of inspection to a qualified inspection agency.

Requires qualified inspection agencies to: (1) Be objective, competent, and independent from the companies responsible for the work being inspected;

(2) Disclose any conflict of interest to the department;

(3) Have adequate equipment to perform the required inspections; and

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.

Reducing criminal justice expenses by eliminating the death penalty and instead requiring life imprisonment without possibility of release or parole as the sentence for aggravated first degree murder.

Creating a program for the consolidation of traffic-based financial obligations to facilitate reinstatement of driving privileges that are suspended because of failure to pay.

Creates a program for the consolidation of traffic-based financial obligations from multiple courts of limited jurisdiction into a consolidated payment plan, to help reinstate driving privileges that are suspended because of failure to comply with a notice of traffic infraction, criminal complaint, or citation for a moving violation.

Amending the application of the occupational disease presumption for cancer for Hanford site workers.

Concerning employer and employee scheduling.

Revises labor regulations regarding employer and employee scheduling.

Requires an employer to: (1) At the time of hire, provide a new covered employee a written good faith estimate of the employee's work schedule;

(2) Provide a written work schedule at least fourteen calendar days before the first day of the work schedule;

(3) Compensate an employee for each employer-requested change to the employee's written work schedule that occurs after the required advance notice; and

Concerning industrial insurance wage loss.

Revises the state industrial insurance act regarding the computation of wages and lost earning capacity of workers, and additional payments for prior pensioners.

Authorizing cities and counties to impose additional taxes for affordable housing.

Authorizes counties and cities to impose an additional excise tax on the purchase and sale of real property in its jurisdiction at the rate of one-half of one percent of the selling price with the proceeds of the tax being used for the development of affordable housing.

Aligning statutory redistricting deadlines to the Constitution.

Establishing the joint legislative task force on criminal sentencing.

Creates the joint legislative task force on criminal sentencing and requires the task force to review state sentencing laws and develop recommendations for: (1) Reducing sentencing implementation complexities and errors;

(2) Improving the effectiveness of the sentencing system; and

(3) Promoting and improving public safety.

Improving climate science education.

Requires common schools to give instruction in science with special reference to the environmental and sustainability standards.

Requires the superintendent of public instruction to establish and manage a grant program for nonprofit community-based organizations and educational service districts to create and implement plans to provide teacher training in next generation science standards, including climate science standards.

-- 2019 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 23	First reading, referred to Education.