Concerning athletic trainers.

Authorizes a licensed athletic trainer to: (1) Purchase, store, and administer over-the-counter medications such as pain relievers and other similar medications;

(2) Draw-up and administer the other drugs or medications as prescribed by an authorized health care practitioner for the practice of athletic training; and

(3) After completion of an anaphylaxis training program, administer an epinephrine autoinjector to an individual who is experiencing anaphylaxis.

Requires an athletic trainer to complete a one-time training in suicide assessment, treatment, and management.

Revises the meaning of "athletic trainer" to require an athletic trainer to be licensed as a health care provider.

Concerning short subdivisions.

Concerning funding and administering local government infrastructure by the public works board.

Protecting information concerning agency employees who have filed a claim of harassment or stalking.

Prohibits an agency from disclosing records concerning an employee who made a claim of harassment or stalking with the agency, if the record is requested by a person alleged in the claim to have harassed or stalked the employee.

Establishing a system for setting rates for health care services.

Creates the health care rate-setting commission and requires the commission to: (1) Establish and approve rates for certain health care entities;

(2) Initiate reviews and investigations of rates for health care services;

(3) Develop methodologies for determining whether or not rates for health care services meet certain criteria and establish new rates as necessary;

(4) Compile and maintain financial, accounting, and patient discharge data;

(5) Establish interagency agreements to obtain data from other state agencies;

(6) Establish a schedule for updating adopted rates; and

(7) Commence rate-setting activities applicable to certain hospitals and physician provider organizations involved in the merger, acquisition, or contracting affiliation.

Requires the department of health to provide administrative and research support to the commission.

Expects other agencies to collaborate with the department to provide data for the commission to conduct its work.

Requires medical records and health care information that is submitted to the commission to: (1) Be confidential in compliance with chapter 70.02 RCW and federal health care information privacy requirements; and

Allowing tenants to pay certain sums in installments.

Requires a landlord, upon receipt of a tenant's written request, to permit the tenant to pay deposits, nonrefundable fees, and last month's rent in installments.

Concerning pavement condition reporting requirements for cities and towns.

Concerning wage and salary information.

Prohibits an employer from: (1) Seeking the wage or salary history of an applicant for employment from the applicant or a current or former employer; or

(2) Requiring that an applicant's prior wage or salary history meet certain criteria.

Requires an employer, upon request of an applicant for employment, to provide the wage scale or salary range for the job title for the position for which the applicant is applying.

Requires the director of the department of labor and industries, upon complaint by an employee, to: (1) Investigate to determine whether an employer has violated this act; and

Concerning health coverage for young adults.

Requires the state health care authority to provide health coverage to individuals who: (1) Are between the ages of nineteen and twenty-six years old;

(2) Have a countable income that is at or below one hundred thirty-three percent of the federal poverty level;

(3) Are not incarcerated; and

(4) Are not eligible for categorically needy medical assistance as defined in the social security Title XIX state plan.

Requiring disclosure of federal income tax returns of presidential candidates prior to appearing in the primary.

Requires a candidate for presidential nomination, by sixty-three days before the presidential preference primary is held, to: (1) Publicly release a copy of their federal income tax returns for at least the five most recent taxable years; or

(2) File their federal income tax returns with the secretary of state; and

(3) Provide written consent to the secretary of state for the public disclosure of the returns.

Requires the secretary of state to make federal income tax returns, filed or released, publicly available on its web site.

Concerning the deannexation of a portion of land from a park and recreation district.

Provides the requirements for a city, town, or county to withdraw a portion of the city, town, or county from a park and recreation district.

Establishing a special allegation and sentencing enhancement for the use or consumption of certain controlled substances in the presence of a person under the age of eighteen.

Notifying students of courses with low-cost instructional materials and open educational resources at the four-year institutions of higher education.

Requires the state universities, the regional universities, and The Evergreen State College to each designate in their online course descriptions that are used by students for registration purposes, whether a course uses open educational resources or low-cost required instructional materials.

Informing students of low-cost course materials for community and technical college courses.

Requires a community or technical college to provide information to students during registration by displaying the following in the online course description: Whether a course uses low-cost required instructional materials.

Increasing tax exemption transparency and accountability.

Establishes the tax exemption transparency and accountability act.

Creates a discretionary tax expenditure budget as part of the biennial budget adopted by the legislature.

Reforms the tax expenditure process by including those tax expenditures that do not have an expiration date established in law or tax expenditures that the legislative auditor has recommended should be terminated or reviewed and clarified.

Requires that those tax preferences that have no expiration date in law or have been recommended for review and clarification: (1) Receive a review, clarification, performance measures, and expiration date;

(2) Are readopted every two years as part of the budget process; or

Concerning transfer of credit policies when there are revisions to lower-division course requirements.

Requires the statewide transfer of credit policy and agreement to provide a process for revisions and changes to lower-division course requirements that provide for the following: (1) Once changes in lower-division baccalaureate degree course requirements have been adopted and published, public four-year institutions shall allow a grace period of five years before the changes become effective for transfer students; and

Charging an owner or placing a lien against the owner's property for utility services provided and billed to a tenant.

Prohibits a city or town, when it provides utility services to someone other than the owner of the property, from: (1) Collecting delinquent utility charges from the owner; or

Eliminating subminimum wage certificates for persons with disabilities.

Modifying qualifications for disabled veterans to receive fee exempt license plates.

Concerning recreational fishing and hunting licenses.

Ensuring that offenders who are incarcerated and commit murder may be charged with the death penalty.

Creates a death penalty review panel.

Requires the prosecuting attorney to: (1) If a person is charged with aggravated first degree murder and the murder occurred while the person was already serving a term of incarceration, forward a request for review along with all relevant materials to the panel for a determination of whether the death penalty should be sought;

(2) If a majority of the panel recommends pursuing the death penalty, file written notice of a special sentencing proceeding to determine whether or not the death penalty should be imposed.

Concerning high occupancy vehicle lane penalties.

Specifies that the monetary penalty for a traffic infraction regarding high-occupancy vehicle lanes and limited access facilities is: (1) A one hundred dollar base penalty plus statutory assessments for the first offense;

(2) A two hundred twenty-five dollar base penalty plus statutory assessments for the second offense; and

Concerning new counties.

Authorizing vehicles or combinations of vehicles carrying farm products to exceed total gross weight limits by two thousand pounds.

Authorizes vehicles or combinations of vehicles that are carrying farm products to exceed certain weight limits by up to two thousand pounds when operating on a highway that is not part of the federal-aid interstate system.

Improving law enforcement response to missing and murdered Native American women.

Creates two missing and murdered Native American women liaison positions, within the Washington state patrol, to work to build relationships to increase trust between governmental organizations and native communities.

Creates the legislative task force on missing and murdered Native American women to monitor and improve law enforcement response to missing persons reports for native American women.

Concerning community and technical colleges granting high school diplomas.

Removing school districts' ability to withhold pupils' grades and transcripts.

Concerning veterans' mental health services at institutions of higher education.

Extending the expiration date on the health sciences and services authority sales and use tax authorization.

Providing cities and counties flexibility with existing resources.

Authorizes the replacement of existing local government expenditures with proceeds from a locally imposed sales and use tax dedicated to mental health and substance abuse.

Allows counties to seek voter approval for the criminal justice levy.

Allows local governments to use revenue generated from a levy lid lift to supplant existing funds.

Establishes the developmental disability and mental health levy and the veterans' assistance levy.

Concerning mail theft.

Changes provisions of the crimes of mail theft and possession of stolen mail as follows: (1) One or more pieces of mail addressed to a particular mailbox constitutes a separate and distinct crime;

(2) Each separate address for a particular mailbox constitutes a separate offense; and

Reducing state assessment requirements to only those required for federal purposes in order to facilitate removal of inequitable barriers to students.

Establishing certificate programs to educate behavioral health care professionals.

Requires the University of Washington school of social work, in collaboration with the University of Washington department of psychology, the University of Washington department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences division of public behavioral health and justice policy, to establish a certificate program in evidence-based dialectical behavior therapy practices that have shown to be effective in treating patients with mental health disorders and those at risk of suicide.

Requires the planning committee to: (1) Include whether a credentialed health care professional has a certificate in dialectical behavior therapy in its criteria; and

(2) Devote fifty percent of the loan repayment awards to credentialed health care professionals who are employed in a designated health professional shortage area and providing behavioral health services.

Concerning local options for tabulating votes in an election.

Authorizes the use of ranked choice voting which is a system of counting votes in which votes are tabulated based on a voter's ranking of candidates in order of preference.

Creates a ranked choice voting work group to advise and aid the secretary of state in drafting rules to implement this act.

Establishing the active transportation safety advisory council.

Changes the name of the pedestrian safety advisory council to the active transportation safety advisory council, and requires the council to review and analyze data and programs related to fatalities and serious injuries involving pedestrians, bicyclists, and other nonmotorists.

Concerning the mitigation of public facilities in certain cities.

Requires certain cities, that permit, construct, or operate a public facility in a neighborhood with a high poverty level and a high rate of ethnic diversity, to: (1) Assume the responsibility for the negative impacts that facility has had or might have on the surrounding neighborhood;

(2) Consider the potential or actual disparate racial, social, and economic impacts of the public facility on residents nearby; and

Implementing the recommendations of the pesticide application safety work group.

Creates the pesticide application safety committee and requires it to: (1) Explore how the department of agriculture, the department of labor and industries, the department of health, and the Washington poison center collect and track data; and

(2) Consider the feasibility and requirements of developing a shared database, including how the department of health could use existing tools, to better display multiagency data regarding pesticides.

Creates an advisory work group to collect information and make recommendations to the full committee on topics requiring unique expertise and perspectives on issues within the jurisdiction of the committee.

Concerning services provided by health care professional students.

Concerning gift cards.

Preventing the sexual harassment and sexual assault of certain isolated workers.

Requires every hospitality, retail, behavioral health care, or custodial employer, or labor contractor who employs a custodian, security guard, hotel or motel housekeeper, or worker who spends a majority of his or her working hours alongside two or fewer coworkers at a location that is not his or her home to: (1) Adopt a sexual harassment policy;

(2) Provide mandatory training to the managers, supervisors, and employees;

(3) Provide a list of resources for the employees to use; and

(4) Provide a panic button to each worker that spends most of his or her working hours alongside two or fewer coworkers at a location that is not his or her home.

Establishing a streamlined process to increase the capacity of certain mental health providers to offer substance use disorder treatment.

Requires the department of health to: (1) Develop training standards for the certification of the following licensed health care providers as chemical dependency counselors: Psychologists, independent clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, and mental health counselors;

(2) In developing the training standards, consult with the examining board of psychology, the Washington state mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and social workers advisory committee, and educational institutions that train psychologists, marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and independent clinical social workers;

(3) Contract with an educational program to offer the training; and

(4) Contract with an entity to provide a telephonic consultation service to assist health care providers with the diagnosis and treatment of patients with co-occurring behavioral health disorders.

Concerning the effect of payment or acknowledgment made after the expiration of a limitations period.

Continuing the work of the Washington food policy forum.

Requires the Washington food policy forum to develop recommendations to advance the following food system goals: (1) Increase the availability of Washington-grown foods throughout the state;

(2) Expand and promote programs that bring healthy and nutritious Washington-grown foods to Washington residents;

(3) Examine ways to encourage retention of an adequate number of farmers for small and mid-scale farms, meet the educational needs for the next generation of farmers, and provide for the continued economic viability of food production, processing, and distribution;

(4) Reduce food insecurity and hunger; and

(5) Identify ways to improve coordination and communication among city, county, regional, and state food policy entities and communication between those entities and state agencies.

Provides a July 1, 2021, expiration date for the food policy forum.

Concerning identifying and responding to bias-based criminal offenses.

Changes the terms "handicap" to "disability" and "malicious harassment" to "hate crime."

Retaining productive farmland.

Requires the state conservation commission to develop a form and process for an agricultural land assessment to be completed by a state agency before the acquisition of an interest in real property when the interest includes agricultural land.

Requiring accreditation standards for college in the high school programs.

Concerning higher education programs.

Requires the state board for community and technical colleges to: (1) Implement the guided pathways model at each community and technical college; and

(2) Contract with an entity with expertise in higher education and behavioral health to develop a plan for colleges to offer behavioral health services.

Requires The Evergreen State College to implement the Evergreen first-year experience program and precollege immersion programs.

Requires the state institute for public policy to conduct an evaluation of the Evergreen first-year experience program.

Requires institutions of higher education to add the following to newly issued student identification cards: National, state, or local suicide hotlines; emergency contact numbers; and information on behavioral health counseling services.

Requires Central Washington University to hire additional mental health counselors, case managers, a psychiatrist, and a faculty lecturer, and create additional graduate assistantships to improve mental health services for students.

Requires Eastern Washington University to train students, successful in math and science classes, to be peer mentors and provide supplemental instruction.

Requires Western Washington University to implement an enhanced career services model with embedded, integrated, and specialized services to increase student success and completion.

Creates the public service graduate degree conditional grant program at the University of Washington.

Creates the public service graduate degree conditional grant account.

Concerning tax relief for veterans and service members with disabilities to purchase adaptive agricultural equipment.

Provides a sales and use tax exemption, in the form of a remittance, for eligible purchasers who have paid the tax levied by RCW 82.08.020 on adaptive agricultural equipment, including charges incurred for labor and services in respect to the purchase, installation, modification, or repair of the adaptive equipment.

Concerning utility service annexation covenants.

Relieving burdens on small businesses by updating the tax return filing thresholds to reflect inflation.

Concerning firearms that are undetectable or untraceable.

Prohibits a person from knowingly or recklessly allowing, facilitating, aiding, or abetting the manufacture or assembly of an undetectable firearm or untraceable firearm if he or she: (1) Is ineligible to possess a firearm; or

Concerning individuals placed in minimum security status by the department of children, youth, and families.

Concerning rabies antibody titers as proof of immunity.

Specifies that positive antibody titer results constitute serological proof of immunity for rabies and are acceptable to meet rabies vaccination requirements by agencies in the state for dogs, cats, or other household pets.

-- 2019 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 29	First reading, referred to Rural Development, Agriculture, & Natural Resources.