Concerning commercial property assessed clean energy and resilience.

Authorizes the establishment of a commercial property assessed clean energy and resiliency (C-PACER) program that jurisdictions can voluntarily implement to ensure that free and willing owners of agricultural, commercial, and industrial properties and multifamily residential properties with five or more dwelling units can obtain low-cost, long-term financing for qualifying improvements, including energy efficiency, water conservation, renewable energy, and resiliency projects.

Requires the department of commerce to: (1) Establish a voluntary statewide C-PACER program to administer the approval and municipal recordation of qualified improvements; and

(2) Allocate appropriated funds to cover start-up costs associated with the voluntary statewide program over the course of the first twenty-four months following the designation of a contracted program administrator.

Concerning petitions for proposed transfer of school district territory.

Authorizes a petitioner to file a written request, with the educational service district superintendent, for a hearing by the regional committee, if the affected school districts agree to dismiss a proposed transfer of territory initiated by citizen petition.

Concerning foundational public health services.

Addresses the governmental public health system which is comprised of the department of health, state board of health, local health jurisdictions, sovereign tribal nations, and Indian health programs.

Requires funding for the governmental public health system to be restructured to support foundational public health services, and in restructuring, there must be efforts to reinforce current governmental public health system capacity and implement service delivery models allowing for system stabilization and transformation.

Requires funding for foundational public health services to be appropriated to the office of financial management.

Protecting tenants in residential tenancies.

Prohibits a landlord from evicting or attempting to evict, or otherwise terminating or attempting to terminate, the tenancy of a tenant without a court order which may be issued by a court only after: (1) The landlord pleads cause with specificity;

(2) The tenant has an opportunity at a show cause hearing to contest the eviction; and

(3) The landlord proves that cause exists.

Prohibits a landlord from terminating a fixed term tenancy before completion of the term.

Concerning the hospital safety net assessment.

Allows funds from the hospital safety net assessment program to be used: (1) Instead of payments from the general fund for medicaid hospital services through the 2023-2025 biennium; and

(2) For integrated evidence-based psychiatry residency program slots and family medicine residency program slots.

Concerning the appropriate age for juvenile court adjudication.

Concerning the funding allocation for special education programs.

Concerning confinement in juvenile rehabilitation facilities.

Addresses the transfer and incarceration of youth, to or from the department of children, youth, and families (DCYF), the department of corrections (DOC), or the department of social and health services (DSHS).

Requires the DCYF to review the placement of an individual over age twenty-one who was placed in the custody of the DCYF following an adult court felony conviction for an offense committed before age eighteen to determine whether the individual should be transferred to the custody of the DOC.

Requires an individual in the custody of the DSHS or the DCYF on or before the effective date of this act, under the age of eighteen at the time of the offense and convicted as an adult, to remain in the custody of the DCYF until transfer to the DOC or release.

Requires the DOC and the DCYF to establish a multidisciplinary interagency team to conduct a case-by-case review of the transfer of individuals from the DOC to the DCYF.

Requiring postsecondary institutions to plan for the needs of certain students experiencing homelessness.

Requires college districts, in order to plan for the unique needs and challenges of homeless students, to: (1) Develop a capital project plan to renovate or rehabilitate an existing building or facility within the district to provide laundry facilities, storage units, showers, and lockers; and

(2) Attempt to engage with the local housing authority to provide tenant-based rental assistance programs.

Requires the four-year institutions of higher education, in order to plan for the unique needs and challenges of homeless students, to: (1) As part of its submission to the office of financial management and the legislative fiscal committees, develop a capital project plan to renovate or rehabilitate an existing building or facility to provide laundry facilities, storage units, showers, and lockers; and

Promoting affordable housing in unincorporated areas of rural counties within urban growth areas.

Creating the secure choice retirement savings program.

Establishes the secure choice retirement savings program act.

Creates the secure choice retirement savings program to facilitate voluntary retirement savings by workers by creating an IRA savings program with automatic enrollment and requiring employers that do not offer a retirement plan to make the program available to their employees.

Creates the secure choice retirement savings trust which is an IRA retirement trust or annuity contract.

Removes requirements of the state small business retirement marketplace regarding the myRA retirement program administered by the United States department of the treasury.

Making changes to support future operations of the state all payer claims database by transferring the responsibility to the health care authority, partnering with a lead organization with broad data experience, including with self-insured employers, and other changes to improve and ensure successful and sustainable database operations for access to and use of the data to improve health care, providing consumers useful and consistent quality and cost measures, and assess total cost of care in Washington state.

Transfers powers, duties, and functions of the office of financial management provided in chapter 43.371 RCW (statewide health care claims data), except as otherwise specified in this act, to the state health care authority.

Requires the office of financial management to transfer authority and oversight for the database to the state health care authority; and along with the authority, develop a transition plan that sustains operations.

Requires the authority to, in order to assess and improve performance of the database by state agencies, convene a state agency coordinating structure consisting of state agencies with related data needs to ensure effectiveness of the database and the agencies' programs.

Concerning special licenses and permits issued by the liquor and cannabis board.

Revises the definition of "society or organization" to mean as used in a not-for-profit group organized and operated as a fraternal society, order, or association registered under Title 26 U.S.C. Sec. 501(c)(8) or (10) of the internal revenue code.

Creates a special permit designated as a banquet permit that will be issued to a not-for-profit society or a charitable organization to provide spirits, beer, and wine by the individual serving, free of charge, for on-premises consumption at a specified date and place.

Concerning vehicle taxation.

Concerning commercially sexually exploited children.

Requires the office of homeless youth prevention and protection programs to administer funding for two receiving center programs for commercially sexually exploited youth, one west and one east of the Cascade mountains.

Authorizes a law enforcement officer who takes a juvenile into custody and believes that the juvenile may be the victim of sexual exploitation, to transport the youth to an evaluation and treatment facility, including the receiving centers, for an evaluation for behavioral health treatment, including minor-initiated treatment, parent-initiated treatment, or involuntary treatment.

Requires the commercially sexually exploited children statewide coordinating committee to compile data on the number of juveniles taken into custody under RCW 43.185C.260 (section 7 of this act).

-- 2019 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 30	First reading, referred to Human Services, Reentry & Rehabilitation.