Concerning reviews of voluntary cleanups.

Finds that: (1) Cleaning up and redeveloping contaminated property is essential to the health and economic prosperity of our communities;

(2) Most cleanups are performed voluntarily by property owners and many of these owners request written opinions on the sufficiency of their voluntary cleanups from the department of ecology.

Authorizes the department of ecology to: (1) Establish a program to provide informal advice and assistance on the administrative and technical requirements of the model toxics control act to persons conducting or interested in conducting independent remedial actions at facilities where there is a suspected or confirmed release of hazardous substances; and

(2) Collect costs incurred by it in providing advice and assistance from people requesting the advice and assistance under the program.

Declares an intent to: (1) Cleanup and redevelop contaminated properties in our communities;

(2) Provide the department with additional tools and resources for conducting expedited reviews of voluntary cleanups; and

(3) Waive the department's costs of reviewing voluntary cleanups to encourage voluntary cleanups of these properties.

Concerning impaired driving.

Ensuring accurate redistricting.

Requires the department of corrections to furnish certain information, to the redistricting commission, regarding the last known place of residence of each inmate incarcerated in a state adult correctional facility.

Requires the department of social and health services to furnish certain information, to the redistricting commission, regarding the last known place of residence of each person who is at least eighteen years old and is residing or placed in a juvenile justice facility or involuntary commitment facility.

Prohibits the department of corrections from furnishing information for inmates whose last known place of residence is outside the state or cannot be determined.

Sentencing for persistent offenders who committed crimes as juveniles.

Requires an offender to have a resentencing hearing, in a criminal case where he or she has been sentenced as a persistent offender, if a current or past conviction for assault or robbery in the second degree was used as a basis for the finding that the offender was a persistent offender.

Requires the prosecuting attorney for the county in which an offender was sentenced as a persistent offender to review each sentencing document.

Concerning nonprofit homeownership development.

Eliminating the use of the valid court order exception to place youth in detention for noncriminal behavior.

Finds that: (1) This state, more than any other state in the country, has been using the valid court order exception of the juvenile justice and delinquency prevention act, a loophole in federal law allowing judges to detain status offenders for disobeying court orders;

(2) Use of the exception to detain youth for acts like truancy, breaking curfew, or running away from home is counterproductive;

(3) These youth should not be confined with or treated with the same intervention as criminal offenders; and

(4) Studies show a disproportionality in race, gender, and socioeconomic status of youth referred to courts or detained, or both.

Creating alternatives to total confinement for certain qualifying persons with minor children.

Concerning prescription drug cost transparency.

Requires an issuer to submit certain prescription drug cost and utilization data to the office of financial management for the previous calendar year.

Requires a covered manufacturer to: (1) Report specific data to the office of financial management for each covered drug; and

Concerning energy efficiency.

Increases energy efficiency and the use of renewable fuels that reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions in the state and provides a public utility tax credit against the taxes owing by utilities for the incentives provided for the implementation by eligible building owners of energy efficiency and renewable energy measures.

Requires the department of commerce to: (1) Establish by rule a state energy performance standard for covered commercial buildings; and

(2) Establish a state energy performance standard early adoption incentive program.

Requires each qualifying utility to administer incentive payments for the state energy performance standard early adoption incentive program.

Allows a light and power business or a gas distribution business a public utility tax credit against certain taxes due.

Requires each gas company to identify and acquire all conservation measures that are available and cost-effective.

Requires the utilities and transportation commission to establish a schedule of annual minimum renewable natural gas acquisition targets for each gas company as a percentage of the company's total quantity sales to retail customers.

Permits a city, town, or county to adopt additional residential energy code requirements as developed by the state building code council.

Creating leave provisions for legislative service.

Requires an employer to grant a temporary leave of absence without loss of job status or seniority to an employee who is a member of the state legislature in order for that employee to perform any official duty as a member of the legislature during regular and special legislative sessions.

Concerning labor neutrality and contractor compliance for certain contracted service providers.

Requires a contract entered into by the department of social and health services with a private contractor for adult care, behavioral health, disability support, or youth services to contain a provision that requires the private contractor to have a labor neutrality agreement between it and any labor organization representing or seeking to represent the employees of the private contractor who perform or will perform work under the contract.

Concerning the liquor and cannabis board.

Directs the state liquor and cannabis board to: (1) Initiate and maintain rule-making efforts and, if deemed appropriate by the board, adopt rules to address certain liquor issues; and

Extending collective bargaining rights to assistant attorneys general.

Grants the right to assistant attorneys general to collectively bargain unless otherwise excluded below.

Excludes the following from collective bargaining: Division chiefs, deputy attorneys general, the solicitor general, special assistant attorneys general, certain confidential employees, and any assistant or deputy attorney general who reports directly to the attorney general.

Regarding labeling of marijuana products.

Concerning impaired driving.

Providing coroners with additional subpoena duces tecum authority.

Providing a sales and use tax exemption for diapers.

Creating an office of the homeowners' association ombuds.

Creates the office of the homeowners' association ombuds within the office of the attorney general.

Addressing motorcycle safety.

Revises provisions regarding: The state motorcycle safety program; two-wheeled and three-wheeled motorcycle instruction permits; administration of motorcycle instruction permit examinations; issuance and terms of permits; and composition of the motorcycle safety education advisory board.

Concerning the financing of local infrastructure.

Authorizes the housing finance commission to develop and implement a program to provide financing to local governments for infrastructure projects.

Concerning electric utility wildland fire prevention.

Creating the capacity for the state treasurer's office to provide separately managed investment portfolios to eligible governmental entities.

Requires money remitted for pooled investment under chapter 43.250 RCW (investment of local government funds) to be deposited in the public funds investment account.

Creates a trust fund to be known as the separately managed public funds investment account; and a trust fund to be known as the separately managed state agency investment account. These accounts are to be separately accounted for and invested by the state treasurer.

Creates a separately managed state treasurer's service account in the custody of the state treasurer.

Adding the treasurer to the public works board.

Concerning performance-based contracting services by energy service contractors.

Requires the department of enterprise services to review the registry of energy service contractors at least annually and, if necessary, revise the registry by adding or removing contractors based on qualifications established by the department.

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

Correcting agency names and accounts in statutes to reflect the organizational structure, duties, and responsibilities of the office of financial management.

Eliminating, revising, or decodifying obsolete or inactive statutory provisions that concern the office of financial management.

Concerning appropriations for special education programs.

Concerning school levies.

Assisting Washington families by improving the fairness of the state's tax system by enacting a capital gains tax and providing property tax relief.

Increasing student support staff in the prototypical school funding model.

Concerning school district enrichment levies.

Concerning nonfirearm measures to increase school safety and student well-being.

Requires the superintendent of public instruction to establish a school safety center.

Requires each educational service district to establish a regional school safety center.

Provides that the regional school safety centers, working in collaboration with one another and the state school safety center, form a statewide network for school safety for the purpose of providing coordination of school safety efforts throughout the state and school safety resources to the school districts in each educational service district region.

Creates the school safety and student well-being advisory committee, within the office of the superintendent of public instruction, to advise the superintendent, the office of the superintendent of public instruction's school safety center, the regional school safety centers, school districts, and public and private schools on comprehensive school safety and student well-being.

Requires each school district to adopt a policy and procedure to establish a school-based threat assessment program.

Requires the Washington state school directors' association, in collaboration with the office of the superintendent of public instruction, to develop a model policy and procedure to establish a school-based threat assessment program.

Requires the superintendent of public instruction to monitor public schools and school districts, at least once every five years, to ensure they are meeting the following requirements relating to: Comprehensive safe school plans; plans for recognition, initial screening, and response to emotional or behavioral distress in students; and school-based threat assessment programs.

Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to conduct a study of school districts' use of the first responder mapping information system.

Changes the composition of the emergency management council by including the office of the superintendent of public instruction.

Reforming the compliance and enforcement provisions for marijuana licensees.

Revises the uniform controlled substances act with regard to compliance and enforcement provisions for marijuana licensees.

Requires the state liquor and cannabis board to prescribe procedures for: (1) Issuance of written warnings in lieu of violations that have no relationship to public safety;

(2) Waiving fines, civil penalties, or administrative sanctions for violations, that have no relationship to public safety, and are corrected by the licensee as specified by the board; and

Concerning the reimbursement rate primary care providers receive to participate in medicaid.

Establishing a nonlethal program within the department of fish and wildlife for the purpose of training dogs.

Requires the department of fish and wildlife to: (1) Adopt by rule a process and criteria to select persons who may act as agents of the state for the purpose of using one or more dogs to hunt or pursue black bear, cougar, or bobcat to protect livestock, domestic animals, private property, or the public safety;

(2) Establish by rule the requirements a person must comply with when applying for the program; and

Concerning ticket sales over the internet.

Prohibits a person, firm, or corporation from: (1) Reselling or engaging in the business of reselling tickets to a place of entertainment without first having procured a ticket reseller license from the department of licensing for each location at which business will be conducted; or

(2) Operating an internet web site or other electronic service that provides a mechanism for two or more parties to participate in a resale transaction or that facilitates resale transactions by certain means without first having procured a ticket reseller license from the department of licensing for each location at which business will be conducted.

Ensuring compliance with the federal clean water act by prohibiting certain discharges into waters of the state.

Reducing pollution from plastic bags by establishing minimum state standards for the use of bags at retail establishments.

Prohibits a retail establishment from: (1) Providing to a customer or a person at an event: (a) A single-use plastic carryout bag; or (b) a paper carryout bag or reusable carryout bag made of film plastic that does not meet recycled content requirements; and

(2) Using or providing certain polyethylene or other noncompostable plastic bags.

Authorizes a retail establishment to provide a reusable carryout bag or a recycled content paper carryout bag of any size to a customer at the point of sale.

Requires a retail establishment to collect a pass-through charge of not less than ten cents for every recycled content paper carryout bag or reusable carryout bag made of film plastic it provides.

Prohibits a city, town, county, or municipal corporation from implementing a local carryout bag ordinance.

Concerning support for students experiencing homelessness.

Exempting certain standard financial information purchased by investment management companies from sales and use tax in order to improve industry competitiveness.

Provides a sales and use tax exemption on sales of standard financial information to qualifying international investment management companies, in order to maintain the presence of at least one international investment management services firm headquartered in the state with at least two hundred billion dollars of assets under management.

Concerning booth rental agreements.

Expanding career connected learning opportunities.

Creates a career connected learning cross-agency work group to: (1) Scale up and expand high-quality career connected learning opportunities in communities across the state; and

(2) Coordinate agency functions and external partnerships and carry out certain duties and responsibilities.

Establishes the career connected learning grant program as a competitive grant program to advance the strategic plan.

Creates the career connected learning account and allows the employment security department to use funds deposited in the account for purposes of the grant program.

Requires the following to employ or contract with at least one career connected learning coordinator: The state board for community and technical colleges, the University of Washington, Washington State University, the regional universities, and The Evergreen State College.

Concerning driver's license suspensions and revocations.

Addresses department of licensing requirements with regard to the relicensing program; the suspension and/or revocation of a driver's license; and failure to comply with the terms of a criminal complaint or criminal action.

Authorizes the department of licensing to administratively reinstate suspended licenses except those licenses: (1) That are suspended under Article IV of the nonresident violator compact or from a jurisdiction that has entered into an agreement with the department; and

Concerning updating and streamlining energy facility site evaluation council operations.

Analyzing state regulatory impact on small forest landowners.

Creates a legislative work group to analyze the state regulatory impact on small forest landowners.

Concerning long-term services and supports.

Addresses alternative funding for long-term care access.

States that the creation of a long-term care insurance benefit of an established dollar amount per day for eligible employees, paid through an employee payroll premium, is in the best interest of the state.

Creates the long-term services and supports trust commission.

Creates the long-term services and supports trust program.

Gives the state health care authority, the department of social and health services, and the employment security department distinct responsibilities in the implementation and administration of the program.

Creates the long-term services and supports trust account.

-- 2019 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 17	First reading, referred to Health & Long Term Care.

by Senators Hasegawa, Keiser, Frockt, Hunt, Kuderer, Pedersen, and Saldaña

Requesting that Congress establish more checks and balances to reduce the possibility of nuclear war.

Requests congress to establish more checks and balances to reduce the possibility of nuclear war.

-- 2019 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 17	First reading, referred to State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections.