STATE OF WASHINGTON
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
68th Legislature - 2023 Regular Session
LAURIE JINKINS TINA ORWALL
Speaker Speaker Pro Tempore
BERNARD DEAN, Chief Clerk
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS FOURTH ORDER OF BUSINESS
Introduction and First Reading of
Bills, Memorials, Joint Resolutions and Concurrent Resolutions
March 8, 2023 - Wednesday 59TH DAY 2023 Regular Session
NOT OFFICIAL UNTIL ADOPTED
PLEASE NOTE:
Added sponsor Pink Slips must be in the WORKROOM or on the Rostrum by 2:00 PM today.
ESSB 5102 By Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education (originally sponsored by Senators Wellman, Frame, Hunt, Liias, Saldaña, Trudeau, Valdez and Wilson, C.)
Concerning school library information and technology programs.
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION.
2SSB 5134 By Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Wilson, C., Dhingra, Frame, Hasegawa, Kuderer, Nguyen, Nobles, Randall, Saldaña and Wellman)
Concerning reentry services and supports.
Referred to Committee on COMMUNITY SAFETY, JUSTICE, & REENTRY.
SSB 5178 By Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Fortunato and Gildon)
Concerning large debris removal from state highways.
Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION.
E2SSB 5236 By Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Robinson, Keiser, Conway, Frame, Hunt, Kauffman, Lovelett, Nguyen, Nobles, Pedersen, Shewmake, Stanford, Trudeau, Valdez and Wilson, C.)
Concerning hospital staffing standards.
Referred to Committee on LABOR & WORKPLACE STANDARDS.
2SSB 5268 By Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Hasegawa, Warnick, Hunt, Keiser, Kuderer, Nguyen, Nobles, Saldaña, Valdez, Wagoner and Wilson, C.)
Addressing equity and efficiencies in public works procurement including modifying small works roster requirements.
Referred to Committee on INNOVATION, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, & VETERANS.
2SSB 5290 By Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Mullet, Kuderer, Fortunato, Liias, Nobles, Saldaña and Wilson, C.; by request of Office of the Governor)
Concerning consolidating local permit review processes.
Referred to Committee on LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
SSB 5318 By Senate Committee on Human Services (originally sponsored by Senators Nobles, Kuderer, Nguyen and Wilson, C.)
Limiting estate recovery.
Referred to Committee on CIVIL RIGHTS & JUDICIARY.
SB 5330 By Senators Torres, Muzzall, Shewmake, Van De Wege, Warnick, Kuderer and Lovick; by request of Department of Agriculture
Concerning the Washington pesticide application act.
Referred to Committee on AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES.
ESSB 5334 By Senate Committee on Local Government, Land Use & Tribal Affairs (originally sponsored by Senators Lovelett, Kuderer, Frame, Hasegawa, Nguyen, Nobles and Wilson, C.)
Providing a local government option for the funding of essential affordable housing programs.
Referred to Committee on LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
SSB 5358 By Senate Committee on State Government & Elections (originally sponsored by Senators Gildon, Nobles, Conway, Holy, Lovelett, Nguyen, Randall, Torres, Wagoner, Wellman, Wilson, C. and Wilson, L.)
Expanding veterans' services and programs.
Referred to Committee on INNOVATION, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, & VETERANS.
SSB 5388 By Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care (originally sponsored by Senators Rivers, Cleveland, Muzzall, Conway, Frame, Hasegawa, Keiser, Lovelett, Lovick, Pedersen, Rolfes, Saldaña, Valdez and Wilson, C.)
Concerning improving diversity in clinical trials.
Referred to Committee on HEALTH CARE & WELLNESS.
SSB 5389 By Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care (originally sponsored by Senators Cleveland, Rivers, Robinson, Van De Wege, Conway, Holy, Schoesler, Wilson, L., Lovick, Randall and Wilson, C.)
Concerning the practice of optometry.
Referred to Committee on HEALTH CARE & WELLNESS.
SB 5390 By Senators Shewmake, Warnick, Rolfes, Stanford, Nguyen and Wilson, C.
Establishing a programmatic safe harbor agreement on forestlands.
Referred to Committee on AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES.
2SSB 5412 By Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Salomon, Liias, Kuderer, Lovelett, Mullet and Pedersen)
Reducing local governments' land use permitting workloads.
Referred to Committee on LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
SSB 5415 By Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Trudeau, Pedersen, Dhingra, Saldaña, Valdez and Wilson, C.)
Concerning public defense services for persons committed as not guilty by reason of insanity.
Referred to Committee on CIVIL RIGHTS & JUDICIARY.
SSB 5433 By Senate Committee on Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks (originally sponsored by Senators Muzzall, Shewmake, Liias, Lovelett, MacEwen, Nguyen and Salomon; by request of Department of Natural Resources)
Concerning the removal of derelict aquatic structures and restoration of aquatic lands.
Referred to Committee on AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES.
2SSB 5454 By Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Cleveland, Robinson, King, Keiser, Van De Wege, Conway, Kuderer, Liias, Nguyen, Shewmake, Stanford and Valdez)
Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting registered nurses.
Referred to Committee on LABOR & WORKPLACE STANDARDS.
SSB 5499 By Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care (originally sponsored by Senators Mullet, Rivers, King, Cleveland, Braun, Muzzall, Gildon, Hunt and Padden)
Concerning the multistate nurse licensure compact.
Referred to Committee on POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION & WORKFORCE.
SSB 5523 By Senate Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development (originally sponsored by Senators Dhingra, Conway, Nobles, Shewmake, Trudeau and Wilson, C.)
Addressing the forensic pathologist shortage.
Referred to Committee on POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION & WORKFORCE.
2SSB 5532 By Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators King, Cleveland, Lovelett, Warnick and Wellman)
Providing enhanced payment to low volume, small rural hospitals.
Referred to Committee on HEALTH CARE & WELLNESS.
SSB 5538 By Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Cleveland, Dhingra and Wilson, C.)
Concerning postretirement employment in nursing positions for a state agency.
Referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
SSB 5547 By Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care (originally sponsored by Senators Robinson, Muzzall, Hasegawa and Mullet)
Concerning nursing pool transparency.
Referred to Committee on HEALTH CARE & WELLNESS.
E2SSB 5582 By Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Holy, Randall, Rivers, Robinson, Dozier, King, Conway, Shewmake, Padden, Lovick, Gildon, Muzzall, Lovelett, Mullet, Nobles, Saldaña, Valdez, Van De Wege, Wellman, Wilson, C. and Wilson, L.)
Reducing barriers and expanding educational opportunities to increase the supply of nurses in Washington.
Referred to Committee on POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION & WORKFORCE.
SB 5621 By Senators Muzzall, Robinson, Keiser, Lovelett, Rolfes, Schoesler, Short, Wagoner and Warnick
Protecting workers displaced due to finfish aquaculture facility closure.
Referred to Committee on LABOR & WORKPLACE STANDARDS.
SB 5700 By Senators Van De Wege, Cleveland and Dhingra; by request of Health Care Authority
Modernizing state health care authority related laws.
Referred to Committee on HEALTH CARE & WELLNESS.
SB 5732 By Senators Randall, Rolfes, Conway, Hasegawa, Hunt, Kuderer, Lovelett, Shewmake, Stanford, Valdez and Wilson, C.
Protecting senior citizens' and disabled veterans' property tax exemption eligibility.
Referred to Committee on FINANCE.
SJM 8006 By Senators Hasegawa, Cleveland, Billig, Kuderer, Lovelett, Nguyen, Shewmake, Stanford, Valdez and Wilson, C.
Requesting that the federal government create a universal health care program.
Referred to Committee on HEALTH CARE & WELLNESS.