 | WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE | |
| Legislative Digest No. 6 | ||
| SIXTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE | ||
| Tuesday, January 20, 2009 | 9th Day - 2009 Regular Session | |
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This publication includes digest and history for bills, joint memorials, joint resolutions, concurrent resolutions, initiatives, and substitutes. Engrossed measures may be republished if the amendment makes a substantive change.
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HB 1308
by Representatives Driscoll, Hinkle, Cody, Sells, Wood, Morrell, Kelley, Clibborn, Moeller, Pedersen, Hudgins, Ormsby, Parker, Chase, Kenney, Goodman, Bailey, Simpson, Herrera, and Nelson; by request of Insurance Commissioner
Reducing organ transplant benefit waiting periods based upon prior creditable coverage.
Declares an intent to reduce organ transplant benefit waiting periods for covered persons who have had prior continuous coverage and have changed health carriers or health benefit plans.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. | |
HB 1309
by Representatives Green, Ericksen, Appleton, Hinkle, Morrell, Rolfes, Cody, Moeller, Chase, Conway, Kenney, Goodman, Nelson, and Roberts
Regarding dental hygiene.
Expands the duties of dental hygienists.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. | |
HB 1310
by Representatives Kirby, Bailey, Ormsby, Morrell, Simpson, Nelson, and Kelley; by request of Department of Financial Institutions
Placing restrictions on check cashers' and sellers' communications when collecting delinquent small loans.
Restricts certain communications when check cashers and check sellers are in the process of collecting delinquent small loans.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance. | |
HB 1311
by Representatives Kirby, Bailey, Morrell, Sullivan, Kenney, Simpson, and Nelson; by request of Department of Financial Institutions
Regulating reverse mortgage lending practices.
Creates the Washington state reverse mortgage act.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance. | |
HB 1312
by Representatives Sells, Schmick, Wallace, Anderson, Driscoll, McCoy, Chase, Kenney, Carlyle, White, and Roberts
Eliminating the exclusive authority of the University of Washington and Washington State University to offer certain engineering courses.
Eliminates the exclusive authority of the University of Washington and Washington State University to offer certain engineering courses.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Higher Education. | |
HB 1313
by Representatives Clibborn and Liias; by request of Governor Gregoire
Making 2007-09 supplemental transportation appropriations.
Makes supplemental transportation appropriations for 2007-2009.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
HB 1314
by Representatives Clibborn and Liias; by request of Governor Gregoire
Making 2009-11 transportation appropriations.
Makes transportation appropriations for 2009-2011.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
HB 1315
by Representatives Quall, Conway, Sullivan, Simpson, and Wood; by request of Horse Racing Commission
Concerning the Washington horse racing commission Washington bred owners' bonus fund and breeder awards account.
Requires certain moneys to be paid to the horse racing commission at the end of a race meet for deposit in the Washington horse racing commission Washington bred owners' bonus fund and breeder awards account.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
HB 1316
by Representatives Kessler, Rodne, Simpson, O'Brien, Hunt, Hurst, Ormsby, Morrell, and Chase
Providing a court procedure to enjoin the production of public records the court deems were made for the purpose of harassment.
Provides that the examination and disclosure of any public record may be enjoined if, upon motion and affidavit by an agency or its representative or a person who is named in the record or to whom the request specifically pertains, the court finds that the request, or series of requests, was made for the purpose of harassing the agency, its employees, the person who is named in the record, or the person to whom the request specifically pertains.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Affairs. | |
HB 1317
by Representatives Kessler, Rodne, Simpson, O'Brien, Hunt, Hurst, Ormsby, Moeller, Chase, Sullivan, and Kelley
Regarding the disclosure of public records containing information used to locate or identify employees of criminal justice agencies.
Exempts from public inspection and copying under chapter 42.56 RCW, personal information such as photographs, day and month of birth, residential addresses, personal telephone numbers, and other personal information that can be used to locate employees of criminal justice agencies as defined in RCW 10.97.030.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Affairs. | |
HB 1318
by Representatives Kirby, Conway, Flannigan, Miloscia, Simpson, Moeller, Chase, and Wood
Providing for an increase in the property tax limit for emergency medical care and services.
Allows a six percent property tax limit for emergency medical care and service levies.Provides for submission of the act to a vote of the people.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Finance. | |
HB 1319
by Representatives Sullivan, Anderson, Miloscia, Dammeier, Hunt, Armstrong, Priest, Orwall, Morrell, Kenney, Simpson, and Kelley
Prohibiting school district employees from using public assets for private gain.
Prohibits a school district employee from employing or using any person, money, or property under the employee's official control or direction, in his or her official custody, or without authorization, for the private benefit or gain of the employee or another.Directs the office of the superintendent of public instruction to adopt disciplinary guidelines for violations of the act.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1320
by Representatives VanDeWege, Kessler, Takko, Blake, Morrell, and Smith
Modifying provisions relating to sexual misconduct by school employees.
Protects registered school students from sexual misconduct by school employees.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness. | |
HB 1321
by Representatives Kenney, McCoy, Haler, Chandler, Ericks, Ormsby, Hasegawa, Pettigrew, Walsh, Klippert, and Armstrong
Concerning the tax on cleaning up radioactive waste and other byproducts of weapons production and nuclear research and development.
Declares an intent to ensure that the radioactive waste cleanup business and occupation tax classification applies to all activities funded by the United States department of energy's environmental management budget and that any doubts or ambiguities in RCW 82.04.263 should be resolved consistent with this intent.Provides that the act applies retroactively.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Finance. | |
HB 1322
by Representatives Green, Morrell, Hinkle, Kirby, Kelley, Moeller, Blake, Seaquist, Rolfes, Cody, and Simpson
Repealing scoliosis screening in schools.
Repeals the program for scoliosis screening in schools.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. | |
HB 1323
by Representatives Kenney, Liias, Haler, Sullivan, Sells, Hasegawa, Maxwell, Chase, Ormsby, Conway, Goodman, Morrell, Driscoll, Simpson, and Orwall; by request of Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board
Providing for coordination of workforce and economic development.
Provides for coordination of workforce and economic development.Requires the employment security department to analyze labor market and economic data, including the use of input-output models, for the purpose of identifying industry clusters and strategic industry clusters that meet the criteria identified by the working group convened by the economic development commission and the workforce training and education coordinating board in RCW 43.330.280.Requires the state board for community and technical colleges, in consultation with business, industry, labor, the workforce training and education coordinating board, the department of community, trade, and economic development, the employment security department, and community and technical colleges, to designate centers of excellence and allocate funds to existing and new centers of excellence based on a competitive basis.Requires the workforce training and education coordinating board to work with the director of the department of community, trade, and economic development and the economic development commission to ensure coordination among workforce training priorities, the long-term economic development strategy of the economic development commission, and economic development and entrepreneurial development efforts, including but not limited to assistance to industry clusters.Directs the state comprehensive plan for workforce training and education to identify the strategic industry clusters targeted by the workforce development system. Requires workforce development councils, in partnership with local elected officials, to develop and maintain a local unified plan for the workforce development system including but not limited to the local plan required by P.L. 105-220, Title I.Requires the workforce training and education coordinating board to work with workforce development councils to develop implementation and funding strategies.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Community & Economic Development & Trade. | |
HB 1324
by Representatives O'Brien, Ericks, Goodman, Crouse, and Wood; by request of Criminal Justice Training Commission
Modifying the requirements of psychological examinations for peace officer certification.
Modifies requirements of psychological examinations for peace officer certification.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness. | |
HB 1325
by Representatives O'Brien, Ericks, Goodman, and Crouse; by request of Criminal Justice Training Commission
Addressing certification actions of Washington peace officers.
Addresses certification actions of Washington peace officers.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness. | |
HB 1326
by Representatives Blake, VanDeWege, Kretz, and Nelson; by request of Department of Fish and Wildlife
Establishing a license limitation program for harvest and delivery of Pacific sardines into the state.
Establishes a Washington Pacific sardine purse seine fishery license and a Washington Pacific sardine purse seine temporary annual fishery permit.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. | |
HB 1327
by Representatives Blake, VanDeWege, Kretz, and Nelson; by request of Department of Fish and Wildlife
Creating the fish and wildlife equipment revolving account.
Creates the fish and wildlife equipment revolving account.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. | |
HB 1328
by Representatives Carlyle, Morrell, Maxwell, Eddy, Anderson, Green, VanDeWege, Sells, White, Hasegawa, Wallace, Dunshee, Priest, McCoy, Dickerson, Williams, Ormsby, Finn, Liias, Kelley, Probst, Kenney, Hunt, Kessler, Pettigrew, Haigh, Goodman, Ericks, Blake, Jacks, Angel, Driscoll, Schmick, Hudgins, Hunter, Moeller, Chase, Springer, Conway, Sullivan, Rolfes, Simpson, Campbell, Santos, and Roberts
Allowing public technical colleges to offer associate transfer degrees.
Declares an intent to allow public technical colleges under the authority of the state board for community and technical colleges to offer associate transfer degrees that prepare students for professional bachelor's degrees.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Higher Education. | |
HB 1329
by Representatives Pettigrew, Conway, Kagi, Hunt, Seaquist, Sells, Priest, Kenney, Ormsby, Wood, Haigh, White, Chase, Herrera, Morrell, Liias, Green, Cody, Appleton, Hasegawa, Carlyle, Simpson, McCoy, Sullivan, Orwall, Goodman, Campbell, Hudgins, Moeller, Nelson, and Santos
Providing collective bargaining for child care center directors and workers.
Creates the access to quality child care workforce act.Finds that, as of 2009, the challenges posed by low wages and lack of training that the legislature identified in enacting the child care career and wage ladder persist, and the availability of quality child care in the state continues to suffer.Declares an intent to address these problems by creating the possibility for a new relationship between child care center directors and workers and the state. Child care center directors and workers are to be given the opportunity to work collectively to improve standards in their profession and to expand opportunities for educational advancement to ensure continuous quality improvement in the delivery of early learning services.Declares an intent to create a new type of collective bargaining for these directors and workers whereby they can come together and bargain with the state over matters within the state's purview to improve the quality of child care for the state's families. Unlike traditional collective bargaining, this new approach will afford these directors and workers the opportunity to bargain with the state only over the state's support for child care centers, a matter of common concern to both directors and workers.Provides that all child care center directors and workers will equally be able to maintain full membership in the organization that represents them in their efforts to improve the quality of child care they provide to the state's children. This new bargaining relationship does not intrude in any manner upon those relationships governed by the national labor relations act (29 U.S.C. Sec. 151 et seq.) Child care center directors and workers do not forfeit their rights under the national labor relations act by becoming members of an organization that represents them in their dealings with the state. Under the national labor relations act, an organization that represents child care center directors and workers in bargaining with the state under the act is precluded from representing workers seeking to engage in traditional collective bargaining with their employer over specific terms and conditions of employment at individual child care centers.Provides that the act is not intended to create any unfunded mandates or financial obligations on child care centers covered by the act.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
HB 1330
by Representatives Morrell, Green, Chase, Moeller, Conway, Kenney, Rolfes, and Santos
Supporting care for the elderly.
Finds that: (1) Washingtonians sixty-five years of age and older will nearly double in the next twenty years, from eleven percent of our population today to almost twenty percent of our population in 2025. Younger people with disabilities will also require supportive long-term care services. Nationally, young people with a disability account for thirty-seven percent of the total number of people who need long-term care;(2) To address this increasing need, the long-term care system should support autonomy and self-determination, support the role of informal caregivers and families, promote personal planning and savings combined with public support, when needed, and include culturally appropriate, high quality information, services, and supports delivered in a cost-effective and efficient manner;(3) The long-term care system should utilize evidence-based practices for the prevention and management of chronic disease to improve the general health of Washingtonians over their lifetime and reduce health care and long-term care costs related to ineffective chronic care management; and(4) Investments in family caregiver support, aging and disability resource centers, adult day care and chronic care management, have the potential to both improve the quality of life for individuals who require long-term care and also to result in long-term savings through home diversion and reduced emergency room use.Directs the department of social and health services to contract with area agencies on aging or other appropriate agencies to conduct family caregiver long-term care information and support services to the extent necessary to sufficiently meet demand in each area agency on aging and support nursing home diversion.Requires the department of social and health services to, within funds appropriated for this specific purpose, develop a challenge grant program to assist communities and organizations in efforts to plan and establish additional adult day service programs throughout the state.Provides that the act is null and void if appropriations are not approved.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. | |
HB 1331
by Representatives Rodne, Pedersen, and Kelley
Exempting certified public accountants from the restrictions on marketing estate distribution documents for certain purposes.
Exempts certified public accountants from the restrictions on marketing estate distribution documents for certain purposes.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
HB 1332
by Representatives Goodman, Anderson, Springer, Clibborn, Eddy, Simpson, Rodne, Pedersen, Hunter, and Maxwell
Granting authority of a watershed management partnership to exercise powers of its forming governments.
Authorizes a watershed management partnership to exercise powers of its forming governments.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
HB 1333
by Representatives O'Brien and Miloscia
Requiring carbon monoxide alarms to be installed in dwelling units.
Requires installation of carbon monoxide alarms inside all dwelling units that are built or manufactured in this state or occupied by persons other than the owner after December 31, 2009. Carbon monoxide alarms must be installed in all dwelling units after July 1, 2010.Penalizes an owner or tenant for failing to comply with the act.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Local Government & Housing. | |
HB 1334
by Representatives Blake, Chandler, Haler, VanDeWege, Ericks, Hinkle, Warnick, Schmick, Condotta, Kretz, Ormsby, Smith, Kessler, Newhouse, Walsh, Nelson, Pearson, Moeller, and Short
Concerning water resource management on the Columbia and Snake rivers.
Finds that uncertainty as to existing law may discourage water conservation in the Columbia river basin through relinquishment of conservation savings and that avoiding such relinquishment and facilitating transfer of such conservation water savings can assist in meeting the water supply needs of irrigated agriculture while protecting Columbia and Snake river streamflows.Directs the department of ecology to aggressively pursue the development of storage, conservation, and other actions to provide water supplies to benefit both instream and out-of-stream uses.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. | |
HB 1335
by Representatives Goodman, Upthegrove, and Warnick; by request of Parks and Recreation Commission
Removing the penalty language from natural resource civil infractions.
Removes penalty language from natural resource civil infractions.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness. | |
HB 1336
by Representatives Anderson, Hunter, and Green
Discouraging pre-college courses at public four-year institutions of higher education.
Finds that an unacceptably high number of students entering institutions of higher education are unprepared to do college level mathematics, reading, or writing, and require remedial instruction. This remedial instruction imposes additional costs and burdens on students by increasing the time it takes for them to reach their educational goals, and increases the state's costs associated with higher education.Requires precollege coursework offered in mathematics, reading, writing, or English, except for English courses offered for English language learners, to be offered on a self-supporting basis at state universities, regional universities, and The Evergreen State College.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Higher Education. | |
HB 1337
by Representatives Green, Goodman, Kagi, Walsh, Roberts, Seaquist, Morrell, Appleton, Kenney, Simpson, Nelson, and Santos
Concerning developmental screenings through medicaid.
Finds that developmental screening of infants and young children is a cost-effective method to identify developmental delays early and provide appropriate services to reduce the negative impact of the developmental delay.Requires the department of social and health services to adopt a rule specifying: (1) Which developmental screening tools may be ordered for minors eligible for medical assistance; and(2) The frequency of administering these developmental screens.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. | |
HB 1338
by Representatives Conway, Condotta, Wood, Armstrong, Hunt, Green, Williams, Crouse, Moeller, Chandler, Chase, Simpson, and Kelley
Qualifying for good cause for late filing of reports, contributions, penalties, or interest.
Expands industries that qualify for good cause for late filing of reports, contributions, penalties, or interest.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
HB 1339
by Representatives Conway, Wood, Armstrong, Hunt, Condotta, Green, Williams, Crouse, Moeller, and Chandler
Correcting statutory references.
Corrects statutory references in the calculation of predecessor and successor employer contribution rates.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
HB 1340
by Representatives Conway, Sells, Kenney, Sullivan, Hunt, Haigh, Appleton, Hasegawa, Pettigrew, Quall, Rolfes, Seaquist, Chase, Simpson, Campbell, Nelson, Hudgins, Ormsby, McCoy, VanDeWege, Moeller, and Santos
Modifying collective bargaining law to authorize providing additional compensation to academic employees at community and technical colleges.
Revises the collective bargaining law to authorize providing additional compensation to academic employees at community and technical colleges.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
HB 1341
by Representatives Santos, Haler, Hasegawa, Sells, Seaquist, Goodman, Appleton, Hunt, Chase, Kenney, Simpson, Campbell, Nelson, McCoy, and VanDeWege
Motivating students through incentives to pursue postsecondary education by eliminating statewide assessments as a high school graduation requirement.
Removes the statewide assessment as a requirement for high school graduation and dedicates any savings realized to increasing student success and closing the achievement gaps on the statewide assessment and motivating students through incentives to pursue postsecondary education.Directs the office of the superintendent of public instruction, the higher education coordinating board, and the state board for community and technical colleges to use existing staff and resources to collaboratively conduct a review of incentive programs in other states.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1342
by Representatives Hudgins, Chase, Goodman, Roberts, and Wood
Creating a pilot program to screen children for lead poisoning.
Requires the department of health to: (1) As part of its ongoing childhood lead poisoning prevention efforts, facilitate the screening and identification of children under six years old that have elevated levels of lead in their bloodstream;(2) By January 1, 2010, develop and begin implementation of a two-year pilot program for screening children at risk for elevated blood lead levels;(3) Purchase state-of-the-art testing equipment for screening children at risk;(4) Distribute purchased testing equipment on loan to public health clinics, community health centers, school districts, federal women, infants, and children program clinics, and early childhood education programs that have access to a health care professional that is able to conduct testing; and(5) Attempt to recover costs for lead screening under this pilot program through federal medicaid, federal grants, and nongovernmental sources.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Environmental Health. | |
HB 1343
by Representatives Hudgins and Moeller
Modifying property tax limitations for port districts.
Finds that: (1) Taxpayers should be protected from large, unanticipated tax increases by port districts;(2) Port districts should be encouraged to implement better long-term fiscal planning and more prudent money management so as to avoid such large increases in tax levies; and(3) It is good public policy to impose reasonable constraints on the authority of large port districts to impose unduly burdensome tax increases.Modifies property tax limitations for port districts.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Local Government & Housing. | |
HB 1344
by Representatives Hudgins and Moeller
Exempting enclosed, three-wheeled passenger vehicles from the motorcycle endorsement requirement.
Exempts enclosed, three-wheeled passenger vehicles from the motorcycle endorsement requirement.Directs the joint legislative audit and review committee to, before the 2014 legislative session, review and recommend to the legislature whether to maintain or repeal the motorcycle endorsement exemption for enclosed, three-wheeled passenger vehicles contained in RCW 46.20.500.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
HB 1345
by Representatives Hudgins, Campbell, Hunt, and Chase
Regarding lead blood level assessments.
Directs the department of social and health services to give a high priority to implementing the requirement to conduct lead blood level assessments under chapter 74.09 RCW for any eligible children younger than twenty-one years old.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Environmental Health. | |
HB 1346
by Representatives Hudgins, Chase, and Moeller
Concerning the labeling of lead-containing products.
Prohibits, effective January 1, 2011, a manufacturer or wholesaler from selling certain lead-containing consumer products at retail in this state, to a retailer in this state, or for use in this state, unless the lead-containing consumer product is labeled according to the guidelines listed in the act.Prohibits a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer from removing from a lead-containing consumer product any label or imprint affixed to it that relates in whole or part to lead or lead hazards and which label is required by this state.Provides penalties.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Environmental Health. | |
HB 1347
by Representatives Santos, Roach, Morrell, Moeller, Chase, and Roberts
Regarding financial education.
Changes the name of the financial literacy public-private partnership to the financial education public-private partnership; and modifies its duties.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1348
by Representatives Green, Conway, and Sullivan
Concerning professional athletics regulated by the department of licensing.
Requires the director of the department of licensing to direct, supervise, and control all boxing, mixed martial arts, kickboxing, and wrestling events conducted within this state and an event may not be held in this state except in accordance with chapter 67.08 RCW.Prohibits an amateur or professional no holds barred fighting or combative fighting contest, exhibition, match, or similar type of event, or any elimination tournament, from being held in this state.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
HB 1349
by Representatives Green, Moeller, Dickerson, Cody, and Kenney
Renewing orders for less restrictive treatment.
Finds that many persons who are released from involuntary mental health treatment in an inpatient setting would benefit from an order for less restrictive treatment in order to provide the structure and support necessary to facilitate long-term stability and success in the community.Declares an intent to make it easier to renew orders for less restrictive treatment following a period of inpatient commitment in cases in which a person has been involuntarily committed more than once and is likely to benefit from a renewed order for less restrictive treatment.Provides that public safety is enhanced when a designated mental health professional or developmental disabilities professional is able to file a petition to revoke an order for less restrictive treatment under RCW 71.05.340 before a person who is the subject of the petition becomes ill enough to present a likelihood of serious harm.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Human Services. | |
HB 1350
by Representatives Goodman, Hunt, Ormsby, Williams, Appleton, Ericks, Kagi, Moeller, Morrell, Flannigan, Morris, Green, Hasegawa, Sells, Liias, Upthegrove, Finn, Takko, Blake, Orwall, White, Dunshee, Roberts, Chase, Conway, Simpson, and Nelson
Adopting the interstate agreement for the election of the president of the United States by national popular vote.
Adopts the interstate agreement for the election of the president of the United States by national popular vote.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Affairs. | |
HB 1351
by Representatives Wallace, Moeller, Wood, Ormsby, and Kenney
Making all owners of drywall installation and finishing businesses subject to mandatory industrial insurance coverage.
Finds that there is continued evidence of underreporting and nonpayment of workers' compensation premiums by employers in the drywall installation and finishing industry.Declares that all owners of drywall installation and finishing businesses are subject to mandatory coverage under Title 51 RCW.Creates the drywall oversight committee to advise the department of labor and industries on the development of rules to implement the act and to otherwise advise the department on issues affecting the drywall industry.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
HB 1352
by Representatives Morris, Hope, and Moeller
Repealing provisions relating to dispute resolution and registration in manufactured and mobile home communities.
Repeals provisions relating to dispute resolution and registration in manufactured and mobile home communities.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
HB 1353
by Representatives Nelson, Cody, Sells, Sullivan, Haigh, Simpson, Seaquist, Campbell, Carlyle, Hunt, Roberts, and Liias
Regarding employment opportunities at institutions of higher education.
Declares an intent to: (1) Provide faculty and college excellence for Washington citizens by increasing the number of full-time, tenured academic employee positions at community and technical colleges and by enabling academic employees who hold part-time positions to have greater assurance of continuing employment; and(2) Develop a planning process through which the community and technical colleges and the state board for community and technical colleges suggest a long-term strategic plan and timeline for faculty conversions.Directs each community and technical college, in close collaboration with the exclusive bargaining representative for faculty, to create a conversion plan to increase the number of full-time tenured faculty positions.Requires each community and technical college, subject to collective bargaining, to establish a process: (1) Under which part-time and full-time nontenured faculty members, after successful completion of an evaluation period, receive timely notice of and priority consideration, consistent with other institutional and state policies, for academic employment assignments for which they are qualified in their discipline in coming academic terms; and(2) For ensuring that qualified internal applicants receive priority consideration for attaining a tenure-track position when one becomes available such as prior notification of job openings before they are posted outside of the institution or a job interview for positions where minimum requirements have been met.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Higher Education. | |
HB 1354
by Representatives Kretz, Short, and Kristiansen
Regarding damage caused by wildlife.
Recognizes the importance of the state's commercial livestock industry and the value of healthy wildlife populations, which can damage crops and commercial livestock.Finds that damage prevention is key to maintaining healthy wildlife populations and a thriving commercial livestock industry, and that the state, participants in wildlife recreation, and private landowners and tenants share the responsibility for damage prevention.Declares that a timely and simplified process for resolving claims for damages caused by wildlife for commercial agricultural, horticultural, or commercial livestock products is beneficial to the claimant and the state.Authorizes the director of the department of fish and wildlife or the director's designee to distribute money appropriated to reimburse the owner of commercial livestock that has been killed by predatory wildlife, or injured by predatory wildlife to such a degree that the market value of the commercial livestock has been diminished, if during the current fiscal biennium the department of fish and wildlife has received appropriations from either the state wildlife account or the general fund above the amounts specified in RCW 77.36.070 and 77.36.080 for the reimbursement of damage to commercial livestock.Creates the commercial livestock valuation committee to assist the director of the department of fish and wildlife with the determination of the market value of killed or injured commercial livestock for the purposes of reimbursing the owner under RCW 77.36.040.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. | |
HB 1355
by Representatives Probst, Quall, Kessler, Sullivan, Wallace, Maxwell, Rolfes, Springer, Green, Jacks, Carlyle, Kenney, Ormsby, Seaquist, Liias, Sells, Priest, Dammeier, Hunt, Hudgins, Morrell, VanDeWege, Moeller, Chase, Conway, Goodman, Driscoll, Simpson, Santos, and Kelley
Establishing the opportunity internship program for high school students.
Creates the opportunity internship program to provide incentives for opportunity internship consortia to use existing resources to build educational and employment pipelines to high-demand occupations in targeted industries for low-income high school students.Directs the higher education coordinating board to work with institutions of higher education to assure that the institutions are aware of the eligibility of opportunity internship graduates for an award under chapter 28B.92 RCW.Authorizes, under certain conditions, a credit against the tax otherwise due under chapter 82.04 RCW for persons participating in an opportunity internship consortium that offer paid internships to low-income high school students through an opportunity internship program.Requires the workforce training and education coordinating board to conduct an outcome evaluation of opportunity internship programs.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1356
by Representatives Alexander, Quall, Haigh, Anderson, Sullivan, Priest, Hunter, Ormsby, Chase, Morrell, Moeller, Conway, Kenney, Goodman, Carlyle, Hunt, Maxwell, Driscoll, Simpson, and Kelley; by request of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Providing for career and technical education opportunities for middle school students.
Provides that a middle school that receives approval from the office of the superintendent of public instruction to provide a career and technical program in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics directly to students shall receive funding at the same rate as a high school operating a similar program. Additionally, a middle school that provides a hands- on experience in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics with an integrated curriculum of academic content and career and technical education, and includes a career and technical education exploratory component shall also qualify for the career and technical education funding.Directs the professional educator standards board to develop and implement alternative pathways to endorsement for individuals to become certified to teach career and technical education at the middle school level in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1357
by Representatives Pettigrew, Dickerson, Orwall, Walsh, Moeller, Kenney, and Wood
Regarding the designation of "social worker."
Prohibits a person from representing himself or herself as a social worker unless the person is licensed under RCW 18.225.090 as an advanced social worker or an independent clinical social worker; or has graduated with a bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree from a social work educational program accredited by the council on social work education.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. | |
HB 1358
by Representatives Hasegawa, Appleton, Chase, Moeller, Hudgins, Hunter, Ormsby, Green, Sullivan, and Goodman
Allowing credit unions to participate in the linked deposit program.
Allows credit unions to participate in the linked deposit program.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance. | |
HB 1359
by Representatives Williams and Ormsby
Regarding the practice of landscape architecture.
Finds that in order to safeguard life, health, and property and to promote public welfare, it is necessary to regulate the practice of landscape architecture.Prohibits a person from practicing or offering to practice landscape architecture in this state unless the person is licensed or authorized to practice in this state under chapter 18.96 RCW.Changes the name of the state board of registration for landscape architects to the licensure board for landscape architects.Modifies the duties and membership of the licensure board for landscape architects.Creates the landscape architects' license account.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
HB 1360
by Representatives Ormsby, Orcutt, Simpson, Smith, Dunshee, Springer, Liias, Upthegrove, Eddy, Takko, Chase, Morrell, Moeller, and Sullivan
Concerning funding for residential infrastructure development.
Creates the residential infrastructure program in the department of community, trade, and economic development to provide loans to eligible jurisdictions and grants to nonprofit organizations for public infrastructure that supports increased capacity for dense, affordable residential development in transit-proximate areas.Requires the department of community, trade, and economic development to determine each year the total amount of funding available in loans and grants and establish the total amount of financial assistance to be appropriated to eligible jurisdiction and nonprofit organization applicants based on certain criteria.Creates the residential infrastructure account.Directs the state treasurer to, by August 31, 2010, and by August 31st of every year thereafter, transfer from the general fund into the residential infrastructure account the lesser of fifty million dollars or the excess real estate excise tax growth amount.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Local Government & Housing. | |
HB 1361
by Representatives Goodman, Rodne, Williams, Dickerson, Walsh, Kagi, Roberts, Pettigrew, O'Brien, Armstrong, Appleton, Ericks, Warnick, Haigh, Moeller, Rolfes, Carlyle, Wallace, Seaquist, and Morrell
Regarding county supervised community options.
Modifies provisions in regard to county supervised community options.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Human Services. | |
HB 1362
by Representatives Goodman, Rodne, Sullivan, Williams, Orwall, O'Brien, Kirby, Chase, and Conway
Concerning conveyances used in prostitution-related offenses.
Revises provisions relating to conveyances used in prostitution-related offenses.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
HJM 4004
by Representatives VanDeWege, Kessler, Rodne, Liias, Takko, Hurst, Jacks, Hasegawa, Kelley, Eddy, Seaquist, McCoy, Appleton, Hudgins, Morrell, Hope, Sullivan, and Nelson
Naming a certain portion of state route number 110 the "Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm Memorial Highway."
Requests the Washington state transportation commission to commence proceedings to name a certain portion of state route number 110 the "Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm Memorial Highway" to honor the service and sacrifices of all who served in that war.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5238
by Senators Keiser, Roach, Swecker, Fraser, McCaslin, Kohl-Welles, Honeyford, Pridemore, McDermott, Fairley, Benton, and Shin
Authorizing the department of retirement systems to assist with mailing information to certain members of the state retirement systems.
Allows any organization that exclusively provides representation or services to retired members of the Washington state retirement systems and has membership dues deducted through the department of retirement systems to request the department of retirement systems to assist in doing blind mailings to retirees twice each year.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5239
by Senator Hatfield
Modifying the definition of "public facilities."
Revises the definition of "public facilities" in chapter 43.160 RCW.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Economic Development, Trade & Innovation. | |
SB 5240
by Senators Hargrove and McCaslin
Addressing the enforceability of court rules that create new nonconstitutionally mandated programs, or increase levels of service under existing programs, on any political subdivision of the state.
Prohibits enforcement of any court rule enacted by the supreme court that creates a new nonconstitutionally mandated program or that increases levels of service under existing programs on any political subdivision of the state, unless a specific appropriation is made to cover the costs of the new program or the increased level of service.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
SB 5241
by Senators Oemig, Pridemore, Kline, Kohl-Welles, and Shin
Concerning public, education, and government access channels.
Requires a city, county, or other local governmental entity that grants a franchise for cable television service to include certain requirements in its franchise agreement.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections. | |
SB 5242
by Senators Honeyford, Holmquist, King, Parlette, and Schoesler
Determining good faith for qualifying for benefits when leaving work voluntarily.
Determines good faith for qualifying for unemployment compensation benefits when leaving work voluntarily.Provides that the act applies to claims with an effective date on or after the effective date of the act.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Labor, Commerce & Consumer Protection. | |
SB 5243
by Senators Honeyford, Holmquist, King, and Stevens
Addressing the adoption and review of the department of labor and industries' rules.
Declares an intent to begin with the department of labor and industries to institute a moratorium on adopting new rules and launching a thorough review of the necessity and effectiveness of the current rules.Prohibits, notwithstanding other statutory rule-making authority, the director of the department of labor and industries from adopting or pursuing the adoption of any rule from the effective date of the act until July 1, 2011, except under certain circumstances.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Labor, Commerce & Consumer Protection. | |
SB 5244
by Senator Carrell
Authorizing special detention facilities.
Directs a city or county to establish an objective classification system to determine those persons eligible for a special detention facility.Authorizes a city or county to establish and maintain alternative supervision or rehabilitation programs, other than those authorized in RCW 70.48.090, within the special detention facility.Exempts from the tax levied by RCW 82.08.020: (1) Items that become components of a special detention facility as defined in RCW 70.48.020; or(2) Labor and services rendered for constructing, repairing, decorating, or improving a special detention facility as defined in RCW 70.48.020.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
SB 5245
by Senator Carrell
Concerning evidence in administrative hearings.
Revises provisions relevant to evidence in administrative hearings.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
SB 5246
by Senators Carrell, Pflug, Stevens, Swecker, Hewitt, and Delvin
Concerning the effect of zoning ordinances on motor vehicle collection and restoration.
Prohibits, under certain conditions, a local government from enacting, enforcing, or maintaining an ordinance, development regulation, zoning regulation, or official control, policy, or administrative practice that prohibits the hobby of collecting and restoring motor vehicles.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections. | |
SB 5247
by Senator Carrell
Authorizing agreements to allow bail bond agencies to execute bench warrants.
Authorizes courts of limited jurisdiction to, when approved by the local legislative body, enter into agreements with one or more licensed bail bond agencies for the purpose of executing bench warrants for an accused's failure to appear or violation of a condition of release when the accused has two or more outstanding warrants.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
SB 5248
by Senators Hobbs, King, McAuliffe, Brown, Kauffman, Holmquist, Tom, Shin, Hewitt, Brandland, McDermott, Jarrett, Kilmer, Haugen, and Roach
Enacting the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children.
Enacts the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children.Declares an intent to remove barriers to educational success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and deployment of their parents by: (1) Facilitating the timely enrollment of children of military families and ensuring that they are not placed at a disadvantage due to difficulty in the transfer of education records from the previous school districts or variations in entrance and age requirements;(2) Facilitating the student placement process through which children of military families are not disadvantaged by variations in attendance requirements, scheduling, sequencing, grading, course content, or assessment;(3) Facilitating the qualification and eligibility for enrollment, educational programs, and participation in extracurricular academic, athletic, and social activities;(4) Facilitating the on-time graduation of children of military families;(5) Providing for the promulgation and enforcement of administrative rules implementing the provisions of the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children;(6) Providing for the uniform collection and sharing of information between and among member states, schools, and military families under the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children;(7) Promoting coordination between the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children and other compacts affecting military children; and(8) Promoting flexibility and cooperation between the educational system, parents, and the student in order to achieve educational success for the student.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5249
by Senator Fairley
Changing public records request provisions.
Modifies provisions relating to public records requests.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections. | |
SB 5250
by Senator Fairley
Increasing the maximum per page copying charge under the public records act.
Increases the maximum per page copying charge under the public records act from fifteen cents to twenty-five cents.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections. | |
SB 5251
by Senators Fairley and Sheldon
Defining per page cost for the purpose of copying costs under the public records act.
Defines "per page cost" with regard to copying costs under the public records act.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections. | |
SB 5252
by Senators Brandland, Hargrove, and Shin
Addressing correctional facility policies regarding medication management.
Directs the Washington association of sheriffs and police chiefs to, when funded, convene a jail medication management work group to develop a model policy regarding the management of medications in jails, to be applicable to jails as defined in RCW 70.48.020.Authorizes a jail to provide for the delivery and administration of medications and medication assistance for inmates in their custody by nonpractitioner jail personnel, subject to certain conditions.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 5253
by Senators Carrell, Brandland, and Swecker
Concerning criminal defendants who are guilty and mentally ill.
Provides that a person who timely offers a defense of insanity pursuant to RCW 10.77.030 may be found guilty and mentally ill at trial under certain circumstances.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 5254
by Senators Prentice, Jarrett, Oemig, Kline, Tom, Brandland, and Delvin
Granting authority of a watershed management partnership to exercise powers of its forming governments.
Authorizes a watershed management partnership to exercise powers of its forming governments.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Environment, Water & Energy. | |
SB 5255
by Senators Jacobsen, Swecker, Regala, Morton, Kilmer, Pridemore, and Shin
Regarding aquatic lands lease rates for marinas.
Revises the process for determining annual rent rates for the lease of state-owned aquatic lands for marinas.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Natural Resources, Ocean & Recreation. | |
SB 5256
by Senator Hargrove
Concerning information technology.
Eliminates the department of social and health services' information system services division and prohibits maintaining a similar division in the future.Requires that the division's current responsibilities be absorbed by the department's various administrations within the department's current funding levels.Requires any funds remaining in the data processing revolving fund, the K-20 technology account, and the education technology revolving fund on January 1, 2010, to be transferred to the state general fund.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections. | |
SB 5257
by Senators Holmquist, Kohl-Welles, Hewitt, Franklin, Kline, King, and Keiser
Correcting statutory references.
Corrects statutory references in the calculation of predecessor and successor employer contribution rates.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Labor, Commerce & Consumer Protection. | |
SB 5258
by Senators Kohl-Welles, Holmquist, Hewitt, Franklin, Kline, King, and Keiser
Qualifying for good cause for late filing of reports, contributions, penalties, or interest.
Expands industries that qualify for good cause for late filing of reports, contributions, penalties, or interest.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Labor, Commerce & Consumer Protection. | |
SB 5259
by Senators Kohl-Welles, Delvin, Keiser, Pridemore, Kauffman, McDermott, Kline, Shin, Fairley, McAuliffe, and Roach
Modifying collective bargaining law to authorize providing additional compensation to academic employees at community and technical colleges.
Revises the collective bargaining law to authorize providing additional compensation to academic employees at community and technical colleges.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Labor, Commerce & Consumer Protection. | |
SB 5260
by Senators McAuliffe, Fraser, Pridemore, Hargrove, Sheldon, Kauffman, Hobbs, Hatfield, Fairley, and Roach
Motivating students through incentives to pursue postsecondary education by eliminating statewide assessments as a high school graduation requirement.
Removes the statewide assessment as a requirement for high school graduation and dedicates any savings realized to increasing student success and closing the achievement gaps on the statewide assessment and motivating students through incentives to pursue postsecondary education.Directs the office of the superintendent of public instruction, the higher education coordinating board, and the state board for community and technical colleges to use existing staff and resources to collaboratively conduct a review of incentive programs in other states.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5261
by Senators Regala, Stevens, Hargrove, and Shin
Creating an electronic statewide unified sex offender registry program.
Requires the Washington association of sheriffs and police chiefs to implement and operate an electronic statewide unified sex offender registry program, when funding is provided.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 5262
by Senators Kline, Brandland, and Shin
Allowing law enforcement access to driver's license photographs for the purposes of identity verification.
Allows law enforcement access to driver's license photographs for the purposes of identity verification.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
SB 5263
by Senators Hargrove, Brandland, and Tom
Prohibiting devices in schools that are designed to administer to a person or an animal an electric shock, charge, or impulse.
Prohibits a person from carrying onto, or possessing on, public or private elementary or secondary school premises, school-provided transportation, or areas of facilities while being used exclusively by public or private schools, any portable device, object, instrument, or device that is designed, redesigned, used, or intended to be used as a weapon to injure a person or an animal by an electric shock, charge, or impulse.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
SB 5264
by Senators Kohl-Welles, McAuliffe, Shin, Jarrett, and Kilmer; by request of State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
Providing for academic employee salary increments for community and technical colleges.
Finds that: (1) The community and technical colleges offer high quality, cost-effective instructional programs to the citizens of the state; and(2) Academic employee morale and willingness to invest in professional development, and academic employee recruitment and retention, are improved by consistent and predictable salary increases that recognize two-year college academic employees who upgrade their skills and professional experience.Declares an intent to adjust state appropriations to an amount that, together with academic employee turnover savings, provides for consistent and predictable funding of academic employee salary increments for qualifying academic employees.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Labor, Commerce & Consumer Protection. | |
SB 5265
by Senators Jarrett, Oemig, and Shin
Concerning local tourism promotion areas.
Exempts the furnishing of lodging at a new lodging facility located within a tourism promotion area from the charge imposed under chapter 35.101 RCW unless the lodging business submits a petition to the legislative authority indicating that lodging furnished at the new lodging facility will be subject to the charge.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Economic Development, Trade & Innovation. | |
SB 5266
by Senators Hargrove, Stevens, Regala, Kauffman, and Brandland
Regarding housing services and assistance in dependency and termination matters.
Modifies provisions relating to housing services and assistance in dependency and termination matters.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 5267
by Senators Sheldon, Berkey, Morton, Kastama, and Delvin
Regarding the issuance of checks by joint operating agencies and public utility districts.
Revises provisions relevant to the issuance of checks by joint operating agencies and public utility districts.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections. | |
SB 5268
by Senators Swecker, Jacobsen, and Shin; by request of Department of Fish and Wildlife
Creating the fish and wildlife equipment revolving account.
Creates the fish and wildlife equipment revolving account.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Natural Resources, Ocean & Recreation. | |
SB 5269
by Senators Jacobsen, Swecker, and Hatfield; by request of Department of Fish and Wildlife
Establishing a license limitation program for harvest and delivery of Pacific sardines into the state.
Establishes a Washington Pacific sardine purse seine fishery license and a Washington Pacific sardine purse seine temporary annual fishery permit.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Natural Resources, Ocean & Recreation. | |
SB 5270
by Senators McDermott, Swecker, Fairley, Oemig, Tom, and Shin; by request of Secretary of State
Modifying voter registration provisions.
Revises provisions relating to voter registration.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections. | |
SB 5271
by Senators Oemig, McDermott, and Swecker; by request of Secretary of State
Modifying provisions relating to candidate filing.
Modifies provisions relating to candidate filing.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections. | |
SB 5272
by Senators Hatfield, Schoesler, Morton, and Shin
Regarding wildlife interactions.
Finds that: (1) Healthy wildlife populations are a valuable and treasured public resource to the people of the state of Washington. However, as the human population increases, negative interactions between humans and wildlife will become more frequent;(2) Interactions between humans and wildlife can have significant financial impacts on the affected landowner;(3) The commercial agriculture, horticulture, and livestock industries are important components of the state economy that can be negatively impacted by interactions with wildlife. However, other landowners, both commercial and residential, may be faced with wildlife interactions that result in property damage; (4) It is in the best interests of the state for the department of fish and wildlife to respond quickly to wildlife damage complaints and to work with those affected to prevent and minimize negative interactions while maintaining healthy wildlife populations; and(5) Negative wildlife interactions can be best reduced by encouraging landowners to contribute, through their land management practices, to healthy wildlife populations and to provide access for related recreation.Declares an intent to provide a solution where all property owners have a potential avenue to petition the state for some mitigation of the damages caused by wildlife.Provides that the act applies prospectively only and not retroactively. The act applies only to claims that arise on or after July 1, 2010. Claims under chapter 77.36 RCW that arise before July 1, 2010, must be adjudicated under chapter 77.36 RCW as it existed before July 1, 2010.Expires section 12 of the act on July 30, 2014.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Natural Resources, Ocean & Recreation. | |
SB 5273
by Senators Murray, Jacobsen, McDermott, Franklin, and Kohl-Welles
Regarding the practice of landscape architecture.
Finds that in order to safeguard life, health, and property and to promote public welfare, it is necessary to regulate the practice of landscape architecture.Prohibits a person from practicing or offering to practice landscape architecture in this state unless the person is licensed or authorized to practice in this state under chapter 18.96 RCW.Changes the name of the state board of registration for landscape architects to the licensure board for landscape architects.Modifies the duties and membership of the licensure board for landscape architects.Creates the landscape architects' license account.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Labor, Commerce & Consumer Protection. | |
SB 5274
by Senators Hatfield, Schoesler, Morton, Honeyford, Shin, and Holmquist
Regarding damage caused by wildlife.
Recognizes the importance of the state's commercial livestock industry and the value of healthy wildlife populations, which can damage crops and commercial livestock.Finds that damage prevention is key to maintaining healthy wildlife populations and a thriving commercial livestock industry, and that the state, participants in wildlife recreation, and private landowners and tenants share the responsibility for damage prevention.Declares that a timely and simplified process for resolving claims for damages caused by wildlife for commercial agricultural, horticultural, or commercial livestock products is beneficial to the claimant and the state.Authorizes the director of the department of fish and wildlife or the director's designee to distribute money appropriated to reimburse the owner of commercial livestock that has been killed by predatory wildlife, or injured by predatory wildlife to such a degree that the market value of the commercial livestock has been diminished, if during the current fiscal biennium the department of fish and wildlife has received appropriations from either the state wildlife account or the general fund above the amounts specified in RCW 77.36.070 and 77.36.080 for the reimbursement of damage to commercial livestock.Creates the commercial livestock valuation committee to assist the director of the department of fish and wildlife with the determination of the market value of killed or injured commercial livestock for the purposes of reimbursing the owner under RCW 77.36.040.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Natural Resources, Ocean & Recreation. | |
SB 5275
by Senators Hobbs, Kline, Carrell, Swecker, Shin, McAuliffe, and Kilmer
Offering health insurance premiums to members of the national guard.
Offers health insurance premiums to enlisted members of the Washington national guard.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections. | |
SB 5276
by Senators Schoesler, Jarrett, Oemig, Shin, and Holmquist
Eliminating the exclusive authority of the University of Washington and Washington State University to offer certain engineering courses.
Eliminates the exclusive authority of the University of Washington and Washington State University to offer certain engineering courses.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Higher Education & Workforce Development. | |
SB 5277
by Senators Hatfield, Kline, and Delvin
Regarding fees allowed as court costs in district courts.
Expands the list of fees allowed as court costs in district courts.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
SB 5278
by Senators King, Kohl-Welles, and Shin; by request of Department of Labor & Industries
Making technical changes to boiler and unfired pressure vessel statutes.
Makes technical changes to boiler and unfired pressure vessel statutes.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Labor, Commerce & Consumer Protection. | |
SB 5279
by Senators Kline, Ranker, Rockefeller, Pridemore, Oemig, Regala, Franklin, Murray, Kauffman, Fairley, Kohl-Welles, Haugen, McAuliffe, Pflug, Shin, and McDermott
Providing for the safe collection and disposal of unwanted drugs from residential sources through a producer provided and funded product stewardship program.
Finds that: (1) A convenient, safe, secure, and environmentally sound product stewardship program for the collection, transportation, and disposal of unwanted drugs from residential sources may help to avoid accidental poisonings, decrease illegitimate access to drugs that can lead to abuse, and protect our surface and groundwater; and(2) Producers of those drugs are the best entity to provide and finance the product stewardship program.Requires every producer of covered products sold in or into Washington state to participate in a product stewardship program for unwanted products from residential sources.Requires a producer, group of producers, or stewardship organization operating or intending to operate a product stewardship program to submit a product stewardship plan to the department of ecology before engaging in the collection of unwanted covered products.Requires the department of ecology to: (1) Determine whether the plan complies with this act. If it approves a plan, the department shall notify the applicant of its approval. If it rejects a plan, the department shall notify the applicant of its decision and its reasons for rejecting the plan;(2) Send a written warning and a copy of the new chapter created in this act and any rules adopted to implement the new chapter to a producer who is not participating in a product stewardship program approved by the department and whose covered product is being sold in or into the state;(3) Provide on its web site a list of all producers participating in product stewardship programs it has approved and a list of all producers it has identified as noncompliant;(4) Send a written warning and a copy of the new chapter created in this act and any rules adopted to implement that chapter to a drug wholesaler known to be selling a product in or into the state from producers who are not participating in a product stewardship program or who are not in compliance;(5) Annually invite comments from health care facilities, health care practitioners, pharmacists, local governments, and citizens on their satisfaction with the services provided by a product stewardship program; and(6) Consult with the state board of pharmacy on proposed provisions of a product stewardship plan involving the secure collection, tracking, and handling of drugs collected under a product stewardship program.Creates the pharmaceutical product stewardship program account.Allows the director of the department of ecology to lend money from the state toxics control account to the pharmaceutical product stewardship account if necessary to ensure that money is available in the pharmaceutical product stewardship program account for the initial administration of the product stewardship program for unwanted drugs from residential sources.Provides penalties.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Health & Long-Term Care. | |
SB 5280
by Senators Holmquist, Hatfield, Honeyford, Hewitt, Schoesler, and Parlette
Recognizing conservation achieved in excess of biennial conservation targets as an eligible renewable resource under chapter 19.285 RCW, the energy independence act.
Recognizes conservation achieved in excess of biennial conservation targets as an eligible renewable resource under chapter 19.285 RCW, the energy independence act.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Environment, Water & Energy. | |
SB 5281
by Senator Benton
Limiting utility liens against rental property.
Limits utility liens against rental property.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections. | |
SB 5282
by Senators Keiser, Franklin, Kohl-Welles, Marr, Murray, McAuliffe, Regala, Oemig, Kilmer, Fairley, Pridemore, Ranker, and McDermott
Regarding the use of bisphenol A.
Limits the use of bisphenol A.Prohibits a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer from manufacturing, knowingly selling, offering for sale, distributing for sale, or distributing for use in this state certain items that contain bisphenol A.Requires the department of ecology to, in consultation with the department of health, conduct an alternatives assessment for bisphenol A in cans, jars, or other containers that are used to hold liquids, food, or beverages primarily for human consumption and are not prohibited under the act.Requires a manufacturer of products that are restricted under the act to notify persons that sell the manufacturer's products in this state about the provisions of the act no less than ninety days before the effective date of the restrictions.Requires a manufacturer that produces, sells, or distributes a product prohibited from manufacture, sale, or distribution in this state under the act to recall the product and reimburse the retailer or any other purchaser for the product.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Health & Long-Term Care. | |
SB 5283
by Senators Keiser, Holmquist, Eide, Pridemore, Kline, Kauffman, and Kohl-Welles
Concerning the replacement of nonfunctioning wireless communications devices.
Requires a wireless communications service provider to replace the wireless communications device of any subscriber under contract with the service provider if the subscriber's wireless communications device ceases to function due to a defect, malfunction, or failure of one or more components of the device.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Labor, Commerce & Consumer Protection. | |
SB 5284
by Senators Keiser, Holmquist, Kohl-Welles, Pridemore, Marr, and Kauffman
Concerning truth in music advertising.
Creates the truth in music advertising act.Prohibits a person from advertising or conducting a live musical performance or production through the use of a false, deceptive, or misleading affiliation, connection, or association between a performing group and a recording group unless certain conditions are met.Provides penalties.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Labor, Commerce & Consumer Protection. | |
SB 5285
by Senators Regala, Hargrove, Kauffman, and Stevens
Revising procedures for appointment of guardians ad litem.
Revises procedures for appointment of guardians ad litem.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 5286
by Senators Regala, Hargrove, and Kohl-Welles
Regarding exemptions from the WorkFirst program.
Modifies provisions relating to WorkFirst program exemptions.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 5287
by Senators Kilmer, Carrell, and Marr
Addressing the deferral of sales and use taxes due on the state route number 16 corridor improvements project.
Provides that taxes due under chapters 82.08 and 82.12 RCW on the site preparation for, the construction of, the acquisition of any related machinery and equipment that will become a part of, and the rental of equipment for use in the state route number 16 corridor improvements project for which a deferral has been granted need not be repaid.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5288
by Senators Hargrove, Stevens, Regala, and Shin
Reducing the categories of offenders supervised by the department of corrections.
Decreases the categories of offenders supervised by the department of corrections.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 5289
by Senators Ranker, Haugen, Swecker, King, Marr, Jarrett, Hargrove, and Shin
Adding a certain ferry route and roads to the scenic and recreational highway system.
Adds a certain ferry route and roads to the scenic and recreational highway system.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5290
by Senators Franklin, Brown, Fraser, Kauffman, McAuliffe, Shin, Murray, Eide, Keiser, Berkey, and Regala
Concerning requests made by a party relating to gas or electrical company discounts for low-income senior customers and low-income customers.
Allows "a party" to request the utilities and transportation commission to approve rates, charges, services, and/or physical facilities at a discount for low-income senior customers and low-income customers.
| Jan 19 | First reading, referred to Environment, Water & Energy. | |