STATE OF WASHINGTON
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
61st Legislature - 2009 Regular Session
FRANK CHOPP JEFF MORRIS
Speaker Speaker Pro Tempore
BARBARA BAKER, Chief Clerk
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS FOURTH ORDER OF BUSINESS
Introduction and First Reading of
Bills, Memorials, Joint Resolutions and Concurrent Resolutions
February 11, 2009 - Wednesday 31ST DAY 2009 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.
HB 2126 By Representatives Orwall, Darneille, Nelson, Jacks, Hasegawa, Van De Wege, Liias and Kenney; by request of Governor Gregoire
Consolidating the cemetery board and the board of funeral directors and embalmers.
Referred to Committee on COMMERCE & LABOR.
HB 2131 By Representative Morris
Providing a credit under the public utility tax for sales and use taxes paid for the development of eligible renewable resources in the state that provide renewable energy to a qualifying utility.
Referred to Committee on TECHNOLOGY, ENERGY & COMMUNICATIONS.
HB 2132 By Representatives Quall, Anderson, Carlyle, Dammeier, Probst, Sullivan and Johnson
Regarding instruction in civics.
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION.
HB 2133 By Representatives White, Hunt, Kenney, Maxwell, Upthegrove, Hudgins and Rolfes
Authorizing the use of accumulated sick leave for volunteer work.
Referred to Committee on WAYS & MEANS.
HB 2134 By Representative McCoy
Requiring consideration of impacts to plant species identified by the natural heritage program.
Referred to Committee on LOCAL GOVERNMENT & HOUSING.
HB 2135 By Representative Chase
Encouraging the development of renewable energy.
Referred to Committee on TECHNOLOGY, ENERGY & COMMUNICATIONS.
HB 2136 By Representatives Parker, Quall, Dammeier and Hurst
Establishing safe house program requirements.
Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY.
HB 2137 By Representatives Kagi and Haler
Concerning adolescents at risk.
Referred to Committee on EARLY LEARNING & CHILDREN'S SERVICES.
HB 2138 By Representative Simpson
Concerning the use of surplus property for the development of affordable housing.
Referred to Committee on LOCAL GOVERNMENT & HOUSING.
HB 2139 By Representative Simpson
Concerning short subdivisions.
Referred to Committee on LOCAL GOVERNMENT & HOUSING.
HB 2140 By Representatives Kristiansen, Liias, Pearson, Sells and Ericks
Providing funding for state route number 2 through implementation of cost savings from performance audits.
Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION.
HB 2141 By Representatives Ericks, Condotta, Springer, Newhouse, Eddy, Armstrong and Conway
Concerning the registration of lottery tickets and shares.
Referred to Committee on COMMERCE & LABOR.
HB 2142 By Representatives Roach, Santos and Priest
Renaming components of the formula for allotment of appropriations for school plant facilities.
Referred to Committee on CAPITAL BUDGET.
HB 2143 By Representatives Cox, Ormsby, Wallace, Armstrong, Schmick, Dunshee, Roach and McCune
Reducing the postretirement employment restrictions for members of the teachers' retirement system, school employees' retirement system, and the public employees' retirement system that retire after earning thirty or more years of service.
Referred to Committee on WAYS & MEANS.
HB 2144 By Representative Condotta
Defining the term employ for minimum wage purposes.
Referred to Committee on COMMERCE & LABOR.
HB 2145 By Representative Condotta
Establishing requirements for industrial insurance final settlement agreements.
Referred to Committee on COMMERCE & LABOR.
HB 2146 By Representatives Ericks, Johnson, Eddy and Liias
Modifying contract requirements for water or sewer facilities.
Referred to Committee on LOCAL GOVERNMENT & HOUSING.
HB 2147 By Representatives Liias, Pettigrew, Quall and McCoy
Closing the achievement gap in order to provide all students an excellent and equitable education.
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION.
HB 2148 By Representative Pettigrew
Implementing strategies to address the achievement gap.
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION.
HB 2149 By Representatives McCoy, Pettigrew and Quall
Regarding millennium schools.
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION.
HB 2150 By Representatives Chase, Dunshee and White
Ensuring cleanup of certain hazardous waste facilities.
Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH.
HB 2151 By Representative Springer; by request of Governor Gregoire
Eliminating boards and commissions on June 30, 2010.
Referred to Committee on STATE GOVERNMENT & TRIBAL AFFAIRS.
HB 2152 By Representative Chase
Authorizing counties to seek voter approval on an additional county property tax to finance public health services.
Referred to Committee on FINANCE.
HB 2153 By Representative Chase
Regarding an entrepreneurial program known as Washington's economic gardening.
Referred to Committee on COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & TRADE.
HB 2154 By Representative Chase
Prohibiting work under state contracts from being performed at locations outside the United States.
Referred to Committee on STATE GOVERNMENT & TRIBAL AFFAIRS.
HB 2155 By Representative Seaquist
Concerning children's health care coverage.
Referred to Committee on HEALTH CARE & WELLNESS.
HB 2156 By Representatives Orwall and Dickerson; by request of Department of Corrections
Revising the authority for certification by the criminal justice training commission.
Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES.
HB 2157 By Representative Springer; by request of Governor Gregoire
Consolidating certain salmon recovery activities and programs within the recreation and conservation office.
Referred to Committee on AGRICULTURE & NATURAL RESOURCES.
HB 2158 By Representatives Green, Cody, Walsh and Conway
Addressing the collective bargaining of adult family home providers' health benefits.
Referred to Committee on COMMERCE & LABOR.
HB 2159 By Representatives Cody and Seaquist; by request of Health Care Authority
Abolishing the Washington state quality forum.
Referred to Committee on HEALTH CARE & WELLNESS.
HB 2160 By Representatives Driscoll, Hinkle, Cody and Bailey; by request of Governor Gregoire
Concerning health carrier payment of wellness incentives.
Referred to Committee on HEALTH CARE & WELLNESS.
HB 2161 By Representatives Cody, Darneille and Seaquist; by request of Department of Social and Health Services
Concerning support services provided under the maternity care access program.
Referred to Committee on HEALTH CARE & WELLNESS.
HB 2162 By Representatives Conway and Condotta
Regulating house-banked social card games.
Referred to Committee on COMMERCE & LABOR.
HB 2163 By Representative Van De Wege
Regarding the liability of an electric utility for removing vegetation.
Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY.
HB 2164 By Representatives Pettigrew, Haler, Santos, McCoy, Miloscia, Kagi, Hunt, Kenney, Sullivan, Darneille, Seaquist, Roberts, Chase and Hasegawa
Remediating racial disproportionality in child welfare practices.
Referred to Committee on EARLY LEARNING & CHILDREN'S SERVICES.
HB 2165 By Representatives Van De Wege, Haler, Blake, Kretz, McCoy, Hinkle, Ormsby, Nelson, Eddy, Hasegawa and Takko; by request of Department of Natural Resources
Authorizing the department of natural resources to conduct a forest biomass energy demonstration project.
Referred to Committee on TECHNOLOGY, ENERGY & COMMUNICATIONS.
HB 2166 By Representatives Darneille, Pedersen, Kenney and Kirby
Imposing an additional document recording surcharge to fund certain affordable housing and homeless purposes.
Referred to Committee on LOCAL GOVERNMENT & HOUSING.
HB 2167 By Representatives Maxwell, Priest, Green, Quall, Moeller, White, Orwall, Sullivan, Van De Wege, Liias and Probst
Providing flexibility in the education system.
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION.
HB 2168 By Representatives Green, Morrell, Ericks, Kessler, Dunshee and Pettigrew
Concerning licensing midwives.
Referred to Committee on HEALTH CARE & WELLNESS.
HB 2169 By Representative Ericksen
Concerning the basic health plan.
Referred to Committee on HEALTH CARE & WELLNESS.
HB 2170 By Representatives Hudgins and McCoy
Authorizing the department of information services to engage in high-speed internet adoption, deployment, and digital inclusion activities.
Referred to Committee on TECHNOLOGY, ENERGY & COMMUNICATIONS.
HB 2171 By Representatives Hudgins and McCoy
Conducting an assessment of high-speed internet service in the state.
Referred to Committee on TECHNOLOGY, ENERGY & COMMUNICATIONS.
HB 2172 By Representative Hunter
Addressing water and/or sewer district assumptions by cities in counties with more than one million five hundred thousand residents.
Referred to Committee on LOCAL GOVERNMENT & HOUSING.
HB 2173 By Representative Hunter
Facilitating annexations in counties with more than one million five hundred thousand residents by modifying and establishing annexation methods.
Referred to Committee on LOCAL GOVERNMENT & HOUSING.
HB 2174 By Representatives Eddy, Seaquist, Ericksen, Hinkle, Takko, Herrera, Sullivan, Pettigrew, Springer, Blake, Wallace and Ericks
Concerning health care.
Referred to Committee on HEALTH CARE & WELLNESS.
HB 2175 By Representatives Kessler and Van De Wege
Creating volunteer firefighter special license plates.
Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION.
HB 2176 By Representative Conway
Creating a good faith defense for certain minimum wage and overtime compensation complaints.
Referred to Committee on COMMERCE & LABOR.
HB 2177 By Representatives Wallace and Quall
Requiring school districts or educational service districts to purchase employee health insurance coverage through the state health care authority.
Referred to Committee on WAYS & MEANS.
HB 2178 By Representatives White and Kenney
Concerning the convention place station expansion.
Referred to Committee on COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & TRADE.
HB 2179 By Representative Eddy
Authorizing cities to provide and contract for supplemental transportation improvements.
Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION.
HB 2180 By Representatives Eddy, McCoy, Carlyle and Upthegrove; by request of Governor Gregoire
Concerning sales and use tax exemptions for certain plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
Referred to Committee on TECHNOLOGY, ENERGY & COMMUNICATIONS.
HB 2181 By Representatives Moeller, Rolfes, Wallace, Quall and Sullivan
Creating a bi-state partnership for teachers of children with visual impairments.
Referred to Committee on HIGHER EDUCATION.
HJM 4011 By Representatives Angel, Kirby, Cox, Shea, Dammeier, Johnson, Bailey, Orcutt, Hinkle, Warnick, Campbell and Wallace
Requesting that the new Tacoma Narrows bridge be named the Bob Oke bridge.
Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION.