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. Electronic versions of Legislative Digests are available at http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/digests.aspx?year=2013. HB 1217-S2 by House Committee on Finance (originally sponsored by Representatives Takko, Haigh, and Ryu) Strengthening the integrity, fairness, and equity in Washington's property assessment system. Requires a taxpayer, within sixty days from the date a petition challenging the assessed value of commercial property is either postmarked for delivery or delivered in person to the county board of equalization, to submit to the clerk of the county board of equalization income and expense statements for the two years prior to the assessment date.
HB 1338-S2 by House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Roberts, Moscoso, Pettigrew, Pedersen, Clibborn, Wylie, Jinkins, Kagi, Hunt, Springer, Farrell, Appleton, McCoy, Walsh, Moeller, Santos, and Freeman) Concerning juveniles sentenced to long terms of incarceration. Modifies juvenile incarceration provisions relating to sentencing, sanctions, earned release time, and community custody.
HB 1416-S2 by House Committee on Finance (originally sponsored by Representatives Warnick, Manweller, Takko, Fagan, and Schmick) Concerning the financing of irrigation district improvements. Revises irrigation district provisions relating to financing of improvements.
HB 1517-S by House Committee on Finance (originally sponsored by Representatives Cody, Jinkins, Ryu, and Pollet; by request of Department of Revenue) Concerning a business and occupation tax exemption for the Washington health benefit exchange established under chapter 43.71 RCW. Provides a business and occupation tax exemption on amounts received by the Washington health benefit exchange from this state or the federal government.
HB 1518-S2 by House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Health & Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Cody, Schmick, Ryu, and Pollet) Providing certain disciplining authorities with additional authority over budget development, spending, and staffing. Modifies provisions regarding evaluations of the effect of granting additional authority over budget development, spending, and staffing to the state chiropractic quality assurance commission, the state medical quality assurance commission, and the nursing care quality assurance commission.
HB 1527-S by House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Appleton, Green, and Johnson) Concerning residential habilitation center residents' transition to the community. Requires the department of social and health services to: (1) Ensure, within thirty days of admission to a residential habilitation center, that each resident's individual habilitation plan includes a plan for discharge to the community; and(2) Submit information to the appropriate committees of the legislature regarding persons who have transitioned from residential habilitation centers to the community, for the first two years following each person's new placement.
HB 1541-S by House Committee on Health Care & Wellness (originally sponsored by Representatives Klippert, Cody, Schmick, Green, Harris, Chandler, Kristiansen, Morrell, Ryu, Angel, Jinkins, Van De Wege, and Pollet) Expanding the types of medications that a public or private school employee may administer to include nasal spray. Authorizes public school districts and private schools to provide nasal spray to students who are in the custody of the school district or school at the time of administration.
HB 1546-S by House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Green, Johnson, Walsh, Kagi, Roberts, Smith, Zeiger, Upthegrove, Freeman, Appleton, Ryu, Morrell, Jinkins, Bergquist, and Pollet) Concerning people with disabilities who receive no paid services from the department of social and health services' division of developmental disabilities. Requires the department of social and health services to: (1) Expand the informing families building trust communication project to provide information about the developmental disabilities system to individuals and families on the no paid services case load;(2) Assist the developmental disabilities council to reach clients on the no paid services case load; and(3) Provide services under the individual and family services program for one thousand persons who have requested such services and who are not receiving any paid services from the department, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015.
HB 1555-S by House Committee on Health Care & Wellness (originally sponsored by Representatives Green, Warnick, Cody, Morrell, and Ryu) Concerning the education of surgical technologists. Requires a registered surgical technologist, in order to perform functions in a hospital, to first submit certain evidence to the department of health in a manner acceptable to the secretary of health.
HB 1604-S by House Committee on Finance (originally sponsored by Representatives Angel, Springer, Nealey, Blake, Orcutt, Smith, and Ryu) Reducing the frequency of local sales and use tax changes. Allows changes to local sales and use taxes only on the first of January, April, or July.
HB 1629-S by House Committee on Health Care & Wellness (originally sponsored by Representatives Cody, Schmick, Jinkins, Tharinger, Green, Pollet, Morrell, Santos, and Ryu) Concerning credentialing and continuing education requirements for long-term care workers. Changes certification requirements for long-term care workers.Exempts licensed practical nurses and registered nurses from certain continuing education requirements.Authorizes the department of health to issue a provisional certification to a long-term care worker who is limited English proficient to allow the person additional time to comply with the requirement of becoming certified as a home care aide within two hundred calendar days after the date of hire.
HB 1650-S by House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives McCoy, Haler, Orcutt, Moscoso, Hunt, Seaquist, Santos, Maxwell, Bergquist, Ormsby, Orwall, Riccelli, Sells, Stonier, Reykdal, Van De Wege, Fey, Ryu, Morrell, Freeman, and Magendanz) Supporting K-12 career education, exploration, and planning. Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Develop a standard template for the high school and beyond plan required for high school graduation; and(2) Establish criteria and an award or designation to recognize exemplary career and technical education programs.Requires the instructional program of basic education provided by each school district to include opportunities for students to participate in career exploration, work-based learning, job shadowing, internships, development of their high school and beyond plan, student advisories, and other similar activities.Requires the state board of education to redesignate the credit in occupational education as a credit in career and technical education.Requires school districts to use the standard template for the high school and beyond plan or a locally developed template that the school district determines is equivalent to the standard template.Requires high schools to implement a career planning and exploration program for students in grades nine through twelve.Requires school district boards of directors to grant academic course equivalency for a career and technical high school course from the mandatory course equivalency list.Requires the education data center to develop a standard report on the postsecondary education and employment outcomes for students who graduate from the state's public high schools.Requires the professional educator standards board to: (1) Review certification standards for secondary principals; and(2) Revise the standards for career and technical education certification on the basis of business and industry work experience.Requires the workforce training and education coordinating board to: (1) Identify a sample of existing, interactive online tools that students and parents or guardians may use to explore career opportunities, identify a program of study, and assist in career guidance;(2) Create a brief, summary list of promising careers based on analysis of employment openings and future growth, as well as wages; and(3) Offer training regarding the online tools to career and technical education instructors, school counselors, and other education or workforce-related personnel.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction, the state board of education, the state board for community and technical colleges, the student achievement council, the workforce training and education coordinating board, and the employment security department to publicize the online tools and promising careers on their web sites.
HB 1654-S by House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Riccelli, Ormsby, Fitzgibbon, Tarleton, Van De Wege, and Ryu) Establishing a regional fire protection service authority within the boundaries of a single city. Establishes a regional fire protection service authority within the boundaries of a single city.
HB 1661-S by House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Fitzgibbon, Condotta, Roberts, Jinkins, Green, Upthegrove, Walsh, Moscoso, Tharinger, Cody, Kagi, Hunt, Appleton, Ryu, Lytton, Farrell, Pollet, Van De Wege, Ormsby, Liias, Reykdal, and Stanford) Addressing misdemeanor marijuana offense convictions. Authorizes a person convicted of a misdemeanor marijuana offense to apply to the sentencing court for a vacation of the applicant's record of conviction for the offense.Requires the court to vacate the record of conviction if the applicant establishes that he or she was at least twenty-one years of age at the time of the offense and that the amount of marijuana in possession which formed the basis of the offense was less than one ounce.
HB 1692-S by House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Sullivan, Pettigrew, Maxwell, Lytton, and Pollet) Implementing career and college ready graduation requirements. Authorizes, and provides sufficient resources for, implementation of the opportunity for: (1) Students to complete twenty-four credits for graduation through a comprehensive approach that includes increased instructional hours;(2) Expansion of the learning assistance program and transitional bilingual instructional programs; and(3) Resources to support additional family engagement and counseling.
HB 1701-S2 by House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Health & Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Moeller, Angel, Tharinger, and Pollet) Implementing recommendations of the adult family home quality assurance panel. Enacts the recommendations included in the adult family home quality assurance panel report in order to improve the quality of care of vulnerable residents and the department of social and health services' oversight of adult family homes.Requires specialty training for providers, resident managers, and caregivers who work in adult family homes that serve residents with special needs such as dementia, developmental disabilities, or mental illness.Requires adult family homes to disclose the scope of, and charges for, the care, services, and activities provided by the home or customarily arranged for by the home.Requires the department of social and health services: (1) When it has imposed a stop placement, to also impose a condition on license or other remedy to facilitate or spur prompter compliance, under certain circumstances; and(2) If an adult family home corrects a violation or deficiency that the department discovers, to record and consider such violation or deficiency for purposes of the home's compliance history.
HB 1708-S by House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services (originally sponsored by Representative Wylie; by request of Department of Social and Health Services) Concerning the enforcement powers of the office of financial recovery. Extends authority to, and establishes procedures for how, the office of financial recovery collects debts owed to the department of social and health services.
HB 1734-S by House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Sawyer, Kagi, Goodman, Orwall, Jinkins, Moscoso, Cody, Farrell, Reykdal, Pollet, Ormsby, Riccelli, Wylie, Ryu, Appleton, Roberts, Fey, Bergquist, and Santos) Concerning exemptions from the five-year time limit for recipients of the temporary assistance for needy families program. Addresses family violence and hardship exemptions from the five-year time limit for recipients of the temporary assistance for needy families program.
HB 1737-S by House Committee on Health Care & Wellness (originally sponsored by Representatives Morrell, Manweller, Clibborn, and Moeller) Concerning supervision of physician assistants. Requires physician assistants and osteopathic physician assistants, before being used in a remote site, to receive approval from the medical quality assurance commission and the board of osteopathic medicine and surgery, as appropriate.Allows a physician and an osteopathic physician to enter into delegation agreements with five physician assistants, but may petition for a waiver of this limit.Changes the term "practice arrangement plan" to "delegation agreement."Requires the medical quality assurance commission and the board of osteopathic medicine and surgery, working in collaboration with a statewide organization representing the interests of physician assistants, to adopt rules modernizing the current rules regulating physician assistants and report to the legislature.
HB 1752-S by House Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Representatives Orcutt, Clibborn, and Ryu; by request of Department of Licensing) Modifying requirements for the operation of commercial motor vehicles in compliance with federal regulations. Changes certain requirements for the operation of commercial motor vehicles in order to comply with federal regulations.
HB 1821-S by House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Freeman and Santos) Concerning good cause exceptions during permanency hearings. Revises the definition of "good cause exception" for purposes of permanency planning hearings and the responsibility of the department of social and health services to provide services to the parents.
HB 1844-S by House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Kagi, Ryu, Tharinger, and Freeman) Concerning family assessment response in child protective services. Increases the length of time in which a family assessment response, to a report of abuse or neglect of a child, must be completed by the department of social and health services.Repeals survey and evaluation requirements of the state institute for public policy and the department of social and health services with regard to family assessment responses.
HB 1852-S by House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Kagi, Ryu, and Freeman) Concerning rules to allow children who attend classes in a school building during school hours to remain in the same building to participate in before or after-school programs. Requires the director of the department of early learning, in consultation with the state fire marshal's office, to adopt licensing standards that allow children who attend classes in a school building during school hours to remain in the same building to participate in before-school or after-school programs.Requires the chief of the Washington state patrol, through the director of fire protection, to adopt minimum standard requirements to allow children who attend classes in a school building during school hours to remain in the same building to participate in before-school or after-school programs.
HB 1889-S by House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Chandler and Blake) Concerning the fruit and vegetable district fund. Authorizes the district manager for fruit and vegetable inspection district two to transfer an additional one hundred fifty thousand dollars from the fruit and vegetable district fund to the plant pest account within the agricultural local fund to be used solely for activities relating to the control of Rhagoletis pomonella in district two.Expires July 1, 2020.
SB 5280-S by Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Carrell, King, Holmquist Newbry, Padden, Becker, Sheldon, Rivers, Tom, Bailey, Roach, and Honeyford) Addressing unlawful activities on certain properties. Expands the definition of criminal trespass in the first degree to include a person who is a tenant by sufferance.Establishes the crime of criminal trespass of a dwelling in foreclosure.Allows a property owner to request law enforcement to remove a tenant by sufferance as a trespasser.
SB 5357-S by Senate Committee on Energy, Environment & Telecommunications (originally sponsored by Senators Honeyford, Delvin, Ericksen, Hobbs, Hatfield, and Rolfes) Directing state investments of existing litter tax revenues under chapter 82.19 RCW in material waste management efforts without increasing the tax rate. Requires the department of ecology to coordinate and expend funds collected from the litter tax with priority given to products identified under RCW 82.19.020 and solely for the purposes of waste reduction, recycling, composting, and litter collection and control programs.Changes the distribution of money from the waste reduction, recycling, and litter control account.
SB 5364-S by Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Kline and Padden) Concerning court reporters, communication access real-time translation, and real-time captioning services. Regulates the certification and practice of court reporters, communication access real-time translation providers, and real-time captioning service providers.
SB 5426-S by Senate Committee on Financial Institutions, Housing & Insurance (originally sponsored by Senator Roach) Concerning unlawful detainer. Specifies that an individual may be guilty of unlawful detainer if he or she is in default of rent and other fees.
SB 5437-S by Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Padden, Hargrove, Roach, Kline, Sheldon, Pearson, and Chase) Regarding boating safety. Implements additional provisions to ensure boating safety.
SB 5532-S by Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Rolfes, Hobbs, Billig, Darneille, Keiser, McAuliffe, and Kline) Requiring crisis intervention training for peace officers. Requires the criminal justice training commission to provide crisis intervention training to new full-time law enforcement officers employed by a state, county, or municipal law enforcement agency.Makes an appropriation.
SB 5544-S by Senate Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Senators Ranker, Litzow, Fain, Hasegawa, Schlicher, Kline, Kohl-Welles, McAuliffe, and Shin) Requiring an online higher education transfer and student advising system. Requires the student achievement council, in conjunction with the state board for community and technical colleges, the workforce training and education coordinating board, the four-year institutions of higher education, nonprofit institutions of higher education, and for-profit institutions of higher education, to establish and maintain a statewide online transfer and student advising system that integrates information related to programs, advising, registration, admissions, and transfer.
SB 5556-S by Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Darneille, Dammeier, Schlicher, Conway, Roach, McAuliffe, Becker, Carrell, Delvin, and Shin) Concerning missing endangered persons. Changes the name of the missing children clearinghouse to the missing children and endangered person clearinghouse.Imposes duties on local law enforcement agencies relating to missing endangered persons.
SB 5591-S by Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Eide, King, and Shin; by request of Department of Licensing) Concerning confidential license plates, drivers' licenses, identicards, and vessel registrations. Addresses the department of licensing's processes for issuing and allowing access to information about confidential license plates, drivers' licenses, identicards, and vessel registrations.
SB 5601-S by Senate Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Senators Becker, Cleveland, Dammeier, and Schlicher) Concerning interpretation of state law regarding rebating practices by health care entities. Adds language to chapter 19.68 RCW (rebating by practitioners of healing professions) to ensure that it is interpreted in a manner consistent with the federal antikickback statute, except with respect to arrangements involving an entity which principally operates as a clinical laboratory.
SB 5615-S by Senate Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Senators Frockt, Becker, Cleveland, Keiser, Kohl-Welles, Schlicher, Kline, Conway, and Chase) Concerning the health professional loan repayment and scholarship program. Requires the office of student financial assistance to: (1) Solicit and accept grants and donations from public and private sources for the health professional loan repayment and scholarship program; and(2) Contract with a fund-raiser to solicit and accept grants and donations from public and private sources for the program.Includes health professional residents as possible recipients of the program.
SB 5644-S by Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Senators Schoesler and Murray) Concerning sales for resale by retail licensees of liquor. Finds that some of the regulations adopted to implement the privatization of liquor initiative are at odds with the intent of the people to privatize and modernize both the wholesale distribution and retail sale of spirits and to make more efficient and competitive the distribution of wine.Provides exemptions to the license issuance fee to spirits retail licensees that were contract liquor store managers or former state store auction buyers.
SB 5706-S by Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education (originally sponsored by Senators McAuliffe, Litzow, Fraser, Shin, Kohl-Welles, Conway, Keiser, Chase, Rivers, Bailey, Braun, Holmquist Newbry, Rolfes, King, Nelson, Billig, Cleveland, Fain, Becker, and Hewitt) Concerning accountability in providing opportunities for certain students to participate in transition services. Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Establish interagency agreements with the department of social and health services, the department of services for the blind, and other state agencies that provide high school transition services for students with disabilities or students covered by the federal rehabilitation act of 1973;(2) Collaborate with the professional educator standards board to build into existing and ongoing educator requirements that special education teachers and school psychologists receive training to be appropriately prepared to address the transition needs of certain students; and(3) Attempt to collect certain data through a single communication after a student's graduation if the data is not available to the education data center.
SB 5713-S by Senate Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Senators Kohl-Welles, Bailey, Ranker, Hasegawa, Frockt, and Murray) Concerning self-supporting, fee-based programs at four-year institutions of higher education. Requires the state and regional universities and The Evergreen State College, when a decision is being considered to change an existing degree program that is supported by state funding to a program that is self-supporting and fee-based, to: (1) Notify enrolled undergraduate and graduate student government associations and prospective students before implementation with an estimate of tuition and fees; and(2) Establish or designate a committee to create criteria upon which to evaluate the proposed shift of a degree program.
SB 5724-S by Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education (originally sponsored by Senators Honeyford, Fraser, and Fain) Modifying school district bidding requirements for improvement and repair projects. Revises bidding requirements for improvement and repair projects of school districts.
SB 5731-S by Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Senators Keiser, Conway, Fain, and Kline) Allowing beer and/or wine specialty shop licensees to sell products made by distillers that produce sixty thousand gallons or less of spirits per year. Allows the sale, by beer and/or wine specialty shop licensees, of products made by distillers that produce sixty thousand gallons or less of spirits per year.
SB 5755-S by Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education (originally sponsored by Senators Litzow, McAuliffe, Kohl-Welles, Conway, and Kline; by request of Governor Inslee) Establishing a comprehensive initiative to increase learning opportunities and improve educational outcomes in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics through multiple strategies and statewide partnerships. Adopts the definition of "STEM literacy" as follows: The ability to identify, apply, and integrate concepts from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to understand complex problems and to innovate to solve them.Establishes the STEM education innovation alliance to: (1) Advise the governor and provide vision, guidance, assistance, and advice to support the initiatives under the act, as well as other current or proposed programs and initiatives across the spectrum of early learning through postsecondary education, that are intended to increase learning opportunities and improve educational outcomes in STEM; and(2) Develop a STEM education report card, based on the STEM framework for action and accountability, to monitor progress in increasing learning opportunities and improving educational outcomes in STEM.Requires the education data center to coordinate data collection and analysis to support the report card.Requires the state education agencies to report on how their policies, activities, and expenditures of public resources align with and support the STEM framework for action and accountability.Requires the office of financial management to contract with a statewide nonprofit organization with expertise in promoting and supporting STEM education from early learning through postsecondary education.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction, in consultation with the STEM education innovation alliance, to identify and disseminate resources and materials to elementary, middle, and high schools that are intended to encourage and increase interdisciplinary instruction and project-based learning in STEM.Requires the student achievement council to consult with the STEM education innovation alliance to align strategies under the ten-year roadmap with the STEM framework for education and accountability developed by the alliance.
SB 5761-S by Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators King and Hobbs; by request of Department of Transportation) Concerning outdoor advertising sign fees, labels, and prohibitions. Requires the department of transportation to establish and charge, by rule, an annual fee for type 4 and 5 sign permits to recover costs for outdoor advertising control program administration and enforcement.Increases the size limit on waterproof labels that display required permit numbers.
SB 5774-S by Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Senators Hewitt, Holmquist Newbry, McAuliffe, Bailey, Keiser, Conway, Schoesler, Kohl-Welles, Mullet, and Kline) Authorizing applications for a special permit to allow alcohol tasting by persons at least eighteen years of age under certain circumstances. Authorizes a special permit to allow tasting of alcohol by persons at least eighteen years of age under certain circumstances.
SB 5786-S by Senate Committee on Natural Resources & Parks (originally sponsored by Senator Hargrove) Requiring certain information in commercial fishing guide license applications. Requires certain information on an application for a food fish guide license and a game fish guide license.
SB 5791-S by Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Senators Fain, Hobbs, Litzow, Eide, Hill, King, Keiser, Murray, Dammeier, Hatfield, Becker, Kohl-Welles, Honeyford, and McAuliffe) Supporting youth programs through agricultural fairs and the horse racing industry. Requires money in the state lottery account to be used for distribution to the state fair fund and the horse racing commission operating account to support youth programs through agricultural fairs and the horse racing commission.
SB 5796-S by Senate Committee on Energy, Environment & Telecommunications (originally sponsored by Senators Schoesler and Ericksen) Concerning emissions from certain emergency power sources. Addresses requirements of emergency engines and backup generators for use at hospitals, sewage treatment plants, data centers, and other vital public services.
SB 5834-S by Senate Committee on Governmental Operations (originally sponsored by Senators Roach, Holmquist Newbry, Conway, and McAuliffe; by request of Governor Inslee) Concerning veteran-owned businesses. Changes the duties of the department of veterans affairs relating to certification of veteran-owned businesses.Encourages state agencies to award five percent of procurement contracts to veteran-owned businesses.Requires the department of veterans affairs and the department of enterprise services to: (1) Provide access to a centralized list of certified veteran-owned businesses; and(2) Develop a comprehensive plan ensuring that certified veteran-owned businesses are provided an opportunity to participate in public contracts for public works and goods and services.
SB 5835-S by Senate Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Senators Tom and Bailey) Concerning differential tuition. Prohibits increases that apply to only a portion of an institution's resident undergraduate programs, campuses, courses, or students, in an amount that results in an increase in the tuition unit payout value under the advanced college tuition payment program.
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