WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE
Legislative Digest No. 2

SIXTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE
Wednesday, January 14, 20153rd Day - 2015 Regular Session

SENATE
SB 5065SB 5066SB 5067SB 5068SB 5069SB 5070SB 5071
SB 5072SB 5073SB 5074SB 5075SB 5076SB 5077SB 5078
SB 5079SB 5080SB 5081SB 5082SB 5083SB 5084SB 5085
SB 5086SCR 8400
HOUSE
HB 1115HB 1116HB 1117HB 1118HB 1119HB 1120HB 1121
HB 1122HB 1123

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=2015.


House Bills

HB 1115

by Representatives Dunshee, DeBolt, Gregerson, Morris, and Reykdal; by request of Governor Inslee


Concerning the capital budget.


Adopts the capital budget.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Capital Budget (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1116

by Representatives Dunshee, DeBolt, Gregerson, and Morris; by request of Governor Inslee


Concerning the supplemental capital budget.


Adopts the supplemental capital budget.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Capital Budget (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1117

by Representatives Klippert, Orwall, Gregerson, Haler, and Muri; by request of Department of Enterprise Services


Modifying the veterans' scoring criteria in competitive examinations.


Revises veterans' scoring criteria in competitive examinations.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to State Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1118

by Representative Blake


Creating cost savings by providing administrative flexibility to the department of fish and wildlife in its implementation of Title 77 RCW while not directing any changes to resource management outcomes.


Provides administrative flexibility to the department of fish and wildlife in its implementation of Title 77 RCW while not directing any changes to resource management outcomes.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1119

by Representatives Blake, Buys, Gregerson, and Van Werven


Making changes to Title 77 RCW that gives tools to the department of fish and wildlife to ensure hunter safety by focusing on the actual person hunting and not the sporting equipment used by the hunter including, but not limited to, establishing the age of fourteen as the minimum age to participate in unaccompanied hunting.


Ensures hunter safety by focusing on the actual person hunting and not the sporting equipment used by the hunter including, but not limited to, establishing the age of fourteen as the minimum age to participate in unaccompanied hunting.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1120

by Representatives Wilcox, Reykdal, G. Hunt, Haler, Ortiz-Self, and Muri


Providing immunity for school bus drivers.


Provides immunity from civil or criminal liability for school bus drivers for certain acts.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1121

by Representatives Parker, Santos, Riccelli, Bergquist, Gregerson, Magendanz, Ortiz-Self, Muri, Tarleton, and Pollet


Regarding the financial education public-private partnership.


Changes the composition and duties of the financial education public-private partnership.

Authorizes teachers appointed as members by the superintendent of public instruction to be paid travel expenses from funds available in the financial education public-private partnership account.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Make available to school districts the curriculum for a course or courses in financial education with sufficient content to be equivalent to one-half of one high school credit; and

(2) Select the courses with input from the financial education public-private partnership.

Requires school districts to provide students in grades nine through twelve the opportunity to complete a financial education course.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1122

by Representatives Sells, Gregerson, and Reykdal


Addressing arbitration for dispatch operators of public employers.


Revises the definition of "uniformed personnel," in chapter 41.56 RCW (public employees' collective bargaining), to include employees of public employers, other than fire departments, who dispatch fire, police, or emergency medical services, or any combination of these.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Labor (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1123

by Representatives Blake and Buys


Regulating the minimum dimensions of habitable spaces in single-family residential areas.


Prohibits certain cities, towns, and counties from regulating or restricting the minimum dimensions of habitable spaces in single-family residential buildings, including but not limited to the minimum dimensions of floor or room area, unless the regulation is necessary for a fire, life safety, or environmental purpose.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).


Senate Bills

SB 5065

by Senator Frockt


Improving educational outcomes for homeless students through increased in-school guidance supports, housing stability, and identification services.


Allows for homeless student education liaisons that will provide services to identified homeless students.

Requires the department of commerce, in consultation with the office of the superintendent of public instruction, to administer a grant program that links homeless students and their families with stable housing located in the homeless student's school district. This requirement is null and void if funding is not provided by June 30, 2015, in the omnibus appropriations act.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education.

SB 5066

by Senators Padden and Darneille


Concerning the collection of blood samples for forensic testing.


Provides that it is not professional misconduct for a physician, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, nursing assistant, physician assistant, first responder, emergency medical technician, health care assistant, or technician trained in withdrawing blood, to collect a blood sample without a person's consent when he or she was directed by a law enforcement officer to do so for the purpose of a blood test under the provisions of a search warrant or exigent circumstances.

Requires the secretary of the department of health, in consultation with health profession boards and commissions, the state criminal justice training commission, and the Washington state patrol, to establish by rule the administrative procedures and requirements for initial issue, renewal, and reissue of a credential for forensic phlebotomists.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Law & Justice.

SB 5067

by Senators Padden and Darneille


Addressing informant and accomplice evidence and testimony.


Addresses the unreliability of accomplice and criminal informant evidence and testimony by ensuring that the jury is fully informed when an accomplice or informant testifies.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Law & Justice.

SB 5068

by Senator Pearson


Requiring the restoration of signage advertising free coffee at safety rest areas.


Requires the department of transportation to restore all signage, including electronic signage, used to advertise the availability of free coffee at safety rest areas.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Transportation.

SB 5069

by Senator Pearson


Making the unlawful possession of instruments of financial fraud a crime.


Includes in the crime of unlawful possession of instruments of financial fraud, possession of a device that has the ability to capture, read, scan, store, record, transmit, or receive financial information from an access device, with the intent to commit financial fraud.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Law & Justice.

SB 5070

by Senator Pearson


Requiring the department of corrections to supervise domestic violence offenders who have a conviction and were sentenced for a domestic violence felony offense that was plead and proven.


Requires supervision, by the department of corrections, of domestic violence offenders who have a conviction and were sentenced for a domestic violence felony offense that was plead and proven.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Law & Justice.

SB 5071

by Senator Honeyford


Concerning resident curators of state properties.


Authorizes a state agency, with statutory authority to lease state-owned properties to private parties, to negotiate a lease at a rate that is less than fair market value in consideration of the lessee's occupancy of the property and agreement to restore, maintain, rehabilitate, or otherwise improve the leased property.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Government Operations & State Security.

SB 5072

by Senator Honeyford


Modifying the crime of failing to summon assistance.


Expands the crime of failing to summon assistance.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Law & Justice.

SB 5073

by Senators Roach and Liias; by request of Office of Financial Management


Concerning nonsubstantive updates and realignments of the statutory responsibilities of the office of financial management.


Makes nonsubstantive updates and realignments of the statutory responsibilities of the office of financial management.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Government Operations & State Security.

SB 5074

by Senators Bailey and Conway; by request of Department of Enterprise Services


Modifying the veterans' scoring criteria in competitive examinations.


Revises veterans' scoring criteria in competitive examinations.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Government Operations & State Security.

SB 5075

by Senator Baumgartner; by request of Department of Enterprise Services


Making nonsubstantive changes to procurement law.


Makes nonsubstantive changes to procurement law.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Government Operations & State Security.

SB 5076

by Senators Hill and Hargrove; by request of Governor Inslee


Making 2015 supplemental operating appropriations.


Makes 2015 supplemental operating appropriations.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Ways & Means.

SB 5077

by Senators Hill and Hargrove; by request of Governor Inslee


Making 2015-2017 operating appropriations.


Makes 2015-2017 operating appropriations.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Ways & Means.

SB 5078

by Senator O'Ban


Funding recovery programs for persons with mental illness and chemical dependency disorders.


Requires twenty-two percent of the funds distributed to the basic health plan trust account from marijuana excise taxes and certain fees, penalties, and forfeitures from marijuana producer, processor, and retailer licenses to be used to fund evidence-based or research-based, intensive community interventions shown to promote recovery and reduce the need for inpatient hospitalization for persons with mental illness, persons with co-occurring mental illness and chemical dependency disorders, or both.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing .

SB 5079

by Senator O'Ban


Requiring the department of social and health services to notify the military regarding child abuse and neglect allegations of families with an active military status.


Requires the department of social and health services to: (1) Make efforts as soon as practicable to determine the military status of parents whose children are subject to abuse or neglect allegations; and

(2) If it determines that a parent or guardian is in the military, notify a department of defense family advocacy program that there is an allegation of abuse and neglect that is screened in open for investigation that relates to that military parent or guardian.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing .

SB 5080

by Senators Dammeier, Rolfes, Fain, Frockt, and Litzow


Concerning dual credit options.


Provides a new funding model to eliminate tuition in the college in the high school program.

Provides flexibility in the academic acceleration incentive program to assist students with transportation and book expenses associated with the running start program.

Establishes a distinction between the college in the high school program as a program occurring in high schools and the running start program as a program occurring on a college campus.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education.

SB 5081

by Senators Miloscia, Hill, Bailey, and Becker


Increasing transparency of state government expenditures related to state employees, state vendors and other public entities.


Requires the office of financial management to maintain a web site that is accessible to the public of state collective bargaining agreements.

Requires the inventory system that accounts for owned or leased facilities used by state government to be incorporated into the state expenditure information web site maintained by the legislative evaluation and accountability program committee.

Requires the department of enterprise services to maintain a web site, that is accessible to the public, of the following: (1) Sole source contracts;

(2) Current contract opportunities on the state's enterprise vendor registration and bid notification system; and

(3) Contractors currently debarred by the director of the department.

Requires the legislative evaluation and accountability program committee, in collaboration with the department of enterprise services, to establish and make available to the public a state contracting information web site.

Requires the administrative office of the courts, the office of public defense, the department of retirement systems, the secretary of state, the military department, the department of commerce, and the criminal justice training center to report to the legislative evaluation and accountability program committee the amount of funds distributed in the prior fiscal year by entity for certain programs and expenditures.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Ways & Means.

SB 5082

by Senators McAuliffe, Litzow, Rolfes, McCoy, and Billig


Providing for career and technical education opportunities for elementary school students.


Provides elementary school students with career and technical education opportunities.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to implement a grant program to fund K-12 STEM programs provided by a national entity that is exempt from taxation under Title 26 U.S.C. Sec. 501(c)(3) of the federal internal revenue code of 1986.

Makes an appropriation.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education.

SB 5083

by Senators McAuliffe, Litzow, Rolfes, McCoy, Billig, and Darneille


Enacting the sudden cardiac arrest awareness act.


Establishes the sudden cardiac arrest awareness act.

Requires the state school directors' association, in collaboration with a nonprofit organization that educates communities about sudden cardiac arrest in young athletes and the University of Washington center for sports cardiology, to develop and make available an online pamphlet that provides students engaged in athletic activity, their parents or guardians, and coaches with information about sudden cardiac arrest.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education.

SB 5084

by Senators Becker and Frockt; by request of Governor Inslee


Clarifying the all payer claims database to improve health care quality and cost transparency by changing certain definitions regarding data, reporting and pricing of products, responsibility of the office and lead organization, and parameters for release of information.


Modifies statewide all-payer health care claims database provisions relating to improving health care quality and cost transparency by changing certain definitions regarding data, reporting and pricing of products, responsibility of the office and lead organization, and parameters for release of information.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Health Care.

SB 5085

by Senators Rolfes, Dammeier, Conway, Benton, Chase, Billig, Ranker, and Hobbs


Authorizing siblings of United States armed forces members who died while in service or as a result of service to apply for gold star license plates.


Allows siblings of armed forces members who died while in service or as a result of service to apply for gold star license plates.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Transportation.

SB 5086

by Senators Litzow and McAuliffe; by request of Office of Financial Management


Concerning dual credit opportunities provided by Washington state's public institutions of higher education.


Modifies provisions relating to the college in the high school program and the running start program.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 13First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education.


Senate Concurrent Resolutions

SCR 8400

by Senators Schoesler and Nelson


Establishing cutoff dates for the consideration of legislation during the 2015 regular session of the sixty-fourth legislature.


(DIGEST AS ADOPTED)


Establishes cutoff dates for the consideration of legislation during the 2015 regular session of the sixty-fourth legislature.
-- 2015 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 12Read first time, rules suspended, and placed on second reading calendar.
Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
Third reading, adopted.