 | WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE | |
| Legislative Digest No. 20 | ||
| SIXTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE | ||
| Monday, February 9, 2015 | 29th Day - 2015 Regular Session | |
| SENATE |
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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.
Electronic versions of Legislative Digests are available at http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/digests.aspx?year=2015.
HB 1006-S
by House Committee on Labor (originally sponsored by Representatives Sawyer, G. Hunt, Dunshee, Riccelli, Moeller, Fitzgibbon, Appleton, Gregerson, Reykdal, Jinkins, Bergquist, Goodman, Moscoso, Ormsby, Farrell, Walkinshaw, and Pollet)
Providing damages for wage violations.
Increases the penalty for certain wage violations.
| Feb 3 | LAB - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Feb 5 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1031-S
by House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Johnson, Santos, Haler, Appleton, Sells, S. Hunt, Gregerson, Reykdal, Bergquist, Van De Wege, Hargrove, Ormsby, Fey, and Walkinshaw)
Expanding participation in college in the high school programs.
Allows tenth grade students to participate in the college in the high school program.Requires college credits for completion of the program to be applied toward degree requirements at The Evergreen State College.
| Feb 2 | ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Feb 5 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1054-S
by House Committee on Business & Financial Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Stanford and Gregerson)
Concerning collection agency transaction fees for processing electronic payments.
Prohibits a collection agency from collecting a transaction fee for processing a credit card payment in an amount that does not exceed fifty cents plus three percent of the payment amount provided that a no-cost payment option is available to the debtor.
| Feb 4 | BFS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 6 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1121-S
by House Committee on Education (originally sponsored 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) Integrate financial education skills and content knowledge into the state learning standards; and(2) After consulting with the partnership, make available to all school districts a list of materials that align with the financial education standards integrated into the state learning standards.Requires school districts to provide students in grades nine through twelve the opportunity to access the financial education standards.Adopts standards in K-12 personal finance education developed by a national coalition for personal financial literacy that includes partners from business, finance, government, academia, education, and state affiliates as the state financial education learning standards.
| Feb 2 | ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Feb 5 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1138-S
by House Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Orwall, Haler, Blake, Carlyle, Kochmar, Reykdal, Appleton, S. Hunt, Pollet, Tarleton, Ortiz-Self, Gregerson, Bergquist, Ormsby, Senn, Riccelli, Ryu, Tharinger, Walkinshaw, and Fey)
Creating a task force on mental health and suicide prevention in higher education.
Requires Forefront at the University of Washington to convene a task force on mental health and suicide prevention at public and private institutions of higher education to determine what policies, resources, and technical assistance are needed to support the institutions in improving access to mental health services and improving suicide prevention responses.Expires July 1, 2017.
| Feb 4 | HE - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Feb 6 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 2002
by Representatives Morris, Magendanz, and Fitzgibbon
Concerning regulatory and financial mechanisms and means to promote the retirement of coal-fired electric generation facilities.
Establishes the Washington state coal generation retirement program act.Promotes the retirement of coal-fired electric generation facilities.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2003
by Representatives Ormsby and S. Hunt
Addressing health care coverage for retired or disabled school employees or state employees.
Authorizes certain retired or disabled school employees and retired or disabled state employees to enroll in medical and dental plans under the state health care authority.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2004
by Representatives Taylor, Reykdal, Takko, Rodne, Shea, Griffey, Vick, Zeiger, Condotta, Hayes, Buys, Harmsworth, Scott, Pike, Van Werven, Muri, and Wilson
Defining professional legislative staff member for purposes of personal financial affairs reporting.
Excludes legislative assistants from the definition of professional legislative staff member for purposes of personal financial affairs reporting.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to State Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2005
by Representatives Moscoso, Goodman, Pettigrew, Appleton, Orwall, Ormsby, and Jinkins
Creating an office of corrections ombuds.
Creates an office of corrections ombuds within the office of the governor for the purpose of: (1) Providing information to offenders and their families;(2) Promoting public awareness and understanding of the rights and responsibilities of offenders;(3) Identifying system issues and responses for the governor and the legislature to act upon; and(4) Ensuring compliance with relevant statutes, rules, and policies pertaining to corrections facilities, services, and treatment of offenders under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections.Requires funding for the office to be provided from the proceeds of the department of corrections' institutional offender betterment accounts, after distribution is made to the crime victims' compensation program.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2006
by Representatives Moscoso, Kagi, Pettigrew, Appleton, Orwall, Bergquist, and Pollet
Concerning a model policy and procedures for language access by limited-English proficient parents of students.
Requires the state school directors' association to, with the assistance of the office of the superintendent of public instruction, develop a model policy and procedures for language access by limited-English proficient parents.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to convene an advisory committee to develop sample materials for school districts to disseminate to school employees and parents regarding parents' rights under the model policy developed by the state school directors' association and the resources available to assist parents and guardians in accessing the services available to them.Requires each school district board of directors to establish its own language access policy and procedures and make them available on the district's web site.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction and the office of the education ombuds to develop a list of and post information on the agency's web site regarding: (1) Language access services providers available to school districts; and(2) Training programs that are available to support school districts in preparing employees for how to access and effectively use an interpreter.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2007
by Representatives Zeiger, Sullivan, Stambaugh, Van De Wege, Riccelli, and Ormsby
Concerning reimbursement to eligible providers for medicaid ground emergency medical transportation services.
Requires an eligible provider to receive supplemental medicaid reimbursement in addition to the rate of payment that the provider would otherwise receive for medicaid ground emergency medical transportation services.Requires the state health care authority to design and implement, in consultation with eligible providers, an intergovernmental transfer program relating to medicaid managed care, ground emergency medical transport services including those services provided by emergency medical technicians at the basic, advanced, and paramedic levels in the prestabilization and preparation for transport in order to increase capitation payments for the purpose of increasing reimbursement to eligible providers.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2008
by Representatives Carlyle, Hurst, Wylie, Condotta, Cody, Tharinger, Hunter, Kagi, and Reykdal
Concerning comprehensive marijuana tax reform to ensure a well regulated and taxed marijuana market in Washington.
Addresses marijuana tax reform.Requires a buyer rather than a retailer to pay the marijuana excise tax on a retail sale of marijuana concentrates, useable marijuana, and marijuana-infused products.Increases marijuana excise taxes.Shares marijuana tax revenues with local jurisdictions for public safety and chemical dependency and mental health treatment expenditures.Provides a sales and use tax exemption on: (1) Useable marijuana and marijuana-infused products sold to qualifying patients or their designated providers; and(2) The use of useable marijuana or marijuana-infused products by a qualifying patient or their designated provider.Changes the name and functions of the dedicated marijuana fund to the dedicated marijuana account.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2009
by Representatives Robinson, Johnson, Walkinshaw, Magendanz, Jinkins, Gregerson, Harris, Tarleton, Lytton, Riccelli, Cody, Tharinger, Senn, Kilduff, Stanford, Peterson, Moeller, Kagi, Takko, Moscoso, Wylie, Clibborn, Van De Wege, S. Hunt, Farrell, Pollet, and Ryu
Concerning exemptions from immunizations for school-age children.
Addresses exemptions from immunizations with regard to a parent's philosophical or personal objection.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2010
by Representatives Takko, Reykdal, and Buys
Creating appeal procedures for single-family homeowners with failing septic systems required to connect to public sewer systems.
Requires a local government, if it adopts or has adopted an ordinance or resolution requiring connection to a public sewer system upon the failure of an on-site septic system, to provide an administrative appeals process to consider denials of permit applications of owners of single-family residences.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Local Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2011
by Representatives Springer, Condotta, McBride, Vick, Takko, Hayes, Walkinshaw, Pettigrew, Magendanz, Wilcox, Stokesbary, Kirby, Goodman, Blake, DeBolt, Morris, Zeiger, Moscoso, Rodne, Harris, Fagan, Schmick, Stanford, Holy, and Ormsby
Providing a sales and use tax exemption for eligible server equipment installed in certain data centers.
Increases investment in data center construction in rural counties by providing a sales and use tax exemption on eligible server equipment and power infrastructure installed in eligible computer data centers, charges made for labor and services rendered in respect to installing eligible server equipment, and for construction, installation, repair, alteration, or improvement of eligible power infrastructures.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2012
by Representatives Orcutt, Clibborn, Hargrove, Hayes, Pike, Zeiger, Muri, and Wilson
Concerning the implementation of practical design by the department of transportation.
Requires the department of transportation to approach project development by applying principles of practical design in appropriate situations so that projects are based on cost efficiencies, community needs, and performance without impacting safety or operations. "Practical design" is a lean, performance-based approach to determining project investments.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2013
by Representatives Orcutt, Hargrove, Hayes, and Pike
Concerning environmental standards related to transportation projects.
Addresses environmental standards related to transportation projects.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Environment (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2014
by Representatives Orcutt, Hayes, and Pike
Implementing potential action seven of the joint transportation committee report on efficiencies in the construction and operation of state transportation projects.
Exempts from certain prevailing wage laws, workers on a public works transportation project other than mechanics and laborers employed directly on the site of work for a public works transportation project.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Labor (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2015
by Representatives Orcutt, Hayes, Pike, and Wilson
Exempting from the prevailing wage laws work performed or funded by nonprofit organizations.
Exempts from certain prevailing wage laws, any portion of work on a public works project that is performed or funded by a nonprofit organization.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Labor (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2016
by Representatives Klippert and Sullivan; by request of Office of the Chief Information Officer
Concerning unmanned aerial vehicles.
Imposes limitations on the collection of information using unmanned aerial vehicles.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2017
by Representatives Klippert, Cody, Blake, Dent, Hayes, Fagan, and Kretz
Creating Washington farmers and ranchers special license plates.
Creates Washington farmers and ranchers special license plates and provides funds to the Washington FFA Foundation for educational programs in this state.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2018
by Representatives Kirby, Stanford, and McBride
Addressing insurance covering for hire operators using personal vehicles.
Requires personal vehicles to be covered by a primary automobile insurance policy before being used as a for hire vehicle.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Business & Financial Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2019
by Representatives Muri, Magendanz, and Stambaugh
Clarifying the teacher and principal evaluation process with the intent of strengthening the process.
Addresses the evaluation process for: (1) Teachers who teach reading or language arts or mathematics in a grade in which the federally mandated statewide student assessments are administered; and(2) Principals assigned to a school in which reading or language arts or mathematics are taught in at least one of the grades in which the federally mandated statewide assessments are administered.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to provide to each school district the relevant state-level assessment information necessary to determine student growth for the purpose of teacher and principal evaluations.Delays the time in which evaluation results for certificated classroom teachers and principals must be used as one of multiple factors in making human resource and personnel decisions.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2020
by Representatives Magendanz, Blake, Nealey, Takko, and Smith
Improving utility emissions reduction standards at a low-cost to utility customers with electricity generated by renewable resources.
Encourages electric utilities to achieve an emissions reduction standard to maintain the already low greenhouse gas emissions, and encourages further reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, from electricity generated to serve utility customers by using energy conservation and appropriately sited renewable resources to meet new demand for electricity.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2021
by Representatives Riccelli, Parker, Cody, Holy, Ormsby, and Muri
Concerning the prescription drug assistance foundation.
Revises the definition of "health insurance coverage including prescription drugs," for purposes of the prescription drug assistance foundation, to include prescription drug coverage under a plan offered through the state health benefit exchange.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2022
by Representatives Hawkins, Appleton, Johnson, Robinson, Zeiger, Blake, Haler, Parker, Kretz, Condotta, Short, Manweller, Tarleton, Ryu, and Fitzgibbon
Creating the natural disaster economic recovery account to support economic recovery from natural disasters.
Creates the natural disaster economic recovery account which will be administered by the department of commerce.Requires expenditures from the account to be used only for an area affected by a state of emergency as declared by the governor due to a natural disaster.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2023
by Representatives Parker, Lytton, Magendanz, Riccelli, Ormsby, Fagan, and Santos
Changing the deadline for notices of nonrenewal of contracts for certificated school employees.
Changes the deadline for notices of nonrenewal of contracts for certificated school employees.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2024
by Representatives Parker, Kagi, Carlyle, Riccelli, Ormsby, Santos, and Zeiger
Concerning the use of student housing facilities at the institutions of higher education by homeless students.
Allows the governing boards of the institutions of higher education to authorize the temporary use of student housing facilities by low-income homeless students attending that institution during the time those facilities are otherwise unused by students who are paying student housing fees.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2025
by Representative Appleton
Prohibiting the sale and commercial display of human remains.
Prohibits the sale for profit of human remains and the commercial display for advertising or other benefit.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2026
by Representative Haler
Providing a business and occupation tax credit for certain medical facilities to hire physicians.
Declares an intent to provide tax relief to medical facilities in eastern Washington that employ a resident physician for a duration of at least one year with a salary of no less than forty thousand dollars per year.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
SB 5002-S
by Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senator Rivers)
Concerning traffic infractions for marijuana.
Addresses the possession or consumption of marijuana in a motor vehicle when the vehicle is upon a highway.
| Feb 5 | LAW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Feb 6 | Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | |
SB 5004-S
by Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Angel and Rolfes)
Establishing the position and authority of warrant officers.
Authorizes a city, town, or code city to establish the position of warrant officer. The position shall be maintained by the city or town within the city or town police department.
| Feb 3 | LAW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Feb 4 | Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | |
SB 5006-S
by Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senator Angel)
Authorizing the termination of all legal responsibilities of a nonparent if genetic testing shows by clear and convincing evidence that a man is not the genetic father of a child.
Authorizes the termination of legal responsibilities of a nonparent if genetic testing shows that a man is not the genetic father of a child.
| Feb 5 | LAW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| And refer to Ways & Means. | ||
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 6 | Referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5022-S
by Senate Committee on Natural Resources & Parks (originally sponsored by Senators Angel, Liias, and Rolfes)
Providing fee immunity for certain city, town, and county water facilities.
Authorizes a city, town, or county to: (1) Plan for, construct, operate, and maintain moorage facilities for recreational boating activities on land and overwater structures owned or otherwise controlled by a city, town, or county; and(2) Impose a fee for access to and use of the moorage facility.
| Feb 4 | NRP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Feb 5 | Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | |
SB 5036-S
by Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators O'Ban and Dammeier)
Creating a sentence enhancement for body armor.
Creates a sentence enhancement for body armor.Doubles firearm and deadly weapon enhancements if an offender or accomplice was wearing body armor at the time of the offense.
| Feb 3 | LAW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 4 | Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | |
SB 5859
by Senators Pedersen, Litzow, Fain, Rivers, Frockt, Jayapal, Kohl-Welles, Rolfes, Darneille, Mullet, Hasegawa, Keiser, Billig, Cleveland, Hobbs, Chase, Nelson, Warnick, King, Habib, Fraser, Miloscia, McAuliffe, Hargrove, Conway, Hill, Becker, Braun, Ranker, O'Ban, Liias, Bailey, Hewitt, Parlette, and Hatfield
Concerning the school construction assistance program.
Addresses the school construction assistance program.Requires the omnibus appropriations act to identify the state construction cost allowance for school districts and requires the minimum construction cost allowance to be calculated based on a three-year rolling average of actual new public K-12 school construction costs per square foot.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5860
by Senator Pearson
Concerning audits of certain homeowners' associations' financial statements.
Requires the financial statements of homeowners' associations with annual assessments of one hundred thousand dollars or more to be audited.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance. | |
SB 5861
by Senators Liias, Rivers, and Cleveland
Modifying the definition of prepared food to exclude food required to be cooked by the consumer prior to consumption.
Excludes from the definition of prepared food, food sold that ordinarily requires additional cooking, as opposed to just reheating, by the consumer before consumption.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5862
by Senators Fain, Ericksen, Baumgartner, and Angel
Concerning public-private partnerships for state transportation projects and programs.
Creates the office of transportation partnership Washington, within the department of transportation, to provide a process for, and to promote fairness, transparency, and efficiency in, the procurement of infrastructure assets through public-private partnership methods.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5863
by Senators Jayapal, Rivers, Keiser, Miloscia, Conway, Angel, Liias, Pedersen, Hobbs, Kohl-Welles, and Hasegawa
Concerning highway construction workforce development.
Requires the department of transportation, in coordination with the department of labor and industries, to: (1) Expend moneys for apprenticeship preparation and support services, including providing grants to local Indian tribes, churches, nonprofits, and other organizations; and(2) Provide any portion of the recruitment of women and persons of color to participate in the apprenticeship program.Requires the department of transportation to hire and maintain at least one full-time equivalent employee position with the role of coordinating certain department activities and actively engaging with communities with populations that are underrepresented in current transportation apprenticeship programs.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5864
by Senators Nelson and Kohl-Welles
Concerning sales and use tax for cities to offset municipal service costs to newly annexed areas.
Modifies provisions relating to sales and use taxes for cities to offset municipal service costs to newly annexed areas.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5865
by Senators Miloscia, Fraser, McAuliffe, and Kohl-Welles
Concerning children's advocacy centers.
Addresses children's advocacy centers.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing. | |
SB 5866
by Senators Honeyford and Fraser
Providing that counties are not required to distribute to the cities within the county certain county sales and use tax proceeds.
Specifies that a county that imposes any portion of certain county sales and use taxes on or after July 1, 2015, is not required to distribute money from the proceeds of that portion of the tax imposed after June 30, 2015, to the cities within the county.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Security. | |
SB 5867
by Senators Liias, Miloscia, Billig, McCoy, McAuliffe, and Hasegawa
Enhancing public disclosure of lobbying and campaign activity.
Requires electronic filing by lobbyists.Requires certain political committees and candidates, lobbyists, lobbyist employers, and government entities to pay an annual fee to the public disclosure commission.Creates the public disclosure electronic filing account.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Security. | |
SB 5868
by Senators Jayapal, Litzow, Chase, Angel, Hobbs, and Kohl-Welles
Providing an exemption for certain lodging services from the convention and trade center tax.
Exempts from the convention and trade center tax, premises classified as a hostel.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5869
by Senator Sheldon
Concerning restrictions on the location of manufactured/mobile homes.
Prohibits local governments, under certain circumstances, from restricting the location of a manufactured/mobile home based on the manufactured/mobile home community not meeting current fire, safety, or other current local ordinances or state laws related to manufactured/mobile homes.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance. | |
SB 5870
by Senators Liias, Litzow, Pedersen, Fain, Ranker, Rivers, Frockt, Cleveland, Mullet, Kohl-Welles, Keiser, Chase, Billig, Hasegawa, Darneille, and Habib
Prohibiting the use of aversion therapy in the treatment of minors.
Regulates the professional conduct of licensed health care providers with respect to performing aversive mental health therapies, including sexual orientation change efforts, on patients under age eighteen.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5871
by Senators Angel, Liias, Roach, McCoy, and Chase
Creating appeal procedures for single-family homeowners with failing septic systems required to connect to public sewer systems.
Requires a local government, if it adopts or has adopted an ordinance or resolution requiring connection to a public sewer system upon the failure of an on-site septic system, to provide an administrative appeals process to consider denials of permit applications of owners of single-family residences.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Security. | |
SB 5872
by Senator Dansel
Concerning the acquisition of land by state natural resources agencies.
Requires the department of fish and wildlife, before acquiring real property in any county after the effective date of this act, to identify for sale department-owned land in that same county of equal or greater acreage than the property to be acquired.Requires the department of natural resources, before acquiring real property in any county after the effective date of this act for purposes of a natural area preserve, natural resources conservation area, or other habitat or riparian protection purposes, to identify for sale department-owned land in that same county of equal or greater acreage than the property to be acquired.Requires the parks and recreation commission, before acquiring real property in any county after the effective date of this act, to identify for sale agency-owned land in that same county of equal or greater acreage than the property to be acquired.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Natural Resources & Parks. | |
SB 5873
by Senators Conway, Bailey, Schoesler, and Kohl-Welles
Permitting persons retired from the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 1 to select a survivor benefit option.
Authorizes a member of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 1 to select a survivor benefit option.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5874
by Senators Ericksen and Ranker
Concerning regulatory and financial mechanisms and means to promote the retirement of coal-fired electric generation facilities.
Establishes the Washington state coal generation retirement program act.Promotes the retirement of coal-fired electric generation facilities.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications. | |
SB 5875
by Senators Frockt, Mullet, Miloscia, Hasegawa, Hobbs, Chase, Keiser, Pedersen, Fraser, Kohl-Welles, McCoy, McAuliffe, and Darneille
Concerning Washington's property assessment appeal procedures.
Requires a taxpayer, within sixty days from the date a petition challenging an assessed value of leased commercial property is filed with the county board of equalization, to submit to the board rental income and expense statements for the two years prior to the assessment date.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Security. | |
SB 5876
by Senators Frockt, Liias, Habib, Mullet, Hasegawa, Hobbs, Chase, Keiser, Fraser, McAuliffe, Kohl-Welles, and McCoy
Concerning the imposition of a filing charge for certain property assessment appeal petitions.
Authorizes the county legislative authority to require that a petition to the county board of equalization challenging the assessed value of a commercial property be accompanied by a reasonable filing charge.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Security. | |
SB 5877
by Senators O'Ban, Angel, Padden, Pearson, Rivers, Warnick, and Darneille
Concerning due process for adult family home licensees.
Addresses adult family home licensees' due process.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5878
by Senators Bailey, Kohl-Welles, Parlette, Keiser, Rolfes, Rivers, Angel, Liias, and Ranker
Concerning nonresident vessel permits and taxation.
Addresses permits and taxation of vessels of nonresidents.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5879
by Senators Billig, McAuliffe, and Kohl-Welles; by request of Department of Early Learning
Concerning early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families.
Changes the name of the birth-to-six interagency coordinating council to the birth-to-three interagency coordinating council.Specifies that the department of early learning is the lead agency with regard to early intervention services.
| Feb 6 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |