Concerning dental health services in tribal settings.

Addresses the provision of dental health aide therapists with regard to Indian communities.

Requires the department of health to: (1) Conduct a study on the outcomes of treatment by all dental health aide therapists authorized to practice in the state; and

(2) In preparing the study, consult with tribes, tribal organizations, and urban tribal organizations, who employ, contract, or otherwise use dental health aide therapist services.

Provides that dental health aide therapist services are eligible for medicaid funding in order to promote increased dental care access for persons served in settings operated by Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations.

Integrating the treatment systems for mental health and chemical dependency.

Establishes Ricky Garcia's act.

Requires the department of social and health services to combine the functions of a designated mental health professional and designated chemical dependency specialist by establishing a designated crisis responder who is authorized to conduct investigations, detain persons up to seventy-two hours to the proper facility, and carry out the other functions identified in chapter 71.05 RCW (mental illness) and chapter 71.34 RCW (mental health services for minors).

Requires the behavioral health organizations to provide training to persons converting to designated crisis responders, as required by the department of social and health services, which must include both mental health and chemical dependency training applicable to the designated crisis responder role.

Requires the state institute for public policy to evaluate the effect of the integration of the involuntary treatment systems for substance use disorders and mental health and make preliminary reports to the appropriate legislative committees.

Protecting taxpayers by providing for accountability and transparency in government contracting.

Establishes the taxpayer protection act.

Coordinating services and programs for foster youth in order to improve educational outcomes.

Authorizes the department of social and health services, for purposes of providing for the educational success of youth in foster care, to disclose only those confidential child welfare records that pertain to or may assist with meeting the educational needs of foster youth to another state agency or state agency's contracted provider responsible under state law or contract for assisting foster youth to attain educational success.

Requires the department of social and health services to contract with the office of the superintendent of public instruction, which in turn must contract with at least one nongovernmental entity to administer a program of education coordination for youth, kindergarten through twelfth grade, who are dependent under the juvenile court act.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) In consultation with the department of social and health services, comply with all requirements necessary to maximize federal reimbursement for the program of education coordination for youth; and

(2) Contract with at least one nongovernmental entity to improve the educational outcomes of students at two sites by providing individualized education services and monitoring and supporting dependent youths' completion of educational milestones, remediation needs, and special education needs.

Requires the department of social and health services children's administration to proactively refer all eligible students thirteen years of age or older, within the site areas, to the contractor for educational services.

Making 2016 supplemental operating appropriations.

Concerning the provision of assessment results to students and their parents or guardians.

Requires the superintendent of public instruction to develop and implement a process for ensuring that school districts are able to provide students and their parents or guardians with the results of the following state assessments no later than the subsequent June 15th after the student takes the assessment: (1) The tenth grade English language arts assessment developed by the superintendent of public instruction; and

Providing court-based and school-based intervention and prevention efforts to promote attendance and reduce truancy.

Establishes the keeping kids in school act.

Puts in place consistent practices and procedures, beginning in kindergarten, in which schools share information with families about the importance of consistent attendance and the consequences of excessive absences, involves families early, and provides families with information, services, and tools that they may access to improve and maintain their children's school attendance.

Requires an initial stay of truancy petition in order to allow for appropriate intervention and prevention before using a court order to enforce attendance laws.

Encourages efforts by county juvenile courts and school districts to establish and maintain therapeutic truancy boards and employ other best practices.

Improving oversight of the state hospitals.

Creates the joint legislative executive psychiatric state hospital collaborative task force and requires the task force to receive updates, monitor, and make recommendations to the governor, the office of financial management, and the legislature in certain areas, with respect to the state hospitals.

Creates the governor's behavioral health innovation fund.

Requires long-term planning for the state hospitals and recommendations for the use of funds from the governor's fund to be informed by certain consultants who shall make recommendations to the governor, the legislature, and the task force by October 1, 2016.

Authorizes the department of social and health services to apply to the office of financial management to receive funds from the governor's fund.

Requires the department of social and health services to: (1) Provide quarterly implementation progress reports to the task force and the office of financial management; and

(2) Assure that the state hospitals have adopted and implemented certain best practice policies and include information regarding the status of the adoption and implementation of these policies in its quarterly reports.

Making 2015-2017 supplemental transportation appropriations.

Protecting victims of sex crimes.

Requires the Washington state patrol to create and operate a statewide sexual assault kit tracking system.

Requires local law enforcement agencies, a sheriff and his or her deputies, the Washington state patrol bureau of forensic laboratory services, certain hospitals, and prosecuting attorneys to participate in the statewide sexual assault kit tracking system.

Creates the Washington sexual assault kit program within the department of commerce for the purpose of accepting private funds for conducting forensic analysis of sexual assault kits in the possession of law enforcement agencies but not submitted for analysis as of July 24, 2015.

Imposes a four-dollar fee on the admission to a sexually oriented live adult entertainment establishment.

Exempts the following from public inspection and copying under the public records act: Personally identifiable records and information contained within the statewide sexual assault kit tracking system.

Concerning the disclosure of health care declarations on drivers' licenses and identicards.

Authorizes an applicant for a new or renewal driver's license or identicard to request that the application designate whether he or she: (1) Has executed a health care declaration; and

(2) Has executed a health care declaration that is stored in the health care declarations registry.

Requires the department of licensing to issue an original or renewed driver's license or identicard: (1) That denotes the existence of a health care declaration through a symbol or abbreviation, if the person has indicated on his or her application that he or she has a health care declaration; or

Authorizing pharmacists to prescribe and dispense contraceptives.

Authorizes the state health officer or a county health officer to enter into agreements with a pharmacist in order for the pharmacist to initiate or modify drug therapy related to self-administered hormonal contraception in accordance with written guidelines and protocols previously established and approved for the pharmacist's practice by the state health officer or a county health officer.

Requiring voter approval for any agreement between a public transportation benefit area and certain entities in adjoining states.

Facilitating the orderly development of the legal marijuana market and eliminating the illicit marijuana market.

Establishes the youth protection, crime reduction, and collateral education funding act of 2016.

Lowers the marijuana excise tax from thirty-seven percent to twenty-five percent of the selling price on each retail sale in this state of marijuana concentrates, useable marijuana, and marijuana-infused products.

Improving the availability and accuracy of advanced breast cancer screening through targeted tax incentives for advanced digital imaging technologies.

Provides a sales and use tax exemption on digital breast tomosynthesis and for labor and services rendered in respect to installing, repairing, cleaning, altering, or improving digital breast tomosynthesis.

Requires the administrator of the state health care authority to select the health technology digital breast tomosynthesis for review by the health technology clinical committee by July 1, 2024.

Requires the review to include information on the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of digital breast tomosynthesis as a means of breast cancer screening.

Relating to education.

Introduced by title and introductory section only, relating to education.

-- 2016 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 26	First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).