Increasing the number of tasting rooms allowed under a domestic winery license.

Creating a criminal no-contact order for human trafficking and promoting prostitution-related offenses.

Requires a defendant who is charged by citation, complaint, or information with an offense involving trafficking or promoting prostitution in the first or second degree, and not arrested, to appear in court for arraignment in person no later than fourteen days after the next day on which court is in session following the issuance of the citation or the filing of the complaint or information.

Requires the court, at that appearance, to determine the necessity of imposing a no-contact order and consider other conditions of pretrial release.

Addressing local governments' unofficial moratoria on state-licensed marijuana retail outlets.

Concerning crimes against vulnerable persons.

Creates the crimes of theft from a vulnerable adult in the first and second degree.

Increases penalties, reduces barriers to prosecution, and expands the scope of protection for vulnerable persons.

Making felony sex offenses a crime that may be prosecuted at any time after its commission.

Allows the following offenses to be prosecuted at any time after their commission: (1) Rape in the first, second, or third degree;

(2) Rape of a child in the first, second, or third degree;

(3) Child molestation in the first, second, or third degree;

(4) Sexual misconduct with a minor in the first degree;

(5) Sexually violating human remains;

(6) Custodial sexual misconduct in the first degree;

(7) Incest in the first or second degree;

(8) Sexual exploitation of a minor;

(9) Commercial sexual abuse of a minor;

(10) Promoting commercial sexual abuse of a minor; and

Concerning domestic violence.

Modifies domestic violence provisions relating to: (1) Offender scores for assault of a child and criminal mistreatment; and

(2) Revising the crime of fourth degree assault.

Requires a biological sample to be collected for purposes of DNA identification analysis from an adult or juvenile convicted of assault in the fourth degree where domestic violence was pleaded and proven.

Authorizes a sheriff to waive fees associated with service of a writ of habeas corpus that was issued for the return of a child when the person who was granted the writ is, by reason of poverty, unable to pay the cost of service.

Requires the administrative office of the courts, through the Washington state gender and justice commission of the supreme court, to convene a work group to address the issue of domestic violence perpetrator treatment and the role of certified perpetrator treatment programs in holding domestic violence perpetrators accountable.

Modifying patronizing a prostitute provisions.

Protecting law enforcement and the public from persons who illegally attempt to obtain firearms.

Requires a firearms dealer to report information to the Washington state patrol when the dealer denies an application for the purchase or transfer of a firearm as the result of a background check.

Requires the Washington state patrol to: (1) Maintain a database that consists of the information received from a firearms dealer; and

(2) Investigate denied firearm purchase or transfer applications.

Requires the Washington association of sheriffs and police chiefs to create and operate a statewide automated protected person notification system.

Concerning the authorization of and deposit of moneys from department of transportation advertising activities.

Authorizes the department of transportation to: (1) Sell commercial advertising, including product placement, on department web sites and social media; and

Preventing unfunded mandates involving on-site sewage systems from affecting local governments and property owners.

Concerning rail dependent uses for purposes of the growth management act and related development regulations.

Authorizes counties and cities to adopt development regulations to assure that agriculture, forest, and mineral resource lands adjacent to short line railroads may be developed for freight rail dependent uses.

Authorizes the transportation element required by RCW 36.70A.070 (section 4 of this act) to include development of freight rail dependent uses on land adjacent to a short line railroad.

Establishing the naloxone access grant program.

Requires the department of health to establish the naloxone access grant program to: (1) Distribute funds to local health jurisdictions to purchase naloxone;

(2) Distribute naloxone to persons at highest risk for opioid overdose;

(3) Provide training on how to administer naloxone; and

(4) Educate the public on the potential harms of opioid use.

Imposes a fee on each sale by a wholesale distributor of prescription opioids distributed in this state.

Addressing workplace practices to achieve gender pay equity.

Enhancing election reconciliation reports.

Requires the county auditor to: (1) Make election reconciliation reports available to the public at the auditor's office;

(2) Publish the reports on the auditor's web site at the time of certification; and

(3) Submit the reports to the secretary of state at the time of certification.

Promoting student health and readiness through meal and nutrition programs.

Establishes the Washington kids ready to learn act of 2017.

Requires each high-needs school to offer breakfast after the bell to each student and provide adequate time for students to consume the food.

Requires the superintendent of public instruction to administer one-time start-up allocation grants to each high-needs school implementing a breakfast after the bell program.

Creates the breakfast after the bell lighthouse project to promote best practices for breakfast after the bell programs.

Requires school districts with school lunch programs to begin to eliminate lunch copays for students in prekindergarten through twelfth grade who qualify for reduced-price lunches.

Concerning credit requirements for high school graduation.

Concerning port district worker development and occupational training programs.

Concerning the learning assistance program.

Allocates additional funding to provide supplemental instruction and services for underachieving students in schools with high concentrations of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals and students who are eligible pupils in the transitional bilingual instruction program.

Requires a school building, in order to qualify for a learning assistance concentration allocation, to have a combined percentage of students qualified for free and reduced-price meals in the prior school year and students who are eligible pupils in the transitional bilingual instruction program.

Requires a school district, in order to receive a foster-homeless student learning assistance allocation, to provide documentation of its number of enrolled foster or homeless students to the superintendent of public instruction.

Expanding college bound scholarship eligibility.

Concerning the collection of youth voter registration sign up information.

Permits a person to sign up to vote at the department of licensing if he or she is sixteen or seventeen years of age.

Requires a social studies teacher to coordinate a voter registration event in each history or social studies class attended by high school seniors.

Allows county auditors to help coordinate and participate in voter registration events for students.

Requires the superintendent of public instruction, in consultation with the secretary of state, to update and distribute youth voter registration materials annually for eligible students to register to vote at school.

Requiring a minimum of three years' notice on closures or conversions of mobile home parks and manufactured housing communities.

Revises the manufactured/mobile landlord tenant act with regard to notifications for closures or conversions of mobile home parks and manufactured housing communities.

Clarifying the appropriate format for signed written authorizations for special parking privileges.

Creating a data storage system for holding and making public records available to the public.

Requires the director of the consolidated technology services agency to: (1) Establish an internet-based data storage system with the ability to collect and store the electronic records of all local public agencies; and

(2) Provide the records for inspection and copying through a searchable central portal on a state web site.

Funding school construction for common schools with lottery revenues.

Authorizes the state finance committee to issue lottery revenue bonds, payable from Washington opportunity pathways account revenues, to provide needed construction assistance to support school facility needs at common schools.

Improving student achievement by promoting social emotional learning throughout the calendar year.

Establishes the summer step up act.

Requires the department of early learning to contract for up to an additional six hundred slots in summer early childhood education and assistance programs at K-12 school building sites giving priority to programs operated in K-12 school buildings that: (1) Plan to include four-year old children;

(2) Are in low-income areas or areas underserved by the programs; and

(3) Plan to fund summer meals using reimbursements from the United States department of agriculture or other nonstate sources.

Requires the superintendent of public instruction to convene a work group to build upon the social emotional learning work group established in 2016.

Allowing incremental electricity produced as a result of certain capital investment projects to qualify as an eligible renewable resource under the energy independence act.

Allowing alternative payment methodologies for critical access hospitals participating in the Washington rural health access preservation pilot.

Removing the requirement that an employee must work at least six months before taking vacation leave.

Concerning the community health worker task force.

Requiring health plans to cover, with no cost sharing, all preventive services required to be covered under federal law as of December 31, 2016.

Requires a health plan to provide coverage for the same preventive services required to be covered under: (1) 42 U.S.C. Sec. 300gg-13 (2016); and

Increasing success in therapeutic courts.

Concerning the economic development element of the growth management act.

Establishes the economic revitalization act.

Exempting multipurpose senior citizen centers from property taxation.

Modifying Washington state's motion picture and film industries tax credit.

Concerning ferry advisory committees.

Requires the transportation commission to: (1) Develop the ferry user data survey only after providing an opportunity for ferry advisory committees to offer input on survey topical areas and questions; and

(2) Finalize the survey only after providing an opportunity for the ferry advisory committee executive council to offer input on proposed survey topics and questions.

Concerning recommendations from the joint legislative task force on the use of deadly force in community policing.

Grandfathering the accrual of vacation leave above the statutory maximum for certain employees of the Washington state ferries.

Concerning the forest riparian easement program.

Requires the department of natural resources to: (1) Share information regarding the carbon sequestration benefits of the forest riparian easement program with other state programs attempting to quantify carbon storage or account for carbon emissions; and

Concerning the exemption of property taxes for nonprofit homeownership development.

Addressing wage and salary information.

Prohibits an employer from: (1) Seeking the wage or salary history of an applicant from the applicant or a current or former employer; or

Clarifying the powers, duties, and functions of the department of veterans affairs.

Addressing county commissioner elections.

Establishes the responsible representation act.

Concerning local option tools to promote, preserve, and incentivize affordable housing.

Requiring disclosure by entities that compensate for petition signatures.

Requiring prime contractors to bond the subcontractors portion of retainage upon request.

Regarding a curriculum for the prevention of sexual abuse of students.

Providing public notices of public health, safety, and welfare in a language other than English.

Requires state agencies, that are required by law or rule to provide public notices to a community or area to advise or inform the public about an imminent or emergent public health, safety, or welfare risk, to provide the notices in the language that diverse residents can understand when a significant segment of the community speaks a language other than English and has limited proficiency in English.

Addressing prescription drug cost transparency.

Requires the office of financial management to use a competitive procurement process to select a data organization to collect, verify, and summarize the prescription drug pricing data provided by issuers and manufacturers.

Requires an issuer to submit certain prescription drug cost and utilization data to the data organization for the previous calendar year.

Requires a covered manufacturer to report certain data for each covered drug to the data organization.

Requires the data organization to compile the data submitted by issuers and manufacturers and: (1) Prepare an annual report for the public and the legislature summarizing the data; and

Concerning dropout prevention through engaging youth in farming.

Creates the dropout prevention through farm engagement pilot project to measure the effectiveness and cost-benefit of a particular alternative high school program on improving outcomes for at-risk youth.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Select five pilot projects from school districts that agree to partner with community-based organizations, food banks, and farms or gardens to establish an alternative high school program targeted primarily to at-risk youth; and

(2) Conduct an evaluation after the pilot projects have been operating for two years, including analysis of a statistical comparison group of students who did not participate in the project.

Concerning parental rights and responsibilities of sexual assault perpetrators and survivors.

Concerning small farms under the current use property tax program for farm and agricultural lands.

Provides that farms five to twenty acres are eligible for current use valuation of the land underlying the residential structures the same as farms twenty acres and over and farms less than five acres are eligible if certain gross income thresholds are met.

Concerning the exclusion of residential housing payments from certain state-funded health programs.

Concerning the addition of services for long-term placement of mental health patients in community hospitals that voluntarily contract and are certified by the department of social and health services.

Revises the community mental health services act with regard to the insufficient capacity at eastern and western state hospitals to meet current and growing demand for services and patients.

Requires the department of social and health services and the entities identified in RCW 71.24.310 and 71.24.380 (sections 2 and 3 of this act) to: (1) Work with willing community hospitals to assess their capacity to become certified to provide long-term mental health placements and to meet the requirements of the community mental health services act; and

Exempting certain hospitals from certificate of need requirements for the addition of psychiatric beds until June 2019.

Prohibits the department of health from requiring a certificate of need for the addition of beds to alleviate the need to board psychiatric patients in emergency departments.

Exempts a hospital licensed under chapter 70.41 RCW from certificate of need requirements for the addition of new psychiatric beds.

Concerning curricula for persons in long-term care facilities with behavioral health needs.

Investing in education and other vital public services by narrowing or eliminating tax preferences, making administrative revenue changes, and redirecting existing revenue sources.

Invests in education and other vital public services by: (1) Narrowing the use tax exemption for extracted fuel;

(2) Modifying the nonresident sales and use tax exemption;

(3) Eliminating the sales and use tax exemption for bottled water; and

Investing in education by modifying the business and occupation tax and providing small business tax relief.

Creating a competitive equipment assistance grant program to enhance student nutrition in public schools.

Establishes the apple a day act of 2017.

Creates a competitive equipment assistance grant program, to be known as the apple a day program, to enhance overall student nutrition in public schools.

Requires the superintendent of public instruction to establish a competitive process to prioritize applications for state assistance.

Concerning fostering economic growth in Washington by supporting the in-state production, processing, and distribution of food supply.

Requires the Washington State University center for sustaining agriculture and natural resources to: (1) Study the economic development of the local food system in the state to identify a ten-year plan for expansion of the state's food production, processing, and distribution capacity; and

(2) Include in the recommendations of the study, short and long-term action plans for the legislature to support and sustain the local food sector in the state.

Including displaying or wearing motorcycle-related or motorcycle club-related paraphernalia as a factor in profiling discrimination.

Revises the state civil rights act to allow a person to: (1) Wear motorcycle-related or motorcycle club-related paraphernalia; and

Concerning parenting plans.

Addresses sole decision-making authority and mutual decision-making authority in a parenting plan.

Establishing a carbon pollution tax and investment program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, facilitate the transition to a clean energy economy, and invest in K-12 education and other vital public services.

Establishes the carbon pollution tax and investment act.

Imposes a carbon pollution tax on: (1) The sale or use of fossil fuels, including fossil fuels used in generating electricity; or

(2) The sale or consumption of electricity generated through the combustion of fossil fuels.

Creating Imagine special license plates.

Creating the safe streets pilot project.

Creates the safe streets pilot project in the department of commerce to foster community engagement through neighborhood organizing, law enforcement-community partnerships, neighborhood watch programs, youth mobilization, and business engagement.

Requires the department of commerce, in consultation with the state institute for public policy, to develop reporting guidelines for a grant recipient in order to measure whether the pilot project had an impact on crime rates and community engagement with, and perceptions of, law enforcement.

Authorizing membership in the Washington public safety employees' retirement system for employees who provide nursing care to, or ensure the custody and safety of, offender, probationary, and patient populations in institutions and centers.

Revises the following definitions for purposes of the public safety employees' retirement system: (1) "Employer" to include the department of veterans affairs and the department of social and health services; and

Granting binding interest arbitration rights to certain uniformed personnel.

Grants binding interest arbitration rights to duly sworn police officers employed as members of a police force by a regional or state university or The Evergreen State College.

Addressing plan membership default provisions in the public employees' retirement system, the teachers' retirement system, and the school employees' retirement system.

Concerning open educational resources.

Requires the student achievement council to: (1) Administer the open educational resources grant pilot program for the four-year institutions of higher education; and

(2) Develop an application form for a grant and a process for: Reviewing and selecting grant applicants; awarding grant funding; and the grant awardee to report back to the council on the use of the grant.

Continuing the work of the Washington food policy forum.

Requires the Washington food policy forum to build on the work of the forum that was temporarily established in the 2016 supplemental omnibus operating appropriations act to develop recommendations to advance certain food system goals.

Gives responsibility to the director of the state conservation commission for appointing participating members of the forum.

Requiring school districts to adopt policies regarding the mandatory posting of the child abuse and neglect hotline.

Concerning pesticide exposure and notification of certain pesticide applications.

Providing health coverage for young adults.

Requires the state health care authority to provide health coverage to individuals who: (1) Are at least nineteen years old and no older than twenty-six;

(2) Have an income that is at or below one hundred thirty-three percent of the federal poverty level;

(3) Are not incarcerated; and

Concerning the definition of work activity for the purposes of the WorkFirst program.

Revises the definition of "work activity" for purposes of the Work First temporary assistance for needy families program to change the amount of vocational training time, from twelve months to twenty-four months, to qualify as work activity.

Concerning modification of precinct and district boundary lines.

Creating Fred Hutch special license plates.

Requiring the department of social and health services to request all necessary exemptions and waivers from the federal government to allow students to use electronic benefit transfer cards at institutions of higher education.

Concerning access to homeless housing and assistance.

Establishes the Washington housing opportunities act.

Improves resources available to aid with increasing access and removing barriers to housing for individuals and families in the state.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 23	First reading, referred to Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).
Jan 26	Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Community Development and Housing & Tribal Affairs at 1:30 PM. (Subject to change)