Concerning state fire services mobilization.

Revises the definition of "mobilization" for purposes of state fire services responding to an emergency or disaster situation.

Requires the chief of the Washington state patrol to: (1) Also report information for each emergency or disaster for which resources were prepositioned in anticipation of a disaster or emergency predicted to exceed local capabilities; and

Concerning filing fee surcharges for funding dispute resolution centers.

Funds dispute resolution centers by: (1) Increasing the surcharge on each civil filing fee in district court and for small claims actions; and

(2) Establishing a surcharge of up to twenty dollars on each civil filing fee in superior court.

Concerning the provision of and reimbursement for certain court interpreter services.

Modifying the process for prevailing parties to recover judgments in small claims court.

Allowing youth courts to have jurisdiction over transit infractions.

Concerning the possession and transfer of marijuana, marijuana plants, useable marijuana, marijuana-infused products, and marijuana concentrates.

Concerning device registration, civil penalties, and service agent registration for the weights and measures program.

Authorizing new development outside of urban growth boundaries.

Establishes the environmental protection land exchange act.

Authorizes local governments, that are within rural counties, to designate and permit development on parcels of property outside of urban growth areas, to urban levels of service, without expanding the urban growth areas if certain square footage requirements are met.

Enacting the Washington pain capable unborn child protection act.

Establishes the Washington pain capable unborn child protection act.

Prohibits, except in the case of a medical emergency or fetal anomaly, an abortion from being performed unless the physician performing the abortion has first made a determination of the probable postfertilization age of the unborn child or relied upon a determination made by another physician.

Requires a hospital or health care facility, in which an abortion is performed, to report specific information to the department of health.

Addressing the use of potassium chloride or digoxin in medical procedures.

Concerning the financing of early learning facilities.

Creates the early learning facilities revolving account.

Requires the department of early learning, in consultation with stakeholders, to review existing licensing standards related to facility requirements to eliminate potential barriers to licensing.

Requires the department of commerce to: (1) In consultation with the department of early learning, oversee the early learning facilities revolving account;

(2) Act as the lead state agency for early learning facilities grant and loan program development;

(3) Expend money from the account to provide state matching funds for grants or loans to provide classrooms necessary for children to participate in the early childhood education and assistance program and working connections child care;

(4) Monitor performance of the grant and loan program; and

(5) Convene a committee of early learning facilities experts to advise the department regarding the prioritization methodology of grant applications for certain projects.

Provides a list of: (1) Activities eligible for funding through the account; and

(2) Organizations eligible to receive grants or loans.

Providing for a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds.

Allows a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds.

Providing for a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds at general elections.

Allows the authorization of school district levies and bonds at general elections by a simple majority vote.

Concerning employment laws regarding transportation contractors, including the definition of "truck."

Requiring composting and recycling in public schools.

Requires public schools to offer students the opportunity to compost their food waste and to recycle.

Requires the state to provide: (1) Free pickup of compost; and

Concerning dental laboratories.

Concerning legal financial obligations.

Addresses legal financial obligations.

Eliminates the accrual of interest on certain nonrestitution portions of legal financial obligations.

Concerning creation of a certified child safety policy.

Requires the department of health to: (1) Contract with a child safety certification provider to develop a certified child safety policy for all youth recreational organizations; and

(2) Select a five county pilot program and collaborate with the provider and local governments in that five county region to ensure that all local government youth recreational organizations have established and implemented a certified child safety policy.

Standardizing the administration of elections.

Requires the secretary of state to: (1) In conjunction with the Washington state association of county auditors, develop a uniform ballot format to be used by each county;

(2) In consultation with the department of enterprise services and with county auditors, develop a master contract for vote tallying equipment for purchase by counties;

(3) In consultation with county auditors: (a) Establish voter registration standards by which county election officials must manage new and existing voter registrations; and (b) develop and publish mandatory voting system maintenance and replacement standards.

(4) Convene and facilitate a work group to review voter registration practices; and

(5) Conduct a comprehensive survey of voting systems in use in each county.

Requires a county auditor or county council to establish an equipment replacement fund that must be used explicitly to replace vote tallying equipment.

Requires the county auditors to: (1) Ensure that a minimum of one permanent ballot drop box is available for every fifteen thousand county residents; and

(2) Determine the location of each ballot drop box.

Increasing membership of the state interoperability executive committee in order to foster interoperability.

Providing oversight of the state procurement and contracting for information technology goods and services.

Requires the department of enterprise services to consult with the office of the state chief information officer when it makes information technology goods and services available to ensure consistency with standards and policies to govern information technology as established by the office.

Requires the following to be coordinated with and/or approved by the office: (1) Cooperative purchasing for information technology goods and services; and

(2) The delegation of authority to an agency for the purchase of information technology goods and services.

Concerning no required psychotropic medication use for students.

Requires each school district board of directors to adopt a policy that prohibits school staff from denying a student access to programs or services because the parent or guardian of the student has refused to place the student on psychotropic medication.

Prohibits school staff from requiring a student to undergo psychological screening unless the parent or guardian gives prior written consent.

Concerning rehabilitated offenders.

Creates the community review board within the office of the governor to review incarcerated offenders for possible early release after twenty years of confinement.

Authorizes an offender, convicted of and incarcerated for one or more crimes, to petition the community review board for early release after serving at least twenty years of total confinement.

Requires the governor to review each decision of the community review board to approve or deny a petition for release.

Concerning dependency petitions where the department of social and health services is the petitioner.

Authorizing the department of social and health services to assess and offer services to child sex trafficking victims.

Establishing a fee for certification for the residential services and supports program to cover investigative costs.

Addresses the state's system to support persons with developmental and intellectual disabilities and the supported living program of the residential services and supports program.

Requires an applicant to pay a certification fee before issuance of initial certification for the residential services and supports program.

Requires the certified provider, after initial certification, to also pay an annual certification fee.

Requires the department of social and health services to: (1) Use additional investigative resources to address a significant growth in the residential services and supports program complaint workload; and

(2) Use the resources to intervene for clients in a timelier manner when there is possible abuse or neglect.

Increasing academic rigor and streamlining assessment requirements for high school students.

Eliminates the tenth grade assessments in reading, writing, and mathematics and alternative assessment options that students may currently use to obtain a certificate of academic achievement.

Requires students to meet the standard on the smarter balanced English language arts and mathematics assessments administered in high school, or demonstrate by the beginning of their senior year that they have met state standards using the SAT or ACT.

Intends for students who fail to meet the standard to take and pass locally determined courses in their senior year that align with their college or career goals and college and career standards including, when available, high school transition courses and dual credit courses.

Concerning the death investigations account.

Authorizes the state forensic investigations council to authorize expenditures from the council's death investigations account appropriation for the purpose of funding a statewide case management system for coroners and medical examiners.

Creating the Cooper Jones bicyclist safety advisory council.

Requires the traffic safety commission to convene the Cooper Jones bicyclist safety advisory council to review and analyze data related to bicyclist fatalities and serious injuries to identify points at which the transportation system can be improved and to identify patterns in bicyclist fatalities and serious injuries.

Providing reasonable accommodations in the workplace for pregnant women.

Prohibits an employer from failing or refusing to make reasonable accommodation for an employee for pregnancy.

Concerning encouraging affordable housing development and preservation by providing cities limited sales tax remittance for qualifying investments, providing cities and counties authority to use real estate excise taxes to support affordable housing, and providing cities and counties with councilmanic authority to impose the affordable housing sales tax.

Provides cities limited sales tax remittance for qualifying investments.

Provides cities and counties: (1) With the authority to use real estate excise taxes to support affordable housing; and

(2) With councilmanic authority to impose the affordable housing sales tax.

Requires a city, when the application for a remittance is approved, to create an affordable housing and local infrastructure account to be used for the city's acquisition or construction of affordable housing or local infrastructure.

Concerning the sale of manufactured/mobile home communities.

Addresses the sale of manufactured/mobile home communities.

Utilizing cooperative agreements with the federal government, such as good neighbor agreements with the United States forest service, to advance forest health in Washington.

Advances forest health by using cooperative agreements with the federal government.

Requires the department of natural resources to: (1) Implement a good neighbor agreement demonstration project designed to determine the value of investing state resources in good neighbor agreement projects with the United States forest service; and

Enacting the Washington voting rights act.

Concerning city use of state-owned aquatic lands for a publicly owned marina.

Addresses the use of state-owned aquatic lands by a city.

Increasing the access of veterans, military service members, and military spouses to shared leave in state employment.

Requires an agency head to allow employees who are current or former uniformed service members, and their military spouses, to access shared leave from the uniformed service shared leave pool upon employment.

Concerning motorcycle helmet use.

Addressing financial responsibility insurance requirements with respect to motorcycles, motor-driven cycles, and mopeds.

Requires a person, who is at least eighteen years old, to be insured under a motor vehicle liability policy with certain liability limits or satisfy certain other requirements if the person is operating a motorcycle, a motor-driven cycle, or a moped, and the person is not wearing a motorcycle helmet.

Beginning to address the issue of contaminated drinking water stemming from the lead content in drinking water infrastructure, including pipes, connections, and fixtures.

Requires public water systems to: (1) By July 1, 2020, fully replace all lead service lines located at or connecting to a school or an early childhood program;

(2) By July 1, 2030, fully replace all lead service lines located within its service area;

(3) Bear the cost associated with the replacement regardless of ownership of any portion of the service line; and

(4) Perform lead service line replacements in coordination with the school district, school or early childhood program, or relevant local government, as applicable.

Increasing monetary penalties for crimes committed by corporations.

Increasing transparency of contributions by creating the Washington state DISCLOSE act of 2017.

Providing support for foster youth in obtaining drivers' licenses and automobile liability insurance.

Requires the department of social and health services to contract with a private nonprofit organization to provide driver's license support for foster youth, including youth receiving extended foster care services.

Concerning tax credits for clean alternative fuel commercial vehicles.

Increases the amount of maximum credit against business and occupation taxes and public utility taxes for each clean alternative fuel commercial vehicle.

Allows a person who is applying for credit to apply for multiple vehicles on the same application, but the application must include the required information for each vehicle.

Concerning obligations of mental health professionals.

Concerning notice of material changes to the operations or governance structure of a health care provider or provider organization.

Requires each party to a transaction that results in a material change to the operations or governance structure of a provider or provider organization to submit written notice to the attorney general of the material change.

Designating the pine mushroom as the official state fungi.

Aligning existing definitions and practices to establish a uniform process for updating addresses of record and make conforming amendments to statutes administered by the department of licensing.

Concerning notification requirements for the department of social and health services.

Concerning the rights of an alleged parent in dependency proceedings.

Concerning information sharing related to implementation of the homeless youth prevention and protection act of 2015.

Authorizes the department of social and health services to disclose to the department of commerce and certain contracted providers, only those confidential child welfare records that pertain to or may assist with meeting the service needs of foster youth who are admitted to crisis residential centers or HOPE centers under contract with the office of homeless youth prevention and protection.

Improving state budgeting through zero-based budget reviews.

Implementing the periodic review of state spending programs.

Requires a bill that enacts a new statutory state spending program to include a state spending performance statement.

Requires a new statutory state spending program to include an expiration date no more than ten years from the effective date of the spending program.

Reducing certain documentation and paperwork requirements in order to improve children's mental health and safety.

Provides requirements of the department of social and health services with regard to: (1) Rules adopted relating to behavioral health services; and

(2) Audits conducted relating to behavioral health services.

Requires the department of social and health services to immediately perform a review of casework documentation and paperwork requirements for social workers with the department who provide services to children.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 30	First reading, referred to Early Learning & Human Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).
Feb 1	Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services at 1:30 PM. (Subject to change)