 | WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE | |
| Legislative Digest No. 18 | ||
| SIXTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE | ||
| Thursday, February 2, 2017 | 25th Day - 2017 Regular Session | |
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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.
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HB 1845
by Representatives Vick, Kirby, and Haler
Concerning the delivery of insurance notices and documents by electronic means.
Removes language that required the delivery of insurance notices and documents by electronic means to meet the requirements of the state authentication act in chapter 19.34 RCW.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Business & Financial Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1846
by Representatives Griffey, Barkis, Stokesbary, Haler, and Hargrove
Authorizing the development of new manufactured housing communities outside of urban growth areas under the growth management act.
Authorizes counties, that are required or that choose to plan under the growth management act, to establish a process as part of its urban growth areas for reviewing proposals to authorize new fully contained manufactured housing communities located outside of the initially designated urban growth areas.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Environment (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1847
by Representatives Haler, Pollet, Holy, and Farrell
Supporting higher education affordability.
States that it is a goal of the legislature to ensure that state support for the four-year institutions of higher education is at least fifty percent of the total amount of funding the institutions receive from general fund and education legacy trust account appropriations and the operating fee portion of tuition and fees.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1848
by Representative Koster
Initiating proactive steps to address elk hoof disease.
Requires the rules of the department of fish and wildlife to prohibit a person from translocating a live elk from an area with elk affected by hoof disease to any other location.Prohibits the department from issuing a permit allowing that action.Requires the department of fish and wildlife to: (1) Request recommendations from the state veterinarian and Washington State University college of veterinary medicine for department actions to prevent hoof disease from being transmitted from elk to domestic animals; and(2) Maintain the elk hoof disease public working group as a forum to advise the department on elk hoof disease issues statewide and to discuss relevant research, management, and public outreach efforts.Requires department of fish and wildlife staff, while on duty and in possession of a firearm, to humanely euthanize an elk that is exhibiting a severe limp and is located in an area where hoof disease is present.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1849
by Representatives Sells, Doglio, Pollet, Ormsby, Tharinger, and Farrell
Addressing compliance with apprenticeship utilization requirements.
Modifies public works provisions with regard to compliance with apprenticeship utilization requirements.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Capital Budget (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1850
by Representatives Stanford, Kirby, and Ormsby; by request of Insurance Commissioner
Addressing the review of investment options to be included in the small business retirement marketplace.
Authorizes the office of the insurance commissioner to request that the department of financial institutions conduct a plan review before submitting its verification to the department of commerce if the small business retirement marketplace plan includes either life insurance or annuity products, or both.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Business & Financial Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1851
by Representatives Dolan, Harris, Hudgins, MacEwen, Kilduff, Haler, Robinson, Bergquist, Fitzgibbon, Doglio, Pollet, Ormsby, and Stanford
Protecting taxpayers by providing for accountability and transparency in government contracting.
Establishes the taxpayer protection act.Requires agencies to conduct a comprehensive impact assessment before issuing a request for a proposal, to contract out to purchase from a private sector entity or nonprofit organization, services that have been customarily and historically provided by public employees.Expands the duties of the department of enterprise services, the office of financial management, and the joint legislative audit and review committee with regard to accountability and transparency in government contracting.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to State Government, Elections & Information Technology (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1852
by Representatives Dolan, Lytton, McBride, Doglio, and Ormsby; by request of Department of Enterprise Services
Concerning the enforcement of parking rules and regulations and adjudication of parking infractions on the state capitol grounds.
Provides that the director of the department of enterprise services has the authority to enforce rules that relate to parking on the state capitol grounds and to collect and retain penalties that he or she establishes.Requires collected penalties to be deposited into the state vehicle parking account.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to State Government, Elections & Information Technology (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1853
by Representatives Doglio, Hudgins, Wilcox, and Haler; by request of Washington State Historical Society
Removing references to specific nonoperational historical facilities from state statute.
Removes references to specific nonoperational historical facilities.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to State Government, Elections & Information Technology (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1854
by Representatives Cody, Schmick, and Tharinger
Concerning the transition of medicaid enrollees to skilled nursing facility care.
Requires the state health care authority to: (1) Actively monitor and enforce contractors' responsibility to coordinate the timely and appropriate transition of enrollees to skilled nursing facility care when it is determined to be more appropriate than acute hospital care; and(2) Conduct a survey of skilled nursing facilities to identify barriers in the facilities accepting and admitting enrollees from acute care hospitals in a timely and appropriate manner.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1855
by Representatives Blake, Stambaugh, and Gregerson
Concerning vehicle identification of electrical contractors.
Requires a licensed self-propelled motor vehicle, used by a general or specialty electrical contractor while engaged in the electrical construction trade, to be marked with the contractor's legal business name and license number issued by the department of labor and industries.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workplace Standards (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1856
by Representatives Fitzgibbon, Wilcox, Barkis, and Haler
Creating a sales and use tax exemption for commercial car wash facilities.
Provides a sales and use tax exemption for labor and services rendered in respect to staffed and self-service commercial car wash facilities.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1857
by Representatives Kloba, Sawyer, Appleton, and Condotta; by request of Liquor and Cannabis Board
Addressing provisions concerning marijuana with respect to research licenses, local authority notifications, the retail licensing application process, processor wholesale events, and jurisdictional requirements.
Modifies marijuana provisions with regard to research licenses, local authority notifications, the retail licensing application process, processor wholesale events, and jurisdictional requirements.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Gaming (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1858
by Representatives Sawyer, Appleton, and Kloba; by request of Liquor and Cannabis Board
Increasing marijuana license fees and adding a temporary additional fee on marijuana licenses issued by the Washington state liquor and cannabis board.
Imposes a nonrefundable additional fee on applications and renewals of licenses relating to marijuana.Requires money from the fee to be used for replacement of the state liquor and cannabis board's traceability system.Increases marijuana license fees.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Gaming (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1859
by Representatives Pellicciotti, Griffey, Pettigrew, Chapman, Goodman, and Ormsby
Providing an aggravating circumstance for assault against a utility worker.
Provides that the following supports a sentence above the standard range: A current offense involving the assault of a utility employee of a publicly or privately owned utility company or agency, who was at the time of the act engaged in official duties.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1860
by Representatives Fey, Jinkins, and Sawyer
Concerning population-based representation on the governing body of public transportation benefit areas.
Requires members of the governing body of a public transportation benefit area to be selected to assure proportional representation, based on population.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1861
by Representatives Pollet, Haler, Stanford, Tharinger, and Santos
Concerning the University of Washington's alternative process for awarding contracts.
Includes minority-owned and women-owned businesses in certain functions of the University of Washington's alternative process for awarding contracts.Eliminates the termination and repeal, under the sunset act, of the University of Washington's alternative process for awarding contracts.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1862
by Representatives Fitzgibbon and Rodne
Addressing the final approval of subdivisions of land.
Authorizes the legislative authorities of cities, towns, and counties to delegate final plat approval to an established planning commission or agency or other administrative personnel.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Local Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1863
by Representatives Gregerson, Stokesbary, Appleton, and Stambaugh
Concerning the national fire incident reporting system.
Requires the chief of the Washington state patrol, through the director of fire protection, to administer the national fire incident reporting system including purchasing equipment, establishing procedures, standards, and guidelines, providing training and education, and employing staff.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Local Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1864
by Representatives Springer and Stokesbary
Concerning a leasehold excise tax credit for properties of market value in excess of ten million dollars and for certain major international airport leases.
Provides a leasehold excise tax credit for a leasehold interest in real property owned by a state university or a major international airport.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1865
by Representatives Dye, Blake, Griffey, Chapman, Dent, Tarleton, Nealey, Tharinger, and Ormsby; by request of Department of Fish and Wildlife
Concerning the Columbia river recreational salmon and steelhead endorsement program.
Provides a June 30, 2022, expiration date for the Columbia river recreational salmon and steelhead endorsement program.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1866
by Representatives Pettigrew, Appleton, Hudgins, Kagi, Fitzgibbon, Robinson, Tharinger, Ormsby, McBride, and Santos
Reviewing elderly incarcerated offenders for possible early release.
Authorizes an offender, convicted of one or more crimes, to petition the indeterminate sentence review board for early release after serving at least twenty years of total confinement or reaching fifty years of age.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1867
by Representatives Fey, Stambaugh, Senn, Kagi, Kilduff, Appleton, Graves, Hudgins, Orwall, Ryu, Sells, Stanford, Robinson, McDonald, Ortiz-Self, Doglio, Slatter, Tharinger, and Ormsby
Improving transitions in extended foster care to increase housing stability for foster youth.
Authorizes eligible nonminor dependents to unenroll and reenroll, an unlimited number of times between ages eighteen and twenty-one, in extended foster care through a voluntary placement agreement.Requires the department of social and health services to allow youth who have received extended foster care services, but lost his or her eligibility, to reenter the extended foster care program through a voluntary placement agreement when he or she meets the eligibility criteria again.Requires the state institute for public policy to conduct a study measuring the outcomes for youth who have received extended foster care services.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & Human Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1868
by Representatives Peterson, Doglio, Lytton, Farrell, Gregerson, Fitzgibbon, Stonier, Appleton, Stanford, Robinson, Ortiz-Self, Macri, Pollet, Tharinger, and Ormsby
Investing in water infrastructure on tribal lands to protect the environment by imposing a tax on oil shipped into Washington via pipeline.
Imposes an oil spill response tax on oil entering the state by pipeline.Uses tax proceeds to ensure that tribal waters receive investments to improve water quality.Creates the tribal water protection fund.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1869
by Representatives Orwall, Gregerson, Ortiz-Self, Bergquist, Ryu, Stonier, Sawyer, Santos, Hudgins, Reeves, Goodman, Sells, Doglio, Macri, Pollet, McBride, and Farrell
Regulating interpreter services.
Authorizes the department of social and health services and the state health care authority to purchase interpreter services on behalf of limited-English speaking applicants and recipients of public assistance.Authorizes the department of labor and industries to purchase interpreter services for medical and vocational providers authorized to provide services to limited-English speaking injured workers or crime victims.Requires the department of enterprise services to develop and implement a model that all state agencies must use to procure spoken language interpreter services by purchasing directly from language access providers or through contracts with scheduling and coordinating entities, or both.Authorizes the department of social and health services, the state health care authority, and the department of labor and industries to procure interpreters through the department of enterprise services if the demand for spoken language interpreters cannot be met through their respective contracts.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workplace Standards (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1870
by Representatives Harris, DeBolt, Tharinger, Riccelli, Kilduff, Ormsby, and Caldier
Protecting consumers from charges for out-of-network health care services.
Modifies health care service provisions regarding the protection of consumers from charges for out-of-network services.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1871
by Representative Sells
Concerning electrical and plumbing work performed by state employees.
Addresses licensing and certification requirements for electrical and plumbing work performed by state employees.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workplace Standards (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1872
by Representatives Kretz, Blake, Short, Kraft, Haler, and Shea
Providing for the partial delisting of the gray wolf by the fish and wildlife commission.
Prohibits the fish and wildlife commission from designating or maintaining a designation for the gray wolf as an endangered, threatened, or sensitive species in a county east of the crest of the Cascade mountains that shares a border with Canada.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1873
by Representatives Hudgins, Fey, McBride, and Peterson; by request of Department of Commerce
Concerning lead-based paint certification fees.
Increases the fee for certification and recertification of lead paint firms, inspectors, project developers, risk assessors, supervisors, abatement workers, renovators, and dust sampling technicians.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1874
by Representatives Lovick, Klippert, Pellicciotti, Goodman, Kilduff, Ryu, Gregerson, Senn, Kagi, Haler, Stanford, Bergquist, and Farrell
Addressing the blood and breath alcohol concentration of persons operating or in physical control of a vehicle, vessel, or aircraft.
Lowers the legal concentration of blood and breath alcohol for persons operating or in physical control of a vehicle, vessel, or aircraft.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1875
by Representatives Kagi, Dent, McDonald, Griffey, Senn, Ortiz-Self, Kilduff, Lovick, Fey, Johnson, Goodman, Stanford, Doglio, Macri, and Tharinger
Establishing a pilot project to license outdoor early learning and child care programs.
Requires the department of early learning to: (1) Establish a pilot project to license outdoor, nature-based early learning and child care programs; and(2) Convene an advisory group of outdoor, nature-based early learning practitioners to inform and support implementation of the pilot project.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & Human Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1876
by Representatives Frame, McDonald, Goodman, Kagi, Fitzgibbon, Ryu, Ortiz-Self, Doglio, Macri, and Ormsby
Concerning the revision of exclusive adult jurisdiction.
Revises the basic juvenile court act with regard to the juvenile courts' exclusive original jurisdiction over proceedings.Requires a decline hearing to be held when the respondent is sixteen or seventeen years old and the information alleges a violent offense and the juvenile is alleged to have been armed with a firearm, unless the hearing is opposed by the prosecutor, the respondent, and the court.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & Human Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1877
by Representative Stanford
Concerning the release of driving record abstract information affecting registered tow truck operators.
Prohibits the following information on an abstract driving record from being provided to an insurance company or an agent of the company: Actions committed by registered tow truck operators in the performance of their occupational duties while at the scene of a roadside impound or recovery.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1878
by Representatives Stanford, Peterson, Pollet, Hudgins, Riccelli, Gregerson, Doglio, and Ormsby
Requiring posting of allergen information in public schools.
Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to consult with the department of agriculture to develop and disseminate guidance for school districts on how and what allergen information must be displayed.Requires public schools to display allergen information on a sign in a prominent place within each area where food is served.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1879
by Representatives Wylie, Doglio, Orwall, Lovick, Tarleton, and Cody
Requiring the department of revenue to submit a sales and use tax products status report.
Requires the department of revenue to submit a report to the legislative fiscal committees that includes a complete inventory of products and services that are subject to sales and use taxes and products and services that are exempt from sales and use taxes.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1880
by Representatives Wylie, Lovick, Lytton, Kloba, Doglio, Pollet, and Ormsby
Providing a sales and use tax exemption for feminine hygiene products for individuals receiving public assistance.
Provides a sales and use tax exemption on feminine hygiene products used or purchased by a person receiving public assistance.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1881
by Representatives McCabe, Orwall, Johnson, Manweller, Vick, Griffey, Stambaugh, Dye, J. Walsh, Barkis, Springer, and Haler
Addressing the employer status of franchisors.
Clarifies that franchisors are not employers of franchisees or the employees of a franchisee.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workplace Standards (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1882
by Representatives Young, Morris, and Smith
Excluding certain appliances from the definitions of electric plant and gas plant.
Revises the definition of "electric plant," for purposes of chapter 80.04 RCW (public utilities regulations), to exempt the following from that definition: Appliances operated, owned, leased, controlled, or used by a business or residential customer including water heaters, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning appliances, clothes washers, clothes dryers, dishwashers, refrigerators, and freezers.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
SB 5618
by Senators Darneille and Keiser
Concerning arrest of sixteen and seventeen year olds for domestic violence assault.
Authorizes a police officer, at the request of a parent or guardian, to arrest a sixteen or seventeen year old child of that parent or guardian, if the child has assaulted a family or household member within the preceding four hours.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing. | |
SB 5619
by Senators Rivers, Keiser, and Hunt; by request of Insurance Commissioner
Addressing health care services balance billing.
Establishes the balance billing protection act to provide for the protection of consumers against balance billing for emergency and other health care services when: (1) Emergency health care services are provided to a covered person; or(2) Health care services are provided to a covered person at an in-network facility, but are provided by an out-of-network provider when no in-network provider is available to provide the health care services.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5620
by Senators King, Hobbs, Fain, Mullet, and Palumbo
Concerning transportation network companies.
Provides statewide uniform regulation for transportation network companies, encourages technological innovation, and preserves and enhances access to transportation options for residents of and visitors to the state.Creates the transportation network company account.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5621
by Senators Brown, Hobbs, Rivers, Sheldon, Ericksen, Warnick, Honeyford, Becker, Braun, and Wilson
Concerning projects of statewide significance for economic development and transportation.
Establishes the community prosperity and revitalization act.Provides a mechanism for local governments and state and federal agencies to perform a coordinated and comprehensive review of projects of statewide significance and encourages their expeditious completion.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Agriculture, Water, Trade & Economic Development. | |
SB 5622
by Senators Rolfes, Mullet, Frockt, and Keiser
Integrating career readiness standards and instruction into the program of basic education.
Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) In consultation with one or more technical working groups, develop a curriculum framework for a career and technical education course that may be offered by high schools, in which the content in social studies education is considered equivalent in full or in part to social studies courses that meet graduation requirements; and(2) Develop a set of career readiness standards to guide the full integration of goal four and knowledge and skill areas in other goals in the essential academic learning requirements.Creates the career readiness standards work group to: (1) Review policies and practices in place in other states; and(2) Recommend a set of career readiness standards for consideration by the state board of education and the workforce training and education coordinating board.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5623
by Senators Rolfes, Billig, Wellman, Saldaña, Takko, Hunt, Darneille, Ranker, Frockt, Carlyle, and Conway
Fulfilling the state's paramount duty for all children through equitable and responsible investments in the state's basic education program and reductions to local effort contributions.
Addresses equitable and responsible investments in the state's basic education program and reductions to local effort contributions to fulfill the state's paramount duty for all children.Requires the superintendent of public instruction to convene a technical working group to provide recommendations for revising school district accounting practices.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5624
by Senators Hasegawa and Fortunato
Concerning transparency in retail electrical customer billing.
Requires an electric utility to disclose the following information on billing statements sent to retail electric customers: (1) An itemized listing of rates and charges, including the amount of federal, state, and local taxes collected and paid by the electric utility; and(2) Whether taxes are collected on behalf of other political subdivisions.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications. | |
SB 5625
by Senators Zeiger, Darneille, Walsh, Hunt, O'Ban, Frockt, and Carlyle; by request of Department of Commerce
Allowing minors to consent to share their personally identifying information in the Washington homeless client management information system.
Authorizes an unaccompanied youth who is at least thirteen years old to give consent for the collection of his or her personally identifying information for the state homeless client management information system.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing. | |
SB 5626
by Senators Miloscia, Cleveland, and Rivers
Prohibiting the use of step therapy in treatments for stage four advanced, metastatic cancer.
Prohibits a health benefit plan from using step therapy in treatments for stage four advanced, metastatic cancer.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5627
by Senators Kuderer, Hunt, Saldaña, and Keiser
Concerning the sale of manufactured/mobile home communities.
Addresses the sale of manufactured/mobile home communities.Extends the real estate excise tax exemption for qualified sales of a manufactured/mobile home community.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance. | |
SB 5628
by Senators Takko, Fortunato, and Sheldon
Providing for fire protection district formation by the legislative authority of a city or town subject to voter approval.
Authorizes the legislative authority of a city or town, as an alternative to the petition method of formation for fire protection districts and subject to voter approval, to establish a fire protection district with boundaries that are the same as the corporate boundaries of the city or town for the provision of fire prevention services, fire suppression services, and emergency medical services.Requires a city or town to reduce its general fund regular property tax levy by the total combined levy of the fire protection district.Transfers powers, duties, and functions of a city or town fire department, pertaining to fire protection and emergency services of the city or town, to the fire protection district on its creation date.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Local Government. | |
SB 5629
by Senators Angel and Hobbs
Creating and establishing the rights and duties for title insurance rating and advisory organizations.
Establishes a system by which title insurers may adopt a rating organization's form and rate filings in order to benefit consumers and entities purchasing, selling, or financing real property.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance. | |
SB 5630
by Senators Braun, Ranker, Mullet, Rivers, Cleveland, Zeiger, and Liias; by request of Office of Financial Management
Reinstating tax preferences for certain high-technology research and development.
Provides a business and occupation tax credit for advanced spacecraft manufacturing, life science, and environmental technology companies performing research and development.Provides a sales and use tax deferral for certain construction for new and expanding companies conducting research and development in the fields of advanced spacecraft manufacturing, life science, and environmental technology.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5631
by Senators Becker and Frockt
Concerning the University of Washington's alternative process for awarding contracts.
Includes minority-owned and women-owned businesses in certain functions of the University of Washington's alternative process for awarding contracts.Eliminates the termination and repeal, under the sunset act, of the University of Washington's alternative process for awarding contracts.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Higher Education. | |
SB 5632
by Senators O'Ban, Palumbo, Angel, Wilson, Zeiger, Rossi, and Padden
Modifying organized retail theft provisions.
Includes, in the crime of organized retail theft, the theft of property with a cumulative value of at least seven hundred fifty dollars from a mercantile establishment with no less than six accomplices and at least one electronic communication made or received seeking participation in the theft in the course of planning or commission of the theft.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5633
by Senators Palumbo, Rossi, Angel, Pedersen, O'Ban, Wilson, Zeiger, and Padden
Changing the definition of theft.
Revises the definition of "theft," for purposes of the state criminal code, to include concealing property intending that the concealment will deprive the other person permanently of its use or benefit.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5634
by Senators Padden, Angel, Palumbo, Wilson, Zeiger, and Rossi
Concerning aggregating counts of retail theft with special circumstances.
Allows a series of thefts committed by the same person from one or more mercantile establishments over a period of one hundred eighty days to be aggregated in one count and the sum of the value of the property is the value considered in determining the degree of the retail theft with special circumstances involved.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5635
by Senators Padden, Pedersen, Angel, Palumbo, O'Ban, Wilson, Rossi, and Zeiger
Concerning retail theft with special circumstances.
Includes in the crime of retail theft with special circumstances, when a person commits theft of property from a mercantile establishment and is at the time of the theft, in possession of an item, article, implement, or device used, under circumstances evincing an intent to use or employ to overcome security systems including lined bags or tag removers.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5636
by Senators Becker, Rivers, Bailey, Walsh, and Fain
Concerning telemedicine licensure reciprocity.
Requires the department of health to convene a work group, in collaboration with the boards and commissions, to explore solutions that allow telemedicine licensure reciprocity for health professionals from our border states.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5637
by Senators Becker, Rivers, Bailey, and O'Ban
Addressing health insurance mandates in the individual and small group markets.
Exempts commercial health benefit plans, offered in the individual and small group markets, from all state-mandated benefits beyond those required by the federal government.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5638
by Senators Becker, Rivers, O'Ban, Miloscia, Walsh, and Bailey
Exempting certain skilled nursing facilities from certificate of need requirements for the addition of beds for a limited period of time.
Prohibits the department of health from requiring a certificate of need for the addition of beds to alleviate the number of patients in acute care hospitals awaiting transfer to a skilled nursing facility.Exempts a nursing home from certificate of need requirements for a one-time addition of up to thirty new skilled nursing care beds if certain conditions are met.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5639
by Senators Conway and Zeiger
Concerning alternative student assessments.
Allows a student to use an alternative assessment without taking the statewide student assessment at least once if the student: (1) Is enrolled in a school district with which a technical college has a signed interlocal agreement on file with the superintendent of public instruction;(2) Was under twenty-one years of age at the beginning of the school year;(3) Is enrolled tuition-free;(4) Is enrolled in the school district for the purpose of earning a high school diploma or certificate; and(5) Has participated in instructional activity at the technical college during the current school year.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5640
by Senators Conway, Cleveland, Frockt, Zeiger, and Saldaña
Concerning technical college diploma programs.
Allows certain individuals who enroll in a technical college through the option established in RCW 28B.50.533 to be awarded a diploma from the college upon written request from the student, if he or she satisfactorily completes an associate degree, including an associate of arts, science, technology, or applied science degree.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Higher Education. | |
SB 5641
by Senators Keiser and Honeyford
Changing nomenclature for first-class and second-class school districts.
Changes nomenclature for first-class and second-class school districts.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5642
by Senators Brown, King, Miloscia, Baumgartner, Bailey, Sheldon, Rivers, Zeiger, Honeyford, Hobbs, and Wilson
Concerning a pilot program that provides incentives for investments in Washington state job creation and economic development.
Revises the invest in Washington act.States that the sales tax deferral on the construction and expenditure costs is for up to five new manufacturing facilities per year.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Agriculture, Water, Trade & Economic Development. | |
SB 5643
by Senators Wellman, Hobbs, and Saldaña; by request of Department of Commerce
Concerning lead-based paint certification fees.
Increases the fee for certification and recertification of lead paint firms, inspectors, project developers, risk assessors, supervisors, abatement workers, renovators, and dust sampling technicians.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications. | |
SB 5644
by Senator Honeyford
Concerning skill center facility maintenance.
Requires the host district of a skill center, for skill center cooperatives receiving state capital funding after July 1, 2017, to maintain a separate capital account, into which the participating school districts shall make annual deposits, to pay for all future minor repair and renovation costs for the skill center.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5645
by Senator Honeyford
Addressing incumbent officeholder withdrawal of candidacy provisions.
Provides that, if an incumbent officeholder who has filed for reelection later withdraws his or her candidacy, declarations of candidacy may be filed for that office until seventy-two hours after the close of business on the Monday following the last day for candidates to withdraw. If during that seventy-two hour period another incumbent officeholder chooses to file for the office being vacated, declarations of candidacy may be filed for that officeholder's own office for an additional seventy-two hours.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to State Government. | |
SB 5646
by Senators Honeyford, King, Chase, Keiser, and Conway
Concerning services provided by residential habilitation centers.
Requires Yakima Valley School to operate crisis stabilization beds and respite service beds as the capacity of the school allows and as the needs of the community require.Requires the department of social and health services to continue to: (1) Provide respite services in residential habilitation centers; and(2) Develop respite care in the community.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5647
by Senators Honeyford, Takko, Schoesler, and Saldaña
Creating a low-income home rehabilitation revolving loan program.
Creates the low-income home rehabilitation revolving loan program within the department of commerce.Requires the department of commerce to contract with rehabilitation agencies to provide home rehabilitation to participating homeowners.Creates the low-income home rehabilitation revolving loan program account.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing. | |
SB 5648
by Senator Rolfes
Concerning vehicular homicide.
Includes in the crime of vehicular homicide, when a person was operating a motor vehicle while his or her ability to operate the motor vehicle was impaired by fatigue, drowsiness, or sleep.Requires the department of licensing to revoke a driver's license, for five years, when the driver has been convicted of vehicular homicide.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5649
by Senators Hawkins and Saldaña
Modifying the eligibility requirements for certain counties to form a regional transportation planning organization.
Requires a regional transportation planning organization to encompass at least one complete county and: (1) Have a population of at least forty thousand; and(2) Cover a geographic area of at least five thousand square miles.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5650
by Senators Conway, Darneille, Zeiger, and O'Ban
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.Expires July 1, 2020.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5651
by Senators Conway, Becker, and Zeiger
Concerning the siting of schools and school facilities.
Authorizes a county to designate public school projects as an essential public facility within its jurisdiction and allows school projects to be sited outside the urban growth area based on certain criteria.Requires a county that is required or chooses to plan under the growth management act, to: (1) As an alternative to designating school projects as an essential public facility, establish, in consultation with affected school districts and affected cities, a process for approving school projects outside of the urban growth area based on certain criteria; and(2) Amend its process for siting schools outside the urban growth area.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5652
by Senators Angel and Rolfes
Concerning actions by the boundary review board.
Requires the boundary review board to: (1) Direct affected jurisdictions to enter into any agreements necessary to address conflicts with the board's factors and objectives before ruling on an annexation proposal;(2) Consider the following factors affecting a proposal: The logical and reasonable nature of the annexation boundaries to ensure they do not include unincorporated islands, peninsulas, or other jurisdictional irregularities; and(3) Attempt to achieve the following: Equity of impacts on jurisdictional revenues and/or expenses from the proposed annexation boundary.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Local Government. | |
SB 5653
by Senators Becker, Braun, Brown, Bailey, Padden, Zeiger, King, Wilson, O'Ban, Rossi, Walsh, Hawkins, and Fain
Addressing the administration of the public employees' benefits program.
Transfers powers, duties, and functions of the state health care authority, pertaining to the public employees' benefits board, to the department of retirement systems.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5654
by Senators Rivers and Keiser
Protecting consumers from charges for out-of-network health care services.
Modifies health care service provisions regarding the protection of consumers from charges for out-of-network services.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5655
by Senators Angel and Mullet
Concerning the delivery of insurance notices and documents by electronic means.
Removes language that required the delivery of insurance notices and documents by electronic means to meet the requirements of the state authentication act in chapter 19.34 RCW.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance. | |
SB 5656
by Senators Miloscia and Rivers
Concerning the goal of ending homelessness.
Addresses the homeless crisis in this state.Requires the department of social and health services to develop a process to locate unaccompanied homeless children with the goal of returning the child to his or her parent or legal guardian.Finds a parent, legal guardian, or caregiver guilty of a misdemeanor if he or she knowingly fails to notify law enforcement within forty-eight hours of learning that a child in his or her care is missing.Declares that, homeless individuals subject to enforcement should be directed to emergency shelters, community resources, drug or mental health court, or other interventional services.Declares an intent to review state and local homelessness prevention, assistance, and housing efforts on a more frequent basis to improve the development of cost-effective programs and identification of best practices to expand housing security.Requires the department of commerce to provide an update on the state's homeless housing strategic plan and its activities for the prior fiscal year.Makes the following appropriations: (1) From the general fund to the department of commerce to be distributed to five housing authorities to implement a quality management system and prepare and submit an application to the Washington quality awards program;(2) From the general fund to the department of commerce to be distributed to five community action agencies to implement a quality management system and prepare and submit an application to the Washington quality awards program; and(3) From the general fund to the state auditor's office for an audit to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of state homeless programs.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing. | |
SB 5657
by Senators Miloscia and Rivers
Concerning the hosting of the homeless by religious organizations.
Places restrictions and requirements on certain local governments, and religious organizations who host the homeless on property owned or controlled by the organization.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Local Government. | |
SB 5658
by Senator Pearson
Concerning the use of solid fuel burning devices.
Requires the department of ecology or a local air pollution control authority to: (1) Lift burn bans when the air temperature falls below thirty-two degrees and is forecast to remain below thirty-two degrees for forty-eight hours; and(2) Call a burn ban for the area where the burn ban was lifted when the air temperature rises above thirty-two degrees for six hours.Requires a person who is in violation of the requirements above to: (1) For the first time, be provided educational materials regarding public health and air quality, information about obtaining or purchasing a certified solid fuel burning device, and provided with public notice twelve hours before an enforcement action for the first offense may be taken; and(2) For the second time in the same calendar month, be subject to a civil penalty of two hundred fifty dollars. For each subsequent violation, the amount of the civil penalty must be increased by two hundred fifty dollars for each offense.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications. | |
SB 5659
by Senators Bailey, Hawkins, Schoesler, and Warnick
Addressing the eligibility of emergency medical technicians employed by public hospital districts for membership in the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system.
Clarifies that an emergency medical technician employed by a public hospital district does not qualify for membership in a retirement system under chapter 41.26 RCW unless the emergency medical technician was a member of the public employees' retirement system while providing emergency medical services for the public hospital district.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5660
by Senators Hunt, Becker, and Darneille; by request of Washington State Historical Society
Removing references to specific nonoperational historical facilities from state statute.
Removes references to specific nonoperational historical facilities.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to State Government. | |
SB 5661
by Senator Rolfes
Addressing interruptive service credit for members of the law enforcement officers' and fire fighters' retirement system.
Adds a definition for "period of war" for purposes of chapter 41.26 RCW (law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system).
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5662
by Senator Zeiger; by request of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Authorizing the superintendent of public instruction to designate a member of the professional educator standards board.
Authorizes a designee of the superintendent of public instruction to designate a member of the professional educator standards board.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5663
by Senators Zeiger, Takko, Frockt, Billig, and Carlyle
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.Makes an appropriation from the highway safety fund to the department of social and health services for the purposes of this act.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing. | |
SB 5664
by Senators Braun, Takko, Hawkins, and King
Eliminating the reduction in state basic education funding that occurs in counties with federal forestlands.
Stops the reduction of funds to school districts in counties with federal forest lands.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5665
by Senators Wilson, Keiser, Conway, and King
Concerning the use of credit cards for purchases of spirits and wine by a purchaser licensed to sell spirits and/or wine for consumption on the licensed premises.
Authorizes a licensed distributor of spirits and/or wine to pass credit card fees on to a purchaser licensed to sell spirits and/or wine for consumption on the licensed premises.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Commerce, Labor & Sports. | |
SB 5666
by Senators Frockt, Palumbo, Nelson, Keiser, and Saldaña
Establishing the Washington promise program.
Creates the Washington promise program to help make the first two years of college affordable and accessible by offering a tuition waiver for eligible students enrolled in associate degree or certificate programs offered by community and technical colleges.Requires the office of student financial assistance to administer the program for resident students seeking an associate's degree or certificate from a community or technical college.Requires the state board for community and technical colleges to develop a plan to provide program students who are enrolled at a community or technical college with a quarter-long student success course, during or before their first enrollment period, that teaches essential skills for college success.Requires the state institute for public policy to conduct a study on the effectiveness of the program.Requires the caseload forecast council to estimate the anticipated caseload of the program and include the information in the official state caseload forecast.Revises the definition of "caseload," for purposes of the caseload forecast council, to include the number of students who are eligible for the program and are expected to attend a community or technical college.
| Feb 1 | First reading, referred to Higher Education. | |
SCR 8402
by Senators Schoesler, Nelson, and Saldaña
Honoring former members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Washington who have passed from this life.
Honors former members of the senate and house of representatives of the state of Washington who have passed from this life.
| Feb 1 | Read first time, rules suspended, and placed on second reading calendar. | |
| Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. | ||
| Third reading, adopted. | ||