Directing the department of ecology to submit an annual report to the legislature detailing the department's participation in interagency agreements.

Concerning petroleum storage tank systems.

Concerning plaques for certain state-funded capital budget projects.

Directs the department of commerce to require a plaque that must be affixed to buildings or displayed as part of projects receiving a capital budget appropriation of more than ninety-nine thousand dollars and capital budget local and community projects that receive more than ninety-nine thousand dollars.

Requiring the use of trained meeting facilitators in certain planning meetings involving children, parents, caregivers, and others.

Concerning family reunification in the child welfare process.

Requires the department of social and health services to convene a parent-child visitation work group to: (1) Engage relevant stakeholders to include biological parents involved in or with experience in the child welfare process; and

(2) Develop and implement changes in policy or practice to increase the amount and quality of parent-child visitation.

Adding the use of shared leave for employees who are sick or temporarily disabled because of pregnancy disability or for the purposes of parental leave to bond with the employee's newborn, adoptive, or foster child.

Allows an agency head to permit an employee to receive leave, under the state leave sharing program, if the employee: (1) Needs the time for parental leave; or

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

Revises the definition of "work activity" for purposes of the WorkFirst 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.

Implementing recommendations from the children's mental health work group.

Requires the state health care authority to: (1) Oversee the coordination of resources and services through the managed health care system and tribal organizations providing health care services for children who are eligible for medical assistance and have been identified as requiring mental health treatment;

(2) Require provider payment for depression screening for certain youth; and

(3) Require provider payment for maternal depression screening for mothers of certain children.

Requires the department of early learning to collaborate with stakeholders to develop an early childhood mental health training and consultation program focused on the provision of trauma-informed care for infants and young children.

Requires educational service districts to establish a lead staff person for mental health.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to employ a children's mental health services coordinator.

Requires the health workforce council to collect and analyze workforce survey and administrative data for clinicians qualified to provide children's mental health services.

Requires Washington State University to offer one, and the University of Washington to offer one additional, twenty-four month residency position that is approved by the accreditation council for graduate medical education to a resident specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry.

Restoring certain gubernatorial powers to waive statutory obligations or limitations in order to preserve and maintain life, health, property, or the public peace during a state of emergency.

Authorizes the governor, after proclaiming a state of emergency and before terminating the proclamation, to issue an order concerning the waiver or suspension of other statutory and regulatory obligations or limitations as he or she reasonably believes should be waived or suspended to help preserve and maintain life, health, property, or the public peace, unless the authority: (1) Has been expressly granted to another statewide elected official; or

Requiring the insurance commissioner to educate breast cancer patients about the availability of insurance coverage for breast reconstruction and breast prostheses.

Concerning the hosting of the homeless by religious organizations.

Concerning transfer of jurisdiction from a tribe in dependency cases involving Indian children.

Creating a local infrastructure investment program to support the development of affordable housing, workforce housing, and revitalization efforts.

Authorizes a participating local jurisdiction, that builds approved local infrastructure to support the development of affordable housing or workforce housing or revitalization efforts within a revitalization district, to receive a remittance that is the equivalent of a 4.37 percent sales or use tax on the construction of the local infrastructure.

Concerning outdoor burning.

Concerning state-shared taxes for the purpose of designated disaster area financing.

Authorizes a local government to finance public improvements using designated disaster area financing subject to certain conditions.

Prohibits a designated disaster area from having within its geographic boundaries any part of a hospital benefit zone, revenue development area, revitalization area, increment area, or another designated disaster area.

Addressing the payment of production-based compensation wages for the employment and use of labor in agricultural activities and in the production, handling, and storage of farm products.

Addresses production-based safe harbor compensation which is a wage rate paid to employees in connection with work related to the growing, production, handling, or storage of farm products or in performing agricultural activities based upon the employee's job performance as measured through the number of: (1) Units picked, packed, or manufactured;

(2) Tasks performed;

(3) Events completed; or

Concerning additional classroom support for teachers in schools with demonstrated capital facility needs.

Increasing affordable housing opportunities in targeted areas.

Concerning recertification of public bodies using alternative contracting methods.

Allowing foster children to be homeschooled.

Reverses the changes to foster parent licensing rules, by the department of social and health services, forbidding home-based instruction to children in the care and custody of the department.

Providing that home-based instruction of a foster child may not be the sole basis for denying a foster-family home license.

Reverses the changes to foster parent licensing rules, by the department of social and health services, forbidding home-based instruction to children in the care and custody of the department and allows foster parents to provide home-based instruction to foster youth.

Requiring certain traffic lane merge education and testing.

Requires the superintendent of public instruction to include the following in traffic safety education courses: The late merge zipper method which is applied when two lanes are merging and drivers are using both lanes of traffic until reaching the defined merge area and then alternating in zipper fashion into the single lane.

Requires the department of licensing to: (1) Include testing on the late merge zipper method during a driver licensing examination;

(2) Provide information on the late merge zipper method to driver's license renewal applicants; and

Recognizing the final Saturday of September as public lands day.

Concerning services and processes available when residential real property is abandoned or in foreclosure.

Creating procedures for the redemption of certain vehicles that are towed from accident scenes by registered tow truck companies when the vehicle owner is admitted as a patient in a hospital due to the accident.

Establishes the Denise Chew scooter recovery act.

Authorizes a person who is known to the registered or legal owner of a motorcycle or moped that was towed from the scene of an accident to redeem the motorcycle or moped as a bailment on behalf of the owner if he or she is admitted as a patient in a hospital due to the accident.

Establishing the Washington investment trust.

Creates the Washington investment trust which is a publicly owned depository to be known as a legacy institution that amasses sufficient capital reserves to address opportunities now and in the future.

Creates the Washington investment trust commission as the primary governing authority of the trust.

Creates the trust transition board to develop and recommend the following to the commission: (1) A start-up business plan for the trust;

(2) Initial capital requirements of the trust; and

(3) Options for capitalizing the trust.

Creates an investment trust advisory board to review the trust's operations and make recommendations relating to the trust's management, services, policies, and procedures.

Requires the state auditor to conduct an annual postaudit on all accounts and financial transactions of the trust.

Exempts the trust from payment of fees and taxes levied by the state.

Requiring counties, cities, and towns to permit the operation of state licensed marijuana retail businesses in order to receive marijuana-related tax distributions.

Excluding holidays and weekends from the time period required for youth shelters to notify parents.

Concerning the motion picture competitiveness program.

Exempting motorcycles from the payment of a motor vehicle weight fee.

Removing industrial hemp from the scope of the uniform controlled substances act.

Requiring the regionalization of the minimum wage.

Addresses an employer's payment of wages in an urban area, a nonurban area, and a standard area, as those terms are defined in this act.

Provides that the state occupies and preempts the entire field regarding payment of wages.

Authorizing the creation of regional transportation planning organizations by large counties.

Allows the creation of a regional transportation planning organization in a county that has a population of at least forty thousand and covers a geographic area of at least five thousand square miles.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 9	First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).