Exempting short-line railroads that haul nonfuel oils from oil spill contingency planning requirements.

Prohibits the rules adopted by the department of ecology from requiring the following to be included as components of contingency plans of class III railroads transporting oil in bulk that is not crude oil in an amount greater than twenty-four tank car loads per year: (1) Contracted access to oil spill response equipment; or

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.

Creates the Washington domestic violence risk assessment work group to study how and when risk assessment can best be used to improve the response to domestic violence offenders and victims and find effective strategies to reduce domestic violence homicides, serious injuries, and recidivism that are a result of domestic violence incidents in the state.

Concerning reimbursement for services provided pursuant to community assistance referral and education services programs.

Requires the state health care authority to adopt standards for the reimbursement of health care services provided to eligible clients by fire departments pursuant to a community assistance referral and education services program.

Requires the standards to allow payment for covered health care services provided to individuals whose medical needs do not require ambulance transport to an emergency department.

Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to, in consultation with the state health care authority, conduct a cost-effectiveness review of the standards for reimbursement.

Concerning persons and entities to whom the department of health may provide prescription monitoring program data.

Authorizes the department of health to provide data in the prescription monitoring program to the following: (1) The director of the state health care authority regarding medicaid clients;

(2) Personnel of the department of health for assessing prescribing practices, including controlled substances-related mortality and morbidity, and providing quality improvement feedback to providers;

(3) A health care facility or entity or a health care provider group of five or more providers for quality improvement purposes;

(4) The local health officer of a local health jurisdiction for patient follow-up and care coordination following a controlled substance overdose event; and

(5) The coordinated care electronic tracking program.

Requires the department of health to: (1) Provide certain facilities, entities, and provider groups with certain prescriber information;

(2) In consultation with the state hospital association, the state medical association, and the state health care authority, to determine what prescriber information will be provided; and

Establishing a student loan bill of rights.

Establishes the Washington student education loan bill of rights.

Requires the student achievement council to designate a student education loan ombuds within the office of student financial assistance to provide timely assistance to a student education loan borrower with a student education loan.

Requires the director of the department of financial institutions to establish fees sufficient to cover the costs of administering the department's program for student education loan servicers and the student education loan ombuds.

Creates the student education loan ombuds account.

Requires the state treasurer, beginning in the 2019-2020 fiscal year, to annually transfer from the financial services regulation fund to the student loan ombuds account, the greater of one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars or twenty percent of the annual assessment derived from student education loan servicing.

Concerning the collection of youth voter registration sign up information.

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

Requires a social studies teacher to, each year on temperance and good citizenship day, 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 on that day.

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.

Provides delivery options for voter registration applications.

Requires the secretary of state to: (1) For each electronic registration application, obtain a digital copy of the applicant's driver's license or identicard signature from the department of licensing; and

(2) Employ additional security measures to ensure the accuracy and integrity of voter preregistration applications submitted electronically.

Requires the voter registration database to provide storage of pending registration records for persons under eighteen years of age.

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

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

Requires the department of social and health services to adopt rules to establish: (1) Minimum competencies and standards for the approval of curricula for facility-based caregivers serving persons with behavioral health needs and geriatric behavioral health workers; and

Increasing the career and college readiness of public school students.

Creates the work-integrated learning demonstration pilot project to promote work-integrated learning experiences for students.

Requires the workforce training and education coordinating board to convene a work-integrated learning advisory committee to provide advice to the legislature and the education and workforce sectors on creating opportunities for students.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction and the advisory committee to jointly select three or four high schools to develop work-integrated learning project programs.

Requires the workforce training and education coordinating board and the office of the superintendent of public instruction to jointly review and analyze reports and data submitted to evaluate the work-integrated learning project programs.

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 annual depression screening for certain youth; and

(3) Require provider payment for maternal depression screening for mothers of children ages birth to one year.

Requires the department of early learning to establish a child care consultation program linking child care providers with evidence-based, trauma-informed, and best practice resources regarding caring for infants and young children who present behavioral concerns or symptoms of trauma.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to produce a case study of an educational service district that is successfully delivering and coordinating children's mental health activities and services.

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

Requires a behavioral health organization to, upon initiation or renewal of a contract with the department of social and health services, reimburse a provider for a behavioral health service provided to certain covered persons through telemedicine or store and forward technology.

Concerning professionals qualified to examine individuals in the mental health and substance use disorder treatment systems.

Corrects a technical oversight by recognizing a designated chemical dependency specialist as one of the qualified examining professionals authorized to sign an initial fourteen-day substance use disorder detention petition during the interim period between June 28, 2016, and April 1, 2018.

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.

Requires the attorney general to investigate complaints and enforce this act.

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

Requires the department of social and health services to immediately perform a review of its rules, policies, and procedures related to the documentation requirements for behavioral health services with regard to individual initial assessments to identify areas in which duplicative or inefficient documentation requirements can be eliminated or streamlined for providers.

Provides that this act is null and void if appropriations are not approved.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 1	Public hearing in the House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services at 1:30 PM.
Feb 8	Executive action taken in the House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services at 1:30 PM.
Feb 21	APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
	Public hearing and executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 1:30 PM.
Feb 24	Referred to Rules 2 Review.
Feb 27	Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
Mar 1	2nd substitute bill substituted.
	Floor amendment(s) adopted.
	Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
	Third reading, passed; yeas, 98; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0.