Siting tenant-owned mobile home parks for senior citizens.

Concerning concealed pistol license eligibility requirements.

Modifying the requirements for renewing state need grants.

Changes the amount of time in which a student can receive a state need grant.

Includes in the qualifications for renewal: (1) Maintaining at least a 2.75 grade point average for all students except those attending The Evergreen State College; and

Concerning vacation of roads abutting bodies of water.

Modifying qualifications for disabled veterans to receive fee exempt license plates.

Concerning the annual reporting requirements for regulated utility and transportation companies.

Subjects a public service company that fails to file an annual report in the form and within the time required by the utilities and transportation commission, including payment of any regulatory fee due, is subject to: (1) Monetary penalties; or

(2) Cancellation or revocation of its operating authority and additional penalties.

Concerning soil samples in classifying agricultural and forestland.

Concerning consistency of growth management act plans and development regulations with the Revised Code of Washington.

Finds that, when a statute is enacted the provisions of the law become effective before local governments can update their comprehensive plans and development regulations.

States that local jurisdictions: (1) Are not in violation of the growth management act where it complies with the Revised Code of Washington in advance of the comprehensive plan updates set out within the act; and

Creating a committee to consider state elections policy.

Evaluating random check procedures for ballot counting equipment.

Requires the secretary of state to: (1) For each county, survey random check procedures adopted by the county canvassing board; and

Providing for the coordination of continuity of operations efforts for elections.

Requires the adjutant general of the state military department to maintain a copy of each county's continuity of operations plan for election operations.

Concerning the costs of election administration.

Requires the legislature to convene an election costs task force to examine the costs related to the administration of elections in the state.

Concerning foster youth health care benefits.

Extends the date in which certain behavioral health services must be integrated into the managed health care plan for foster children.

Concerning social determinates of health, including changing the name of the governor's interagency coordinating council on health disparities and evaluating data.

Changes the name of the governor's interagency coordinating council on health disparities to the governor's interagency coordinating council on health equity.

Concerning fairness in disciplinary actions of peace officers who appear on a prosecuting attorney's potential impeachment list.

Concerning long-term care services and supports.

Places responsibility for the implementation and administration of the family and medical leave program with the state health care authority, the department of social and health services, and the employment security department.

Creates the long-term services and supports trust commission and requires the commission to, beginning January 1, 2019, establish certain rules and policies.

States that, beginning January 1, 2025, long-term services and supports are available and benefits are payable to a registered long-term services and supports provider on behalf of a qualified individual.

Requires the benefits to be paid periodically and promptly to registered long-term services and supports providers.

Allows any self-employed person, beginning January 1, 2023, to elect coverage under the program.

Concerning dates and timelines associated with the operation of the state primary and elections.

Authorizing criminal background checks for employees of certain towing operators.

Addressing noncollection of taxes by county treasurers.

Regarding foreclosure and distraint sales of manufactured/mobile or park model homes.

Exempting impact fees for low-income housing development.

Authorizes the local ordinance by which impact fees are imposed to provide an exemption from impact fees for low-income housing up to one hundred percent of impact fees, with no explicit requirement to pay the exempted portion of the fee from public funds other than impact fee accounts.

Concerning public hospital district health and wellness promotion activities and superintendent appointment and removal.

Allows the appointment or removal of a public hospital district commission superintendent to be adopted at the same regular meeting.

Clarifying the authority of port districts to offer programs relating to air quality improvement equipment and fuel programs that provide emission reductions for engines, vehicles, and vessels.

Expanding the classes of persons who may provide informed consent for certain patients who are not competent to consent.

Concerning ex parte temporary orders outside of normal court hours.

Establishing regional school safety centers in educational service districts.

Requires educational service districts to establish regional school safety centers as part of a statewide network to provide regional coordination of school safety efforts across the state and school safety resources to the school districts in the region.

Requiring property sold in tax lien foreclosure proceedings to be sold as is.

Concerning mosquito control districts.

Concerning waivers of required ballot box placements.

Authorizes the county auditor to seek a waiver from ballot box siting requirements.

Requires the waiver request to be submitted in any form and manner as the secretary of state may establish by rule.

Authorizes the secretary of state to request information regarding the request that may be helpful in determining whether to approve a waiver and must approve or disapprove the request within sixty days of receiving it.

Concerning certificate of need requirements.

Providing for railroad community notice requirements.

Expanding the alternative fuel vehicle sales and use tax exemption.

Providing tax exemptions for the assistance of disabled veterans and members of the armed forces of the United States of America.

Removing areas from a regional transit authority.

Concerning municipal police districts.

Adjusting assessments levied on hardwood processors.

Changes the agricultural commodity assessments, levied by the state hardwoods commission, on processors of hardwoods to four cents per ton produced.

Establishing compassionate care renewals for medical marijuana qualifying patients.

Providing the director of the department of fish and wildlife the authority to issue permits to the Wanapum Indians for other freshwater food fish for ceremonial and subsistence purposes.

Protecting consumers and purchasers from excessive increases in generic prescription drug prices.

States that the legislature declares that unjustified and excessive price increases of generic drugs are considered violations of the consumer protection act.

Requires the prescription drug program to produce and make available to drug manufacturers a price increase notification form.

Concerning bone marrow donation information provided to driver's license and identicard applicants.

Requires the department of licensing to provide the ability for a driver's license or identicard applicant to express a written interest in obtaining further information about making a donation of bone marrow and being placed on the bone marrow donor registry.

Preventing public identification or stigmatization of public school students.

Prohibits a school or school district from publicly identifying or stigmatizing, or taking action that would likely publicly identify or stigmatize, a student based on attendance, academic performance, or behavior that is unsatisfactory.

Requires school principals, classroom teachers, and paraeducators to confer annually to develop or review policies and practices designed to improve school climate and create a safe, respectful learning environment.

Requires the center for the improvement of student learning to convene a work group to make recommendations: (1) On school climate and safe, respectful learning environment training requirements for educators;

(2) That emphasize that public identification or stigmatization are counterproductive to the state's goal of improving school climate and creating a safe, respectful learning environment.

Allowing nonmedical home cultivation of marijuana.

Allows a person age twenty-one or over to possess no more than six marijuana plants and up to twenty-four ounces of usable marijuana harvested from plants lawfully grown on the premises of the housing unit occupied by the person in possession of the plants and marijuana.

Prohibits more than six plants from being grown or possessed on the premises of a single housing unit regardless of the number of residents living on the premises.

Advancing the American dream by allowing increased family residential development in counties where the first-time buyer housing affordability index shows that housing is not affordable.

Concerning temporary duties for the wildland fire advisory committee.

Requires the commissioner of public lands to direct the wildland fire advisory committee to review, analyze, and make recommendations on certain issues related to wild fire prevention, response, and suppression activities within the state.

Concerning rangeland fire protection associations.

Requiring retailers to post the total sale price of spirits for sale.

Creating Patches pal special license plates.

Concerning drug and gene therapy payment for medicaid managed care organizations.

Requires the pharmacy and therapeutics committee established by the state health care authority to include among its voting members a representative from each managed care organization that is contracted to administer a medicaid managed care plan.

Modifying funding of the medical marijuana authorization database.

Removes the requirement that the expenses incurred for implementing and administering the medical marijuana authorization database be paid from the health professions account.

Requires the legislature to annually appropriate money in the dedicated marijuana account as follows: An amount not less than three hundred thousand dollars to the department of health to administer the medical marijuana authorization database, as appropriated in the omnibus appropriations act.

Prohibiting the names of county auditors and the secretary of state in their official capacity on election materials.

Prohibits the secretary of state's and the county auditor's names from appearing in the voters' pamphlet in his or her official capacity.

-- 2018 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 10	First reading, referred to State Government, Elections & Information Technology (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).