Creating a pilot project for tribal compact schools.

Creates a pilot project for tribal compact schools to explore and implement options in adjusting school attendance and calendar requirements for the purpose of accommodating cultural and agricultural events and replacing graduation testing requirements with culturally relevant and community-based standards.

Prohibiting the imposition of regional transit authority property taxes on less than a whole parcel.

Prohibits regional transit authority property taxes from being imposed on less than a whole parcel.

Establishing an exemption from background check requirements for firearms sales or transfers between concealed pistol license holders.

Concerning the voluntary option to purchase qualified alternative energy resources.

Requires each electric utility to provide a voluntary option to purchase qualified alternative energy resources to: (1) Each of its new retail electric customers at the time service is established; and

Concerning activities attendant to operating a truck.

Exempts a "worker," as that term is used in the state industrial insurance act, in regard to his or her activities attendant to operating a truck which he or she owns and leases to a motor carrier.

Concerning the training and monitoring of guardians.

Requires the department of social and health services to convene an advisory group to: (1) Develop a model program to monitor guardians appointed under chapter 11.88 RCW (appointments, qualifications, and removal of guardians) and to provide for monitoring of both professional and lay guardians; and

Concerning local government infrastructure.

Creates the consolidated borrowing program, operated by the state treasurer, to provide funds to political subdivisions for essential infrastructure needs.

Creates the lend Washington finance board to provide education and guidance with respect to funding options that may be available for projects that do not otherwise qualify for current state grants or loans.

Requires the state treasurer to develop a proposed plan to standardize the process for accessing state assistance by political subdivisions.

Increases the number of members on the public works board by including the state treasurer.

Creating a sales tax deferral for construction and expenditure costs of manufacturing facilities.

Provides a sales tax deferral on the construction and expenditure costs of new, renovated, or expanded manufacturing facilities.

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.

Revising education funding reform provisions to enhance uniformity, flexibility, and special education funding.

Concerning nuisance abatement.

Improving access to mental health services for children and youth.

Reestablishes the children's mental health work group to: (1) Identify barriers to and opportunities for accessing mental health services for children and families; and

(2) Advise the legislature on statewide mental health services for this population.

Provides a December 30, 2020, expiration date for the work group.

Expands the duties and responsibilities of the following: (1) The state health care authority;

(2) The department of social and health services;

(3) Behavioral health organizations;

(4) Regional service areas;

(5) The department of children, youth, and families;

(6) The child and adolescent psychiatry residency program at the University of Washington; and

Expanding registered apprenticeship programs.

Requires the regulatory apprenticeship council and the workforce training and education coordinating board to: (1) Develop a strategic plan focused on apprenticeship; and

(2) In consultation with the governor's office, collaborate with the state board for community and technical colleges, the employment security department, and the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (a) Review existing registered apprenticeship programs; (b) analyze barriers to expansion of registered apprenticeship and preapprenticeship programs; and (c) recommend policies to implement strategies that increase registered youth and adult apprenticeships.

Creates the apprenticeship work group to review the work being done by the governor's office regarding a student's preparation.

Requires the department of labor and industries, through the supervisor of apprenticeship, to employ a coordinator to do outreach to the private sector and assist industries in establishing registered apprenticeship and training programs where they do not exist.

Concerning the redevelopment of an area overlapping the boundary between two adjacent cities.

Addresses available methods for the annexation of all or a part of a city or town to another city or town and public hearings on proposed comprehensive plans.

Concerning ticket sales over the internet.

Prohibits a person, firm, or corporation from: (1) Reselling or engaging in the business of reselling tickets to a place of entertainment without first having procured a license from the department of licensing for each location at which business will be conducted; or

Changing the baseball stadium based special license plate.

Repeals RCW 46.18.215 (baseball stadium license plates) and creates a Seattle Mariners special license plate that will display the Seattle Mariners logo.

Authorizing cities planning under the growth management act to impose certain real estate excise taxes by councilmatic action.

Increasing the availability of assisted outpatient behavioral health treatment.

Modifies involuntary treatment act provisions with regard to the following: (1) Changing the term "in need of assisted outpatient mental health treatment" to "in need of assisted outpatient behavioral health treatment" and includes a person with a substance use disorder;

(2) Less restrictive alternative treatment services;

(3) Establishing a process for initial evaluation and filing of a petition for assisted outpatient treatment;

(4) Designated crisis responders;

(5) Procedures for additional treatment;

(6) Conditional release orders; and

Concerning child sex trafficking.

Increasing transparency and accountability for intercollegiate athletic programs.

Concerning the Olympia and Tumwater school district regionalization factors.

Finds that: (1) The Olympia, Tumwater, and North Thurston school districts are treated differently in the regionalization factors applied to school salaries under changes made to funding in the 2017 session: (a) North Thurston receiving regional adjustments of six percent; and (b) Olympia and Tumwater receiving no adjustment; and

Expanding the extension for community healthcare outcomes program.

Requires the University of Washington medical school extension for community healthcare outcomes program to report the following to the legislative health care and fiscal committees on the program's activities: (1) The number of certain health care professionals who received training and consultation services through the program during the preceding year in mental health care, diabetes treatment, telestroke care, and chronic pain management, including opioid disorder treatment; and

(2) The number of continuing education hours that each profession could potentially accrue if continuing education credits are awarded for participation in the program.

Encouraging transparency within the department of social and health services.

Concerning the use of independent contractors to address delays in providing forensic competency evaluations.

Requires the department of social and health services to: (1) Conduct a survey of professional persons available to conduct competency evaluations in each county; and

Concerning training and certification for community health workers.

Creates the collaborative for the advancement of community health workers to enhance the understanding and use of community health workers.

Requires the collaborative to: (1) Be hosted and lead by the University of Washington and be convened by July 1, 2018;

(2) Design training and qualification requirements for community health workers; and

(3) Review and identify best practices from existing state and counties' certification and training programs.

Creating the building business ecosystems act.

Concerning transportation network companies.

Exempting athletic and fitness facilities from sales and use taxes.

Provides a sales and use tax exemption to athletic and fitness facilities.

Concerning eligibility for the essential needs and housing support and the aged, blind, or disabled assistance programs.

Implementing child support pass-through payments.

Requires the department of social and health services, effective October 1, 2018, to pass through child support: (1) In an amount that does not exceed one hundred dollars per month collected on behalf of a family; or

Removing the requirement that a vehicle pass on the left-hand side.

Concerning zoning regulations relating to accessory dwelling units.

Concerning improving diversity in clinical trials.

Requires the Washington state review board to establish a diversity in clinical trials program to encourage participation in clinical trials of drugs and medical devices by persons who are members of demographic groups that are underrepresented in clinical trials.

Concerning mandatory minimum sentences for the possession or use of a firearm during the commission of a felony.

Requires an offender convicted of a felony or an attempt to commit a felony to be sentenced to the following minimum terms of total confinement if the offender was armed with a firearm regardless of whether the use of a weapon is an element of the felony: (1) Ten years if he or she possessed a firearm;

(2) Twenty years if he or she discharged the firearm resulting in injury to a person; or

Concerning highly capable students.

Requires the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Confirm that each local educational agency has policies and procedures to allow for the identification of children who are highly capable;

(2) Require school districts to have highly capable systems and procedures that are clearly stated and implemented by the school districts;

(3) Require principals, counselors, administrators, and members of the multidisciplinary selection committee to attend at least three hours of professional development each biennium about the needs of highly capable students;

(4) Disseminate guidance on referral, screening, assessment, selection, and placement best practices; and

(5) Monitor the school districts' compliance.

-- 2018 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 22	First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education.