Amending state greenhouse gas emission limits for consistency with the most recent assessment of climate change science.

Addresses the most recent assessment of climate change science and changes certain requirements of the state with regard to greenhouse gas emission limits.

Requires the department of ecology and the department of commerce to include the following in the report to the governor and certain committees of the senate and house: A description of Washington's per capita and total greenhouse gas emissions as compared to the per capita and total greenhouse gas emissions of other states, including Washington's ranking among other states as an emitter of greenhouse gases on both a per capita and total emissions basis.

Requires the department of ecology to: (1) Survey state agencies to determine each agency's annual expenditures made during the biennium to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to support the achievement of the reduction goals; and

Decoupling services and activities fees from tuition.

Expanding higher education opportunities for certain students.

Requires a student, who is eligible to receive the Washington college bound scholarship because he or she is a resident student, to provide an affidavit to the institution indicating that he or she will file an application to become a permanent resident and engage in activities necessary to acquire citizenship.

Concerning ensuring fairness and compliance with public works and procurement practices.

Requires the office of minority and women's business enterprises to identify state agencies and educational institutions: (1) In the lowest quintile of utilization of minority and women-owned contractors as a percentage of all contracts issued by the agency;

(2) In the lowest quintile of the dollar value awarded to minority and women-owned contractors as a percentage of the dollar value of all contracts issued by the agency; and

(3) That are performing significantly below their established goals, as determined by the office.

Establishes an investigation unit within the office for the purpose of detecting and investigating fraud and violations.

Repeals the attorney general's authority to investigate and enforce compliance with regard to contracts with minority and women-owned businesses.

Requires the department of enterprise services to work with the municipal research and services center to notify local governments that are authorized to use small works rosters of this authority and to provide guidance on how to use the authority.

Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to review implementation of changes to small works roster and limited public works processes.

Concerning the sale and taxation of Washingtonians' personal information and related data.

Finds that there are various companies engaged in accumulating the personal data that is available to be collected on Washingtonians, aggregating or compiling that information, and reselling it without reciprocal benefit to the people of the state.

Requires every person engaging within this state in the business of making sales of personal information or exchanging personal information for consideration to register with the department of revenue.

Requires the department of revenue to: (1) Include in its report to certain committees of the legislature, a summary of the information received from the registrations submitted from businesses; and

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

Allowing affordable housing development on religious organization property.

Requires certain cities to allow an increased density bonus consistent with local needs for an affordable housing development of a single-family or multifamily residence located on real property owned or controlled by a religious organization if certain conditions are met.

Requires a city fully planning and a county fully planning under the growth management act, with a population greater than one hundred twenty-five thousand, to allow an increased density bonus consistent with local needs for an affordable housing development of a single-family or multifamily residence located on real property owned or controlled by a religious organization if certain conditions are met.

Requires the religious organization developing the affordable housing development to: (1) Pay fees, mitigation costs, and other charges required through the development of the affordable housing development; and

Concerning taxes on in-state broadcasters.

Providing cities and counties flexibility with existing resources.

Authorizes the replacement of existing local government expenditures with proceeds from a locally imposed sales and use tax dedicated to mental health and substance abuse.

Allows all counties to seek voter approval for the criminal justice levy.

Concerning the fair servicing and repair of digital electronic products.

Recertifying renewable energy systems eligible for a renewable energy system production incentive.

Protecting an open internet in Washington state.

Requires a person providing broadband internet access service in the state to publicly disclose accurate information regarding the network management practices, performance characteristics, and commercial terms of its services sufficient for consumers to make informed choices regarding the purchase and use of the services and entrepreneurs and other small businesses to develop, market, and maintain internet offerings.

Prohibits a person engaged in the provision of broadband internet access service in the state from: (1) Blocking lawful content, applications, services, or nonharmful devices;

(2) Impairing or degrading lawful internet traffic on the basis of internet content, application, or service, or use of a nonharmful device; or

(3) Engaging in paid prioritization.

Simplifying the process for donating low-value surplus property owned by a city-owned utility.

Providing urban levels of internet speed and access in rural areas to secure a brighter more equitable economic future for all Washingtonians without increasing taxes or fees.

Establishes the Washington equitable broadband act.

Requires the consolidated technology services agency to implement and operate a reverse auction program that awards funding to broadband internet service providers to support high-speed internet infrastructure deployment projects in unserved and underserved rural regions throughout the state.

Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to conduct an evaluation of the reverse auction program.

Creates the expanding rural internet access account.

Requires the state treasurer to transfer the sum of three hundred million dollars from the budget stabilization account to the expanding rural internet access account.

Concerning energy conservation programs under the energy independence act.

Revises energy independence act provisions regarding energy conservation and renewable energy targets.

Requires an investor-owned utility, in meeting its conservation targets, to offer: (1) A meter-based performance program option; and

Concerning appliance efficiency standards.

Supporting sexual assault survivors.

Increases the duties of the joint legislative task force on sexual assault forensic examination best practices, and changes the composition of the task force.

Delays, until September 30, 2020, the expiration of the task force.

Expands the training provided by the criminal justice training commission for persons responsible for investigating sexual assault cases involving adult victims.

Requires law enforcement agencies to submit requests to the Washington state patrol crime laboratory by January 1, 2019, for forensic analysis of sexual assault kits collected before July 24, 2015, and in the possession of the agencies.

Modifies the victims of sexual assault act with regard to the rights of sexual assault survivors.

Concerning crime committed by business entities.

Implementing child support pass-through payments.

Requires the department of social and health services, effective February 1, 2019, 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

Regulating opioid medications at educational institutions.

Increases access to opioid overdose medication at kindergarten through twelfth grade schools and institutions of higher education.

Strengthens public health surveillance by requiring collection and reporting of certain opioid overdose-related data.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) In consultation with the department of health, develop opioid-related overdose policy guidelines and training requirements for public schools and school districts;

(2) Develop and administer a grant program to provide funding to public schools with any of grades kindergarten through twelve and public institutions of higher education to train personnel on the administration of the medication to respond to symptoms of an overdose; and

Concerning access of broadcasters to a geographic area subject to the declaration of a national, state, or local emergency.

Prohibits the seizure or confiscation of a vehicle, fuel, food, water, or other essentials brought into an area affected by an emergency or disaster by a first informer broadcaster.

Concerning ex parte temporary orders outside of normal court hours.

Concerning procedures in order to automatically register citizens to vote.

Establishes the automatic voter registration act of 2018.

Requires the department of licensing to implement an automatic voter registration system so a person who is eligible to vote and is applying for or renewing an enhanced driver's license or identicard may register to vote or update voter registration at the time of registration or renewal, by an automated process.

Requires the state health benefit exchange to: (1) Provide directly to the secretary of state's office information required to register to vote or transfer a registration for certain consenting persons; and

(2) Study the feasibility of implementing automatic voter registration.

Requires the office of the secretary of state to conduct a study and prepare recommendations for creating an automatic voter registration process: (1) For residents who recently completed the naturalization process; and

(2) At birth.

Exempts the following from public inspection and copying under the public records act: Information maintained in the pending voter registration database.

Addressing the definition of veteran.

Designates the end of the Persian Gulf War as February 28, 1991, or ending on November 30, 1995, if the participant was awarded a campaign badge or medal for that period.

Establishing maritime Puget Sound regional prevailing wages.

Requires the department of labor and industries, for the purposes of determining whether a maritime Puget Sound regional prevailing wage rate for shipbuilding and ship repair should be established, to: (1) Collect data from Clallam, Jefferson, Kitsap, Mason, Thurston, Pierce, King, Snohomish, Skagit, Whatcom, Island, and San Juan counties; and

Concerning issuance of search warrants by district and municipal court judges.

Protecting personal information regarding sexual harassment claims.

Exempts the following from public inspection and copying under the public records act: Information that identifies an agency employee who has made a claim with the employing agency of sexual harassment and has requested that his or her identity or identifying information not be disclosed without his or her consent.

Subjects a person to civil liability if he or she: (1) Requests and obtains the identity or identifying information of an agency employee that has made a claim of sexual harassment; and

(2) Uses the information to harass, stalk, threaten, or intimidate that employee.

Preventing fires in rental dwelling units.

Directs the state director of fire protection to: (1) Investigate ways to prevent fire deaths in rental dwellings;

(2) Educate landlords and tenants regarding their responsibilities;

(3) Develop possible criminal penalties;

(4) Evaluate insurance certification requirements or changes to the building code and other possible programs or funding that would improve installation and maintenance of smoke detectors in rental apartments and single-family homes; and

Concerning Washington's economic development potential as a world leader in the responsible management of postconsumer materials.

Requires the department of commerce to: (1) Arrange for the completion of an economic analysis of recyclable material and solid waste processing, export, and disposal activities in the state; and

(2) Develop the analysis and recommendations in this act in consultation with a focused stakeholder work group.

Requires the department of ecology to: (1) Arrange for the facilitation of, and may participate in, efforts by the stakeholder work group to develop a public outreach strategy with the goal of improving recycling practices;

(2) With input from the stakeholder work group, develop guidelines designed to provide assistance that supports implementation of a public outreach strategy to reduce collected recyclable material contamination rates and promote statewide best practices in the types and materials or recyclable material collection; and

(3) Include, in prioritizing the evaluation of the solid waste stream, present economic opportunities for material recovery, recycling, and reuse.

-- 2018 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 29	Public hearing in the House Committee on Environment at 1:30 PM.
Feb 1	ENVI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
	Executive action taken in the House Committee on Environment at 8:00 AM.
Feb 2	Referred to Appropriations.
Feb 5	Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 1:30 PM.
Feb 6	APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
	Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 10:00 AM.
Feb 7	Referred to Rules 2 Review.