Encouraging investment in and reducing the costs of transitioning to the clean energy future.

Creates the legislative task force on carbon-free, renewable, and economical energy.

Requires the task force to review the technological feasibility, timeline, cost, and other impacts of transitioning the state's electricity sector to one hundred percent carbon-free generation resources.

Concerning the supplemental capital budget.

Adopts the supplemental capital budget.

Transferring duties of the life sciences discovery fund.

Requires the department of commerce to: (1) Contract with a statewide nonprofit organization to provide services and/or make grants to entities pursuant to a contract to foster growth of the state's life science sector; and

(2) Improve the health and economic well-being of its residents.

Requires the organization to be a statewide organization established with a primary mission of growing and sustaining the life science ecosystem within the state.

Allows the department to: (1) Also contract with the organization to monitor and collect life science discovery fund grant payback funds; and

(2) Authorize expenditures from the life sciences discovery fund.

Concerning attorneys' fees on public works contracts.

Providing a retail sales and use tax exemption for qualified donations to the Washington excellence fund.

Creates the Washington excellence fund.

Provides a sales and use tax exemption, to a person who makes a donation to the fund, in an amount equal to the monetary donation amount.

Allows the person to identify one of the state higher education loans or grant programs to receive the donation, however, if the person does not identify a specific loan or grant program, the donation will be credited to the state need grant.

Concerning the sharing of information between participants in multidisciplinary coordination of child sexual abuse investigations.

Concerning therapeutic responses to commercially sexually exploited youth.

Prohibits a person under age eighteen, suspected of committing the crime of prostitution, from being charged, prosecuted, or booked into detention for a prostitution offense.

Requires law enforcement, before completing a law enforcement contact with an individual under eighteen years of age suspected of prostitution, to: (1) Make a child abuse or neglect report;

(2) Deliver the youth to an evaluation and treatment facility for evaluation for immediate mental health or substance use disorder inpatient treatment; or

(3) Refer the individual to other appropriate services.

Requires the office of homeless youth prevention and protection programs to administer funding for two receiving center pilot programs for commercially sexually exploited youth.

Requires the department of social and health services to use existing behavioral health organizations or other qualified and appropriate entities to increase access to behavioral health treatment for commercially sexually exploited youth.

Promoting successful reentry by modifying the process for obtaining certificates of discharge and vacating conviction records.

Establishes the new hope act.

Revising conditions under which a person is subject to exclusive adult jurisdiction and extending juvenile court jurisdiction over serious cases to age twenty-five.

Concerning the transfer of moneys from transportation accounts.

Creates the bicycle and pedestrian grant account.

Requires a certain net tax amount from the motor vehicle fund to be distributed to the transportation improvement board, the county road administration board, the freight mobility investment account, and the connecting Washington account.

Requires the state treasurer to transfer from the multimodal transportation account: (1) 35,224,000 dollars each fiscal biennium to the rural mobility grant program account;

(2) 77,680,000 dollars each fiscal biennium to the regional mobility grant program account;

(3) 14,670,000 dollars to the complete streets grant program account;

(4) 10,380,000 dollars to the bicycle and pedestrian grant account; and

Concerning electric utility plans for distributed energy resources and transportation electrification.

Authorizes the utilities and transportation commission to allow an incentive rate of return on investment for electric vehicle supply equipment that is deployed by electrical companies for the system benefit of ratepayers.

Concerning confinement in juvenile rehabilitation facilities.

Addresses confinement in juvenile rehabilitation facilities.

Requires a child under the age of eighteen to be placed in a facility operated by the department of social and health services or the department of children, youth, and families, as applicable, to determine the child's earned release date.

Authorizes a juvenile offender adjudicated of a serious violent offense to be committed by the juvenile court to the department of social and health services or the department of children, youth, and families, as applicable, for placement in a correctional institution up to the time the juvenile offender is age twenty-five and one-half years old, but not beyond.

Allows a juvenile offender convicted of an A++ juvenile disposition category offense, or found to be armed with a firearm and sentenced to an additional twelve months, to be committed by the juvenile court to the department of social and health services or the department of children, youth, and families, as applicable, for placement in a juvenile correctional institution up to his or her twenty-fifth birthday, but not beyond.

Requires the department of social and health services or the department of children, youth, and families, as appropriate, to review the placement of an individual over age twenty-one who was placed in the custody of the department following an adult court felony conviction for an offense committed before age eighteen to determine whether the individual should be transferred to the custody of the department of corrections.

Ordering a study to determine how to increase reporting and investigation of missing Native American women.

Requires the Washington state patrol to conduct a study to determine how to increase state criminal justice protective and investigative resources for reporting and identifying missing Native American women in the state.

Concerning officially naming a recreational trail.

Directs the city of Spokane Valley to rename the portion of the Milwaukee road corridor in the city known as the Appleway trail the Senator Bob McCaslin trail.

Requires the state to provide and install a proper marker identifying the name of the trail.

Assisting Washington families by improving the fairness of the state's tax system by enacting a capital gains tax and providing property tax relief.

Declares an intent to: (1) Ask the state's citizens to reduce the state property tax levy and impose a commensurate new tax;

(2) Impose a capital gains tax to improve the fairness of the state's tax system; and

Extending the business and occupation tax return filing due date for annual filers.

Establishing an autonomous vehicle work group.

Requires the transportation commission to convene an executive and legislative work group to develop policy recommendations to address the operation of autonomous vehicles on public roadways in the state.

Concerning snow bikes.

Requires the department of licensing to allow a motorcycle owner to register or renew his or her registration and, at the same time, register or renew the vehicle for use as a snow bike.

Includes snow bikes in the definition of "snowmobile" for purposes of department of licensing provisions.

Recognizing the fourth Saturday of September as public lands day.

Establishing a new marine pilotage tariff setting process.

Requires the utilities and transportation commission to establish the pilotage tariffs for pilotage services provided under the pilotage act.

Allows the commission to: (1) Establish extra compensation for extra services to vessels in distress, for awaiting vessels, for all vessels in direct transit to or from a Canadian port where Puget Sound pilotage is required for a portion of the voyage, for being carried to sea on vessels against the will of the pilot, and for other services as may be determined by the commission; and

(2) As an element of the Puget Sound pilotage district tariff, consider pilot retirement expenses incurred in the prior year in either pilotage district.

Requires the board of pilotage commissioners to provide assistance to the commission, as requested by the commission, in its performance of pilotage tariff setting functions.

Requires a port district that provides pilotage services to: (1) Periodically establish pilotage tariffs for pilotage services provided under chapter 53.08 RCW;

(2) Release its pilotage budget, including the five-year capital spending plan, prior year pilotage financial statement, and the proposed pilotage tariff;

(3) File the pilotage tariff with the commission and the board following approval of the pilotage tariff by the port district commission;

(4) Include a pension charge in its tariff until the pilot retirement agreement expenses for Grays Harbor pilotage district pilots employed before October 1, 2001, are no longer owed; and

(5) Determine the pension charge owed as pilot retirement agreement expenses.

Prohibits the state from being obligated to fund or pay for any portion of retirement payments for pilots or retired pilots.

Concerning the Tacoma Narrows bridge debt service payment plan.

Requires the transportation commission to maintain tolls at no more than: (1) Toll rates effective at the fiscal year 2018 level until fiscal year 2022; and

(2) Twenty-five cents higher than the toll rates effective at the fiscal year 2018 level beginning in fiscal year 2022 until the debt service and deferred sales tax obligation is fully met and state contribution loans are fully repaid.

Requires the state treasurer to make state contribution loan transfers: (1) To the Tacoma Narrows toll bridge account on the first day of each fiscal biennium, beginning in the 2019-2021 fiscal biennium, through the life of the debt service plan; and

Modifying the business and occupation tax structure for rural manufacturers and timber and wood product manufacturers, extractors, and wholesalers.

Allowing public school districts and private schools to adopt a policy authorizing permanent employees to possess firearms on school grounds under certain conditions.

Establishes the safer schools act of 2018.

Authorizes the board of directors of a school district to: (1) Adopt a written policy allowing one or more permanent employees of a school located within the school district to possess firearms on school grounds; and

(2) If it adopts the written policy, notify local law enforcement agencies within the school district of the adoption of the policy.

Authorizes private schools to adopt a written policy allowing school employees to possess firearms on school grounds if done in accordance with the standards in section 3 of this act.

Requires the criminal justice training commission to: (1) Establish a firearms training and education program for the authorized permanent employees; and

(2) Adopt rules establishing the fees, training requirements, and procedures for obtaining the required training.

Creating the commercial and professional aviation scholarship program.

Creates the commercial and professional aviation scholarship program to increase the number of commercial and professional pilots in the state to meet aviation industry demands.

Creates the commercial and professional aviation loan program to increase the number of commercial and professional pilots in the state.

Creates the commercial and professional aviation scholarship program account and the commercial and professional aviation match transfer account.

-- 2018 REGULAR SESSION --
Mar 1	First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).