Eliminating a program orientation as a condition of eligibility and lessening noncompliance sanctions for the temporary assistance for needy families program.

Prohibits the department of social and health services from requiring applicants for temporary assistance for needy families to attend an orientation as a condition of eligibility.

Increasing eligibility for child care and early learning programs for homeless and other vulnerable children.

Revises the definition of "eligible child" by including a child who is homeless, for purposes of early childhood education and assistance.

Strengthening the rights of workers through collective bargaining by addressing authorizations and revocations, certifications, and the authority to deduct and accept union dues and fees.

Addresses authorizations, revocations, certifications, and the authority to deduct and accept union dues and fees, in order to strengthen the rights of workers through collective bargaining.

Concerning construction defect actions.

Concerning K-12 computer science education data.

Requires each school district to submit a report for the preceding academic year, to the office of the superintendent of public instruction, that includes the following: (1) The total number of computer science and related math programs offered in each school;

(2) The number and percentage of students who enrolled in a computer science program; and

(3) The number of computer science instructors at each school.

Reducing threats to southern resident killer whales by improving the safety of oil transportation.

Creates new requirements designed to reduce the current, acute risk from existing infrastructure and activities of an oil spill that could: (1) Eradicate our southern resident killer whales;

(2) Violate the treaty fishing rights of federally recognized Indian tribes;

(3) Damage commercial fishing prospects;

(4) Undercut many aspects of the economy that depend on the Salish Sea; and

(5) Harm the health and well-being of residents.

Implementing recommendations of the southern resident killer whale task force related to increasing chinook abundance.

Concerning the protection of southern resident orca whales from vessels.

Finds a person guilty of a natural resource infraction if the person causes a vessel or other object to: (1) Approach within four hundred yards of a southern resident orca whale; or

(2) Exceed a speed greater than seven knots over ground at any point located within one-half nautical mile of the whales.

Prohibits commercial whale watching operators from approaching or intercepting within six hundred fifty yards in the direction of the whales.

Requires a commercial whale watching license for businesses engaged in commercial whale watching activities.

Funding local housing trust fund programs in certain cities.

Authorizes certain city legislative authorities to impose a sales and use tax on the sale of or charge made for tangible personal property consumed, or labor and services rendered in respect to the constructing, repairing, decorating, or improving of new or existing buildings or other structures, including the sale of services or charges made for the clearing of land and the moving of earth excepting the mere leveling of land used in commercial farming or agriculture.

Addressing manufactured/mobile home tenant protections.

Modifies the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act regarding rental agreement terms; prohibited acts by landlords; transfer of agreement; failure to renew, and grounds for termination of, a tenancy or occupancy; written notice for rent increase; and orders to limit dissemination of unlawful detainer actions.

Allows the enforcement of rules against a tenant if, with respect to new or amended rules not contained within the rental agreement: (1) They only go into effect at the end of the term of the rental agreement;

(2) He or she has agreed, in writing, to the rule;

(3) He or she was provided at least ninety days' written notice of the rule; and

(4) The attorney general has approved the rule.

Concerning mosquito control districts.

Restricting the availability of state funds to regional transportation planning organizations that do not provide a reasonable opportunity for voting membership to certain federally recognized tribes.

Increasing the traumatic brain injury fee.

Requires a person found to have committed a traffic infraction to be assessed a fee of five dollars per infraction.

Prohibits the fee from being reduced or waived.

Expanding the traumatic brain injury fee to other traffic-related offenses.

Requires an assessment of a two-dollar fee for the offenses and/or penalties regarding nonpayment of tolls detected through use of photo toll systems; the use of automated traffic safety cameras; and automated school bus safety cameras on school buses.

Increasing access to fruits and vegetables for individuals with limited incomes.

Creates the fruit and vegetable incentives program to increase fruit and vegetable consumption among food insecure individuals with limited incomes.

Requires the department of health to: (1) Administer the program;

(2) Collaborate with other state agencies whose missions and programs closely align with this program;

(3) Provide resources, coordination, and technical assistance to program partners for targeted outreach to food insecure populations; and

Clarifying the prohibition of the imposition of a local income tax.

Exempting correctional employees from paying for certain background checks related to firearms.

Allowing the local sales and use tax for affordable housing to be imposed by a councilmanic authority.

Concerning the rights of persons experiencing homelessness.

Addresses the rights of homeless people to survive in public.

Prohibits discrimination based on the housing status of a homeless person.

Prohibits a homeless person from being subject to criminal or civil penalties or harassment by law enforcement, public or private security personnel, or agents of public-private partnerships, for surviving in public space when that person has no reasonable alternative but to survive in public space and existing local shelters are inadequate in number or are functionally inaccessible.

Establishing the Washington children's educational savings account program.

Requires the student achievement council to establish the Washington children's educational savings account program to: (1) Increase college attendance and boost college savings among residents, particularly low-income families;

(2) Foster a college bound identity in young residents;

(3) Promote the financial security, financial literacy, and economic stability of families and increase their ability to save for college;

(4) Establish college savings accounts for low-income kindergartners in public schools; and

(5) Coordinate with the office of the superintendent of public instruction and the financial education public-private partnership to engage schools, school districts, and community organizations to develop pilot projects to market the savings account program.

Creates the Washington children's educational savings account program account.

Establishing a behavioral health innovation and integration campus within the University of Washington school of medicine.

Creates a behavioral health innovation and integration campus within the University of Washington school of medicine that will include inpatient treatment capacity and focus on inpatient and outpatient care for people with behavioral health needs while training a behavioral health provider workforce.

Clarifying the exemption for wiring and equipment associated with telecommunication installations.

Exempts the following from the requirements of chapter 19.28 RCW regarding electricians and electrical installations: (1) Wires and equipment that fall within section 90.2(b)(5) of the national electrical code, 1981 edition;

(2) Wires and equipment within the communication worker safety zone or power supply space, on poles supporting electric utility transmission or distribution lines or wires; and

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

Concerning flexibility schools and zones.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to develop a process for school districts to apply to have one or more schools within the district designated as a flexibility school.

Incorporating comprehensive measurements of greenhouse gas emissions from certain fossil fuels into state environmental laws.

Requires the department of ecology, in consultation with the utilities and transportation commission, the chair of the energy facility site evaluation council, the department of natural resources, and the department of commerce, to adopt a rule to establish an upstream emissions rate that incorporates production, gathering, processing, transmission, storage, and distribution emissions that occur before the end use of natural gas or final point of commerce for the natural gas in the state.

Requires the energy facility site evaluation council, the department of ecology, and an air pollution control agency to: (1) Apply a natural gas upstream emissions rate and global warming potential consistent with the adopted rule mentioned above; and

(2) Require a carbon dioxide mitigation plan to provide mitigation based upon the carbon dioxide equivalents associated with both the end use of the natural gas and the production, gathering, processing, transmission, storage, and distribution of natural gas consistent with the adopted rule.

Requires the utilities and transportation commission, gas companies, and electrical companies to use a natural gas upstream emissions rate and global warming potential consistent with the adopted rule.

Providing code cities of a certain size with the ability to annex unincorporated areas without a referendum provision pursuant to a jointly approved interlocal agreement with the county.

Authorizes a code city to annex unincorporated territory under an interlocal agreement.

Authorizes the county legislative authority of certain counties and the governing body of certain code cities to jointly initiate an annexation process for unincorporated territory by adopting an interlocal agreement between the county and the code city within the county.

Promoting career and college readiness through modified high school graduation requirements.

Siting tenant-owned mobile home parks for senior citizens.

Authorizes a county to allow the development of mobile home park subdivisions and manufactured housing subdivisions for senior citizens that are located outside of urban areas.

-- 2019 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 24	First reading, referred to Environment & Energy.