Washington State Senate 5th Order
Introduction & First Reading
Short Titles and Referrals
2007 Regular Session of the 60th Legislature
BRAD OWEN, President of the Senate ROSA FRANKLIN, President Pro Tem
THOMAS HOEMANN, Secretary of the Senate PAULL SHIN, Vice President Pro Tem
MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2007 22ND DAY
 
  SB 5665 By Senators Keiser, Fairley and Franklin

Establishing the state employee health program and a state employee health demonstration project.

Referred to Committee on HEALTH & LONG-TERM CARE.
  SB 5666 By Senators Marr, Kohl-Welles, Brown, Hobbs, Keiser, Franklin and Kastama

Increasing the amount the treasurer may use for the linked deposit program.

Referred to Committee on FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS & INSURANCE.
  SB 5667 By Senators Franklin, Eide, Rasmussen, Kilmer, Regala and Marr

Providing excise tax relief for small businesses.

Referred to Committee on ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TRADE & MANAGEMENT.
  SB 5668 By Senators Fraser, Rasmussen and Jacobsen

Modifying gain-sharing benefits.

Referred to Committee on WAYS & MEANS.
  SB 5669 By Senators Holmquist, Poulsen, Rasmussen, Pflug, Oemig, Swecker, Clements, Schoesler and Roach

Requiring agencies to expedite decisions regarding the implementation of renewable fuel standards.

Referred to Committee on WATER, ENERGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS.
  SB 5670 By Senators Holmquist, Rasmussen and Clements

Changing the basic education funding formula.

Referred to Committee on EARLY LEARNING & K-12 EDUCATION.
  SB 5671 By Senators Holmquist, Poulsen, Honeyford, Carrell, Benton, Stevens, Rasmussen, Roach, Oemig, Schoesler, Swecker, Parlette and Hewitt

Exempting alternative fuel from taxation if manufactured in Washington state.

Referred to Committee on WATER, ENERGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS.
  SB 5672 By Senator Fairley

Requiring special purpose districts and municipalities to post certain information on their web sites.

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS & ELECTIONS.
  SB 5673 By Senators Holmquist, Clements and Morton

Addressing wildlife property damage complaints.

Referred to Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES, OCEAN & RECREATION.
  SB 5674 By Senators Haugen, Fairley and Kline

Authorizing registered voters who reside outside of, but own land in, a water district to be elected as a water district commissioner.

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS & ELECTIONS.
  SB 5675 By Senators Franklin, Kohl-Welles, Keiser and Murray

Increasing minimum industrial insurance benefits.

Referred to Committee on LABOR, COMMERCE, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT.
  SB 5676 By Senators Keiser, Kohl-Welles, Murray, Prentice and Hatfield

Revising provision for receipt of temporary total disability.

Referred to Committee on LABOR, COMMERCE, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT.
  SB 5677 By Senators Murray, Kohl-Welles, Keiser, Prentice and Hatfield

Concerning adjustments to industrial insurance total disability compensation reductions.

Referred to Committee on LABOR, COMMERCE, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT.
  SB 5678 By Senators Kohl-Welles, Clements, Keiser and Holmquist

Requiring a study of the incidence of total permanent disability pensions in the state's workers' compensation system.

Referred to Committee on LABOR, COMMERCE, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT.
  SB 5679 By Senators Clements and Holmquist

Establishing requirements for industrial insurance final settlement agreements.

Referred to Committee on LABOR, COMMERCE, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT.
  SB 5680 By Senators Kilmer and Rockefeller

Providing for reduction of ferry charges.

Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION.
  SB 5681 By Senators Kilmer and Marr

Reducing toll project costs by transferring sales and use tax collections to the project's tolling account.

Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION.
  SB 5682 By Senators Kohl-Welles, Swecker, Fairley, Oemig and Jacobsen

Clarifying time frames for voter registration challenges.

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS & ELECTIONS.
  SB 5683 By Senators Roach, Swecker, Hargrove and Sheldon

Addressing transportation concurrency and impact fees under the growth management act.

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS & ELECTIONS.
  SB 5684 By Senators Swecker, Roach, Hargrove and Sheldon

Regarding growth management planning.

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS & ELECTIONS.
  SB 5685 By Senators Tom, Schoesler, Zarelli, Oemig and Regala; by request of Department of Revenue

Restoring the business and occupation tax credit for high technology research and development spending.

Referred to Committee on WAYS & MEANS.
  SB 5686 By Senators Zarelli, Benton and Pridemore

Allowing public utility districts to disburse low-income energy assistance contributions.

Referred to Committee on WATER, ENERGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS.
  SB 5687 By Senators Keiser and Kohl-Welles

Modifying provisions on permanent partial disability claims.

Referred to Committee on LABOR, COMMERCE, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT.
  SB 5688 By Senators Kohl-Welles and Keiser

Modifying who may receive industrial insurance claimants' notices, orders, or warrants.

Referred to Committee on LABOR, COMMERCE, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT.
  SB 5689 By Senator Hobbs

Taxing the sale of food from vending machines in the same manner as other sales of food.

Referred to Committee on WAYS & MEANS.
  SB 5690 By Senators Weinstein, McCaslin, Roach, Tom, Kline and Jacobsen

Regarding the dissolution of a special taxing district.

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS & ELECTIONS.
  SB 5691 By Senators Zarelli and Prentice

Defining the near general fund and requiring revenue forecasts thereof.

Referred to Committee on WAYS & MEANS.
  SB 5692 By Senators Rasmussen and Morton

Regulating conservation easements.

Referred to Committee on AGRICULTURE & RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
  SB 5693 By Senators Fraser and Clements

Allowing raffles by state employees.

Referred to Committee on LABOR, COMMERCE, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT.
  SB 5694 By Senator Fraser

Appointing a director of the sentencing guidelines commission.

Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY.
  SB 5695 By Senators Fraser, Swecker, Rockefeller, Rasmussen and Regala

Authorizing a biomonitoring program.

Referred to Committee on HEALTH & LONG-TERM CARE.
  SB 5696 By Senators Franklin, Benton, Kohl-Welles, Keiser, Fairley, Kastama, Murray and McAuliffe

Creating the Washington state patient safety act.

Referred to Committee on HEALTH & LONG-TERM CARE.
  SB 5697 By Senators Hargrove, Kline, Weinstein and Regala

Concerning criminal violations of no-contact orders, protection orders, and restraining orders.

Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY.
  SB 5698 By Senators Hargrove and Regala; by request of Department of Social and Health Services

Concerning case management services for dangerous mentally ill offenders.

Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES & CORRECTIONS.
  SB 5699 By Senators Keiser, Kohl-Welles and Fairley; by request of Department of Social and Health Services

Modifying provisions affecting medical benefits.

Referred to Committee on HEALTH & LONG-TERM CARE.
  SB 5700 By Senators Prentice, Kohl-Welles, Franklin, Keiser, Murray, Hatfield, Weinstein, Rasmussen and Hargrove

Requiring a state policy of neutrality towards unionization for persons using aerospace-related tax incentives.

Referred to Committee on LABOR, COMMERCE, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT.
  SB 5701 By Senators Benton, Pridemore, Roach, Swecker and Stevens

Establishing a procedure for the election of county commissioners by district.

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS & ELECTIONS.
  SB 5702 By Senators Benton, Keiser and Swecker

Requiring notice to certain employees of a claim of exemption from paying unemployment insurance taxes.

Referred to Committee on LABOR, COMMERCE, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT.
  SB 5703 By Senators Benton, Roach, Stevens, Swecker, Holmquist and Carrell

Requiring senate confirmation of certain commission and department appointments.

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS & ELECTIONS.
  SB 5704 By Senators Benton, Carrell, Stevens, Schoesler, Morton, Swecker and Roach

Creating a pilot project to examine the impacts of small scale mineral prospecting on coastal areas.

Referred to Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES, OCEAN & RECREATION.
  SB 5705 By Senators Benton, Roach, Carrell, Hatfield, Swecker, Stevens, Clements, Delvin and Holmquist

Classifying financial institutions in robbery provisions.

Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY.
  SB 5706 By Senators Benton, Roach, Schoesler, Stevens, Swecker, Clements and Holmquist

Including a child fourteen or younger in the aggravated first degree murder provisions.

Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY.
  SB 5707 By Senators Parlette, Haugen, Swecker, Stevens, Holmquist and Benton

Limiting, for property tax purposes, the assessed value of a residence for persons who are sixty-one and older.

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS & ELECTIONS.
  SB 5708 By Senators Parlette, Benton, Swecker, Carrell, Stevens and Roach

Relating to the qualification requirements for property tax exemptions and deferrals for senior citizens and persons retired for reasons of disability.

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS & ELECTIONS.
  SB 5709 By Senators Parlette, Swecker and Carrell

Providing for the scheduling of real property revaluations and physical inspections for property tax purposes.

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS & ELECTIONS.
  SB 5710 By Senator Parlette

Creating joint withdrawal and annexation procedures for public hospital districts.

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS & ELECTIONS.
  SB 5711 By Senators Parlette and Delvin

Expanding the offender score to include offenses concerning the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug.

Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY.
  SB 5712 By Senator Parlette

Revising provisions for the Washington state health insurance pool.

Referred to Committee on HEALTH & LONG-TERM CARE.
  SB 5713 By Senators Roach, Rasmussen, Fairley, Swecker, Hobbs, Morton, Shin, Holmquist, Carrell, Clements, Benton, Parlette, Stevens and Delvin

Creating a new vehicle license plate emblem for veterans and military personnel.

Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION.
  SB 5714 By Senators Roach, Prentice, Rasmussen, Oemig, Clements, Rockefeller, Tom, Fairley, Hobbs, Shin, Swecker, Holmquist, Benton, Stevens, Parlette and Delvin

Creating a pilot program of Spanish and Chinese language instruction.

Referred to Committee on EARLY LEARNING & K-12 EDUCATION.
  SB 5715 By Senators Benton, Berkey, Hobbs, Prentice, Hatfield and Franklin; by request of Insurance Commissioner

Concerning persons selling, soliciting, or negotiating insurance.

Referred to Committee on FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS & INSURANCE.
  SB 5716 By Senators Keiser, Kastama and Franklin; by request of Insurance Commissioner

Regulating retainer health care practices.

Referred to Committee on HEALTH & LONG-TERM CARE.
  SB 5717 By Senators Berkey, Hobbs, Prentice, Hatfield and Franklin; by request of Insurance Commissioner

Establishing a program of market conduct oversight within the office of the insurance commissioner.

Referred to Committee on FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS & INSURANCE.
  SB 5718 By Senators Kohl-Welles, Hargrove, Regala and Stevens

Imposing penalties for engaging in the commercial sexual abuse of minors.

Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES & CORRECTIONS.
  SB 5719 By Senators Kohl-Welles, Weinstein, Honeyford, Kauffman and Delvin

Restricting unsolicited direct mail marketing.

Referred to Committee on CONSUMER PROTECTION & HOUSING.
  SB 5720 By Senator Marr

Conforming legal notice broadcast requirements to current practice.

Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY.
  SB 5721 By Senator Kohl-Welles

Concerning financial arrangements involving sports/entertainment facility license holders.

Referred to Committee on LABOR, COMMERCE, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT.
  SB 5722 By Senators Regala, Haugen and Weinstein

Excluding common rodent traps from the definition of "body-gripping trap."

Referred to Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES, OCEAN & RECREATION.
  SB 5723 By Senators Rasmussen, Clements, Hatfield, Roach, Shin, Morton, Kline, Schoesler, Haugen, Sheldon, Hargrove, Kohl-Welles, Fairley, Honeyford, Franklin, Keiser, Berkey, Kauffman, Kilmer, Jacobsen, Kastama, Benton and Zarelli

Creating and funding the community agricultural worker safety grant program.

Referred to Committee on AGRICULTURE & RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
  SB 5724 By Senators Prentice, Murray, Berkey, Weinstein, Kohl-Welles, Kauffman, Oemig, Kline, Regala, Eide, Hobbs, Poulsen, Pridemore, Jacobsen, Shin, Franklin, Rockefeller and Fraser

Providing for designating a survivor beneficiary in public pension systems.

Referred to Committee on WAYS & MEANS.
  SB 5725 By Senators Franklin, Kline, Weinstein, Fairley and Kohl-Welles

Making health care providers' billing statements admissible.

Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY.
  SB 5726 By Senators Weinstein, Kline and Franklin

Creating the insurance fair conduct act.

Referred to Committee on CONSUMER PROTECTION & HOUSING.
  SB 5727 By Senators Keiser, Zarelli, Kohl-Welles, Roach, Benton, Pridemore, Franklin, Clements, Kilmer, Fairley, Kline, Kastama, Oemig and Kauffman

Addressing the nursing facility medicaid payment system.

Referred to Committee on HEALTH & LONG-TERM CARE.
  SJM 8007 By Senators Rasmussen, Roach, Hatfield, Schoesler, Clements, Shin, Morton, Haugen, Sheldon, Honeyford, Hargrove, Kohl-Welles, Kastama, Franklin, Benton, Kilmer and Jacobsen

Requesting federal legislation to preserve the use and access of pack and saddle stock animals on public lands.

Referred to Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES, OCEAN & RECREATION.
  SJM 8008 By Senators Prentice, Rockefeller, Berkey, Weinstein, Kauffman, Marr, Oemig, Kline, Hobbs, Murray, Poulsen, Rasmussen, Kastama, Shin, Franklin, Hatfield, Sheldon, Kohl-Welles, Jacobsen, Fraser and Pridemore

Asking that the federal government provide veterans' benefits owed to Filipino veterans.

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS & ELECTIONS.
  SJR 8218 By Senators Parlette, Haugen, Swecker, Benton, Stevens and Roach

Providing property tax relief on the assessed value of real property based on the property owner's age.

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS & ELECTIONS.
  SJR 8219 By Senators Swecker, Hargrove, Benton, Sheldon, Holmquist, Carrell, Roach, Zarelli, Clements and Delvin

Defining marriage as between a male and a female.

Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY.
FIRST READING OF HOUSE BILLS
  HB 1064 By Representatives Seaquist, Morrell, Haigh, Kelley, Miloscia, Hunt, Appleton, Conway, P. Sullivan, McDonald, Haler, Wallace, Moeller, B. Sullivan, Kenney, Hunter, Chase, Ormsby, Upthegrove and Hurst

Addressing veterans' benefits.

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS & ELECTIONS.
  HB 1065 By Representatives Kelley, Morrell, Haigh, Miloscia, Hunt, Seaquist, Conway, P. Sullivan, McDonald, Haler, Moeller, B. Sullivan, Campbell and Hurst

Revising veterans' scoring criteria in examinations.

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS & ELECTIONS.