 | WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE | |
| Legislative Digest No. 28 | ||
| SIXTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE | ||
| Thursday, February 17, 2011 | 39th Day - 2011 Regular Session | |
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This publication includes digest and history for bills, joint memorials, joint resolutions, concurrent resolutions, initiatives, and substitutes. Engrossed measures may be republished if the amendment makes a substantive change.
Electronic versions of Legislative Digests are available at http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/digests.aspx?year=2011.
HB 1972
by Representatives Armstrong and Condotta
Concerning services provided by television reception improvement districts.
Includes public safety emergency radio communications systems in the services provided by television reception improvement districts.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Technology, Energy & Communications. | |
HB 1973
by Representative Sullivan; by request of Governor Gregoire
Creating a student-focused state-level education governance system.
Creates the department of education as an executive branch agency.Creates the P-20 education council to advise the secretary of the department of education on broad policy issues affecting the state's education system.Houses the superintendent of public instruction within the department of education, or transfers the powers and duties of the superintendent of public instruction to the department of education, depending on the outcome of the constitutional amendment eliminating the superintendent of public instruction as a statewide elected official.Transfers the powers, duties, and functions of the state school for the blind, the Washington state center for childhood deafness and hearing loss, the office of the education ombudsman, and the professional educator standards board to the department of education.Abolishes the department of early learning, the state board of education, the state board for community and technical colleges, and the higher education coordinating board and transfers their powers, duties, and functions to the department of education.Requires the governor to appoint a transition team to plan the technical and practical steps required to bring the current state-level education agencies and structures into a new department.Requires the public employment relations commission to review the existing collective bargaining units within the department of early learning to determine if these units would be appropriate units within the department of education.Requires the code reviser to prepare legislation for the 2012 session to correct obsolete references resulting from the enactment of the act.Provides contingent effective dates.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1974
by Representative Sullivan
Streamlining state governance of education.
Modifies duties of the quality education council with regard to recommendations and an implementation timeline for further streamlining of education governance, including restructuring state agencies, boards, and offices.Abolishes the professional educator standards board and transfers its powers, duties, and functions to the superintendent of public instruction.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1975
by Representatives Finn, Bailey, Kelley, and McCune
Authorizing a statewide raffle to benefit veterans and their families.
Authorizes the state lottery to offer a statewide raffle to benefit veterans and their families.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Affairs. | |
HB 1976
by Representatives Shea, Taylor, McCune, Orcutt, Condotta, Angel, Buys, Klippert, Schmick, Anderson, Kristiansen, Warnick, Overstreet, and Bailey
Limiting enrollment in certain health care and human service programs to United States citizens and qualified aliens.
Limits enrollment in taxpayer-funded health care and human service programs to individuals who are citizens of the United States or meet the definition of a qualified alien.Prohibits state resources from being used: (1) For investigating the eligibility of an applicant who has not submitted satisfactory documentation; or (2) To purchase satisfactory documentation for an applicant.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Affairs. | |
HB 1977
by Representatives Rivers, Taylor, Zeiger, Dahlquist, McCune, and Kelley
Restricting sex offenders' access to schools.
Creates the crime of criminal trespass on school property by a sex offender.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness. | |
HB 1978
by Representatives Liias, Zeiger, Billig, Armstrong, Asay, Wilcox, Moscoso, Rivers, Ryu, Jinkins, Dunshee, Fitzgibbon, Stanford, Ladenburg, Rolfes, Moeller, Roberts, and Reykdal
Concerning railroad safety.
Requires the utilities and transportation commission to develop rules to improve railroad safety and operations.Creates an advisory committee on railroad safety within the utilities and transportation commission to advise the commission as it develops the rules.Provides a June 30, 2013, expiration for the committee.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
HB 1979
by Representatives Billig, Armstrong, Clibborn, Liias, and Fitzgibbon
Extending the expiration of the agency council on coordinated transportation.
Extends the termination of the agency council on coordinated transportation.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
HB 1980
by Representatives Seaquist, Kagi, Haigh, Reykdal, Frockt, Kenney, and Hunt
Establishing a process to make strategic investments in education.
Establishes a deliberative process for identifying incremental, strategic investments to enhance and improve public education, as well as providing the funding necessary to support the investments through the modification and elimination of current tax preferences.Creates the strategic investments in education account.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
HB 1981
by Representatives Bailey and Carlyle
Addressing public employee postretirement employment and higher education employees' annuities and retirement income plans.
Revises the retirement and annuity programs of the higher education institutions for future participants to reflect changes that have already occurred in state pension plans.Gives certain newly hired employees more options for retirement plans.Reduces the expanded postretirement employment provisions for members of certain retirement systems.Eliminates postretirement employment exceptions that existed for annuity or retirement income plan-covered positions that have been the subject of abuse.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
HB 1982
by Representative Kretz
Regarding providing quality nursing home care.
Encourages maximization of financial resources eligible and available for nursing home residents by establishing a quality incentive payment system through a temporary nursing home licensing fee surcharge that: (1) Will ensure better quality nursing facility care for all residents; and(2) May be used to secure additional federal matching funds under federally prescribed programs available through the state medicaid plan.Establishes the nursing facility quality assurance trust fund.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. | |
HJR 4220
by Representative Sullivan; by request of Governor Gregoire
Eliminating the office of the superintendent of public instruction.
Proposes an amendment to the state Constitution eliminating the office of the superintendent of public instruction.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
SB 5809
by Senator Rockefeller
Prohibiting the use of tradable evidence of nonpower attributes as a declared resource for electric utility fuel mix disclosures.
Prohibits a renewable energy credit or other tradable evidence of nonpower attributes from being used as a declared resource.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Environment, Water & Energy. | |
| Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Environment and Water & Energy at 1:30 PM. | ||
SB 5810
by Senators Kline, Keiser, Conway, and Kohl-Welles
Concerning residential mortgage loan servicers.
Revises the definition of "individual servicing a mortgage loan," for purposes of the consumer loan act, to include a person acting on behalf of a federally chartered or licensed financial institution or its affiliate.Expands the duties of a residential mortgage loan servicer.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions, Housing & Insurance. | |
SB 5811
by Senator Morton
Regarding the allowance of point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment in public water systems in certain circumstances.
Authorizes a public water system to allow the use of point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment in lieu of centralized treatment where it can be demonstrated that centralized treatment is not immediately economically feasible.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Environment, Water & Energy. | |
SB 5812
by Senators Chase and Prentice
Studying Washington's fiscal resources, structure, and needs.
Requires the institute for public policy to facilitate and staff a group of Washington citizens to become the committee on Washington's finances to determine the best ways to identify and fund the necessary services for Washington's citizens.Expires November 30, 2012.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5813
by Senators Kohl-Welles, Hargrove, Regala, and Shin
Increasing fee assessments for prostitution crimes.
Increases fee assessments for prostitution crimes.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
| Feb 17 | Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Human Services & Corrections at 10:00 AM. (Subject to change) | |
SB 5814
by Senators Fraser, Honeyford, Shin, Swecker, Haugen, and King
Extending current use valuation to the residential property of small farms that is integral to the use of classified land for agricultural purposes.
Provides that farms under twenty acres meeting certain income requirements are eligible for current use valuation of the land underlying the residential structures.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Rural Economic Development. | |
| Feb 17 | Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Rural Economic Development at 10:00 AM. (Subject to change) | |
SB 5815
by Senators Fraser and Swecker
Concerning rates and charges established by local boards of health to finance on-site sewage programs.
Authorizes local boards of health to, by ordinance or resolution, establish reasonable rates and charges to finance a program implementing certain on-site program management plans or local on-site sewage system management plans.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Environment, Water & Energy. | |
SB 5816
by Senators Chase, Kohl-Welles, Rockefeller, Nelson, Keiser, Kline, Conway, Prentice, and Fraser
Terminating certain tax preferences to provide funding for maintaining basic health program enrollment.
Provides funding for maintaining basic health program enrollment by terminating certain tax preferences.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5817
by Senator Prentice
Extending the expiration of the agency council on coordinated transportation.
Delays the termination of the agency council on coordinated transportation.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5818
by Senator Litzow
Requiring certain long-term care facilities to report incidents of death caused by health care-associated infections to the department of social and health services.
Requires boarding homes, nursing homes, and adult family homes, within fifteen days of a certificate of death being filed, to file a notification with the department of social and health services when the death is partially or fully caused by a health care-associated infection acquired by the resident during his or her stay at the boarding home, nursing home, or adult family home.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Health & Long-Term Care. | |
SB 5819
by Senator Litzow
Concerning guardian and limited guardian duties.
Expands reporting requirements of guardians and limited guardians with regard to the status of incapacitated persons.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |
SJM 8007
by Senators Kline, Conway, and Kohl-Welles
Requesting Congress to amend the United States Constitution that provides corporations are not persons under the laws of the United States or any of its jurisdictional subdivisions.
Urges Congress to propose an amendment to the United States Constitution for the states' consideration which provides that corporations are not persons under the laws of the United States or any of its jurisdictional subdivisions.
| Feb 16 | First reading, referred to Judiciary. | |