 | WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE | |
| Legislative Digest No. 2 | ||
| SIXTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE | ||
| Wednesday, January 14, 2015 | 3rd Day - 2015 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=2015.
HB 1115
by Representatives Dunshee, DeBolt, Gregerson, Morris, and Reykdal; by request of Governor Inslee
Concerning the capital budget.
Adopts the capital budget.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Capital Budget (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1116
by Representatives Dunshee, DeBolt, Gregerson, and Morris; by request of Governor Inslee
Concerning the supplemental capital budget.
Adopts the supplemental capital budget.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Capital Budget (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1117
by Representatives Klippert, Orwall, Gregerson, Haler, and Muri; by request of Department of Enterprise Services
Modifying the veterans' scoring criteria in competitive examinations.
Revises veterans' scoring criteria in competitive examinations.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to State Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1118
by Representative Blake
Creating cost savings by providing administrative flexibility to the department of fish and wildlife in its implementation of Title 77 RCW while not directing any changes to resource management outcomes.
Provides administrative flexibility to the department of fish and wildlife in its implementation of Title 77 RCW while not directing any changes to resource management outcomes.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1119
by Representatives Blake, Buys, Gregerson, and Van Werven
Making changes to Title 77 RCW that gives tools to the department of fish and wildlife to ensure hunter safety by focusing on the actual person hunting and not the sporting equipment used by the hunter including, but not limited to, establishing the age of fourteen as the minimum age to participate in unaccompanied hunting.
Ensures hunter safety by focusing on the actual person hunting and not the sporting equipment used by the hunter including, but not limited to, establishing the age of fourteen as the minimum age to participate in unaccompanied hunting.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1120
by Representatives Wilcox, Reykdal, G. Hunt, Haler, Ortiz-Self, and Muri
Providing immunity for school bus drivers.
Provides immunity from civil or criminal liability for school bus drivers for certain acts.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1121
by Representatives Parker, Santos, Riccelli, Bergquist, Gregerson, Magendanz, Ortiz-Self, Muri, Tarleton, and Pollet
Regarding the financial education public-private partnership.
Changes the composition and duties of the financial education public-private partnership.Authorizes teachers appointed as members by the superintendent of public instruction to be paid travel expenses from funds available in the financial education public-private partnership account.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Make available to school districts the curriculum for a course or courses in financial education with sufficient content to be equivalent to one-half of one high school credit; and(2) Select the courses with input from the financial education public-private partnership.Requires school districts to provide students in grades nine through twelve the opportunity to complete a financial education course.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1122
by Representatives Sells, Gregerson, and Reykdal
Addressing arbitration for dispatch operators of public employers.
Revises the definition of "uniformed personnel," in chapter 41.56 RCW (public employees' collective bargaining), to include employees of public employers, other than fire departments, who dispatch fire, police, or emergency medical services, or any combination of these.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Labor (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1123
by Representatives Blake and Buys
Regulating the minimum dimensions of habitable spaces in single-family residential areas.
Prohibits certain cities, towns, and counties from regulating or restricting the minimum dimensions of habitable spaces in single-family residential buildings, including but not limited to the minimum dimensions of floor or room area, unless the regulation is necessary for a fire, life safety, or environmental purpose.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
SB 5065
by Senator Frockt
Improving educational outcomes for homeless students through increased in-school guidance supports, housing stability, and identification services.
Allows for homeless student education liaisons that will provide services to identified homeless students.Requires the department of commerce, in consultation with the office of the superintendent of public instruction, to administer a grant program that links homeless students and their families with stable housing located in the homeless student's school district. This requirement is null and void if funding is not provided by June 30, 2015, in the omnibus appropriations act.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5066
by Senators Padden and Darneille
Concerning the collection of blood samples for forensic testing.
Provides that it is not professional misconduct for a physician, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, nursing assistant, physician assistant, first responder, emergency medical technician, health care assistant, or technician trained in withdrawing blood, to collect a blood sample without a person's consent when he or she was directed by a law enforcement officer to do so for the purpose of a blood test under the provisions of a search warrant or exigent circumstances.Requires the secretary of the department of health, in consultation with health profession boards and commissions, the state criminal justice training commission, and the Washington state patrol, to establish by rule the administrative procedures and requirements for initial issue, renewal, and reissue of a credential for forensic phlebotomists.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5067
by Senators Padden and Darneille
Addressing informant and accomplice evidence and testimony.
Addresses the unreliability of accomplice and criminal informant evidence and testimony by ensuring that the jury is fully informed when an accomplice or informant testifies.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5068
by Senator Pearson
Requiring the restoration of signage advertising free coffee at safety rest areas.
Requires the department of transportation to restore all signage, including electronic signage, used to advertise the availability of free coffee at safety rest areas.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5069
by Senator Pearson
Making the unlawful possession of instruments of financial fraud a crime.
Includes in the crime of unlawful possession of instruments of financial fraud, possession of a device that has the ability to capture, read, scan, store, record, transmit, or receive financial information from an access device, with the intent to commit financial fraud.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5070
by Senator Pearson
Requiring the department of corrections to supervise domestic violence offenders who have a conviction and were sentenced for a domestic violence felony offense that was plead and proven.
Requires supervision, by the department of corrections, of domestic violence offenders who have a conviction and were sentenced for a domestic violence felony offense that was plead and proven.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5071
by Senator Honeyford
Concerning resident curators of state properties.
Authorizes a state agency, with statutory authority to lease state-owned properties to private parties, to negotiate a lease at a rate that is less than fair market value in consideration of the lessee's occupancy of the property and agreement to restore, maintain, rehabilitate, or otherwise improve the leased property.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & State Security. | |
SB 5072
by Senator Honeyford
Modifying the crime of failing to summon assistance.
Expands the crime of failing to summon assistance.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5073
by Senators Roach and Liias; by request of Office of Financial Management
Concerning nonsubstantive updates and realignments of the statutory responsibilities of the office of financial management.
Makes nonsubstantive updates and realignments of the statutory responsibilities of the office of financial management.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & State Security. | |
SB 5074
by Senators Bailey and Conway; by request of Department of Enterprise Services
Modifying the veterans' scoring criteria in competitive examinations.
Revises veterans' scoring criteria in competitive examinations.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & State Security. | |
SB 5075
by Senator Baumgartner; by request of Department of Enterprise Services
Making nonsubstantive changes to procurement law.
Makes nonsubstantive changes to procurement law.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & State Security. | |
SB 5076
by Senators Hill and Hargrove; by request of Governor Inslee
Making 2015 supplemental operating appropriations.
Makes 2015 supplemental operating appropriations.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5077
by Senators Hill and Hargrove; by request of Governor Inslee
Making 2015-2017 operating appropriations.
Makes 2015-2017 operating appropriations.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5078
by Senator O'Ban
Funding recovery programs for persons with mental illness and chemical dependency disorders.
Requires twenty-two percent of the funds distributed to the basic health plan trust account from marijuana excise taxes and certain fees, penalties, and forfeitures from marijuana producer, processor, and retailer licenses to be used to fund evidence-based or research-based, intensive community interventions shown to promote recovery and reduce the need for inpatient hospitalization for persons with mental illness, persons with co-occurring mental illness and chemical dependency disorders, or both.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing . | |
SB 5079
by Senator O'Ban
Requiring the department of social and health services to notify the military regarding child abuse and neglect allegations of families with an active military status.
Requires the department of social and health services to: (1) Make efforts as soon as practicable to determine the military status of parents whose children are subject to abuse or neglect allegations; and(2) If it determines that a parent or guardian is in the military, notify a department of defense family advocacy program that there is an allegation of abuse and neglect that is screened in open for investigation that relates to that military parent or guardian.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing . | |
SB 5080
by Senators Dammeier, Rolfes, Fain, Frockt, and Litzow
Concerning dual credit options.
Provides a new funding model to eliminate tuition in the college in the high school program.Provides flexibility in the academic acceleration incentive program to assist students with transportation and book expenses associated with the running start program.Establishes a distinction between the college in the high school program as a program occurring in high schools and the running start program as a program occurring on a college campus.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5081
by Senators Miloscia, Hill, Bailey, and Becker
Increasing transparency of state government expenditures related to state employees, state vendors and other public entities.
Requires the office of financial management to maintain a web site that is accessible to the public of state collective bargaining agreements.Requires the inventory system that accounts for owned or leased facilities used by state government to be incorporated into the state expenditure information web site maintained by the legislative evaluation and accountability program committee.Requires the department of enterprise services to maintain a web site, that is accessible to the public, of the following: (1) Sole source contracts;(2) Current contract opportunities on the state's enterprise vendor registration and bid notification system; and(3) Contractors currently debarred by the director of the department.Requires the legislative evaluation and accountability program committee, in collaboration with the department of enterprise services, to establish and make available to the public a state contracting information web site.Requires the administrative office of the courts, the office of public defense, the department of retirement systems, the secretary of state, the military department, the department of commerce, and the criminal justice training center to report to the legislative evaluation and accountability program committee the amount of funds distributed in the prior fiscal year by entity for certain programs and expenditures.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5082
by Senators McAuliffe, Litzow, Rolfes, McCoy, and Billig
Providing for career and technical education opportunities for elementary school students.
Provides elementary school students with career and technical education opportunities.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to implement a grant program to fund K-12 STEM programs provided by a national entity that is exempt from taxation under Title 26 U.S.C. Sec. 501(c)(3) of the federal internal revenue code of 1986.Makes an appropriation.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5083
by Senators McAuliffe, Litzow, Rolfes, McCoy, Billig, and Darneille
Enacting the sudden cardiac arrest awareness act.
Establishes the sudden cardiac arrest awareness act.Requires the state school directors' association, in collaboration with a nonprofit organization that educates communities about sudden cardiac arrest in young athletes and the University of Washington center for sports cardiology, to develop and make available an online pamphlet that provides students engaged in athletic activity, their parents or guardians, and coaches with information about sudden cardiac arrest.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5084
by Senators Becker and Frockt; by request of Governor Inslee
Clarifying the all payer claims database to improve health care quality and cost transparency by changing certain definitions regarding data, reporting and pricing of products, responsibility of the office and lead organization, and parameters for release of information.
Modifies statewide all-payer health care claims database provisions relating to improving health care quality and cost transparency by changing certain definitions regarding data, reporting and pricing of products, responsibility of the office and lead organization, and parameters for release of information.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5085
by Senators Rolfes, Dammeier, Conway, Benton, Chase, Billig, Ranker, and Hobbs
Authorizing siblings of United States armed forces members who died while in service or as a result of service to apply for gold star license plates.
Allows siblings of armed forces members who died while in service or as a result of service to apply for gold star license plates.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5086
by Senators Litzow and McAuliffe; by request of Office of Financial Management
Concerning dual credit opportunities provided by Washington state's public institutions of higher education.
Modifies provisions relating to the college in the high school program and the running start program.
| Jan 13 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SCR 8400
by Senators Schoesler and Nelson
Establishing cutoff dates for the consideration of legislation during the 2015 regular session of the sixty-fourth legislature.
Establishes cutoff dates for the consideration of legislation during the 2015 regular session of the sixty-fourth legislature.
| Jan 12 | Read first time, rules suspended, and placed on second reading calendar. | |
| Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. | ||
| Third reading, adopted. | ||