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 1244 by Representatives Shea, Scott, Taylor, Holy, G. Hunt, Griffey, Young, McCaslin, and Magendanz Addressing motorcycle rider liability for actions required of helmet manufacturers. Revises the definition of "motorcycle helmet" to remove a federal regulation reference to remove liability from the rider for whether the manufacturer complied with the federal regulation as indicated on the helmet.
HB 1245 by Representatives Shea, Taylor, G. Hunt, Scott, Griffey, Rodne, MacEwen, Young, Haler, Short, and Buys Repealing background check provisions for gun sales and transfers relating to Initiative Measure No. 594. Eliminates provisions relating to background checks for gun sales and transfers relating to Initiative Measure No. 594.
HB 1246 by Representatives Shea, Scott, Taylor, G. Hunt, Griffey, Rodne, Young, Holy, McCaslin, Buys, and Magendanz Protecting citizens from the application of foreign laws that would result in a violation of a constitutional right. Prohibits a court, arbitrator, administrative agency, and any other adjudicative, mediation, or enforcement authority from enforcing a foreign law if doing so would violate any right guaranteed by the state Constitution or the United States Constitution.
HB 1247 by Representatives Shea, Scott, Taylor, Holy, G. Hunt, Griffey, Rodne, Young, Haler, McCaslin, and Buys Making human decapitation an aggravating circumstance for purposes of aggravated first degree murder. Makes human decapitation an aggravating circumstance for purposes of aggravated first degree murder.
HB 1248 by Representatives Shea, Sawyer, Rodne, Jinkins, Walkinshaw, Fitzgibbon, Kilduff, and Pollet Concerning court proceedings. Modifies court proceeding provisions relating to civil jurisdiction, jurisdictional limit of district courts, mandatory arbitration of civil actions, and adjudication claim filing fee.
HB 1249 by Representatives Clibborn, Fagan, and Santos Providing authority for two or more nonprofit corporations to participate in a joint self-insurance program covering property or liability risks. Authorizes two or more nonprofit corporations to participate in a joint self-insurance program covering property or liability risks.
HB 1250 by Representatives Holy and S. Hunt; by request of Office of Financial Management Concerning notice and review processes for annexations, deannexations, incorporations, disincorporations, consolidations, and boundary line adjustments under Titles 35 and 35A RCW. Revises Title 35 RCW (cities and towns) and Title 35A RCW (optional municipal code) relating to notice and review processes for annexations, deannexations, incorporations, disincorporations, consolidations, and boundary line adjustments.
HB 1251 by Representatives Van De Wege, Fey, Fitzgibbon, and Pollet Providing for increased funding for emergency medical services by adjusting the emergency medical services' levy cap. Adjusts the emergency medical services' levy cap to increase funding for emergency medical services.
HB 1252 by Representatives Wylie, Harris, Moeller, Jinkins, Vick, and S. Hunt Prescribing penalties for allowing or permitting unlicensed practice of massage therapy or reflexology. Imposes penalties on an owner of a massage business or reflexology business where the unlicensed practice of massage therapy or reflexology has been committed.
HB 1253 by Representatives Manweller, G. Hunt, and Buys Addressing worker reporting of workplace injuries for purposes of industrial insurance. Modifies reporting requirements for workplace injuries for purposes of industrial insurance.
HB 1254 by Representatives Manweller, Short, McCaslin, and Buys Creating a pilot project to determine the prevailing wage of certain trades. Creates a pilot project to establish the prevailing rate of wage for the following trades: Cement masons, operating engineers, laborers in utilities construction, plasterers, telecommunications technicians, and divers.Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee, in consultation with the department of labor and industries and the prevailing wage advisory committee, to conduct an assessment of the pilot project.Expires August 1, 2021.
HB 1255 by Representatives Tarleton, Ryu, Kirby, Sawyer, Riccelli, Santos, and Gregerson; by request of Office of Minority and Women's Business Enterprises Concerning the office of minority and women's business enterprises account. Addresses the minority and women's business enterprises account.
HB 1256 by Representatives Tharinger, Fitzgibbon, Buys, Hansen, Lytton, Wylie, Fey, Dunshee, Riccelli, Jinkins, Reykdal, Stanford, and Clibborn Providing the department of natural resources with discretionary authority to use resources available in the derelict vessel removal account to fund complementary derelict vessel prevention programs. Authorizes the department of natural resources to use expenditures from the derelict vessel removal account to provide grants to authorized public entities to help fund locally focused derelict vessel prevention programs by identifying potential problem vessels and connecting owners with relevant community resources before they become derelict or abandoned.
HB 1257 by Representatives Walkinshaw, Senn, Robinson, Stanford, Farrell, Ormsby, Riccelli, Gregerson, Jinkins, Fitzgibbon, Peterson, Bergquist, Santos, and Pollet Concerning tenant screening. Addresses comprehensive tenant screening reports.
HB 1258 by Representatives Walkinshaw, Rodne, Jinkins, Haler, Cody, Harris, Goodman, Muri, Fagan, Hansen, Buys, Orwall, Kilduff, Springer, Senn, Walsh, Pettigrew, Robinson, Bergquist, Stanford, Fitzgibbon, Pollet, Stokesbary, Sells, Peterson, McBride, Pike, Farrell, Ortiz-Self, Zeiger, Van De Wege, Tharinger, Hunter, Sullivan, Lytton, Riccelli, Carlyle, Clibborn, Magendanz, and Gregerson Concerning court review of detention decisions under the involuntary treatment act. Allows an immediate family member, guardian, or conservator of a person to petition the superior court for review of a designated mental health professional's decision, if the designated mental health professional decides not to detain a person for evaluation and treatment or forty-eight hours have elapsed since the designated mental health professional received notice of the person and has not taken action to have the person detained.Requires the department of social and health services and each regional support network or agency employing designated mental health professionals to publish information in an easily accessible format describing the process for an immediate family member, guardian, or conservator to petition for court review of a detention decision.
HB 1259 by Representatives Cody, Schmick, Clibborn, Harris, Jinkins, Robinson, and Buys Allowing advanced registered nurse practitioners to sign and attest to certain documentation. Authorizes an advanced registered nurse practitioner to sign and attest to certain required documentation that a physician may sign, so long as it is within his or her scope of practice.
HB 1260 by Representatives Kilduff, Muri, Goodman, Rodne, Klippert, Kirby, Walkinshaw, Stokesbary, Jinkins, and Stanford Providing credit towards child support obligations for veterans benefits. Provides credit towards child support obligations for veterans' benefits.
HB 1261 by Representatives Sawyer, Appleton, Stanford, and Pollet Limiting enforcement action against tribal hunters. Exempts tribal hunters from certain enforcement actions under the fish and wildlife enforcement code.
HB 1262 by Representatives Blake, Takko, Kretz, Springer, Short, Lytton, Wilcox, Pike, Reykdal, Haler, McCaslin, and Buys Creating a task force to examine land ownership by the federal government in Washington. Creates a legislative task force on the transfer of federal lands to study the risks, options, and benefits of transferring federal lands in this state to an alternative ownership.Expires July 1, 2017.
HB 1263 by Representatives Stokesbary, Kirby, Vick, Hurst, and Buys Exempting certified public accountants from private investigator regulations. Exempts from private investigator laws, a certified public accountant or an employee of a certified public accountant performing duties within the scope of public accountancy.
HB 1264 by Representatives Wilcox, Blake, MacEwen, Gregerson, Lytton, and Zeiger Concerning conservation districts' rates and charges. Modifies provisions relating to rates and charges of conservation districts.
HB 1265 by Representatives Fey, Kochmar, Jinkins, and Gregory Creating a bond issuance exemption for qualifying local revitalization financing projects. Exempts qualifying local revitalization financing projects from issuing certain bonds.
HB 1266 by Representatives Buys and Haler Creating a task force on elections for irrigation districts. Creates a task force on irrigation district elections to review various election processes and technology and make recommendations for statutory changes that would provide an improved, transparent, and accountable voting process for irrigation districts.Expires July 1, 2016.
HB 1267 by Representative Buys Concerning de facto changes in water rights for irrigation purposes that involved conversion to more efficient irrigation technologies. Requires the department of ecology to initiate a process to enable water right holders to change the current status of certain water rights.Expires June 30, 2020.
HB 1268 by Representatives Buys, Lytton, Shea, Wilcox, Young, Holy, and McCaslin Regarding hemp as a component of commercial animal feed. Requires the department of agriculture to conduct a study evaluating whether hemp and hemp products should be an allowable component of commercial feed in the state.Expires June 30, 2018.
HB 1269 by Representatives Buys and Van Werven Extending the dairy inspection program assessment expiration date. Delays, until June 30, 2020, the expiration of the dairy inspection program assessment.
HB 1270 by Representatives Buys, Blake, and Haler Increasing salmon populations in Washington through the implementation of a new fish hatchery management structure that is modeled on the proven, successful structure utilized by the state of Alaska for the past forty years. Requires the department of fish and wildlife to issue at least three permits to qualified regional aquaculture associations to construct and operate individual salmon hatcheries.
HB 1271 by Representative Buys Increasing rock collecting opportunities on state lands. Requires one or more rock collecting endorsements to be made available: (1) To any person purchasing a discover pass or day-use permit; and(2) As a free standing purchase.
HB 1272 by Representatives Buys, Orwall, and Pollet Creating the crime of wrongfully distributing intimate images. Creates the crime of wrongfully distributing intimate images which is a misdemeanor on the first conviction, a gross misdemeanor on the second conviction, and a class C felony on the third and subsequent convictions.
HB 1273 by Representatives Robinson, Sells, Farrell, Hudgins, Kagi, Wylie, Sawyer, Walkinshaw, Moscoso, Ryu, Ormsby, Riccelli, Jinkins, Senn, McBride, Gregerson, Fitzgibbon, Moeller, Reykdal, S. Hunt, Stanford, Bergquist, Santos, Pollet, Fey, and Tarleton Implementing family and medical leave insurance. Allows workers to care for family members with a serious health condition or to recover from their own serious health condition.Expands duties of the employment security department.Requires each employer, for each individual, to pay a premium to the employment security department based on the amount of the employee's wages.Provides a business and occupation tax credit for certain employers.Changes the name of the family leave insurance program to the family and medical leave insurance program.Changes the name of the family leave insurance account to the family and medical leave insurance account.
HB 1274 by Representatives Cody, Jinkins, Johnson, Harris, and Tharinger Implementing a value-based system for nursing home rates. Adopts a new system for establishing nursing home payment rates.Requires the department of social and health services, in cooperation with nursing facility provider associations, to design and develop a new system that matches payments to patient care needs, reward efficiency, incentivize controlling costs, and promote quality of care.
HB 1275 by Representatives Cody and Haler Increasing the number of members on the board of osteopathic medicine and surgery. Changes the composition of the state board of osteopathic medicine and surgery.
HB 1276 by Representatives Klippert, Goodman, Hayes, Orwall, Moscoso, Pettigrew, Zeiger, Kilduff, and Fey Concerning impaired driving. Modifies impaired driving provisions.
HB 1277 by Representatives Klippert, Appleton, MacEwen, Muri, Orwall, Goodman, Shea, Haler, Moscoso, Young, Scott, Zeiger, and McCaslin Concerning transient lodging for military service members in armories. Addresses transient lodging of service personnel in armories.
HB 1278 by Representatives Fitzgibbon, Dunshee, Farrell, S. Hunt, Peterson, Fey, and Tarleton Concerning building energy use disclosure requirements. Addresses disclosure requirements for building energy use.
HB 1279 by Representatives Kochmar and Gregory Modifying the definition of legislative authority for purposes of local tourism promotion areas. Revises the definition of "legislative authority" for purposes of local tourism promotion areas.
HB 1280 by Representatives Sawyer, Appleton, Reykdal, S. Hunt, Riccelli, Fitzgibbon, Robinson, Santos, Gregerson, and Tarleton Establishing a commission on government-to-government relations in Washington. Creates the commission on Indian services to provide and support efforts to identify and facilitate effective government-to-government communications and foster resolution of issues of mutual concern between the state and tribes.Creates an Indian services office within the legislature.
HB 1281 by Representatives Sawyer, Orwall, Hurst, Blake, Stokesbary, Tarleton, Walsh, Kirby, Appleton, G. Hunt, Pettigrew, Jinkins, Carlyle, Fey, Ortiz-Self, Senn, Walkinshaw, Moeller, Kilduff, Robinson, Van De Wege, Stanford, Ryu, Lytton, Sells, Riccelli, Kagi, Bergquist, Clibborn, Santos, Buys, and Gregerson Concerning the sexual exploitation of minors. Assesses a fee, on a person who is convicted of possession of depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, of one thousand dollars for each depiction or image of visual or printed matter that constitutes a separate conviction.Creates the internet crimes against children account.Requires one-third of unclaimed prize money in the state lottery account to be deposited in the internet crimes against children account.
HB 1282 by Representatives Zeiger, Goodman, Klippert, Orwall, Appleton, Sawyer, and Gregerson Addressing the crime of driving while license suspended where the suspension is based on noncompliance with a child support order. Addresses suspended drivers' licenses when the suspension is based on noncompliance with a child support order.
HB 1283 by Representatives Parker, Kirby, and Vick Concerning nonprofit organizations engaged in debt adjusting. Modifies debt adjusting provisions relating to nonprofit organizations.
HB 1284 by Representatives Haler, Sells, Zeiger, Takko, Harris, Tarleton, Rodne, Stanford, Muri, Santos, Stokesbary, Walkinshaw, Hayes, Riccelli, Vick, Fitzgibbon, McCaslin, Ryu, Kochmar, Sawyer, Blake, Dunshee, Holy, Moeller, Jinkins, Reykdal, S. Hunt, Farrell, Clibborn, Moscoso, and Pollet Concerning hours of service for certain railroad employees. Regulates the hours of service for yardmasters.
HB 1285 by Representatives Riccelli, G. Hunt, Van De Wege, Harris, Cody, Holy, Jinkins, Clibborn, Robinson, Walkinshaw, Peterson, Fitzgibbon, Ormsby, Bergquist, Tarleton, Farrell, Moeller, S. Hunt, Tharinger, Stanford, and Gregerson Requiring critical congenital heart disease screening for newborns. Requires a hospital, or a health care provider attending a birth outside of a hospital, to perform critical congenital heart disease screening using pulse oximetry before discharge of the newborn.
HB 1286 by Representatives Tharinger, Harris, Jinkins, Johnson, Caldier, G. Hunt, Wylie, McBride, Kilduff, Takko, and Peterson Requiring a study for funding options for long-term care services and supports. Requires the department of social and health services to contract for an independent feasibility study and actuarial modeling of public and private options for leveraging private resources to help individuals prepare for long-term services and supports needs.Requires the joint legislative executive committee on aging and disability to provide oversight and direction for this analysis and convene interested stakeholders to provide input on the study design.
HB 1287 by Representatives Orwall and Jinkins Concerning less restrictive alternative orders under the involuntary treatment act. Modifies involuntary treatment act provisions relating to less restrictive alternative orders.
HB 1288 by Representatives Orwall, Rodne, Jinkins, Walkinshaw, Cody, Moeller, Tharinger, and Gregerson Directing the Washington state institute for public policy to complete a study regarding the involuntary treatment act. Requires the state institute for public policy to complete a study regarding the implementation of certain aspects of the involuntary treatment act.Expires June 30, 2016.
HB 1289 by Representatives Buys, Takko, Short, and Blake Modifying the procedure for adoption and amendment of the Washington state energy code. Modifies state energy code provisions relating to adoption and amendment procedures.
HB 1290 by Representatives Condotta, Hurst, and Sawyer Increasing the number of tasting rooms allowed under a domestic winery license. Increases, from two to four, the number of tasting rooms allowed under a domestic winery license.
HB 1291 by Representatives Buys, Takko, and Blake Concerning credentialing requirements for the design and installation of residential fire protection sprinkler systems. Modifies fire sprinkler system contractor provisions relating to credentialing requirements for the design and installation of sprinkler systems.
HB 1292 by Representatives Young and Caldier Providing fee immunity for certain water facilities. Provides certain water facilities with fee immunity.
HB 1293 by Representatives Bergquist, Magendanz, Santos, Muri, Ortiz-Self, Reykdal, S. Hunt, Pollet, and Gregerson Concerning paraeducators. Addresses minimum employment standards for paraeducators who work in the learning assistance program, the federal disadvantaged program, and English language learner programs.
HB 1294 by Representatives Bergquist, Stambaugh, S. Hunt, Appleton, Riccelli, Walkinshaw, Ortiz-Self, Blake, Wylie, Fitzgibbon, Carlyle, Moscoso, Goodman, Tarleton, Stanford, Senn, Pettigrew, Orwall, Jinkins, Sawyer, Tharinger, Cody, Lytton, Farrell, Gregerson, Moeller, Gregory, Robinson, Takko, Pollet, Sullivan, McBride, Reykdal, Dunshee, Sells, Kagi, Springer, Van De Wege, Kilduff, Peterson, Hudgins, and Fey Enhancing youth voter registration. Establishes the young voter registration equality act.Allows a person who is sixteen or seventeen years old to preregister to vote at the department of licensing.Allows a person who is seventeen years old to preregister to vote at all other locations and through electronic means.Exempts from public inspection and copying under the public records act, information contained in voter preregistration records.
HB 1295 by Representatives Hudgins, Magendanz, S. Hunt, Walsh, Walkinshaw, Lytton, Senn, Jinkins, Sawyer, Stokesbary, Reykdal, Robinson, McBride, Stanford, Tharinger, Bergquist, Clibborn, Pollet, Fey, Gregerson, and Tarleton Concerning breakfast after the bell programs. Requires each high-needs school to offer breakfast after the bell to each student and provide adequate time for students to eat.Requires the state to provide financial assistance to support the costs of implementing breakfast after the bell programs at participating high-needs schools.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Develop and distribute procedures and guidelines for the implementation of this act; and(2) Dedicate staff within the office to offer training and technical and marketing assistance to public schools and school districts related to offering breakfast after the bell.
HB 1296 by Representatives Vick, Kirby, Pettigrew, Blake, Buys, MacEwen, Rodne, Walsh, Condotta, G. Hunt, Hayes, Carlyle, and Sawyer Establishing special license endorsements for cigar lounges and retail tobacconist shops. Authorizes a person holding a tobacco products retailer's license to apply through the business licensing system for a special endorsement as a cigar lounge or retail tobacconist shop.
HB 1297 by Representatives Clibborn and Fey; by request of Governor Inslee Making 2013-2015 supplemental transportation appropriations. Makes 2013-2015 supplemental transportation appropriations.
HB 1298 by Representatives Clibborn and Fey; by request of Governor Inslee Authorizing bonds for the financing of transportation projects. Requires the state finance committee, in order to provide funds necessary to finance the projects described and authorized by the legislature in the omnibus transportation appropriations act for the 2015-2017 fiscal biennium, to issue and sell upon the request of the department of transportation a total of three billion one hundred million dollars of general obligation bonds of the state.
HB 1299 by Representatives Clibborn and Fey; by request of Governor Inslee Making transportation appropriations for the 2015-2017 fiscal biennium. Makes transportation appropriations for the 2015-2017 fiscal biennium.
HB 1300 by Representatives Clibborn and Fey; by request of Governor Inslee Concerning transportation revenue. Addresses transportation revenue relating to: (1) Creating, increasing, and modifying transportation-related fees;(2) Distribution of revenue;(3) Distribution of driver's license fees;(4) Tax exemptions and authority to modify and impose new taxes; and(5) Local revenue options.Requires the department of licensing, a county auditor or other agent, or a subagent appointed by the director to issue a studded tire permit authorizing the use of studded tires.Authorizes a registered owner to apply to the department of licensing, a county auditor or other agent, or a subagent appointed by the director for an intermittent-use trailer license plate for an intermittent-use trailer.Authorizes a governing body of a public transportation benefit area to establish one or more passenger-only ferry service districts.Creates an electric vehicle infrastructure bank to provide financial assistance for the installation of publicly accessible electric vehicle charging stations within the state.Creates the bicycle and pedestrian grant program account, the complete streets grant program account, the local green initiatives account, the public transportation grant program account, the safe routes to school grant program account, and the sustainability account.
HB 1301 by Representatives Pettigrew, Vick, Buys, Stokesbary, Van De Wege, Reykdal, McCaslin, and Magendanz Classifying fantasy sports contests as contests of skill. Exempts from any classification of gambling, fantasy competitions which are considered by the state as games of skill.
HB 1302 by Representatives Haler, Tarleton, and Jinkins Clarifying the applicability of child abduction statutes to residential provisions ordered by a court. Clarifies the applicability of child abduction statutes to residential provisions ordered by a court.
HB 1303 by Representatives Haler, Pollet, Zeiger, and Bergquist Creating the degree production incentive program. Creates the degree production incentive program to incentivize the regional universities and The Evergreen State College to increase the production of degrees awarded to resident undergraduate students who are low income or first generation, or who earn a degree in science, engineering, math, technology (STEM), or other high employer demand fields.Requires the student achievement council to annually disburse degree production incentive money to each of the regional universities and The Evergreen State College.Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to conduct an evaluation of the effectiveness of the degree production incentive program in meeting its stated goals.Creates the degree production incentive account.
HB 1304 by Representatives Kirby and Vick Allowing a public depository to arrange for reciprocal deposits of public funds. Authorizes public funds to be deposited in institutions located outside of the state if certain conditions are met.
SB 5230 by Senators Brown, Chase, Angel, Benton, Rivers, Schoesler, Bailey, Parlette, Becker, Warnick, and Dammeier Creating a pilot program that provides incentives for investments in Washington state job creation and economic development. Establishes the invest in Washington act.Creates a pilot program to evaluate the effectiveness of a program that provides businesses with the latitude to invest their business and occupation tax back into their business or to locate a business in the state.Provides a business and occupation tax credit for a portion of the costs incurred by a person for the construction of a qualified industrial facility.
SB 5231 by Senators Sheldon, Dansel, Becker, Hobbs, and Chase Modifying collective bargaining law to authorize the right of state workers employed in the community and technical college system as nontenured part-time academic employees to form a collective bargaining unit for the protection of their common interests. Authorizes state employees who are employed in the community and technical college system as nontenured part-time academic employees to form a collective bargaining unit for the protection of their common interests.
SB 5232 by Senators Sheldon, Padden, Dansel, Schoesler, and Honeyford Modifying indigent defense provisions. Modifies indigent defense services provisions relating to: (1) Determining if a person is indigent or indigent and able to contribute; and(2) Requiring a person receiving the appointment of counsel to sign an affidavit swearing under penalty of perjury that all income, assets, and living costs reported are complete and accurate.Requires the office of public defense to: (1) Offer training for the offices and individuals designated by the courts as responsible for determining indigency; and(2) Survey attorneys' fees statewide and publish the results to assist courts and their designees in identifying the usual and customary charges for retaining private counsel.
SB 5233 by Senators Sheldon, Dansel, Dammeier, Becker, Schoesler, and Honeyford Concerning notice against trespass. Adds the definition of "posting in a conspicuous manner" to chapter 9A.52 RCW (burglary and trespass).
SB 5234 by Senators Sheldon, Dansel, Dammeier, Becker, Schoesler, Honeyford, and Conway Regarding miniature hobby boilers. Exempts certain miniature hobby boilers from the requirements of chapter 70.79 RCW (boilers and unfired pressure vessels).
SB 5235 by Senators Sheldon, Rivers, Angel, and Chase Requiring a state resident preference for all newly hired state classified employees and lower level Washington management service employees. Establishes the state employment resident hiring preference act.Requires state agencies that employ one hundred or more people to submit a report to the human resources director within the office of financial management, with copies to the superintendent of public instruction and state university and college administrators. The report must include the following information: (1) The number of employees hired during the previous calendar year and hired from outside the state;(2) A list of reasons why the jobs could not be filled by a resident of this state;(3) The number of planned hires for the current year; and(4) Opportunities for internships for job types with a history of being filled by out-of-state residents.
SB 5236 by Senators Sheldon and Rivers Concerning the ratification of budgets for certain homeowners' associations. Addresses homeowners' associations' budgets.
SB 5237 by Senators Hewitt, Baumgartner, King, Braun, Honeyford, and Fraser Placing restrictions on when representation under a public collective bargaining agreement may be challenged. Increases the time in which representation under a public collective bargaining agreement may be challenged.
SB 5238 by Senators Angel, Liias, Honeyford, McCoy, Dammeier, and Chase Concerning public water systems' public participation notice provisions. Modifies public participation requirements of the growth management act relating to group A public water systems required to develop water system plans consistent with state board of health rules.
SB 5239 by Senators Roach, Fain, Liias, and Keiser Adding certain commissioned court marshals of county sheriff's offices to the definition of uniformed personnel for the purposes of public employees' collective bargaining. Revises the definition of "uniformed personnel," for purposes of public employees' collective bargaining, to include court marshals of a county who are employed by, trained for, and commissioned by the county sheriff.
SB 5240 by Senators Darneille, O'Ban, Mullet, Pearson, and Fraser Collecting DNA samples from persons acquitted by reason of insanity. Requires a biological sample to be collected for purposes of DNA identification analysis from adults and juvenile individuals acquitted by reason of insanity of certain felonies.
SB 5241 by Senators Litzow, Hatfield, Fain, Rolfes, and Pedersen Concerning ivory and rhinoceros horn trafficking. Prohibits the sale, offering to sell, purchasing, trading, trafficking, bartering for, or distribution of any ivory article or rhinoceros horn.Expands the crime of unlawful trafficking in fish, shellfish, or wildlife in the second degree.
SB 5242 by Senators Angel, Rolfes, Sheldon, and Dammeier Creating passenger-only ferry service districts. Authorizes the governing body of a certain public transportation benefit area to establish one or more passenger-only ferry service districts within all or a portion of the boundaries of the public transportation benefit area establishing the passenger-only ferry service district.
SB 5243 by Senators Honeyford, King, Keiser, Conway, and Chase Concerning services provided by residential habilitation centers. Requires the department of social and health services to continue to: (1) Provide respite services in residential habilitation centers; and(2) Develop respite care in the community with a goal of allowing clients to access services where they choose.
SB 5244 by Senators Darneille, Conway, Jayapal, and Chase Disposing tax foreclosed property to cities for affordable housing purposes. Requires a county legislative authority to give notice to a city in which a tax foreclosed property is located within at least sixty days of acquiring the property.Prohibits the county from disposing of the property at public auction or by private negotiation before giving the notice.
SB 5245 by Senators Dammeier, Kohl-Welles, McAuliffe, Angel, and Conway; by request of Department of Social and Health Services Concerning substance abuse prevention and treatment programs funded by the marijuana excise tax. Provides funding from marijuana excise taxes for the development and evaluation of programs and practices aimed at the prevention or reduction of substance use.Requires the department of social and health services, in consultation with the state institute for public policy, the University of Washington social development research group, and faculty from Washington State University, to determine a definition of cost-beneficial as it relates to prevention and treatment programming.
SB 5246 by Senators Roach, Conway, Liias, Keiser, Rolfes, Mullet, Benton, McAuliffe, Frockt, Jayapal, Angel, and Chase; by request of LEOFF Plan 2 Retirement Board Addressing the death benefits of a surviving spouse of a member of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system or the state patrol retirement system. Requires the continuation of life-long monthly benefits for a surviving spouse of a member of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system or the state patrol retirement system.
SB 5247 by Senators O'Ban, Dammeier, Kohl-Welles, and Chase Concerning driving while license suspended when the suspension is based on noncompliance with a child support order. Addresses suspended drivers' licenses when the suspension is based on noncompliance with a child support order.
SB 5248 by Senators Honeyford, Conway, Rivers, Keiser, Warnick, Kohl-Welles, King, and Braun Expanding authorized personal services by liquor industry members to retailers. Authorizes the performance of certain personal services offered by a distiller, importer, manufacturer of spirits, or spirits importer to retailers.
SB 5249 by Senators Darneille, Conway, and Miloscia Creating a bond issuance exemption for qualifying local revitalization financing projects. Exempts qualifying local revitalization financing projects from issuing certain bonds.
SB 5250 by Senators Dammeier, Darneille, O'Ban, McAuliffe, and Chase Allowing for an arrest without a warrant when a police officer has probable cause to believe a person has violated certain temporary protection orders. Authorizes a peace officer to arrest without a warrant and take into custody a person whom the peace officer has probable cause to believe has violated any temporary order for protection granted under chapter 7.40 RCW (injunctions) pursuant to chapter 74.34 RCW (abuse of vulnerable adults).
SB 5251 by Senators Honeyford and Keiser; by request of Department of Health Transferring public water system financial assistance activities from the public works board and the department of commerce to the department of health. Transfers, from the public works board and the department of commerce to the department of health, public water system financial assistance activities.
SB 5252 by Senators Dammeier, McAuliffe, King, Litzow, and Angel Creating a pilot program to implement regional school safety and security centers. Requires three educational service districts to implement a pilot program to create regional school safety and security centers in each of the districts.Expires December 31, 2017.
SB 5253 by Senators Darneille and Fraser Concerning preservation of DNA work product. Addresses the preservation of a DNA work product.
SB 5254 by Senators McCoy, Hasegawa, Chase, and Keiser; by request of Office of Minority and Women's Business Enterprises Concerning the office of minority and women's business enterprises account. Addresses the minority and women's business enterprises account.
SB 5255 by Senators Hasegawa, McCoy, Chase, Hatfield, and Keiser; by request of Office of Minority and Women's Business Enterprises Concerning the linked deposit program. Addresses the duties of the director of the office of minority and women's business enterprises with regard to the linked deposit program.
SB 5256 by Senators Darneille, Rolfes, and Chase Requiring reasonable suspicion before allowing strip searches of juveniles in juvenile detention facilities. Requires reasonable suspicion before allowing a strip search of a juvenile in a juvenile detention facility.
SB 5257 by Senators Hargrove, Hill, Hatfield, and Braun Providing a reduced public utility tax for log transportation businesses. Provides permanent tax relief to the forest products industry by lowering the public utility tax rate attributable to log transportation businesses.
SB 5258 by Senators Bailey, Keiser, Dammeier, Darneille, Fraser, Rolfes, Frockt, Warnick, and Conway Requiring a study for funding options for long-term care services and supports. Requires the department of social and health services to contract for an independent feasibility study and actuarial modeling of public and private options for leveraging private resources to help individuals prepare for long-term services and supports needs.Requires the joint legislative executive committee on aging and disability to provide oversight and direction for this analysis and convene interested stakeholders to provide input on the study design.
SB 5259 by Senators Billig, Liias, Frockt, Keiser, and Jayapal Improving voter registration by providing new residential tenants with voter registration information. Requires a landlord to provide a voter registration form or a link to the electronic voter registration form on the secretary of state's web site to a new residential tenant at the time the tenant signs a lease with the landlord.
SB 5260 by Senators Honeyford and Hewitt Exempting cider makers from the wine commission assessment. Prohibits agricultural commodity assessments from being levied on the production of cider.
SB 5261 by Senators O'Ban, Conway, Darneille, and Chase Concerning community policing at and around western state hospital. Requires western state hospital to enter into a contract with the city in which it is located for the provision of community policing services at the hospital and in the surrounding areas.
SB 5262 by Senators O'Ban, Pedersen, Darneille, Dammeier, and Honeyford Releasing juvenile case records to the Washington state office of civil legal aid. Requires a court to release to the state office of civil legal aid juvenile records needed to implement the agency's oversight, technical assistance, and other functions.
SB 5263 by Senators Pedersen, Benton, Mullet, Fraser, Roach, Hobbs, Rivers, and Fain; by request of Uniform Law Commission Concerning the Washington uniform common interest ownership act. Establishes the Washington uniform common interest ownership act.
SB 5264 by Senators Bailey, Parlette, Warnick, Keiser, Jayapal, and Braun Creating a silver alert system. Requires the Washington state patrol to develop and implement a silver alert plan. Silver alert is a quick response system designed to issue and coordinate alerts following the disappearance of a missing endangered person.Revises the definition of "missing endangered person" to include a person who has been diagnosed as having Alzheimer's disease, dementia, or other mental disability.
SB 5265 by Senators Benton, Mullet, Angel, and Keiser Allowing a public depository to arrange for reciprocal deposits of public funds. Authorizes public funds to be deposited in institutions located outside of the state if certain conditions are met.
SB 5266 by Senators O'Ban and Darneille; by request of Department of Social and Health Services Concerning secure facilities for the criminally insane. Eliminates the expiration of RCW 10.77.091 relating to secure facilities for the criminally insane.
SB 5267 by Senators Habib, Roach, Liias, Pearson, Keiser, Mullet, and Chase; by request of Secretary of State Ordering development of processes to allow prerecorded video testimony and written testimony on pending legislation. Establishes the accessible legislative testimony act.Requires the legislature and legislative agencies, through the joint legislative systems committee, to develop processes to allow the public to provide testimony on pending legislation through prerecorded videos and written statements.
SB 5268 by Senators Parlette, Kohl-Welles, Hatfield, Angel, and Fraser Concerning refilling eye drop prescriptions. Authorizes a pharmacist, without consulting a physician or obtaining a new prescription or refill from a physician, to provide one early refill of a prescription for eye drops to treat glaucoma if certain criteria are met.
SB 5269 by Senators O'Ban, Darneille, Rolfes, Dansel, Miloscia, Pearson, Bailey, Padden, Becker, Frockt, Habib, and Pedersen Concerning court review of detention decisions under the involuntary treatment act. Allows an immediate family member, guardian, or conservator of a person to petition the superior court for review of a designated mental health professional's decision, if the designated mental health professional decides not to detain a person for evaluation and treatment or forty-eight hours have elapsed since the designated mental health professional received notice of the person and has not taken action to have the person detained.Requires the department of social and health services and each regional support network or agency employing designated mental health professionals to publish information in an easily accessible format describing the process for an immediate family member, guardian, or conservator to petition for court review of a detention decision.
SB 5270 by Senators Roach, Liias, and Benton; by request of Washington State Patrol Concerning a nonoperating advisory board reporting to the state patrol. Eliminates the advisory board on missing and exploited children.
SB 5271 by Senators Roach, Hasegawa, Liias, and Benton; by request of Washington State Patrol Concerning standards adopted by the national fire protection association and the state building code council. Transfers certain duties from the chief of the Washington state patrol to the state building code council relating to smoke detection devices in dwelling units.Modifies alternative fuel source placard provisions.Transfers certain duties of the state fire protection board to the state building code council relating to above-ground used oil collection tanks.
SB 5272 by Senators Schoesler, Sheldon, Fain, Hatfield, King, Hewitt, and Parlette Concerning heavy haul industrial corridors. Requires the department of transportation to designate certain portions of state route number 128 and state route number 193 as a heavy haul industrial corridor for the movement of overweight vehicles.
SB 5273 by Senators Schoesler, Hatfield, Sheldon, and King Concerning native and reclamation seeds. Addresses packaging, standards, and labeling for native seeds and reclamation seeds.Prohibits selling, exposing for sale, or transporting for sale native seeds or reclamation seeds within this state unless certain conditions are met.
SB 5274 by Senators Schoesler, Sheldon, and Hewitt Revising the responsibilities of the joint administrative rules review committee. Changes the duties of the joint administrative rules review committee relating to administrative rules.
SB 5275 by Senators Schoesler, Hargrove, Hill, Sheldon, and Hewitt Concerning tax code improvements that do not affect state revenue collections. Provides tax code improvements relating to: (1) Eliminating obsolete and redundant statutory provisions;(2) Promoting administrative efficiencies;(3) Providing greater clarity and consistency; and(4) The taxability matrix.
SB 5276 by Senators Kohl-Welles, Roach, and Keiser Concerning refunds of property taxes paid as a result of manifest errors in descriptions of property. Allows a county legislative authority to authorize a refund of property taxes paid as a result of manifest errors in descriptions of property.
SB 5277 by Senators Kohl-Welles, Darneille, Padden, Pedersen, Fain, Frockt, Keiser, Chase, and Fraser Making the crime of patronizing a prostitute a gross misdemeanor. Changes the crime of patronizing a prostitute to a gross misdemeanor.
SB 5278 by Senators Miloscia, Jayapal, Hill, Keiser, and Chase Concerning legislative oversight of state agency performance. Requires the office of financial management to report to the legislative fiscal committees on its analysis, including pertinent performance measures, of state agency performance.
SB 5279 by Senators Miloscia, Jayapal, Hill, Frockt, Keiser, Conway, and Chase Concerning lean management and performance management strategies for economic and revenue forecasts. Requires the economic and revenue forecast supervisor, as part of the supervisor's forecasts, to provide estimated savings resulting from application of lean management and performance management strategies at state agencies.Requires the official state budget outlook to clearly state the savings resulting from application of lean management and performance management strategies at state agencies.
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