 | WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE | |
| Legislative Digest No. 13 | ||
| SIXTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE | ||
| Thursday, January 29, 2015 | 18th 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 1157-S
by House Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Representatives Pike, Wylie, Wilson, and Moeller)
Modifying the apportionment of quick title service fees collected by appointed subagents.
Addresses quick title service fees collected by subagents appointed by the director of the department of licensing.
| Jan 26 | TR - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
HB 1745
by Representatives Moscoso, Bergquist, S. Hunt, Haler, Orwall, Sawyer, Stanford, Walkinshaw, Appleton, Reykdal, Fitzgibbon, Tharinger, Fey, Jinkins, Wylie, Goodman, Ormsby, Farrell, Riccelli, Sells, Hudgins, Lytton, McBride, and Santos
Enacting the Washington voting rights act.
Establishes the Washington voting rights act to: (1) Authorize district-based elections;(2) Require redistricting and new elections in certain circumstances; and(3) Establish a cause of action to redress lack of voter opportunity.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to State Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1746
by Representatives Pollet, Hayes, and Moscoso
Establishing nonimpound tow truck operator licensing.
Establishes nonimpound tow truck operator licensing.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1747
by Representatives Kagi, Jinkins, Carlyle, Senn, Robinson, Walkinshaw, Appleton, Cody, Fitzgibbon, Tharinger, S. Hunt, Goodman, Farrell, and Santos
Concerning the protection of children through responsible storage of firearms.
Creates the crime of child endangerment due to unsafe storage of a firearm.Requires a firearms dealer, when selling a firearm, to offer to sell or give the purchaser a locked box, a lock, or a device that prevents the firearm from discharging.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1748
by Representatives Blake, Shea, Kirby, Orcutt, MacEwen, Condotta, McCabe, Holy, Magendanz, Taylor, Hargrove, Griffey, Hayes, Johnson, Haler, Scott, Wilson, Short, and Young
Limiting mandatory motorcycle helmet use to persons under the age of eighteen.
Authorizes a person who is at least eighteen years old to operate or ride on a motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, or moped on a state highway, county road, or city street without wearing a motorcycle helmet.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1749
by Representatives MacEwen, Manweller, and Condotta
Concerning contractor registration requirements for owners of property.
Exempts from certain contractor registration requirements, a person, firm, corporation, or other entity: (1) Contracting with a registered general contractor and not superintending the work; or(2) Undertaking only the installation of carpeting or other floor covering or painting, or both.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Labor (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1750
by Representatives Ortiz-Self, Magendanz, Tarleton, Moscoso, Riccelli, Robinson, Kagi, Ryu, Gregerson, Lytton, Stanford, Appleton, Peterson, Van De Wege, Goodman, and Pollet
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 28 | First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1751
by Representative Santos
Concerning parking impact mitigation from regional transit authority facility construction.
Requires a regional transit authority, when it constructs or operates a transportation facility, to consider the potential impacts of that facility on parking availability for residents nearby.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1752
by Representatives Hawkins and Takko
Addressing the qualifications for chief examiners.
Opens the competitive examination to all properly qualified citizens for the position of chief examiner of a civil service commission.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Local Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1753
by Representatives Ryu, Shea, Moscoso, Kirby, Wylie, and Young
Distinguishing cannabis health and beauty aids from marijuana.
Exempts cannabis health and beauty aids from the regulations of the uniform controlled substances act that apply to marijuana, marijuana concentrates, or marijuana-infused products.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Gaming (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1754
by Representatives Buys, Dunshee, Muri, Haler, Senn, Ormsby, Sullivan, and Smith
Adding building envelope to the list of building trades that a prime contractor must list for bids on public works.
Requires a prime contractor to include building envelope in the list of building trades that he or she is required to list for bids on public works.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Capital Budget (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1755
by Representatives Pettigrew and Stanford; by request of Department of Agriculture
Authorizing a livestock movement reporting system.
Authorizes the director of the department of agriculture to establish a livestock movement reporting system where transactions are reported to the department.Allows the system to be used as an alternative to mandatory inspections.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1756
by Representatives Kilduff, Muri, Kirby, Goodman, Sawyer, and Van De Wege
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.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1757
by Representatives Fey, Muri, Clibborn, Reykdal, and Goodman
Concerning local transportation options.
Authorizes a city or county in which a transportation benefit district has been established with boundaries coterminous with the boundaries of the city or county to, by ordinance or resolution of the city or county legislative authority, assume the rights, powers, functions, and obligations of the transportation benefit district.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1758
by Representatives Tharinger, Wilcox, Van De Wege, Takko, Walkinshaw, Blake, Ryu, Orcutt, Fitzgibbon, Nealey, Smith, Moscoso, Fey, Jinkins, and Goodman; by request of Office of Financial Management
Extending the expiration date of tax preferences for biofuel, biomass, and energy conservation.
Delays, until July 1, 2025, the expiration of tax preferences for biofuel, biomass, and energy conservation.Provides a forest derived biomass credit to encourage the harvesting, collection, and use of forest derived biomass.Increases investments in energy efficiency and conservation programs and supports efforts by utilities to acquire all cost-effective energy conservation as required under state law.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1759
by Representatives Manweller and Ormsby
Modifying the computer data center sales and use tax exemption.
Extends the data center sales and use tax exemption construction window until 2020 and the refresh window for replacement server equipment until 2026.Allows a one hundred percent sales and use tax exemption for eligible server equipment and power infrastructure installed in new data centers and a seventy-five percent sales and use tax exemption for replacement server equipment.Reduces or prohibits local jurisdictions from claiming certain local sales and use taxes that directly reduce state general fund revenues.Converts the data center sales and use tax exemption into a remittance.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1760
by Representatives Senn, Magendanz, Orwall, Stambaugh, Ortiz-Self, Kagi, Sells, Tharinger, Reykdal, Jinkins, Muri, Goodman, Riccelli, Robinson, Pollet, McBride, and Santos
Providing students with skills that promote mental health and well-being and increase academic performance.
Requires the superintendent of public instruction to convene a work group to recommend comprehensive social emotional learning benchmarks for grades kindergarten through high school.Requires educational service districts to develop and maintain the capacity to serve as a convener, trainer, and mentor for educators and other school district staff on social emotional learning.Authorizes school districts to use specific funding to develop and update school specific action plans to implement multitiered systems of support frameworks and curriculum aligned with the frameworks.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1761
by Representatives Stanford, Vick, Kirby, Parker, Ryu, G. Hunt, Blake, Santos, and Hurst
Addressing insurance producers, insurers, and title insurance agents activities with customers and potential customers.
Addresses inducements by insurance producers, insurers, and title insurance agents.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Business & Financial Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1762
by Representatives Riccelli, Schmick, Jinkins, Harris, Cody, Van De Wege, Robinson, and Tharinger
Concerning the relationship between a health insurer and a contracting health care provider.
Addresses relationships between health insurers and contracting health care providers.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1763
by Representatives Van De Wege, Lytton, Riccelli, and Tharinger
Regulating music licensing agencies.
Regulates music licensing agencies.Requires the department of licensing, in collaboration with the office of the attorney general, to conduct a consumer alert campaign to inform business proprietors of their rights and responsibilities regarding the public performance of copyrighted music.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Business & Financial Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1764
by Representatives Van De Wege, Stokesbary, Tharinger, and Ryu; by request of Office of Financial Management
Creating a business and occupation tax credit for advanced composite manufacturing and wholesaling.
Provides a business and occupation tax credit on the manufacturing and wholesale sales of carbon fiber, carbon fiber composites, or carbon fiber composite products.Expires July 1, 2020.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1765
by Representative Klippert
Changing marijuana provisions so that marijuana is only authorized if it is in pill form prescribed by a physician.
Eliminates or modifies certain marijuana provisions so that marijuana is only authorized if it is in pill form prescribed by a physician.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Gaming (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1766
by Representatives Cody, Schmick, Appleton, and Tharinger
Concerning medical marijuana.
Changes the name of the Washington state medical use of cannabis act to the Washington state medical use of marijuana act.Establishes qualifying patient recognition cards and designated provider recognition cards.Requires the department of health to: (1) Establish and maintain a system for safeguarding the records of qualifying patients and designated providers that have applied for a recognition card; and(2) Convene a work group to develop practice guidelines for health care professionals to consider when authorizing the medical use of marijuana for patients.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1767
by Representatives Hargrove, Walsh, Zeiger, Scott, and Muri
Adding a minimum grade point average to the state need grant renewal requirement.
Changes the qualifications for renewal of a state need grant to require students to maintain at least a 2.0 grade point average except for those students attending The Evergreen State College.Requires students enrolled at The Evergreen State College to meet the requirements of the college's satisfactory academic progress policy for state financial aid to remain qualified.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1768
by Representatives Kirby, Vick, Reykdal, and Goodman
Authorizing a licensed domestic brewery or microbrewery to provide promotional items to a nonprofit charitable corporation or association.
Allows a licensed domestic brewery or microbrewery to provide branded promotional items, which are of nominal value, to certain nonprofit charitable corporations and associations.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Gaming (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1769
by Representatives Pettigrew, Wilcox, Springer, Manweller, Harris, Farrell, Tarleton, Magendanz, Walkinshaw, Rodne, Peterson, Buys, Zeiger, Senn, Goodman, Reykdal, Morris, Wilson, and Young; by request of Office of Financial Management
Reinstating tax preferences for high-technology research and development.
Provides a business and occupation tax credit for high-technology companies performing research and development.Provides a sales and use tax deferral for certain construction for new and expanding high-technology companies conducting research and development in the fields of advanced computing, advanced materials, biotechnology, electronic device technology, or environmental technology.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1770
by Representatives Bergquist, Magendanz, Pollet, Lytton, Muri, and Goodman; by request of Professional Educator Standards Board
Changing explicit alternative routes to teacher certification program requirements to expectations for program outcomes.
Changes explicit alternative routes to teacher certification program requirements to expectations for program outcomes.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1771
by Representatives Gregory, Magendanz, Lytton, Muri, and Pollet; by request of Professional Educator Standards Board
Confirming that the professional educator standards board is an authorized representative of the state educational agencies.
Clarifies that data exchanged between educator preparation programs and the state professional educator standards board is subject to the federal educational rights and privacy act.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1772
by Representatives Shea, McCaslin, Scott, Taylor, Holy, G. Hunt, and Condotta
Repealing unnecessary provisions concerning the Washington State Bar Association.
Repeals statutes establishing the Washington state bar association and the regulation of members of the bar.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1773
by Representatives G. Hunt, Magendanz, Manweller, Shea, Taylor, Buys, Young, Nealey, Vick, Scott, Wilson, and Condotta
Prohibiting public entities from giving or loaning public funds to bargaining unit representatives for nongovernment functions.
Prohibits public entities from giving or loaning public funds to bargaining unit representatives for nongovernment functions.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Labor (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1774
by Representatives Shea, Scott, Taylor, G. Hunt, Young, and Condotta
Protecting the right to work.
Addresses labor unions.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Labor (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1775
by Representatives Cody, Jinkins, Tharinger, and Muri; by request of Department of Social and Health Services
Authorizing the department of social and health services special commitment center to seek eligibility and reimbursement for health care costs covered by federal medicare, medicaid, and veterans health benefits.
Authorizes the secretary of the department of social and health services to act on behalf of a civilly committed resident for the purposes of applying for medicare and medicaid benefits, veterans' health benefits, or other health care benefits or reimbursement available as a result of participation in a health care exchange as defined by the affordable care act.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1776
by Representatives Condotta and Hurst
Clarifying transportation and delivery services for licensed marijuana producers, marijuana processors, and marijuana retailers.
Authorizes licensed marijuana producers, processors, and retailers to use the services of a common carrier to physically transport or deliver marijuana, useable marijuana, marijuana concentrates, and marijuana-infused products within the state.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Gaming (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1777
by Representatives Condotta, Manweller, G. Hunt, and Wilson
Concerning exclusive representation of employees in collective bargaining.
Addresses union security provisions in collective bargaining agreements.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Labor (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1778
by Representatives Condotta, Manweller, G. Hunt, and Wilson
Lowering the workers' compensation structured settlements age requirement to thirty-five years of age beginning January 1, 2016.
Changes the workers' compensation structured settlements age requirement from fifty years of age to thirty-five years of age.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Labor (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1779
by Representatives Van De Wege, Johnson, Harris, Jinkins, and Tharinger
Requiring specialized training for persons conducting victim interviews as part of the disciplinary process for a health professional alleged to have committed sexual misconduct.
Requires a person conducting a victim interview, as part of the disciplinary process for a health professional alleged to have committed sexual misconduct, to have successfully completed a training program on interviewing victims of sexual misconduct in a manner that minimizes the negative impacts on the victims.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1780
by Representatives Bergquist, Jinkins, S. Hunt, Appleton, Haler, MacEwen, Farrell, Harris, Tarleton, Fey, Pollet, Riccelli, and Sells
Regulating interpreter services.
Authorizes the department of social and health services and the state health care authority to purchase interpreter services on behalf of limited-English speaking applicants and recipients of public assistance.Authorizes the department of labor and industries to purchase interpreter services for medical and vocational providers authorized to provide services to limited-English speaking injured workers or crime victims.Requires the department of enterprise services to develop and implement a model that all state agencies must use to procure spoken language interpreter services by purchasing directly from language access providers or through contracts with scheduling and coordinating entities, or both.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to State Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1781
by Representatives Schmick, Hayes, G. Hunt, Parker, and Reykdal
Adjusting the maximum speed limit for Interstate 90 in rural counties.
Provides a seventy-five mile per hour speed limit on Interstate 90 on the portion of the interstate that is within a rural county.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1782
by Representatives Wilcox, Springer, Takko, Blake, Short, Nealey, Pollet, Vick, Parker, Morris, Reykdal, Orcutt, Schmick, DeBolt, MacEwen, Smith, Dent, Manweller, Robinson, Fitzgibbon, Wylie, Fagan, Tharinger, and Stokesbary
Clarifying expenditures under the state universal communications services program.
Clarifies expenditures for the state universal communications services program.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1783
by Representatives Ortiz-Self, Walkinshaw, Bergquist, Moscoso, Hudgins, Pollet, and Santos
Expanding dual language and bilingual instruction for early learners through secondary students.
Creates the K-12 dual language expansion grant program to build and expand dual language programs and to create state-level infrastructure dedicated to dual language instruction.Creates the dual language teacher pipeline scholarship program to build capacity for bilingual and dual language programming by developing a pipeline for dual language teachers, from early childhood to K-12 education.Creates the early learning bilingual and dual language grant program to provide technical and financial support to increase bilingual and dual language instruction in early learning settings where there are a high number of English language learners and to create a statewide strategy for increasing bilingual education among providers enrolled in the early achievers quality rating and improvement system.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1784
by Representatives Tharinger, Cody, Van De Wege, Riccelli, Jinkins, and Moeller
Concerning nursing home quality.
Addresses adequate staffing at nursing homes.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1785
by Representatives Reykdal, Taylor, Ortiz-Self, Dunshee, Moscoso, Appleton, S. Hunt, Takko, Gregory, Fitzgibbon, Gregerson, Pollet, Stanford, Sells, Fey, Blake, Ormsby, Peterson, Tarleton, Pike, Shea, Griffey, Klippert, Tharinger, Van De Wege, Goodman, Bergquist, Farrell, Riccelli, McBride, Condotta, and Young; by request of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Eliminating the certificate of academic achievement as a requirement for high school graduation.
Eliminates the assessment graduation requirements and the certificate of academic achievement.Requires students who fail to meet the standard on the smarter balanced assessment to take and pass locally determined courses in their senior year that align with their college or career goals, including, when available, high school transition courses.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1786
by Representatives Gregerson, Tarleton, Robinson, Sells, Ortiz-Self, McBride, Peterson, Cody, Bergquist, Moscoso, Jinkins, Ormsby, Stanford, Ryu, Pollet, and S. Hunt
Establishing a statewide wage standard for aerospace employment as a requirement to qualify for certain aerospace-related tax incentives.
Establishes the aerospace tax incentive accountability act.Establishes a statewide wage standard for aerospace employment as a requirement to qualify for certain aerospace-related tax incentives.Requires increases in state general fund revenue collections resulting from the changes in this act to be used for state services that aid low-income individuals.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Labor (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1787
by Representatives Riccelli, Jinkins, Robinson, Tharinger, Ormsby, S. Hunt, Lytton, and Pollet
Prohibiting health care facilities from limiting providers' patient care.
Prohibits a health care facility that employs a health care provider from limiting or prohibiting a health care provider's patient care.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1788
by Representatives Wylie, Holy, Ryu, Carlyle, Jinkins, Pollet, Moscoso, Appleton, Vick, Sawyer, Tarleton, Orwall, Ormsby, Farrell, and Riccelli
Creating the crime of criminal invasion of privacy via nonconsensual dissemination or disclosure of a sexual act or intimate parts.
Creates the crime of criminal invasion of privacy via nonconsensual disclosure or dissemination of a sexual act or intimate parts.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1789
by Representatives Springer, Nealey, Fitzgibbon, Fagan, Tharinger, Takko, Reykdal, S. Hunt, Gregerson, Ryu, Peterson, and Senn
Granting counties and cities greater flexibility with real estate excise tax proceeds.
Allows real estate excise tax proceeds to be used for the maintenance and operation of capital projects.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Local Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1790
by Representatives Springer, Muri, Ortiz-Self, and Reykdal
Clarifying the authority of a nurse working in a school setting.
Allows only a registered nurse or an advanced registered nurse practitioner to supervise, direct, or evaluate a licensed nurse working in a school setting with respect to the practice of nursing.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1791
by Representatives Kretz, Blake, Short, and Condotta
Requiring the department of fish and wildlife to manage wolf-related wildlife interactions using lethal means when certain conditions are satisfied.
Requires the department of fish and wildlife to manage wolf-related wildlife interactions using lethal means when certain conditions are satisfied.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1792
by Representatives Kretz, Blake, Short, and Condotta
Requiring the department of fish and wildlife to amend the existing wolf conservation and management plan.
Requires the department of fish and wildlife to amend the existing wolf conservation and management plan to better address the wolf recovery rate and the uneven distribution that has occurred since the initial adoption of the plan.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HJM 4002
by Representatives Kretz, Blake, Short, and Condotta
Requesting the Washington fish and wildlife commission to revisit the gray wolf conservation and management plan.
Requests the fish and wildlife commission to revisit the gray wolf conservation and management plan.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HJM 4003
by Representatives Shea, Scott, Klippert, Taylor, McCaslin, Holy, G. Hunt, Young, and Condotta
Urging the members of the United States congress to propose the parental rights amendment to the states for ratification.
Urges members of congress to propose the parental rights amendment to the states for ratification.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HJR 4207
by Representatives Shea, Holy, Taylor, Scott, McCaslin, G. Hunt, and Condotta
Requiring that all mandatory, regulatory, licensing, and disciplinary functions regarding the practice of law and administration of justice reside exclusively in the supreme court.
Proposes an amendment to the state Constitution to require that all mandatory, regulatory, licensing, and disciplinary functions regarding the practice of law and administration of justice reside exclusively in the supreme court.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
SB 5019-S
by Senate Committee on Agriculture, Water & Rural Economic Development (originally sponsored by Senator Honeyford)
Creating the agricultural labor skills and safety program.
Requires the department of commerce to create and administer the agricultural labor skills and safety grant program that will provide training opportunities for agricultural workers.
| Jan 27 | AWRD - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Jan 28 | Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | |
SB 5057-S
by Senate Committee on Energy, Environment & Telecommunications (originally sponsored by Senator Ericksen)
Concerning the safe transport of hazardous materials.
Requires the department of ecology to: (1) Provide grants to emergency responders to assist with oil spill and hazardous materials response and firefighting equipment and resources needed to meet the requirements of this act; and(2) Convene a panel to evaluate and assess vessel traffic management and vessel traffic safety within the Columbia river and Grays Harbor.Requires first-class cities to provide to the utilities and transportation commission a list of existing public crossings within the limits of a first-class city.Requires the emergency management council to require local emergency planning organizations to submit hazardous materials plans and to update the plans on a five-year cycle for compliance review by the adjutant general.Requires the department of ecology and the utilities and transportation commission to jointly hold a symposium on oil spill prevention and response activities for international transport of liquid bulk crude oil.Authorizes the utilities and transportation commission to adopt rules governing safety standards for private crossings along the railroad tracks over which crude oil is transported in the state.Authorizes employees of the utilities and transportation commission, certified by the federal railroad administration to perform hazardous materials inspections, to enter the property of any business that receives, ships, or offers for shipment hazardous materials by rail.Imposes an oil spill response tax and an oil spill administration tax on the privilege of receiving crude oil at a bulk oil terminal within this state from a tank car.Makes an appropriation.
| Jan 28 | EET - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| And refer to Ways & Means. | ||
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Referred to Ways & Means. | ||
SB 5073-S
by Senate Committee on Government Operations & State Security (originally sponsored 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 27 | GOSS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Jan 28 | Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | |
SB 5647
by Senators Conway, Dansel, and Fraser
Allowing counties to create guardianship courthouse facilitator programs.
Authorizes a county to create a guardianship courthouse facilitator program to provide basic services to pro se litigants in guardianship cases.Authorizes the county legislative authority to impose user fees or a surcharge of up to twenty dollars, or both, on superior court cases to pay for the expenses of the program.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing. | |
SB 5648
by Senators Rolfes, Frockt, Fraser, Keiser, and Conway
Amending the patient bill of rights to ensure continuity of care.
Requires each health carrier to cover services of a hospital, whose contract with the plan is being terminated by either the plan or the hospital, through the duration of the plan year for all enrollees enrolled in products allowing in-network access to the hospital at the time of termination.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5649
by Senators Darneille, Miloscia, Fraser, Keiser, Parlette, Benton, McCoy, and Dammeier
Concerning involuntary outpatient mental health treatment.
Modifies involuntary outpatient mental health treatment provisions relating to persons in need of assisted outpatient treatment.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing. | |
SB 5650
by Senators Padden, Darneille, Pearson, and Kohl-Welles; by request of Department of Corrections
Modifying provisions governing inmate funds subject to deductions.
Exempts from certain deduction requirements, money received by the department of corrections on behalf of an inmate from family or other outside sources for the payment of certain medical expenses.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5651
by Senators Darneille, Kohl-Welles, Frockt, Jayapal, Keiser, and Hasegawa
Eliminating detention for truant students found in contempt of a court order.
Removes detention requirements for truant students found in contempt of a court order.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing. | |
SB 5652
by Senators Darneille, Kohl-Welles, Frockt, Jayapal, Keiser, and Hasegawa
Implementing recommendations of the joint legislative task force on juvenile sentencing reform.
Implements recommendations of the joint legislative task force on juvenile sentencing reform.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing. | |
SB 5653
by Senators Darneille, Padden, Kohl-Welles, O'Ban, Fraser, and Pearson
Collecting DNA at jail and corrections facilities as part of the intake process.
Changes DNA collection requirements at jails and correctional facilities.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5654
by Senators Dansel and Benton
Concerning partial payment of current and delinquent taxes to the county treasurer.
Allows the county treasurer to accept partial payment of current and delinquent taxes including interest and penalties using any method he or she authorizes.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Security. | |
SB 5655
by Senators Benton, Chase, Roach, Hasegawa, Keiser, Kohl-Welles, Rolfes, and Honeyford
Concerning the provision of homeownership opportunities.
Addresses homeownership opportunities under the housing assistance program and the affordable housing program.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing. | |
SB 5656
by Senators Rivers, Chase, Fain, and Keiser; by request of Washington Traffic Safety Commission
Enhancing public safety by reducing distracted driving incidents caused by the use of personal wireless communications devices.
Revises existing cell phone laws in order to qualify for federal funds that have been set aside to combat the emerging national problem of distracted driving.Requires the director of the department of licensing to incorporate questions on distracted driving into the driver licensing examination.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5657
by Senators Mullet, Litzow, Billig, Frockt, McAuliffe, Keiser, Habib, and Conway
Creating a pilot program to encourage school districts to extend the school day to provide homework assistance to middle schools.
Establishes a pilot program to encourage school districts to extend the school day one hour beyond the regular school day for the purpose of providing homework assistance to students.Makes appropriations.Expires August 1, 2017.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5658
by Senators Dansel and Kohl-Welles
Concerning the role of parties in cases related to certain notices and records.
Addresses the roles of parties, notices, and records in cases related to restoration of firearms rights, juvenile records, certificated education employees, financial responsibility regarding motor vehicles, dissolution of port and other districts, and dependent children.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5659
by Senators Ericksen, Sheldon, Pearson, Braun, Hatfield, Hobbs, Mullet, and Benton
Directing state investments of existing litter tax revenues under chapter 82.19 RCW in material waste management efforts without increasing the tax rate.
Places existing litter tax revenue in material waste management efforts without increasing the tax rate.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications. | |
SB 5660
by Senators Hobbs, Honeyford, and Angel
Assisting small businesses licensed to sell spirits in Washington state.
Addresses license issuance fees for licensees who are holders of former state liquor store operating rights or owners of former contract liquor stores, and who are qualified as a small business.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 5661
by Senators Roach, Liias, Mullet, Keiser, and Benton
Allowing the legislature to hold public hearings on ballot propositions.
Allows the legislature to hold public hearings on ballot propositions.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Security. | |
SB 5662
by Senators Kohl-Welles, Honeyford, Braun, Mullet, and Rolfes
Authorizing a licensed domestic brewery or microbrewery to provide promotional items to a nonprofit charitable corporation or association.
Allows a licensed domestic brewery or microbrewery to provide branded promotional items, which are of nominal value, to certain nonprofit charitable corporations and associations.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 5663
by Senators Darneille, Kohl-Welles, and Hasegawa; by request of Department of Social and Health Services
Allowing youthful offenders who complete their confinement terms prior to age twenty-one equal access to a full continuum of rehabilitative and reentry services.
Provides equal access to a full continuum of rehabilitative and reentry services for youthful offenders who complete their confinement term before the age of twenty-one.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing. | |
SB 5664
by Senators Jayapal, Miloscia, Hasegawa, Frockt, Darneille, Roach, Kohl-Welles, Nelson, Cleveland, Chase, Keiser, Hobbs, Conway, McAuliffe, Fraser, and Habib
Promoting efficiency in the procurement of interpreter services.
Authorizes the department of social and health services and the state health care authority to purchase interpreter services on behalf of limited-English speaking applicants and recipients of public assistance.Authorizes the department of labor and industries to purchase interpreter services for medical and vocational providers authorized to provide services to limited-English speaking injured workers or crime victims.Requires the department of enterprise services to develop and implement a model that all state agencies must use to procure spoken language interpreter services by purchasing directly from language access providers or through contracts with scheduling and coordinating entities, or both.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 5665
by Senators Hill, Liias, Fain, Brown, and Benton; by request of Office of Financial Management
Reinstating tax preferences for high-technology research and development.
Provides a business and occupation tax credit for high-technology companies performing research and development.Provides a sales and use tax deferral for certain construction for new and expanding high-technology companies conducting research and development in the fields of advanced computing, advanced materials, biotechnology, electronic device technology, or environmental technology.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5666
by Senators Ranker and Rolfes
Concerning cetacean captivity.
Creates the crime of unlawful cetacean captivity.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Natural Resources & Parks. | |
SB 5667
by Senators Hargrove, Miloscia, Hasegawa, Litzow, Rolfes, Billig, Keiser, Nelson, Frockt, Warnick, and Kohl-Welles
Addressing the fiscal impacts of bills and budgets.
Requires fiscal notes dealing with corrections, child welfare, and mental health issues to include an estimate of the fiscal impact of expenditure reductions or increases on other state or local program expenditures as well as any return on investment as a result of the legislation.Requires the office of financial management and the state institute for public policy, in consultation with university-based research institutions, to work together to implement this act.Requires the director of the office of financial management and the director of the state institute for public policy to convene a work group to explore the establishment of a nonpartisan agency to conduct objective, impartial fiscal analysis on behalf of the legislature.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5668
by Senators Habib, Hasegawa, McCoy, Jayapal, Kohl-Welles, Liias, Chase, Pedersen, Mullet, Keiser, Darneille, Conway, and Fraser
Enacting the Washington voting rights act.
Establishes the Washington voting rights act to: (1) Authorize district-based elections;(2) Require redistricting and new elections in certain circumstances; and(3) Establish a cause of action to redress lack of voter opportunity.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Security. | |
SB 5669
by Senator Hargrove
Creating a local rural mover license.
Creates a local rural mover license.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5670
by Senators Braun, Chase, Kohl-Welles, Sheldon, Hatfield, Rivers, Bailey, Dansel, Ericksen, Becker, and Hewitt
Clarifying expenditures under the state universal communications services program.
Clarifies expenditures for the state universal communications services program.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications. | |
SB 5671
by Senators Baumgartner, O'Ban, Braun, and Angel
Addressing the payment of union dues by partial public employees.
Addresses union dues for individual providers, family child care providers, adult family home providers, and language access providers.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 5672
by Senators Conway, Keiser, Hasegawa, Kohl-Welles, Fraser, Benton, and Darneille
Concerning nursing staffing practices at hospitals.
Establishes the Washington state patient safety act.Requires the department of health to: (1) With stakeholder input, adopt patient assignment limits and recommend quality indicators;(2) Upon receipt of a complaint, conduct an audit of a hospital's compliance with this act and investigate complaints of violations of this act; and(3) Maintain, for public inspection, records of civil penalties, administrative actions, or license suspensions or revocations imposed on hospitals.Requires a hospital to: (1) Submit a staffing plan to the department of health on at least an annual basis, implement the staffing plan, and assign nursing personnel to each patient care unit in accordance with the plan; and(2) Regularly collect information regarding nurse staffing and submit it to the department of health semiannually.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 5673
by Senators Padden, Kohl-Welles, Roach, Miloscia, Pearson, and Darneille
Concerning the distribution of synthetic cannabinoids and bath salts.
Prohibits distributing, dispensing, manufacturing, or selling any product that contains any amount of any synthetic cannabinoid or cathinone.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5674
by Senators Cleveland and Keiser; by request of Department of Social and Health Services
Concerning enforcement standards for residential services and support providers.
Revises enforcement standards and penalties for residential services and support providers.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5675
by Senators Roach, Jayapal, McAuliffe, Parlette, Billig, Fain, Kohl-Welles, Benton, Hasegawa, and Conway
Expanding dual language and bilingual instruction for early learners through secondary students.
Creates the K-12 dual language expansion grant program to build and expand dual language programs and to create state-level infrastructure dedicated to dual language instruction.Creates the dual language teacher pipeline scholarship program to build capacity for bilingual and dual language programming by developing a pipeline for dual language teachers, from early childhood to K-12 education.Creates the early learning bilingual and dual language grant program to provide technical and financial support to increase bilingual and dual language instruction in early learning settings where there are a high number of English language learners and to create a statewide strategy for increasing bilingual education among providers enrolled in the early achievers quality rating and improvement system.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5676
by Senators Roach, Rolfes, Jayapal, Hargrove, and Hasegawa
Concerning the acceptance of additional high school equivalency tests.
Requires the state board for community and technical colleges to identify at least one high school equivalency test option that: (1) Is low cost to the student;(2) Does not require computer proficiency; and(3) Is appropriate for students who have been in the workforce, need a high school diploma for employment reasons, have been incarcerated or in the military, have been removed from any academic environment for four years or more, or are not planning to pursue a college education.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Higher Education. | |
SB 5677
by Senators Dansel, Fraser, and Sheldon
Allowing county treasurers to retain a portion of the state property tax to defray the costs of collection.
Requires a county treasurer to place a percentage of property taxes collected for all taxing districts, other than the state and county, in the county current expense fund to defray the costs of collection.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Security. | |
SB 5678
by Senators Pearson, Roach, Schoesler, and Hobbs
Concerning requesting public records for the purpose of obtaining exempted information relating to employment and licensing.
Prohibits a party obtaining the identity of employees or volunteers from an agency from using that information for the purpose of obtaining employment and licensing information.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Security. | |
SB 5679
by Senators McAuliffe, Litzow, Dammeier, Hasegawa, Liias, Chase, Rolfes, Jayapal, Parlette, and Conway
Concerning transition services for special education students.
Addresses transition planning to postsecondary settings for students with disabilities as early as the age of fourteen.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5680
by Senators Frockt, Bailey, Kohl-Welles, Keiser, and Hasegawa
Concerning family medicine residency programs in shortage areas.
Requires the department of health to conduct a performance audit and evaluation of the family medicine residency programs created in chapter 70.112 RCW.Requires the schools of medicine to coordinate with the office of student financial assistance to notify prospective family medicine students and residents of their eligibility for the health professional loan repayment and scholarship program.Creates a family medicine education advisory board and requires the board to consider and provide recommendations on the selection of areas within the state where affiliate residency programs could exist, the allocation of funds appropriated, and the procedures for review and evaluation of the residency programs.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5681
by Senators Hill and Angel; by request of Office of Financial Management
Concerning state lottery accounts.
Requires any cash balance in excess of ten million dollars in the state lottery account, on June 30th of each fiscal year, to be transferred to the Washington opportunity pathways account.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5682
by Senators Keiser, Rivers, Benton, and Angel
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.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5683
by Senators Litzow, Fain, Hill, Rivers, Brown, and Angel
Creating a short-form registration statement for small securities offerings.
Requires the director of the department of financial institutions to adopt by rule a crowdfunding form to be used as a short-form registration statement for small securities offerings.
| Jan 28 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance. | |