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 1870 by Representatives Schmick and Cody Concerning the ownership of hospitals. Prohibits the department of health, from January 1, 2015, through June 30, 2016, from issuing a certificate of need for the sale, purchase, or lease of an existing hospital to another hospital or a purchasing entity that has an ownership or investment interest in any other hospital within this state.
HB 1871 by Representatives Ryu and Vick Addressing credit unions' corporate governance and investments. Revises the state credit union act with regard to: (1) Duties of the board of directors;(2) Compensation to directors and supervisory committee members;(3) Payment of dividends; and(4) Investment of funds.
HB 1872 by Representative Ryu Addressing credit unions' capital. Authorizes a credit union, under certain circumstances, to receive payments on accounts or instruments subject to the terms, rates, and conditions as may be established by the board of directors.
HB 1873 by Representatives Tharinger, Cody, Riccelli, and Ormsby; by request of Department of Health Requiring physicians and physician assistants to provide requested demographic information at the time of license renewal. Requires physicians and physician assistants, at the time of license renewal, to provide the information requested by the medical quality assurance commission.
HB 1874 by Representatives Tharinger, Cody, and Riccelli; by request of Department of Health Regarding the requirements of allopathic physician licensure. Addresses allopathic physician licensing requirements.
HB 1875 by Representatives Walsh, Kagi, Johnson, Sawyer, Pettigrew, Moscoso, Zeiger, Ormsby, Appleton, and Young Concerning the definition of work activity for the purposes of the WorkFirst program. Revises the definition of "work activity," for purposes of the WorkFirst program, to increase the threshold from twelve months to twenty-four months for vocational educational training, with respect to any individual.
HB 1876 by Representative Manweller Concerning residential security system installations. Exempts from licensing requirements, under chapter 19.28 RCW (electricians and electrical installations), persons, firms, partnerships, corporations, and other entities for work limited to certain installations in one and two family dwellings.
HB 1877 by Representatives MacEwen, Johnson, and Ormsby Requiring fines and assessments against professional athletes be donated to charity. Requires the entire amount of a fine or penalty assessed on an athlete employed by a professional sports organization to be paid to a charitable organization of the athlete's choosing.Prohibits a professional sports organization from requiring an athlete to pay any amount of a fine or penalty to the professional sports organization.
HB 1878 by Representatives Kagi, Jinkins, Manweller, Tharinger, and Appleton Authorizing emergency medical technicians to administer glucagon in emergency situations. Requires the state's ambulance and aid services to make glucagon emergency kits available to their emergency medical technicians in their emergency care supplies.
HB 1879 by Representatives Kagi, Walsh, Cody, Harris, Orwall, Tarleton, and Ormsby Directing the health care authority to issue a request for proposals for integrated managed health and behavioral health services for foster children. Requires the state health care authority to issue a request for proposals to provide integrated managed health and behavioral health care for foster children receiving care through the medical assistance program.
HB 1880 by Representatives Springer, Haler, Reykdal, Hargrove, Pollet, Zeiger, Moscoso, Scott, Tarleton, and Sells Including Everett Community College as an aerospace training or educational program. Includes Everett Community College as an aerospace training or educational program.
HB 1881 by Representatives Short, Harris, Parker, Chandler, Kretz, Scott, Young, Schmick, and Buys Requiring express legislative authorization prior to the enactment of any regulation regarding the carbon content of fuel. Prohibits the executive branch and its related agencies, without prior express direction from the legislature, from creating rules related to or adopting, ordering, restricting, or otherwise implementing any fuel standard or setting carbon reduction requirements for fuel distributors or vehicles based upon or defined by the carbon intensity of the fuel or greenhouse gas emissions.Prohibits the implementation of a low-carbon fuel standard in this state.
HB 1882 by Representatives Moscoso, Orcutt, Kochmar, Farrell, and Young; by request of Utilities & Transportation Commission Concerning the regulation of passenger charter and excursion carriers. Modifies provisions relating to charter party carriers and excursion service carriers.
HB 1883 by Representatives Senn and Walsh; by request of Department of Social and Health Services Concerning investigations and family assessments in cases of child abuse and neglect. Modifies child abuse and neglect provisions relating to investigations and family assessments.
HB 1884 by Representatives Vick, Bergquist, Hayes, Riccelli, Orcutt, Wilson, and Pike Expanding the definition of an electric personal assistive mobility device to include a one-wheeled self-balancing device. Revises the definition of "electric personal assistive mobility device," for purposes of motor vehicle provisions, to include a self-balancing device with one wheel designed to transport only one person by an electric propulsion system.
HB 1885 by Representatives Klippert, Hudgins, Chandler, Hunter, MacEwen, Goodman, Ormsby, Tarleton, Fitzgibbon, Kagi, Ryu, Reykdal, Stanford, and Walkinshaw Addressing and mitigating the impacts of property crimes in Washington state. Responds to the findings of the state justice reinvestment task force by: (1) Changing sentencing policy to require supervision of certain people convicted of property offenses;(2) Providing treatment, if needed, and programs to reduce recidivism; and(3) Providing additional support to local governments and victims of property crime.Transfers the duties and functions of the sentencing guidelines commission to the Washington justice commission.Provides for termination and review, under the sunset act, of the Washington justice commission.Requires the Washington justice commission, if requested by a legislator, to prepare a racial and ethnic impact analysis that describes the effects of proposed legislation on the racial and ethnic composition of the criminal offender population or recipients of human services.Creates the Washington justice commission account.Makes appropriations.Provides that this act is null and void if appropriations are not approved.
HB 1886 by Representatives G. Hunt, Shea, Taylor, Young, Klippert, Dent, Haler, Wilcox, Short, Wilson, Scott, Condotta, Harris, Schmick, and Buys Referring a full repeal of Initiative Measure No. 594 to the people. Repeals Initiative Measure No. 594 relating to criminal and public safety background checks for gun sales and transfers.Provides for submission of this act to a vote of the people.
HB 1887 by Representatives Stanford, MacEwen, Gregerson, Peterson, Orwall, Wylie, Moscoso, Tarleton, Zeiger, Kilduff, and Bergquist Creating the student veterans' support program. Creates the Washington student veterans' support program under the authority of the department of veterans affairs to provide grants to community or technical colleges.Creates the student veterans' support program account.
HB 1888 by Representatives Dent, Kagi, McCabe, Haler, Manweller, Fagan, Walsh, Farrell, Johnson, Van Werven, Moeller, and Buys Transferring certification responsibilities for chemical dependency treatment programs from the department of social and health services to the department of health. Transfers powers, duties, and functions of the department of social and health services, pertaining to certification of chemical dependency treatment programs, to the department of health.
HB 1889 by Representatives Dent, Schmick, Manweller, Buys, Haler, Van Werven, Short, Griffey, Harris, Klippert, Blake, Chandler, Condotta, Fagan, Kretz, McCaslin, and Wilson Limiting the authority of growth management hearings boards to hear petitions challenging the regulation of permit exempt wells. Limits the growth management hearings board's authority to hear petitions challenging the regulation of permit-exempt wells.
HB 1890 by Representatives Schmick and Cody Concerning a second-party payment process for paying insurers. Clarifies that an entity that makes premium payments from accounts that are owned and controlled by the insured do not constitute a third party for the purposes of acceptance of premium payments by an insurer.
HB 1891 by Representatives Fey, Orcutt, Farrell, and Moscoso Concerning stage II gasoline vapor control programs. Requires the department of ecology to analyze certain stage II gasoline vapor recovery system requirements.
HB 1892 by Representatives Fey, Clibborn, Farrell, Moscoso, Tarleton, Ormsby, and Bergquist Repealing the deduction for handling losses of motor vehicle fuel. Repeals RCW 82.38.083 (deductions for handling losses of motor vehicle fuel).
HB 1893 by Representatives Sells, Haler, Moscoso, Zeiger, Pollet, S. Hunt, Appleton, Riccelli, Tarleton, Ormsby, and Bergquist Increasing transparency in community and technical colleges by requiring certain budget detail to be available online. Requires the state board for community and technical colleges to post all nonstate appropriated funds and any other revenue-generating fees and charges that are nonstate appropriated revenues on its web site.
HB 1894 by Representatives Gregerson, Jinkins, Goodman, Kirby, Walkinshaw, Ormsby, Moeller, and Pollet Creating a cause of action for the protection of workers acting in furtherance of public policy. Prohibits an employer from taking materially adverse action against an employee where retaliation is a substantial factor in the employer's decision to take the adverse action.
HB 1895 by Representatives Smith, Tarleton, and Young Concerning smart grid technology reporting. Requires electrical companies to file a smart grid technology report with the utilities and transportation commission by September 1st of each even-numbered year through September 1, 2026.
HB 1896 by Representatives Smith, Hudgins, Tarleton, and Young Providing a statewide minimum privacy policy for disclosure of customer energy use information. Prohibits an electric utility from disclosing or selling private or proprietary customer information for the purposes of marketing services or product offerings to a retail electric customer who does not already subscribe to that service or product, unless the electric utility has first obtained the customer's written or electronic permission to do so.
HB 1897 by Representatives Smith, Morris, Tarleton, Young, Hayes, Haler, Sells, Buys, Fagan, and Short Creating the joint center for deployment and research in earth-abundant materials. Establishes the JCDREAM act.Creates the joint center for deployment and research in earth-abundant materials to establish a transformative program in earth-abundant materials to accelerate the development of next generation clean energy and transportation technologies.
HB 1898 by Representatives Ortiz-Self, Johnson, Walkinshaw, Muri, Robinson, Pettigrew, Lytton, and Kilduff Concerning awareness of the possibility of children testifying remotely in certain cases. Requires certain child victims to be made aware of the possibility that a court may allow children under the age of fourteen to testify in a room outside the presence of the defendant and the jury.Requires the criminal justice training commission to include in its training session on investigating and prosecuting sexual assault cases a reference to the possibility that a court may allow children under the age of fourteen to testify in a room outside the presence of the defendant and the jury.
HB 1899 by Representatives Ortiz-Self, Pettigrew, Walkinshaw, Lytton, Tarleton, Appleton, Sells, and Pollet Concerning consideration of equity and social justice impacts from public education system decision making. Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to convene a work group to design a uniform equity impact review process to identify, evaluate, and communicate the potential impacts of proposed administrative rules and budget requests that affect educational equity.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction, the department of early learning, the student achievement council, the state board of education, the state board for community and technical colleges, and the professional educator standards board to make equity impact reviews available for public comment when: (1) Notice of a public hearing on a proposed rule is published in the State Register; or(2) A budget request is submitted to the office of financial management.
HB 1900 by Representatives Ortiz-Self, Johnson, Orwall, Muri, Lytton, Tarleton, Pollet, and Bergquist Defining the role of the school counselor, social worker, and psychologist. Specifies that the primary role of school counselors, social workers, and psychologists is to: (1) Focus on student mental health;(2) Work with at-risk and marginalized students;(3) Perform risk assessments; and(4) Collaborate with mental health professionals.
HB 1901 by Representatives Harmsworth, Farrell, Buys, Vick, Griffey, Young, Sells, and Peterson Authorizing two-year registration periods for certain vehicles while maintaining existing annual vehicle registration fee amounts. Allows a person to designate either a one-year or two-year registration period when registering a vehicle that is eligible for a two-year registration period.
HB 1902 by Representatives Harmsworth, Young, Scott, Griffey, and Hayes Renaming the spirits retail license fee as a tax and dedicating revenue to education. Changes the name of the license issuance fee to a license issuance tax and requires licensees to pay the tax to the department of revenue.Requires the tax to be deposited in the education legacy trust account if funds are available after certain other distributions have been made.
HB 1903 by Representatives Peterson, Harmsworth, Reykdal, Moscoso, and Hurst Modifying distillers' spirit sampling provisions. Authorizes distilleries to provide spirits samples that are adulterated with nonalcoholic mixers, water, and/or ice.
HB 1904 by Representatives Tharinger, Cody, Harris, Tarleton, and Appleton Concerning assisted living payment rates. Addresses payment rate methodology of medicaid home and community-based long-term care services.
HB 1905 by Representatives Klippert, Haler, and Buys Concerning government ownership of vacant or undeveloped land for extended periods of time. Requires each public agency that owns certain vacant or otherwise undeveloped property to: (1) Develop a list of these properties by parcel number; and(2) Develop, adopt, and implement a master real estate plan to use or dispose of the properties on the list.
HB 1906 by Representative Klippert Prohibiting mandatory child support for postsecondary education of adult children. Prohibits a court from ordering either or both parents to pay support for postsecondary education of a child over eighteen years of age.Prohibits the use of the child support schedule to order postsecondary educational support of a child.Authorizes a party to petition for modification of an existing order to pay postsecondary child support without showing a substantial change of circumstances.
HB 1907 by Representative Klippert Restricting the operation of state licensed marijuana producers, marijuana processors, or marijuana retailers within one thousand feet of a religious facility. Includes religious facilities in the buffer distance requirements of recreational marijuana businesses unless a governing body or authorized representative of the religious facility consents in writing to the location of the business.
HB 1908 by Representatives Klippert, Caldier, Hayes, Griffey, Young, and Buys Requiring photo identification on electronic benefit cards. Requires electronic benefit cards issued to or on behalf of a person receiving public assistance to contain a photo identification of the person authorized to use the card.
HB 1909 by Representatives Walsh, Kagi, Tarleton, Appleton, and Ryu Concerning service options for individuals with developmental disabilities. Requires the department of social and health services to pilot a program that allows clients to be able to choose either a qualified home care agency or an individual provider to provide community access services.
HB 1910 by Representatives Ryu, Moscoso, Gregerson, Appleton, and Taylor Encouraging effective oversight of law enforcement conduct. Addresses the use of law enforcement oversight recorders.
HB 1911 by Representatives Fitzgibbon and Tarleton Authorizing municipalities to create assessment reimbursement areas for the construction or improvement of water or sewer facilities. Revises the municipal water and sewer facilities act to authorize a municipality to: (1) Create an assessment reimbursement area on its own initiative, without the participation of a private property owner;(2) Finance the costs of the construction or improvement; and(3) Become the sole beneficiary of reimbursements.
HB 1912 by Representatives Morris and Tarleton Relating to distributed generation. Introduced by title and introductory section only, relating to distributed generation.
HB 1913 by Representatives Wylie, Wilson, Gregerson, Ryu, and Scott Concerning rule making, including requiring new information uncovered during the rule-making process to be provided to the appropriate legislative policy committees and a review of certain rules. Requires an agency head to inform appropriate legislative policy committees if information is revealed during a rule-making hearing that indicates the existence of new data, an unanticipated adverse impact, or new cost information.Requires the joint administrative rules review committee to review proposed rules if the rule is not within the intent of the legislature or certain new information that was not known during the legislative process is identified.Requires any rule that has a fiscal impact of one million dollars or more to be reviewed by the joint administrative rules review committee.
HB 1914 by Representatives Orwall, Hansen, and Ormsby; by request of Legislative Ethics Board Addressing the reporting of gifts in the form of food and beverage to state officers and state employees. Addresses food and beverage gifts to state officers and employees.
HB 1915 by Representatives S. Hunt, Harris, MacEwen, Walkinshaw, Sells, Goodman, Moscoso, Reykdal, Robinson, Kilduff, Fitzgibbon, Hayes, Hudgins, Tarleton, Appleton, Ormsby, Pollet, and Bergquist Protecting taxpayers by providing for accountability and transparency in government contracting. Establishes the taxpayer protection act.Provides for accountability and transparency in government contracting.
HB 1916 by Representatives Cody and Harris Integrating administrative provisions for chemical dependency and mental health. Addresses the integration of chemical dependency and mental health administrative provisions.
HB 1917 by Representatives Hansen, Pettigrew, Ortiz-Self, and Appleton Concerning video and/or sound recordings made by law enforcement or corrections officers. Allows individuals who interact with law enforcement or corrections officers to access the video and/or sound recordings of these interactions under certain circumstances.
HB 1918 by Representatives Shea, Orcutt, Hayes, and Scott Modifying provisions applicable to off-road, nonhighway, and wheeled all-terrain vehicles and their drivers. Modifies off-road vehicle provisions relating to: (1) Liability immunity for sponsoring organizations;(2) Certificate of title requirements;(3) Exemptions for out-of-state owners; and(4) Equipment and declaration requirements.
HB 1919 by Representative S. Hunt Clarifying the timing of special elections. Clarifies special election timing.
HB 1920 by Representatives S. Hunt, Appleton, Johnson, and Ormsby; by request of Office of Financial Management Promoting the use, acceptance, and removal of barriers to the use and acceptance of electronic signatures. Establishes the Washington electronic commerce and governmental affairs act.Requires the chief information officer, in coordination with state agencies, to establish standards, guidelines, or policies for the electronic submittal and receipt of electronic records and electronic signatures.
HB 1921 by Representatives S. Hunt and Reykdal Authorizing the addition of new counties to a regional transit authority. Addresses elections to add counties or portions of counties west of the crest of the Cascade mountains that are contiguous with counties already within the regional transit authority boundaries.
HB 1922 by Representatives Springer, Lytton, Hurst, DeBolt, Rodne, S. Hunt, Kirby, Morris, Senn, Pettigrew, Blake, Clibborn, Takko, MacEwen, Harris, Stanford, Short, Vick, Parker, Wilcox, G. Hunt, Wylie, Pike, Moeller, Nealey, Hawkins, Johnson, Condotta, Walsh, Fagan, Buys, Kretz, Santos, Fey, Tarleton, and Gregerson Addressing small loans and small consumer installment loans. Establishes the small consumer installment loan act.Addresses check cashers and sellers and small consumer installment loans.
HB 1923 by Representatives Zeiger, Bergquist, Kirby, Haler, Hargrove, and Parker Regulating income share agreements. Provides for income share agreements which are an alternative to loans and would allow an individual to receive funds to pay for higher education or workforce development in exchange for a certain percentage of his or her income over a fixed period of time.
HB 1924 by Representatives Hargrove, Farrell, Zeiger, Blake, Rodne, Kochmar, and Tarleton Adding elected members to regional transit authority boards. Changes the composition of regional transit authority boards.
HB 1925 by Representatives Fitzgibbon and Peterson; by request of Governor Inslee Extending the alternative fuel vehicle retail sales and use tax exemption. Delays, until July 1, 2025, the expiration of the alternative fuel vehicle retail sales and use tax exemption.
HB 1926 by Representatives Stanford, Sells, Bergquist, Reykdal, and Ormsby Restricting noncompetition agreements. Restricts noncompetition agreements.
HJM 4004 by Representatives Wylie, Tarleton, Lytton, S. Hunt, Van De Wege, Kirby, Sawyer, Riccelli, Robinson, Moscoso, Hurst, Jinkins, Farrell, Walkinshaw, Gregerson, Cody, Sells, Peterson, Takko, Appleton, Goodman, Kilduff, Moeller, Carlyle, Morris, Tharinger, Fitzgibbon, Bergquist, Stanford, Dunshee, Pollet, Fey, Reykdal, and Ormsby Calling on Congress to exercise its authority under Article V of the United States Constitution to regulate money spent on elections. Calls on congress to exercise its authority to regulate money spent on elections.
HJR 4209 by Representatives Scott, Young, Shea, Taylor, Haler, Kochmar, Pike, Wilson, and Buys Requiring a balanced budget. Proposes an amendment to the state Constitution requiring a balanced budget.
SB 5745 by Senators Hargrove and Miloscia Implementing Becca task force truancy reform recommendations. Implements truancy reform recommendations of the Becca task force.
SB 5746 by Senators Bailey, Hobbs, Liias, Baumgartner, Kohl-Welles, Chase, and McAuliffe Including Everett Community College as an aerospace training or educational program. Includes Everett Community College as an aerospace training or educational program.
SB 5747 by Senators Padden and Miloscia Prohibiting actions for wrongful life and wrongful birth, and expanding the beneficiaries in an action for wrongful death. Prohibits a person from maintaining a civil cause of action or from receiving an award of damages for wrongful life or wrongful birth based on the claim that, but for an act or omission of another person, the person would not or should not have been born.Expands the list of beneficiaries in wrongful death actions.
SB 5748 by Senators Litzow, Mullet, Fain, Dammeier, Hill, Rivers, Becker, King, Angel, Braun, Warnick, and Bailey Clarifying the teacher and principal evaluation process with the intent of strengthening the process. Addresses the evaluation process for: (1) Teachers who teach reading or language arts or mathematics in a grade in which the federally mandated statewide student assessments are administered; and(2) Principals assigned to a school in which reading or language arts or mathematics are taught in at least one of the grades in which the federally mandated statewide assessments are administered.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to provide to each school district the relevant state-level assessment information necessary to determine student growth for the purpose of teacher and principal evaluations.Delays the time in which evaluation results for certificated classroom teachers and principals must be used as one of multiple factors in making human resource and personnel decisions.
SB 5749 by Senators Litzow and Dammeier; by request of Superintendent of Public Instruction Specifying that student growth data elements used in teacher and principal evaluations include state-based tools and delaying the use of the evaluation results in making human resources and personnel decisions until the 2016-17 school year. Addresses the inclusion of state-based tools in student growth data elements used in teacher and principal evaluations.Delays the time in which evaluation results for certificated classroom teachers and principals must be used as one of multiple factors in making human resource and personnel decisions.
SB 5750 by Senators Parlette, Dansel, Hatfield, Rolfes, and Warnick Regarding payments to counties in lieu of property taxes by the department of fish and wildlife. Addresses the department of fish and wildlife's payments to counties in lieu of property taxes.
SB 5751 by Senators Hasegawa, Jayapal, Darneille, and Chase Changing the burden of proof in certain civil asset forfeiture hearings. Changes the burden of proof in certain civil asset forfeiture hearings.
SB 5752 by Senators Hasegawa, Darneille, Kohl-Welles, Jayapal, Chase, and McAuliffe Regarding information concerning racial disproportionality. Requires the caseload forecast council to: (1) In cooperation with appropriate legislative committees and staff, the office of financial management, the department of corrections, the department of social and health services, the administrative office of the courts, the minority and justice commission, the state institute for public policy, and the sentencing guidelines commission, establish a procedure for the provision of racial impact statements on the effect that legislative bills and resolutions will have on racial and ethnic minority groups, including the racial and ethnic composition of the criminal and juvenile justice systems; and(2) Provide a racial and ethnic impact statement on any legislative proposal at the request of a legislator.
SB 5753 by Senators Liias, Roach, Hobbs, and Benton Creating a county property tax exemption for energy efficient construction. Authorizes a county legislative authority to provide an exemption from county property tax levies for certified third-party green building construction or improvements.
SB 5754 by Senators Keiser, Cleveland, McAuliffe, Conway, Jayapal, Parlette, and Dammeier; by request of Department of Health Concerning remediation plans for licensed health and health-related professions to resolve eligible complaints of unprofessional conduct. Authorizes a disciplining authority to, after investigation, offer a remediation plan to licensed health and health-related professions to resolve eligible complaints of unprofessional conduct.
SB 5755 by Senators Hargrove, Hill, Ranker, Dammeier, Braun, Keiser, Billig, Becker, Brown, Kohl-Welles, Chase, Conway, Darneille, Hasegawa, Fain, Habib, Hewitt, Pedersen, Jayapal, and McAuliffe Addressing and mitigating the impacts of property crimes in Washington state. Responds to the findings of the state justice reinvestment task force by: (1) Changing sentencing policy to require supervision of certain people convicted of property offenses;(2) Providing treatment, if needed, and programs to reduce recidivism; and(3) Providing additional support to local governments and victims of property crime.Transfers the duties and functions of the sentencing guidelines commission to the Washington justice commission.Provides for termination and review, under the sunset act, of the Washington justice commission.Requires the Washington justice commission, if requested by a legislator, to prepare a racial and ethnic impact analysis that describes the effects of proposed legislation on the racial and ethnic composition of the criminal offender population or recipients of human services.Creates the Washington justice commission account.Makes appropriations.Provides that this act is null and void if appropriations are not approved.
SB 5756 by Senators Braun, Hatfield, Rivers, Angel, Ericksen, Honeyford, and Benton Extending specific aerospace tax preferences to include other types of commercial aircraft to encourage the migration of good wage jobs in the state. Provides a preferential business and occupation tax rate, business and occupation tax credit, and sales and use tax deferral for the manufacturing of rotorcraft, including the components used in the manufacturing process.
SB 5757 by Senators Benton and Mullet Addressing credit unions' corporate governance and investments. Revises the state credit union act with regard to: (1) Duties of the board of directors;(2) Compensation to directors and supervisory committee members;(3) Payment of dividends; and(4) Investment of funds.
SB 5758 by Senators Honeyford, Becker, Hargrove, Frockt, Hatfield, and Bailey Concerning federal medicaid payment reconciliations. Requires the state health care authority to complete an annual reconciliation of enhancement payments for federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics within two years of the close of the calendar year for which the payments are made.
SB 5759 by Senators Padden and Baumgartner Concerning prevailing wages for workers employed in residential construction. Requires distinct prevailing wage rates to be calculated and paid to workers employed in residential construction.
SB 5760 by Senators Brown, Sheldon, Keiser, and Dansel Concerning contracts for materials or work required by joint operating agencies. Increases the threshold from ten thousand dollars to fifteen thousand dollars for materials purchased, and from ten thousand dollars to twenty-five thousand dollars for work ordered, by joint operating agencies.
SB 5761 by Senators Pearson, Hobbs, McCoy, Bailey, and Benton Providing for property tax exemption for the value of new construction of industrial/manufacturing facilities in targeted urban areas. Authorizes cities that plan under the growth management act meeting certain criteria where the governing authority of the affected city has found there is insufficient family living wage jobs for its wage earning population to designate a portion of the city's industrial and manufacturing zoned and undeveloped land to receive an ad valorem tax exemption for the value of new construction of industrial/manufacturing facilities within the designated area.
SB 5762 by Senators Fraser, Angel, Ericksen, Sheldon, Hatfield, Hobbs, Kohl-Welles, and Benton Concerning the taxation and permitting of vessels in Washington. Addresses sales and use taxes on vessels.
SB 5763 by Senators Warnick, Pearson, and Hatfield Addressing the public employees' collective bargaining act as applied to commissioned officers of the department of fish and wildlife. Specifies that the public employees' collective bargaining act applies to the state with respect to commissioned officers, except for captains, of the department of fish and wildlife.
SB 5764 by Senators Fain, King, Hill, Rivers, and Benton Requiring the removal of graffiti from state-owned transportation facilities by the department of transportation within twenty-four hours of notice. Requires the department of transportation to remove graffiti from state-owned transportation facilities within twenty-four hours of the graffiti being reported to the department.
SB 5765 by Senators Jayapal, Angel, and McAuliffe 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.
SB 5766 by Senators Roach, O'Ban, Padden, and Darneille Establishing performance requirements and measures for monitoring agencies providing home detention programs utilizing electronic monitoring. Changes the duties of monitoring agencies that provide home detention programs using electronic monitoring.
SB 5767 by Senators Cleveland, Benton, Honeyford, and Fraser Revising local government treasury practices and procedures. Modifies the practices and procedures of local government treasuries.
SB 5768 by Senators Cleveland, Benton, Honeyford, and Fraser Concerning county electronic public auctions. Authorizes a county treasurer to conduct a public auction sale by electronic media.
SB 5769 by Senators Schoesler, Angel, Becker, Brown, Hatfield, Braun, Ericksen, Roach, Rivers, Conway, Hewitt, Parlette, and Benton Concerning the management of noxious weeds on state lands. Addresses liens, with regard to the management of noxious weeds, on lands owned by the state.
SB 5770 by Senators Frockt, Keiser, Fraser, Kohl-Welles, Ranker, and Jayapal 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.
SB 5771 by Senators Liias, Pearson, Dansel, Hatfield, Rivers, Hobbs, and Fain Addressing investigations under the ethics act. Provides for due process during an ethics investigation.Prohibits the ethics board from contracting with or requesting the assistance of the office of the attorney general in conducting an investigation.
SB 5772 by Senators Conway, Frockt, and Bailey; by request of Department of Health Requiring physicians and physician assistants to provide requested demographic information at the time of license renewal. Requires physicians and physician assistants, at the time of license renewal, to provide the information requested by the medical quality assurance commission.
SB 5773 by Senators Conway, Frockt, and Bailey; by request of Department of Health Regarding the requirements of allopathic physician licensure. Addresses allopathic physician licensing requirements.
SB 5774 by Senators Braun, Baumgartner, and Brown Requiring tracking of prevailing wage surveys. Requires the department of labor and industries to keep track of the number of wage surveys it sends and the number of responses it receives.
SB 5775 by Senators Braun and Baumgartner Improving the accuracy of the prevailing rate of wage. Requires the department of labor and industries, in establishing the prevailing rate of wage, to use a stratified random sampling methodology.
SB 5776 by Senators Braun, Baumgartner, Rivers, Becker, Padden, Schoesler, Brown, Angel, Bailey, Benton, and Honeyford Concerning food stamp work requirements. Prohibits the state from seeking, accepting, or maintaining any waivers from the federal food stamp work requirements in P.L. 104-193.Requires the state to terminate any federal work requirement waivers in existence.
SB 5777 by Senators Becker, Rivers, O'Ban, Hewitt, Dammeier, Litzow, Schoesler, Dansel, Padden, Angel, Baumgartner, King, Bailey, Warnick, Honeyford, Hill, Parlette, Fain, Braun, Sheldon, Brown, Ericksen, and Benton Concerning state employee whistleblower protection. Revises the definition of "improper governmental action," for purposes of state employee whistleblower protection, to include any action by an employee undertaken in the performance of the employee's official duties that violates the administrative procedure act or analogous provisions of law that prohibit ex parte communication regarding cases or matters pending in which an agency is party between the agency's employee and a presiding officer, hearing officer, or an administrative law judge.
SB 5778 by Senators Becker, Frockt, Keiser, Bailey, Dammeier, Liias, Hatfield, Angel, Dansel, King, Baumgartner, Brown, Cleveland, Warnick, Honeyford, Parlette, Hill, Rivers, Fain, Braun, Litzow, Conway, Sheldon, Ericksen, and Hewitt Concerning ambulatory surgical facilities. Holds initial licensing fees and license renewal fees at their current level for ambulatory surgical facilities by enacting an inspection fee for ambulatory surgical facilities not certified as a medicare ambulatory surgical facility or accredited by a national organization with equivalent standards.
SB 5779 by Senators Parlette and Darneille Reducing penalties applied to regional support networks and behavioral health organizations. Reduces penalties applied to regional support networks and behavioral health organizations.
SB 5780 by Senators Fraser, Becker, King, and Hobbs Authorizing the addition of new counties to a regional transit authority. Addresses elections to add counties or portions of counties west of the crest of the Cascade mountains that are contiguous with counties already within the regional transit authority boundaries.
SB 5781 by Senators Billig, O'Ban, Darneille, Frockt, and Kohl-Welles Providing procedures for responding to reports of threatened or attempted suicide. Establishes Sheena's law.Provides procedures for responding to reports of threatened or attempted suicide.
SB 5782 by Senators Nelson, Pedersen, Frockt, Habib, Darneille, Kohl-Welles, Benton, and McAuliffe Allowing a parent to bring an action for the injury or death of a child younger than twenty-six years old who has not been emancipated. Establishes Katie's law.Authorizes a parent to bring an action for the injury or death of an unemancipated child younger than twenty-six years old.
SB 5783 by Senators Rivers, Dansel, Fain, Sheldon, Hatfield, and Benton Authorizing peace officers to assist the department of corrections with the supervision of offenders. Allows a peace officer to assist the department of corrections with the supervision of offenders.
SB 5784 by Senator Rivers Concerning estate tax interest waivers. Requires the department of revenue to waive interest accruing for the period beginning October 18, 2012, through October 2, 2014, on the amount of unpaid estate taxes due on the value of property included in the decedent's gross estate under section 2044 of the internal revenue code if the decedent's interest in the property was acquired before May 17, 2005.
SB 5785 by Senators Rivers, Nelson, Dansel, Hatfield, Pearson, Fain, Liias, and Hobbs Revising the definition of official duties of state officers. Revises the definition of official duties of state officers for purposes of chapter 42.52 RCW (ethics in public service).
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