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 1006-S by House Committee on Labor (originally sponsored by Representatives Sawyer, G. Hunt, Dunshee, Riccelli, Moeller, Fitzgibbon, Appleton, Gregerson, Reykdal, Jinkins, Bergquist, Goodman, Moscoso, Ormsby, Farrell, Walkinshaw, and Pollet) Providing damages for wage violations. Increases the penalty for certain wage violations.
HB 1031-S by House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Johnson, Santos, Haler, Appleton, Sells, S. Hunt, Gregerson, Reykdal, Bergquist, Van De Wege, Hargrove, Ormsby, Fey, and Walkinshaw) Expanding participation in college in the high school programs. Allows tenth grade students to participate in the college in the high school program.Requires college credits for completion of the program to be applied toward degree requirements at The Evergreen State College.
HB 1054-S by House Committee on Business & Financial Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Stanford and Gregerson) Concerning collection agency transaction fees for processing electronic payments. Prohibits a collection agency from collecting a transaction fee for processing a credit card payment in an amount that does not exceed fifty cents plus three percent of the payment amount provided that a no-cost payment option is available to the debtor.
HB 1121-S by House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Parker, Santos, Riccelli, Bergquist, Gregerson, Magendanz, Ortiz-Self, Muri, Tarleton, and Pollet) Regarding the financial education public-private partnership. Changes the composition and duties of the financial education public-private partnership.Authorizes teachers appointed as members by the superintendent of public instruction to be paid travel expenses from funds available in the financial education public-private partnership account.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Integrate financial education skills and content knowledge into the state learning standards; and(2) After consulting with the partnership, make available to all school districts a list of materials that align with the financial education standards integrated into the state learning standards.Requires school districts to provide students in grades nine through twelve the opportunity to access the financial education standards.Adopts standards in K-12 personal finance education developed by a national coalition for personal financial literacy that includes partners from business, finance, government, academia, education, and state affiliates as the state financial education learning standards.
HB 1138-S by House Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Orwall, Haler, Blake, Carlyle, Kochmar, Reykdal, Appleton, S. Hunt, Pollet, Tarleton, Ortiz-Self, Gregerson, Bergquist, Ormsby, Senn, Riccelli, Ryu, Tharinger, Walkinshaw, and Fey) Creating a task force on mental health and suicide prevention in higher education. Requires Forefront at the University of Washington to convene a task force on mental health and suicide prevention at public and private institutions of higher education to determine what policies, resources, and technical assistance are needed to support the institutions in improving access to mental health services and improving suicide prevention responses.Expires July 1, 2017.
HB 2002 by Representatives Morris, Magendanz, and Fitzgibbon Concerning regulatory and financial mechanisms and means to promote the retirement of coal-fired electric generation facilities. Establishes the Washington state coal generation retirement program act.Promotes the retirement of coal-fired electric generation facilities.
HB 2003 by Representatives Ormsby and S. Hunt Addressing health care coverage for retired or disabled school employees or state employees. Authorizes certain retired or disabled school employees and retired or disabled state employees to enroll in medical and dental plans under the state health care authority.
HB 2004 by Representatives Taylor, Reykdal, Takko, Rodne, Shea, Griffey, Vick, Zeiger, Condotta, Hayes, Buys, Harmsworth, Scott, Pike, Van Werven, Muri, and Wilson Defining professional legislative staff member for purposes of personal financial affairs reporting. Excludes legislative assistants from the definition of professional legislative staff member for purposes of personal financial affairs reporting.
HB 2005 by Representatives Moscoso, Goodman, Pettigrew, Appleton, Orwall, Ormsby, and Jinkins Creating an office of corrections ombuds. Creates an office of corrections ombuds within the office of the governor for the purpose of: (1) Providing information to offenders and their families;(2) Promoting public awareness and understanding of the rights and responsibilities of offenders;(3) Identifying system issues and responses for the governor and the legislature to act upon; and(4) Ensuring compliance with relevant statutes, rules, and policies pertaining to corrections facilities, services, and treatment of offenders under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections.Requires funding for the office to be provided from the proceeds of the department of corrections' institutional offender betterment accounts, after distribution is made to the crime victims' compensation program.
HB 2006 by Representatives Moscoso, Kagi, Pettigrew, Appleton, Orwall, Bergquist, and Pollet Concerning a model policy and procedures for language access by limited-English proficient parents of students. Requires the state school directors' association to, with the assistance of the office of the superintendent of public instruction, develop a model policy and procedures for language access by limited-English proficient parents.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to convene an advisory committee to develop sample materials for school districts to disseminate to school employees and parents regarding parents' rights under the model policy developed by the state school directors' association and the resources available to assist parents and guardians in accessing the services available to them.Requires each school district board of directors to establish its own language access policy and procedures and make them available on the district's web site.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction and the office of the education ombuds to develop a list of and post information on the agency's web site regarding: (1) Language access services providers available to school districts; and(2) Training programs that are available to support school districts in preparing employees for how to access and effectively use an interpreter.
HB 2007 by Representatives Zeiger, Sullivan, Stambaugh, Van De Wege, Riccelli, and Ormsby Concerning reimbursement to eligible providers for medicaid ground emergency medical transportation services. Requires an eligible provider to receive supplemental medicaid reimbursement in addition to the rate of payment that the provider would otherwise receive for medicaid ground emergency medical transportation services.Requires the state health care authority to design and implement, in consultation with eligible providers, an intergovernmental transfer program relating to medicaid managed care, ground emergency medical transport services including those services provided by emergency medical technicians at the basic, advanced, and paramedic levels in the prestabilization and preparation for transport in order to increase capitation payments for the purpose of increasing reimbursement to eligible providers.
HB 2008 by Representatives Carlyle, Hurst, Wylie, Condotta, Cody, Tharinger, Hunter, Kagi, and Reykdal Concerning comprehensive marijuana tax reform to ensure a well regulated and taxed marijuana market in Washington. Addresses marijuana tax reform.Requires a buyer rather than a retailer to pay the marijuana excise tax on a retail sale of marijuana concentrates, useable marijuana, and marijuana-infused products.Increases marijuana excise taxes.Shares marijuana tax revenues with local jurisdictions for public safety and chemical dependency and mental health treatment expenditures.Provides a sales and use tax exemption on: (1) Useable marijuana and marijuana-infused products sold to qualifying patients or their designated providers; and(2) The use of useable marijuana or marijuana-infused products by a qualifying patient or their designated provider.Changes the name and functions of the dedicated marijuana fund to the dedicated marijuana account.
HB 2009 by Representatives Robinson, Johnson, Walkinshaw, Magendanz, Jinkins, Gregerson, Harris, Tarleton, Lytton, Riccelli, Cody, Tharinger, Senn, Kilduff, Stanford, Peterson, Moeller, Kagi, Takko, Moscoso, Wylie, Clibborn, Van De Wege, S. Hunt, Farrell, Pollet, and Ryu Concerning exemptions from immunizations for school-age children. Addresses exemptions from immunizations with regard to a parent's philosophical or personal objection.
HB 2010 by Representatives Takko, Reykdal, and Buys Creating appeal procedures for single-family homeowners with failing septic systems required to connect to public sewer systems. Requires a local government, if it adopts or has adopted an ordinance or resolution requiring connection to a public sewer system upon the failure of an on-site septic system, to provide an administrative appeals process to consider denials of permit applications of owners of single-family residences.
HB 2011 by Representatives Springer, Condotta, McBride, Vick, Takko, Hayes, Walkinshaw, Pettigrew, Magendanz, Wilcox, Stokesbary, Kirby, Goodman, Blake, DeBolt, Morris, Zeiger, Moscoso, Rodne, Harris, Fagan, Schmick, Stanford, Holy, and Ormsby Providing a sales and use tax exemption for eligible server equipment installed in certain data centers. Increases investment in data center construction in rural counties by providing a sales and use tax exemption on eligible server equipment and power infrastructure installed in eligible computer data centers, charges made for labor and services rendered in respect to installing eligible server equipment, and for construction, installation, repair, alteration, or improvement of eligible power infrastructures.
HB 2012 by Representatives Orcutt, Clibborn, Hargrove, Hayes, Pike, Zeiger, Muri, and Wilson Concerning the implementation of practical design by the department of transportation. Requires the department of transportation to approach project development by applying principles of practical design in appropriate situations so that projects are based on cost efficiencies, community needs, and performance without impacting safety or operations. "Practical design" is a lean, performance-based approach to determining project investments.
HB 2013 by Representatives Orcutt, Hargrove, Hayes, and Pike Concerning environmental standards related to transportation projects. Addresses environmental standards related to transportation projects.
HB 2014 by Representatives Orcutt, Hayes, and Pike Implementing potential action seven of the joint transportation committee report on efficiencies in the construction and operation of state transportation projects. Exempts from certain prevailing wage laws, workers on a public works transportation project other than mechanics and laborers employed directly on the site of work for a public works transportation project.
HB 2015 by Representatives Orcutt, Hayes, Pike, and Wilson Exempting from the prevailing wage laws work performed or funded by nonprofit organizations. Exempts from certain prevailing wage laws, any portion of work on a public works project that is performed or funded by a nonprofit organization.
HB 2016 by Representatives Klippert and Sullivan; by request of Office of the Chief Information Officer Concerning unmanned aerial vehicles. Imposes limitations on the collection of information using unmanned aerial vehicles.
HB 2017 by Representatives Klippert, Cody, Blake, Dent, Hayes, Fagan, and Kretz Creating Washington farmers and ranchers special license plates. Creates Washington farmers and ranchers special license plates and provides funds to the Washington FFA Foundation for educational programs in this state.
HB 2018 by Representatives Kirby, Stanford, and McBride Addressing insurance covering for hire operators using personal vehicles. Requires personal vehicles to be covered by a primary automobile insurance policy before being used as a for hire vehicle.
HB 2019 by Representatives Muri, Magendanz, and Stambaugh 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.
HB 2020 by Representatives Magendanz, Blake, Nealey, Takko, and Smith Improving utility emissions reduction standards at a low-cost to utility customers with electricity generated by renewable resources. Encourages electric utilities to achieve an emissions reduction standard to maintain the already low greenhouse gas emissions, and encourages further reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, from electricity generated to serve utility customers by using energy conservation and appropriately sited renewable resources to meet new demand for electricity.
HB 2021 by Representatives Riccelli, Parker, Cody, Holy, Ormsby, and Muri Concerning the prescription drug assistance foundation. Revises the definition of "health insurance coverage including prescription drugs," for purposes of the prescription drug assistance foundation, to include prescription drug coverage under a plan offered through the state health benefit exchange.
HB 2022 by Representatives Hawkins, Appleton, Johnson, Robinson, Zeiger, Blake, Haler, Parker, Kretz, Condotta, Short, Manweller, Tarleton, Ryu, and Fitzgibbon Creating the natural disaster economic recovery account to support economic recovery from natural disasters. Creates the natural disaster economic recovery account which will be administered by the department of commerce.Requires expenditures from the account to be used only for an area affected by a state of emergency as declared by the governor due to a natural disaster.
HB 2023 by Representatives Parker, Lytton, Magendanz, Riccelli, Ormsby, Fagan, and Santos Changing the deadline for notices of nonrenewal of contracts for certificated school employees. Changes the deadline for notices of nonrenewal of contracts for certificated school employees.
HB 2024 by Representatives Parker, Kagi, Carlyle, Riccelli, Ormsby, Santos, and Zeiger Concerning the use of student housing facilities at the institutions of higher education by homeless students. Allows the governing boards of the institutions of higher education to authorize the temporary use of student housing facilities by low-income homeless students attending that institution during the time those facilities are otherwise unused by students who are paying student housing fees.
HB 2025 by Representative Appleton Prohibiting the sale and commercial display of human remains. Prohibits the sale for profit of human remains and the commercial display for advertising or other benefit.
HB 2026 by Representative Haler Providing a business and occupation tax credit for certain medical facilities to hire physicians. Declares an intent to provide tax relief to medical facilities in eastern Washington that employ a resident physician for a duration of at least one year with a salary of no less than forty thousand dollars per year.
SB 5002-S by Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senator Rivers) Concerning traffic infractions for marijuana. Addresses the possession or consumption of marijuana in a motor vehicle when the vehicle is upon a highway.
SB 5004-S by Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Angel and Rolfes) Establishing the position and authority of warrant officers. Authorizes a city, town, or code city to establish the position of warrant officer. The position shall be maintained by the city or town within the city or town police department.
SB 5006-S by Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senator Angel) Authorizing the termination of all legal responsibilities of a nonparent if genetic testing shows by clear and convincing evidence that a man is not the genetic father of a child. Authorizes the termination of legal responsibilities of a nonparent if genetic testing shows that a man is not the genetic father of a child.
SB 5022-S by Senate Committee on Natural Resources & Parks (originally sponsored by Senators Angel, Liias, and Rolfes) Providing fee immunity for certain city, town, and county water facilities. Authorizes a city, town, or county to: (1) Plan for, construct, operate, and maintain moorage facilities for recreational boating activities on land and overwater structures owned or otherwise controlled by a city, town, or county; and(2) Impose a fee for access to and use of the moorage facility.
SB 5036-S by Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators O'Ban and Dammeier) Creating a sentence enhancement for body armor. Creates a sentence enhancement for body armor.Doubles firearm and deadly weapon enhancements if an offender or accomplice was wearing body armor at the time of the offense.
SB 5859 by Senators Pedersen, Litzow, Fain, Rivers, Frockt, Jayapal, Kohl-Welles, Rolfes, Darneille, Mullet, Hasegawa, Keiser, Billig, Cleveland, Hobbs, Chase, Nelson, Warnick, King, Habib, Fraser, Miloscia, McAuliffe, Hargrove, Conway, Hill, Becker, Braun, Ranker, O'Ban, Liias, Bailey, Hewitt, Parlette, and Hatfield Concerning the school construction assistance program. Addresses the school construction assistance program.Requires the omnibus appropriations act to identify the state construction cost allowance for school districts and requires the minimum construction cost allowance to be calculated based on a three-year rolling average of actual new public K-12 school construction costs per square foot.
SB 5860 by Senator Pearson Concerning audits of certain homeowners' associations' financial statements. Requires the financial statements of homeowners' associations with annual assessments of one hundred thousand dollars or more to be audited.
SB 5861 by Senators Liias, Rivers, and Cleveland Modifying the definition of prepared food to exclude food required to be cooked by the consumer prior to consumption. Excludes from the definition of prepared food, food sold that ordinarily requires additional cooking, as opposed to just reheating, by the consumer before consumption.
SB 5862 by Senators Fain, Ericksen, Baumgartner, and Angel Concerning public-private partnerships for state transportation projects and programs. Creates the office of transportation partnership Washington, within the department of transportation, to provide a process for, and to promote fairness, transparency, and efficiency in, the procurement of infrastructure assets through public-private partnership methods.
SB 5863 by Senators Jayapal, Rivers, Keiser, Miloscia, Conway, Angel, Liias, Pedersen, Hobbs, Kohl-Welles, and Hasegawa Concerning highway construction workforce development. Requires the department of transportation, in coordination with the department of labor and industries, to: (1) Expend moneys for apprenticeship preparation and support services, including providing grants to local Indian tribes, churches, nonprofits, and other organizations; and(2) Provide any portion of the recruitment of women and persons of color to participate in the apprenticeship program.Requires the department of transportation to hire and maintain at least one full-time equivalent employee position with the role of coordinating certain department activities and actively engaging with communities with populations that are underrepresented in current transportation apprenticeship programs.
SB 5864 by Senators Nelson and Kohl-Welles Concerning sales and use tax for cities to offset municipal service costs to newly annexed areas. Modifies provisions relating to sales and use taxes for cities to offset municipal service costs to newly annexed areas.
SB 5865 by Senators Miloscia, Fraser, McAuliffe, and Kohl-Welles Concerning children's advocacy centers. Addresses children's advocacy centers.
SB 5866 by Senators Honeyford and Fraser Providing that counties are not required to distribute to the cities within the county certain county sales and use tax proceeds. Specifies that a county that imposes any portion of certain county sales and use taxes on or after July 1, 2015, is not required to distribute money from the proceeds of that portion of the tax imposed after June 30, 2015, to the cities within the county.
SB 5867 by Senators Liias, Miloscia, Billig, McCoy, McAuliffe, and Hasegawa Enhancing public disclosure of lobbying and campaign activity. Requires electronic filing by lobbyists.Requires certain political committees and candidates, lobbyists, lobbyist employers, and government entities to pay an annual fee to the public disclosure commission.Creates the public disclosure electronic filing account.
SB 5868 by Senators Jayapal, Litzow, Chase, Angel, Hobbs, and Kohl-Welles Providing an exemption for certain lodging services from the convention and trade center tax. Exempts from the convention and trade center tax, premises classified as a hostel.
SB 5869 by Senator Sheldon Concerning restrictions on the location of manufactured/mobile homes. Prohibits local governments, under certain circumstances, from restricting the location of a manufactured/mobile home based on the manufactured/mobile home community not meeting current fire, safety, or other current local ordinances or state laws related to manufactured/mobile homes.
SB 5870 by Senators Liias, Litzow, Pedersen, Fain, Ranker, Rivers, Frockt, Cleveland, Mullet, Kohl-Welles, Keiser, Chase, Billig, Hasegawa, Darneille, and Habib Prohibiting the use of aversion therapy in the treatment of minors. Regulates the professional conduct of licensed health care providers with respect to performing aversive mental health therapies, including sexual orientation change efforts, on patients under age eighteen.
SB 5871 by Senators Angel, Liias, Roach, McCoy, and Chase Creating appeal procedures for single-family homeowners with failing septic systems required to connect to public sewer systems. Requires a local government, if it adopts or has adopted an ordinance or resolution requiring connection to a public sewer system upon the failure of an on-site septic system, to provide an administrative appeals process to consider denials of permit applications of owners of single-family residences.
SB 5872 by Senator Dansel Concerning the acquisition of land by state natural resources agencies. Requires the department of fish and wildlife, before acquiring real property in any county after the effective date of this act, to identify for sale department-owned land in that same county of equal or greater acreage than the property to be acquired.Requires the department of natural resources, before acquiring real property in any county after the effective date of this act for purposes of a natural area preserve, natural resources conservation area, or other habitat or riparian protection purposes, to identify for sale department-owned land in that same county of equal or greater acreage than the property to be acquired.Requires the parks and recreation commission, before acquiring real property in any county after the effective date of this act, to identify for sale agency-owned land in that same county of equal or greater acreage than the property to be acquired.
SB 5873 by Senators Conway, Bailey, Schoesler, and Kohl-Welles Permitting persons retired from the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 1 to select a survivor benefit option. Authorizes a member of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 1 to select a survivor benefit option.
SB 5874 by Senators Ericksen and Ranker Concerning regulatory and financial mechanisms and means to promote the retirement of coal-fired electric generation facilities. Establishes the Washington state coal generation retirement program act.Promotes the retirement of coal-fired electric generation facilities.
SB 5875 by Senators Frockt, Mullet, Miloscia, Hasegawa, Hobbs, Chase, Keiser, Pedersen, Fraser, Kohl-Welles, McCoy, McAuliffe, and Darneille Concerning Washington's property assessment appeal procedures. Requires a taxpayer, within sixty days from the date a petition challenging an assessed value of leased commercial property is filed with the county board of equalization, to submit to the board rental income and expense statements for the two years prior to the assessment date.
SB 5876 by Senators Frockt, Liias, Habib, Mullet, Hasegawa, Hobbs, Chase, Keiser, Fraser, McAuliffe, Kohl-Welles, and McCoy Concerning the imposition of a filing charge for certain property assessment appeal petitions. Authorizes the county legislative authority to require that a petition to the county board of equalization challenging the assessed value of a commercial property be accompanied by a reasonable filing charge.
SB 5877 by Senators O'Ban, Angel, Padden, Pearson, Rivers, Warnick, and Darneille Concerning due process for adult family home licensees. Addresses adult family home licensees' due process.
SB 5878 by Senators Bailey, Kohl-Welles, Parlette, Keiser, Rolfes, Rivers, Angel, Liias, and Ranker Concerning nonresident vessel permits and taxation. Addresses permits and taxation of vessels of nonresidents.
SB 5879 by Senators Billig, McAuliffe, and Kohl-Welles; by request of Department of Early Learning Concerning early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families. Changes the name of the birth-to-six interagency coordinating council to the birth-to-three interagency coordinating council.Specifies that the department of early learning is the lead agency with regard to early intervention services.
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