 | WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE | |
| Legislative Digest No. 32 | ||
| SIXTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE | ||
| Wednesday, February 25, 2015 | 45th Day - 2015 Regular Session | |
| SENATE |
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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 1408-S
by House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Ortiz-Self, Magendanz, Sawyer, Santos, Senn, Robinson, Orwall, Tarleton, Bergquist, and Gregerson)
Concerning the development of a definition and model for "family engagement coordinator" and other terms used interchangeably with it.
Requires the office of the education ombuds to: (1) Together with the educational opportunity gap oversight and accountability committee, develop and recommend to the education committees of the legislature a definition for the term that is variously referred to as "family engagement coordinator," "parent and family engagement coordinator," and "parent involvement coordinator"; and a model or framework for such a staff position; and(2) In developing the model or framework for the staff position, collaborate with the office of the superintendent of public instruction, the Washington education association, the public school employees of Washington, the Washington school counselors' association, the association of Washington school principals, and the state school directors' association.Expires July 1, 2016.
| Feb 19 | ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Feb 20 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1492-S
by House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Magendanz, Walkinshaw, Reykdal, and Bergquist; by request of Superintendent of Public Instruction)
Addressing technology literacy.
Requires school districts to annually report to the office of the superintendent of public instruction verification that state technology literacy and technology fluency standards are being demonstrated by students at elementary, middle, and high school levels.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to conduct a survey of school districts to evaluate access to technology for all students and barriers within each school and school district that impede the ability to help students meet state technology literacy and technology fluency goals.
| Feb 19 | ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 20 | Referred to Appropriations. | |
HB 1495-S
by House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Reykdal, Magendanz, Springer, S. Hunt, Pollet, and Stanford)
Enacting the student user privacy in education rights act.
Establishes the student user privacy in education rights act or SUPER act.Requires school service providers to: (1) Provide information about the types of student personal information they collect and how they use and share the information; and(2) Maintain a comprehensive information security program designed to protect the security, privacy, confidentiality, and integrity of student personal information.
| Feb 19 | ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Feb 20 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1562-S
by House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Sullivan, Tarleton, and Orwall)
Requiring posting of allergen information in public schools.
Requires public schools to display allergen information on a conspicuous sign in a prominent place within each area where food is served.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to consult with the department of agriculture to develop and disseminate guidance for school districts on how and what allergen information must be displayed.
| Feb 19 | ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Feb 20 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1570-S
by House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Gregory, Bergquist, S. Hunt, Reykdal, Kilduff, Ortiz-Self, and Pollet; by request of Governor Inslee)
Creating flexibility for the educator retooling conditional scholarship program.
Changes the name of "the retooling to teach mathematics and science conditional scholarship program" to "the educator retooling conditional scholarship program."Addresses program requirements relating to special education, bilingual education, English language learner, computer science education, and environmental and sustainability education.Requires the professional educator standards board, in awarding conditional scholarships to support additional bilingual education or English language learner endorsements, to also give preference to teachers assigned to schools: (1) Required under state or federal accountability measures to implement a plan for improvement; and(2) Whose enrollment of English language learner students has increased an average of more than five percent per year over the previous three years.
| Feb 19 | ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 20 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1597-S
by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Jinkins, Rodne, and Wylie; by request of Department of Social and Health Services)
Improving timeliness of competency evaluation and restoration services.
Encourages the department of social and health services to develop, on a phased-in basis, alternative locations and increased access to competency restoration services under chapter 10.77 RCW (criminally insane) for individuals who do not require in-patient psychiatric hospitalization level services. This may include services within county-operated or municipal-operated jails and other community settings.
| Feb 19 | JUDI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 20 | Referred to Appropriations. | |
HB 1613-S
by House Committee on Labor (originally sponsored by Representatives Pollet, Haler, Reykdal, Sells, Dunshee, Walkinshaw, and Gregerson)
Authorizing treatment to protect life or alleviate pain of injured workers with permanent partial disabilities.
Authorizes the department of labor and industries to allow continuing medications and related treatment in certain cases of permanent partial disability.
| Feb 19 | LAB - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 20 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1651-S
by House Committee on Labor (originally sponsored by Representatives Ryu, Goodman, Rodne, Griffey, Van Werven, Wylie, Moscoso, Ormsby, and Santos)
Concerning definitions related to human trafficking.
Adds the following definitions for the purposes of chapter 19.320 RCW (human trafficking): Any person; forced labor; human trafficking; menace of any penalty; and work or service.
| Feb 19 | LAB - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Feb 20 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1684-S
by House Committee on State Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Takko, Nealey, Springer, S. Hunt, Gregerson, Walsh, Manweller, Fagan, Moeller, Wylie, Tharinger, and Jinkins)
Concerning charges for the cost of providing public records in response to public records requests.
Allows state agencies to charge for public records that they provide electronically.
| Feb 19 | SG - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Feb 20 | Referred to Appropriations. | |
HB 1690-S
by House Committee on Technology & Economic Development (originally sponsored by Representatives Walkinshaw, Rodne, Tarleton, Magendanz, Fitzgibbon, Stokesbary, Farrell, and Morris)
Providing a tax deferral for the expansion of certain existing public facilities district convention centers.
Provides a sales and use tax deferral for the expansion of certain existing public facilities district convention centers.
| Feb 19 | TED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Feb 20 | Referred to Finance. | |
HB 1695-S
by House Committee on Environment (originally sponsored by Representatives Clibborn, Hayes, Ryu, Kochmar, Senn, Zeiger, Tarleton, Fey, Farrell, Harmsworth, Van Werven, Stanford, Fitzgibbon, Stokesbary, Wylie, Tharinger, Moscoso, Riccelli, and Santos)
Establishing a priority for the use, reuse, and recycling of construction aggregate and recycled concrete materials in Washington.
Requires the department of transportation and its implementation partners to collaboratively develop and establish objectives and strategies for the reuse and recycling of construction aggregate and recycled concrete materials that include criteria for the successful and sustainable long-term recycling of construction aggregate and recycled concrete materials in transportation, roadway, street, highway, and other transportation infrastructure projects.Requires the department of transportation and certain local government entities to specify and annually use a minimum of twenty-five percent construction aggregate and recycled concrete materials on their cumulative transportation, roadway, street, highway, and other transportation infrastructure projects and increase that percentage by at least five percent each year through 2020.
| Feb 19 | ENVI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Feb 20 | Referred to Transportation. | |
HB 1715-S
by House Committee on Environment (originally sponsored by Representatives Peterson, Fitzgibbon, and S. Hunt; by request of Department of Health)
Protecting Puget Sound through funding and implementing local on-site sewage program management plans.
Requires the local board of health in the twelve counties bordering Puget Sound to collect a minimum charge of thirty dollars annually for each on-site sewage system located in the basin of Puget Sound for the purpose of implementing the on-site sewage program management plan.Authorizes the local board of health to: (1) Continue to charge on-site sewage systems an amount less than the established minimum charge if it has adopted a charge applicable to on-site sewage systems for similar purposes before December 31, 2014; and(2) Collect the on-site sewage system charge in areas of the county located outside the Puget Sound basin.Prohibits the local board of health from: (1) Retroactively collecting the on-site sewage system charge; and(2) Collecting the on-site sewage system charge to finance on-site sewage plan services already paid for by other fees, rates, or charges.Authorizes counties and the department of health, in order to assist homeowners with the repair and replacement of on-site sewage systems, to consult with the department of ecology to capitalize and administer a sustainable unified low-interest loan program through the department of ecology's established water quality financial assistance program.Provides that a person exempt from paying property taxes is also exempt from the on-site sewage program charge.
| Feb 19 | ENVI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 20 | Referred to Appropriations. | |
HB 1721-S
by House Committee on Health Care & Wellness (originally sponsored by Representatives Robinson, Schmick, Cody, Harris, Riccelli, and Van De Wege)
Concerning the transport of patients by ambulance to facilities other than hospitals.
Requires the department of health, in consultation with the department of social and health services, to convene a work group comprised of members of the steering committee and representatives of ambulance services, firefighters, mental health providers, and chemical dependency treatment programs to establish alternative facility guidelines for the development of protocols, procedures, and applicable training appropriate to the level of emergency medical service provider for the appropriate transport of patients in need of immediate mental health or chemical dependency services.Requires the state health care authority to develop a reimbursement methodology for ambulance services when transporting a medical assistance enrollee to a mental health facility or chemical dependency program.
| Feb 20 | HCW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Referred to Rules 2 Review. | ||
HB 1726-S
by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Moeller, Jinkins, Tharinger, and Appleton; by request of Department of Social and Health Services)
Modifying certain definitions concerning the abuse of vulnerable adults.
Creates new and revises existing definitions with regard to abuse of vulnerable adult provisions.
| Feb 19 | JUDI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 20 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1731-S
by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Ormsby, Riccelli, Walkinshaw, Fitzgibbon, and Jinkins)
Creating a protocol for the return of firearms in the possession of law enforcement agencies.
Establishes the Sheena Henderson act.Requires law enforcement agencies to: (1) Before returning a privately owned firearm, confirm that the individual to whom the firearm will be returned is the individual from whom the firearm was obtained or an authorized representative of that person and that he or she is eligible to possess a firearm; and(2) Develop a notification protocol that allows a family or household member to use an incident or case number to request to be notified when a law enforcement agency returns a privately owned firearm.
| Feb 19 | JUDI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Feb 20 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1734-S
by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Kagi, Walsh, Rodne, Fey, Jinkins, Pettigrew, Carlyle, and McBride)
Creating the one family one team public-private innovation demonstration.
Requires the administrative office of the courts and the advisory committee for the family and juvenile court improvement program to participate in the one family one team public-private partnership, a nongovernmental public-private partnership that supports innovation in dependency court proceedings.Creates the one family one team public-private partnership account.
| Feb 19 | JUDI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 20 | Referred to Appropriations. | |
HB 1749-S
by House Committee on Labor (originally sponsored 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 contracting with a registered general contractor and not superintending the work.
| Feb 19 | LAB - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Feb 20 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1826-S
by House Committee on Environment (originally sponsored by Representatives Johnson and Blake)
Creating flexibility in the state's recreational fee-for-access programs to better accommodate families that recreate with multiple vehicles.
Changes the process for setting the price for a family discover pass.Specifies that both an individual discover pass and a family discover pass are valid only for use with one motor vehicle at any one time.
| Feb 19 | ENVI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 20 | Referred to General Government & Information Technology. | |
HB 1833-S
by House Committee on Environment (originally sponsored by Representatives Klippert, Takko, Griffey, Wilson, Scott, Bergquist, and Tarleton)
Concerning timing free access days at state parks with local community events.
Allows the director of the parks and recreation commission, in consultation with the department of natural resources and the department of fish and wildlife, to designate specific days when recreation sites or lands may be lawfully accessed without having to display a discover pass or day-use permit.
| Feb 19 | ENVI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 20 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1845-S
by House Committee on Environment (originally sponsored by Representatives DeBolt, Fitzgibbon, Orcutt, Short, Smith, and Jinkins)
Concerning pharmaceutical waste.
Requires the department of ecology to convene a work group to identify the problems of properly managing pharmaceutical wastes and recommend solutions to improve management of these wastes at the site of generation through treatment or disposal by commercial waste management facilities.
| Feb 19 | ENVI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Feb 20 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1851-S
by House Committee on Environment (originally sponsored by Representatives Hayes, Bergquist, Zeiger, Takko, Harmsworth, Wilson, Griffey, Hargrove, Smith, and Magendanz)
Creating an expedited permitting and contracting process for bridges owned by local governments that are deemed structurally deficient.
Requires the department of ecology to amend the categorical exemption available to department of transportation projects under WAC 197-11-800(26) so that the same categorical exemption applies to structurally deficient city, town, or county bridge repair or replacement projects.Authorizes a city, town, or county to use the contracting process available to the department of transportation in RCW 47.28.170(1) for the repair or replacement of a bridge deemed structurally deficient.
| Feb 19 | ENVI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Feb 20 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1855-S
by House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Caldier, Santos, Parker, Reykdal, Magendanz, Hayes, Young, Pollet, and Tharinger)
Waiving local graduation requirements for certain students.
Requires the waiver of certain graduation requirements for students who are at-risk youth or children in need of services pursuant to the family reconciliation act and for students who are homeless.
| Feb 19 | ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Feb 20 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1857-S
by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Jinkins, Ormsby, Kagi, Walkinshaw, Senn, Fitzgibbon, Robinson, Pollet, Farrell, Tarleton, and Goodman)
Concerning extreme risk protection orders.
Establishes extreme risk protection orders to temporarily prevent an individual from possessing, accessing, or purchasing firearms and dangerous weapons while that individual poses a significant danger of harm.
| Feb 19 | JUDI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 20 | Referred to General Government & Information Technology. | |
| Feb 23 | Committee relieved of further consideration. | |
| Referred to Appropriations. | ||
HB 1864-S
by House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Kilduff, Bergquist, Reykdal, Lytton, Tharinger, Ortiz-Self, Jinkins, and Tarleton; by request of Superintendent of Public Instruction)
Supporting evidence-based strategies to promote high school graduation.
Directs school districts to establish school-wide programs that provide comprehensive college and career guidance for middle and high school students through the career guidance Washington program model.Establishes a grant program in the office of the superintendent of public instruction that will assist school districts to provide comprehensive multitier supports to struggling students.Establishes the statewide jobs for Washington graduates program in the office of the superintendent of public instruction.Directs the office of the superintendent of public instruction to develop additional data analytics to assist policymakers and school personnel.Provides that this act is null and void if appropriations are not approved.
| Feb 19 | ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Feb 20 | Referred to Appropriations. | |
HB 1891-S
by House Committee on Environment (originally sponsored by Representatives Fey, Orcutt, Farrell, and Moscoso)
Concerning stage II gasoline vapor control programs.
Requires the department of ecology to: (1) Analyze stage II gasoline vapor recovery system requirements; and(2) Cite all sources of peer-reviewed science and other scientific information that it relied upon in the analysis.
| Feb 19 | ENVI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 20 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1898-S
by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored 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 the criminal justice training commission to: (1) 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; and(2) Annually survey law enforcement and prosecuting agencies regarding, with respect to the preceding year: (a) The frequency of cases where children under the age of fourteen have elected not to testify, including the reasons for the election not to testify; (b) the number of cases where remote testimony was used and whether those cases resulted in conviction; and (c) the total number of child sexual abuse cases referred for prosecution and the number of those cases that were prosecuted.
| Feb 19 | JUDI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 20 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1900-S
by House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Ortiz-Self, Johnson, Orwall, Muri, Lytton, Tarleton, Pollet, and Bergquist)
Concerning school counselors, social workers, and psychologists.
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 to promote student achievement and create a safe learning environment.Defines school psychologist and school social worker.
| Feb 19 | ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Feb 20 | Referred to Appropriations. | |
HB 1920-S
by House Committee on State Government (originally sponsored 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 for governmental affairs and governmental transactions.
| Feb 19 | SG - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Feb 20 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1930-S
by House Committee on Labor (originally sponsored by Representatives MacEwen, Riccelli, Parker, Tharinger, McCaslin, Ormsby, Sells, and Robinson)
Addressing the nonemployee status of athletes in amateur sports.
Excludes from the definition of "employee," for purposes of industrial welfare provisions, the Washington industrial safety and health act, and the minimum wage act, any individual for the purposes of training or playing as an athlete for a team affiliated with the Western Hockey League.
| Feb 19 | LAB - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Feb 20 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1947-S
by House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Pollet, Walsh, Santos, S. Hunt, Orwall, Ortiz-Self, Tarleton, Kagi, Bergquist, Robinson, Gregerson, and Ryu)
Establishing a comprehensive plan to expand learning opportunities and improve educational outcomes for students with disabilities or special needs using multiple strategies and statewide partnerships.
Creates the commission on improving outcomes for students with special needs to develop a ten-year strategic plan to expand learning opportunities and improve educational outcomes for all students with disabilities or special needs and an accountability framework to monitor and report annually on the progress being made toward the ten-year goal.
| Feb 19 | ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Feb 20 | Referred to Appropriations. | |
HCR 4403
by Representatives Sullivan, Kretz, Haler, and Bergquist
Honoring the recipients of the state Medal of Merit and Medal of Valor.
Honors the recipients of the state Medal of Merit and Medal of Valor.
| Feb 24 | First Reading. | |
| Read first time, rules suspended, and placed on second reading calendar. | ||
| Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. | ||
| Third reading, adopted. | ||
SB 5441-S
by Senate Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Senators Rivers, Frockt, Parlette, Bailey, Conway, Keiser, and Benton)
Addressing patient medication coordination.
Requires health benefit plans, issued or renewed after December 31, 2015, that provide coverage for prescription drugs, to implement a medication synchronization policy for the dispensing of prescription drugs to the plan's enrollees.
| Feb 20 | HLTH - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
| Feb 23 | Made eligible to be placed on second reading. | |
SB 5477-S
by Senate Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Senators Dammeier, Becker, Warnick, Kohl-Welles, and Darneille)
Requiring substances intended for use in a vapor product to satisfy child-resistant effectiveness standards, adopting warning standards, and prohibiting the use of vapor products in schools.
Requires child-resistant packaging for substances intended for use in a vapor product that is sold at retail in this state.Requires a manufacturer that sells or distributes a vapor product to label the vapor product with a warning regarding the harmful effects of nicotine and a warning to keep away from children.Requires vapor products at retail to be kept behind a counter or be in a locked display case.Prohibits the use of vapor products at public schools.Requires retail and wholesale licensees who sell vapor products to display a sign concerning the prohibition of vapor product sales to minors.
| Feb 20 | HLTH - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
SB 5488-S
by Senate Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Senators Keiser, Jayapal, Parlette, and Cleveland)
Concerning applied behavior analysis.
Creates new credentials for behavior analysts, assistant behavior analysts, and behavior technicians.Creates the Washington state applied behavior analysis advisory committee.Requires the secretary of the department of health to consult with the committee in determining the qualifications for licensure or certification.
| Feb 20 | HLTH - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
SB 5536-S
by Senate Committee on Financial Institutions & Insurance (originally sponsored by Senators Sheldon and Angel)
Exempting certain documents from the local homeless housing and assistance surcharge.
Exempts certified abstracts of judgments, certified copies of judgments, and certified copies of satisfactions of judgments from the local homeless housing and assistance surcharge.
| Feb 20 | FI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| And refer to Ways & Means. | ||
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Referred to Ways & Means. | ||
SB 5557-S
by Senate Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Senators Parlette, Conway, Rivers, Dammeier, Becker, Frockt, Schoesler, Keiser, Jayapal, Warnick, and Honeyford)
Addressing services provided by pharmacists.
Prohibits benefits from being denied, under certain circumstances, for a health care service performed by a pharmacist.
| Feb 20 | HLTH - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
| Feb 23 | Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. | |
SB 5564-S
by Senate Committee on Human Services, Mental Health & Housing (originally sponsored by Senators O'Ban, Darneille, Miloscia, Hargrove, Kohl-Welles, Fain, Jayapal, Brown, Habib, Dammeier, Frockt, Litzow, Warnick, Hasegawa, and McAuliffe)
Concerning the sealing of juvenile records and fines imposed in juvenile cases.
Eliminates most nonrestitution legal financial obligations for juvenile offenders.
| Feb 20 | HSMH - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| And refer to Ways & Means. | ||
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Referred to Ways & Means. | ||
SB 5585-S
by Senate Committee on Government Operations & Security (originally sponsored by Senators Dansel, Mullet, and Braun)
Concerning real estate as it concerns the local government authority in the use of real estate excise tax revenues and regulating real estate transactions.
Addresses local government authority with regard to the use of real estate excise tax revenues and the regulation of real estate transactions.
| Feb 20 | GOS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
SB 5600-S
by Senate Committee on Human Services, Mental Health & Housing (originally sponsored by Senators Dammeier, Keiser, Darneille, and Kohl-Welles; by request of Department of Social and Health Services)
Modifying certain definitions concerning the abuse of vulnerable adults.
Creates new and revises existing definitions with regard to abuse of vulnerable adult provisions.
| Feb 20 | HSMH - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
SB 5604-S
by Senate Committee on Government Operations & Security (originally sponsored by Senators Liias and Roach)
Addressing the review and evaluation of countywide planning policies under the growth management act.
Modifies growth management act provisions relating to the review and evaluation of countywide planning policies.
| Feb 20 | GOS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
SB 5607-S
by Senate Committee on Human Services, Mental Health & Housing (originally sponsored by Senators Conway, Dammeier, Darneille, O'Ban, and Padden)
Concerning the complaint procedure for the modification or termination of guardianship.
Addresses complaint procedures for the modification or termination of guardianship.
| Feb 20 | HSMH - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
SB 5644-S
by Senate Committee on Human Services, Mental Health & Housing (originally sponsored by Senators O'Ban, Dammeier, and Darneille)
Concerning initial detention under the involuntary treatment act.
Modifies involuntary treatment act provisions relating to initial detention.
| Feb 20 | HSMH - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| And refer to Ways & Means. | ||
| Referred to Ways & Means. | ||
SB 5645-S
by Senate Committee on Human Services, Mental Health & Housing (originally sponsored by Senators Parlette, Cleveland, O'Ban, and Darneille)
Concerning data reporting concerning the collection of data when a psychiatric patient meets detention criteria and no evaluation and treatment bed is available.
Requires a designated mental health professional to make a report to the department of social and health services when he or she determines a person meets certain detention criteria and: (1) There are no beds available at an evaluation and treatment facility;(2) The person has not been provisionally accepted for admission by a facility; and(3) The person cannot be served on a single bed certification or less restrictive alternative.
| Feb 20 | HSMH - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
SB 5649-S
by Senate Committee on Human Services, Mental Health & Housing (originally sponsored 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.
| Feb 20 | HSMH - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| And refer to Ways & Means. | ||
| Referred to Ways & Means. | ||
SB 5772-S
by Senate Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored 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 information regarding their current professional practice requested by the medical quality assurance commission.Requires the board of osteopathic medicine and surgery to request osteopathic physicians and osteopathic physician assistants to submit information about their current professional practice at the time of license renewal.Requires the physicians and physician assistants to provide the information requested.
| Feb 20 | HLTH - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
SB 5788-S
by Senate Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Senators Cleveland, Billig, Padden, Keiser, Bailey, Frockt, Fraser, Darneille, Nelson, Becker, Hargrove, and Benton)
Creating two elder justice center demonstration programs.
Requires the department of social and health services to establish two elder justice center demonstration programs, one in Clark county and the other in Spokane county.
| Feb 20 | HLTH - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| And refer to Ways & Means. | ||
| Referred to Ways & Means. | ||
SB 5795-S
by Senate Committee on Government Operations & Security (originally sponsored by Senators Roach and Liias)
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 all of the costs associated with the construction or improvement; and(3) Become the sole beneficiary of reimbursements.
| Feb 20 | GOS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
SB 5808-S
by Senate Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Senators Habib, Becker, Ranker, Liias, McAuliffe, Keiser, Hasegawa, and Frockt)
Concerning cancer research.
Creates the fund to fight cancer authority and requires the authority to establish one or more independent expert scientific review and advisory committees.Creates the fund to fight cancer as a special trust fund in the custody of the state treasurer.Increases the cigarette tax and the tobacco tax to fund the fund to fight cancer.
| Feb 20 | HLTH - 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 6047
by Senators Baumgartner, Liias, Padden, Hobbs, and Roach
Providing a sales and use tax exemption for certain new building construction to be used by maintenance repair operators for commercial airplane repair and maintenance.
Provides a sales and use tax exemption to charges, for labor and services rendered in respect to the constructing of new buildings, made to: (1) A maintenance repair operator engaged in the maintenance of commercial airplanes or the fuselages or wings of commercial airplanes; or(2) A port district, political subdivision, or municipal corporation to be leased to a maintenance repair operator engaged in the maintenance of commercial airplanes or the fuselages or wings of commercial airplanes.
| Feb 24 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |