 | WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE | |
| Legislative Digest No. 37 | ||
| SIXTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE | ||
| Wednesday, March 4, 2015 | 52nd 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 1085-S
by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Moeller, Gregerson, S. Hunt, Cody, Hudgins, and Pollet)
Requiring lobbying reports to be filed electronically.
Requires electronic filing of certain reports by agencies, lobbyists, and lobbyists' employers.Provides that this act is null and void if appropriations are not approved.
| Feb 25 | APP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Feb 27 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1087
by Representatives Takko and Gregerson
Concerning automated traffic safety cameras in school speed zones.
Requires a flashing yellow beacon to be located and signage to be placed in school speed zones where automated traffic safety cameras are installed.Requires the signage to comply with the standards contained in the manual on uniform traffic control devices.
| Jan 8 | Prefiled for introduction. | |
| Jan 12 | First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
| Jan 26 | TR - Executive action taken by committee. | |
| TR - Majority; do pass. | ||
| Jan 29 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
| Feb 12 | Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. | |
| Mar 2 | Floor amendment(s) adopted. | |
| Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. | ||
| Third reading, passed; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. | ||
HB 1095-S2
by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Morris and Hudgins)
Promoting thermal energy efficiency.
Promotes the deployment of combined heat and power by: (1) Requiring consideration of combined heat and power systems in the construction of new critical governmental facilities;(2) Incorporating reports on combined heat and power facilities in integrated resource plans; and(3) Streamlining the process by which combined heat and power facilities obtain permits.
| Feb 27 | APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Referred to Rules 2 Review. | ||
HB 1107-S2
by House Committee on Finance (originally sponsored by Representatives Springer, Wilcox, Reykdal, Fitzgibbon, Bergquist, Hudgins, Lytton, McBride, Santos, Jinkins, Appleton, Tarleton, and Walkinshaw)
Concerning access to and creation of cultural and heritage programs and facilities.
Authorizes county legislative authorities to create a cultural access program.Authorizes certain counties to impose sales and use taxes or additional regular property tax levies for the purposes authorized in this act.
| Feb 25 | FIN - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Feb 27 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1152-S2
by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Fitzgibbon, Stanford, Dunshee, and Tharinger)
Concerning the management of forage fish resources.
Requires a recreational fishing license to fish for smelt.
| Feb 25 | APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Feb 27 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1174-S2
by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Van De Wege, Taylor, Fitzgibbon, Senn, Shea, Magendanz, Springer, Tarleton, Ortiz-Self, Gregerson, Ormsby, Hunter, Ryu, S. Hunt, Riccelli, Stanford, Tharinger, Jinkins, Walkinshaw, Fey, Clibborn, Farrell, and Goodman)
Concerning flame retardants.
Prohibits the sale, distribution, or manufacturing of children's products or residential upholstered furniture containing certain flame retardants.Authorizes the department of ecology to identify a high priority chemical as a chemical of high concern for children only if it meets certain criteria.
| Feb 25 | APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Feb 27 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1221-S
by House Committee on Finance (originally sponsored by Representatives Hansen, Young, Appleton, Caldier, Griffey, and MacEwen)
Creating passenger-only ferry service districts.
Authorizes certain public transportation benefit areas to establish one or more passenger-only ferry service districts within all or a portion of the boundaries of the public transportation benefit area establishing the passenger-only ferry service district.
| Feb 25 | FIN - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 27 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1278-S2
by House Committee on General Government & Information Technology (originally sponsored by Representatives Fitzgibbon, Dunshee, Farrell, S. Hunt, Peterson, Fey, and Tarleton)
Concerning building energy use disclosure requirements.
Addresses disclosure requirements for building energy use.
| Feb 23 | GGIT - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 27 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1281-S2
by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Sawyer, Orwall, Hurst, Blake, Stokesbary, Tarleton, Walsh, Kirby, Appleton, G. Hunt, Pettigrew, Jinkins, Carlyle, Fey, Ortiz-Self, Senn, Walkinshaw, Moeller, Kilduff, Robinson, Van De Wege, Stanford, Ryu, Lytton, Sells, Riccelli, Kagi, Bergquist, Clibborn, Santos, Buys, and Gregerson)
Concerning the sexual exploitation of minors.
Assesses a fee, on a person who is convicted of possession of depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, of one thousand dollars for each depiction or image of visual or printed matter that constitutes a separate conviction.Creates the internet crimes against children account.
| Feb 27 | APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Referred to Rules 2 Review. | ||
HB 1391-S2
by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Hudgins, MacEwen, Parker, Appleton, and Magendanz; by request of Office of Financial Management)
Aligning functions of the consolidated technology services agency, office of the chief information officer, and department of enterprise services.
Transfers powers, duties, and functions of the office of the chief information officer within the office of financial management, pertaining to the office of the chief information officer, to the consolidated technology services agency.Transfers powers, duties, and functions of the department of enterprise services, pertaining to statewide information technology services and applications, to the consolidated technology services agency.Creates the consolidated technology services revolving account, the statewide information technology system development revolving account, the statewide information technology system maintenance and operations revolving account, and the shared information technology system revolving account.
| Feb 26 | APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 27 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1424-S
by House Committee on Health Care & Wellness (originally sponsored by Representatives Orwall, Kagi, Jinkins, Gregerson, Goodman, Santos, Fey, and Sawyer)
Concerning suicide prevention.
Requires the department of health to adopt rules establishing minimum standards for the suicide assessment, treatment, and management training programs, including content specific to veterans and the assessment of issues related to imminent harm via lethal means or self-injurious behaviors.Exempts the following from the suicide assessment, treatment, and management training: (1) Certified registered nurse anesthetists; and(2) Medical school graduates who hold limited postgraduate training licenses.
| Feb 18 | HCW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Feb 20 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
| Feb 27 | Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. | |
| Mar 2 | 1st substitute bill substituted. | |
| Floor amendment(s) adopted. | ||
| Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. | ||
| Third reading, passed; yeas, 95; nays, 2; absent, 0; excused, 1. | ||
HB 1450-S2
by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Jinkins, Rodne, Walkinshaw, Harris, Cody, Goodman, Senn, Walsh, Riccelli, Robinson, Orwall, Moeller, Gregerson, Van De Wege, Ormsby, Clibborn, McBride, Tharinger, Kagi, and Stanford)
Concerning involuntary outpatient mental health treatment.
Modifies involuntary outpatient mental health treatment provisions relating to persons in need of assisted outpatient mental health treatment.Provides that this act is null and void if appropriations are not approved.
| Feb 27 | APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Referred to Rules 2 Review. | ||
HB 1469-S2
by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Hudgins, Magendanz, Stanford, Ormsby, and Tarleton)
Addressing removal of payment credentials and other sensitive data from state data networks.
Prohibits state agencies from storing payment credentials on state data systems.Requires state agencies that currently store payment credentials to work with the office of the chief information officer to eliminate the data from state data systems.Requires the office of the chief information officer to develop a policy for minimizing the retention of social security numbers and other sensitive, personally identifiable information by state agencies when not required for the day-to-day operations of an agency or by law.
| Feb 26 | APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Feb 27 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1471-S2
by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Cody, Schmick, Harris, Van De Wege, DeBolt, Hurst, Kretz, Moeller, Jinkins, and Tharinger)
Mitigating barriers to patient access to care resulting from health insurance contracting practices.
Requires a health carrier, and a health plan offered to public employees and their covered dependents, that impose different prior authorization standards and criteria for a covered service among tiers of contracting providers of the same licensed profession in the same health plan to, upon request, inform an enrollee which tier an individual provider or group of providers is in.Prohibits a health carrier from requiring prior authorization for an evaluation and management visit or an initial treatment visit with a contracting provider in a new episode of habilitative, rehabilitative, East Asian medicine, or chiropractic care.
| Feb 27 | APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Referred to Rules 2 Review. | ||
HB 1472-S2
by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Fitzgibbon, Peterson, Goodman, McBride, Springer, Fey, Farrell, Hudgins, Kagi, Walkinshaw, Gregerson, S. Hunt, Jinkins, Tharinger, and Pollet; by request of Governor Inslee)
Concerning using chemical action plans to require safer chemicals in Washington.
Establishes the toxics reduction act.Requires the department of ecology to: (1) In consultation with the department of health, select up to four chemicals for the development of chemical action plans; and(2) When developing a chemical action plan, convene an external advisory committee to provide stakeholder input, expertise, and additional information.Establishes a permanent chemical safety committee in the office of the governor to fulfill the duties outlined in this act.Requires the department of enterprise services to establish purchasing and procurement policies that provide a preference for products and products in packaging that do not contain persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic chemicals.Prohibits an agency from knowingly purchasing products or products in packaging containing persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic chemicals.Provides for termination and review, under the sunset act, of the chemical safety committee, and certain duties of the department of ecology related to this act.Provides that this act is null and void if appropriations are not approved.
| Feb 27 | APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Referred to Rules 2 Review. | ||
HB 1667-S
by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Cody, Jinkins, Robinson, and Tharinger)
Establishing the bleeding disorder collaborative for care.
Requires the state health care authority to establish the bleeding disorder collaborative for care for the purpose of identifying and developing evidence-based practices to improve care to patients with bleeding disorders with specific attention to health care cost reduction.Provides that this act is null and void if appropriations are not approved.
| Feb 26 | APP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 27 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1671-S
by House Committee on Health Care & Wellness (originally sponsored by Representatives Walkinshaw, Griffey, Cody, Smith, Peterson, Magendanz, Riccelli, Stanford, Appleton, Robinson, Tharinger, and Jinkins)
Concerning access to opioid overdose medications.
Authorizes a practitioner to prescribe, dispense, distribute, and deliver an opioid overdose medication: (1) Directly to a person at risk of experiencing an opioid-related overdose; or(2) By collaborative drug therapy agreement, standing order, or protocol to another person who is in a position to assist a person at risk of experiencing an opioid-related overdose.Authorizes a pharmacist to: (1) Dispense an opioid overdose medication pursuant to a prescription; and(2) Administer an opioid overdose medication to a person at risk of experiencing an opioid-related overdose.Requires a pharmacist, at the time of dispensing an opioid overdose medication, to provide written instructions on the proper response to an opioid-related overdose.
| Feb 13 | HCW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Feb 17 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
| Feb 27 | Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. | |
| Mar 2 | 1st substitute bill substituted. | |
| Floor amendment(s) adopted. | ||
| Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. | ||
| Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 1. | ||
HB 1689-S
by House Committee on Finance (originally sponsored by Representatives Reykdal and Nealey)
Concerning taxes on in-state broadcasters.
Addresses business and occupation taxation of in-state broadcasters.
| Feb 25 | FIN - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Feb 27 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1718-S
by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Ormsby, Kilduff, Sullivan, Hayes, Tharinger, MacEwen, Sawyer, Zeiger, Walsh, Rodne, Hudgins, Van De Wege, Appleton, Muri, Reykdal, Tarleton, and Pollet)
Authorizing membership in the Washington public safety employees' retirement system for employees who provide nursing care to, or ensure the custody and safety of, offender, probationary, and patient populations in institutions and centers.
Revises the following definitions for purposes of the public safety employees' retirement system: (1) "Employer" to include the department of veterans affairs and the department of social and health services; and(2) "Member" to include certain employees whose primary responsibility is to provide nursing care to or ensure the custody and safety of offender, probationary, or patient populations.Provides that this act is null and void if appropriations are not approved.
| Feb 25 | APP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Feb 27 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1728-S2
by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Ormsby, Walsh, Ortiz-Self, Senn, Kagi, S. Hunt, Farrell, Dent, Zeiger, and Gregerson)
Creating the parents for parents program.
Specifies that the parents for parents program currently exists in nine counties and has been shown to increase the number of family reunifications, where appropriate, while decreasing the length of time needed to establish permanence. The goal is to increase the permanency and well-being of children in foster care through peer mentoring that increases parental engagement and contributes to family reunification.Authorizes the parents for parents program to provide structured peer mentoring, administered by child welfare parent mentors, for families entering the dependency court system.Requires funding for the parents for parents program to be through the office of public defense and centrally administered through a pass-through to a state nonprofit-lead organization that has extensive experience supporting child welfare parent mentors.Requires a research entity with experience in child welfare research to conduct an evaluation of the parents for parents program.
| Feb 26 | APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 27 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1735-S2
by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Orwall, Kagi, Carlyle, Gregerson, Pollet, and Ormsby)
Concerning extended foster care services.
Addresses the maintenance of a dependency proceeding for the delivery of extended foster care services for any youth who is dependent in foster care at the age of eighteen years and who, at the time of his or her eighteenth birthday, is unable to meet specified requirements due to a medical condition.Requires the children's administration to: (1) Invite representatives from the division of behavioral health and recovery, the disability services administration, the economic services administration, and the juvenile justice and rehabilitation administration to the youth's shared planning meeting that is used to develop a transition plan for youth who will be aging out of foster care; and(2) If foster youth may qualify for developmental disability services, direct the youth to apply for the services and provide assistance in the application process.Provides that this act is null and void if appropriations are not approved.
| Feb 27 | APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Referred to Rules 2 Review. | ||
HB 1737-S
by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Orcutt, Santos, Magendanz, Bergquist, Ortiz-Self, Kilduff, Kagi, Zeiger, Tarleton, Muri, Condotta, and Pollet)
Addressing the availability of retired teachers as substitutes.
Authorizes certain teachers in plan 2 or plan 3 of the teachers' retirement system that have retired under certain alternate early retirement provisions to be employed with an employer that has documented a shortage of certified substitute teachers for up to six hundred thirty hours per school year without suspension of their benefit.
| Feb 25 | APP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 27 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1740-S
by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Appleton and Ryu)
Addressing political subdivisions purchasing health coverage through the public employees' benefits board program.
Addresses the purchase, by political subdivisions, of health care coverage through the public employees' benefits board program.
| Feb 25 | APP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Feb 27 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1813-S
by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Hansen, Magendanz, Reykdal, Muri, Tarleton, Zeiger, Lytton, Haler, Senn, Harmsworth, Tharinger, Young, Walkinshaw, Stanford, S. Hunt, and Pollet)
Expanding computer science education.
Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to adopt computer science learning standards developed by a nationally recognized computer science education organization.Requires the professional educator standards board to develop standards for a K-12 computer science endorsement.Changes the name of the retooling to teach mathematics and science conditional scholarship program to the educator retooling conditional scholarship program and modifies the program.
| Feb 26 | APP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Feb 27 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1825-S2
by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Kilduff, Muri, Gregory, Haler, Riccelli, Walkinshaw, Zeiger, and McBride; by request of Governor Inslee)
Modifying the definition of resident student to comply with federal requirements established by the veterans access, choice, and accountability act of 2014.
Revises the definition of "resident student," for purposes of chapter 28B.15 RCW (college and university fees), to comply with federal requirements established by the veterans access, choice, and accountability act of 2014.
| Feb 27 | APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Referred to Rules 2 Review. | ||
HB 1966-S
by House Committee on Finance (originally sponsored by Representatives Fey, Zeiger, Farrell, Fitzgibbon, Nealey, Walsh, and Moscoso)
Exempting transit agencies that manufacture liquid natural gas or compressed natural gas for the purposes of providing public transportation from the definition of manufacturing in respect to business and occupation tax.
Excludes from the definition of "to manufacture," with regard to business and occupation taxes, the production of compressed natural gas or liquefied natural gas by a municipality for use as a transportation fuel for vehicles operated by the municipality.
| Feb 25 | FIN - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Feb 27 | Referred to Rules 2 Review. | |
HB 1967-S
by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Cody, Schmick, and Jinkins)
Directing the health care authority to apply for federal waivers concerning health care coverage.
Requires the state health care authority to apply to the federal government for a waiver to permit the state to innovatively expand health care coverage and reduce health care costs.Provides that this act is null and void if appropriations are not approved.
| Feb 27 | APP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Referred to Rules 2 Review. | ||
HB 2107-S
by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Kretz, Blake, Short, Dent, and Schmick)
Requiring the department of fish and wildlife to update the 2011 wolf conservation and management plan to ensure the establishment of a self-sustaining population of gray wolves while also ensuring social tolerance of wolf recovery.
Requires the department of fish and wildlife to: (1) Engage in a process to amend the existing wolf conservation and management plan to better address the wolf recovery rate and distribution of wolves since the initial adoption of the plan; and(2) In amending the plan, use the most updated available science and coordinate with the existing wolf advisory group, including the use of a neutral third-party facilitated conflict resolution process for the group.Expires June 30, 2018.
| Feb 27 | APP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Referred to Rules 2 Review. | ||
SB 5311-S2
by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Rolfes, O'Ban, Frockt, Darneille, Keiser, McCoy, Kohl-Welles, Hasegawa, and Jayapal)
Requiring crisis intervention training for peace officers.
Establishes the Douglas M. Ostling act.Requires the criminal justice training commission to provide crisis intervention training to new full-time law enforcement officers employed after July 1, 2017, by a general authority Washington law enforcement agency.
| Feb 27 | WM - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
| Mar 3 | Placed on second reading consent calendar. | |
SB 5320-S
by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Honeyford, Keiser, Ranker, Warnick, and Parlette; by request of Recreation and Conservation Office)
Concerning the administrative rate the recreation and conservation funding board may retain to administer the grant programs established in chapter 79A.15 RCW.
Addresses the administration of grant programs by the recreation and conservation funding board.
| Feb 27 | WM - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
SB 5404-S2
by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators O'Ban, Darneille, Frockt, Miloscia, Kohl-Welles, McAuliffe, Chase, Pedersen, and Conway; by request of Governor Inslee)
Concerning homeless youth prevention and protection.
Establishes the homeless youth prevention and protection act.Creates the office of homeless youth prevention and protection programs within the department of commerce.Requires the office to: (1) Be operational no later than January 1, 2016;(2) Establish a statewide training program on homeless youth for criminal justice personnel; and(3) Provide management and oversight guidance and direction to the following programs: HOPE centers; crisis residential centers; street youth services; and independent youth housing programs.Specifies that the goals of the office are to: (1) Decrease the number of homeless youth and young adults by identifying programs that address the initial causes of homelessness; and(2) Increase permanency rates among homeless youth by decreasing the length and occurrences of youth homelessness caused by a youth's separation from family or a legal guardian.Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to conduct a review of state-funded programs that serve unaccompanied homeless youth under the age of eighteen.Transfers certain powers, duties, and functions of the department of social and health services, pertaining to youth homeless services and programs, to the department of commerce.Changes the name of "the homeless families services fund" to "the Washington youth and families fund."
| Feb 27 | WM - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
SB 5437-S2
by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Litzow, McAuliffe, Fain, Billig, Rivers, Hill, Rolfes, Hasegawa, Jayapal, Habib, Kohl-Welles, Chase, Pedersen, and Conway)
Concerning breakfast after the bell programs.
Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Administer one-time start-up allocation grants of up to six thousand dollars to each high-needs school implementing a breakfast after the bell program;(2) Develop and distribute procedures and guidelines for the implementation of this act; and(3) Dedicate staff within the office to offer training and technical and marketing assistance to public schools and school districts related to offering breakfast after the bell.Requires a school, beginning in the school year that it receives a grant, to offer breakfast after the bell to each student and provide adequate time for students to eat.Provides that this act is null and void if appropriations are not approved.
| Feb 27 | WM - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
SB 5583-S
by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senator Dansel)
Providing the fish and wildlife commission with the tools necessary to enact changes to the status of a species.
Requires the fish and wildlife commission, if it has listed a terrestrial mammal species statewide as endangered, threatened, or sensitive in this state, to consider any petitions for removing a species from classification on a regional basis.
| Feb 27 | WM - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
SB 5593-S
by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Dammeier, Padden, Cleveland, O'Ban, Pedersen, Becker, and Kohl-Welles)
Concerning delivery and payment for health care services by hospitals for inmates and persons detained by law enforcement.
Addresses the payment for and delivery of health care services by hospitals for inmates and persons detained by law enforcement.
| Feb 27 | WM - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
| Mar 3 | Made eligible to be placed on second reading. | |
SB 5688-S2
by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Litzow, Rolfes, McAuliffe, Fain, Hill, Kohl-Welles, Mullet, Billig, Darneille, Jayapal, and Frockt)
Providing students with skills that promote mental health and well-being and increase academic performance.
Requires the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Convene a work group to recommend comprehensive social emotional learning benchmarks for grades kindergarten through high school; and(2) Conduct a survey of schools to ascertain how many schools in the state are implementing a social emotional learning program and to understand individual districts' capacity to implement social emotional learning.Authorizes school districts to use specific funding to develop and update school specific action plans to implement multitiered systems of support frameworks and curriculum aligned with the frameworks.
| Feb 27 | WM - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
SB 5843-S
by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Ranker, Parlette, Pearson, Rolfes, Hewitt, Litzow, Conway, Hasegawa, and McAuliffe)
Concerning outdoor recreation.
Requires the director of the parks and recreation commission, when setting priorities and developing criteria for the awarding of grants to outdoor environmental, ecological, agricultural, or other natural resource-based education and recreation programs, to consider programs that use veterans for at least fifty percent of program implementation or administration.Requires the governor to appoint and maintain a senior policy advisor to the governor to focus on promoting, increasing participation in, and increasing opportunities for outdoor recreation in the state.
| Feb 27 | WM - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
| Mar 3 | Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. | |
SB 5851-S2
by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Frockt, Kohl-Welles, Miloscia, Liias, Mullet, Pedersen, Nelson, and McAuliffe)
Concerning recommendations of the college bound scholarship program work group.
Addresses recommendations of the college bound scholarship program work group with regard to improving and enhancing certain components of the program, including data collection, outreach, and program outcomes.
| Feb 27 | WM - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
| Mar 3 | Placed on second reading consent calendar. | |
SB 5897-S
by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Cleveland, Darneille, McAuliffe, Kohl-Welles, and Chase)
Concerning funding for medical evaluations of suspected victims of child abuse.
Requires the department of labor and industries to pay, secondary to other insurance benefits, all costs incurred by an institution for the examination of a suspected victim of assault of a child when the examination is conducted within seventy-five days of the filing of a petition for dependency.Expires June 30, 2019.
| Feb 27 | WM - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
| Mar 3 | Placed on second reading consent calendar. | |
SB 5908-S2
by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators McAuliffe, Chase, Cleveland, Billig, Kohl-Welles, Habib, and Hasegawa)
Concerning restraint or isolation of students, including students with disabilities, in public schools.
Prohibits schools from physically restraining or isolating a student except when the student's behavior poses an imminent likelihood of serious harm to that student or another person.Requires the state school directors' association to adopt a model policy limiting restraint or isolation of students in public schools.
| Feb 27 | WM - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
| Mar 3 | Made eligible to be placed on second reading. | |
SB 5915-S
by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Brown, Angel, Miloscia, Braun, Dansel, Schoesler, Hewitt, and Chase)
Addressing fiscal notes and fiscal impact statements.
Addresses fiscal notes and dynamic fiscal impact statements.Requires the office of financial management, in consultation with the economic and revenue forecast council, to establish a process and methodology for dynamic fiscal impact statements and dynamic impact estimates.Requires fiscal notes dealing with corrections, child welfare, and mental health issues to include, no later than January 1, 2017, an estimate of the fiscal impact of expenditure reductions or increases on other state or local program expenditures as well as any return on investment as a result of the legislation. The office of financial management and the state institute for public policy, in consultation with university-based research institutions, shall work together to implement this requirement.Requires the director of the office of financial management and the director of the state institute for public policy to convene a work group to explore the establishment of a nonpartisan agency to conduct objective, impartial fiscal analysis on behalf of the legislature.
| Feb 27 | WM - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
SB 5960-S
by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senator Dansel)
Requiring the department of fish and wildlife to update the 2011 wolf conservation and management plan to ensure the establishment of a self-sustaining population of gray wolves while also ensuring social tolerance of wolf recovery.
Requires the department of fish and wildlife to: (1) Engage in a process to amend the existing wolf conservation and management plan to better address the wolf recovery rate and uneven distribution of wolves in northeast Washington that has occurred since the initial adoption of the plan; and(2) In amending the plan, use the most updated available science and coordinate with the existing wolf advisory group.Expires June 30, 2018.
| Feb 27 | WM - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
| Mar 3 | Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. | |
SB 5976-S
by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Litzow, Keiser, Becker, Rivers, Hobbs, Hill, Hatfield, Fain, Baumgartner, McAuliffe, and Dammeier)
Establishing a consolidated purchasing system for public school employees.
Creates the school employees' benefits board, within the state health care authority, to design and approve insurance benefit plans for school employees and to establish eligibility criteria for participation in insurance benefit plans.Creates the school employees' insurance account and the school employees' benefits board medical benefits administration account.
| Feb 27 | WM - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Minority; without recommendation. | ||
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||