Limiting out-of-state requests for public records.

Ensuring business vitality by allowing for total compensation when calculating the minimum wage rate and providing for youth wages.

Concerning circumstances under which the name of a candidate for elective office may appear on the ballot more than once.

Concerning presidential electors.

Concerning public funds being used for elective abortions.

Eliminating the reduction in state basic education funding that occurs in counties with federal forest lands.

Concerning the taxing authority of public facilities districts.

Concerning surname changes after the solemnization of a marriage.

Addressing survivor benefits from the public employees' retirement system for survivors of members in registered domestic partnerships prior to December 2012.

Requiring lobbying reports to be filed electronically.

Protecting the personal information of a person acting as a guardian ad litem.

Exempts from public disclosure, inspection, and copying, under the public records act, the following information regarding a guardian ad litem: (1) Current residential address;

(2) Current telephone number; and

Increasing the number of state need grant recipients by awarding the community and technical college rate in certain financial aid programs for a student's first two years of postsecondary credit.

Concerning the election of county prosecutor as a nonpartisan office.

Authorizes the legislative authority of a county or, if authorized, the voters of the county to designate the office of the county prosecuting attorney to be a nonpartisan office.

Adopting the international wildland urban interface code by reference for purposes of the state building code.

Concerning prescriptive authority of naturopaths.

Concerning the handling of certain personal property in a self-service storage facility.

Prohibiting the use of racially offensive school names.

Providing reasonable accommodations in the workplace for pregnant women.

Regulating applications for forest practices on lands located within the boundaries of master planned resorts established under chapter 36.70A RCW.

Increasing the available term of water pollution control revolving fund program loans to reflect the 2014 amendments to the federal clean water act allowing such an increase.

Concerning fire prevention in 2016.

Prohibits the following from June 1, 2016, through September 30, 2016: (1) The sale, purchase, use, or discharge of consumer fireworks within the state; and

Concerning the validity of administrative rules.

Modifying the operation of the Interstate 405 express toll lanes.

Concerning the age of individuals at which sale or distribution of tobacco and vapor products may be made.

Regulating the manufacture, sale, distribution, and installation of motor vehicle air bags.

Addressing the expiration date of the mortgage lending fraud prosecution account.

Addressing the securities act of Washington.

Expanding the use of neighborhood and medium-speed electric vehicles.

Adding an additional exception to chapter 16.30 RCW that applies to possessors of potentially dangerous wild animals that are licensed by the United States department of agriculture under the federal animal welfare act.

Concerning prescription drug insurance continuity of care.

Providing that the horse racing commission operating account is a nonappropriated account.

Removing disincentives to the voluntary formation of regional fire protection service authorities by equalizing certain provisions with existing laws governing fire protection districts and by clarifying the formation process.

Concerning the vehicle license cost recovery fee charged for certain rental car transactions.

Creating the Washington achieving a better life experience program.

Creates the achieving a better life experience program.

Concerning educational interpreters.

Authorizes the parent or guardian of a child who is deaf, deaf-blind, or hard of hearing to request a specific sign language or sign system in the child's individualized education program.

Requires certain school districts to give priority to the request.

Requiring the superintendent of public instruction to develop an elective firearms safety and hunter education course for high school students.

Requires the superintendent of public instruction, in consultation with the department of fish and wildlife, to develop a program of instruction for firearms safety and hunter education for students in grades nine through twelve that satisfies hunting license prerequisite requirements.

Transferring regulatory authority over independent review organizations to the insurance commissioner.

Concerning the slaughter of horses and other equines for human consumption.

Prohibits a person from: (1) Slaughtering a horse if the person knows or should know that the meat from the slaughtered animal is intended to be used for human consumption; and

Providing women with timely information regarding their breast health.

Including certain residents who do not have a high school diploma or credential and the number of students expected to enroll in basic education for adults courses at community and technical colleges in caseload forecast council forecasting.

Modifying provisions regulating electric vehicle charging stations.

Concerning the expiration date of the invasive species council and account.

Removing an expiration date concerning the filing and public disclosure of health care provider compensation.

Providing a choice between membership in the public employees' retirement system plans 2 and 3 for employees age twenty-five or less in subsequent terms of employment.

Authorizes an employee to choose to earn future service credit as a member of plan 2 or plan 3 of the public employees' retirement system if they are: (1) Age twenty-five or less;

(2) Validly separated from employment from an employer; and

Concerning the excise taxation of martial arts.

Addressing health care provider credentialing.

Requires the insurance commissioner to use the uniform electronic process created by RCW 48.165.035 as a database that manages health care providers' credentialing information and makes the information available to health benefit plans.

Implementing joint legislative audit and review committee recommendations to improve claims management and efficiencies in workers' compensation.

Provides that the joint legislative audit and review committee, in its report, concluded that the department of labor and industries could improve workers' compensation claim outcomes by improving claims management efficiencies.

Implementing joint legislative audit and review committee recommendations to improve claims management and efficiencies in workers' compensation.

Provides that the joint legislative audit and review committee, in its report, concluded that the department of labor and industries could improve workers' compensation claim outcomes by improving claims management efficiencies.

Implementing joint legislative audit and review committee recommendations to improve claims management and efficiencies in workers' compensation.

Provides that: (1) The joint legislative audit and review committee, in its report, concluded that the department of labor and industries could improve workers' compensation claim outcomes by improving claims management efficiencies, specifically clarifying the definition of employability; and

(2) Most states terminate temporary total disability payments when an injured worker reaches maximum medical improvement.

Addressing health coverage for residential treatment.

Addressing the Washington state health insurance pool.

Concerning DNA biological samples.

Concerning performance of personal services by members of the liquor industry to retailers.

Concerning limited licenses for medical school graduates who are not participating in a residency program.

Authorizes the board of osteopathic medicine and surgery to issue a limited associate osteopathic physician license under certain conditions.

Concerning county ferry districts.

Requires the legislative authority of a county that intends to create a ferry district in only a portion of the county to publish notice of this intention, in one or more newspapers of general circulation within the county, by April 1st of the year in which the ferry district is to be created.

Promoting the deployment of combined heat and power systems.

Authorizes a natural gas company to offer incentives for customers to invest in combined heat and power systems that result in cost-effective energy efficiency savings and achieve real, quantifiable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

Promoting a sustainable, local renewable energy industry through modifying renewable energy system tax incentives and providing guidance for renewable energy system component recycling.

Reducing the tax on useable marijuana, marijuana concentrates, and marijuana-infused products.

Providing local governments with flexibility regarding local fireworks ordinances.

Eliminating the term "branch" as an identifying factor for extensions of the public institutions of higher education.

Defining the administration of medication by medical assistants.

Providing consumer notice regarding cinnamon sources that naturally contain high levels of coumarin.

Regarding riparian restoration and planting on farmlands.

Revises farmlands preservation account provisions with regard to: (1) Riparian restoration and planting on farmlands;

(2) Federally recognized Indian tribes in the state; and

Concerning civil penalties for knowing attendance by a member of a governing body at a meeting held in violation of the open public meetings act.

Banning assault weapons and large capacity magazines.

Concerning registered service contract and protection product guarantee providers.

Concerning employer agreements to reimburse certain employee costs for the use of personal vehicles for business purposes.

Concerning the authority of the pollution liability insurance agency.

Requires the pollution liability insurance agency to establish an underground storage tank revolving loan and grant program to: (1) Assist owners and operators of petroleum underground storage tank systems to remediate past releases;

(2) Upgrade, replace, or remove petroleum underground storage tank systems to prevent future releases; and

(3) Install new infrastructure or retrofit existing infrastructure for the dispensing of renewable or alternative energy.

Provides a July 1, 2030, expiration date for the program.

Delays, until July 1, 2030, the expiration of: (1) Chapter 70.148 RCW (underground petroleum storage tanks);

(2) Chapter 70.149 RCW (the heating oil pollution liability protection act); and

(3) Chapter 82.23A RCW (petroleum products--underground storage tank program funding).

Creates the pollution liability insurance agency underground storage tank revolving loan and grant account.

Concerning water-sewer districts.

Modifies water-sewer district provisions regarding: (1) The sale of unnecessary property;

(2) The authority of the board of commissioners to adopt a policy to issue its own warrants for payment of claims or other obligations of the district;

(3) Contracting for asset management service of water storage assets; and

Updating obsolete provisions and making technical corrections.

Eliminating the quality education council.

Delaying implementation of revisions to the school levy lid.

Declares that the legislature: (1) Recognizes that the system of state and local funding for school districts is in transition during 2016; and

Concerning video and/or sound recordings made by law enforcement or corrections officers.

Exempts the following from public inspection and copying under the public records act: Body worn camera recordings to the extent nondisclosure is essential for the protection of a person's right to privacy.

Requires law enforcement agencies and corrections agencies that deploy body worn cameras to establish policies regarding the use of the cameras.

Requires the legislature to convene a task force to examine the use of body worn cameras by law enforcement and corrections agencies.

Concerning pharmaceutical drug cost and utilization transparency.

Addresses awareness and transparency in the health care market with regard to pharmaceutical drug cost and use.

Requires the following information to be included in health care data reports that use claims data prepared by the lead organization for the legislature and the public: (1) The total amount spent by state and local government entities on the purchase of prescription drugs for employees and dependents, including as a percentage of total amount on medical care;

(2) A list of the twenty prescription drugs with the highest cost to state and local government in terms of total amount spent and amount spent per prescription, including a comparison of the costs of the prescription drugs to the price paid by the United States department of veterans affairs and the price paid under the 340B drug discount program; and

(3) Trend data over time on the amount spent by medicaid programs, the public employees' benefits board, and city and county governments as measured by claims for classes of prescription drugs, including generic, brand name, and specialty drugs.

Concerning the licensing of marijuana-related businesses involving a partnership, employee cooperative, association, nonprofit corporation, corporation, or limited liability company.

Allowing marijuana retailers to sell marijuana merchandise.

Allows the sale of marijuana merchandise by marijuana retailers.

Concerning basic education obligations.

Creates the education funding task force to continue the work of the governor's informal work group to review the data and analysis provided by the consultant mentioned below and make recommendations to the legislature on implementing the program of basic education.

Requires the state institute for public policy, in consultation with the education funding task force, to contract for independent professional consulting services to: (1) Collect K-12 public school staff total compensation data;

(2) Identify market rate salaries that are comparable to each of the staff types in the prototypical school funding model; and

(3) Provide analysis regarding whether a local labor market adjustment formula should be implemented and if so which market adjustment factors and methods should be used.

Requires the superintendent of public instruction to collect, and school districts and other applicable local education agencies to provide, compensation data necessary to implement this act with sufficient time for the consultant to accomplish the required work.

Requires that legislative action be taken by the end of the 2017 session to eliminate school district dependency on local levies for implementation of the state's program of basic education.

Makes appropriations.

Concerning public schools that are not common schools.

Addresses: (1) Charter public schools;

(2) Educational programs not in common schools; and

(3) Funding from the Washington opportunity pathways account.

Makes appropriations.

-- 2016 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 11	First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).