Concerning surname changes after the solemnization of a marriage.

Concerning court transcripts.

Modifies court transcript provisions relating to: (1) Duties and fees of the official reporter employed by the court, other certified court reporters, and authorized transcriptionists; and

Concerning breakfast after the bell programs.

Requires each high-needs school to offer breakfast after the bell to each student and provide adequate time for students to eat.

Requires the state to provide, and the office of the superintendent of public instruction to administer, one-time start-up allocation grants of six thousand dollars to each high-needs school implementing a breakfast after the bell program.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Develop and distribute procedures and guidelines for the implementation of this act; and

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.

Implementing strategies to close the educational opportunity gap, based on the recommendations of the educational opportunity gap oversight and accountability committee.

Adopts policies and procedures to implement the following recommendations of the educational opportunity gap oversight and accountability committee: (1) Reduce the length of time students of color are excluded from school due to suspension and expulsion and provide students support for reengagement plans;

(2) Enhance the cultural competence of current and future educators and classified staff;

(3) Endorse all educators in English language learner and second language acquisition;

(4) Account for the transitional bilingual instruction program instructional services provided to English language learner students;

(5) Analyze the opportunity gap through deeper disaggregation of student demographic data;

(6) Invest in the recruitment, hiring, and retention of educators of color;

(7) Incorporate integrated student services and family engagement; and

Allowing federally recognized tribes with lands held in trust in a county that is west of the Cascade mountain range that borders Puget Sound with a population of at least one hundred eighteen thousand, but less than two hundred fifty thousand, persons to enter into agreements regarding fuel taxes.

Coordinating services and programs for foster youth in order to improve educational outcomes.

Authorizes the department of social and health services, for purposes of providing for the educational success of youth in foster care, to disclose only those confidential child welfare records that pertain to or may assist with meeting the educational needs of foster youth to another state agency or state agency's contracted provider responsible under state law or contract for assisting foster youth to attain educational success.

Requires the department of social and health services to contract with the office of the superintendent of public instruction, which in turn must contract with at least one nongovernmental entity to administer a program of education coordination for youth, kindergarten through twelfth grade, who are dependent under the juvenile court act.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to contract with at least one nongovernmental entity to improve the educational outcomes of students at two sites by providing individualized education services and monitoring and supporting dependent youths' completion of educational milestones, remediation needs, and special education needs.

Requires the department of social and health services children's administration to proactively refer all eligible students thirteen years of age or older, within the site areas, to the contractor for educational services.

Requiring lobbying reports to be filed electronically.

Delaying implementation of revisions to the school levy lid and local effort assistance.

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

Concerning the sale of software used in the unauthorized interference of ticket sales over the internet.

Concerning impaired driving.

Concerning the regulation of alcoholic beverages.

Authorizes a domestic winery to apply to the state liquor and cannabis board for an endorsement to sell wine of its own production at retail for off-premises consumption at an event which holds a special occasion license.

Prohibiting the flying of certain flags from Washington state ferry system vessels and terminals.

Promoting responsible and productive citizenship.

Authorizing general authority Washington peace officers to assist the department of corrections with the supervision of offenders.

Increasing the seriousness level of first degree rape and first degree rape of a child.

Making a fourth driving under the influence offense a felony.

Concerning voter preregistration of persons seventeen years of age including designating voter registration locations and voter preregistration locations.

Declares it is the intent of the secretary of state and the legislature to: (1) Formalize a preregistration process for persons not yet eighteen years old;

(2) Authorize persons seventeen years old to preregister to vote; and

(3) Engage these new voters and encourage their civic participation in an educational environment.

Requires an event, coordinated by the county auditor of each county, in each history or social studies class attended by high school seniors, to encourage students seventeen years of age or older to preregister or register to vote online from the classroom.

Authorizes the governor, in consultation with the secretary of state, to designate additional agencies and offices to provide voter registration services.

Exempts the following from public inspection and copying: The information contained in voter preregistration applications until the applicant reaches age eighteen.

Providing for fire protection district formation by the legislative authority of a city or town subject to voter approval.

Authorizes the legislative authority of a city or town, as an alternative to the petition method of formation for fire protection districts provided in chapter 52.02 RCW and subject to the approval of the voters, to establish a fire protection district with boundaries that are the same as the corporate boundaries of the city or town for the provision of fire prevention services, fire suppression services, and emergency medical services, and for the protection of life and property within the city or town.

Creating firefighter memorial special license plates.

Concerning eligibility for lifetime veteran's disability passes.

Increasing the availability of sexual assault nurse examiners.

Addressing the use of force in self-defense.

Designating the revenue from the sales and use tax on feminine hygiene products to the women helping women grant program.

Establishes the women helping women act.

Creates a women helping women grant program within the department of commerce to enhance the capacity of local communities to: (1) Develop and strengthen effective law enforcement and prosecution strategies to reduce violent crimes against women; and

(2) Develop and strengthen victim services in cases involving violent crimes against women.

Directs the sales and use tax for feminine hygiene products to women helping women grants to support services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and the children of victims.

Creates the women helping women account.

Requires the department of revenue to: (1) Estimate the amount of tax the general fund would lose if a tax exemption for feminine hygiene products was enacted; and

(2) Notify the state treasurer of the estimated amount.

Preventing unfunded state mandates.

Requires the legislature, for all legislation where a school district fiscal note is required, to: (1) Appropriate the funds identified as necessary to implement the legislation; or

(2) Identify the resource that is available to school districts to implement the legislation.

Providing sales and use tax exemptions, in the form of a remittance of tax paid, to encourage coal-fired electric generation plants to convert to natural gas-fired plants or biomass energy facilities.

Provides a sales and use tax exemption, in the form of a remittance, for materials, machinery and equipment, and labor and services rendered in respect to the constructing of new structures, and expansion or renovation of existing structures, for the purpose of converting a coal-fired electric generation facility into a natural gas-fired plant or biomass energy facility.

Concerning working connections child care eligibility for vulnerable children.

Provides that the legislature: (1) Finds that beginning July 1, 2016, authorizations for the working connections child care subsidy will be effective for twelve months; and

Directing the department of transportation to identify opportunities and, if appropriate, submit an invitation for bids or request for proposals to contract with concessionaires to operate on and collect tolls for the Tacoma Narrows bridge.

Establishes the Tacoma Narrows bridge toll by coffee act.

Requires the department of transportation's economic partnerships program, in consultation with the toll division, to identify opportunities to create a toll plaza by leasing property upon which the Tacoma Narrows bridge toll booths are located or contract with the private sector to operate other businesses while collecting tolls, or both.

Requires any proceeds, separate from tolls, generated by a contract to be deposited into the Tacoma Narrows toll bridge account to be expended to pay for the principal and interest on bonds issued for the construction of the Tacoma Narrows bridge.

Providing consumer protections for military members on active duty.

Authorizes a service member, who has been called into active service, to terminate or suspend the following services upon written notice, including electronic mail, to the service provider: (1) Telecommunication services from a telecommunications company;

(2) Internet services provided from an internet service provider;

(3) Health studio services from a health studio; and

Concerning the economic development element of the growth management act.

Establishes the economic revitalization act.

Protecting private property rights by aligning the jurisdictional scope of the state water pollution control act with the jurisdictional scope of the federal clean water act.

Ensuring that a new federal government definition of the term "waters of the United States" has no applicability to the regulation of water quality in the state of Washington.

Modifying and updating small works roster construction and limited public works requirements.

Authorizes state agencies and authorized local governments to: (1) Use a uniform small works roster to award contracts for construction, building, renovation, remodeling, alteration, repair, or improvement of real property with an estimated cost of five hundred thousand dollars or less; and

(2) Create a single general small works roster or a small works roster for different specialties or categories of anticipated work.

Clarifying that internet security, cloud, and other related internet companies are not in violation when selling internet-related equipment and services to gaming companies not operating in Washington state.

Modifying the election and authority of regional transit authority board members.

Addressing the authority of pharmacists to dispense prescription drugs.

Concerning the regulation of continuing care retirement communities.

Regulates continuing care retirement communities.

Requires a person or an entity to be certified by the department of social and health services before: (1) Operating a continuing care retirement community;

(2) Entering into a residency agreement with a prospective resident;

(3) Soliciting a prospective resident to pay an application fee or executing a residency agreement; or

Concerning teacher retention.

Establishes the teacher retention act.

Establishing the reading coaches grant program.

Creates the reading to ensure academic development grant program, known as the READ grant program, to improve early elementary student literacy.

Concerning school grading and choice.

Establishes the school choice act.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to grant the request of a student's parent or guardian for the student to enroll in and attend a common school if certain conditions are met.

Requires each school to include in its annual performance report the performance of the school and the school district on the Washington achievement index.

Concerning the prescription drug monitoring program.

Requires a practitioner to use the prescription monitoring program established in chapter 70.225 RCW before initially prescribing a substance included in schedule II or III for the treatment of noncancer-related chronic or intractable pain.

Authorizes the department of health to provide data in the prescription monitoring program to: (1) Persons authorized to prescribe or dispense legend drugs for the purpose of providing medical or pharmaceutical care for their patients; and

Concerning candidates appearing on the ballot when two or fewer candidates file.

Prohibits a primary from being held for a single position in a partisan primary if, after the last day allowed for candidates to withdraw, there are no more than two candidates who have filed for the position.

Modifying certain voter approval requirements for fire protection district annexations.

Establishing uniform insurance standards for taxicabs, for hire vehicles, and personal vehicles used to provide commercial transportation services.

Changing high school science assessment requirements.

Concerning allowable uses of agricultural lands.

Encouraging the governor to prioritize gender equality when making appointments and reappointments to state boards, commissions, and councils.

Requiring criminal history record checks for the purpose of conducting certain preemployment evaluations.

Requiring permission to bring a concealed firearm into another person's residence or dwelling place.

Prohibits a person from carrying a concealed firearm into the residence or dwelling place of another person without first obtaining the express permission of the owner or person in legal control or possession of the residence or dwelling place.

Requires the court, upon conviction for a violation, to: (1) Order the person to surrender any concealed pistol license; and

Modifying the distribution of vehicle service fees paid to the capital vessel replacement account.

Concerning an exemption from discover pass requirements for off-road vehicles.

Addressing state and local government fiscal agents.

Modifies provisions relating to state and local government fiscal agents.

-- 2016 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 19	First reading, referred to Business & Financial Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).