Concerning water banking.

Prohibits the department of ecology from using water banking to provide for mitigation of water resource impacts unless an adequate water supply is available for the purpose of providing mitigation.

Requires the department of ecology to: (1) Include a schedule or table for each water bank that shows: (a) The amount charged for mitigation; (b) the priority date of water made available for mitigation; and (c) the amount of water made available for mitigation; and

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 assist owners and operators of petroleum underground storage tank systems to: (1) 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 dispensing 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).

Creating the Washington achieving a better life experience program.

Creates the achieving a better life experience program.

Allowing the prescription of a schedule II controlled substance to treat a binge eating disorder.

Addressing the securities act of Washington.

Addressing student volunteers and unpaid students.

Addressing the rights of dissenting members of cooperative associations in certain mergers.

Allowing the use of gender-segregated facilities.

Addressing the availability of retired teachers as substitutes.

Allowing access to investigational products by terminally ill patients participating in clinical trials.

Allows a manufacturer of an investigational drug, biological product, or device to: (1) Make the drug, product, or device available to eligible patients; and

(2) Provide the drug, product, or device to an eligible patient without receiving compensation; or

(3) Require an eligible patient to pay the costs of, or the costs associated with, the manufacture of the drug, product, or device.

Allows a health insurance carrier to provide coverage for the cost of the drug, product, or device.

Concerning a notice of violation for discharges from agricultural activity on agricultural land based on information provided to the department of ecology by a third party.

Requires the department of ecology, if it issues a notice of violation related to discharges from agricultural activity on agricultural land, based on information provided to the department by a third party, to, upon request, provide the name of the third party to the person receiving the notice of violation.

Providing school districts with an assessment inventory tool to streamline the assessment system.

Requires the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Obtain an existing student assessment inventory tool and distribute it to each school district; and

(2) Take all necessary steps to access federal grant funding to audit state and local student assessment systems.

Requires each school district to: (1) Use the student assessment inventory tool to: (a) Identify the student assessments administered within the district; and (b) ascertain the amount of student time that is spent taking each assessment; and

(2) Report the gathered information to the state institute for public policy.

Requires the state institute for public policy to: (1) Determine the minimum amount of assessment information necessary for essential diagnostic, instructional, and federal, state, and school district accountability purposes;

(2) Evaluate the school district information to determine whether each assessment is providing the information necessary for its specific purposes; and

Providing for improving emergency preparedness by expanding continuity of operations planning.

Requires the adjutant general to also lead the development and management of a program for interagency coordination and prioritization of continuity of operations planning by school districts.

Requires the adjutant general, in consultation with the emergency management council, to develop: (1) Model continuity of operations plans for use by state agencies and school districts; and

Providing an aggravating circumstance for assault against a utility worker.

Increasing the personal needs allowance for persons receiving state-financed care.

Concerning the use of surety treatment bonds.

Reestablishing the juvenile justice partnership council under the administrative office of the courts.

Creates the Washington state partnership council on juvenile justice, with membership to conform to the requirements of the federal juvenile justice and delinquency prevention act.

Designates the partnership council as the primary advisory state-planning group for matters pertaining to juvenile justice in the state.

Allowing a hospital pharmacy license to include individual practitioner offices and multipracitioner clinics owned and operated by a hospital and ensuring such offices and clinics are inspected according to the level of service provided.

Declares an intent to make clear: (1) The legislature's directive to the pharmacy quality assurance commission and the department of health to allow hospital pharmacy licenses to include individual practitioner offices and multipractitioner clinics owned and operated by a hospital; and

(2) That the offices and clinics are regulated, inspected, and investigated according to the level of service provided.

Establishing a progressive income tax.

Establishes a state income tax.

Reduces the state sales tax.

Eliminates the state property tax.

Requiring acceptance of additional high school equivalency tests.

Establishes the GED fairness act.

Declares an intent to ensure that adults who want to earn a high school equivalency certificate have access to a test option that is appropriate, low cost, and flexible.

Requires the state board for community and technical colleges to identify: (1) At least two test options, at least one of which is low cost to the student and at least one test option that does not require computer proficiency and is fairly normed to the actual academic ability of current high school seniors, such that at least sixty percent of high school seniors can pass the high school equivalency test; and

Concerning the statute of limitations for certain crimes.

Allows the following offenses to be prosecuted at any time after their commission: (1) Rape in the first degree;

(2) Rape of a child in the first degree;

(3) Child molestation in the first degree;

(4) Sexual misconduct with a minor in the first degree; and

(5) Custodial sexual misconduct in the first degree.

Allows the following violations, when committed against a victim under the age of eighteen, to be prosecuted up to twenty years after the victim reaches the age of majority: (1) Rape in the second degree;

(2) Rape of a child in the second or third degree;

(3) Child molestation in the second and third degree;

(4) Indecent liberties;

(5) Incest; or

(6) Sexual exploitation of a minor.

Requiring an HPV immunization report.

Criminalizing female genital mutilation.

Creates the crime of female genital mutilation.

Providing protections for persons with developmental disabilities.

Improves and standardizes assessment standards to be used by the developmental disabilities administration.

Allowing the disclosure of health care information with persons with a close relationship with a patient.

Concerning providers of networking services that do not provide information content.

Addresses the transmitting or receiving of gambling information.

Concerning the state route number 2 trestle.

Addresses the replacement of the state route number 2 trestle.

Establishing a water discharge permit for concentrated animal feeding operations that is issued under the sole authority of state law.

Establishes the dairy farm and water resource sustainability act.

Creating a task force on patient out-of-pocket costs.

Creates the task force on patient out-of-pocket costs.

Requires the department of health to convene the task force and coordinate task force meetings.

Requires the task force to: (1) Evaluate factors contributing to the high out-of-pocket costs for patients including prescription drug cost trends, plan benefit design, specialty tiers, prescription drug cost-sharing structures, and prescription deductibles; and

Prioritizing the expenditure of funds associated with the model toxics control act for the cleanup of toxic pollution.

Manages the decline in revenue from the hazardous substance tax to the state toxics control account, the local toxics control account, and the environmental legacy stewardship account by setting a policy that prioritizes cleanup of toxic sites.

Postpones the award of other projects, including grants and loans for controlling storm water pollution and grants for public participation.

-- 2016 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 26	First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications.

by Senator Chase

Concerning implementation of the 2015 Agreement on Land, Rail, Marine, and Air Transport Preclearance.

Urges congress to expedite a bill to give the United States extraterritorial jurisdiction over preclearance officers in Canada in order to implement the 2015 agreement on land, rail, marine, and air transport preclearance.

-- 2016 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 26	First reading, referred to Trade & Economic Development.

by Senator Chase

Amending the Constitution to allow an income tax.

Proposes an amendment to the state Constitution to allow an income tax.

-- 2016 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 26	First reading, referred to Ways & Means.