Concerning the licensing of marijuana-related businesses involving a partnership, employee cooperative, association, nonprofit corporation, corporation, business entity, or nonprofit entity.

Providing for hospital discharge planning with lay caregivers.

Addresses lay caregivers providing assistance to a patient after the patient's discharge from a hospital.

Concerning certified public accountant firm mobility.

Addressing emergency health care services balanced billing.

Requires the insurance commissioner to convene a work group to study ways to eliminate balance billing for health services.

Concerning state natural resource-related agencies providing financial assistance to agencies of the federal government.

Updating specified environmental statutes of the department of ecology to improve efficiency and provide for increased flexibility for local governments.

Concerning prior authorization for dental services and supplies in medical assistance programs.

Requires the state health care authority to convene a work group or use an existing work group to make recommendations on ways to improve the prior authorization system for dental providers who provide dental services and related supplies to clients of medical assistance programs.

Providing local governments with options to preserve affordable housing in their communities.

Concerning public disclosure of information submitted to the liquor and cannabis board regarding marijuana product traceability and operations.

Exempts the following from disclosure under the public records act: (1) Financial institution and retirement account information and building security plan information, supplied to the state liquor and cannabis board, when filed by or on behalf of a licensee or prospective licensee for the purpose of obtaining, maintaining, or renewing a license to produce, process, transport, or sell marijuana; and

Notifying foster parents of dependency hearings and their opportunity to be heard in those hearings.

Addresses timely and adequate notice by the department of social and health services or supervising agency to a child's foster parents, preadoptive parents, or other caregivers of their right to be heard before each proceeding held with respect to a child in juvenile court.

Concerning public funds and deposits.

Disposing tax foreclosed property to cities for affordable housing purposes.

Requires the county legislative authority to give notice to a city in which any tax foreclosed property is located within at least sixty days of acquiring the property and prohibits the county from disposing of the property at public auction or by private negotiation before giving the notice.

Concerning tribal cultural resources protection in the forest practices act.

Concerning the developmental disabilities community trust account.

Modifies developmental disabilities community trust account provisions with regard to: (1) Net proceeds from the use of operating or previously operating residential habilitation centers; and

Concerning administrative processes of the state parks and recreation commission that require a majority vote of the commission.

Ensuring that historic public recreational access is not diminished by the road maintenance and abandonment efforts of public forestland owners.

Requires the department of natural resources, when undertaking a road maintenance or abandonment effort on state land, to ensure that all related road projects preserve, at a minimum, the opportunity for pedestrian recreation access.

Concerning mental health and chemical dependency treatment for juvenile offenders.

Modifies the juvenile justice act with regard to court orders for residential treatment and expanding the chemical dependency disposition alternative to include mental health and co-occurring disorder treatment.

Concerning employment and community access services for individuals with developmental disabilities.

Concerning the provision of personal services and promotional items by cannabis producers and processors.

Assisting small businesses licensed to sell liquor in Washington state.

Supporting affordable housing.

Authorizes the legislative authority of a city or town to authorize a property tax exemption program.

Requires an application for a property tax exemption under this act to be made to the city or town before making a contribution to a city's or town's subsidized housing program or local homeless housing program.

Requires a person, in order to qualify for a property tax exemption under this act, to contribute an amount equal to or exceeding ninety-five percent of the city or town property taxes due and payable by that person in the calendar year in which the application is submitted to the city or town.

Adding certain commissioned court marshals of city police departments to the definition of uniformed personnel for the purpose of public employees' collective bargaining.

Concerning tax incentives that will promote the manufacturing and use of sustainable wood materials.

Provides a business and occupation tax deduction for amounts derived from the manufacturing or sale of cross-laminated timber but only when the cross-laminated timber is manufactured by the seller.

Concerning credit report security freezes for minors and incapacitated persons.

Requires a consumer reporting agency, if certain conditions are met, to place a security freeze for an individual who is: (1) Under the age of sixteen years old at the time a request for the placement of a security freeze is made; or

(2) Incapacitated and for whom a guardian or limited guardian has been appointed.

Encouraging job creation and retention in rural economies through the transparent and accountable provision of targeted tax relief for silicon smelters.

Concerning school 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 exist.

Requires school districts to include the following in their annual performance report: The performance of the school and the school district on the Washington achievement index.

-- 2016 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 8	First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).