Concerning correctional industries' insurance costs.

Concerning local government modernization.

Creating the interstate medical licensure compact.

Requiring private health insurers and the medicaid program to reimburse for a twelve-month supply of contraceptive drugs.

Requires a health benefit plan issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2017, that includes coverage for contraceptive drugs, to provide reimbursement for a twelve-month refill of contraceptive drugs obtained at one time by the enrollee after the enrollee has completed the initial supply of the drugs, unless the enrollee requests a smaller supply or the prescribing provider instructs that the enrollee must receive a smaller supply.

Preventing water-sewer districts from prohibiting multipurpose fire sprinkler systems.

Concerning payroll cards.

Concerning the development of a state plan to implement federal regulations on electric generation facilities.

Requires the department of ecology, in developing, adopting, and implementing a state plan in order to comply with the requirements of a federal rule relating to greenhouse gas emissions from existing electric generation facilities, to develop a state plan that: (1) Maintains state flexibility to achieve compliance using market-based regulations that include the use of market-based tools, including intrastate trading of allowance allocations;

(2) Facilitates the state's participation in a regional or multistate program to trade compliance instruments; and

Implementing the recommendations of the 2015 review of the Washington wildlife and recreation program.

Allowing nuisance abatement cost recovery for cities.

Reducing public health threats that particularly impact highly exposed populations, including children and firefighters, by establishing a process for the department of health to restrict the use of toxic flame retardant chemicals in certain types of consumer products.

Prohibits a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer from manufacturing, selling, or distributing for sale or for use in this state children's products or residential upholstered furniture containing any of the following flame retardants in amounts greater than one thousand parts per million in any product component: (1) TDCPP;

(2) TCEP;

(3) Decabromodiphenyl ether;

(4) HBCD; or

Establishing a public registry for the transparency of blood establishments.

Prohibits a blood-collecting or distributing establishment from collecting or distributing blood for transfusion in the state, unless it is registered by the department of health.

Requires the department of health to: (1) Register a blood-collecting or distributing establishment if it holds a license issued by the United States food and drug administration or if the applicant is a hospital that meets certain criteria;

(2) Deny or revoke the registration of an establishment upon a determination that it no longer holds a license issued by the federal food and drug administration; and

Concerning county road administration and maintenance.

Concerning disclosure of financial, commercial, and proprietary information of employees of private cloud service providers.

Concerning the department of early learning's access to records and personal information for purposes of determining character and suitability of child care workers.

Requires the department of social and health services to maintain and share records of child abuse and neglect with the department of early learning for purposes of determining character and suitability of child care workers.

Requires the department of early learning to: (1) Be given access to certain records and information collected and retained by a juvenile justice or care agency; and

Concerning gender requirements in the election of chair and vice chair positions for state committees of political parties.

Authorizing pharmacists to prescribe and dispense contraceptives.

Authorizes the state health officer or a county health officer to enter into an agreement with a pharmacist in order for the pharmacist to initiate or modify drug therapy related to self-administered hormonal contraceptives in accordance with written guidelines and protocols previously established and approved for the pharmacist's practice by the state health officer or a county health officer.

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 the prescription 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;

(2) A health care facility or entity for the purpose of providing medical or pharmaceutical care to the patients of the facility or entity; and

Concerning the state building code council.

Imposes a temporary surcharge of one dollar on each residential building permit issued by a county or a city and a temporary surcharge of five dollars and fifty cents for each nonresidential building permit issued by a county or a city.

Changes the composition and duties of the state building code council.

Requires the department of enterprise services to employ permanent and temporary staff and contract for services for the state building code council.

Creates the legislative task force on the state building code council's administration and operations.

Establishing the office of privacy and data protection.

Creates the office of privacy and data protection, within the office of the state chief information officer, to serve as a central point of contact for state agencies on policy matters involving data privacy and data protection.

Concerning wholesale vehicle dealers.

Concerning a property tax exemption for land owned by a nonprofit organization and designated as a master planned location for major industrial activity.

Provides a property tax exemption for real property owned by a nonprofit that is within an area designated as a master planned location for major industrial activity outside urban growth areas on lands formerly used or designated for surface coal mining and supporting uses.

-- 2016 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 9	First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).