Creating new appliance efficiency standards.

Creating the TEACH pilot project of financial assistance for teachers taking basic skills and content tests for teacher certification programs.

Creates the teacher endorsement and certification help pilot project to develop an expandable program that provides grants to teachers taking basic skills and content tests for teacher certification programs.

Requires the student achievement council and the professional educator standards board to: (1) Make financially needy students aware of the pilot project; and

(2) Include information about the pilot project in materials distributed to schools and students.

Addressing the Washington state health insurance pool.

Freezes enrollment for nonmedicare Washington state health insurance pool plans until August 1, 2017.

Delays, until December 31, 2018, the discontinuation of nonmedicare Washington state health insurance pool plans.

Declares an intent to examine the funding of the Washington state health insurance pool during the period that nonmedicare plans pool enrollment is frozen.

Preserving water resources for an array of water supply needs, including irrigated agriculture, fish and wildlife habitat, and municipal use, by updating water conservation standards for appliances.

Updates water conservation performance standards.

Requires fixtures, fittings, and toilets sold, offered for sale, or distributed in the state to meet the requirements of section 3(4) of this act, except the following toilets used: (1) By children in day care facilities;

(2) In bariatric applications; and

Concerning county commissioner elections.

Requires certain noncharter counties to: (1) By January 31, 2017, establish a redistricting committee to divide the county into five commissioner districts; and

(2) Beginning in 2018, hold district elections for all county commissioners.

Including highway workers employed on a transportation project by a contractor in the tuition and fee exemption for children and surviving spouses of highway workers.

Concerning student services for students with disabilities.

Requires the council of presidents to convene a work group to develop a plan for removing obstacles for students with disabilities.

Concerning implementation of the homeless youth prevention and protection act of 2015.

Authorizes the department of social and health services, for the purpose of providing for the service needs of youth who are in foster care, to disclose to the department of commerce, and its contractors, those confidential child welfare records that pertain to or may assist with meeting the service needs of youth admitted to crisis residential centers or HOPE centers under contract to the office of homeless youth prevention and protection.

Authorizes an unaccompanied youth thirteen years of age or older to give consent for the collection of his or her personally identifying information for purposes of the Washington homeless client management information system.

Establishing standards for election data and reporting.

Requires the secretary of state to: (1) Develop statewide election data and reporting standards for how election-related data is maintained and reported by each county auditor; and

(2) Every odd-numbered year, conduct and publish a statewide survey of voted ballot rejection rates and the reasons for those rejections by county auditors and canvassing boards.

Strengthening opportunities for the rehabilitation and reintegration of juvenile offenders.

Revises the juvenile justice act of 1977 to provide for the rehabilitation and reintegration of juvenile offenders.

Authorizes the juvenile court, if a juvenile offender is charged with animal cruelty in the first degree, to deny granting a deferred disposition to the juvenile, even if the juvenile otherwise may qualify for a deferred disposition.

Requires the judge to consider whether the community will benefit from granting a deferred disposition to the juvenile offender.

Addresses fines, community service, and electronic monitoring for juveniles adjudicated of taking a motor vehicle without permission in the first or second degree, theft of a motor vehicle, or possession of a stolen vehicle.

Authorizes the prosecuting agency to: (1) After receiving a domestic violence offense report from a law enforcement agency, choose not to file the information as a domestic violence offense if the offense was committed by a juvenile against a sibling, parent, stepparent, or grandparent; and

(2) In determining whether to file the information as a domestic violence offense, take into consideration whether the victim of the offense requests that the information not be filed as a domestic violence offense or does not object to an information not being filed as a domestic violence offense.

Relating to local government financing.

Excluding certain school facilities from the inventory of educational space for determining eligibility for state assistance for common school construction.

Concerning health care for Pacific Islanders residing in Washington under a compact of free association.

Providing tax relief to females by exempting feminine hygiene products from retail sales and use tax.

Provides a sales and use tax exemption on feminine hygiene products.

-- 2016 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 16	First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).