Concerning the supplemental capital budget.

Addressing retirement benefits for volunteer firefighters and reserve officers assisting with state emergencies.

Provides that when members of the volunteer firefighters' and reserve officers' retirement plan exceed the hours needed for the position to become an eligible position, due to service in a large-scale state emergency, the affected individuals shall have a ninety-day window from the eligibility date or the end of the emergency, whichever comes last, to choose whether to join the public employees' retirement system or remain with the volunteer firefighters' and reserve officers' retirement plan.

Requires the department of retirement systems and the board for volunteer firefighters to: (1) Jointly submit to the chair and vice chair of the legislative fiscal committees a report detailing any additional statutory changes needed to effectively carry out the intent of this act; and

Increasing access to adequate and appropriate mental health services for children and youth.

Creates the children's mental health work group to identify barriers to accessing mental health services for children and families and to advise the legislature on statewide mental health services for this population.

Requires the state health care authority and the department of social and health services to report to the appropriate legislative committees on the status of access to behavioral health services for children from birth through age seventeen.

Requires the state health care authority to require universal screening and provider payment for depression for children ages eleven through twenty-one as recommended by the bright futures guidelines of the American academy of pediatrics.

Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to conduct an inventory of the mental health service models available to students in schools, school districts, and educational service districts.

Providing service credit for pension purposes for certain emergency medical services employees.

Requiring the establishment of performance management systems at state hospitals.

Requires each state hospital to develop a robust lean performance management plan to be overseen by the superintendent of the state hospital in collaboration with the department of social and health services.

Requires the state hospital performance management plans to conform to the Baldrige excellence framework most applicable to state hospital operations.

Requires the state auditor to conduct a performance audit of the state hospitals' management systems and metrics one year after their implementation.

Requires the department of social and health services to study the application of the Baldrige quality management framework or an equivalent performance management system to its own activities and report its findings to the governor and the relevant legislative policy and fiscal committees.

Simplifying behavioral health regulations and aligning them with other health regulations to support clinical integration.

Requires the department of social and health services and the state health care authority to convene a task force, including participation by a representative cross-section of behavioral health organizations and behavioral health providers, to align regulations between behavioral health and primary health care settings and simplify regulations for behavioral health providers.

Concerning Washington state patrol officer recruitment and compensation.

Requires the Washington state patrol, in order to adequately and thoroughly reach potential recruits, to develop a comprehensive outreach and marketing strategic plan for expanding: (1) Marketing and outreach efforts online and through other media outlets; and

(2) Recruitment relationships in respective communities.

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

Establishing a state dairy groundwater discharge permit that is issued under the sole authority of state law.

Establishes the dairy farm and groundwater resource sustainability act.

Requiring the establishment of performance management systems at the state department of corrections.

Requires the department of corrections to: (1) Develop a robust lean performance management plan to be overseen by the governor in collaboration with the department;

(2) Coordinate performance management activities between correctional facilities to develop common performance measures and frameworks; and

(3) Study the application of the Baldrige quality management framework or an equivalent performance management system to its own activities and report its findings to the governor and relevant legislative policy and fiscal committees.

Requires the plan to conform to the Baldrige excellence framework most applicable to nonprofit government operations.

Requires the state auditor to: (1) Conduct a performance audit of the department's management systems and metrics one year after their implementation; and

Concerning the priority of payment of legal financial obligations under the sentencing reform act.

Relating to public schools that are not common schools.

Concerning the review of state and local homelessness prevention, assistance, and housing efforts.

Eliminating a credit against the state sales tax for the local lodging tax authorized under RCW 67.28.180 with respect to sales of lodging in a residential dwelling or a timeshare unit.

Eliminates a state sales tax credit for the local lodging tax with regard to sales of lodging in a residential dwelling or a timeshare unit.

-- 2016 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 29	First reading, referred to Ways & Means.