 | WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE | |
| Legislative Digest No. 10 | ||
| SIXTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE | ||
| Monday, January 23, 2017 | 15th Day - 2017 Regular Session | |
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This publication includes digest and history for bills, joint memorials, joint resolutions, concurrent resolutions, initiatives, and substitutes. Engrossed measures may be republished if the amendment makes a substantive change.
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HB 1443
by Representatives Caldier, Young, Kilduff, and Muri
Mandating the use of unstaffed toll booths that accept credit card payment on the Tacoma Narrows bridge.
Requires the department of transportation to convert at least two of the toll booths used for the Tacoma Narrows bridge to unstaffed toll booths that exclusively accept credit cards for toll payment.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1444
by Representatives Caldier, Santos, Kilduff, Muri, Senn, Appleton, Fey, Pollet, and Slatter
Facilitating on-time grade level progression and graduation for certain students.
Requires a school district to incorporate certain procedures to facilitate on-time grade level progression and graduation of students who are at-risk youth or children in need of services or homeless.Authorizes a school district of origin or of residence to enroll a high school student, who changes residence mid-term, in online courses or school programs for the remainder of the academic term.Requires a receiving school district to waive local requirements and ensure the receipt of a diploma if a student has attended at least three high schools and met requirements but is ineligible to graduate from the receiving school district.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1445
by Representatives Ortiz-Self, Stambaugh, Santos, Orwall, Harris, Caldier, Springer, Appleton, Lytton, Condotta, Fey, Pollet, Goodman, Slatter, Bergquist, Macri, Doglio, and Kagi
Concerning dual language in early learning and K-12 education.
Creates the K-12 dual language grant program to grow capacity for high quality dual language learning in the common schools and in state-tribal compact schools.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to develop and administer the grant program.Creates the grow your own bilingual educator grant program to support and recruit talented teachers who are invested in their communities, can diversify the educator workforce, and fill the bilingual teacher shortage.Requires the professional educator standards board to develop and administer the grant program.Creates the early learning dual language grant program to grow capacity for high quality dual language learning in the early childhood education and assistance program in order to better meet the needs of English language learner students.Requires the department of early learning to develop and administer the grant program.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1446
by Representatives Blake, Condotta, Orcutt, and Muri
Concerning registration enforcement for off-road vehicles and snowmobiles.
States that it is a gross misdemeanor for a resident to register an off-road vehicle or a snowmobile in another state, or to hold a manufacturer's statement of origin and not apply for a Washington state certificate of title within fifteen days of having the off-road vehicle or snowmobile brought to this state, to avoid the payment of a tax or license fee imposed in this state.Requires motorsports vehicle manufacturers to report to the department of licensing a listing of motorsports vehicle warranties for off-road vehicles and snowmobiles registered to this state's residents but sold by out-of-state motorsports vehicle dealers in the previous calendar year.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1447
by Representatives Kraft, Muri, Stambaugh, Griffey, Stokesbary, Manweller, Van Werven, Graves, McDonald, and Hayes
Addressing equal pay.
Addresses wage discrimination due to an employee's gender.Requires an employer to allow an employee to inquire about, discuss, or disclose, the compensation of the employee or another employee, or to aid or encourage another employee to exercise his or her rights.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workplace Standards (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
| Jan 24 | Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards at 1:30 PM. (Subject to change) | |
HB 1448
by Representatives Caldier, Graves, Stambaugh, Griffey, Kraft, Stokesbary, Muri, Manweller, Van Werven, McDonald, and Hayes
Providing reasonable accommodations in the workplace for pregnant women.
Requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodations to an employee for a pregnancy-related or childbirth-related health condition, if so requested, with written certification from a licensed health care provider, unless the employer demonstrates that the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of the employer's business.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workplace Standards (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1449
by Representatives Manweller and Dent
Concerning water recreation facilities.
Requires the state board of health, when adopting rules regarding the operation or design of a recreational water contact facility, to review and consider the most recent version of the United States centers for disease control and prevention's model aquatic health code.Exempts the following from the requirements of chapter 70.90 RCW (water recreation facilities): Inflatable equipment operated at a temporary event, including inflatable water slides.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1450
by Representatives Nealey, Kirby, and Vick
Creating and establishing the rights and duties for title insurance rating and advisory organizations.
Establishes a system by which title insurers may adopt a rating organization's form and rate filings in order to benefit consumers and entities purchasing, selling, or financing real property.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Business & Financial Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1451
by Representatives Orwall, Johnson, Pollet, Ortiz-Self, Senn, Pettigrew, Reeves, Gregerson, Stonier, Ryu, Peterson, Appleton, Tarleton, Farrell, Fey, Ormsby, Goodman, Slatter, Pellicciotti, Hudgins, Doglio, Kagi, and Santos
Improving language access for public school students and families with limited English proficiency.
Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Convene a language access advisory committee to develop tools and recommendations to improve language access for public school students and families with limited English proficiency; and(2) Select two educational service districts, one from each side of the crest of the Cascade mountains, that volunteer to act as language access lighthouse collaboratives.Requires educational service districts to: (1) Maintain the capacity to offer language access trainings using the model curricula adopted by the superintendent of public instruction; and(2) Develop and periodically update a language access plan.Requires the state health care authority to collaborate with the office of the superintendent of public instruction and interested schools, school districts, and educational service districts to implement procedures to claim federal reimbursement for the costs of medicaid administrative activities, including interpreter-related services, performed in the school setting.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1452
by Representatives Holy, Tarleton, Van Werven, Springer, Stambaugh, Haler, Pollet, and Slatter
Concerning the opportunity scholarship program.
Revises the opportunity scholarship act to increase the number of professional-technical certificates and professional-technical degrees.Authorizes the opportunity scholarship board to elect to have the state investment board invest funds in the pathways scholarship account.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1453
by Representatives Blake, Lytton, Chandler, Kretz, Hayes, Haler, Tarleton, Stanford, and Santos
Promoting agriculture science education in schools.
Creates the agriculture science education grant program.Requires the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Designate one or more high schools to serve as resources and examples of how to combine an interdisciplinary curriculum for agriculture science education with a strong focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and an active partnership with businesses and the local community to connect learning beyond the classroom; and(2) Establish and publish funding criteria for agriculture science education equipment and professional development grants to school districts.Creates the curriculum for agriculture science education lighthouse account.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1454
by Representatives Holy, Riccelli, Pollet, Manweller, Griffey, Dent, Van Werven, Shea, Appleton, McCabe, Blake, Schmick, Haler, Stokesbary, Tharinger, Hargrove, Ormsby, and Stanford
Prohibiting the use of eminent domain for economic development.
Allows private property to be taken only for public use and the taking of private property by a public entity for economic development does not constitute a public use.Prohibits a public entity from taking property for the purpose of economic development.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1455
by Representatives Holy, Manweller, Shea, Vick, Condotta, Griffey, Dent, McCabe, and Haler
Limiting the enforcement of policies of the department of ecology.
Prohibits any policy of the department of ecology from being enforced unless and until it has been adopted pursuant to the administrative procedure act, codified in the Washington Administrative Code, and ratified by act of the legislature.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Environment (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1456
by Representatives Kloba, Springer, McBride, Goodman, Stanford, Slatter, Appleton, Ryu, and Doglio
Concerning metropolitan park districts.
Addresses metropolitan park districts.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Local Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
| Jan 25 | Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Local Government at 8:00 AM. (Subject to change) | |
HB 1457
by Representatives Irwin, Pettigrew, Harmsworth, Springer, Taylor, Shea, Stokesbary, Stonier, Young, Schmick, Volz, Hayes, Griffey, Riccelli, Goodman, and Van Werven
Creating a sales tax holiday for back-to-school clothing and supplies.
Exempts the following from sales and use taxes: (1) A clothing item if the sales price is less than one hundred dollars; and(2) A school supply item if the sales price is less than ten dollars.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1458
by Representatives Fitzgibbon, Fey, Farrell, and Doglio
Concerning electric energy performance baselines.
Requires the utilities and transportation commission to adopt rules to require certain investor-owned utilities to develop and implement a program to achieve greater energy savings in existing residential and nonresidential building stock that fall below current standards of the state energy code.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1459
by Representatives Buys, Taylor, Van Werven, Short, Dent, Hayes, and Haler
Considering the full hydrologic cycle in the review and approval process of new water uses.
Requires entities responsible for reviewing and approving permit-exempt water uses and applications for water rights to establish processes and procedures to fully account for the ways in which new uses of groundwater offset potential impairment by recharging water into an aquifer.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1460
by Representatives Buys, Taylor, Van Werven, Dent, Hayes, and Condotta
Redesigning the transfer of water rights, including the statutory process of relinquishment.
Revises statutory processes of relinquishment.Establishes a presumption that water right holders have been putting water to beneficial use, in absence of evidence that water rights have been intentionally abandoned under common law doctrine that provides for the loss of water rights.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1461
by Representatives Sawyer, Condotta, Kloba, Chapman, and Appleton; by request of Department of Agriculture
Creating a voluntary marijuana production standard and certification program.
Creates a self-sustaining program for certifying marijuana producers and marijuana processors as meeting the standards established under this act.Prohibits marijuana and marijuana products from being labeled, sold, or represented as produced or processed under standards established under this act unless produced or processed by a person certified by the department of agriculture under the program.Provides that information about marijuana producers, processors, and retailers, otherwise exempt from public inspection and copying under the public records act is also exempt from public inspection and copying if submitted to or used by the department of agriculture.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Gaming (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1462
by Representatives Kloba, Condotta, Sawyer, Appleton, and Ormsby; by request of Department of Agriculture
Adding authority to the department of agriculture to regulate sanitary processing of marijuana-infused edibles.
Requires the department of agriculture to regulate marijuana-infused edible processing the same as other food processing under the state food processing act.Requires a marijuana processor that processes, packages, or makes marijuana-infused edibles to obtain an annual marijuana-infused edible endorsement.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Gaming (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1463
by Representatives Kirby, Harris, Riccelli, Chandler, Stonier, Cody, and Rodne
Addressing contracts between insurance carriers and vision care providers.
Prohibits a contract between a vision care provider and an entity that offers vision care insurance or a vision care discount care plan from: (1) Limiting or specifying the fee that a vision care provider may charge for vision care services or materials that are not reimbursed by the vision care insurance or discount care plan;(2) Requiring a vision care provider to participate in one vision care insurance plan or discount care program as a condition for participating in another insurance plan;(3) Changing terms, contractual discounts, or reimbursement rates, under vision care insurance or a discount card, without a signed acknowledgment that the provider agrees to the changes; and(4) Restricting or limiting a provider's choice of suppliers of materials.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1464
by Representatives Blake, Orcutt, Chapman, and Tarleton; by request of Department of Fish and Wildlife
Concerning the development of cooperative agreements to expand recreational access on privately owned lands.
Provides immunity from liability, for unintentional injuries, to a landowner who is in lawful possession and control of lands, or water areas or channels and lands adjacent to the areas or channels, who enters into a public access agreement with the department of fish and wildlife.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1465
by Representatives Short, Lytton, Kretz, Koster, Schmick, and Fitzgibbon
Exempting from public disclosure certain information regarding reports on wolf depredations.
Exempts the following from public disclosure under the public records act: (1) Private information regarding damage prevention cooperative agreements and nonlethal preventative measures deployed to minimize wolf interactions with pets and livestock; and(2) Information regarding a reported depredation by wolves on pets or livestock.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to State Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1466
by Representatives Blake, J. Walsh, Morris, Dent, and Manweller
Extending the expiration date of the public utility tax exemption for certain electrolytic processing businesses.
Delays, until July 1, 2029, the expiration of the public utility tax exemption for certain electrolytic processing businesses.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1467
by Representatives Stokesbary, Peterson, Griffey, Robinson, Muri, McBride, Rodne, Fitzgibbon, and Tharinger
Removing disincentives to the voluntary formation of regional fire protection service authorities by establishing parity, equalizing certain provisions with existing laws governing fire protection districts, and clarifying the formation process.
Revises regional fire protection service authority provisions as follows: (1) Removes disincentives to the voluntary formation of the authorities by establishing parity;(2) Equalizes certain provisions with existing laws governing fire protection districts; and(3) Clarifies the formation process.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Local Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1468
by Representatives Manweller, Fitzgibbon, Griffey, Hudgins, Jinkins, Haler, Riccelli, Kilduff, Pollet, and Doglio; by request of Secretary of State
Concerning voter registration.
Changes the deadlines for voter registration.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to State Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1469
by Representatives Hudgins, Manweller, Haler, Griffey, Van Werven, and Doglio; by request of Secretary of State
Modifying presidential primary provisions.
Updates the presidential primary process to provide an earlier default date and the flexibility needed to promote a regional presidential primary.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to State Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1470
by Representatives Hudgins, Koster, Haler, Griffey, Manweller, and Doglio; by request of Secretary of State
Modifying declaration of candidacy provisions.
Revises declaration of candidacy provisions with regard to the filing of the declaration, filing fees, and a county auditor's requirement to provide access to the state electronic filing system for candidates filing electronically.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to State Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1471
by Representatives Bergquist, Stambaugh, Pettigrew, Haler, Kagi, Fitzgibbon, Griffey, Jinkins, Appleton, Tarleton, Muri, Pollet, Hudgins, and Doglio; by request of Secretary of State
Collecting voter registration sign up information for persons seventeen years of age during the period one year prior to attaining eighteen years of age including the designation of voter registration locations and voter sign up locations.
Formalizes a registration sign-up process to: (1) Authorize persons who are seventeen years old to sign up to register to vote;(2) Engage these new voters; and(3) Encourage their civic participation in an educational environment.Exempts the following from public inspection and copying under the public records act: Information contained in voter preregistration records.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to State Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1472
by Representatives Hudgins, Koster, Haler, Griffey, Manweller, Muri, and Ormsby; by request of Secretary of State
Criminalizing damaging, destroying, tampering, or removing ballot return boxes or contents.
Includes, in the crime of malicious mischief, when a person causes an interruption or impairment of service rendered to the public by physically damaging, destroying, tampering, or removing an official ballot deposit box, a ballot drop box, or the contents of a deposit box or a drop box.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1473
by Representatives Dent, Cody, Harris, Rodne, Macri, Caldier, Stonier, Vick, and Jinkins
Concerning eye care.
Establishes the consumer protection in eye care act.Protects consumers from improper or unsupervised use of technology for purposes of obtaining a prescription for corrective lenses or obtaining any other diagnosis or assistance.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1474
by Representatives Farrell, Riccelli, Cody, Bergquist, Appleton, Tarleton, Fitzgibbon, Frame, Jinkins, Robinson, Senn, Kilduff, Ormsby, Pollet, Goodman, Slatter, Blake, Peterson, Hudgins, Macri, Orwall, Doglio, and Stanford
Promoting healthy outcomes for pregnant women and infants.
Directs the state health care authority to require that health care facilities that provide newborn delivery services to medical assistance clients establish certain policies and procedures.Addresses unfair practices for employers with regard to reasonable accommodations for a pregnant employee.Creates the health pregnancy advisory committee to develop a strategy for promoting and improving maternal and infant health outcomes.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1475
by Representatives Irwin, Goodman, Hayes, Ryu, Kilduff, Holy, Klippert, Kirby, and Lovick; by request of Gambling Commission
Clarifying the limited authority of gambling commission officers.
Authorizes an officer of the gambling commission who is designated with police powers to take action to prevent physical injuries or substantial damages to a person or property under certain circumstances.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1476
by Representatives Peterson, Buys, Van Werven, and Short
Ensuring the ongoing viability of safe, reliable, on-site sewage systems in marine counties by identifying best management practices with accountability in on-site program management plans without creating or newly authorizing a fee or other program funding source.
Identifies best management practices with accountability in on-site program management plans to ensure the ongoing viability of safe, reliable, on-site sewage systems in marine counties.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Environment (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1477
by Representatives Kilduff, Muri, Lytton, Stambaugh, Orwall, McDonald, Robinson, Lovick, Goodman, Sells, Appleton, and Fey
Concerning disclosure of health-related information with persons with a close relationship with a patient.
Authorizes certain health care providers and facilities to disclose, under certain circumstances, health-related information to persons with a close relationship with a patient.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1478
by Representatives Blake, Klippert, Goodman, Johnson, Griffey, J. Walsh, Fitzgibbon, Sells, and McCabe; by request of Parks and Recreation Commission
Concerning the distribution of monetary penalties to local courts and state agencies paid for failure to comply with discover pass requirements.
Requires a county treasurer to remit, to the state treasurer, seventy-five percent of the money received from penalties with regard to the display of a discover pass, vehicle access pass, or day-use permit.Requires the balance of noninterest money received by a county treasurer to be deposited in the county current expense fund.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1479
by Representatives Hudgins, Graves, Tarleton, and Stanford
Concerning encryption of data on state information technology systems.
Establishes a classification schedule for data stored on or passing to, through, or from state data networks in the information technology standards maintained by the office of the state chief information officer.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to State Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1480
by Representatives Hayes, Riccelli, Irwin, Lovick, Holy, and Santos
Requiring additional criteria to be met for the department of licensing to suspend a driver's license.
Requires the department of licensing to meet additional criteria in order to suspend a driver's license.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1481
by Representatives Hayes and Bergquist
Creating uniformity in driver training education provided by school districts and commercial driver training schools.
Requires driver training education curriculum and instructors to be licensed and regulated by the department of licensing.Authorizes the office of the superintendent of public instruction to establish: (1) Driver training education courses offered by school districts that exceed the curriculum and rules established by the department of licensing; and(2) Additional requirements for those who teach in school districts.Provides the department of licensing with resources and authority to provide audits of driver education training courses.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1482
by Representatives Sawyer, Kagi, Stambaugh, Caldier, Robinson, Springer, Hargrove, Tarleton, Ormsby, Doglio, and Stanford
Establishing the legislative-executive WorkFirst poverty reduction oversight task force.
Creates the legislative-executive WorkFirst poverty reduction oversight task force to, among other responsibilities: (1) Reduce the overall percentage of people living below two hundred percent of the federal poverty level;(2) Prevent and address adverse childhood experiences and the trauma of children who are living in poverty; and(3) Direct the department of social and health services to develop a five-year plan and a ten-year plan to address intergenerational poverty.Creates the intergenerational poverty advisory committee to assist the task force.Authorizes the department of social and health services to establish and maintain a system to track intergenerational poverty.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & Human Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1483
by Representatives Senn, Hayes, Lovick, Klippert, Chapman, Jinkins, Robinson, Doglio, Appleton, Kilduff, Ormsby, and Santos
Concerning the disposition of forfeited firearms by the Washington state patrol.
Revises firearms and dangerous weapon provisions with regard to giving the Washington state patrol the option to destroy a forfeited firearm.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1484
by Representatives Dolan, Johnson, Stonier, McCaslin, Bergquist, McBride, Pollet, Doglio, Slatter, Gregerson, Jinkins, Ryu, Santos, Cody, Peterson, Sells, Chapman, Senn, Macri, Sawyer, Orwall, Appleton, Haler, Tarleton, Muri, Condotta, Frame, Riccelli, Lovick, Ormsby, Stanford, and Kagi
Providing an enhanced retirement benefit for public employees' and teachers' retirement system plans 1.
Requires a permanent increase to a beneficiary's monthly benefit of two dollars per year of earned service credit for a beneficiary who is receiving a monthly benefit, on January 1, 2017, from plan 1 of the teachers' retirement system or the public employees' retirement system.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
| Jan 26 | Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 3:30 PM. (Subject to change) | |
HB 1485
by Representatives Blake, MacEwen, Kirby, Haler, Taylor, Shea, McCaslin, Hargrove, DeBolt, and Condotta
Limiting mandatory motorcycle helmet use to persons under the age of eighteen.
Authorizes a person who is at least eighteen years old to operate or ride on a motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, or moped on a state highway, county road, or city street without wearing a motorcycle helmet.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1486
by Representatives Gregerson, Ryu, Peterson, Orwall, Sells, Stonier, Dolan, Frame, Chapman, Goodman, Macri, Cody, Appleton, Tarleton, Ormsby, Bergquist, Hudgins, Doglio, and Stanford
Creating the Washington wage recovery act.
Establishes the Washington wage recovery act.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workplace Standards (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
| Jan 23 | Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards at 1:30 PM. (Subject to change) | |
HB 1487
by Representatives Condotta and Sawyer
Authorizing marijuana retailers to sell marijuana merchandise.
Authorizes the sale, by marijuana retailers, of marijuana merchandise which is defined as wearable apparel that serves to promote or advertise the retail outlet, or a product line sold by the retail outlet, and that has labeling affixed to the wearable apparel.Requires the state liquor and cannabis board to adopt rules that establish the procedures and criteria necessary to implement the establishment of retail product design and marketing standards to ensure that marijuana merchandise and other products sold by licensed retailers are not intended to appeal to minors or otherwise encourage marijuana use by minors.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Gaming (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1488
by Representatives Hansen, Haler, Stokesbary, Ortiz-Self, Gregerson, Tarleton, Slatter, and Hudgins
Expanding higher education opportunities for certain students.
Expands higher education opportunities for certain students.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1489
by Representatives Kretz, Blake, and Short
Concerning private wildland fire suppression contractors.
Requires the department of natural resources, for the maximum effective use of local fire suppression assets, to actively engage in ongoing prefire season outreach and recruitment of qualified wildland fire suppression contractors and equipment owners and compile and annually update a master list of the qualified contractors.Requires the local wildland fire liaison to fulfill duties as assigned by the commissioner of public lands or the legislature, including the recruitment of local wildland fire suppression contractors.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1490
by Representatives Fey, Rodne, Clibborn, Hargrove, Riccelli, Van Werven, McBride, and Irwin
Eliminating the requirement that a city or town provide preservation rating information on a certain percentage of its arterial network.
Repeals RCW 46.68.113 (preservation rating) which requires that a city or town provide preservation rating information on a certain percentage of its arterial network.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1491
by Representatives Orwall, Hargrove, Sullivan, Gregerson, Slatter, and Kagi
Concerning pediatric transitional care centers.
Creates a pediatric transitional care center license and requires a center, in order to be licensed, to demonstrate that it is capable of providing services for children who: (1) Are no more than two years of age;(2) Have been exposed to alcohol or other drugs before birth;(3) Require twenty-four hour continuous residential care and skilled nursing services as a result of prenatal substance exposure; and(4) Are referred to the center by the department of social and health services and regional hospitals.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1492
by Representatives Tharinger, Harris, Cody, Macri, and Appleton
Equalizing civil monetary penalties for assisted living facilities with other long-term care providers.
Authorizes the department of social and health services, upon the adoption of rules, to impose civil penalties of up to: (1) Three thousand dollars for each incident that violates assisted living facility licensing statutes or rules; and(2) Ten thousand dollars for a current or former licensed provider who is operating an unlicensed facility.Requires receipts from the civil penalties to be deposited in the assisted living facility temporary management account.Allows expenditures from the account to be used for the protection of the health, safety, welfare, and property of residents of assisted living facilities found to be noncompliant with licensing standards.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1493
by Representatives Morris, Harmsworth, Smith, Tarleton, and Stanford
Concerning biometric identifiers.
Prohibits a person from enrolling a biometric identifier of an individual in a database to create identification of the individual, or changing the use of an enrolled biometric identifier, without first providing clear and conspicuous notice and obtaining the individual's consent.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1494
by Representative Morris
Concerning private road maintenance agreements.
Requires the holders of an interest in an easement to maintain the easement and permits agreements that allow maintenance obligations to be allocated to fewer than all holders of an interest in an easement.Requires the cost of maintaining an easement to be shared by each holder of an interest in the easement.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
| Jan 26 | Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Judiciary at 1:30 PM. (Subject to change) | |
HB 1495
by Representatives Fey, Muri, Sawyer, Sells, Jinkins, and Doglio
Incentivizing the development of commercial office space in cities with a population of greater than fifty thousand and located in a county with a population of less than one million five hundred thousand.
Provides certain cities with local options to incentivize the development of commercial office space in urban centers with access to transit, high capacity transportation systems, and other amenities.Authorizes a governing authority of a city to adopt a local sales and use tax exemption program or a local property tax exemption program to incentivize the development of class A commercial office space in urban centers with access to transit, high capacity transportation systems, and other amenities.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Local Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
| Jan 25 | Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Local Government at 8:00 AM. (Subject to change) | |
HB 1496
by Representatives Tarleton, Nealey, Springer, Young, Hayes, Manweller, Griffey, and Smith
Concerning the taxation and permitting of vessels in Washington.
Removes a disincentive for: (1) State residents to purchase, moor, and use large pleasure vessels in the state's waters; and(2) Nonresidents to moor and use large pleasure vessels in the state.Increases state revenues on sales and use taxes, excise taxes, and vessel registrations on large recreational vessels in the state.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1497
by Representatives J. Walsh, Blake, Orcutt, Griffey, Young, Haler, and Muri
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.
Retains jobs at existing coal-fired electric generation facilities by providing a sales and use tax exemption to allow these facilities to convert into natural gas-fired generation plants or biomass energy facilities.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1498
by Representatives Riccelli, Farrell, Tarleton, Frame, Macri, Doglio, Stanford, and Ormsby
Concerning high hazard flammable train speed limits in certain urban areas.
Authorizes the utilities and transportation commission, and any first-class city, to adopt a limit upon the speed of a high hazard flammable train under certain circumstances.Authorizes a first-class city to request that the commission exercise its authority within the limits of such a city.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1499
by Representatives Pollet, Ryu, Sells, Lovick, Bergquist, and Stanford
Creating protections and fairness for students in the student loan disbursement process.
Requires a postsecondary institution to comply with certain requirements in this act, if the institution disburses a student's federal or state financial aid balance by means other than directly depositing the student's balance into the student's existing account or issuing a check directly from the institution.Requires the student achievement council's rules or requirements for institutions to participate in state financial aid programs to assure that contracts between postsecondary institutions participating in state financial aid programs and financial institutions or third-party servicers for the disbursement of student financial aid: (1) Ensure that state aid to students is available;(2) Are in the best financial interest of the students;(3) Ensure that the student is easily able to access his or her disbursement;(4) Give the student a choice regarding the method by which the student receives his or her disbursement;(5) Provide for an effective process for reviewing complaints filed by students; and(6) Require that the institution does not have a revenue-sharing agreement with the third-party servicer or financial institution.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 1500
by Representatives Pollet, Farrell, Appleton, Tarleton, Ryu, Wylie, Santos, Macri, Doglio, Jinkins, Orwall, Tharinger, Stonier, Kagi, Fitzgibbon, Kloba, Stanford, Bergquist, McBride, Ortiz-Self, Goodman, Dolan, Cody, Pettigrew, Riccelli, Sells, Hudgins, Kirby, Lovick, Frame, Peterson, Ormsby, and Pellicciotti
Increasing tax exemption transparency and accountability.
Establishes the tax exemption transparency and accountability act.Creates a tax expenditure budget as part of the biennial budget adopted by the legislature.Reforms the tax expenditure process by including tax expenditures in a tax expenditure budget in the biennial state budget process and requires they be readopted every two years as part of the budget process or they expire.Requires the department of revenue to prepare a tax expenditure budget.Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to report its findings and recommendations for scheduled tax expenditures to the citizen commission for performance measurement of tax expenditures by June 30th of each year.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HJM 4008
by Representative Morris
Requesting that the Bonneville Power Administration consider a rate design for the eastern intertie that eliminates or reduces the transmission rate associated with that part of the eastern intertie known as the Montana intertie.
Requests that the Bonneville Power Administration consider a rate design for the eastern intertie that eliminates or reduces the transmission rate associated with that part of the eastern intertie known as the Montana intertie.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
SB 5316
by Senators Fortunato, Rossi, Rivers, Miloscia, Padden, Becker, Braun, Angel, Warnick, Schoesler, Brown, Zeiger, and Wilson
Concerning the removal of provisions that are no longer necessary for continued publication in the Revised Code of Washington.
Repeals, amends, recodifies, and/or decodifies certain provisions that are no longer necessary for continued publication in the Revised Code of Washington.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to State Government. | |
SB 5317
by Senators Angel, Rolfes, and Sheldon
Concerning the payment of certain required costs of the Tacoma Narrows toll bridge.
Creates the Tacoma Narrows toll bridge sufficient minimum balance account.Requires the state treasurer to transfer the amount reflecting the sufficient minimum balance of forty-five days of the required costs for the Tacoma Narrows toll bridge from the connecting Washington account to the Tacoma Narrows toll bridge sufficient minimum balance account.Requires funds in the Tacoma Narrows toll bridge account, reflecting the sufficient minimum balance for the Tacoma Narrows toll bridge, to be used only to pay debt and operating costs to mitigate future toll charges in accordance with a plan developed jointly by the transportation commission and the citizen advisory committee.Requires remaining funds in the Tacoma Narrows toll bridge account, at the end of the tolling period for the toll bridge, to be used to pay deferred sales taxes.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5318
by Senators Hunt, Takko, Warnick, Brown, Rolfes, Conway, and Bailey
Promoting agriculture science education in schools.
Creates the agriculture science education grant program.Requires the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Designate one or more high schools to serve as resources and examples of how to combine an interdisciplinary curriculum for agriculture science education with a strong focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and an active partnership with businesses and the local community to connect learning beyond the classroom; and(2) Establish and publish funding criteria for agriculture science education equipment and professional development grants to school districts.Creates the curriculum for agriculture science education lighthouse account.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5319
by Senators Brown and McCoy; by request of Department of Health
Transferring authority for low-level radioactive waste management from the department of ecology to the department of health.
Transfers the following from the department of ecology to the department of health: The authority for low-level radioactive waste management.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications. | |
SB 5320
by Senators Padden, Warnick, Angel, Rivers, Fortunato, Miloscia, O'Ban, Wilson, Braun, Becker, Brown, Baumgartner, Bailey, Honeyford, Pearson, and Zeiger
Requiring notification to parents or guardians in cases of abortion.
Establishes the parental notification of abortion act.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
| Jan 26 | Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 10:00 AM. (Subject to change) | |
SB 5321
by Senators Rivers, Liias, Darneille, Miloscia, Becker, Warnick, Honeyford, Palumbo, Wellman, and Fortunato
Concerning parental rights and responsibilities of sexual assault perpetrators and survivors.
Establishes a process where a survivor, who becomes pregnant as a result of a sexual assault and who elects to raise the child, can seek the court's assistance in avoiding continued forced interactions with the rapist which eliminates another barrier to healing from the assault.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5322
by Senators King, Frockt, Miloscia, Bailey, Conway, Hobbs, and Becker
Concerning agreements between dentists and third parties that provide supportive services to dentists.
Authorizes a dentist or group practice of dentists to enter into an agreement with a third party for the provision of services in support of a dental practice office as long as certain standards are met.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5323
by Senators Rivers and Takko; by request of Department of Agriculture
Creating a voluntary marijuana production standard and certification program.
Creates a self-sustaining program for certifying marijuana producers and marijuana processors as meeting the standards established under this act.Prohibits marijuana and marijuana products from being labeled, sold, or represented as produced or processed under standards established under this act unless produced or processed by a person certified by the department of agriculture under the program.Provides that information about marijuana producers, processors, and retailers, otherwise exempt from public inspection and copying under the public records act is also exempt from public inspection and copying if submitted to or used by the department of agriculture.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Agriculture, Water, Trade & Economic Development. | |
SB 5324
by Senators Takko and Rivers; by request of Department of Agriculture
Adding authority to the department of agriculture to regulate sanitary processing of marijuana-infused edibles.
Requires the department of agriculture to regulate marijuana-infused edible processing the same as other food processing under the state food processing act.Requires a marijuana processor that processes, packages, or makes marijuana-infused edibles to obtain an annual marijuana-infused edible endorsement.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Agriculture, Water, Trade & Economic Development. | |
SB 5325
by Senators Zeiger and Conway
Clarifying the authority of a nurse working in a school setting.
Allows only a registered nurse or an advanced registered nurse practitioner to supervise, direct, or evaluate a licensed nurse working in a school setting with respect to the practice of nursing.Prohibits school administrators from interfering with nursing care provided by a registered nurse or an advanced registered nurse practitioner working in a school setting, but allows school administrators to supervise a registered nurse or an advanced registered nurse practitioner in all other aspects of employment.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5326
by Senators Pearson, Walsh, and Brown
Regarding disclosure and use of personal information of employees and volunteers of law enforcement and employees and volunteers of the department of corrections.
Revises the public records act with regard to records requests on employees and volunteers of law enforcement and the department of corrections.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5327
by Senators Angel and Padden
Clarifying the duties of court clerks.
Changes the duty of a court clerk from "conform to the direction of the court" to "support the court in the performance of the courts' statutory duties."Removes the duty of the clerk of the court to forward certain forms to the division of child support.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
| Jan 24 | Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 10:00 AM. (Subject to change) | |
SB 5328
by Senators Honeyford, Hobbs, Bailey, Becker, Miloscia, Angel, Brown, Sheldon, Rivers, Warnick, and Rossi
Creating a community aviation revitalization board.
Creates the community aviation revitalization board and authorizes the board to: (1) Make direct loans to political subdivisions of the state and privately owned airports for the purpose of improvements at public use airports that primarily support general aviation activities; and(2) Provide loans to privately owned airports for the purpose of airport improvements if certain conditions are met.Requires the department of commerce to provide management services, including fiscal and contract services, to assist the board in implementing this act.Creates the public use general aviation airport loan revolving account.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5329
by Senators Honeyford, Becker, Bailey, Angel, Rivers, Warnick, and Rossi
Exempting the state of Washington from daylight saving time and implementing year-round Pacific Standard Time.
Repeals the daylight saving time statute.Requires the time in this state to be Pacific Standard Time throughout the calendar year, as determined by reference to Coordinated Universal Time.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to State Government. | |
SB 5330
by Senators Zeiger, Palumbo, Fain, Mullet, King, Hobbs, Liias, Wellman, and Miloscia
Implementing public-private partnership best practices for nontoll transportation projects.
States that the legislature intends that the review process, criteria, and approvals for public-private partnership projects involving toll-related facilities remain unchanged, but that the review and approval process for nontoll projects be modified so that the criteria and review process can be more closely tailored to the specific type of proposed nontoll project or program.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5331
by Senators Takko and Warnick
Concerning irrigation district administration.
Modifies provisions relating to irrigation district administration.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Agriculture, Water, Trade & Economic Development. | |
SB 5332
by Senators Warnick, Takko, and Sheldon
Extending the expiration date of the public utility tax exemption for certain electrolytic processing businesses.
Delays, until July 1, 2029, the expiration of the public utility tax exemption for certain electrolytic processing businesses.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications. | |
SB 5333
by Senators Miloscia, Liias, Zeiger, and Pearson; by request of Secretary of State
Modifying presidential primary provisions.
Updates the presidential primary process to provide an earlier default date and the flexibility needed to promote a regional presidential primary.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to State Government. | |
SB 5334
by Senators Zeiger, Liias, Walsh, Kuderer, Keiser, and Wellman; by request of Secretary of State
Concerning voter registration.
Changes the deadlines for voter registration.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to State Government. | |
SB 5335
by Senators Fain, Billig, Zeiger, Walsh, Keiser, Conway, Pedersen, Wellman, and Hasegawa; by request of Secretary of State
Collecting voter registration sign up information for persons seventeen years of age during the period one year prior to attaining eighteen years of age including the designation of voter registration locations and voter sign up locations.
Formalizes a registration sign-up process to: (1) Authorize persons who are seventeen years old to sign up to register to vote;(2) Engage these new voters; and(3) Encourage their civic participation in an educational environment.Exempts the following from public inspection and copying under the public records act: Information contained in voter preregistration records.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to State Government. | |
SB 5336
by Senators Miloscia, Hunt, Zeiger, Kuderer, Wellman, and Fortunato; by request of Secretary of State
Criminalizing damaging, destroying, tampering, or removing ballot return boxes or contents.
Includes, in the crime of malicious mischief, when a person causes an interruption or impairment of service rendered to the public by physically damaging, destroying, tampering, or removing an official ballot deposit box, a ballot drop box, or the contents of a deposit box or a drop box.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
| Jan 24 | Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 10:00 AM. (Subject to change) | |
SB 5337
by Senators Miloscia, Hunt, Zeiger, and Kuderer; by request of Secretary of State
Modifying declaration of candidacy provisions.
Revises declaration of candidacy provisions with regard to the filing of the declaration, filing fees, and a county auditor's requirement to provide access to the state electronic filing system for candidates filing electronically.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to State Government. | |
SB 5338
by Senators Wilson and Takko
Concerning registration enforcement for off-road vehicles and snowmobiles.
States that it is a gross misdemeanor for a resident to register an off-road vehicle or a snowmobile in another state, or to hold a manufacturer's statement of origin and not apply for a Washington state certificate of title within fifteen days of having the off-road vehicle or snowmobile brought to this state, to avoid the payment of a tax or license fee imposed in this state.Requires motorsports vehicle manufacturers to report to the department of licensing a listing of motorsports vehicle warranties for off-road vehicles and snowmobiles registered to this state's residents but sold by out-of-state motorsports vehicle dealers in the previous calendar year.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5339
by Senators O'Ban, Padden, Miloscia, King, Schoesler, Zeiger, Becker, Baumgartner, Rossi, Wilson, Sheldon, Angel, Honeyford, Braun, and Warnick
Accommodating the civil rights of religious objectors to mandatory payments to labor organizations.
Accommodates the civil rights of religious objectors to mandatory payments to labor organizations.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Commerce, Labor & Sports. | |
SB 5340
by Senators Keiser, Baumgartner, and Conway; by request of Department of Labor & Industries
Concerning class B elevator work permits.
Authorizes the department of labor and industries to issue class B elevator work permits for the performance of class B elevator work without the requirement of a witness inspection of the equipment before it is placed into operation.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Commerce, Labor & Sports. | |
SB 5341
by Senators King, Baumgartner, and Conway; by request of Department of Labor & Industries
Modifying monetary penalties imposed for infractions relating to mobile and manufactured home installation.
Requires the department of labor and industries to set by rule a schedule of monetary penalties for infractions imposed under chapter 43.22A RCW (mobile and manufactured home installation).Increases monetary penalties for infractions under chapter 43.22A RCW.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Commerce, Labor & Sports. | |
SB 5342
by Senators King, Takko, Pearson, and Pedersen; by request of Parks and Recreation Commission
Concerning the distribution of monetary penalties to local courts and state agencies paid for failure to comply with discover pass requirements.
Requires a county treasurer to remit, to the state treasurer, seventy-five percent of the money received from penalties with regard to the display of a discover pass, vehicle access pass, or day-use permit.Requires the balance of noninterest money received by a county treasurer to be deposited in the county current expense fund.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Natural Resources & Parks. | |
SB 5343
by Senators Warnick and Takko
Concerning notice sent by and certain release of information affecting registered tow truck operators.
Modifies mailing requirements of tow truck operators when sending certain notifications to legal and registered vehicle owners.Prohibits furnishing to an insurance company the abstract driving record of a registered tow truck operator.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5344
by Senators Fain, Walsh, Baumgartner, Rivers, and Angel
Enhancing enforcement of the equal pay act.
Addresses wage discrimination due to an employee's gender.Requires an employer to allow an employee to inquire about, discuss, or disclose, the compensation of the employee or another employee, or to aid or encourage another employee to exercise his or her rights.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Commerce, Labor & Sports. | |
SB 5345
by Senators Walsh, Kuderer, Sheldon, Takko, Miloscia, Zeiger, Honeyford, Nelson, and Palumbo
Creating Imagine special license plates.
Creates "Imagine" special license plates to provide funds to Feeding Washington for programs to help end hunger in Washington.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5346
by Senators Walsh, Rolfes, Zeiger, Hobbs, Warnick, Pedersen, Nelson, Darneille, Kuderer, Hunt, Keiser, McCoy, Honeyford, Fain, Liias, Cleveland, Sheldon, Conway, Pearson, Frockt, Wilson, Bailey, and Hasegawa
Creating a legislative page scholarship program.
Authorizes the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house of representatives to administer and conduct a legislative page scholarship program to provide: (1) Resources for students who participate in the page programs of the senate or house; and(2) Provide assistance to students, based on financial need, who qualify for a page program.Creates the legislative page scholarship account.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to State Government. | |
SB 5347
by Senators Walsh, Darneille, Zeiger, Rolfes, Sheldon, Angel, and Hasegawa
Concerning the definition of work activity for the purposes of the WorkFirst program.
Revises the definition of "work activity" for purposes of the Work First temporary assistance for needy families program to change the amount of vocational training time, from twelve months to twenty-four months, to qualify as work activity.Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to review the impact of extending that time.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing. | |
SB 5348
by Senators Fain, Rolfes, Zeiger, Darneille, Conway, Keiser, and Kuderer
Concerning students who receive special education services who earn certificates of individual achievement.
Requires a student that receives special education services who, as a result of his or her academic performance, earns a certificate of individual achievement to: (1) Be entitled to receive a regular high school diploma;(2) Remain eligible to receive transition services between ages eighteen and twenty-one if his or her most recent evaluation and current individualized education program specify a continuing need for the services; and(3) Continue to generate associated state and federal funding for the school district that provides the services.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5349
by Senators Cleveland, Billig, Rivers, Conway, Keiser, Saldaña, Hasegawa, Frockt, and Kuderer
Concerning elder justice centers.
Requires the department of social and health services to coordinate the implementation of an elder justice demonstration program which must include establishing an elder justice center in Spokane county and expanding the elder justice center located in Clark county.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5350
by Senators Fortunato, Padden, O'Ban, Braun, Angel, Schoesler, Brown, and Kuderer
Establishing deadlines for final determinations and dispositions in agency adjudicative proceedings.
Revises administrative procedure act provisions as follows: (1) Requires an agency to make a final administrative determination or disposition for a matter that is subject to an adjudicative proceeding within two years after the commencement of the adjudicative proceeding unless all parties to the proceeding agree to waive the time limitation; (2) Authorizes a person to file a petition for judicial review and is presumed to have exhausted all administrative remedies when an agency fails to comply with (1) above;(3) Authorizes the court to receive evidence in addition to that contained in the agency record for judicial review, if it relates to the validity of the agency action at the time it was taken and is needed to decide disputed issues regarding an issue or fact identified as contested in a petition for judicial review filed under (2) above; and(4) Prohibits the court from remanding certain matters, when a petition for judicial review is filed under (2) above, unless all parties consent.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
| Jan 25 | Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 8:00 AM. (Subject to change) | |
SB 5351
by Senators Rivers and Cleveland; by request of Department of Health
Concerning dental professions.
Authorizes the dental quality assurance commission to adopt rules for renewal requirements for a credential, including continuing education requirements for expanded function dental auxiliary licenses.Changes the composition of the commission.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5352
by Senators Rivers and Cleveland; by request of Department of Health
Increasing the number of members on the board of osteopathic medicine and surgery.
Changes the composition of the state board of osteopathic medicine and surgery.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5353
by Senators Rivers, Cleveland, and Frockt; by request of Department of Health
Concerning foundational public health services.
Addresses the protection of the public's health in the state, core public health services and essential capabilities that comprise foundational public health services, and development of a governmental public health improvement plan.Creates the core public health services account.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5354
by Senators Miloscia, Carlyle, Walsh, Darneille, Pedersen, Billig, Kuderer, Hunt, Hasegawa, Ranker, Keiser, and Wellman; by request of Attorney General
Reducing criminal justice expenses by eliminating the death penalty and instead requiring life imprisonment without possibility of release or parole as the sentence for aggravated first degree murder.
Eliminates the death penalty and requires life imprisonment without possibility of release or parole as the sentence for aggravated first degree murder.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5355
by Senators Conway, Rivers, Cleveland, Keiser, Kuderer, Hasegawa, Saldaña, and Darneille
Expanding the use of telemedicine to improve access to care for injured workers.
Requires the director of the department of labor and industries to: (1) Develop access to telemedicine and reimburse providers for services in a manner that is similar to the policies developed for commercial health insurance plans and medicaid managed care plans; and(2) Reimburse a provider for a health care service provided to a covered person through telemedicine or store and forward technology for a health care service that is medically necessary.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Commerce, Labor & Sports. | |
SB 5356
by Senators Fain, Palumbo, Miloscia, Frockt, Bailey, Rolfes, Angel, Keiser, Conway, Pedersen, and Wilson
Concerning the humane treatment of dogs.
Addresses the unlawful tethering of a dog.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
SB 5357
by Senators Ranker, Fain, Billig, Sheldon, Hunt, Palumbo, Zeiger, Hobbs, Rolfes, Pearson, Rivers, Carlyle, Saldaña, Walsh, Liias, Conway, Kuderer, and Hasegawa
Establishing a pilot project to license outdoor early learning and child care programs.
Requires the department of early learning to: (1) Establish a pilot project to license outdoor, nature-based early learning and child care programs; and(2) Convene an advisory group of outdoor, nature-based early learning practitioners to inform and support implementation of the pilot project.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5358
by Senators Schoesler and Ranker
Improving tax and licensing laws administered by the department of revenue, but not including changes to tax laws that are estimated to affect state or local tax collections as reflected in any fiscal note prepared and approved under the process established in chapter 43.88A RCW.
Addresses the improvement of department of revenue-administered tax and licensing laws regarding: (1) Providing reasonable tools for the effective administration of the public utility district privilege tax;(2) Pet adoption fees;(3) Technical corrections and clarifications to 2015 legislation;(4) Automated sales suppression devices and phantom-ware;(5) Annual surveys and reports for tax preferences;(6) Estate tax return filing relief;(7) Clarifying that licensing information may not be disclosed for commercial purposes;(8) Background investigations;(9) Revising the date by which the department of revenue is required to provide estimates of the amount of public forestland that is available for timber harvesting; and(10) Electronic communication of confidential property tax information.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5359
by Senators Conway, Zeiger, Bailey, Rolfes, Hobbs, and Kuderer
Requiring annual reporting on the implementation of laws to streamline licensing processes for military service members and their spouses.
Requires the regulating authorities for the department of licensing and the department of health to: (1) File reports to the legislature biennially and the state military transition council annually beginning January 1, 2018; and(2) Appear annually before the joint committee on veterans' and military affairs to provide updates on progress in their efforts to implement certain requirements.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to State Government. | |
SB 5360
by Senators Bailey, Rivers, Cleveland, Darneille, Brown, O'Ban, Conway, Walsh, Rolfes, Zeiger, Hasegawa, Keiser, Wellman, Kuderer, and Fain
Reducing training requirements for developmental disability respite providers working three hundred hours or less in any calendar year.
Requires a person working as an individual provider who provides respite care services only for individuals with developmental disabilities and works three hundred hours or less in a calendar year to complete fourteen hours of training within the first one hundred twenty days after becoming an individual provider.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5361
by Senators Bailey, Mullet, Zeiger, Palumbo, Fain, Frockt, Carlyle, Keiser, Kuderer, Wellman, and Wilson
Concerning the opportunity scholarship program.
Revises the opportunity scholarship act to increase the number of professional-technical certificates and professional-technical degrees.Authorizes the opportunity scholarship board to elect to have the state investment board invest funds in the pathways scholarship account.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Higher Education. | |
SB 5362
by Senators Braun, Mullet, Baumgartner, Liias, and Rossi
Providing an exemption from unemployment compensation for certain providers of commercial transportation services.
Exempts services performed by a driver providing commercial transportation services from the definition of "employment" for purposes of Title 50 RCW (unemployment compensation).
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Commerce, Labor & Sports. | |
SB 5363
by Senators Walsh, Frockt, Rivers, Fain, Carlyle, Darneille, Miloscia, Warnick, and Kuderer
Concerning the appointment of counsel for youth in dependency court proceedings.
Gives a child the right to be represented by counsel and have counsel appointed for him or her by the court at all stages of a proceeding in which a child is alleged to be dependent.Requires the court to appoint an attorney for a child in a dependency proceeding before the initial shelter care hearing.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing. | |
SB 5364
by Senators Palumbo, Angel, Takko, and Zeiger
Removing disincentives to the voluntary formation of regional fire protection service authorities by establishing parity, equalizing certain provisions with existing laws governing fire protection districts, and clarifying the formation process.
Revises regional fire protection service authority provisions as follows: (1) Removes disincentives to the voluntary formation of the authorities by establishing parity;(2) Equalizes certain provisions with existing laws governing fire protection districts; and(3) Clarifies the formation process.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Local Government. | |
SB 5365
by Senators King, Hobbs, Liias, and Wilson; by request of Department of Transportation
Concerning relocation assistance for persons displaced by agency property acquisitions.
Revises relocation assistance provisions with regard to persons displaced by agency property acquisitions.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5366
by Senators Hobbs, King, Liias, and Fortunato; by request of Department of Transportation
Concerning the authorization of and deposit of moneys from department of transportation advertising activities.
Authorizes the department of transportation to: (1) Sell commercial advertising, including product placement, on department web sites and social media; and(2) Sell a version of its mobile application to users who desire to have access to an application without advertising.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5367
by Senators Becker, Warnick, and Cleveland
Modifying the pupil transportation funding formula to address underfunded school districts that operate pupil transportation efficiently.
Requires the superintendent of public instruction to establish a transportation allocation adjustment process to address underfunded districts operating pupil transportation efficiently.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5368
by Senators Becker, Rivers, O'Ban, Brown, Sheldon, Angel, Bailey, Braun, Warnick, and Honeyford
Limiting the authority to seek medicaid waivers.
Prohibits the state health care authority from pursuing federal waivers that obligate the state to future spending, create entitlements, or expand the scope of government without legislative authorization.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5369
by Senators Becker, Cleveland, Rivers, Keiser, Bailey, Angel, Warnick, and Wilson
Concerning the practice of naturopathy.
Authorizes a naturopath to prescribe and administer legend drugs and controlled substances contained in schedules III through V of the uniform controlled substances act as necessary in the practice of naturopathy.Requires a naturopath who prescribes controlled substances to register with the department of health to access the prescription monitoring program.Requires the board of naturopathy to establish education and training requirements related to prescribing legend drugs and controlled substances.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5370
by Senators Becker, Bailey, Rivers, O'Ban, Fain, Zeiger, Brown, Fortunato, Warnick, Miloscia, Angel, and Wilson
Concerning federal funding programs requiring changes in state law.
Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to report to the legislature regarding federal funding programs greater than twenty-five million dollars in biennial expenditures affecting the state's health and human services agencies and the common school system that specify conditions requiring changes in state statutes as a condition of receiving federal funding.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5371
by Senators Becker, Rivers, Brown, Braun, Angel, Warnick, and Honeyford
Protecting public sector workers' rights through public disclosure of public sector unions' finances.
Increases transparency and financial disclosure of public sector unions' finances.Provides that this act is null and void if appropriations are not approved.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Commerce, Labor & Sports. | |
SB 5372
by Senators Becker, Rivers, Brown, Miloscia, O'Ban, Zeiger, and Angel
Addressing state audit findings of noncompliance with state law.
Requires a state agency, within thirty days of receipt of an audit containing findings of noncompliance with state law, to submit a response and a plan for remediation to the governor, the state auditor, the office of financial management, the joint legislative audit and review committee, and the relevant fiscal and policy committees of the senate and house of representatives.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to State Government. | |
SB 5373
by Senators Becker, Angel, Rivers, Brown, Miloscia, Fortunato, Bailey, Zeiger, and Keiser
Concerning the recruitment and retention of Washington state patrol officers.
Requires a transfer from connecting Washington account project funds, appropriated for fish culverts, to the state patrol highway account if funds in the state patrol highway account are not sufficient to meet the needs of the state patrol for training and hiring new officers at the competitive salary levels established in this act.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5374
by Senators Becker, Bailey, Rivers, Brown, Miloscia, O'Ban, Warnick, Angel, Honeyford, Padden, and Braun
Concerning state employee whistleblower protection.
Revises the definition of "improper governmental action," for purposes of state employee whistleblower protection, to include any action by an employee undertaken in the performance of the employee's official duties that violates the administrative procedure act or analogous provisions of law that prohibit ex parte communication regarding cases or matters pending in which an agency is party between the agency's employee and a presiding officer, hearing officer, or an administrative law judge.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
| Jan 25 | Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 8:00 AM. (Subject to change) | |
SB 5375
by Senators Fain, Braun, Angel, Brown, Becker, O'Ban, Miloscia, Schoesler, Bailey, Sheldon, Warnick, King, Rivers, Fortunato, Rossi, Baumgartner, Wilson, Honeyford, Padden, Zeiger, Ranker, Darneille, Palumbo, Pedersen, Pearson, Frockt, and Hasegawa
Renaming the cancer research endowment authority to the Andy Hill cancer research endowment.
Changes the name of the cancer research endowment authority to the Andy Hill cancer research endowment.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 5376
by Senators Sheldon and Padden
Modifying indigent defense provisions.
Modifies indigent defense services provisions relating to: (1) Determining if a person is indigent or indigent and able to contribute; and(2) Requiring a person receiving the appointment of counsel to sign an affidavit swearing under penalty of perjury that all income, assets, and living costs reported are complete and accurate.Requires the office of public defense to: (1) Offer training for the offices and individuals designated by the courts as responsible for determining indigency; and(2) Survey attorneys' fees statewide and publish the results to assist courts and their designees in identifying the usual and customary charges for retaining private counsel.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice. | |
| Jan 25 | Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 8:00 AM. (Subject to change) | |
SB 5377
by Senator Sheldon
Modifying certain vote count requirements for homeowners' associations.
Revises homeowners' association provisions with regard to vote count requirements.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance. | |
SB 5378
by Senators Sheldon, Dansel, Hasegawa, Conway, and Fortunato
Modifying the operation of motorcycles on roadways laned for traffic.
Allows the operator of a motorcycle to overtake and pass in the same lane occupied by the vehicle being overtaken, but only on the left-hand side of the vehicle and only in the left-most lane of traffic and only if certain conditions are met.Prohibits an operator of a motor vehicle from intentionally impeding or attempting to prevent an operator of a motorcycle from operating the motorcycle as permitted.Requires the department of transportation, when it has opened the use of the shoulder of a limited access facility for public transportation vehicles, to allow motorcycles to use the shoulder during the same time periods and conditions.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5379
by Senators McCoy and Wellman
Constructing all new public buildings with cross-laminated timber.
Requires new public buildings that are twelve stories or less to be constructed with cross-laminated timber.Allows the department of enterprise services to grant a waiver to a public agency or a municipality from the requirements mentioned above.
| Jan 20 | First reading, referred to State Government. | |