Improving public records administration.

Revises the public records act to improve public records administration.

Requires training for records officers and public records officers to address particular issues related to the retention, production, and disclosure of electronic documents.

Requires the attorney general to establish a consultation program to provide information for developing best practices for local agencies requesting assistance in compliance with the public records act.

Requires the division of archives and records management in the office of the secretary of state to: (1) Establish and administer a competitive grant program for local agencies to improve certain technology information systems for public records;

(2) Conduct a study to assess the feasibility of implementing a statewide open records portal through which a user can request and receive a response, relating to public records information, through a single internet web site; and

(3) Convene a stakeholder group to develop the initial scope and direction of the study.

Requires the county auditor to charge a surcharge of one dollar per instrument for every document recorded.

Concerning costs associated with responding to public records requests.

Revises the public records act with regard to: (1) Requiring statements of actual costs for photocopies and electronically produced copies to be adopted by the agency only after public notice and a hearing;

(2) Allowing the denial of a bot request;

(3) Requiring that a request be for identifiable records; and

Requiring manufacturers of electronics to report the presence of high priority chemicals under the children's safe products act.

Increasing revenue to the state wildlife account by increasing commercial fishing license fees and streamlining wholesale fish dealing, buying, and selling requirements.

Concerning agreements between dentists and third parties that provide supportive services to dentists.

Authorizing licensed spirits and wine distributors to sell spirits and wine products to their employees in certain circumstances.

Increasing the career and college readiness of public school students.

Creates the work-integrated learning demonstration pilot project to promote work-integrated learning experiences for students.

Requires the workforce training and education coordinating board to convene a work-integrated learning advisory committee to provide advice to the legislature and the education and workforce sectors on creating opportunities for students.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction and the advisory committee to jointly select three or four high schools to develop work-integrated learning project programs.

Concerning the beginning educator support team program.

Concerning the exercise of expressive rights following school sports activities.

Provides that immediately after a school sports activity is completed, any grounds of the school open to the public after the school day has ended or on a weekend day is a designated public forum where all individuals may safely assemble to talk with other individuals, including praying with one another.

Updating the child support economic table based on recommendations of the child support work group.

Concerning expanding the permitted uses of surplus funds from boater education card fees to certain boating safety programs and activities.

Concerning vessel impoundment.

Authorizes an arresting officer, or other officer acting at the arresting officer's direction, to impound and secure a vessel when the operator of a vessel is arrested for a violation of operation of a vessel: (1) In a reckless manner; or

Requiring transportation benefit districts to hold public hearings prior to imposing fees or charges by a vote of the governing board.

Requiring periodic certification elections for labor unions representing public employees.

Restoring resources to the capital budget beginning with the 2017-2019 biennium.

Concerning small parcels of land used for agricultural or rural development purposes.

Revises the growth management act to make clear that: (1) Agricultural activities can occur on small parcels of land; and

Defining employment for purposes of the state unemployment tax.

Concerning oil transportation safety.

Addresses oil transportation safety to: (1) Enhance safety measures that protect against the risk of oil spills occurring on land and water;

(2) Provide a sustainable source of funding for the state's oil spill preparedness and response program; and

Creating a suicide-safer homes project account to support prevention efforts and develop strategies for reducing access to lethal means.

Establishes the suicide-safer homes task force to raise public awareness and increase suicide prevention education.

Creates the suicide-safer homes project within the department of health to accept private funds for use by the task force in developing and providing suicide education and prevention materials, training, and outreach programs to help create suicide-safer homes.

Requires a licensed dentist, a licensed dental hygienist, or a person holding a retired active license as a dentist or dental hygienist, to complete the one-time training in suicide assessment, treatment, and management.

Creates the suicide-safer homes project account.

Making expenditures from the budget stabilization account for 2015 wildfires.

Concerning impaired driving.

Concerning relocation assistance for persons displaced by agency property acquisitions.

Clarifying the type of land eligible for purchase under the affordable housing land acquisition revolving loan fund program.

Concerning child welfare volunteer guardian ad litem program requirements.

Requires guardian ad litem programs to: (1) With volunteer guardian ad litem coordinators, ensure that those coordinators supervise no more than thirty volunteer guardians ad litem; and

Concerning family and community engagement coordinators.

Changes the following terms to family and community engagement coordinator: Family engagement coordinator, parent and family engagement coordinator, and parent involvement coordinator.

Requires a family and community engagement coordinator, within a school building or school district, to: (1) Identify and bridge barriers to students' and families' access to needed services;

(2) Consult with an advisory group of students' families who reflect the demographic diversity within the school building or school district; and

Addressing health care cost transparency.

Requires the office of the insurance commissioner to: (1) Adopt rules to ensure that an enrollee may obtain an estimate of his or her out-of-pocket costs for a covered health care service before the service being provided; and

Concerning the authority of local governments to require criminal history background checks.

Providing funding allocations to promote children's health and social-emotional learning.

Concerning the state building code council.

Requires the state building code council to: (1) Adopt a revised process for the review of proposed statewide amendments and proposed or enacted local amendments to the codes enumerated in RCW 19.27.031; and

(2) In consultation with the office of the chief information officer, assess the costs and benefits of the potential acquisition and implementation of open public access information technologies to enhance the council's code adoption process.

Changes the composition 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.

Requires the task force to review and provide recommendations on certain issues with regard to the state building code council, the state building code, and the department of enterprise services.

Concerning secondhand dealers utilizing automated kiosks to purchase secondhand electronic devices.

Requires property bought by a secondhand dealer, through the use of an automated kiosk, to be held for at least thirty days after the secondhand property was accepted by the automated kiosk.

Concerning working connections child care eligibility for vulnerable children.

Requires the department of early learning to establish and implement policies in the working connections child care program to allow eligibility for families with children who: (1) In the last six months have received child protective services, child welfare services, or services through a family assessment response;

(2) Have been referred for child care as part of the family's case management; and

Making the smoking of marijuana in the presence of children unlawful.

Changing the date in which community impact statements are provided to the department of corrections.

Addressing nonprofit corporation facilities financing by the Washington state housing finance commission.

Concerning the educational success of youth in foster care.

Extending the redetermination timeline regarding appeals to the department of labor and industries.

Allowing minors to consent to share their personally identifying information in the Washington homeless client management information system.

Imposing an additional penalty for distracted driving.

Concerning rules for on-site sewage systems.

Prohibits rules adopted by the state board of health, regarding the design, construction, installation, operation, and maintenance of on-site sewage systems with design flows of less than three thousand five hundred gallons per day, from requiring: (1) That a use permit be encumbered by a monitoring contract between a private company and a private individual; and

(2) Dedicated easements for the inspection, maintenance, or potential future expansion of an on-site sewage system.

Concerning the preservation of housing options for tenants.

Requiring continuity of transit operation reporting by certain public transportation systems.

Requires the legislative authorities of municipalities and regional transit authorities to: (1) Prepare a plan regarding the continuity of its transit operations in the event of a significant earthquake; and

Concerning the disposition of tenant property placed upon the nearest public property.

Establishing a program to fund long-term services and supports.

Creates the long-term services and supports trust commission and requires the commission to establish rules and policies regarding long-term services and supports.

Creates the long-term services and supports trust program to provide benefits to qualified enrollees.

Specifies duties of the employment security department regarding long-term services and supports.

Requires the department of social and health services to establish a registry for health care providers who meet the minimum qualifications necessary to conduct eligibility assessments.

Requires employers to deduct from an employee's salary the equivalent of 0.49 percent of the employee's total compensation which will be submitted to the employment security department.

Concerning the reimbursement rate primary care providers receive to participate in medicaid.

Concerning the provision of trauma-informed child care.

Requires the department of early learning to: (1) Provide voluntary training on trauma-informed care to child care providers and administrators participating in the early achievers program; and

Creating a specialized child care pilot program for vulnerable children.

Allowing notaries and proof of identity for advance directives.

Requires a directive to withhold or withdraw from life-sustaining treatment in a terminal condition or permanent unconscious condition to be: (1) Signed by the declarer, who has provided proof of identity; and

Concerning informed consent for nonemergency, outpatient, primary health care services for unaccompanied homeless youth under the federal McKinney-Vento homeless assistance act.

Changing the seriousness level for the crime of attempting to elude a pursuing police vehicle.

Creating a loan forgiveness program for teachers in high-need schools.

Providing responsive, needs-based training opportunities for addressing the teacher shortage through improved teacher recruitment, teacher selection, and teacher onboarding and induction.

Relating to addressing the educator shortage and diversifying the educator workforce by supporting future educators from local communities.

Promoting an equitable clean energy economy by creating a carbon tax that allows investment in clean energy, clean air, healthy forests, and Washington's communities.

Creates a carbon pollution mitigation tax on fossil fuel emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global climate change.

Creates the carbon program oversight board to oversee implementation of this act and advise the governor on the achievement of greenhouse gas emission reductions.

Creates an economic and environmental justice oversight panel as a joint body between the office of the governor, the department of ecology, and the department of health.

Requires the department of revenue to establish and administer a low-income carbon pollution mitigation tax grant for state residents to assist in the equitable transition to lower carbon emission energy sources.

Involves the following in some role regarding the imposition of the carbon tax: The department of ecology, the department of revenue, the department of commerce, the department of health, the Washington State University extension energy office, the recreation and conservation office, the office of the attorney general, and other state agencies with control of expenditures of carbon pollution mitigation tax receipts.

Increasing revenue to the state wildlife account by adjusting recreational fishing and hunting fees.

Adjusts recreational fishing and hunting fees to increase revenue to the state wildlife account.

Authorizes the fish and wildlife commission to: (1) Establish a surcharge on license fees if it determines that the surcharge is necessary to fund maintenance level appropriations;

(2) Assess an administrative fee of up to ten dollars per permit for hunters who have been drawn for multiple permits and wish to surrender excess permits before the start of the hunting season;

(3) Offer a one-time discount on a hunting license purchase to certain first-time resident hunters;

(4) Develop a hunting access reservation system; and

Concerning county treasurer administrative efficiencies.

Declaring that the right to life begins at the moment the individual comes into being.

Addressing motorcycle rider liability for actions required of helmet manufacturers.

Supporting students' success by increasing retention and graduation rates with evidence-based programs.

Requires the four-year institutions of higher education to implement a student success program for students receiving need-based federal or state grant aid.

Requires the community and technical colleges to implement the following for students enrolled in a degree-granting program: A student success program and an evidence-based remedial program.

Requires the student achievement council to: (1) Administer a competitive grant program to provide precollege or ongoing peer mentoring; and

(2) Contract with the western interstate commission for higher education to conduct an evaluation on: (a) Student success programs, remedial programs, and the competitive grant program for peer mentoring; and (b) mental health counseling and services provided for students at the institutions of higher education.

Creates the public service graduate degree conditional grant program at the University of Washington.

Creates the public service graduate degree conditional grant account.

Concerning the University of Washington's alternative process for awarding contracts.

Addresses the alternative process for awarding contracts by the University of Washington.

Requires the university business diversity program to establish targets for each project based on the subcontracting opportunities and the availability of firms.

Requires the university to: (1) Include the following in the annual report provided to the capital projects advisory review board: Small business entities, disadvantaged business enterprises, veterans, and women and minority-owned business use rates on the projects; and

(2) Require contractors to solicit proposals from small business entities and disadvantaged business enterprises.

Includes in the evaluation criteria for selection of a contractor on a roster: The contractor's outreach plan to include small business entities, disadvantaged business enterprises, veterans, and women and minority-owned businesses, and the firm's past performance in the use of the firms.

Protecting the public health of food consumers.

Prohibits selling or offering to sell, at wholesale or retail, food or food products intended for human consumption that are grown in sewage, sewage sludge, biosolids, compost derived from or containing human waste, or any form or amount of human waste, unless the food, food products, or processed foods are properly labeled.

Requires the state board of health to use the state department of health laboratory to analyze samples and publish a report on the levels of pathogens and hazardous substances, including metals, drug molecules, or endocrine disrupting substances, that are found in a range of selected applications of sewage sludge in which food substances are grown.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 25	First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).