Concerning certificates of academic and individual achievement.

Discontinues certificates of academic and individual achievement as graduation requirements.

Requires school districts to prepare plans for and notify students and their parents or legal guardians to assure: (1) Continued progress in academic achievement as a foundation for high school graduation; and

Concerning tribal consultation regarding hunting rights and activities.

Authorizes the governing body of a tribe to request a consultation with the governor and the fish and wildlife commission regarding a specific fish and wildlife department policy, rule, or action that affects tribal hunting activities.

Requires the governor to convene a meeting within thirty days of receiving the request.

Concerning tourism marketing.

Establishes the statewide tourism marketing act.

Creates the Washington tourism marketing authority to act as a business management organization on behalf of the citizens of the state to manage financial resources and contract for statewide tourism marketing services.

Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to conduct an evaluation of the performance of the authority to determine the extent to which the authority has contributed to the growth of the tourism industry and economic development of the state.

Concerning dental health services in tribal settings.

Authorizes dental health aide therapist services under certain conditions.

Provides that dental health aide therapist services are eligible for medicaid funding in order to promote increased dental care access for persons served in settings operated by Indian tribes and tribal organizations.

Concerning the maintenance and operations of parks and recreational land acquired through the conservation futures program.

Clarifying the crime of attempting to elude a police vehicle.

Requiring the provision of receipts and invoices regarding additional charges to a mobile home lot tenant upon request.

Concerning business improvement districts.

Concerning electronic product recycling.

Extending the timeline for completing a family assessment response, allowing the department of social and health services to complete a family assessment response upon the verbal agreement of a parent to participate, and defining disqualifying crimes.

Authorizes the department of social and health services to complete a family assessment response upon the verbal agreement of a parent to participate.

Extends the timeline for completing a family assessment response.

Exempting certain innovative activities relying on recycled carbon fiber materials from solid waste handling facility permit requirements.

Relating to expanding the current and future educator workforce supply through evidence-based strategies to improve and incentivize the recruitment and retention of highly effective educators, especially in high-need subject, grade-level, and geographic areas, and to establish a cohesive continuum of high quality professional learning from preparation programs to job embedded induction, mentoring, collaboration, and other professional development opportunities.

Concerning more efficient use of state facilities through aligning the functions of the department of enterprise services and the office of financial management, collecting additional space use data, and making technical corrections.

Aligns the functions of the department of enterprise services and the office of financial management to make more efficient use of state facilities.

Requires the office of financial management to evaluate opportunities for colocating and consolidating state facilities in the same geographic area.

Concerning the exemption from public disclosure of information regarding public and private computer and telecommunications networks.

Creating the cybersecurity conditional loan program.

Creates the cybersecurity conditional loan program to support students interested in cybersecurity.

Revising resource limitations for public assistance.

Concerning the commercially sexually exploited children statewide coordinating committee.

Concerning financial reporting by elected and appointed officials, candidates, and appointees.

Concerning campaign finance reporting.

Updating inflationary amounts in campaign finance laws.

Concerning overtime compensation for individual providers of home care services.

Increases the number of hours that the department of social and health services may pay to a single individual provider.

Concerning the operation of wheeled all-terrain vehicles in less populated counties.

Provides restrictions and authorizations for locations for the operation of a wheeled all-terrain vehicle.

Concerning the crossing of certain public roadways by wheeled all-terrain vehicles.

Creating a sales tax exemption for equipment purchased by fire districts in rural counties.

Establishing the Washington promise program.

Creates the Washington promise program to help make the first two years of college affordable and accessible by offering a tuition waiver for eligible students enrolled in associate degree or certificate programs offered by community and technical colleges.

Requires the office of student financial assistance to administer the program for resident students seeking an associate's degree or certificate from a community or technical college.

Requires the state board for community and technical colleges to develop a plan to provide program students who are enrolled at a community or technical college with a quarter-long student success course, during or before their first enrollment period, that teaches essential skills for college success.

Requires the state institute for public policy to conduct a study on the effectiveness of the program.

Requires the caseload forecast council to estimate the anticipated caseload of the program and include the information in the official state caseload forecast.

Expanding state need grant eligibility.

Establishes the state need grant eligibility expansion act.

Taking action to address lead in drinking water at facilities frequented by children.

Requires the school and early childhood programs to: (1) Develop and adopt a plan of action to prevent elevated lead levels in all water used for drinking or cooking;

(2) Periodically test each outlet used for drinking water or cooking in each school or early childhood program facility for the presence of lead; and

(3) Submit its plan of action and information on testing activities to the department of health and the office of the superintendent of public instruction.

Fulfilling the state's paramount duty for all children through equitable and responsible investments in the state's basic education program and reductions to local effort contributions.

Addresses equitable and responsible investments in the state's basic education program and reductions to local effort contributions to fulfill the state's paramount duty for all children.

Concerning attempting to elude a pursuing police vehicle.

Provides a definition for "pursuing police vehicle" for purposes of chapter 46.61 RCW (rules of the road).

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 31	First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).