Enacting the student opportunity, assistance, and relief act.

Concerning the use of child passenger restraint systems.

Revises child restraint system requirements.

Requires the traffic safety commission to produce and disseminate informational and educational materials explaining: (1) The proper use of child restraint systems in motor vehicles;

(2) Safety risks of not properly using the restraint systems;

(3) Where assistance on proper installation and use of restraint systems can be obtained; and

Creating new full-time tenure track positions at the state's four-year public institutions of higher education.

Creates the faculty expansion program at the four-year public institutions to encourage the institutions to increase the number of full-time tenure track faculty positions on their campuses.

Expires June 30, 2022.

Including referred and diverted youth in establishing community juvenile accountability program guidelines.

Providing students at community and technical colleges with the costs of required course materials.

     Requires community and technical colleges, during the registration process, to: (1) Display the cost of required textbooks or other course materials in the online course description or provide a link that directly connects to a bookstore's web site or other web site where students can view the costs;

(2) Indicate in the online course description if open educational resources are used once the college has implemented the ctcLink system; and

Concerning disqualification of judges.

Prohibits a superior court judge from sitting to hear or try an action or proceeding if he or she has been disqualified.

Concerning compensation for property damage caused by wild deer or elk.

Removes the definition of "commercial crop" and provides a definition for "agricultural crop" for purposes of chapter 77.36 RCW (wildlife damage).

Concerning aquatic invasive species management.

Establishing a student loan bill of rights.

Establishes the Washington student education loan bill of rights.

Requires the student achievement council to designate a student education loan ombuds within the office of student financial assistance to provide timely assistance to a student education loan borrower with a student education loan.

Requires the director of the department of financial institutions to establish fees sufficient to cover the costs of administering the department's program for student education loan servicers and the student education loan ombuds.

Requires the state institute for public policy to conduct a study on the impact and cost-effectiveness of establishing a student loan authority to refinance existing federal and private undergraduate and graduate student loans from the proceeds of tax-exempt bonds.

Creates the student education loan ombuds account.

Concerning biometric identifiers.

Requiring prime contractors to bond the subcontractors portion of retainage upon request.

Concerning parental rights and responsibilities of sexual assault perpetrators and survivors.

Creating the safe streets pilot project.

Creates the safe streets pilot project in the department of commerce to foster community engagement through neighborhood organizing, law enforcement-community partnerships, neighborhood watch programs, youth mobilization, and business engagement.

Requires the department of commerce to require grant recipients to report information to the department on the outcomes of the pilot project.

Requires the state institute for public policy, in consultation with the department, to develop options for reporting guidelines.

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

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

Adding training on public works and prevailing wage requirements to responsible bidder criteria.

Requires a bidder, before award of a public works contract, to also meet the following responsibility criteria to be considered a responsible bidder and qualified to be awarded a public works project: Have received training on the requirements related to public works and prevailing wage under chapters 39.04 and 39.12 RCW.

Addressing sewer service within urban growth areas.

Providing state funding assistance for public school construction.

Updating certain department of early learning advising and contracting mechanisms to reflect federal requirements, legislative mandates, and planned system improvements.

Concerning the crime victims' compensation program.

Addressing confinement in juvenile rehabilitation facilities for juveniles convicted in adult court.

Requires a child to be placed in a facility operated by the department of social and health services instead of the department of corrections, to determine the child's earned release date, when the child is convicted as an adult in the state courts of a crime amounting to a felony and is committed for a term of confinement.

Requires the department of social and health services, if a child's sentence includes a term of community custody, to consult the department of corrections before the child's release to community custody.

Addressing procedures for communicating with crime victims and survivors of crime victims.

Requires the department of commerce, through the office of crime victims advocacy, to convene and coordinate a work group to: (1) Examine practices regarding notification of family members when a person has died from a suspected homicide or other criminal means;

(2) Develop recommendations for providing crime victims and survivors of homicide victims with information about crime victim services; and

Concerning the financing of early learning facilities.

Creates the early learning facilities revolving account.

Requires the department of early learning, in consultation with stakeholders, to review existing licensing standards related to facility requirements to eliminate potential barriers to licensing.

Requires the department of commerce to: (1) In consultation with the department of early learning, oversee the early learning facilities revolving account;

(2) Act as the lead state agency for early learning facilities grant and loan program development;

(3) Expend money from the account to provide state matching funds for grants or loans to provide classrooms necessary for children to participate in the early childhood education and assistance program and working connections child care;

(4) Monitor performance of the grant and loan program; and

(5) Convene a committee of early learning facilities experts to advise the department regarding the prioritization methodology of grant applications for certain projects.

Provides a list of: (1) Activities eligible for funding through the account; and

(2) Organizations eligible to receive grants or loans.

Increasing the access of veterans, military service members, and military spouses to shared leave in state employment.

Creates the veterans' in-state service shared leave pool to allow employees to donate leave to be used as shared leave for veteran employees who meet certain requirements or for spouses of the veteran employees who meet certain requirements and are caring for their spouses.

Requires an agency head to allow employees who are veterans, and their spouses, to access shared leave from the veterans' in-state service shared leave pool upon employment.

Concerning information sharing related to implementation of the homeless youth prevention and protection act of 2015.

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

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.

Requires the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Convene a technical working group to provide recommendations for revising school district accounting practices for the purpose of improving fiscal transparency by establishing methods for separate accounting of school district expenditures made to support the state's program of basic education and those made as locally determined enrichments with local or other funding sources; and

(2) Convene a work group to determine whether the funded enrollment percent for special education programs of twelve and seven-tenths should be adjusted.

Concerning the use of credit cards for purchases of spirits and wine by a purchaser licensed to sell spirits and/or wine for consumption on the licensed premises.

Modifying tavern license provisions.

Addressing hospital inspections by limiting the uses of the fire protection contractor license fund and directing the department of health to engage in rule making to appropriately fund the cost of hospital inspections from hospital license fees.

Requires the department of health to set the fees for an application for a license, or renewal of a license, by a hospital to include the costs of inspections for fire protection purposes.

Establishing special license endorsements for cigar lounges and retail tobacconist shops.

Concerning inspections of licensed marijuana processors' equipment and facilities.

Extending the expiration date on the health sciences and services authority sales and use tax authorization.

Addressing access to the westbound Interstate 90 general purpose lanes from the Island Crest Way on-ramp.

Requires the department of transportation to work with the city of Mercer Island and other appropriate parties to allow the portions of the planned westbound high occupancy vehicle lane on Interstate 90 between Island Crest Way and West Mercer Way to be accessed by vehicles using the westbound on-ramp from Island Crest Way.

Prohibits the department from closing or restricting the westbound on-ramp from Island Crest Way to the current westbound Interstate 90 general purpose lanes until a mutually acceptable agreement between the department and the city has been reached.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 21	First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).