Protecting the public's health by creating a system for safe and secure collection and disposal of unwanted medications.

Establishes a drug take-back program for the safe and secure collection and disposal of unwanted medications.

Exempts the following from public disclosure under the public records act: Proprietary information submitted to the department of health under this act.

Creating a legislative page scholarship program. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Creating the Gina Grant Bull memorial legislative page scholarship program. )

Authorizes the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house of representatives to administer and conduct the Gina Grant Bull memorial legislative page scholarship program to provide resources for students who participate in the page programs of the senate or house.

Specifying medical assistance coverage for hearing devices for adults.

Creating a pilot program allowing individuals to receive both employment and community access services.

Creating the Washington next generation educational savings account pilot program.

Creates the Washington next generation educational savings account pilot program to expand education opportunity and financial capability by creating children's educational savings accounts.

Requires the student achievement council to administer the pilot program.

Requires initial and incentive grant dollars received by an eligible beneficiary through the pilot program to be used to attend an eligible educational institution for qualifying higher education expenses.

Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to review the pilot program including information regarding the individual college savings program accounts opened up under the pilot program and the eligible beneficiaries of the accounts.

Decoupling services and activities fees from tuition.

Concerning the exemption of property taxes for nonprofit homeownership development.

Concerning small farms under the current use property tax program for farm and agricultural lands.

Provides that farms five to twenty acres are eligible for current use valuation of the land underlying the residential structures the same as farms twenty acres and over and farms less than five acres are eligible if certain gross income thresholds are met.

Concerning modification of precinct and district boundary lines.

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

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, with the advice and input from the members of the state building code council, to: (1) Employ permanent and temporary staff;

(2) Contract for services; and

(3) Provide all administrative and information technology services required 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 state agency collection, use, and retention of biometric identifiers.

Allowing fire protection district annexations and mergers within a reasonable geographic proximity and eliminating cross-county restrictions for annexations to a fire protection district.

Eliminates cross-county restrictions for annexations to a fire protection district.

Supporting the development of affordable housing in urban areas.

Requires the affordable housing advisory board to conduct a study to: (1) Consider the potential for establishing a state affordable housing land bank that could receive and manage surplus public property for the development of affordable housing; and

(2) Identify the existence of potentially surplus publicly owned real property within areas with high rates of increased property value and the potential for holding the properties in the land bank or using the proceeds from the sale for affordable housing development.

Requiring notice to state fund employers for certain workers' compensation third-party settlements.

Concerning the business of child care.

Requires the department of early learning to: (1) Contract with a nonprofit entity that provides quality improvement services to participants in the early achievers program to develop, in consultation with the community and technical college system, a community-based training module for licensed child care providers; and

(2) At the next update of the state comprehensive plan for workforce training and education, assist the workforce training and education coordinating board with assessing the need for early learning providers to receive support and training in the managing and running of a child care business.

Requires the training module to be offered to providers as a pilot program in at least an urban community, a rural community, a community with a high number of monolingual Spanish speaking licensed child care providers, and a community with a high number of monolingual Somali speaking licensed child care providers.

Modifying the property tax exemption for property used to provide housing for eligible persons with developmental disabilities.

Provides a property tax exemption for adult family homes occupied by eligible persons with developmental disabilities, if at least seventy-five percent of the eligible persons have a low income.

Encouraging affordable housing development and preservation by providing cities limited sales tax remittance for qualifying investments, providing cities and counties authority to use real estate excise taxes to support affordable housing, and providing cities and counties with councilmanic authority to impose the affordable housing sales tax.

Provides cities limited sales tax remittance for qualifying investments.

Provides cities and counties: (1) With the authority to use real estate excise taxes to support affordable housing; and

(2) With councilmanic authority to impose the affordable housing sales tax.

Requires a city, when the application for a remittance is approved, to create an affordable housing and local infrastructure account to be used for the city's acquisition or construction of affordable housing or local infrastructure.

Requires certain taxes to be used, from July 1, 2017, until June 30, 2022, for the acquisition, construction, improvement, or rehabilitation of facilities to provide housing for the homeless.

Increasing transparency of contributions by creating the Washington state DISCLOSE act of 2017.

Concerning tax credits for clean alternative fuel commercial vehicles.

Increases the amount of maximum credit against business and occupation taxes and public utility taxes for each clean alternative fuel commercial vehicle.

Allows a person who is applying for credit to apply for multiple vehicles on the same application, but the application must include the required information for each vehicle.

Concerning notification requirements for the department of social and health services.

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

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.

Addressing the final approval of subdivisions of land.

Concerning the imposition of port district facility entry fees for certain ground transportation service providers.

Equalizing differences in the distillery and winery industries by authorizing certain private label spirits.

Authorizing the sale of marijuana plants and seeds to qualifying patients and designated providers.

Authorizes a licensed marijuana producer to produce, process, package, label, and sell immature plants and marijuana seeds at retail, at the premises of the producer, to a qualifying patient or designated provider with a valid authorization or a valid recognition card.

Addressing the effective date of certain actions taken under the growth management act.

Addresses the growth management act with regard to initial effective dates of actions that: (1) Expand an urban growth area;

(2) Remove the designation of agricultural, forest, or mineral resource lands;

(3) Create or expand a limited area of more intensive rural development;

(4) Establish a new fully contained community; or

Regulating autonomous vehicles.

Allows an autonomous vehicle to be operated on public roads for testing purposes by a driver who possesses the proper class of license for the type of vehicle being operated and if certain requirements are met.

Concerning the valuation of motor vehicles for purposes of certain motor vehicle excise taxes.

Requires the value of a motor vehicle to be based on base model Kelly Blue book values, or national automobile dealers association values, whichever is lower, for the purpose of determining a motor vehicle excise tax imposed by a regional transit authority.

Exempts trucks and trailers from motor vehicle excise taxes imposed by a regional transit authority.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 23	First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).