Concerning device registration, civil penalties, and service agent registration for the weights and measures program.

Concerning dental laboratories.

Aligning existing definitions and practices to establish a uniform process for updating addresses of record and make conforming amendments to statutes administered by the department of licensing.

Concerning the transition of medicaid enrollees to skilled nursing facility care.

Requires the state health care authority and the department of social and health services to convene a work group consisting of representatives of skilled nursing facilities, hospitals, and managed health care systems to identify barriers that may prevent skilled nursing facilities from accepting and admitting enrollees from acute care hospitals in a timely and appropriate manner.

Concerning relocation assistance for mobile home park tenants.

Concerning child custody.

Exempting certain law enforcement officers from the hunter education training program.

Exempts the following from the firearms skills portion of the hunter education instruction course: (1) Members of the United States military;

(2) Current or retired general authority Washington peace officers;

(3) Current or retired limited authority Washington peace officers;

(4) Current or retired specially commissioned Washington peace officers; and

Creating a pilot program for the supervision of offenders who commit motor vehicle-related and property offenses.

Creates a pilot program for the supervision of offenders convicted of felonies relating to the theft or taking of a motor vehicle.

Authorizes Spokane county superior court or Federal Way municipal court to sentence an offender to community custody for up to one year when the court sentences the offender for theft of a motor vehicle, possession of a stolen vehicle, taking a motor vehicle without permission in the first or second degree, or an offense under chapter 9A.56 RCW (theft and robbery) with a prior conviction for one of the preceding motor vehicle crimes.

Estimating the effective tax rate of proposed ballot measures and legislation.

Requires the office of financial management to prepare a revenue equity statement for certain state ballot measures.

Requires the director of the department of financial management, in consultation with the legislature, the department of revenue, and other appropriate state or local agencies, to establish a procedure for the provision of a tax rate equity statement for legislative bills.

Requires information on the revenue equity statement to be included in the voters' pamphlet for statewide issues on the ballot.

Concerning the association of Washington generals.

Includes the following as one of the purposes of the association of Washington generals: To expand educational and/or employment opportunities for youth, veterans, uniformed service members, military families, and people with disabilities in the state.

Concerning allowing affordable housing development on religious organization property.

Authorizes an affordable housing development created by a religious organization to be constructed to two times the density as other structures based on its location in certain cities, code cities, counties, and urban growth areas.

Implementing a vulnerable youth guardianship program.

Authorizes a vulnerable youth to petition the court to have a vulnerable youth guardianship established for him or her by filing a petition in juvenile court.

Gives jurisdiction to the juvenile division of superior courts to appoint a guardian for a consenting vulnerable youth who has been abandoned, neglected, or abused by one or both parents, or for whom the court determines that a guardian is otherwise necessary as one or both parents cannot adequately provide for the youth such that the youth risks physical or psychological harm if returned to the youth's home.

Requires the Washington state task force against the trafficking of persons to: (1) Evaluate whether vulnerable youth guardianships have the unintended impact of placing youth at greater risk of being trafficked; and

Concerning the retirement age for state guard members.

Providing for the use of administrative law judges as mediators to address adverse child care licensing decisions.

Requires the department of early learning to include the following in a written notice for the denial of an application or the revocation, suspension, or modification of a license: A description of the appeal process and the option to engage in mediation.

Authorizes a licensee or applicant who receives a denial, modification, suspension, or revocation of a license to request a prehearing conference for the purpose of mediating the case as part of the adjudicative proceeding.

Concerning livestock inspection.

Requires a licensee, when a livestock inspection is required, to collect from the consignor and pay to the department of agriculture a per head inspection fee for each animal inspected or a time and mileage fee, whichever is greater.

Increases fees for the following: (1) Inspection of cattle at a processing plant where the United States department of agriculture maintains a meat inspection program;

(2) Issuance of an inspection certificate by the director; and

(3) The time and mileage fee.

Concerning the hosting of the homeless by religious organizations.

Concerning transfer of jurisdiction from a tribe in dependency cases involving Indian children.

Requires the state court, if a tribal court orders transfer of jurisdiction from the tribe in dependency cases involving Indian children, to hold a hearing to determine if accepting jurisdiction is consistent with any applicable state or federal laws or court rules.

Streamlining distillery licensing and fees.

Concerning election year restrictions on state legislators.

Concerning vapor products, e-cigarettes, and nicotine products taxation.

Addresses requirements for and the sale and taxation of vapor products, e-cigarettes, and nicotine products.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Mar 15	First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).
Mar 21	Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Finance at 3:30 PM. (Subject to change)
Mar 24	Scheduled for executive session in the House Committee on Finance at 8:00 AM. (Subject to change)