Addressing prescription drug cost transparency.

Requires the office of financial management to use a competitive procurement process to select a data organization to collect, verify, and summarize the prescription drug pricing data provided by issuers and manufacturers.

Requires an issuer to submit certain prescription drug cost and utilization data to the data organization for the previous calendar year.

Requires a covered manufacturer to report certain data for each covered drug to the data organization.

Requires the data organization to compile the data submitted by issuers and manufacturers and: (1) Prepare an annual report for the public and the legislature summarizing the data; and

(2) Provide the report to the office of financial management and the joint select committee on health care oversight.

Requires the state health care authority to provide: (1) An update to the relevant committees of the legislature regarding its review of and efforts to implement value-based purchasing and return on investment pricing strategies for prescription drugs; and

(2) Recommendations for legislation to improve transparency with respect to comparing prescription drug prices with value metrics.

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

(3) Are residing with a biological parent or guardian.

Allowing industrial insurance coverage for stress-caused mental disorders and disabilities of members of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system.

Issuing a two-year identicard for offenders released from prison facilities.

Defining salary for purposes of the Washington state patrol retirement system.

Concerning educator preparation data for use by the professional educator standards board.

Requires state-approved educator preparation programs to collect and provide data as required for approval by the professional educator standards board to the education data center.

Requires the education data center and the state-approved educator preparation programs to enter data-sharing agreements to facilitate the transfer of data required by the professional educator standards board.

Requires the education data center to hold, analyze, and make the data on the preparation of educators available for research and monitoring by the professional educator standards board, state-approved educator preparation programs, and other researchers with appropriate data-sharing agreements.

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.

Requires the state institute for public policy to assess the impact of this act on community safety, racial disproportionality, and youth rehabilitation.

Concerning the withdrawal of land from a designated classification.

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, including plumbing, fixtures, and playground equipment, 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.

Providing oversight of the state procurement and contracting for information technology goods and services.

Requires the department of enterprise services to consult with the office of the state chief information officer when it makes information technology goods and services available to ensure consistency with standards and policies to govern information technology as established by the office.

Requires the following to be coordinated with and/or approved by the office: (1) Cooperative purchasing for information technology goods and services; and

(2) The delegation of authority to an agency for the purchase of information technology goods and services.

Authorizes the office to change or withdraw the delegated authority for the purchase of information technology goods and services.

Concerning sentencing laws and practices.

Requires the sentencing guidelines commission to contract for the services of an external consultant to evaluate the state's sentencing laws and practices.

Establishing a fee for certification for the residential services and supports program to cover investigative costs.

Addresses the state's system to support persons with developmental and intellectual disabilities and the supported living program of the residential services and supports program.

Requires a certified provider, after initial certification, to pay an annual certification fee.

Requires the department of social and health services to: (1) Use additional investigative resources to address a significant growth in the residential services and supports program complaint workload;

(2) Use the resources to intervene for clients in a timelier manner when there is possible abuse or neglect; and

(3) Cease collection of the certification fee if the director of the centers for medicare and medicaid services determines that federal funds cannot be appropriated to match state expenditures under this act.

Prohibits the certification fee, established in the omnibus appropriations act, from exceeding the department's costs for investigation of complaints about provider practice and individuals alleged to have abused, neglected, abandoned, or exploited clients.

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.

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

Authorizes a person operating a wheeled all-terrain vehicle to cross public roadways if certain conditions are met.

Concerning population-based representation on the governing body of public transportation benefit areas.

Requires members of the governing body of a public transportation benefit area to be selected to assure proportional representation, based on population, of each of the component cities and the unincorporated areas of the county located within the public transportation benefit area, to the extent possible.

Authorizes multiple cities, if necessary to assure proportional representation, to be represented by a single elected official from one of the cities.

Implementing year-round Pacific Standard Time.

Repeals daylight saving time.

Relating to the capital budget.

Relating to state general obligation bonds and related accounts.

Introduced by title and introductory section only, relating to state general obligation bonds and related accounts.

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