WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE
Legislative Digest No. 53

SIXTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE
Thursday, March 30, 201781st Day - 2017 Regular Session

SENATE
SB 5188-SSB 5912SB 5913
HOUSE
HB 2188HB 2189HB 2190HB 2191HB 2192

This publication includes digest and history for bills, joint memorials, joint resolutions, concurrent resolutions, initiatives, and substitutes. Engrossed measures may be republished if the amendment makes a substantive change.

Electronic versions of Legislative Digests are available at http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/digests.aspx?year=2017.


House Bills

HB 2188

by Representatives Ormsby and Kilduff


Concerning electronic payments to the division of child support when remitting funds in response to an order to withhold income.


Requires an employer or other business that has received an income withholding order from the department of social and health services, requiring payment to the Washington state support registry, to remit payments through electronic funds transfer when certain conditions apply.

Authorizes the division of child support to issue a notice of noncompliance to a person, firm, entity, or agency of state or federal government that it believes is not complying with the requirement above.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Mar 29First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 2189

by Representative Ormsby


Concerning eligibility for the early childhood education and assistance program.


Changes the time, from the 2020-2021 school year to the 2022-2023 school year, in which full implementation must be achieved for the early childhood education and assistance program.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Mar 29First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 2190

by Representative Ormsby


Addressing budget stabilization account transfers to the general fund.


Removes the state treasurer's requirement to transfer the entire budget stabilization account deposit, for the 2017-2019 fiscal biennium that is attributable to extraordinary revenue growth, into the state general fund.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Mar 29First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 2191

by Representative Ormsby


Making appropriations from the budget stabilization account.


Makes appropriations from the budget stabilization account: (1) To the Washington state patrol for Washington state fire service resource mobilization costs incurred in response to an emergency or disaster for wildfires;

(2) For expenditure into the disaster response account for disaster response and recovery efforts; and

(3) To the department of natural resources for fire suppression costs incurred by the department during the 2016 fire season.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Mar 29First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 2192

by Representative Ormsby


Concerning taxes deposited in the public works account.


Changes the time in which money must be deposited in the public works assistance account and the education legacy trust account from the collection of excise taxes on real estate sales, public utility taxes, and solid waste collection taxes.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Mar 29First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).


Senate Bills

SB 5188-S

by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Angel, Takko, Warnick, and Pearson)


Concerning removal of land from the current use property tax classification due to certain natural disasters.


(DIGEST OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE)


Prohibits compensating tax from being imposed on land removed from designation as forestland solely as a result of a natural disaster such as a flood, windstorm, earthquake, wildfire, or other calamity rather than by virtue of the act of the landowner changing the use of the property.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 24Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Local Government at 1:30 PM.
Jan 26Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Local Government at 1:30 PM.
Feb 14Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 3:30 PM.
Mar 28WM - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
Minority; without recommendation.
Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 3:30 PM.

SB 5912

by Senators Kuderer, Rivers, Cleveland, Walsh, Conway, Mullet, and Keiser


Concerning insurance coverage of tomosynthesis or three-dimensional mammography.


Directs the office of the insurance commissioner and the state health care authority to clarify that the existing mandates for mammography include coverage for tomosynthesis (also called three-dimensional mammography) under the same terms and conditions currently allowed for mammography.

Prohibits the application of a deductible and cost sharing.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Mar 29First reading, referred to Health Care.

SB 5913

by Senators SaldaƱa, Frockt, McCoy, Kuderer, Rolfes, Keiser, Pedersen, Liias, Takko, Hobbs, Hunt, Chase, and Hasegawa


Recognizing the thirty-first day of March as Cesar Chavez day.


Recognizes the thirty-first day of March as Cesar Chavez day.
-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Mar 29First reading, referred to State Government.