Concerning public facilities districts.

Addresses a public facilities district's authority with regard to: (1) The composition of their board of trustees; and

Concerning policies for granting academic credit at institutions of higher education for international baccalaureate (IB) examinations.

Concerning the right to control disposition of the remains of a deceased minor child.

Addressing the crimes of harassment.

Revises certain harassment crime provisions regarding: (1) Changing the term "cyberstalking" to "cyber harassment"; and

Concerning the definition of public records in regards to the legislature.

Establishes the legislative transparency act.

Requires the records of state legislators and their offices to be made publicly available.

Concerning the online availability of foster parent preservice training.

Requires all components of the foster parent preservice training to be made available online.

Prohibiting maintenance of certification from being required for certain health professions.

Prohibits the medical quality assurance commission from requiring a physician to participate in a maintenance of certification requirement as a condition of licensure or license renewal.

Concerning health care provider and health care facility whistleblower protections.

Addressing the state auditor's duties and procedures.

Prohibiting the spawning, incubation, and cultivation of Atlantic salmon in the marine waters regulated by the state.

Concerning housing authorities.

Concerning actions for wrongful injury or death.

Concerning governmental continuity during emergency periods.

Finds that the ability of government to fulfill its constitutional and statutory responsibilities by continuing to conduct essential functions and services during the periods of significant disruption that follow catastrophic incidents requires both continuity of operations planning by individual agencies and continuity of government planning by state and local government.

Requires all levels and branches of government to conduct planning and preparation for continuity of operations and government to assist in fulfilling these responsibilities.

Concerning hospital privileges for advanced registered nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

Protecting lienholders' interests while retaining consumer protections.

Addresses the protection of a lienholder's interest and retaining consumer protections.

Clarifying the nature of the driver training education curriculum developed and maintained by the department of licensing and the office of the superintendent of public instruction.

Recognizing indigenous peoples' day.

Concerning ignition interlock device lockout conditions.

Concerning tax relief for adaptive automotive equipment for veterans and service members with disabilities.

Provides a sales and use tax exemption for adaptive equipment required to customize vehicles for disabled veterans in order to: (1) Provide specific financial relief for severely injured veterans; and

Changing the dates of the state fiscal year.

Concerning the processes for reviewing sexually violent predators committed under chapter 71.09 RCW.

Declares that the legislature finds: (1) The decision in In re Det. of Marcum, 189 Wn.2d 1 (2017) conflicts with the legislature's intent in RCW 71.09.090;

(2) The supreme court's holding is a mistaken interpretation; and

(3) The purpose of a show cause hearing under RCW 71.09.090 is to provide the court with an opportunity to determine whether probable cause exists to warrant a hearing on whether the person's condition has changed as it relates to the person's status as a sexually violent predator or whether conditional release to a less restrictive alternative would be appropriate.

Concerning restrictions on prescriptions for opiates.

Concerning the medicaid fraud control unit.

Requires the attorney general to establish and maintain, within his or her office, the medicaid fraud control unit.

Concerning special permits for alcohol samples and sales by alcohol manufacturers.

Creating the youth internship opportunity act.

Establishes the youth internship opportunity act.

Requires the director of the department of labor and industries to establish a youth internship pilot program for qualified restaurant and grocery store employers to employ youth interns under special certificates at wages authorized by the department and subject to certain limitations.

Limits the certificates to restaurant and grocery store employers located in cities with a population of seventy-five thousand or less.

Requires a restaurant or grocery store employer to apply for a certificate on a form made available by the director.

Concerning notification of wildlife transfer, relocation, or introduction into a new location.

Concerning consumer reporting agency security freeze fees.

Concerning personal information privacy protections in government entities.

Requires each department or other agency of the state government to designate an agency privacy officer.

Requires an agency privacy officer, in coordination with the office of privacy and data protection, to: (1) Develop an agency personal information minimization policy to reduce the use and retention of personal information wherever possible; and

(2) Create a work plan that uses a Gantt chart or similar project planning tool for certain information.

Prohibits a governmental entity from selling: (1) Personal financial and health information; and

(2) Personal identification numbers issued by a government entity.

Concerning the fair servicing and repair of digital electronic products.

Concerning community solar gardens.

Recertifying renewable energy systems eligible for a renewable energy system production incentive.

Protecting an open internet in Washington state.

Requires a person engaged in the provision of broadband internet access service in the state to publicly disclose accurate information regarding the network management practices, performance, and commercial terms of its services sufficient for consumers to make informed choices regarding use of the services and for content, application, service, and device providers to develop, market, and maintain internet offerings.

Encouraging investment in and reducing the costs of transitioning to the clean energy future.

Establishes the carbon free Washington act.

Reduces the cost of transitioning to electric generation sources that have very low or zero carbon dioxide emissions.

Provides tax preferences to reduce the cost to ratepayers of constructing and operating new renewable energy generation capacity equal to or greater than necessary to serve projected Washington electricity load growth.

Protecting consumers by prohibiting blocking, throttling, or paid prioritization in the provision of internet service in Washington state.

Prohibits a person engaged in the provision of broadband internet access service from: (1) Blocking lawful content, applications, services, or nonharmful devices;

(2) Impairing or degrading lawful internet traffic on the basis of internet content, application, or service, or use of a nonharmful device; or

(3) Engaging in paid prioritization.

Authorizes the utilities and transportation commission to waive the prohibition on paid prioritization under certain circumstances.

Establishing a reporting process for the department of natural resources regarding certain marbled murrelet habitat information.

Finds that protecting the habitat of the marbled murrelet is beneficial to the state and our environment, however, the protection will have impacts, specifically on timber jobs in our rural communities and lost trust revenues to our schools, counties, and junior taxing districts through reduced timber harvests.

Requires the department of natural resources to provide a report to the legislature that includes: (1) An economic analysis of certain net losses or gains of revenues; and

(2) Recommendations for consideration by the legislature: (a) To offset the potential loss of revenues to the beneficiaries and the identified loss of jobs in rural communities; (b) for policies that may be adopted before the dates that the losses are projected to occur; (c) for additional marbled murrelet conservation measures; and (d) for modifications, if any, on the definition of arrearage.

Addressing the disposition of certain fees collected by the department of financial institutions for the securities division.

Authorizes the director of the department of financial institutions to, by rule and upon a finding by the department that a fee increase is necessary to defray the costs of administering chapter 21.20 RCW (the securities act of Washington), adjust the fees specified in section 1 of this act upward by no more than fifteen dollars.

Establishing a criminal justice system diversion center pilot project.

Requires the Washington association of sheriffs and police chiefs to administer a criminal justice system diversion center pilot project to make improvements in: (1) Reducing recidivism and the use of crisis and emergency resources;

(2) Decreasing behaviors associated with untreated mental health and substance use disorders; and

(3) Increasing effective engagement with treatment providers, housing stability, engagement in prosocial activity, and rates of employment and financial self-sufficiency.

Concerning the Washington history day program.

Transfers the responsibility for administering the Washington history day program from the Washington state historical society to the office of the superintendent of public instruction.

Concerning the release and commitment of persons involuntarily committed after the dismissal of a felony.

Simplifying the process for donating low-value surplus property owned by a city-owned utility.

Concerning the licensure and certification of massage therapists and reflexologists.

Requires each license or certificate issued by the secretary of the department of health under chapter 18.108 RCW (massage practitioners) to bear a photograph of the applicant and be designed and constructed in a manner which avoids unreasonable risk of unauthorized alteration or duplication.

Providing greater certainty in association with selling city-owned property used for off-street parking.

Restricting firearms and dangerous weapons in early learning facilities.

Prohibits a person from carrying onto or from possessing on licensed child care center premises, child care center-provided transportation, or areas of facilities while being used exclusively by a child care center: (1) Any firearm;

(2) Any other dangerous weapon as described in RCW 9.41.250;

(3) Any air gun, including any air pistol or air rifle;

(4) Any portable device manufactured to function as a weapon and which is commonly known as a stun gun, including a projectile stun gun; or

Aligning Washington's greenhouse gas emissions limits with those established by the United States' commitment under the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

Encouraging the use of electric or hybrid-electric aircraft for regional air travel.

Establishes the linking communities by encouraging regional aircraft electrification act (the LINK-AIR act).

Requires the department of transportation to: (1) Adopt the following goals for encouraging the use of electric or hybrid-electric aircraft in commercial air travel in the state: (a) By 2030, thirty percent of arrivals and departures from airports in the state involving certain commercial flights must be completed by aircraft that are powered at least partially by electrical propulsion systems; and (b) by 2040, fifty percent of arrivals and departures from airports in the state involving certain commercial flights must be completed by aircraft that are powered at least partially by electrical propulsion systems; and

Protecting consumers from excess charges for prescription medications.

Establishes the affordable medication for patients act.

Prohibits a contract between a pharmacy benefit manager or insurer and a pharmacist or pharmacy from penalizing a pharmacist's or pharmacy's disclosure to a person purchasing prescription medication of information regarding: (1) The cost of the prescription medication to the person; or

Extending the period for voter registration.

Allows a person to register to vote at the division of elections if in a separate city from the county auditor's office, a voting center, or other location designated by the county auditor.

Extends the period for voter registration.

Concerning wastewater operator certifications.

Addresses the establishment and collection of fees for the issuance and renewal of wastewater treatment plant operator certificates by the department of ecology.

Requires the department of ecology to: (1) Conduct a workload analysis and prepare a biennial budget estimate for the wastewater treatment plant operator certification program; and

Making supplemental operating appropriations.

Creating a legislative task force to provide economic relief for communities impacted by environmental protections of the marbled murrelet.

Creates the habitat conservation program damage response task force.

Requires the task force to identify potential state actions to improve the economic vitality in counties impacted by the presence of marbled murrelets and recommend changes to state policy, government rules, or statutes.

Concerning the appropriation to counties of moneys from the dedicated marijuana account for the purpose of funding legal services for indigent defendants in criminal cases.

Addressing the compensation and administrative expenses of the Washington state investment board.

Reducing the state property tax in calendar year 2018.

Concerning improving diversity in clinical trials.

Requires the Washington state review board to establish a diversity in clinical trials program to encourage participation in clinical trials of drugs and medical devices by persons who are members of demographic groups that are underrepresented in clinical trials.

Extending the business and occupation tax return filing due date for self-employed filers.

Allowing veterans to carry concealed pistols on community college campuses.

Authorizes a veteran who possesses a valid concealed pistol license to: (1) Carry a concealed pistol while he or she is on the campus of a community college in this state; or

Requiring confidentiality in the release of sensitive fish and wildlife data.

Concerning civil legal aid.

Finds that the prevalence of civil legal problems experienced by low-income people in the state exceeds the capacity of the state-funded legal aid system to address.

Modifies civil legal aid provisions regarding: (1) Oversight duties of the civil legal aid oversight committee;

(2) The duty of the director of civil legal aid services to periodically assess the most prevalent civil legal problems experienced by low-income people in the state and the capacity of the state-funded legal aid system to meet the legal needs arising from the problems;

(3) The appropriation of public funds for civil representation of indigent persons; and

Concerning service contract providers.

Concerning prescription drug insurance continuity of care.

Reducing barriers to student participation in extracurricular activities.

Caps fees for low-income students who participate in extracurricular activities.

Requires that the process for charging and collecting fees be identical for all students.

Prohibits a student from being required to complete a physical examination to participate in extracurricular activities more often than every twenty-four months.

Providing urban levels of internet speed and access in rural areas to secure a brighter more equitable economic future for all Washingtonians without increasing taxes or fees.

Establishes the Washington equitable broadband act.

Requires the consolidated technology services agency to implement and operate a reverse auction program that awards funding to broadband internet service providers to support high-speed internet infrastructure deployment projects in unserved and underserved rural regions throughout the state.

Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to conduct an evaluation of the reverse auction program.

Creates the expanding rural internet access account.

Requires the treasurer to transfer the sum of three hundred million dollars from the budget stabilization account to the expanding rural internet access account.

Providing the chiropractic quality assurance commission with additional authority over budget development, spending, and staffing.

Concerning marriage licensing and solemnization by county auditors.

Permits a county auditor to solemnize a marriage.

Requires a marriage license to be issued by a county auditor at the time of application.

Concerning registration of land titles.

Repeals chapter 65.12 RCW (registration of land titles--Torrens act).

States that the real property ceases to be subject to the provisions of chapter 65.12 RCW on July 1, 2019, unless the real property subject to the provisions of chapter 65.12 RCW on July 1, 2019, is previously withdrawn from the registry system by its owner.

Requires the owner of real property registered under the provisions of chapter 65.12 RCW on July 1, 2019, to surrender their duplicate certificate of title for the real property or their certified copy of the original certificate of title for the real property to the registrar of titles for the county in which the real property is situated.

Concerning the recording standards commission.

Changes the name of the "e-recording standards commission" to the "recording standards commission."

Concerning contractor bonding requirements for public transportation benefit areas and passenger-only ferry service districts.

Addressing insurance coverage for water-sewer district commissioners.

Concerning energy conservation programs under the energy independence act.

Revises energy independence act provisions regarding energy conservation and renewable energy targets.

Requires cost-effective conservation savings reported for the purposes of meeting certain conservation targets established in this act to be measured taking into consideration the overall reduction in normalized metered electricity consumption, where these measurement techniques are feasible and cost-effective.

Requires an investor-owned utility, in meeting its conservation targets, to offer: (1) A meter-based performance program option; and

Concerning the creation of a work group to study and make recommendations on natural disaster mitigation and resiliency activities.

Addressing the insurer corporate governance annual disclosure model act.

Provides the insurance commissioner a summary of an insurer or insurance group's corporate governance structure, policies, and practices to permit the commissioner to gain and maintain an understanding of the insurer's corporate governance framework.

Outlines the requirements for completing a corporate governance annual disclosure with the commissioner.

Allowing property insurers to assist their insureds with risk mitigation goods or services.

Authorizes a personal property insurer, with the prior approval of the insurance commissioner, to include certain goods and services intended to reduce either the probability of loss or the extent of loss, or both, from a covered event as part of a policy of personal property insurance.

Addressing cost-of-living adjustments for teachers' retirement system plan 1 and public employees' retirement system plan 1 retirees.

Requiring institutions of higher education to report incidents involving freedom of expression on campus.

Concerning the prescription drug monitoring program.

Concerning medicaid fraud false claims civil penalties.

Concerning appliance efficiency standards.

Reducing emissions by making changes to the clean car standards and clean car program.

Concerning public records act exemptions regarding concealed pistol licenses.

Concerning expansion of extended foster care eligibility.

Modifies extended foster care provisions with regard to: (1) A nonminor dependent, whose dependency case was dismissed by the court, requesting extended foster care;

(2) Changing the age in which the nonminor dependent must make that request; and

Addressing collection of DNA biological samples.

Concerning gambling addiction.

Requires the gambling commission to adopt rules establishing a self-exclusion program for problem and pathological gamblers which must include the following: (1) A process for a person who believes he or she is or may be a problem or pathological gambler to voluntarily exclude themselves from gambling at all gambling establishments licensed by the commission; and

(2) A process for casinos owned or operated by Indian tribes or tribal enterprises to voluntarily participate in the self-exclusion program, so that a person who is or may be a problem or pathological gambler may self-exclude themselves from gambling at all casinos and state-licensed gambling establishments in the state.

Requiring health safety warning signs for unregulated cannabinoid products.

Regulating the use of cannabinoid additives in marijuana products.

Authorizes licensed marijuana producers and processors to use a CBD product: (1) As an additive for the purpose of enhancing the cannabidiol concentration of a product authorized for production, processing, and sale under the uniform controlled substances act; and

Concerning business practices by marijuana retailers that may mislead the public as to the ownership of a retailer.

Prohibits a marijuana retailer from advertising or representing itself to the public in a manner that would cause a person to believe the retailer is under common ownership with, or otherwise affiliated with, another retailer, unless all of the retailers are under common ownership.

Permitting cities, towns, and counties to prohibit the production, processing, or sale of marijuana only by an ordinance enacted through a public vote.

Concerning civil enforcement of construction projects in state waters.

Reducing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with transportation fuels.

Supports the deployment of clean transportation fuel technologies through a carefully designed program that reduces the carbon intensity of fuel used in the state, in order to: (1) Reduce levels of conventional air pollutants from diesel and gasoline that are harmful to public health;

(2) Reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with transportation fuels, which are the state's largest source of greenhouse gas emissions; and

(3) Create jobs and spur economic development based on innovative clean fuel technologies.

Encouraging the purchase of all electric truck tractor vehicles.

Extending the sales and use tax exemption for certain alternative fuel vehicles.

Concerning the protection of military installations operated by the United States armed services from incompatible development.

Requires the department of commerce to establish a competitive process to solicit proposals for and prioritize projects whose primary objective is to increase the compatibility of surrounding land uses with current or future missions at military bases within the state.

Requires each county and city planning under the growth management act that has a federal military installation, other than a reserve center or a recruiting center, that is operated by the United States armed services within or adjacent to its border, to notify the commander of the military installation of proposals by the county or city to amend a comprehensive plan or development regulations if the proposal applies to lands where development may interfere with the installation's ability to carry out its current or future mission requirements.

Establishing a donation program for resident disabled veterans to receive hunting and fishing licenses.

Defining "willful" in the chapter regarding abuse of vulnerable adults.

Concerning evacuation of adult family homes.

Modifies adult family home provisions with regard to: (1) Safe evacuations from the home in case of an emergency; and

Concerning group training homes.

Modifies provisions regarding applications for payments and services in day training centers and group training homes.

Concerning priority processing for adult family home license applications.

Requires the department of social and health services, in order to prevent disruption to current residents, to give priority processing to an application for a change of ownership: (1) At the request of the currently licensed provider; or

(2) When the department has issued a provisional license.

Requiring electric utilities to provide reports on the lowest cost, lowest risk options for a transition to a zero-carbon electric grid.

Prohibiting the waiver, reduction, or suspension of certain fees charged to persons who commit offenses involving the sexual exploitation of children.

Exempting land removed from open space or farm and agricultural land classification from additional tax, interest, and other penalties if the land is owned in whole or in part by a retired farmer.

Relieving burdens on small businesses by updating the tax return filing thresholds to reflect inflation.

Reducing taxpayer burdens by reducing the frequency of filing requirements for the business and occupation tax.

Concerning the creation of an additional bridge between southwest Washington and Oregon.

Requires the joint transportation committee to hire a consultant to evaluate options for an additional bridge or other connection west of Interstate 5 between southwest Washington and Oregon.

Supporting sexual assault survivors.

Increases the duties of the joint legislative task force on sexual assault forensic examination best practices.

Delays, until September 30, 2020, the expiration of the task force.

Expands the training provided by the criminal justice training commission for persons responsible for investigating sexual assault cases involving adult victims.

Requires law enforcement agencies to submit requests to the Washington state patrol crime laboratory by January 1, 2019, for forensic analysis of sexual assault kits collected before July 24, 2015, and in the possession of the agencies.

Addresses the victims of sexual assault act with regard to the rights of sexual assault survivors.

Authorizes the office of the attorney general to facilitate the hosting of the sexual assault kit initiative summit.

Establishes the sexually oriented live entertainment patron fee to fund policies and programming for investigating sex crimes and supporting trafficking and sex crime victims in the state.

Restricting fees for security freezes by consumer reporting agencies.

Prohibits a consumer reporting agency from charging a fee to temporarily lift a security freeze or remove the security freeze for: (1) A victim of identity theft;

(2) A person that certifies he or she has received notice of a security breach involving his or her personal or financial data; or

(3) A consumer who is at least sixty-five years old.

Addressing the establishment of an individual health insurance market claims-based reinsurance program.

Creates the Washington reinsurance program to stabilize the rates and premiums for individual health plans and provide greater financial certainty to consumers of health insurance.

Requires the program to be operated by the Washington state health insurance pool and the board of directors of the pool.

Requires the insurance commissioner, in consultation with the office of financial management, the department of revenue, the state health care authority, and the state health benefit exchange, to conduct a study on alternative financing mechanisms for the program for calendar years 2021 through 2023.

Exempts the following from disclosure under the public records act: Data, information, and documents necessary to prepare the state innovation waiver application, determine reinsurance parameters obtained by the commissioner, and determine reinsurance claims payments.

Creates the Washington reinsurance program account.

Makes appropriations: (1) From the general fund to the Washington reinsurance program account for implementation and operation of the Washington reinsurance program;

(2) From the insurance commissioner's regulatory account to the office of the insurance commissioner for carrying out the commissioner's duties; and

Concerning stem cell therapies not approved by the United States food and drug administration.

Allowing semiannual or quarterly payment plans for regional transit authority motor vehicle excise taxes.

Clarifying marijuana-related definitions.

Concerning ballot box locations in large population counties.

Requires the county auditor, in a county with a population over two hundred sixty thousand, to establish a minimum of one ballot drop box: (1) Per fifteen thousand registered voters in the county; and

Increasing penalties for the crime of patronizing a prostitute.

Increasing access to emergency assistance for victims by providing immunity from prosecution for prostitution offenses in some circumstances.

Provides immunity from prostitution charges to a victim of one of the following offenses, or a person seeking emergency assistance on behalf of the victim: (1) A violent offense as defined in RCW 9.94A.030;

(2) Assault in the third degree under RCW 9A.36.031;

(3) Assault in the fourth degree under RCW 9A.36.041; or

Concerning crime committed by business entities.

Addressing the use of unmanned aircraft to deliver contraband.

Concerning facilities financing by the housing finance commission.

Designating the pine mushroom as the official state fungus.

Concerning the Federal Way school district regionalization factor used for compensation.

Establishing a child care collaborative task force.

Requires the department of commerce to convene and facilitate a child care collaborative task force to: (1) Examine the effects of child care affordability and accessibility on the workforce and on businesses; and

(2) Develop policies and recommendations to incentivize employer-supported child care and improve child care access and affordability for employees.

Making technical corrections and removing obsolete language from the Revised Code of Washington pursuant to RCW 1.08.025.

Concerning regulation of permanent cosmetics under the Washington body art, body piercing, and tattooing act.

Regulates the body art known as permanent cosmetics which is the process of using tattooing techniques to apply permanent eyebrows, eyeliner, lip liner, lip color, hair follicles, or scar camouflage.

Adding legislative members to the membership of the public works board.

Implementing child support pass-through payments.

Requires the department of social and health services, effective October 1, 2018, to pass through child support: (1) In an amount that does not exceed one hundred dollars per month collected on behalf of a family; or

Concerning the issuance of identicards to individuals released from certain juvenile rehabilitation facilities.

Requires the department of licensing to issue an identicard to the following for a fee that is the actual cost of production of the identicard: (1) An individual who is scheduled to be released from an institution, a community facility, or other juvenile rehabilitation facility operated by the department of social and health services or the department of children, youth, and families; or

Concerning residential custody services for tribal youth.

Concerning donation of unclaimed property by law enforcement agencies.

Addressing state reimbursement of election costs in even-numbered years.

Concerning the sufficient age for contracting a marriage.

Eliminating certain postsecondary institutions' eligibility for state financial aid programs.

Excludes the following from the definition of "institutions of higher education," with regard to eligibility for state financial aid programs: (1) A university, college, school, or institute owned or operated by a corporation for profit; or

Providing prepaid postage for all election ballots.

Requires the state to reimburse counties for the cost of return postage on mail and absentee ballots for all elections.

Addressing the need for substitutes in schools.

Allows a narrow exception to the 2008 early retirement structure to allow those retired school employees to serve as substitutes in roles that directly serve students.

Concerning Washington's economic development potential as a world leader in the stewardship of postconsumer materials.

Requires the utilities and transportation commission, working with the department of ecology, to develop a public outreach strategy designed to: (1) Improve consumer education regarding solid waste management; and

(2) Reduce rates of contamination in collected recyclable materials.

Requires the department of commerce to arrange for the completion of an economic analysis of solid waste and recyclable material processing, export, and disposal activities in the state.

Allowing certain adult family homes to increase capacity to eight beds.

Authorizes an adult family home to provide services to up to eight adults upon approval from the department of social and health services.

Promoting the use of surplus public property for public benefit.

Maintaining the current initiative and referendum process while allowing a modern electronic signature gathering process alternative.

Requires the secretary of state to establish a procedure that allows a person proposing a ballot measure the option to use a mobile petition signing application, approved by the secretary of state, to circulate an electronic petition and procure electronic signatures using a tablet or other approved device.

Concerning consumer reporting agency security freeze fees.

Concerning solemnization of marriage by elected officials.

Providing room and board for certain college bound scholarship students.

Concerning mandatory election audits of ballot counting equipment.

Concerning the security of voting systems in elections.

Requires a manufacturer or distributor of a voting system or component that is certified by the secretary of state to disclose to the secretary of state and attorney general a breach of the security of its system.

Concerning a tax levied and collected on the retail sale of wireless devices used to access the internet.

Regulating opioid medications at educational institutions.

Increases access to opioid overdose medication at kindergarten through twelfth grade schools and institutions of higher education.

Strengthens public health surveillance by requiring collection and reporting of certain opioid overdose-related data.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) In consultation with the department of health, develop opioid-related overdose policy guidelines and training requirements for public schools and school districts;

(2) Develop and administer a grant program to provide funding to public schools with any of grades kindergarten through twelve and public institutions of higher education to train personnel on the administration of the medication to respond to symptoms of an overdose; and

Concerning the Washington plane coordinate system.

Addressing the relationship between the four-year balanced budget and vetoes of fiscal legislation.

Requires the governor to make prioritized allotment reductions, beginning with budgets enacted for the 2019-2021 fiscal biennium, if: (1) A veto of appropriations or revenue legislation results in a projected maintenance level that exceeds available fiscal resources in the ensuing biennium; or

Lowering the ceiling of the business and occupation manufacturing tax rate to 0.2904 percent.

Concerning state general obligation bonds and related accounts.

Concerning the capital budget.

Establishing the working families' child care access and affordability through regional employers act.

Creates the child care workforce conditional scholarship and loan repayment program for: (1) Awarding conditional scholarships to eligible students attending an institution of higher education who meet certain requirements; and

(2) Loan repayments for participants providing early learning services who meet certain requirements.

Requires the department of children, youth, and families to: (1) Consult with the department of commerce to develop a web site containing current resources for businesses regarding employer-supported child care; and

(2) Consult with the office of financial management to modify the bring your infant to work policy for use in state agencies.

Provides a business and occupation tax credit and a public utility tax credit for: (1) Qualifying contributions made to dependent care flexible spending accounts for employees;

(2) Amounts paid to a third-party administrator for the purpose of administering employee dependent care flexible spending accounts; and

(3) Contributions made to the child care workforce conditional scholarship and loan repayment account.

Provides a sales and use tax exemption to a child care provider, in the form of a remittance, for qualified expenditures.

Requiring health plans to reimburse the United States department of veterans affairs for health services provided to veterans for nonservice-connected disability treatments.

Concerning jury selection.

Including certain residents who do not have a high school diploma or equivalent or postsecondary credential and the number of students expected to enroll in basic education for adults courses at community and technical colleges in caseload forecast council forecasting.

Requires the caseload forecast council to forecast, as a courtesy, the number of: (1) State residents ages twenty-five to forty-four who do not have a high school diploma or equivalent or postsecondary credential; and

Authorizing the conversion of a diesel powered ferry to the use of liquefied natural gas.

Concerning suspension of the evaluation, detention, and commitment of persons with a substance use disorder when secure detoxification facility beds are not available.

Concerning the energy independence act.

Concerning transit-only lane enforcement cameras.

Requires the appropriate local legislative authority to prepare an analysis of the locations within the jurisdiction where transit-only lane enforcement cameras are proposed to be located: (1) Before enacting an ordinance allowing for the initial use of the cameras; and

(2) Before adding additional cameras or relocating an existing camera to a new location within the jurisdiction.

Allows the cameras to be used to detect transit-only lane violations.

Concerning services provided by the consolidated technology services agency (WaTech).

Finds that: (1) Other than fiscal year 2017, the consolidated technology services agency has run annual deficits each year, spending more than customer agencies pay for their services;

(2) Annual deficits over the agency's first five fiscal years ranged from three to seventeen million dollars; and

(3) Independent performance audits of customer satisfaction with the agency's services reported ongoing concerns about service quality and pricing transparency from customer agencies.

Concerning implementation of mandatory provisions of the federal rule on flexibility, efficiency, and modernization in child support enforcement programs regarding health care coverage.

Concerning election security practices around auditing and equipment.

Provides available methods for the county auditor to use when conducting an audit on the results of votes cast.

Requires a manufacturer or distributor of a voting system or component that is certified by the secretary of state to disclose to him or her and the attorney general a breach of the security of its system.

Concerning reporting regarding the use of out-of-state materials for public works projects.

Preserving access to individual market health care coverage throughout Washington state.

Requires a health carrier, that offers a school employees' benefits board-approved health plan to school employees, to: (1) Offer at least one silver qualified health plan on the state health benefit exchange in a county that would not otherwise have individual market health plans, other than catastrophic health plans, offered to county residents on the state health benefit exchange; and

(2) Submit to the insurance commissioner the filings necessary to offer a qualified health plan in every county of the state.

Requires the rate for a person eligible for pool coverage who is eligible for an advance premium tax credit to be reduced by the average amount of the advance premium tax credit a person with the same modified adjusted gross income would receive in counties within the same geographic rating area.

Concerning health plan coverage of reproductive health care.

Requires a health plan, issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2019, to: (1) Provide coverage for contraceptive drugs, devices, and other products approved by the federal food and drug administration; voluntary sterilization procedures; and applicable consultations, examinations, procedures, and medical services; and

(2) If it provides coverage for maternity care or services, also provide a covered person with substantially equivalent coverage to permit the voluntary termination of a pregnancy.

Allowing the energy savings associated with on-bill repayment programs to count toward a qualifying utility's energy conservation targets under the energy independence act.

Reducing wasted food in order to fight hunger and reduce environmental impacts.

Establishes a goal for the state to reduce, by fifty percent, the amount of wasted food generated annually by 2030, relative to 2017 levels.

Authorizes the department of ecology to estimate 2017 levels of wasted food in the state using a combination of solid waste reporting data and surveys and studies measuring wasted food and food waste in other jurisdictions.

Requires the department of ecology, in consultation with the department of agriculture and the department of health, to develop and adopt a state food waste reduction plan designed to achieve the goals mentioned above.

Creating the buy clean Washington act.

Establishes the buy clean Washington act.

Concerning the voluntary option to purchase qualified alternative energy resources.

Requires each electric utility to provide a voluntary option to purchase qualified alternative energy resources to: (1) Each of its new retail electric customers at the time service is established; and

Authorizing disciplinary action for state officials and employees who provide false testimony to the legislature.

Prohibits a state officer or state employee from knowingly representing a materially incorrect fact, statement, claim, or record in giving testimony to a legislative committee.

Concerning access of broadcasters to a geographic area subject to the declaration of a national, state, or local emergency.

Authorizes a state or local governmental agency to allow a first informer broadcaster access to an area affected by an emergency.

Concerning workers at gambling establishments participating as a player in gambling activities.

Concerning southern resident orca recovery.

Creates the legislative task force on the recovery of southern resident orcas to gather evidence and make recommendations regarding the recovery of the orcas.

Reducing impacts of nonnative finfish aquaculture by delaying construction of new nonnative finfish aquaculture facilities until thorough study, including structural analysis of existing facilities, is complete.

Requires the department of natural resources, the department of fish and wildlife, and the department of ecology to cooperatively conduct a detailed review of permitting and lease requirements for Atlantic salmon or other nonnative marine finfish aquaculture in the state.

Regarding beer, wine, cider, and mead at farmers markets.

Concerning state board of health rules regarding on-site sewage systems.

Addresses the adoption of rules by the state board of health regarding inspections and failures of on-site sewage systems.

Prohibits a local health officer from denying or conditioning an application to install an on-site sewage system serving and located on a single property upon the granting of an easement allowing for the inspection or maintenance of the on-site sewage system.

-- 2018 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 5	Prefiled for introduction.
Jan 8	First reading, referred to Environment (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).
Jan 11	Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Environment at 8:00 AM. (Subject to change)