Establishing an on-premises retail alcohol license for a business at which customers participate in an art activity such as painting, pottery, or sculpting.

Exempting trailers from motor vehicle excise taxes imposed by regional transit authorities.

Concerning a database of pharmacies offering vaccines and self-administered hormonal contraceptives through collaborative drug therapy agreements.

Requires the department of health to establish a searchable database of pharmacies that have one or more pharmacists on staff with collaborative drug therapy agreements to prescribe vaccines or self-administered hormonal contraceptives.

Addressing overtime compensation for seasonal employees at agricultural fairs.

Removing health coverage barriers to accessing substance use disorder treatment services.

Concerning alcohol server permits.

Requires the following to obtain a class 12 or class 13 alcohol server permit: (1) A person selling or serving wine at a domestic winery for on-premises consumption;

(2) A person selling or serving beer at a domestic brewery for on-premises consumption; and

Permitting marijuana delivery to medical marijuana patients.

Waiving groundwater fees for low-income housing.

Allowing fire protection district annexations and mergers within a reasonable geographic proximity.

Removing the expiration date of the business and occupation tax deduction for cooperative finance organizations.

Preserving and expanding rental housing options for persons whose source of income is derived from or includes sources other than employment.

Addresses rental housing options for persons whose source of income is derived from or includes sources other than employment and prohibits a landlord from taking certain actions based on the source of income of an otherwise eligible prospective tenant or current tenant.

Creates the landlord mitigation program and the landlord mitigation program account.

Concerning the placement and treatment of conditionally released sexually violent predators.

Addresses requirements of a court and the department of social and health services with regard to the treatment and placement of sexually violent predators who have been conditionally released.

Requires the department of social and health services to: (1) Maintain a list of certified sex offender treatment providers offering treatment to conditionally released sexually violent predators; and

(2) Administer a grant program for the purpose of expanding the availability of certified treatment providers in underserved counties.

Promoting renewable natural gas.

Requires the Washington State University extension energy program and the department of commerce to submit, by September 1, 2018, recommendations to the governor's office and the legislative energy committees on how to promote sustainable development of renewable natural gas in the state.

Requires the department of commerce to: (1) In consultation with the department of ecology and the department of health, develop voluntary gas quality standards for renewable natural gas; and

(2) Consult industry groups and identify industry best practices.

Provides a sales and use tax exemption for equipment necessary to process biogas from a landfill into marketable coproducts.

Concerning the Washington achieving a better life experience program account.

Requires expenditures from the Washington achieving a better life experience program account to be used only for the purposes of administrative and operating expenses of the Washington achieving a better life experience program.

Allows contributions to individual Washington achieving a better life experience program accounts to be invested in self-directed investment options.

Concerning the department of veterans affairs.

Changes the term "superintendent of state veterans' homes" to "administrator of state veterans' homes," for purposes of chapter 72.36 RCW (soldiers' and veterans' homes--veterans' cemetery).

Concerning local authority to address affordable housing needs through regulation of rent and associated charges.

Providing assistance to victims of government actions originating as part of the implementation of the growth management act by the state or local governments.

Establishes the growth management act victims response act.

Creates the position of growth management act ombuds in the consumer protection division of the office of the attorney general.

Considers the ombuds as an advocate for owners of property impacted by restrictions arising from: The growth management act; local government's comprehensive plans, development regulations, or actions implementing the growth management act; and appellate court decisions interpreting the growth management act or local governments' comprehensive plans or development regulations.

Creates the growth management act victims and response account.

Requires the ombuds to administer payments from the account.

Requires the growth management hearings board to collect an assessment of two hundred fifty dollars from a requester of a review by the board.

Exempts the following from public inspection and copying under the public records act: Records submitted to the attorney general's office for review by the ombuds as part of a claim and records created by the department of commerce related to the claim.

Concerning hospital notification of availability of sexual assault evidence kit collection.

Requires a hospital that does not provide sexual assault evidence kit collection, or does not have a provider available that can perform the collection, to notify the individual presenting at the emergency department requesting or requiring the sexual assault evidence kit collection that it does not perform sexual assault evidence kit collection.

Concerning graded dosage packs.

Requires the pharmacy quality assurance commission to, by July 1, 2019, adopt rules regarding: (1) Schedule II and III oral narcotics that manufacturers must offer for sale in graded dosage packs;

(2) Strength and dosage regimens for each narcotic in a dosage pack; and

(3) The design of dose packaging.

Requires a manufacturer of drugs or devices to, beginning January 1, 2020, offer graded dosage packs of schedule II or III oral narcotics for sale in the state.

Concerning required disclosures for special prosecuting attorneys.

Providing patients notice of facility fees charged by hospitals and ambulatory surgical facilities.

Requires a hospital or an ambulatory surgical facility that charges a facility fee to provide written notice to the patient that: (1) The hospital or facility charges a facility fee and the amount of the fee;

(2) The patient may obtain the same nonemergency outpatient services at another facility that does not charge the fee; and

Concerning certificates of need.

Subjects the relocation of licensed beds to a new or existing health care facility to a certificate of need review.

Requires the criteria for a review of certificate of need applications to include consideration of the following: In the case of relocating beds to a new or existing health care facility, the effect on the ability of the population presently served to reasonably access health care services. This includes consideration of the ability of low-income persons, minorities, persons with disabilities, other underserved groups, and the elderly to access health care services based on proximity and transportation.

Regarding the transitional bilingual instruction program.

Requires school districts to meet specific requirements when assigning staff to provide supplemental instruction for eligible pupils using funds for the transitional bilingual instruction program.

Removes the requirement that certain classroom teachers hold an endorsement in bilingual education or English language learner.

Concerning hearing instrument replacement under the industrial insurance medical aid benefit.

Concerning the efficient deployment of small cell network infrastructure.

Concerning the dispute resolution process for utility pole attachments.

Studying the feasibility of a statewide infrastructure authority.

Creates a joint select committee on infrastructure and requires the committee to complete a study to identify integrated infrastructure needs across the state, including fiber broadband, high-speed rail, long haul air cargo, and other related issues.

Concerning procedures in order to automatically register citizens to vote.

Establishes the automatic voter registration act of 2018.

Increases the opportunity to register to vote for qualified persons by expanding the voter registration process with: (1) Automatic voter registration for enhanced driver's license; and

(2) Automatic voter registration at qualified voter registration agencies.

Requires a person born in the state, whose certificate of birth is filed with the state registrar of vital statistics after January 1, 2002, to be preregistered to vote.

Requires the legislature to convene a task force on voter registration to facilitate the implementation and administration of the mandated automatic voter registration. Expires June 30, 2019.

Requires the office of the secretary of state to conduct a study and prepare recommendations for creating an automatic voter registration process for recently naturalized citizens who reside within the state. Expires June 30, 2019.

Governing the use of narrow track vehicles.

Extending the existing state property tax exemption for residences of senior citizens and disabled persons to local regular property taxes.

Establishing a matched student loan repayment program for rural medical doctors.

Creates the matched student loan repayment program for medical doctors to increase the rural physician workforce.

Requires the student achievement council office of student financial assistance to administer the program.

Creates the medical doctor loan repayment account.

-- 2018 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 10	First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).