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=2018. HB 1080-S2 by House Committee on Capital Budget (originally sponsored by Representatives Tharinger and DeBolt; by request of Office of Financial Management) Concerning state general obligation bonds and related accounts. Authorizes the state finance committee to issue general obligation bonds to provide funds: (1) To finance the projects described and authorized by the legislature in the omnibus capital and operating appropriations acts for the 2017-2019 fiscal biennium; and(2) For the watershed and fisheries restoration and enhancement program.
HB 2846 by Representatives Orwall, Haler, Stanford, and Pollet Removing the ability of school districts to withhold grades and transcripts of pupils responsible for certain damage or losses to school property. Prohibits a school district from withholding the grades or transcripts of a student who is responsible for certain damages or losses to school property, however, the district may withhold the student's diploma.
HB 2847 by Representatives Buys and Blake Concerning nationally recognized standards for modern technical methods, devices, and improvements in building codes. Modifies the state building code act to address the option for citizens to benefit from material and labor efficiencies provided by the approval of modern technical methods, devices, improvements, and innovations approved in accordance with the international organization for standardization.
HB 2848 by Representatives Orwall, Kilduff, Jinkins, Rodne, Goodman, Appleton, Haler, Kagi, Eslick, and Slatter Modifying school and court processes to promote attendance and reduce truancy. Requires each member of a school district board of directors, if the school district is required to enter into a memorandum of understanding with a juvenile court with respect to the operation of a community truancy board, to: (1) Participate in trauma-informed training provided to community truancy board members; and(2) Attend at least one community truancy board meeting per school year.Requires the office of homeless youth prevention and protection, in collaboration with the Washington association of juvenile court administrators and with data provided by the Washington state center for court research, to regionally site secure crisis residential centers that meet therapeutic standards to make these centers accessible and available for use by all counties.
HB 2849 by Representatives Doglio, Sells, Frame, Gregerson, Appleton, Valdez, Kloba, Pollet, and Goodman Protecting temporary workers. Requires a staffing agency, before assigning an employee to a work site employer, to: (1) Provide training to the employee for industry specific hazards the employee may encounter at the work site; and(2) Transmit training documentation to the employer.
HB 2850 by Representatives Irwin, Ryu, Vick, Sawyer, Kirby, Condotta, and Appleton Providing for a special allegation for robbery in the first or second degree of a marijuana retailer, marijuana processor, or marijuana producer. States that, in a criminal case where there has been a special allegation pleaded and proven beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant committed a robbery of a marijuana retailer, processor, or producer, the court shall make a finding of fact of the special allegation, or if a jury is had, the jury shall, if it finds the defendant guilty, find a special verdict as to the special allegation.
HB 2851 by Representatives Reeves, Rodne, Peterson, McCaslin, and Haler Clarifying the calculation of military leave for officers and employees that work shifts spanning more than one calendar day. Requires an officer or employee to be charged military leave for only the first calendar day, if he or she is scheduled to work a shift, for the state, county, city, or other political subdivision, that begins on one calendar day and ends on the next calendar day; and if he or she is scheduled to work a shift that begins on one calendar day and ends later than the next calendar day, he or she will be charged military leave for each calendar day except the day on which the shift ends.
HB 2852 by Representatives Graves and Haler Concerning attorneys' fees on public works contracts. Requires the award of attorneys' fees, in disputes arising from public works contracts, to be paid only if the prevailing party recovers more than the amount offered in settlement.
HB 2853 by Representative Morris Providing a retail sales and use tax exemption for qualified donations to the Washington excellence fund. Creates the Washington excellence fund.Provides a sales and use tax exemption, to a person who makes a donation to the fund, in an amount equal to the monetary donation amount.Expires July 1, 2028.
HB 2854 by Representatives Sells, Kloba, Lovick, Peterson, Frame, Dolan, Valdez, Robinson, Sawyer, Blake, Appleton, Haler, Kagi, Stanford, Doglio, Slatter, Pollet, Santos, and Goodman Establishing pilot programs to plan for the needs of certain college students experiencing homelessness. Requires the state board for community and technical colleges to establish a pilot program to encourage college districts to plan: (1) For the unique needs and challenges of students experiencing homelessness, including laundry facilities, storage, showers, encouraging culinary programs to provide free or reduced-price meals, and providing short-term housing or housing assistance; and(2) To develop surplus property for affordable housing to accommodate the needs of those students.Requires the student achievement council to establish a pilot program to encourage four-year institutions of higher education to plan: (1) For the unique needs and challenges of students experiencing homelessness, including laundry facilities, storage, showers, encouraging culinary programs to provide free or reduced-price meals, providing an annual stipend to be used for purchasing clothing and technology, and providing short-term housing or housing assistance;(2) On establishing a case manager program for assisting homeless and at-risk students; and(3) To develop surplus property for affordable housing to accommodate the needs of those students.Expires January 1, 2024.
HB 2855 by Representatives Stonier, Appleton, Haler, Lovick, Orwall, Sells, Wylie, Eslick, and Hayes Concerning the sharing of information between participants in multidisciplinary coordination of child sexual abuse investigations. Authorizes participants in multidisciplinary coordination to share information about criminal child sexual investigations and case planning following the investigations with other participants in the multidisciplinary coordination.
HB 2856 by Representatives Dolan, Doglio, Appleton, Wylie, and Goodman Concerning notification to purchasers of hearing devices about audio switch and bluetooth technology. Requires a person who engages in fitting and dispensing of hearing instruments to provide a receipt with the following information to each person who enters into an agreement to purchase a hearing instrument: Language that verifies that the purchaser has been informed of the benefits of audio switch technology and the availability and benefits of bluetooth technology.
HB 2857 by Representatives Orwall, Kraft, Goodman, Pettigrew, Kagi, Wylie, Frame, and Slatter Concerning therapeutic responses to commercially sexually exploited youth. Prohibits a person under age eighteen suspected of committing the crime of prostitution from being: (1) Charged or prosecuted for a prostitution offense; or(2) Booked into detention for a prostitution offense.Requires law enforcement, before completing a law enforcement contact with an individual under eighteen years of age suspected of prostitution, to: (1) Make a child abuse or neglect report;(2) Deliver the youth to an evaluation and treatment facility for evaluation for immediate mental health or substance use disorder inpatient treatment; or(3) Refer the individual to other appropriate services.Requires the office of homeless youth prevention and protection programs to administer funding for two receiving center pilot programs for commercially sexually exploited youth.
HB 2858 by Representatives Johnson, Chandler, Appleton, McCabe, and Haler Allowing excess local infrastructure financing revenues to be carried forward. Revises provisions with regard to the local infrastructure financing tool program.Allows the revenues from local public sources, dedicated in the preceding calendar year, that are in excess of the project award to be carried forward and used in later years for certain purposes.
HB 2859 by Representatives Walsh and Haler Modifying the management of the state's fisheries by creating the department of fisheries separate from the department of wildlife. States that, Washington's fisheries management was consolidated with the department of wildlife years ago and it is time again for the department to reconfigure and adjust its resources. The legislature is creating this opportunity by providing a clear change of department structure to invest in management of fisheries.
HB 2860 by Representatives Kilduff, Sawyer, Bergquist, Doglio, and Goodman Creating the Washington children's educational savings account program. Creates the children's educational savings account program, through the Washington college savings program, to foster a college bound culture, promote financial stability, encourage families to open and contribute to the accounts, and create incentives for account beneficiaries to achieve specific milestones in their progress towards postsecondary education.Requires the children's educational savings account program to provide an initial deposit of twenty-five dollars into each individual college savings program account opened through the children's educational savings account program.Creates the children's educational savings account program account.
HB 2861 by Representatives Ortiz-Self, Lovick, Klippert, Kilduff, Kagi, Frame, Jinkins, Macri, Kloba, Pollet, and Goodman Expanding the provision of trauma-informed child care. Requires the department of children, youth, and families to convene an advisory group to develop a ten-year strategy to expand training in trauma-informed child care for early learning providers statewide and reduce expulsions from early learning environments.Expires December 30, 2018.
HB 2862 by Representatives Harmsworth and Graves Concerning the use of park and ride lots by private employer transportation service vehicles. Requires private employer transportation service vehicles to be allowed to use a park and ride lot regardless of the capacity of the lot.
HB 2863 by Representatives Stambaugh, Kilduff, Sawyer, Wylie, Bergquist, Macri, Doglio, and Pollet Providing feminine hygiene products in community and technical colleges at no cost to students. Requires feminine hygiene products to be available, at no cost to students, in restrooms of buildings serving female students in public community or technical colleges.
HB 2864 by Representative Eslick Preventing fires in rental dwelling units. Directs the state director of fire protection to: (1) Investigate ways to prevent fire deaths in rental dwellings;(2) Educate landlords and tenants regarding their responsibilities;(3) Develop possible criminal penalties;(4) Evaluate insurance certification requirements or changes to the building code and other possible programs or funding that would improve installation and maintenance of smoke detectors in rental apartments and single-family homes; and(5) Form a task force of stakeholders including landlords of residential units, tenants, local governments, firefighters, representatives from home builders and construction trades, the insurance industry, and a nonprofit that provides free smoke detectors and installation.
HB 2865 by Representatives Sells, McCabe, Goodman, Manweller, Griffey, Irwin, Hayes, Pettigrew, Cody, Riccelli, Appleton, Valdez, Wylie, Ormsby, Doglio, and Pollet Expanding the list of authorized provider types to treat injured workers suffering from mental health conditions caused by their industrial injury or occupational disease. Modifies the state industrial insurance act to include the availability of mental health therapy and evaluation to injured workers.Authorizes the following to provide these services: Psychiatrists, clinical Ph.D. or Psy.D. psychologists, psychiatric advanced registered nurse practitioners, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and social workers.
HB 2866 by Representatives Pellicciotti, Senn, Appleton, Valdez, Bergquist, Jinkins, Slatter, Pollet, and Santos Ensuring student rights under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 are preserved. Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Ensure that the rights and protections provided under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and federal rules and guidance in effect as of January 19, 2017, implementing Title IX, are preserved for students in grades K-12;(2) Convene a work group to examine the federal rules and guidance to determine the most efficient and effective method of ensuring that they are granted to students; and(3) Issue guidelines and adopt rules, where appropriate and consistent with the work group's evaluation, incorporating the applicable rights and protections preserved for students.Requires a school or school district that is required to comply with the Title IX Amendments to ensure its students have the same rights and protections.Requires the following to have the aforementioned rights and protections: Students in the state system of community and technical colleges, students of institutions of higher education, and private postsecondary institutions of higher education.Requires the workforce training and education coordinating board and the student achievement council to adopt rules incorporating the rights and protections.
HB 2867 by Representatives Doglio, Graves, Orwall, Stambaugh, Pettigrew, Dent, Peterson, Senn, Macri, Kilduff, Appleton, Frame, Haler, Valdez, Eslick, Tharinger, McDonald, Slatter, Kloba, Pollet, Santos, and Reeves Helping foster and homeless youth complete apprenticeships. Establishes the passport to apprenticeship opportunities act.Creates the passport to apprenticeship opportunities program to: (1) Encourage foster youth and youth experiencing homelessness to prepare for, enroll in, and successfully complete an apprenticeship; and(2) Provide foster youth and youth experiencing homelessness with the planning, information, institutional support, and direct financial resources necessary for them to succeed in a preapprenticeship or apprenticeship.Requires the employment security department to: (1) Design and implement a program of assistance for residents who emancipated from the state foster care system after having spent at least one day in care or who experienced homelessness for one day between the ages of thirteen and eighteen;(2) Convene and consult with an advisory committee to assist with program design and implementation; and(3) With input from the state apprenticeship and training council and the foster care partnership, develop and maintain a web site and outreach program to serve as a portal for foster and homeless youth to obtain information regarding apprenticeships and preapprenticeships.Requires the department of social and health services and the department of commerce to devise and implement procedures for: (1) Identifying applicants eligible for services; and(2) Sharing that information with the employment security department.
HB 2868 by Representatives Pettigrew, Stokesbary, Muri, Johnson, and Slatter Facilitating high school success. Requires, rather than encourages, each school district board of directors to adopt an academic acceleration policy for high school students.Requires each school district to enroll a student in a dual credit course or program if he or she wants to enroll in the course or program.Modifies the following areas of education statutes to include all eligible high school students rather than only certain grades: (1) College in the high school program and the running start program;(2) The requirement to provide general information to students about the running start program; and(3) Cooperative agreements between the state's school districts and the community colleges in Oregon and Idaho that allow a student to earn high school and college credit concurrently.Allows a school district to expend a portion of its learning assistance program allocation: (1) To develop a dropout early warning and intervention data system; and(2) On interventions for students identified as at risk of not graduating using the dropout early warning and intervention data system.Includes migrant students and English language learners in the definition of "vulnerable student."
HB 2869 by Representatives Chandler, Taylor, and Haler Addressing the maximum share of public employee health benefit premiums to be paid by employers participating in the public employees' benefits board. Modifies state health care authority provisions and the personnel system reform act with regard to the maximum share of public employee health benefit premiums to be paid by employers participating in the public employees' benefits board.
HB 2870 by Representatives Orwall, Kagi, and Slatter Concerning families in need of services. Repeals chapter 13.32A RCW (the family reconciliation act) and creates a new chapter (the family in need of services act).Recognizes that there is a need to provide support to youth and families who are experiencing severe conflict.Finds that, under the family reconciliation act, at-risk youth petitions and child in need of services petitions were available for youth and families to request assistance. This system was established to recognize early warning signs of risk and provide an avenue through the juvenile court system to request crisis intervention and services to stabilize the family.Declares an intent to create an early public system response designed to address family crisis by: (1) Merging those petitions into the family in need of services petition;(2) Providing a legal process by which families that are experiencing crisis can request and receive prompt assistance from juvenile courts;(3) Providing residential placement and therapeutic support for the youth; and(4) Allowing services and interventions for the parent.
HB 2871 by Representatives Pettigrew, Sawyer, Chapman, and Buys Changing the baseball stadium based special license plate. Repeals RCW 46.18.215 (baseball stadium license plates) and creates a Seattle Mariners special license plate that will display the Seattle Mariners logo.Provides funds, once the state has been reimbursed for the special license plates, to InvestED to encourage secondary students who have economic needs to stay in school, return to school, or get involved within their learning community.
HB 2872 by Representatives Peterson, Young, and Ortiz-Self Concerning pollution liability insurance for heating oil tanks. Provides a per calendar year limit on pollution liability insurance for heating oil tanks.
HB 2873 by Representatives Blake, Condotta, and Goodman Addressing motorcycle profiling. Prohibits a state or local law enforcement officer or law enforcement agency from engaging in motorcycle profiling.Entitles a victim of motorcycle profiling to maintain a private civil cause of action in a court of competent jurisdiction against the person or agency who profiled them.
HB 2874 by Representative Caldier Clarifying the number of board members for certain public transportation benefit areas. Requires the governing body of a public transportation benefit area, that only borders the western side of the Puget Sound and has a population of more than two hundred thousand, to have six members.
HB 2875 by Representatives McBride, Jinkins, Muri, Fey, Ryu, Kilduff, Sawyer, McDonald, Tharinger, Barkis, Stambaugh, Wilcox, Wylie, Kirby, Ortiz-Self, Clibborn, and Chapman Concerning sales, use, and excise tax exemptions for self-help housing development. Provides sales and use tax and real estate excise tax exemptions for self-help housing.
HB 2876 by Representatives Peterson and Nealey Authorizing cities planning under the growth management act to impose certain real estate excise taxes by councilmatic action. Authorizes a city that plans under the growth management act to impose certain real estate excise taxes by councilmatic action.
HB 2877 by Representatives Kagi, Dent, Reeves, Frame, Caldier, Kilduff, Tarleton, Johnson, Eslick, Ortiz-Self, Kloba, and Pollet Concerning equitable educational outcomes for foster children and youth from preschool to postsecondary education. Requires the department of children, youth, and families, the office of the superintendent of public instruction, and the student achievement council to convene a work group with aligned nongovernmental agencies to create a plan for children and youth in foster care to facilitate educational equity with their general student population peers and to close the disparities between racial and ethnic groups.
HB 2878 by Representatives Ortiz-Self, Macri, Robinson, Valdez, and Pollet Concerning pesticide exposure and notification of certain pesticide applications. Declares that community members should be protected from pesticide exposure and notified of certain pesticide applications to prevent unnecessary exposure.Requires a pesticide user to provide written notice of an intended pesticide application in accordance with certain requirements.Requires the department of health to develop a list of individuals who apply to receive notification of pesticide applications on adjacent property.Authorizes the department of health and the department of labor and industries to investigate and assess a civil fine in accordance with administrative procedures for certain violations in this act.Prohibits the civil fine from exceeding seven thousand five hundred dollars.
HB 2879 by Representatives Fitzgibbon, Macri, and Pollet; by request of Department of Ecology Concerning the Washington clean air act. Authorizes the department of ecology to require persons who produce or distribute fossil fuels to comply with emission standards or emission limits on emissions of greenhouse gases from those fossil fuels when the fossil fuels are used in this state.Modifies the Washington clean air act regarding the emission credits banking program; requirements to report emissions of greenhouse gases where the emissions are from fossil fuels sold in this state by a single supplier; and adoption of rules on certain emissions of carbon dioxide, methodologies established to ensure that emissions occurring outside of this state are not reported to the department, requiring a person to use a specific method to complete their report, and requiring persons to have a third party verify their report.
HB 2880 by Representatives Fey, Jinkins, Kirby, Griffey, and Sawyer Concerning the redevelopment of an area overlapping the boundary between two adjacent cities. Addresses available methods for the annexation of all or a part of a city or town to another city or town and public hearings on proposed comprehensive plans.Subjects an annexation of all or part of a city or town to potential review by a boundary review board.
HB 2881 by Representatives Sawyer and Vick Creating a new crime applicable to platforms, including internet web sites, that facilitate unauthorized gambling activity. Creates the crime of unlawful operation of a platform that facilitates an unauthorized gambling activity, which is a class C felony.States that, a person is guilty of the crime if he or she operates a platform, including an internet web site, that charges customers a fee for a service or product and on which customers may transfer virtual items with or without a charge, if the person knows, or could reasonably be expected to know, that third parties use the platform to engage in an unauthorized gambling activity involving the wager or transfer of virtual items.
HB 2882 by Representatives Kloba, Blake, Condotta, and Sawyer Addressing the regulation of odors from agricultural activities under the state clean air act. Modifies the Washington clean air act to: (1) Provide a definition for "produce facility" which is a state-licensed marijuana facility;(2) Include in the definition of "agricultural activity," the growing, raising, or production of flowers, fruit trees, vegetables, marijuana, usable marijuana, marijuana-infused products, and honey; and(3) Exempt from clean air act provisions, odors or fugitive dust caused by agricultural activity consistent with good agricultural practices on produce facilities, unless they have a substantial adverse effect on public health.
HB 2883 by Representatives Haler, Lovick, Johnson, Klippert, Jenkin, Schmick, Pettigrew, and Ortiz-Self Ensuring access to community-based services for developmentally disabled citizens currently served by the developmental disabilities administration. Modifies provisions regarding access for developmentally disabled citizens, to community-based services, currently served by the developmental disabilities administration.
HB 2884 by Representatives Shea, Young, Hayes, Irwin, and McCaslin Concerning the crime of endangerment with a controlled substance. Includes the following in the crime of endangerment with a controlled substance: If a person knowingly or intentionally permits a dependent child or dependent adult to be exposed to, ingest, inhale, or have contact with a controlled substance listed in schedule I or II, unless the exposure, ingestion, inhalation, or contact is in accordance with a valid prescription or order.
HB 2885 by Representatives Shea and McCaslin Restricting certain individuals from participating on commissions, committees, or boards related to the oversight of law enforcement. Prohibits certain employees and contractors who have been terminated from employment or had his or her contract terminated due to unethical or illegal behavior from serving as a member of certain commissions, committees, and boards if the commission, committee, or board has oversight of law enforcement as part of its duties.
HB 2886 by Representatives Pollet, Graves, Frame, and Kilduff Concerning public records of the legislative branch. Modifies the public records act to: (1) Exempt the following from the definition of agency: The judicial branch or the state legislature, including individual offices of state legislators, legislative caucuses, or other offices within the state legislature;(2) Provide a definition for "public records" for purposes of the legislature;(3) Provide exemptions from the definition of "public records" for purposes of the legislature; and(4) Require the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house of representatives to serve as the public records officer for the party caucuses and each state legislative office.
HB 2887 by Representatives Riccelli, Holy, Volz, Ormsby, Shea, McCaslin, and Frame Addressing county commissioner elections. Establishes the responsible representation act.Requires certain noncharter counties to establish a redistricting committee to create, review, and adjust county commissioner districts.
SB 6090-S by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Frockt, Honeyford, Mullet, Darneille, Liias, Palumbo, Takko, Keiser, Van De Wege, Hunt, Nelson, Dhingra, Chase, Saldaña, Rolfes, McCoy, Carlyle, Wellman, Ranker, and Kuderer) Concerning the capital budget. Makes appropriations and authorizes expenditures for capital improvements.
SB 6091-S by Senate Committee on Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks (originally sponsored by Senators Van De Wege, Rolfes, and Frockt) Ensuring that water is available to support development. Addresses the availability of water to support development.Requires the department of ecology to: (1) Establish watershed restoration and enhancement committees in certain water resource inventory areas;(2) Prepare and adopt a watershed restoration and enhancement plan for certain watersheds in collaboration with the committee; and(3) Initiate two pilot projects to measure water use from all new groundwater withdrawals for domestic purposes exempt from permitting.Creates the joint legislative task force on water resource mitigation to: (1) Review the treatment of surface water and groundwater appropriations as they relate to instream flows and fish habitat;(2) Develop and recommend a mitigation sequencing process and scoring system to address appropriations; and(3) Review the state supreme court decision in Foster v. Department of Ecology.Declares an intent to appropriate three hundred million dollars for projects to achieve the goals of this act.Creates the watershed restoration and enhancement account, the watershed restoration and enhancement taxable bond account, and the watershed restoration and enhancement bond account.
SB 6416 by Senators Kuderer, Conway, Frockt, Hasegawa, and Rolfes Requiring the insurance commissioner to review a health carrier's surplus levels in its rate filing review process. Requires the insurance commissioner to, for certain individual and small group rate filings submitted by a nonprofit health carrier for the individual or small group markets: (1) Review the carrier's surplus levels as an element in determining the reasonableness of the proposed rate; and(2) Take into consideration the capital facility needs for carriers maintaining and operating hospital and clinical facilities.
SB 6417 by Senators Palumbo and Rivers Concerning the creation of housing opportunity zones by cities and counties. Addresses the need to increase transit-oriented housing production.Finds that more compact and efficient development within a one-half mile distance around transit facilities have shown value in providing affordable housing.Declares the intent of the legislature is to create an opt-in pilot program for cities and counties to: (1) Enable and encourage compact and efficient development within a one-half mile distance around transit facilities; and(2) Choose to participate in the opportunity to access financial resources in exchange for streamlined residential project approval and reduced fees charged to specific housing projects.Authorizes residential developments within a designated housing opportunity zone to participate in a city's or county's multifamily tax exemption program or similar program even if outside of a designated residential target area.Requires the department of commerce to maintain maps of housing opportunity zones and areas eligible for designation as housing opportunity zones.Requires the local ordinance by which impact fees are imposed to provide for the exemptions required by this act.Creates the services for transit-oriented communities special account.
SB 6418 by Senators Palumbo, O'Ban, Brown, and Zeiger Incentivizing the development of commercial office space in cities with a population of greater than thirty-five thousand and located in a county with a population of less than one million five hundred thousand. Provides an incentive to stimulate commercial office space development in urban centers outside major metropolitan areas.Provides certain cities with local options to incentivize the development of commercial office space in urban centers with access to transit, transportation systems, and other amenities.Allows a governing authority of a city to designate a commercial office space development area, and within the area: (1) Adopt a local sales and use tax remittance program to incentivize the development of commercial office space; and(2) Establish a local property tax reinvestment program to make public improvements that incentivize the development of commercial office space.Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to study the effectiveness of the local sales and use tax remittance and the local property tax reinvestment programs.
SB 6419 by Senators Rolfes, Zeiger, Billig, Wellman, Conway, Darneille, Kuderer, Palumbo, and Walsh Concerning access to the Washington early childhood education and assistance program. Provides more flexibility in determining eligibility for the early childhood education and assistance program to maximize the state's investment and assure that program funding is deployed to serve the greatest number of children and families.States that a child who is homeless is eligible for the program.
SB 6420 by Senators Braun, Takko, and Fain Concerning criminal justice. Modifies penalties for a person who drives a motor vehicle while that person is in a suspended or revoked status.Changes the name of the "diversion program" to the "relicensing program" and modifies the eligibility requirements for the program.Requires a county or city, in order to receive appropriated funds, to also: (1) Provide documentation that attorneys providing public defense services are in compliance with the state supreme court standards for indigent defense; and(2) Collect, for certain hours billed, from each individual or organization that contracts to perform public defense services.Provides the requirements for appropriating the funds for the cost of public defense services in cities and counties.
SB 6421 by Senators Ranker, Saldaña, and Rolfes Updating the environmental and sustainability literacy plan. Requires the superintendent of public instruction to convene a work group to update the environmental and sustainability literacy plan and develop grade appropriate demonstration lessons that connect to adopted state standards.Includes demonstration lessons based on the state environmental and sustainability literacy plan in the definition of "courseware," for purposes of this act.Removes the June 30, 2018, expiration date for RCW 28A.300.803 (section 2 of this act) regarding the library of openly licensed courseware; and the open educational resources account.
SB 6422 by Senators Ranker, Kuderer, Saldaña, and Rolfes Cleaning up toxic substances from Washington's marine waters. Finds that nearshore marine waters in the Puget Sound portion of the Salish Sea are critical to the production of benthic organisms that support the entire food chain.Requires the Puget Sound partnership, in consultation with the department of ecology, to prepare a report on the effectiveness and pace of the removal of toxic substances from nearshore areas of Puget Sound and provide the report to the appropriate committees of the senate and house of representatives.Requires the department of ecology to: (1) Prioritize funding of remedial actions at nearshore and marine zones that impact the recovery of Puget Sound, including the removal of creosote pilings; and(2) Give preference to clean-up projects by Puget Sound partners that incorporate climate change impacts into remedial action designs and that address marine nearshore environments critical to ecological health and/or the local economy.
SB 6423 by Senators Ranker, Conway, Darneille, Frockt, Hasegawa, Hunt, Keiser, Kuderer, Nelson, Pedersen, Takko, Wellman, and Rolfes Concerning the internet. Establishes the net neutrality act.Finds that the federal communications commission has repealed net neutrality rules intended to protect consumers and to ensure fair and reasonable access to the internet.Declares an intent to: (1) Ensure that corporations do not impede competition or engage in deceptive consumer practices and that they offer service to customers on a nondiscriminatory basis; and(2) Ensure certain principles are met in the provision of internet services.Requires the director of the consolidated technology services agency to: (1) Adopt guidelines that identify and specify the state government's role as an internet customer;(2) Use that customer power to ensure implementation of this act; and(3) Establish sample master contracts for public entities to be used as an incentive for internet service providers to comply with the net neutrality standards.Creates the internet consumer access account.
SB 6424 by Senators Carlyle, Fain, Palumbo, and Saldaña Authorizing an alternative form of regulation of electrical and natural gas companies. Authorizes the utilities and transportation commission to, under certain conditions, regulate an electrical or gas company by authorizing an alternative form of regulation.Requires electrical companies, gas companies, and the commission to use the carbon planning adder when evaluating and selecting conservation policies, programs, and targets.Requires electrical companies to use the carbon planning adder in developing and evaluating integrated resource plans and evaluating and selecting long-term resource options.Requires the following to be considered a nonemitting resource: Gas consisting largely of methane and other hydrocarbons derived from the decomposition of organic material in landfills, wastewater treatment facilities, and anaerobic digesters.
SB 6425 by Senators Kuderer, Cleveland, Bailey, Keiser, and Saldaña Concerning physical therapist supervision of assistive personnel. Requires supervision by a physical therapist for the reevaluation of a patient, as follows, if patient care is given by a physical therapist assistant or other assistive personnel: The later of every fifth visit or every thirty days if a physical therapist has not treated the patient for any of the five visits or within the thirty days.Authorizes a physical therapist, at any one time, to: (1) Supervise up to a total of three assistive personnel; or(2) Two assistive personnel if he or she is working in a nursing home or in the public schools.
SB 6426 by Senators Wellman, Chase, Warnick, Sheldon, McCoy, Cleveland, Rivers, Wilson, Kuderer, and Rolfes Extending existing telecommunications authority to all ports in Washington state in order to facilitate public-private partnerships in wholesale telecommunications services and infrastructure. Extends, to all ports in the state, the existing telecommunications authority in order to facilitate public-private partnerships in wholesale telecommunications services and infrastructure.
SB 6427 by Senators Wellman and Zeiger; by request of State Board of Education and Superintendent of Public Instruction Exchanging and aligning specific powers, duties, and functions of the superintendent of public instruction and the state board of education. Finds that specific powers, duties, and functions of the state board of education and the superintendent of public instruction should be realigned, therefore, the legislature declares an intent to clarify, and in some cases shift, responsibilities related to private schools, educational service district boundaries, career and technical education equivalencies, adoption of learning standards, waiver of school district requirements, and compliance with basic education requirements.
SB 6428 by Senator O'Ban Concerning attorneys' fees on public works contracts. Requires the award of attorneys' fees, in disputes arising from public works contracts, to be paid only if the prevailing party recovers more than the amount offered in settlement.
SB 6429 by Senator Zeiger Addressing overtime compensation for seasonal employees at agricultural fairs. Addresses compensation for employment in excess of a forty-hour workweek as it applies to seasonal employees at concessions and recreational establishments at agricultural fairs.
SB 6430 by Senator Zeiger Concerning the consumption of alcohol for certain special events held on agricultural fairgrounds. States that the specified premises or designated areas, regarding the consumption of alcohol, for certain special events that have a special occasion license, with a fairgrounds endorsement, and are held on the fairgrounds of agricultural area fairs, county and district fairs, or community fairs includes the entire fair venue, or a designated area of the venue, under certain circumstances.
SB 6431 by Senator Zeiger Authorizing certain fairs with special occasion licenses to have multiple concessionaires. Authorizes special occasion licensees to have multiple vendors and service locations within a fair venue for the sale of spirits, beer, and wine if: (1) It is for an agricultural area fair, a county or district fair, or a community fair; and(2) The fairgrounds are enclosed by fencing and access is controlled.
SB 6432 by Senators Zeiger and Angel Concerning homeowner association and condominium bylaws. Requires a homeowners' association and a unit owners' association, for associations and condominiums established after the effective date of this act, to record bylaws and amendments to the bylaws in each county in which a portion of the association is located in the same manner as a deed, and the bylaws and amendments are effective only upon recording.
SB 6433 by Senators Keiser and Fain Providing a business and occupation tax credit for certain processing. Provides a sales tax exemption, in the form of a remittance, to certain wholesalers and third-party warehousers who own or operate warehouses or grain elevators and retailers who own or operate distribution centers.
SB 6434 by Senators Rolfes, Rivers, Nelson, Brown, and Saldaña Concerning electric-assisted bicycles. Modifies electric-assisted bicycle provisions with regard to: Permanently affixed stamps from the manufacturer or distributor; driver's license not required for operation; and prohibitions on where they may be driven.Requires an electric-assisted bicycle's electric motor to have a power output of no more than seven hundred fifty watts and meet the requirements of either a class 1 electric-assisted bicycle, class 2 electric-assisted bicycle or class 3 electric-assisted bicycle.
SB 6435 by Senators Cleveland, Keiser, Kuderer, and Saldaña Establishing healthy workplaces. Prohibits an employee from being subjected to an abusive work environment.Prohibits an employer or employee from retaliating in any manner against an employee who has: (1) Opposed an unlawful employment practice under this act; or(2) Made a charge, testified, assisted, or participated in any manner in an investigation or proceeding, including internal complaints and proceedings, arbitration and mediation proceedings, and legal actions.
SB 6436 by Senators Cleveland, Billig, Kuderer, and Saldaña Concerning foster youth health care benefits. Extends the date in which certain behavioral health services must be integrated into the managed health care plan for foster children.Allows the parent or guardian of a child, who is no longer a dependent child, to choose to continue enrollment in the integrated managed health care plan for foster children for up to twelve months following reunification with the child's parents or guardian if the child meets certain requirements.
SB 6437 by Senator King Addressing the disposal of recreational vehicles abandoned on public property. Authorizes a registered tow truck operator to transport an abandoned recreational vehicle without being licensed as a hulk hauler.Requires the department of licensing, before accepting an application for a registration for a recreational vehicle, to collect a six-dollar abandoned recreational disposal fee from the applicant in addition to other fees and taxes.Allows registered tow truck operators, vehicle wreckers, or scrap processors, to apply to the department of licensing for financial aid for the transport, storage, dismantling, and disposal of abandoned recreational vehicles from public property.Authorizes a solid waste disposal site that is compliant with all applicable regulations to wreck a nonmotorized abandoned recreational vehicle.Makes an appropriation from the motor vehicle fund to the department of licensing for the purposes of this act.Creates the abandoned recreational vehicle disposal account.
SB 6438 by Senators King, Palumbo, and Hobbs Clarifying the collection process for existing vehicle service transactions. Clarifies the department of licensing's collection process for existing vehicle service transactions.
SB 6439 by Senator Ericksen Reducing the state property taxes payable in calendar years 2018 and 2019. Reduces state property taxes that are payable in calendar years 2018 and 2019.
SB 6440 by Senator Ericksen Concerning the I-5/Exit 274 interchange project. Makes an appropriation from the connecting Washington account - state funds for the department of transportation to complete an interchange justification report and begin environmental review for an I-5/Exit 274 interchange project in Blaine.Requires the department of transportation to: (1) Actively pursue 12.9 million dollars in additional funds to pay for the remainder of the project's estimated cost; and(2) Pursue all relevant funding options including grants from the federal highway administration and the freight mobility strategic investment board and matching funds from local governments or private businesses.
SB 6441 by Senators Billig, Wellman, Zeiger, Keiser, Saldaña, and Walsh Transferring the working connections and seasonal child care programs to the department of children, youth, and families. Transfers the powers, duties, and functions of the department of social and health services, pertaining to the working connections child care program and the seasonal child care program, to the department of children, youth, and families.
SB 6442 by Senators Fain and Saldaña Concerning benefits and exclusion within dental benefit coverage. Prohibits health benefit plans, health care service contractors, and health carriers that offer dental benefits from denying or limiting coverage based on an individual's oral health condition.
SB 6443 by Senators Fortunato, Mullet, and Angel Addressing joint self-insurance programs for property and liability risks. Authorizes a qualifying state agency to participate in: (1) A local government joint self-insurance program formed or operating in accordance with chapter 48.62 RCW regarding local government insurance transactions; and(2) The program to obtain liability insurance coverage.Defines "qualifying state agency" as a state agency, board, commission, or other entity of the state with a biennial operating budget of not more than five million dollars.
SB 6444 by Senator Cleveland Modifying alcohol sales by distributors. Authorizes a person holding a wine distributor license to sell wine or cider directly to consumers for off-premises consumption, subject to certain requirements.Authorizes a person holding a beer distributor license to, subject to certain requirements, sell malt beverages directly to: (1) Bona fide, full-time employees; or(2) Consumers for off-premises consumption.
SB 6445 by Senators Dhingra, O'Ban, Darneille, Saldaña, Wellman, Cleveland, Billig, Fain, Hasegawa, Keiser, Kuderer, and Palumbo Providing postsecondary education to enhance education opportunities and public safety. Addresses postsecondary education and training for incarcerated adults.
SB 6446 by Senators Carlyle, Hunt, Keiser, and Kuderer Ensuring consumers rights to internet transparency. 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 the use of those services.Finds a broadband internet access provider in violation of this act if the provider makes assertions about its service that contain errors, are inconsistent with the provider's disclosure statement, or are misleading or deceptive.Prohibits the department of enterprise services, the office of the chief information officer, and all other state agencies from entering into contracts with vendors offering broadband internet access services unless the vendor commits to providing equal connection for all users to lawful internet content, applications, and services.Creates the internet consumer access account.
SB 6447 by Senators Miloscia, Keiser, and Fain Concerning the Federal Way school district regionalization factor used for compensation. Modifies a date in which the legislative evaluation and accountability program committee developed school district regionalization factors for certificated instructional, certificated administrative, and classified staff.
SB 6448 by Senators Keiser, Conway, Rolfes, King, Warnick, Kuderer, and Saldaña Expanding the list of authorized provider types to treat injured workers suffering from mental health conditions caused by their industrial injury or occupational disease. Modifies the state industrial insurance act to include the availability of mental health therapy and evaluation to injured workers.Authorizes the following to provide these services: Psychiatrists, clinical Ph.D. or Psy.D. psychologists, psychiatric advanced registered nurse practitioners, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and social workers.
SB 6449 by Senators Warnick and Palumbo; by request of Department of Commerce 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.Addresses property tax and leasehold excise tax exemptions with regard to land, buildings, machinery, equipment, and other personal property used primarily for the operation of an anaerobic digester.
SB 6450 by Senators Honeyford and Miloscia Creating a community aviation revitalization board. Creates the community aviation revitalization board and authorizes the board to: (1) Make direct loans to political subdivisions of the state and privately owned airports for the purpose of improvements at public use airports that primarily support general aviation activities; and(2) Provide loans to privately owned airports for the purpose of airport improvements if certain conditions are met.Requires the department of transportation to provide management services, including fiscal and contract services, to assist the board in implementing this act.Creates the public use general aviation airport loan revolving account.
SB 6451 by Senator Honeyford Designating apple pie as the official pie of Washington. Designates apple pie as the official pie of the state.
SB 6452 by Senators Brown, Frockt, Carlyle, O'Ban, Walsh, Darneille, Miloscia, Kuderer, and Saldaña Expanding the activities of the children's mental health services consultation program. Requires the state health care authority, in collaboration with the University of Washington department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and Seattle Children's Hospital to implement a program called the partnership access line for moms and kids to: (1) Support primary care providers in the assessment and provision of appropriate diagnosis and treatment of children with mental and behavioral health disorders;(2) Support obstetricians, pediatricians, primary care providers, mental health professionals, and other health care professionals providing care to pregnant women and new mothers, through same-day telephone consultations, in the assessment and provision of appropriate diagnosis and treatment of depression in pregnant women and new mothers; and(3) Facilitate referrals to children's mental health services and other resources for parents and guardians with concerns related to the mental health of the parent or guardian's child.
SB 6453 by Senators King, Carlyle, Hobbs, Zeiger, O'Ban, Walsh, Brown, Darneille, Miloscia, Palumbo, and Saldaña Concerning legal support for kinship caregivers. Authorizes the department of social and health services to: (1) Purchase legal representation for kinship caregivers of children who are at risk of being dependent, or who are dependent; and(2) Secure orders establishing relevant civil legal relationships authorized by law.Encourages the department to work with the office of public defense parent representation program and the office of civil legal aid to develop a system for providing civil legal representation for the parents and kinship caregivers.
SB 6454 by Senators Kuderer, Conway, Hasegawa, Keiser, Takko, and Dhingra Expanding access to pharmacy services. States that a retail community pharmacy that requests to enter into a contractual agreement to join a retail pharmacy network and accepts the terms, conditions, formularies, and requirements of the pharmacy services of that network, shall be considered part of a pharmacy benefit manager's retail pharmacy network for purposes of an enrollee's or dependent's right to choose where to purchase covered prescription drugs.Requires a health benefit plan or pharmacy benefit manager to: (1) Accept a retail community pharmacy as part of a pharmacy benefit manager's retail pharmacy network; and(2) File a report with the insurance commissioner for the preceding calendar year stating that the pharmacy benefit manager or prescription drug benefit plan is in compliance with chapter 48.43 RCW relating to insurance reform.
SB 6455 by Senators Fortunato and Warnick Requiring minimum liability insurance coverage for certain towing expenses. States that minimum liability insurance coverage provisions relating to costs and fees being owed to a third party, such as for towing, recovery, and storage, are subject to a limit of not less than five thousand dollars.
SB 6456 by Senators Conway, Bailey, Hobbs, Zeiger, Palumbo, and Rolfes 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.Authorizes the regional transportation planning organization to designate a military installation as a regional growth center when the civilian and military workforce of the military installation is comparable in size to the workforce of the other regional growth centers.
SB 6457 by Senator Conway Limiting actions against real estate appraisers. Requires an action to recover damages against a real estate appraiser arising out of the appraiser's real estate activity to be brought within one year from the date of discovery of the act or omission giving rise to the action.Prohibits an action to recover damages against a real estate appraiser from being brought more than three years after the report date.
SB 6458 by Senators Billig, Mullet, Wellman, Rolfes, Liias, and Kuderer Concerning additional enrichment levy amounts to fund early learning programs. Authorizes a school district, beginning with taxes levied for collection in 2019, to levy an additional enrichment levy dollar amount not to exceed an amount equal to twenty-five cents per thousand dollars of the assessed value of property in the school district.Requires the additional amount to be used exclusively for the early childhood education and assistance program, the early learning programs that score at least 3.5 in the early achievers program, other high quality early learning programs approved by the department of children, youth, and families, and capital expenses if school districts have demonstrated a need for additional classroom space and if the facilities would be used primarily for high quality early learning programs.
SB 6459 by Senators Frockt, Rivers, and Hobbs Transferring duties of the life sciences discovery fund. Requires the department of commerce to designate a nonprofit organization to receive funds previously administered by the life sciences discovery fund authority through the life sciences discovery fund.Requires the designated organization to be established with a primary mission of growing and sustaining the life science ecosystem within the state.Adjusts the functions of the life sciences discovery fund.Repeals or recodifies chapter 43.350 RCW regarding life sciences research.
SB 6460 by Senators Fain, Wellman, Hunt, Short, and Kuderer Concerning student access to school libraries and information technology. Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to examine and report on student access to school library information and technology resources and associated impacts to student success.Creates the school library information and technology office, within the office of the superintendent of public instruction, to: (1) Assist districts with implementing school library information and technology programs;(2) Increase access for students to these programs; and(3) Promote student achievement of the educational technology learning standards.
SB 6461 by Senators Conway, Padden, Chase, O'Ban, Baumgartner, and Miloscia Addressing employee benefits provided by the school employees' benefits board. Finds that school districts and educational service districts in many rural and urban areas must aggressively compete for employees and they need to offer better employee benefits and/or benefits at a lower cost to recruit and retain employees.States that school districts and educational service districts may be exempt from the requirement to obtain employee benefits through the school employees' benefits board if certain requirements are met.
SB 6462 by Senators Angel and Mullet Concerning the seller's real estate disclosure regarding oil tank insurance. Requires a disclosure statement to be made available to a buyer of residential real property that informs the buyer of the availability of no cost insurance from the pollution liability insurance agency if the property uses an oil tank for heating.
SB 6463 by Senators Ranker, Frockt, Rolfes, and Saldaña Providing a tiered tax on the possession of hazardous substances to provide for the current program's immediate needs and a more stable source of revenue in the future. Changes the hazardous substance tax rate, from July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2026, until the department of revenue determines that total aggregate taxes for the current fiscal year collected equal or exceed one hundred ten million dollars.Requires the department of ecology, in consultation with the department of revenue, to provide a report regarding cleanup and stormwater projects and projected hazardous substance tax revenues.
SB 6464 by Senators Zeiger, O'Ban, Saldaña, Dhingra, Palumbo, Hasegawa, and Miloscia Studying the cliff effect in the working connections child care program. Finds that, when a parent is enrolled in working connections child care, he or she may be unable to seek advancement or promotion at their job because exceeding designated income thresholds result in a reduced subsidy.Requires the department of children, youth, and families to contract with the state institute for public policy to complete an analysis regarding how to address and mitigate the "cliff effect" in the working connections child care program and child care subsidy program.
SB 6465 by Senators O'Ban, Miloscia, Zeiger, and Chase Requiring a regional transit authority to receive additional approval from voters if the cost to complete a regional transit system plan approved by voters in 2016 increases beyond fifty-four billion dollars or any additions or subtractions of projects or significant project scope when compared to the system plan are made. Requires a regional transit authority to: (1) Once it has expended eighty percent of the funding elements identified in a regional transit system plan adopted by the authority board in June 2016, hire an independent auditor to determine if remaining unspent funding elements are sufficient to complete the system plan as approved by the authority's voters in 2016; and(2) Propose a ballot proposition to be submitted to the voters of the authority if the auditor determines remaining unspent funding elements are insufficient to complete the system plan as approved by the authority's voters in 2016.
SB 6466 by Senators O'Ban and Conway Standardizing practices relating to the commitment and release of persons committed to a state institution after committing acts of felony violence. Reduces the inconsistency and confusion in chapter 71.05 RCW (the involuntary treatment act) with regard to the commitment and release of persons committed to a state institution after committing acts of felony violence.
SB 6467 by Senators Darneille, O'Ban, Hasegawa, and Kuderer Concerning families in need of services. Repeals chapter 13.32A RCW (the family reconciliation act) and creates a new chapter (the family in need of services act).Recognizes that there is a need to provide support to youth and families who are experiencing severe conflict.Finds that, under the family reconciliation act, at-risk youth petitions and child in need of services petitions were available for youth and families to request assistance.Finds that this system was established to recognize early warning signs of risk and provide an avenue through the juvenile court system to request crisis intervention and services to stabilize the family.Declares an intent to create an early public system response designed to address family crisis by: (1) Merging those petitions into the family in need of services petition;(2) Providing a legal process by which families that are experiencing crisis can request and receive prompt assistance from juvenile courts;(3) Providing residential placement and therapeutic support for the youth; and(4) Allowing services and interventions for the parent.
SB 6468 by Senators Braun, Frockt, Fain, Darneille, Rolfes, Walsh, Becker, Brown, Zeiger, Billig, Warnick, Honeyford, Keiser, Miloscia, O'Ban, Short, and Sheldon Expanding community-based behavioral health facilities through issuance of state bonds. Authorizes the state finance committee to issue general obligation bonds to provide needed capital improvements to increase behavioral health services in community settings.Provides for submission of section 201 of this act to a vote of the people.
SB 6469 by Senators Palumbo, Frockt, Keiser, Nelson, Billig, and Saldaña 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(3) Coordinate with the department of health to prepare and publish the summaries of the overdose information.
SB 6470 by Senators Becker, Keiser, Rivers, Bailey, Brown, Cleveland, and Hasegawa Concerning health carrier provider networks. Requires the insurance commissioner, in reviewing and approving a health plan, to affirmatively approve the adequacy of the plan's proposed provider network.Requires a health plan to: (1) Permit an enrollee, under certain circumstances, to petition the plan to cover health care services delivered by an out-of-network provider;(2) Ensure that an enrollee cost-sharing obligation is included, if certain conditions are met, in the enrollee's in-network deductible and maximum out-of-pocket expenses; and(3) If the plan is issued or renewed after December 31, 2018, publish and maintain a provider directory with information on contracting providers that deliver health care services to the plan's enrollees.Prohibits a health carrier, that offers a health plan, from offering to sell the plan to an enrollee or certain others without first offering to provide or providing upon request, information on how to access the plan's provider directory maintained on the plan's web site.
SB 6471 by Senators Keiser, Walsh, Rolfes, Dhingra, Bailey, Darneille, Hasegawa, Frockt, Conway, Chase, Kuderer, and Saldaña Developing model policies to create workplaces that are safe from sexual harassment. Requires the human rights commission to: (1) Convene a stakeholder work group to develop model policies and best practices for employers and employees to keep workplaces safe from sexual harassment;(2) Adopt model policies and best practices developed by the work group for employers and employees to keep workplaces safe from sexual harassment; and(3) Post the policies and practices on its web site.Requires the department of labor and industries, within thirty days of the commission adopting the policies and practices, to post them on its web site.
SB 6472 by Senators McCoy, Cleveland, Keiser, Hasegawa, Hunt, Conway, Chase, and Saldaña Concerning Indian health care in Washington state. Creates the governor's Indian health council to provide the resources necessary to: (1) Implement the national policy of Indian self-determination; and(2) Assure the highest possible health status for American Indians and Alaska Natives.Creates the Indian health improvement reinvestment account and requires the council to establish a committee to provide oversight over the account.
SB 6473 by Senators Liias and Wagoner Preventing fires in rental dwelling units. Directs the state director of fire protection to: (1) Investigate ways to prevent fire deaths in rental dwellings;(2) Educate landlords and tenants regarding their responsibilities;(3) Develop possible criminal penalties;(4) Evaluate insurance certification requirements or changes to the building code, and other possible programs or funding that would improve installation and maintenance of smoke detectors in rental apartments and single-family homes; and(5) Form a task force of stakeholders including landlords of residential units, tenants, local governments, firefighters, representatives from home builders and construction trades, the insurance industry, and a nonprofit that provides free smoke detectors and installation.
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