Allowing sales of growlers of wine.

Allows the sale of growlers of wine, except for fortified wine.

Protecting youth from tobacco products and vapor products by increasing the minimum legal age of sale of tobacco and vapor products.

Modifying presidential primary provisions.

Updates the presidential primary process to provide an earlier default date and the flexibility needed to promote a regional presidential primary.

Expanding college bound scholarship eligibility.

Revises requirements for eligibility in the college bound scholarship program.

Collecting youth voter registration sign up information.

Provides locations for a person to sign up to register to vote when he or she is sixteen or seventeen years old.

Defines the term "future voter" as a United States citizen and state resident, age sixteen or seventeen, who wishes to provide information related to voter registration to the appropriate state agencies.

Requires a social studies teacher to coordinate a voter registration event in each history or social studies class attended by high school seniors.

Allows county auditors to help coordinate elements of the future voter program and participate in voter registration events for students on that day.

Requires the superintendent of public instruction, in consultation with the secretary of state, to update and distribute youth voter registration materials for eligible students.

Provides delivery options for voter registration applications.

Requires the secretary of state, for each electronic registration application, to obtain a digital copy of the applicant's driver's license or identicard signature from the department of licensing.

Concerning the exemption of property taxes for nonprofit homeownership development.

Concerning access to homeless housing and assistance.

Establishes the Washington housing opportunities act.

Improves resources available to aid with increasing access and removing barriers to housing for individuals and families in the state.

Increases the surcharge for local homeless housing and assistance.

Requires the department of commerce to: (1) In collaboration with the state institute for public policy, conduct a statewide homeless study every ten years to better understand the causes and characteristics of the homeless in the state and help decision makers promote efforts toward housing stability;

(2) Coordinate its efforts on the state homeless housing strategic plan with the office of homeless youth prevention and protection programs advisory committee; and

Updating the child support economic table based on recommendations of the child support work group.

Concerning rehabilitated offenders.

Concerning government efficiency by eliminating or revising obsolete or inactive statutory provisions that concern the office of financial management.

Concerning elections in port districts that are coextensive with a county having a population of over one-half million.

Concerning the retirement age for state guard members.

Concerning legislative technology.

Changes the following terms in chapter 44.68 RCW: (1) The joint legislative systems administrative committee to the joint legislative technology administrative committee;

(2) The legislative service center to the office of legislative technology services;

(3) The legislative systems coordinator to the legislative technology director; and

Concerning information on civil traffic infractions.

Concerning vapor products, e-cigarettes, and nicotine products taxation.

Concerning natural resource management activities.

Authorizes the department of fish and wildlife to manage acquired lands using the best available land management techniques to implement strategic activities to reduce hazard fuels in areas that could be prone to wildfire. These techniques may include: (1) Issuance or reissuance of grazing leases;

(2) Licenses or approvals to remove firewood;

(3) Issuance of leases for brush picking;

(4) Periodic use of chemical or mechanical means to maintain public and recreational land; and

(5) Issuance of rights-of-way, easements, and use permits to use existing roads in nonresidential areas.

Concerning health care provider and health care facility whistleblower protections.

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

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

Concerning sexual exploitation.

Promoting the use of surplus public property for public benefit.

Concerning consumer reporting agency security freeze fees.

Prohibits a consumer reporting agency from imposing a charge on a consumer for a request to place, temporarily lift, or remove a security freeze.

Increasing employment opportunities for spouses of military members.

Requires the department of veterans affairs, the employment security department, and the department of commerce to consult local chambers of commerce, associate development organizations, and businesses to initiate a demonstration campaign to increase employment for veterans and the spouses of military members on active duty.

Directs the commissioner of the employment security department to: (1) Conduct a study of the unemployment insurance program to determine what barriers to eligibility military spouses face while on reassignment overseas; and

Modifying qualifications for disabled veterans to receive fee exempt license plates.

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

Establishes a wine and beer retailer's license, designated as an art activity license, which authorizes the holder to provide the following products for on-premises consumption by participants in an art activity: (1) Wine by the glass; and

Promoting redevelopment of certain areas to encourage transit supportive densities and efficient land use.

Allows certain counties to stimulate housing opportunities and redevelopment of areas in urban growth areas to promote transit supportive densities and more efficient land use.

Includes the following in the criteria that must be met before being designated a residential targeted area: An area in a county seeking to promote transit supportive densities and efficient land use that is: (1) Located no further than one and one-half miles from the boundary of a city with a population of at least two hundred thousand; and

Modifying cybercrime provisions.

Revises the Washington cybercrime act.

Addresses the crime of electronic data tampering in the first degree.

Concerning impaired driving.

Modifies impaired driving provisions with regard to: (1) Loss of good time credits when offense includes minor child enhancements;

(2) Removal of language on qualifications of a forensic phlebotomist;

(3) Liability for the expense of an emergency response by a public agency;

(4) A court's discretion to order electronic home monitoring or ninety days of 24/7 sobriety program monitoring;

(5) Partial or full suspension of a sentence;

(6) Penalty for minor passenger in vehicle; and

Improving access to mental health services for children and youth.

Reestablishes the children's mental health work group to: (1) Identify barriers to and opportunities for accessing mental health services for children and families; and

(2) Advise the legislature on statewide mental health services for this population.

Provides a December 30, 2020, expiration date for the work group.

Expands the duties and responsibilities of the following: (1) The state health care authority;

(2) The department of social and health services;

(3) Behavioral health organizations;

(4) Regional service areas;

(5) The department of children, youth, and families;

(6) The child and adolescent psychiatry residency program at the University of Washington; and

Reducing the use of certain toxic chemicals in firefighting activities.

Prohibits a manufacturer of class B firefighting foam from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, or distributing for sale or use in this state class B firefighting foam to which PFAS chemicals have been intentionally added.

Requires a manufacturer or other person that sells firefighting personal protective equipment to a person, local government, or state agency to provide written notice to the purchaser if the equipment contains PFAS chemicals.

Authorizes the department of ecology to: (1) Request a certificate of compliance from a manufacturer of class B firefighting foam or firefighting personal protective equipment; and

Providing menstrual hygiene products in community and technical colleges at no cost to students.

Safeguarding the public safety by protecting railroad workers.

Establishes the safe leave act for Washington railroad workers.

Finds that railroad employees have no paid sick leave and may be subject to discipline for absence due to illness or injury.

Prohibits a railroad carrier from dismissing, suspending, laying off, demoting, or otherwise disciplining: (1) An employee because of absence due to illness or injury of the employee or the employee's spouse or child; or

(2) An operating craft employee because of layoff due to fatigue.

Requires a railroad carrier to establish a fatigue layoff program under which an operating craft employee may layoff due to fatigue without being subjected to discipline or any type of availability or attendance policy.

Authorizing spirits, beer, and wine theater licensees to have one additional screen.

Authorizes a theater to have one additional screen, with no more than three hundred seats, at which alcohol may be served under the terms of the spirits, beer, and wine theater license if the theater: (1) Uses an IMAX projection screen in at least one of its auditoriums; and

Concerning Atlantic salmon.

Implements a policy to disincentivize the continued cultivation of Atlantic salmon in our marine waters.

-- 2018 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 5	First reading, referred to Finance (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).