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 2511-S by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Manweller, Fitzgibbon, Muri, Fey, Hayes, Valdez, and Kloba; by request of Select Committee on Pension Policy) Providing a benefit increase to certain retirees of the public employees' retirement system plan 1 and the teachers' retirement system plan 1. Declares an intent to consider a proposal that would increase the minimum pension benefits provided to members of plan 1 of the public employees' retirement system and the teachers' retirement system.
HB 2515-S by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Tharinger, Schmick, Cody, Johnson, Jinkins, Harris, Robinson, Wylie, Pollet, and Ormsby) Updating the medicaid payment methodology for contracted assisted living, adult residential care, and enhanced adult residential care. Requires the department of social and health services to adopt a data-driven medicaid payment methodology for contracted assisted living, adult residential care, and enhanced adult residential care.Requires payments for these contracts to be based on the new methodology which must be phased-in to full implementation according to funding made available by the legislature for this purpose.
HB 2530-S by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Senn, Graves, Caldier, Fey, Stonier, Kagi, McBride, Wylie, and Doglio) 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 in the transitional foster care eligibility category for up to twelve months following reunification with the child's parents or guardian if the child meets certain requirements.
HB 2550-S by House Committee on Finance (originally sponsored by Representatives Muri, Kilduff, Reeves, Stanford, Shea, and Johnson) Providing tax exemptions for the assistance of disabled veterans and members of the armed forces of the United States of America. Provides a business and occupation tax exemption and a sales and use tax exemption for sales on a federal military reservation by a nonprofit organization that operates an adaptive recreational and rehabilitation facility dedicated to the assistance of disabled veterans and members of the armed forces of the United States.
HB 2561-S by House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Representatives Dent, Blake, Dye, Doglio, Johnson, Peterson, and Eslick) Concerning temporary duties for the wildland fire advisory committee. Requires the commissioner of public lands to direct the wildland fire advisory committee to review, analyze, and make recommendations on certain issues related to wild fire prevention, response, and suppression activities within the state.Expires December 31, 2019.
HB 2562-S by House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Representatives Dent, Blake, Dye, Doglio, Johnson, and Peterson) Concerning rangeland fire protection associations. Addresses rangeland fire protection associations which are defined as nonprofit associations or unincorporated associations that are formed for a lawful purpose that includes the detection, prevention, and suppression of wildfires outside the jurisdiction of a local, regional, or state fire protection agency.
HB 2585-S by House Committee on Health Care & Wellness (originally sponsored by Representatives Caldier, Orwall, McCabe, Gregerson, Jinkins, Cody, Pike, Senn, Wylie, and Shea) Concerning hospital notification of availability of sexual assault evidence kit collection. Requires a hospital that does not provide sexual assault evidence kit collection, or may not have appropriate providers available to provide the collection at all times, to develop a plan, in consultation with the local community sexual assault agency, to assist individuals with obtaining the collection at a facility that provides the collection.Requires a hospital that does not perform the collection, or have appropriate providers available, to: (1) Provide notice to an individual who presents in the emergency department and requests a collection that the hospital does not perform the collection and/or does not have appropriate providers available; and(2) Coordinate care with the local community sexual assault agency and assist the patient in finding a facility with an appropriate provider available.States that the failure of a hospital to comply is punishable by a civil penalty of two thousand dollars.
HB 2587-S by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Valdez, McBride, Fitzgibbon, Wylie, and Jinkins) Concerning required disclosures for special prosecuting attorneys. Addresses required disclosures for special prosecuting attorneys.
HB 2597-S by House Committee on Finance (originally sponsored by Representatives Sullivan, Wylie, Slatter, Sawyer, Stanford, Pollet, Kloba, Bergquist, Ormsby, Kilduff, and Macri) Extending the existing state property tax exemption for residences of senior citizens and disabled persons to local regular property taxes. Provides a local regular property tax exemption on the residences of senior citizens and disabled persons.
HB 2605-S by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Irwin and Macri) Addressing misdemeanant supervision services by limited jurisdiction courts. Authorizes the court of a county, city, or town, that wishes to offer probation supervision services, to enter into interlocal agreements to provide those services.Authorizes municipal courts or district courts to enter into interlocal agreements for pretrial and/or postjudgment probation supervision services pursuant to ARLJ 11.Authorizes the administrative office of the courts, in cooperation with the district and municipal court judges association, to develop a model interlocal agreement. Authorizes a city or county to enter into an interlocal agreement for the sharing of costs for sanctions imposed by a jurisdiction hosting probation supervision services pursuant to an interlocal agreement.
HB 2619-S by House Committee on Public Safety (originally sponsored by Representatives Irwin, Eslick, Orwall, Pellicciotti, Volz, Walsh, Griffey, Hayes, Johnson, Van Werven, Stambaugh, Wylie, Muri, McDonald, and Young) Increasing penalties for certain repeat offenders who engage in lurid criminal conduct. Designates assault in the fourth degree as a class C felony where sexual motivation was pleaded and proven after the effective date of this act, and the person has two or more prior adult convictions within ten years for certain offenses where sexual motivation was pleaded and proven.Includes in the crime of indecent exposure, which is a class C felony, if a person exposes himself or herself to a person under the age of fourteen years and has previously been convicted of indecent exposure, a sex offense, or a municipal or out-of-state offense comparable to indecent exposure or a sex offense.
HB 2627-S by House Committee on Finance (originally sponsored by Representatives Springer and Stokesbary) Concerning authorizations of proposals for emergency medical care and service levies. Modifies provisions relating to proposals for emergency medical care and service levies.
HB 2633-S by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Doglio, Sawyer, Griffey, Irwin, Reeves, Fitzgibbon, Stambaugh, Stonier, Stokesbary, Gregerson, Appleton, Valdez, Ortiz-Self, Peterson, Lytton, Wylie, Macri, Fey, Tarleton, Hudgins, Ryu, McBride, Morris, Pollet, Sells, Slatter, Kloba, Bergquist, Goodman, McDonald, Santos, Frame, and Stanford) Addressing the presumption of occupational disease for purposes of workers' compensation by adding medical conditions to the presumption and extending the presumption to certain publicly employed firefighters and investigators and law enforcement. States that, there exists a prima facie presumption, with regard to public employee fire investigators who are covered under the state industrial insurance act, that the following are occupational diseases: Respiratory disease, heart problems, cancer, and infectious diseases.States that, there exists a prima facie presumption, with regard to law enforcement officers who are covered under the state industrial insurance act, that the following are occupational diseases: Heart problems and infectious diseases.
HB 2638-S by House Committee on Public Safety (originally sponsored by Representatives Goodman, Pettigrew, Appleton, and Ortiz-Self; by request of Department of Corrections) Creating a graduated reentry program of partial confinement for certain offenders. Authorizes the secretary of the department of corrections to transfer an offender from a department correctional facility to home detention in the community if it is determined that the graduated reentry program is an appropriate placement and requires the secretary to assist the offender's transition from confinement to the community.Creates a graduated reentry program of partial confinement for certain offenders.
HB 2640-S by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Buys, Peterson, Pike, Lytton, Stambaugh, and Blake) Limiting liability for registered apiarists. Provides immunity from liability, to a person who owns or operates an apiary, is a registered apiarist, abides by all applicable ordinances, and operates the apiary as required, for civil damages that occur in connection with the keeping and maintaining of bees, bee equipment, queen breeding equipment, apiaries, and appliances.
HB 2643-S by House Committee on State Govt, Elections & IT (originally sponsored by Representative Muri) Repealing the electronic authentication act. Repeals chapter 19.34 RCW (the Washington electronic authentication act).
HB 2651-S by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Stanford, Johnson, Macri, Haler, Tharinger, Goodman, Caldier, Appleton, Harris, Jinkins, Barkis, Dolan, Senn, Gregerson, Wylie, Tarleton, McBride, Doglio, Eslick, Pollet, Slatter, Fey, and Santos) Increasing the personal needs allowance for people in residential and institutional care settings. States that beginning January 1, 2019, the personal needs allowance for clients being served in medical institutions and residential settings is seventy dollars.
HB 2664-S by House Committee on Technology & Economic Development (originally sponsored by Representatives Dye, Doglio, Jenkin, Chapman, Vick, Stonier, Wylie, and Walsh) 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.
HB 2665-S by House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Macri and Appleton) Eliminating certain requirements for the annexation of an unincorporated island of territory. Eliminates certain requirements for the annexation of an unincorporated island of territory.
HB 2667-S by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Macri, McBride, Ormsby, Stanford, Senn, Stonier, Kloba, Jinkins, Gregerson, Appleton, Ortiz-Self, Wylie, Doglio, Pollet, Slatter, Fey, Goodman, and Santos) Concerning eligibility for the essential needs and housing support and the aged, blind, or disabled assistance programs. Modifies eligibility for the essential needs and housing support program and the aged, blind, or disabled assistance program to improve housing stability for people with disabilities and seniors.Requires the department of social and health services to share client data for individuals eligible for essential needs and housing support with the department of commerce and designated essential needs and housing support entities.Requires the department of commerce, in collaboration with the department of social and health services, to provide a secure and current list of individuals eligible for the essential needs and housing support program to designated entities within each county.
HB 2677-S by House Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Representatives Irwin, Blake, Condotta, Orcutt, Volz, Barkis, Hargrove, MacEwen, Jinkins, and Goodman) Establishing permissible methods of parking a motorcycle. Authorizes local authorities to, by ordinance or resolution, permit: (1) Angle parking on any roadway, including angle parking solely of motorcycles; and(2) More than one motorcycle to occupy a parking space, provided that the parked motorcycles occupying the parking space do not exceed the boundaries of that parking space.
HB 2690-S by House Committee on Capital Budget (originally sponsored by Representatives Peterson and Griffey) Clarifying the authority and procedures for contracting by public port districts. Allows a port district to: (1) Construct a public work, by contract, without calling for bids if the estimated cost of the work or improvement, including cost of materials, supplies, and equipment, will not exceed the sum of forty thousand dollars; and(2) Procure public works with a unit priced contract for the purpose of completing anticipated types of work based on hourly rates or unit pricing for one or more categories of work or trades.
HB 2692-S by House Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Representatives Fey, Hayes, Lovick, Rodne, Irwin, Chapman, Stanford, Ortiz-Self, Sawyer, Muri, Kilduff, Smith, Hargrove, Condotta, Jinkins, Goodman, and Tarleton) Concerning the minimum monthly salary paid to Washington state patrol troopers and sergeants. Declares that it is the intent of the legislature that the minimum monthly salary paid to state patrol troopers and sergeants as a result of the collective bargaining process be at least the median salary of the law enforcement agencies listed in this act.Requires the office of financial management to: (1) As part of the salary survey, report to the governor and the legislative transportation committees on the efficacy of Washington state patrol recruitment and retention efforts; and(2) Using the results of the 2016 salary survey as the baseline data, include in the report an analysis of voluntary resignations of state patrol troopers and sergeants and a comparison of state patrol academy class sizes and trooper graduations.
HB 2712-S by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Gregerson, Appleton, Bergquist, Stokesbary, Pollet, Dent, Senn, Caldier, Irwin, Stambaugh, Lovick, Sells, Pettigrew, Hudgins, Wylie, Tarleton, Macri, Sullivan, McBride, Stanford, Doglio, Dolan, Kloba, Valdez, Chapman, Slatter, Orwall, Riccelli, Jinkins, Pellicciotti, Ormsby, Kilduff, Sawyer, McDonald, Peterson, Tharinger, Frame, Goodman, Santos, and Kagi) Eliminating lunch copays for students who qualify for reduced-price lunches. Requires school districts with school lunch programs to eliminate lunch copays for students in prekindergarten through third grade who qualify for reduced-price lunches.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Develop and implement a plan to increase the number of schools participating in the United States department of agriculture community eligibility provision; and(2) Work jointly with community-based organizations and national experts focused on hunger and nutrition that are familiar with the community eligibility provision.
HB 2719-S by House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Vick and Harris) Concerning the size of cities that must establish a law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 1 disability board. Changes the size of the population in which cities are required to establish a law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 1 disability board having jurisdiction over members employed by those cities.
HB 2723-S by House Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Representatives Shea, Eslick, and Condotta) Modifying the types of off-road vehicles subject to local government regulation. Authorizes certain cities and counties to designate a road or highway within its boundaries to be suitable for use by wheeled all-terrain vehicles in the same manner as for other off-road vehicles.
HB 2730-S by House Committee on Finance (originally sponsored by Representatives Jinkins, Steele, Chapman, Wilcox, Blake, Eslick, Haler, Tharinger, and Slatter) Encouraging employers to promote and support workers' educational attainment. Provides a business and occupation tax credit and a public utility tax credit to employers with fewer than fifty employees for the full amount of approved contributions to qualified educational expenses of eligible employees.Requires the department of revenue to keep a running total of credits approved for each calendar year.Requires the application for the tax credits to be submitted to the department before making a contribution to qualified educational expenses.Expires December 31, 2029.
HB 2731-S by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Jinkins, Macri, Cody, Tharinger, Kilduff, Slatter, Clibborn, Stonier, Valdez, Robinson, Riccelli, Hansen, Orwall, Stanford, Gregerson, Doglio, and Frame) Concerning collection of medical debt. Requires the state institute for public policy to: (1) Conduct a study of medical debt in the state; and(2) Include in the report, a systematic review of the prevalence and impact of medical debt on Washingtonians and a comparison of the laws and practices regarding medical debt collection in this state with those in other states.Allows the state institute for public policy, in conducting its analysis, to work with the administrative office of the courts and individual courts to access necessary data.Expires January 1, 2020.
HB 2733-S by House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Representatives Orcutt, Chapman, Maycumber, Tharinger, Dent, Kretz, Blake, Fitzgibbon, and Muri) Establishing a prescribed burn certification program at the department of natural resources. Requires the department of natural resources to: (1) Create a prescribed fire program, in support of the goals and strategies identified in the 20-year forest health strategic plan and pursuant to the forest health treatment framework; and(2) Create a prescribed burn manager certification program for those who practice prescribed burning in the state.
HB 2743-S by House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Representatives Springer, Graves, Slatter, McBride, Goodman, Rodne, Appleton, and Tharinger) Concerning the integration of reclaimed water, water system planning, and groundwater source protection. Requires a permit applicant or permittee to enter into a written agreement with an affected group A public water system before he or she may convey, distribute, store, supply, or use reclaimed water at one or more locations within, or in hydrologic connection to, an aquifer or groundwater source covered by a critical aquifer recharge area, a wellhead protection area, or a sole source aquifer area.Authorizes an affected group A public water system to waive the agreement requirement for a period of time not to exceed the term of the reclaimed water permit.Requires the department of health and the department of ecology to provide reasonable technical assistance on certain issues, if jointly requested by a group A water system and a reclaimed water permit applicant or permittee.
HB 2774-S by House Committee on State Govt, Elections & IT (originally sponsored by Representatives Condotta and Steele) Exempting information relating to the regulation of explosives from public disclosure. Exempts the following from disclosure under the public records act: Records obtained and reports submitted as required by the Washington state explosives act.Requires the public records exemptions accountability committee, by December 1, 2022, to prepare and submit a report to the legislature that includes recommendations on whether the exemption created above should be continued, modified, or terminated.
HB 2782-S by House Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Representatives Kilduff, Stambaugh, Chapman, Muri, and Doglio) Concerning electric-assisted bicycles. Modifies electric-assisted bicycle provisions with regard to: Permanently affixed labels 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.
HB 2786-S by House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Kilduff and Muri) Concerning membership in the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 2 for firefighters employed by the department of corrections or the department of social and health services and serving at a prison or civil commitment center located on an island. Authorizes a member of plan 2 of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system who was a member of the public employees' retirement system while employed by the department of social and health services or the department of corrections as a firefighter serving at a prison or civil commitment center on an island to: (1) Remain a member of the public employees' retirement system;(2) Leave any service credit earned as a member of the public employees' retirement system in that system, and have all future service earned in the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 2, becoming a dual member; or(3) Make an election, filed with the department of retirement systems, to transfer service credit previously earned as a firefighter for the department of corrections or the department of social and health services in the public employees' retirement system plan 2 or plan 3 to the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 2.
HB 2787-S by House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Caldier, Kilduff, Dent, Senn, Frame, Doglio, McDonald, Pollet, and Santos) Concerning creation of the select committee on supported employment services for individuals with developmental disabilities. Creates the select committee on supported employment services for individuals with developmental disabilities.Expires December 30, 2018.
HB 2790-S by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representative Kraft) Concerning the condominium and homeowners' association dispute resolution program. Requires the attorney general to establish a pilot program for the resolution of condominium and homeowners' association disputes in Clark, King, and Spokane counties to provide owners and associations with a cost-effective and time-efficient process to resolve disputes regarding alleged violations of the horizontal property regimes act (condominiums), the condominium act, and the laws of homeowners' associations.Requires the chief administrative law judge, when requested by the attorney general, to assign an administrative law judge to conduct proceedings under this act.
HB 2791-S by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Kilduff, Senn, and Hayes) Concerning faith-based exemptions regarding criminal mistreatment of children and vulnerable adults. Addresses Christian science treatment, faith-based exemptions, and the criminal mistreatment of children and vulnerable adults.
HB 2798-S by House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Kagi and Jinkins) Concerning the baby court initiative. Creates the baby court initiative to support early interventions with parents of young children who are found to be dependent.Defines "baby court" as a therapeutic court that provides an intensive court process for families with a child under age three who has been found dependent pursuant to chapter 13.34 RCW (the juvenile court act).Requires the family and juvenile court improvement grant program to: (1) Develop standards for baby courts;(2) Develop a process where a superior court may apply for grant funds from the grant program to establish a baby court;(3) Distribute grant funds to support baby courts in two superior courts that serve rural and urban populations;(4) Develop and define the outcome measures for baby courts;(5) Collect outcome measure data that is included in an annual report that summarizes the results of baby courts during the previous year; and(6) Sponsor and coordinate training for judicial officers and other professionals that participate in baby courts receiving grant funding.
HB 2814-S by House Committee on Technology & Economic Development (originally sponsored by Representatives Smith, McCabe, and Young) Studying state policies and programs that impact the affordability of retail electric bills in Washington state. Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to: (1) In order to facilitate a study of state policies and programs that have an impact on the affordability of retail electric bills in the state, submit a report that contains an inventory of state policies, programs, incentives, and tax preferences that may have a direct or indirect impact on retail electric rates in the state, including items that regulate greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power generation, transmission, and distribution sector of the economy; and(2) Consult with the department of commerce, the department of ecology, the Washington State University extension energy office, the utilities and transportation commission, and electric utilities in completing the inventory and an assessment.Expires June 1, 2019.
HB 2822-S by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Steele, McBride, Muri, Johnson, Caldier, Valdez, Eslick, and Gregerson) Concerning service animals. Penalizes the intentional misrepresentation of a service animal.States that a person has committed a civil infraction and will be assessed a monetary penalty for the crime of misrepresentation of a service animal. The maximum penalty and default amount is five hundred dollars.
HB 2831-S by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Senn, Chapman, Clibborn, Vick, Springer, Appleton, and Barkis) Concerning construction defect actions. Requires the board of directors of a unit owners' association or a homeowners' association, before service of a summons and complaint on a defendant, with respect to construction defect actions, to mail or deliver written notice to the last known address of each construction professional against whom an action is proposed.
HB 3000 by Representatives Vick, Harris, Kraft, Walsh, Hayes, Manweller, Taylor, Pike, Young, Maycumber, Van Werven, Hargrove, Caldier, and Chandler Providing property tax relief to all Washingtonians for taxes levied for collection in 2018. Lowers the property tax rate and issues property tax refunds for calendar year 2018 in order to return excess state revenue back to the taxpayers.
SB 6203-S by Senate Committee on Energy, Environment & Technology (originally sponsored by Senators Carlyle, Ranker, Palumbo, Nelson, Pedersen, Frockt, Billig, Rolfes, McCoy, Keiser, Wellman, Liias, Hunt, Chase, Saldaña, and Kuderer; by request of Governor Inslee) Reducing carbon pollution by investing in rural economic development and a clean energy economy. Imposes a carbon pollution tax on: (1) The sale or use within this state of fossil fuels, including fossil fuels used in generating electricity; or(2) The sale or consumption within this state of electricity generated through the combustion of fossil fuels.Requires the department of revenue to convene a stakeholder work group to examine the integration of carbon pricing in electricity markets within the state and transactions with markets outside the state.Creates the joint committee on climate programs oversight and requires the committee to be responsible for ongoing review of the implementation of the carbon pollution tax and funding from the revenue of that tax.Creates the pollution cleanup fund advisory board within the executive office of the governor to oversee implementation of this act toward reducing pollution and facilitating the transition to a clean energy economy.Creates an economic and environmental justice oversight panel as a subcommittee of the pollution cleanup fund advisory board.Prohibits a state agency from adopting or enforcing a statewide program that sets a greenhouse gas emissions cap or charge.Requires the utilities and transportation commission and the department of commerce to create a technical standards committee and a technical advisory committee, as appropriate, to advise certain parties on utility reinvestment of certain credited money.Establishes clean energy investment programs and plans.Creates the carbon pollution reduction account, the energy transformation account, the transition assistance account, the water and natural resources resilience account, and the rural economic development account.Makes an appropriation from the rural economic development account to the department of commerce for providing local governments, communities, public and private entities, and consumer-owned and investor-owned energy utilities to develop strategies and plans for deployment of broadband infrastructure and access to broadband services to unserved and underserved areas of the state.
SB 6309-S by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Darneille, Miloscia, O'Ban, Rivers, Frockt, and Hunt) Extending the timeline for completing a family assessment response. Changes the timeline, from ninety days to one hundred twenty days, in which the family assessment response services can be offered with parental agreement.
SB 6314-S by Senate Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Senators Dhingra, Fain, Nelson, Hasegawa, Hunt, Palumbo, and Saldaña) Extending the existing state property tax exemption for residences of senior citizens and disabled persons to local regular property taxes. Provides a local regular property tax exemption on the residences of senior citizens and disabled persons.
SB 6318-S by Senate Committee on Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks (originally sponsored by Senators Takko, Warnick, and Van De Wege; by request of Department of Agriculture) Clarifying existing law by creating a new intrastate food safety and security chapter from existing intrastate food safety laws and moving certain provisions in the intrastate commerce food, drugs, and cosmetics act to the titles of the agencies that administer the provisions. Establishes the food safety and security act.Protects the public from adulteration, misbranding, and false advertisement of food in intrastate commerce; and promotes uniformity with federal law, governmental transparency, and regulatory fairness.Clarifies existing law by creating a new intrastate food safety and security chapter from existing intrastate food safety laws and moving certain provisions in the intrastate commerce in food, drugs, and cosmetics act to the titles of the agencies that administer the provisions.
SB 6334-S by Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Dhingra, Angel, and Darneille; by request of Department of Social and Health Services) Concerning child support, but only including a parent's obligation to provide medical support, use of electronic funds transfers, notice of noncompliance, adoption of the economic table recommended by the child support work group, and references to the federal poverty level in self-support reserve limitations. Modifies child support provisions regarding: Health care coverage; electronic funds transfers; the economic table for basic child support; minimum support obligation; and the self-support reserve.
SB 6340-S by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Conway, Bailey, Hobbs, Walsh, Hasegawa, Hunt, Mullet, Keiser, Palumbo, and Saldaña; by request of Select Committee on Pension Policy) Providing a benefit increase to certain retirees of the public employees' retirement system plan 1 and the teachers' retirement system plan 1. Requires the beneficiaries who are receiving a monthly benefit from the teachers' retirement system plan 1 or the public employees' retirement system plan 1 to receive an increase to their monthly benefit of two percent multiplied by the beneficiaries' monthly benefit, not to exceed sixty-two dollars and fifty cents.
SB 6345-S by Senate Committee on Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks (originally sponsored by Senators Billig, Carlyle, Ranker, Van De Wege, Chase, Darneille, Hasegawa, Hunt, Keiser, Palumbo, and Rolfes) Concerning the use of hydraulic fracturing in the exploration for and production of oil and natural gas. Imposes a moratorium, until December 31, 2028, on the use of hydraulic fracturing in the exploration for and production of oil and natural gas.
SB 6347-S by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Wagoner, Fortunato, Honeyford, Palumbo, Mullet, and Rivers) Expanding the property tax exemption for new and rehabilitated multiple-unit dwellings in urban centers. Extends the property tax exemption for new and rehabilitated multifamily housing to increase the number of affordable housing units for low to moderate-income residents in certain urban growth areas.
SB 6377-S by Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections (originally sponsored by Senators Warnick, Dhingra, Conway, and Van De Wege; by request of LEOFF Plan 2 Retirement Board) Addressing the definition of veteran. Designates the end of the Persian Gulf War as February 28, 1991, or ending on November 30, 1995, if the participant was awarded a campaign badge or medal for that period.Includes in the definition of "combat veteran" a period of military service that would qualify for a campaign badge or medal.
SB 6389-S by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Zeiger, Hobbs, Wellman, and Hasegawa) Regarding career and technical education in alternative learning experience programs. States that, in addition to the allocation provided by the superintendent of public instruction to school districts for each student enrolled in an alternative learning experience course, if the course is a vocational alternative learning experience course, and is a site-based course, then the allocated state funding must also include vocational program funding enhancements.
SB 6396-S by Senate Committee on Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks (originally sponsored by Senators Wellman, Carlyle, McCoy, Van De Wege, Billig, Chase, Keiser, and Kuderer) Concerning the use of perfluorinated chemicals in food packaging. Prohibits a person from manufacturing, knowingly selling, offering for sale, distributing for sale, or distributing for food packaging to which perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals have been intentionally added in any amount.Requires the department of ecology to: (1) Conduct an assessment to determine if a safer alternative to perfluoroalkyl chemicals in specific applications of food packaging is available; and(2) Publish its findings in the Washington State Register.
SB 6399-S by Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care (originally sponsored by Senators Becker, Cleveland, Rivers, Brown, Bailey, Fain, Kuderer, and Van De Wege) Concerning telemedicine payment parity. Requires the collaborative for the advancement of telemedicine to: (1) Review the concept of telemedicine payment parity and develop recommendations on reimbursing for telemedicine and store and forward technology at the same rate as if the service were provided in person by the provider, for treatment of diabetes mellitus, stroke, mental health conditions, opioid dependence, and chronic pain; and(2) Include in its recommendations, parameters for a three to five-year telemedicine payment parity pilot program.
SB 6417-S by Senate Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored 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 an intent 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 6419-S by Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education (originally sponsored 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.
SB 6437-S by Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored 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, scrap processors, and scrap metal businesses 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.Creates the abandoned recreational vehicle disposal account, and authorizes the office of financial management, during the 2017-2019 biennium, to grant authorization for the account to be in temporary cash deficiency for the start-up and establishment of the initial reimbursement for abandoned recreational vehicles.
SB 6449-S by Senate Committee on Energy, Environment & Technology (originally sponsored 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, in consultation with the utilities and transportation commission, 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, the utilities and transportation commission, and the department of health, explore development of voluntary gas quality standards for the injection of renewable natural gas into the natural gas pipeline system; 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 6452-S by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored 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 two-year pilot 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.Requires the state health care authority to enforce requirements in managed care contracts to ensure care coordination and network adequacy issues are addressed in order to remove barriers to access to certain mental health services.
SB 6456-S by Senate Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored 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 amend or adopt 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.
SB 6457-S by Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce (originally sponsored by Senator Conway) Concerning real estate appraisals and 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.Addresses the following, with regard to real estate appraisers: The expiration, renewal, and inactive status of certificates, licenses, and registrations; unprofessional conduct; and disciplinary actions.
SB 6458-S by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Billig, Mullet, Wellman, Rolfes, Liias, and Kuderer) Providing school districts with authority to impose an additional enrichment levy amount to fund high quality 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 the expenses are limited to twenty-five percent of the total revenues generated by the tax levy and school districts have demonstrated a need for additional classroom space and the facilities would be used primarily for high quality early learning programs.
SB 6460-S by Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education (originally sponsored 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.Expires June 30, 2020.
SB 6468-S by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored 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. Requires the department of commerce, in collaboration with the department of social and health services, to: (1) Administer grants to community hospitals or other community entities to expand and establish new capacity for behavioral health services in communities including children's mental health services; and(2) Establish criteria for the issuance of the grants.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 sections 201 and 202 of this act to a vote of the people.
SB 6474-S by Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education (originally sponsored by Senators McCoy, Sheldon, Chase, Conway, Frockt, Hasegawa, Hunt, Kuderer, Palumbo, Rolfes, Saldaña, and Van De Wege) Creating a pilot project for tribal compact schools. Creates a pilot project for tribal compact schools to explore and implement options in adjusting school attendance and calendar requirements for the purpose of accommodating cultural, fisheries, and agricultural events and replacing graduation testing requirements with culturally relevant and community-based standards.Authorizes tribal compact schools participating in the pilot project to develop various options in implementing the pilot project.Requires the office of native education within the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Collaborate with each tribal education compact school participating in the pilot project; and(2) Review terms of the compact that relate to the school's pilot project.Requires the superintendent of public instruction, if appropriate, to convene a government-to-government meeting with the tribal compact school to revise the compact to reflect the terms of the pilot project.Expires September 1, 2023.
SB 6484-S by Senate Committee on Financial Institutions & Insurance (originally sponsored by Senator Mullet) Concerning nuisance abatement and foreclosures. Modifies provisions relating to nuisance abatement and foreclosures.
SB 6488-S by Senate Committee on Energy, Environment & Technology (originally sponsored by Senators Carlyle, Liias, Conway, and Kuderer) Concerning ticket sales over the internet. Prohibits a person, firm, or corporation from: (1) Reselling or engaging in the business of reselling tickets to a place of entertainment without first having procured a ticket reseller license from the department of licensing for each location at which business will be conducted; or(2) Operating an internet web site or other electronic service that provides a mechanism for two or more parties to participate in a resale transaction or that facilitates resale transactions by certain means without first having procured a ticket reseller license from the department of licensing for each location at which business will be conducted.Authorizes the attorney general to bring an action in the name of the state, or on behalf of persons residing in the state, to restrain and prevent an act prohibited or declared to be unlawful in this act.Creates the ticket reseller licensing account.
SB 6516-S by Senate Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Senators Wilson, Short, and Sheldon) Allowing limited storm and sanitary sewer systems for rural economic development in the growth management act. Authorizes cities and water-sewer districts to extend storm and sanitary sewer systems outside an urban growth area for allowed uses or in certain limited circumstances by designing and sizing the sewer line so that it may serve only particular structures and not intervening lands.
SB 6519-S by Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators King and Hobbs) Revising the establishment of marine pilotage tariffs. Removes the following duties and options from the board of pilotage commissioners and places them on the utilities and transportation commission: (1) Establishing the pilotage tariffs for pilotage services provided under chapter 88.16 RCW (the pilotage act);(2) Establishing extra compensation for extra services to vessels in distress, for awaiting vessels, for vessels in direct transit to or from a Canadian port where Puget Sound pilotage is required for a portion of the voyage, or for being carried to sea on vessels against the will of the pilot; and(3) As an element of the Puget Sound pilotage district tariff, considering pilot retirement plan expenses incurred in the prior year in either pilotage district.Prohibits the state from being obligated to fund or pay for any portion of retirement payments for pilots or retired pilots.Requires a port district, providing pilotage services, to include a pension charge in its recommended pilotage tariff until such time as the pilot retirement agreement expenses for Grays Harbor bar pilots employed before October 1, 2001, have terminated.Allows expenditures from the pilotage account to be used by the utilities and transportation commission for purposes related to pilotage tariff rate setting.
SB 6522-S by Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce (originally sponsored by Senators Liias and Fain) Limiting noncompetition agreements. Addresses the protection of workers from work restrictions.Prohibits an employer from restricting, restraining, or prohibiting an employee, who works fewer than forty hours per week or earns less that two hundred percent of the applicable state or local minimum wage, from: (1) Having an additional job;(2) Supplementing their income by working for another employer;(3) Working as an independent contractor; or(4) Being self-employed.
SB 6526-S by Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce (originally sponsored by Senators Conway, Keiser, Hasegawa, Saldaña, and Kuderer) Concerning noncompetition agreements. States that a contract that restrains an hourly employee from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is against public policy and is void and unenforceable to the extent that it restrains a person from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business.
SB 6531-S by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Pedersen, Warnick, Carlyle, Rivers, Keiser, Fain, Rolfes, King, Hobbs, Nelson, O'Ban, Zeiger, Billig, Bailey, Darneille, Miloscia, Frockt, Cleveland, Conway, Wellman, Kuderer, Hasegawa, Chase, Hunt, Van De Wege, Takko, Dhingra, Liias, Ranker, Palumbo, McCoy, Saldaña, Wilson, Angel, Wagoner, and Short) Regarding the school construction assistance program. Addresses the allotment of appropriations for school plant facilities and the computation of state aid for school plant projects.
SB 6544-S by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Chase, Brown, Hasegawa, Wagoner, Wellman, Takko, and Conway) Establishing the future of work task force. Creates the future of work task force to: (1) Inventory and assess trends and factors that are current or potential drivers of transformation of industries and work;(2) Identify policies and practices that will help businesses, workers, and communities thrive economically, while responding to rapid changes in technology, workplace practices, environmental and security issues, and global interdependence;(3) Recommend mechanisms and structures for sustainable industry sector partnerships through which employers and workers can collaborate to support their sector's growth; and(4) Create a policy framework that supports a talent development pipeline and lifelong learning structure.Requires the workforce training and education coordinating board to perform certain duties under the direction of the future of work task force.Provides that this act is null and void if appropriations are not approved.Expires June 30, 2020.
SB 6620 by Senators Frockt, Ranker, Kuderer, Dhingra, Carlyle, Darneille, McCoy, Keiser, Billig, Hunt, Saldaña, and Pedersen Improving security in schools and the safety of students. Requires the superintendent of public instruction to allocate grants to school districts for the purpose of implementing emergency response systems using evolving technology to expedite the response and arrival of law enforcement in the event of a threat or emergency at school.Creates the students protecting students program, within the office of the attorney general, to operate a statewide communications center that provides students and the community with the means to relay information anonymously concerning unsafe, potentially harmful, dangerous, violent, or criminal activities, or the threat of these activities, first to law enforcement and public safety agencies, and as appropriate to school officials.Authorizes the office of the attorney general to contract with an organization or call center to provide this program.Requires the same background check process to purchase semiautomatic rifles and shotguns with tactical features as is currently required for pistols.Requires the Washington association of sheriffs and police chiefs to establish a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to conduct background checks for the purchase and sale of pistols, semiautomatic rifles, and shotguns with tactical features.Exempts the following from public inspection and copying under the public records act: Personally identifiable information received, made, or kept by, or received from, the students protecting students program that is confidential.
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