Increasing the authorized number of days for a temporary vehicle trip permit.

Concerning service contract providers.

Addresses service contract providers and protection product guarantee provisions regarding: (1) A provider's net worth threshold, ability to pay its debts, and the use of generally accepted accounting standards in regard to unearned contract fees or expected contract claims; and

Modifying the offense of rape in the third degree.

Siting of marijuana businesses in relation to areas or facilities frequented by children.

Modifying theater license provisions.

Regarding foreclosure and distraint sales of manufactured/mobile or park model homes.

Adopting new requirements for locating underground facilities, including positive response, minimum marking standards, adopting a new process for coordinating large projects, and requiring new and replacement facilities to be locatable.

Concerning dedicated funding for animal shelter capital projects.

Requires the department of commerce to establish a competitive process to: (1) Solicit proposals for and prioritize projects whose primary objective is to assist animal shelters in acquiring, constructing, or rehabilitating facilities; and

Studying the constitutional and statutory obligations and tax revenue capacity of local government entities.

Requires the department of commerce to conduct a study that analyzes local governments' revenue capacity in relation to its constitutional and statutory obligations.

Addressing the state auditor's duties and procedures.

Concerning the disposition of forfeited firearms by the Washington state patrol.

Adding proximity to working forests to the residential real estate disclosure statement.

Concerning the use of child passenger restraint systems.

Revises child restraint system requirements.

Requires the traffic safety commission to produce and disseminate informational and educational materials explaining: (1) The proper use of child restraint systems in motor vehicles;

(2) Safety risks of not properly using the restraint systems;

(3) Where assistance on proper installation and use of restraint systems can be obtained; and

Concerning the Walla Walla watershed management pilot program.

Finds that participants in the Walla Walla watershed pilot program have demonstrated exceptional cooperation in developing and implementing an innovative water management concept that enhances flexibility in water use since convening in 2009.

Requires the existing authorities and structure of the pilot program to evolve to: (1) Meet the growing water resource demands in the watershed; and

(2) Protect and enhance ecological functions.

Extends the pilot program through June 30, 2021, to: (1) Allow it to perform internal and external evaluations;

(2) Build upon previous pilot program efforts;

(3) Continue Walla Walla river flow enhancement technical work; and

(4) Develop a thirty-year integrated water resource management strategic plan.

Concerning financial responsibility of motorcycle operators.

Concerning actions arising out of real estate appraisal activity.

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

Requires a hospital that does not provide sexual assault evidence kit collection, or have appropriate providers available to provide the collection at all times, to develop a plan by July 1, 2020, to assist individuals with obtaining the collection.

Requires a hospital that does not perform the collection or have appropriate providers available to, beginning July 1, 2020: (1) Provide notice, within two hours of a request, to an individual who presents in the emergency department and requests a collection that the hospital does not perform the collection or does not have appropriate providers available; and

Concerning salaries of nonprofit health carriers.

Requires a health carrier, that is a nonprofit organization and has a paid board of directors, to convene a panel of enrollees who will: (1) Set the compensation and benefit levels of the carrier's board of directors; and

Concerning fair dental insurance practices.

Finds that: (1) In 2000, the patient bill of rights was enacted to ensure that health insurers use appropriate medical personnel to make health care decisions and enrollees have access to an impartial process for appealing an insurer's decisions; and

(2) The patient bill of rights has been successful in protecting consumers by establishing fair health insurance practices.

Declares an intent to curb abuses by dental plans by: (1) Extending the protections of the patient bill of rights to health plans that offer dental only coverage;

(2) Protecting health care providers who advocate on behalf of their dental patients; and

Concerning vaccination and antibody titer test notification.

Establishes the vaccine consumer protection act.

Modifying the qualifications of members composing the county road administration board.

Concerning funding the governor's security and protection while traveling outside Washington state for campaign-related or nonstate business purposes.

Finds that an increase in the governor's out-of-state travel for campaign-related or other nonstate business purposes is causing a budget shortfall in the funding for the executive protection unit in the Washington state patrol.

Creates the governor's nonstate business travel reimbursement account to which private contributions can be made to offset the extra protection and security costs as a result of the out-of-state travel.

Prohibiting the creation and maintenance of a database concerning pistol sales or transfers.

Prohibits the department of licensing from keeping copies or records of applications to purchase pistols or pistol transfers or sales.

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

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

Requires an applicant requesting to increase bed capacity to seven or eight beds to successfully demonstrate the following to the department: (1) Financial solvency and management experience for the home under its ownership;

(2) The ability to meet other relevant safety, health, and operating standards pertaining to the operation of an eight-bed home, including the ability to meet the needs of all current and prospective residents; and

(3) How to mitigate the potential impact of vehicular traffic related to the operation of the home.

Prohibiting a government database of law abiding owners of legal firearms.

Prohibits the department of licensing from keeping copies or records of applications to purchase pistols or pistol transfers.

Concerning the slaughter of horses and other equines for human consumption.

Prohibits a person from: (1) Slaughtering a horse if the person knows or should know that the meat from the slaughtered animal is intended to be used for human consumption; and

(2) Possessing, purchasing, bartering, selling, or transporting horses if the person knows or should know that the horse or its meat will be used for human consumption.

Concerning breed-based dog regulations.

Modifying quick title service fees.

Decreases the cost, from fifty dollars to twenty-five dollars, for a quick title service fee.

Modifying the types of off-road vehicles subject to local government regulation.

Concerning processes and criteria for the consideration of environmental impacts under certain environmental laws.

Adds requirements that apply to the decision by the department of ecology to grant or deny a water quality certification under the federal clean water act.

Requires the department to adopt rules pertaining to: (1) Water quality certifications under the federal clean water act; and

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

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

Reducing government imposed obligations associated with bulkhead maintenance or repairs.

Encourages maintenance and repair of bulkheads by removing an uncertain, lengthy, and potentially costly process that ultimately cannot prevent what is legally authorized.

Concerning amendatory format requirements for text of initiatives.

Requires a legible copy of a proposed initiative, that is filed with the secretary of state, to be in the amendatory format required under RCW 29A.72.100.

Requires the sponsor of the measure to accept the recommendations of the code reviser's office that directly relate to the required amendatory format.

Concerning relocation assistance for manufactured/mobile home park tenants.

Addresses the closure and conversion of manufactured/mobile home parks.

Provides a mechanism for assisting park tenants to demolish and dispose of their homes and to secure housing.

Establishing a soju endorsement to certain restaurant licenses.

Requires the state liquor and cannabis board to: (1) Create a soju endorsement to the beer and/or wine restaurant license and to the spirits, beer, and wine restaurant license that allows the holder of the license to serve soju for on-premises consumption by the bottle;

(2) Develop information to be provided to soju endorsement holders that includes the requirements of the soju endorsement; and

Concerning school resource officers in schools.

Concerning increased fish hatchery production.

Establishes the Willapa Bay salmon restoration act.

Concerning the use of chemicals to prevent the decline of aquaculture production.

Establishes the aquaculture fairness act.

Allowing public school districts and private schools to adopt a policy authorizing permanent employees to possess firearms on school grounds under certain conditions.

Concerning opioid overdose medication at kindergarten through twelfth grade schools and higher education institutions.

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

Authorizes a school to obtain and maintain opioid overdose medication through a standing order.

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; and

(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.

Requires a public institution of higher education with a residence hall housing at least one hundred students to develop a plan for: (1) The maintenance and administration of opioid overdose medication in and around the residence hall; and

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

Promoting successful reentry by modifying the process for obtaining certificates of discharge and vacating conviction records.

Establishes the new hope act.

Granting interest arbitration to department of corrections employees.

Granting binding interest arbitration rights to certain uniformed personnel.

Recognizes that: (1) A public policy exists in the state against strikes by uniformed personnel as a means of settling their labor disputes;

(2) The uninterrupted and dedicated service of these classes of employees is vital to the welfare and public safety of the state; and

Concerning senior citizen property taxes.

Prohibiting the lethal removal of gray wolves.

Prohibits the department of fish and wildlife from authorizing the killing of gray wolves.

Prohibiting hunting with the aid of dogs for certain purposes.

Revising the authority of commissioners of courts of limited jurisdiction.

Gives a court commissioner the same power, authority, and jurisdiction in criminal and civil matters as the appointing judges possess.

Modifying the process for prevailing parties to recover judgments in small claims court.

Concerning health care provider and health care facility whistleblower protections.

Concerning parenting plans.

Addresses sole decision-making authority and mutual decision-making authority in a parenting plan.

Focusing growth management act requirements on larger counties experiencing population growth.

Concerning agency rule-making authority.

Prohibits an agency from initiating rule making or adopting a rule that is subject to the administrative procedure act, except to the limited extent the rule is necessary for: (1) The implementation of the terms of a governor-declared state of emergency;

(2) The preservation of the public health, safety, or general welfare in response to a public health emergency; or

(3) The setting of time, place, or manner for the taking of wildlife, fish, or shellfish.

Providing a sales and use tax exemption for feminine hygiene products.

Providing a sales and use tax exemption for diapers.

Authorizing law enforcement to arrest persons in violation of certain no-contact orders involving victims of trafficking and promoting prostitution offenses.

Requires a police officer to arrest a person without a warrant when the officer has probable cause to believe that an order has been issued of which the person has knowledge under: (1) Chapter 9A.40 RCW (kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, custodial interference, luring, trafficking, and coercion of involuntary servitude; or

Creating a task force to identify the role of the workplace in helping curb domestic violence.

Creates a joint legislative task force on domestic violence and workplace resources to identify the role of the workplace in helping to curb domestic violence.

Requires the task force to review: (1) The role of the workplace in the lives of individuals experiencing domestic violence;

(2) The appropriate role of employers and employees in helping reduce the incidence of domestic violence; and

(3) Whether legislation is needed to address the issues.

Concerning school bus safety.

Requires every school bus, beginning September 1, 2020, to be equipped with an automated school bus safety camera.

Requires every school bus manufactured or assembled after September 1, 2020, to be equipped with a shoulder harness-type safety belt assembly for each passenger position.

Requires passengers in school buses equipped with seat belts to wear the belts when the school bus is in motion.

Creates the school bus safety account.

Establishing permissible methods of parking a motorcycle.

Requires a motorcycle stopped or parked on a highway to be stopped or parked parallel or at an angle to the curb or edge of the highway with at least one wheel or fender within twelve inches of the curb nearest to which the motorcycle is parked or as close as practicable to the edge of the shoulder nearest to which the motorcycle is parked.

Extending the business and occupation tax return filing due date for annual filers.

Extends the deadline for taxpayers who qualify to be annual filers.

Concerning the administration of marijuana to students for medical purposes.

Requires a school district to permit a student who meets certain requirements to consume marijuana for medical purposes on school grounds, aboard a school bus, or while attending a school-sponsored event.

Designating the Pacific razor clam as the state clam.

Expanding access to commercial fishing opportunities.

Authorizing seventeen year olds to participate in primary elections.

Concerning law enforcement.

Requires the criminal justice training commission, when developing curricula, to consider inclusion of alternatives to the use of physical or deadly force so that de-escalation tactics and less lethal alternatives are part of the decision-making process leading up to the consideration of deadly force.

Establishes a state policy that requires law enforcement personnel to provide or facilitate first aid that is rendered at the earliest safe opportunity to injured persons at a scene controlled by law enforcement.

Requires an independent investigation to be completed to inform a determination of whether the use of deadly force met the good faith standard and satisfied other applicable laws and policies, except as required by federal consent decree, federal settlement agreement, or federal court order, where the use of deadly force by a peace officer results in death, substantial bodily harm, or great bodily harm.

Requires a law enforcement agency to notify the governor's office of Indian affairs when a law enforcement officer's application of force results in the death of a person who is an enrolled member of a federally recognized Indian tribe.

Protecting consumers from charges for out-of-network health care services.

Establishes the balance billing protection act.

Declares an intent to: (1) Ban balance billing of consumers enrolled in fully insured, regulated insurance plans and plans offered to public employees under state health care authority provisions for certain services;

(2) Provide self-funded group health plans with an option to elect to be subject to the provisions of this act; and

Requiring debt collection complaints to be filed prior to service of summons and complaint.

Requires that debt collection complaints be filed before service of the summons and complaint on defendants to ensure that defendants: (1) Understand that it is an existing court case;

(2) Are informed of the case number; and

(3) Receive adequate notice and a reasonable opportunity to respond and be heard to avoid default judgment.

Concerning employment after public service in state government.

Concerning high capacity magazines.

Prohibits a person from manufacturing, possessing, distributing, importing, transferring, selling, offering to sell, or purchasing a large capacity magazine.

Concerning the creation of the insurance fraud surcharge account.

Concerning the tax treatment of renewable natural gas.

Provides a public utility tax exemption on the sale by a gas distribution business of renewable natural gas.

Protecting personal information.

Enhancing the prevailing wage laws to ensure contractor and owner accountability and worker protection.

Addressing undetectable and untraceable firearms.

Prohibits a person from knowingly or recklessly allowing, facilitating, aiding, or abetting the manufacture or assembly of an undetectable firearm or untraceable firearm.

Prohibits a person from discharging, or menacing or threatening another person, in the commission or furtherance of a felony, with an undetectable firearm or untraceable firearm.

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

Raises the legal age to twenty-one years for the lawful sale or distribution of tobacco and vapor products.

Concerning consumer competitive group insurance.

Exempts the following from certain rebating and other inducement laws: A payment by an insurer to offset documented expenses incurred by a group policyholder in changing coverages from one insurer to another or for implementing new insurance coverage.

Modifying certain common school provisions.

Modifies high school civics course provisions to authorize the required civics content and instruction to be embedded in career and technical education high school equivalency courses.

Revises the criteria for the second grade reading assessment.

Concerning governmental continuity during emergency periods.

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

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

Notifying purchasers of hearing instruments about uses and benefits of telecoil and bluetooth technology.

Requires a person who engages in fitting and dispensing of hearing instruments to: (1) Before initial fitting and purchase, notify a person seeking to purchase a hearing instrument, about the uses, benefits, and limitations of hearing instruments that are telecoil-enabled and compatible with assistive listening systems and that use bluetooth technology or other short range one-to-one technology similar to bluetooth; and

(2) Provide a receipt to each person who enters into an agreement to purchase a hearing instrument, containing language that verifies that before initial fitting and purchase the consumer was informed about the uses, benefits, and limitations of telecoil-enabled and bluetooth-enabled hearing instruments.

Requires the office of deaf and hard of hearing to develop educational materials to be distributed by hearing aid dispensers to persons with hearing loss that explain: (1) The uses, benefits, and limitations of current hearing assistive technology, including telecoil and bluetooth; and

Adding a faculty member to the board of regents at the research universities.

Creating a domestic violence offender registry.

Requires the Washington state patrol to: (1) Maintain a central registry of serious domestic violence offenders;

(2) Make the central registry available to the public through a searchable web site; and

Reducing the number of state supreme court judges.

Requires the supreme court to consist of five judges after the second Monday in January 2021.

Declares that beginning with the 2022 election, the terms of justices elected to the state supreme court are six years from and after the second Monday in January next following their election, and until their successors are elected and qualified.

Concerning the licensure and certification of massage therapists and reflexologists.

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

Concerning unfair practices involving compensation of athletes in higher education.

Authorizes a student who is enrolled at an institution of higher education to: (1) Receive compensation for services actually provided, including payment for the use of the student's name, image, or likeness, as long as the compensation is commensurate with the market value of the services provided; and

(2) Agree to be represented by an agent for any purpose.

Prohibits a person from prohibiting or suspending: (1) A student from competing in an intercollegiate athletic competition, or otherwise penalizing a student, because he or she has engaged in certain conduct; and

Concerning premium reduction for medicare-eligible retiree participants in the public employees' benefits board program.

Increasing appropriated funding for public defense services.

Requires a county or city to: (1) Provide documentation that attorneys providing public defense services are in compliance with the state supreme court standards for indigent defense; and

(2) Collect hours billed for nonpublic defense legal services in the previous calendar year from each individual or organization that contracts to perform public defense services.

Requires the office of public defense to: (1) Annually determine the cost of public defense services based on an average of the actual expenditures for the services reported by counties and cities for the previous two years;

(2) Monitor trial level criminal public defense services to determine eligibility of counties and cities to receive state funds; and

(3) Establish policies for the distribution of appropriated funds to eligible counties and cities.

Concerning long-term services and supports.

Addresses alternative funding for long-term care access.

States that the creation of a long-term care insurance benefit of an established dollar amount per day for eligible employees, paid through an employee payroll premium, is in the best interest of the state.

Creates the long-term services and supports trust commission.

Creates the long-term services and supports trust program.

Gives the state health care authority, the department of social and health services, and the employment security department distinct responsibilities in the implementation and administration of the program.

Concerning repercussions for littering.

Revises the waste reduction, recycling, and model litter control act regarding penalties and restitution.

Concerning certificates of academic and individual achievement.

Providing property tax relief to senior citizens.

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

Concerning the compensation of commissioners of certain metropolitan park districts.

Concerning appropriations for special education programs.

Establishing compassionate care renewals for medical marijuana qualifying patients.

Concerning the administration of marijuana to students for medical purposes.

Requires a school district to permit a student who meets certain requirements to consume marijuana concentrates for medical purposes on school grounds, aboard a school bus, or while attending a school-sponsored event.

Ensuring that commercial fishing revenue benefits communities most dependent on the industry.

Revising requirements governing release of confidential health care information for purposes of firearm background checks.

Revising requirements and penalties relating to the unsafe storage of firearms.

Providing notice about network adequacy to consumers.

Requires a health carrier to: (1) Beginning with the 2020 plan year, post information on its web site on the carrier's compliance with network adequacy standards adopted by the insurance commissioner for each of the carrier's health plans;

(2) Update the posted information at least quarterly; and

(3) Continue to post the information for at least two years after the end of the applicable plan year.

Evaluating competency to stand trial.

Concerning state general obligation bonds and related accounts.

Concerning the capital budget.

Concerning smoke detection devices.

Requires the seller of a dwelling unit, sold on or after the effective date of this act, to install smoke detection devices in the unit before the buyer or other person occupies the unit following the sale.

Requires insurance companies that write homeowner's insurance to allow an appropriate reduction in premium charges to persons who certify the dwelling unit covered under the insurance policy contains properly installed and maintained smoke detection devices.

Requiring the submission of a waiver to the federal government to create the Washington health security trust.

Creates the Washington health security trust to provide coverage for a set of health services for all residents.

Requires the joint select committee on health care oversight to contract for an actuarial analysis of the funding needs of the Washington health security trust and recommend a funding mechanism to the appropriate legislative standing committees and the governor.

Directs the legislature to enact legislation implementing the recommendations of the joint select committee during the 2020 regular legislative session.

Creates the reserve account, the displaced worker training account, and the benefits account.

Protecting taxpayers from home foreclosure.

Modifies home foreclosure provisions regarding the protection of taxpayers.

Eliminating use of detention for violation of a truancy-related court order while providing more opportunities for truant youth to access services and treatment.

Concerning nonprofit homeownership development.

Making 2017-2019 biennium second supplemental operating appropriations.

Making 2019-2021 biennium operating appropriations.

Reducing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with transportation fuels.

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

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

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

Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to: (1) Analyze, by December 1, 2027, the impacts of the initial five years of clean fuels program implementation; and

Concerning regionalization factors used for compensation for King county school districts on islands only connected to the mainland by ferry.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from hydrofluorocarbons.

Phases out the use of hydrofluorocarbons in various applications in the state, in a manner similar to the regulations that were adopted by the environmental protection agency, and that have been or will be adopted in several other states around the country.

Requires the department of ecology, in consultation with the department of commerce and the utilities and transportation commission, to complete a study addressing how to: (1) Increase the use of refrigerants with a low global warming potential in mobile sources, utility equipment, and consumer appliances; and

(2) Reduce other uses of hydrofluorocarbons.

Requires the department of enterprise services to establish purchasing and procurement policies that provide a preference for products that: (1) Are not restricted;

(2) Do not contain hydrofluorocarbons;

(3) Are not designed to function only in conjunction with hydrofluorocarbons; and

Amending state greenhouse gas emission limits for consistency with the most recent assessment of climate change science and with the United States' commitment under the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

Reducing the wasting of food in order to fight hunger and reduce environmental impacts.

Establishes a goal for the state to reduce by fifty percent the amount of food waste generated annually by 2030, relative to 2015 levels.

Creating a sales and use tax exemption for commercial car wash facilities.

Addressing motorcycle safety.

Revises provisions regarding: The state motorcycle safety program; two-wheeled and three-wheeled motorcycle instruction permits; administration of motorcycle instruction permit examinations; issuance and terms of permits; and composition of the motorcycle safety education advisory board.

Amending motor vehicle laws to align with federal definitions, make technical corrections, and move an effective date to meet a federal timeline.

Allowing certain beer and wine license holders to sell small amounts of spirits.

Concerning educator evaluations and professional development.

Updating the term essential academic learning requirements to state learning standards to reflect current terminology.

Updates certain common school provisions by changing the term "essential academic learning requirements" to "state learning standards" to reflect current terminology.

Concerning flexibility in high school graduation requirements.

Modifies certain common school provisions regarding flexibility in high school graduation requirements; individual student circumstances; and other circumstances that directly compromise a student's ability to learn.

Requires a student to: (1) Decide before the end of the first term of his or her last year of high school whether to receive credit for completed high school courses; and

(2) If he or she chooses to receive high school credit, decide before the end of the first term of his or her last year of high school whether to have the credit as a grade or as pass or no pass.

Requires the state board of education to convene and lead a competency-based education work group by June 1, 2019, for the purpose of facilitating student access to relevant and robust pathways aligned to their personal goals for their career and further education as reflected in their high school and beyond plans.

Directing sales and use tax revenues from the acquisition of motor vehicles to the motor vehicle account.

Establishing the Washington promise, providing for affordable access to postsecondary education.

Creates the Washington promise program to make the first two years of college affordable and accessible to low-income and moderate-income residents by offering a tuition waiver for eligible students enrolled in an associate degree or certificate program offered by the community and technical colleges.

Requires the office of student financial assistance to: (1) In consultation with the state board for community and technical colleges, establish a Washington promise pilot program in up to five cities or counties within certain parameters;

(2) Administer the Washington promise program for resident students seeking an associate's degree or certificate from a community or technical college; and

(3) In collaboration with the state board, conduct a study on the effectiveness of the Washington promise program.

Requires the pilot program to provide tuition free access to community and technical colleges within the participating city or county for students who have recently earned a high school diploma or the equivalent.

Repeals chapter 28B.119 RCW (the Washington promise scholarship program).

Regulating degree-granting institutions, private vocational schools, and other for-profit schools.

Promotes accountability and provides consumer protection to students and the public by regulating certain degree-granting institutions, private vocational schools, schools under chapter 18.16 RCW (cosmetologists, hair designers, barbers, manicurists, and estheticians), and other for-profit schools.

Recognizes that gainful employment requirements will keep for-profit degree-granting institutions, formerly for-profit degree-granting institutions, and private vocational schools accountable.

Prepares students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation.

Places duties on the following with regard to this act: The student achievement council, degree-granting institutions, the workforce training and education coordinating board, and the director of the department of licensing.

Creates an ombuds office, which will be housed within the student achievement council, to provide advocacy, support, and assistance to students of for-profit degree-granting institutions, formerly for-profit degree-granting institutions, private vocational schools, and other for-profit schools.

Concerning motorcycle helmet use.

Prohibits a person who is less than twenty-one years old from operating or riding on a motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, or moped on a state highway, county road, or city street unless he or she is wearing a motorcycle helmet.

Enabling electric utilities to prepare for the distributed energy future.

Declares that the policy of the state, that a distributed energy resources planning process engaged in by an electric utility, should accomplish the following: (1) Identify the data gaps that impede a robust planning process as well as any upgrades;

(2) Propose monitoring, control, and metering upgrades;

(3) Identify potential programs and tariffs to fairly compensate customers for the value of their distributed energy resources;

(4) Forecast the growth of distributed energy resources on the utility's distribution system;

(5) Provide a ten-year plan for distribution system investments and an analysis of nonwires alternatives for major transmission and distribution investments; and

(6) Include the distributed energy resources in the plan in the utility's integrated resource plan.

Concerning the electrification of transportation.

Authorizes the governing authority of an electric utility, formed under chapter 35.92 RCW (municipal utilities), and the commission of a public utility district to adopt a transportation electrification plan.

Requires the department of commerce to arrange for a study of utility capital expenditures projected to be driven by growth in distributed resources, including photovoltaic systems, electric vehicles, and other customer-owned technologies identified as likely to cause a shift in capital expenditures.

Requires the study to survey each of the state's utilities and include a low and high adoption scenario for each resource.

Authorizing an alternative form of regulation of electrical and natural gas companies.

Authorizes the utilities and transportation commission to regulate an electrical or gas company by authorizing an alternative form of regulation.

Concerning customer-sited electricity generation.

Authorizes an electric utility to: (1) Offer to make net metering available to eligible customer-generators with large net metering systems or small net metering systems;

(2) Offer an alternative to net metering for customer-generators with large net metering systems or small net metering systems in all or certain increments of the utility's distribution system; and

(3) Use net metering credits to assist qualified low-income residential customers of the electric utility in paying their electricity bills.

Places responsibility on a customer-generator for the purchase of a production meter and software if it is required by the electric utility to provide meter aggregation.

Addressing language access in public schools.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Implement a technical assistance program for language access to identify and disseminate best practices for providing language access services for linguistically and culturally diverse families;

(2) Monitor language access plan implementation to determine whether public schools are providing meaningful access to persons with limited English proficiency; and

(3) Convene a work group to guide the development of training standards or a curriculum for interpreters working in public schools.

Requires school districts to: (1) Supplement the language access training program with district-specific policies, procedures, and other information;

(2) Determine the language in which an enrolled student's family prefers to communicate with the school and if the family's language is not English, whether the family requires language services to communicate effectively with school district staff;

(3) Establish contracts for remote interpreter services for the following school year; and

(4) Document the language in which families of special education students prefer to communicate and whether a qualified interpreter for the family was provided at certain meetings.

Allowing residential marijuana agriculture.

Limits the quantity of marijuana and marijuana products a person may produce or possess.

States that a person, who is at least twenty-one years old and possesses marijuana in compliance, is considered an ultimate user who is prohibited from selling marijuana, useable marijuana, marijuana concentrate, or marijuana-infused products produced from his or her plants, and is not required to obtain a registration or a license.

Concerning early retirement options for members of the teachers' retirement system and school employees' retirement system plans 2 and 3.

Revises provisions of the teachers' retirement system and the school employees' retirement system plans 2 and 3 regarding early retirement options for members of those plans.

-- 2019 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 11	Prefiled for introduction.
Jan 14	First reading, referred to Appropriations.