Concerning uniform standard time for the state of Washington.

Provides that the standard time for the state is the zone designated by the United States department of transportation for this state, under the uniform time act, as determined by reference to coordinated universal time.

Requires the department of commerce to review impacts the state time zone and daylight saving time have on commerce in the state.

Concerning school resource officer mandatory training and policies.

Requires a school district, if it chooses to have a school resource officer program, to: (1) Confirm that the school resource officer has received training; and

Increasing equitable gender representation on corporate boards.

Revises the Washington business corporation act.

Requires a corporation, by December 31, 2020, to have a minimum of one female director on its board.

Requires the office of the secretary of state, by December 31, 2020, to publish on its web site, the number of corporations that have at lease one female director.

Concerning the authorized removal, safe keeping, and return of firearms and ammunition by law enforcement during and after domestic violence incidents.

Requires a peace officer, who responds to a domestic violence call and has probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed, to seize all firearms and ammunition that he or she believes were used or threatened to be used in the commission of the offense and may seize all firearms and ammunition in plain sight or discovered under a consensual or other lawful search.

Requires a law enforcement agency to: (1) Comply with certain domestic violence requirements before returning a seized firearm or ammunition to the owner or individual from whom the firearm or ammunition was obtained; and

(2) Forward the offense report regarding any incident of domestic violence to the appropriate prosecutor within ten days of making the report.

Implementing child support pass-through payments.

Requires the department of social and health services, effective October 1, 2019, to pass through child support: (1) An amount that does not exceed one hundred dollars per month collected on behalf of a family; or

Concerning the use of hydraulic fracturing in the exploration for and production of oil and natural gas.

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.

Providing tax relief to females by exempting feminine hygiene products from retail sales and use tax.

Concerning visible clothing requirements for hunting.

Monitoring of domestic violence perpetrators.

Modifies the sentencing reform act of 1981 to include electronic monitoring with victim notification technology that is capable of notifying a victim or protected party, either directly or through a monitoring agency, if the monitored individual is at or near a location from which he or she is required to stay away.

Requires the administrative office of the courts to: (1) Develop a list of vendors or enter into a contract with a vendor that provides the technology;

(2) Create an informational handout on the opportunity to request the technology to be provided to individuals seeking a protection order; and

Authorizing security for community and technical colleges.

Authorizes the board of trustees for each college district, acting independently and on behalf of its own college district, to: (1) Employ one or more school resource officers who are commissioned law enforcement officers of the state;

(2) Approve safety officers to carry weapons;

(3) Contract with local law enforcement agencies to provide security services for the college; or

(4) Establish a safety force comprised of officers that may be commissioned law enforcement officers and may carry weapons.

Requiring the growth management hearings board to topically index the rulings, decisions, and orders it publishes.

Requires the growth management hearings board to: (1) Index, topically and by party, all published rules and decisions; and

(2) Arrange for the reasonable distribution of the rules and decisions reasonably soon after issuance.

Amending the definition of substantial development to exclude certain dwellings for the elderly and infirm.

Revises the definition of "substantial development," for purposes of the shoreline management act, to exclude the construction or placement of an additional dwelling on a lot if the lot is already occupied by a principal residence.

Requires an additional dwelling to be used by a person: (1) Who is to receive from or administer to a resident of the principal residence, continuous care and assistance necessitated by advanced age or infirmity; or

Making 2019-2021 biennium operating appropriations.

Making 2017-2019 biennium second supplemental operating appropriations.

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 diaper changing stations at restaurants.

Requiring the department of transportation to complete a study on passenger-only ferry services.

Requires the department of transportation to complete a consultant study on the feasibility, need, and potential governance and funding structures for passenger-only ferry service between Olympia and Seattle.

Concerning educator evaluations and professional development.

Concerning the definition of eligible pupil for purposes of the transitional bilingual instruction program.

Revises the definition of "eligible pupil", for purposes of the transitional bilingual instruction program, to include an enrollee of the school district: (1) Who was not born in the United States or whose primary language is not English;

(2) Who is Native American, Alaska Native, or certain native residents from an area where a language other than English has had an impact on his or her English proficiency;

(3) Who is migratory, whose primary language is not English, and comes from an environment where a language other than English is dominant; and

Concerning property tax exemptions for service-connected disabled veterans and senior citizens.

Concerning creation of a certified child safety policy.

Requires the department of health to: (1) Contract with a child safety certification provider to develop a certified child safety policy for all youth recreational organizations; and

Clarifying qualifications for jury service.

Concerning actions for wrongful injury or death.

Providing public assistance to certain victims of human trafficking.

Requires the department of social and health services, for determining eligibility for public assistance and participation levels in the cost of medical care, to exempt restitution payments made to people of Japanese and Aleut ancestry pursuant to the civil liberties act of 1988 and the Aleutian and Pribilof Island restitution act.

Authorizes the department of social and health services to establish a food assistance program for victims of human trafficking.

Provides eligibility to victims of human trafficking for state family assistance programs, as provided in rule, who otherwise meet program eligibility requirements.

Requires medical care services to be provided to victims of human trafficking, who are not eligible for medicaid, who otherwise qualify for the state family assistance program.

Requires the state health care authority to: (1) Add the medical care services enrollees into the apple health for kids, with the same benefits and services provided to medicaid apple health for kids enrollees; and

Concerning discrimination based on citizenship or immigration status.

Providing religious accommodations for postsecondary students.

Addressing the linked deposit program.

Increases the amount of funds that the state treasurer may use for qualifying loans that are made to a veteran-owned business.

Requires a line of credit issued under the linked deposit program that has a zero balance for twelve or more months to be removed from the program.

Directs the office of minority and women's business enterprises to adopt rules to prioritize loans that ensure that when making a qualified loan under the linked deposit program priority is given to loans that: (1) Create jobs in underserved communities that have inadequate access to capital; and

Modifying notice and opportunity provisions relating to certain enforcement actions taken by a homeowners' or condominium association.

Ensuring the neutrality of public employers and state contractors with regard to employees exercising their rights to collectively bargain.

Concerning a collaborative school-based governance model.

Authorizes a collaborative school-based governance model that will require decision making to shift from a centralized process to a shared school-based team process involving educators, school staff, students, and parents of students.

Requires each school to: (1) Be responsible for developing written procedures that describe the model and how staff, parents, and students are involved in the process; and

(2) Annually submit a progress report to the superintendent of public instruction with the initial report detailing the planning process used by each school and providing suggestions and lessons learned for other school districts to consider in their planning process.

Requires school districts and bargaining representatives for school district employees that are impacted to bargain a memorandum of understanding to implement this act.

Requires grants to be provided to school districts with schools implementing or interested in implementing the model.

Requires the grants to be used for team meetings outside of the regular school day to plan and implement the model.

Concerning the regulation of employment agencies.

Prohibits an employment agency, employment directory, or employment listing service from charging a fee to an applicant or prospective employee.

Requiring firearms training for certain legislators.

Concerning mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect.

States that a person who: (1) Obstructs the duty of a mandatory reporter to make a report is guilty of a gross misdemeanor; and

(2) Is a mandatory reporter and fails to make, or fails to cause to be made, the report, due to negligence, may be issued a class 1 civil infraction.

Concerning concealed pistol license training requirements.

Requires an issuing authority to issue a concealed pistol license or a denial: (1) Within thirty days of the date the application was filed; or

(2) Within sixty days if the applicant does not have a valid permanent state driver's license or state identification card or has not been a resident of the state for the previous consecutive ninety days.

Prohibits an application for a concealed pistol license from being denied unless the person has not provided evidence of handgun proficiency, in the form and manner required by the Washington state patrol.

Provides the requirements for when an applicant for a concealed pistol license must submit to a licensing authority.

Requires the Washington state patrol to, by rule, establish minimum standards for handgun proficiency and develop a course to teach handgun proficiency and examinations to measure handgun proficiency.

Authorizes the chief of the Washington state patrol to certify, as a qualified handgun instructor, a person who: (1) Is certified by the criminal justice training commission to instruct others in the use of handguns;

(2) Regularly instructs others in the use of handguns and has graduated from a handgun instructor school; or

Concerning firefighter safety.

Requires the department of labor and industries to: (1) Adopt by rule, the healthy in, healthy out best practices for reducing firefighter risk of exposure to carcinogens; and

(2) Include in the best practices, postfire activities to reduce the risk of exposure to carcinogens.

Changing rule-making requirements to require a yearly expiration.

Prohibits a rule from being adopted except within the power delegated to the agency and as authorized by law.

Requires, beginning July 1, 2019, a rule adopted or amended before November 1st of any year to expire on June 1st of the year following adoption unless the legislature postpones the expiration.

Concerning cemetery district withdrawal of territory.

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

Concerning county electrical traffic control signals, illumination equipment, and other electrical equipment conveying an electrical current.

Concerning the armed forces exceptions for giving notice of termination of a tenancy.

Authorizes a tenant who is a member of the armed forces, the tenant's spouse, or the tenant's dependent to terminate a rental agreement with less than twenty days' written notice if the tenant receives permanent change of station or deployment orders that do not allow a twenty-day written notice.

Concerning certain procedures upon initial detention under the involuntary treatment act.

Revises the involuntary treatment act.

Prohibits the possession or control of a firearm by a person who has been detained at a facility for seventy-two-hour evaluation and treatment on the grounds that the person presents a likelihood of serious harm, but has not been subsequently committed for involuntary treatment.

Requires a designated crisis responder, before the discharge of the person who has been initially detained, to inform the person orally and in writing that: (1) He or she is prohibited from possessing or controlling a firearm for six months;

(2) He or she must immediately surrender to the county sheriff or the chief of police of the municipality in which the person is domiciled, for the six-month period, any concealed pistol license and firearms that he or she possess or controls; and

(3) After the suspension, his or her right to control or possess a firearm or concealed pistol license is automatically restored.

Concerning juvenile record sealing.

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.

Concerning prescription coverage and the use of nonresident pharmacies.

Requiring notification to parents or guardians in cases of abortion.

Concerning access of broadcasters to a geographic area subject to the declaration of a national, state, or local emergency.

Prohibits the seizure or confiscation of a vehicle, fuel, food, water, or other essentials brought into an area affected by an emergency or disaster by a first informer broadcaster.

Concerning school composting and recycling.

Allows public schools to offer students the opportunity to compost their food waste and to recycle.

Concerning expanded learning opportunity programs.

Creates the expanded learning grant program to create demonstration projects within selected school districts of up to five years in length that support more time for instruction and opportunities for enrichment in order to combat summer learning loss and increase student achievement.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to develop and administer the program.

Authorizes the office of the superintendent of public instruction to award grants of up to one million five hundred dollars annually, through a competitive process, to school districts or state-tribal education compact schools if certain conditions are met.

Makes an appropriation from the general fund to the office of the superintendent of public instruction for the purposes of this act, with a portion of the appropriation provided for staff to support the office of the superintendent of public instruction for the purposes of this act.

-- 2019 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 15	First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education.

by Senators Hasegawa and Saldaña

Requesting that Congress enact legislation that would reinstate the separation of commercial and investment banking functions that were in effect under the Glass-Steagall act.

Requests congress to enact legislation that would reinstate the separation of commercial and investment banking functions that were in effect under the Glass-Steagall act.

-- 2019 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 15	First reading, referred to Financial Institutions, Economic Development & Trade.

by Senators Billig and Schoesler

Establishing cutoff dates for the consideration of legislation during the 2019 regular session of the sixty-sixth legislature.

Convening a joint session for the purpose of receiving the State of the Judiciary message.

Convenes a joint session for the purpose of receiving the state of the judiciary message.

-- 2019 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 14	Read first time, rules suspended, and placed on second reading calendar.
	Third reading, adopted.
-- IN THE HOUSE --
Jan 15	Read first time, rules suspended, and placed on second reading calendar.
	Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
	Third reading, adopted.
-- IN THE SENATE --
	President signed.