Concerning meal and rest breaks and mandatory overtime for certain health care employees.

Addresses meals and rest periods for licensed practical nurses, registered nurses, surgical technologists, diagnostic radiologic technologists, cardiovascular invasive specialists, respiratory care practitioners, and certified nursing assistants.

Prohibits an employer from: (1) Using prescheduled on-call time to fill chronic or foreseeable staff shortages; and

Concerning employee benefit contracts for K-12 employees.

Allowing local options with respect to state initiatives.

Authorizes a legislative authority of a county to elect not to implement or enforce all or any part of a statewide initiative enacted by the people.

Regulating permanent cosmetics under the Washington body art, body piercing, and tattooing act.

Revises the Washington body art, body piercing, and tattooing act regarding the regulation of permanent cosmetics.

Changing the definition of theft.

Making transportation appropriations for the 2019-2021 fiscal biennium.

Making 2017-2019 supplemental transportation appropriations.

Concerning human remains.

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.

Concerning dual credit programs.

Revises certain common school provisions regarding dual credit programs.

Encouraging low-water landscaping practices as a drought alleviation tool.

Prohibits the following from the installation of drought resistant landscaping or wildfire ignition resistant landscaping: The governing documents of a homeowners' association; the declaration of, and any bylaws, rules, and regulations adopted by, a condominium association; and the declaration of a common interest ownership and any other documents adopted by a unit owners association.

Prohibits an association, if a property is located within the geographic designation of an order of a drought condition issued by the department of ecology, from sanctioning or imposing a fine or assessment against an owner, or resident on the owner's property, for reducing or eliminating the watering of vegetation or lawns for the duration of the drought condition order.

Supporting sexual assault survivors.

Changes the composition of the joint legislative task force on sexual assault forensic examination best practices.

Requires the task force to: (1) Develop policies and submit recommendations on the storage, retention, and destruction of unreported sexual assault kits;

(2) Monitor implementation of state and federal legislative changes;

(3) Collaborate with the office of the attorney general to implement reforms pursuant to federal grant requirements; and

(4) Make recommendations for institutional reforms.

Provides a December 31, 2021, expiration date for the task force.

Requires the state auditor to conduct a comprehensive performance audit of the statewide sexual assault tracking system and operations of the Washington state patrol crime laboratory with respect to processing sexual assault kits.

Requires the statewide sexual assault kit tracking system to designate sexual assault kits as unreported or reported.

Expands the requirements of the specialized, intensive, and integrative training for people responsible for investigating sexual assault cases involving adult victims.

Requires the Washington state patrol, when it receives a request for examination of a sexual assault kit from a law enforcement agency, to conduct the laboratory examination of the kit and enter relevant information into the combined DNA index system, within forty-five days of receipt of the request.

Requires law enforcement agencies to submit to the Washington state patrol crime laboratory requests for forensic analysis of sexual assault kits collected before July 24, 2015, and in the possession of the law enforcement agencies.

Concerning the protection of composting from nuisance lawsuits.

Creating sales and use and excise tax exemptions for self-help housing development.

Clarifying reimbursement for certain clean-up or removal actions by fire protection jurisdictions.

Modifying the expiration date of certain state fire service mobilization laws.

Addressing trust institutions.

Assisting Washington families by improving the fairness of the state's tax system by enacting a capital gains tax and providing property tax relief.

Repealing certain obsolete common school provisions.

Clarifying the contracting procedures for cities.

Concerning authorization of health care decisions by an individual or designated person.

Increases the list of people who may provide informed consent for health care for a patient who is not competent.

Providing consistency and efficiency in the regulation of auctioneers and auction companies, engineering and land surveying, real estate, funeral directors, and cosmetology.

Creating the dental laboratory registry within the department of health and establishing minimum standards for dental laboratories serving dentists in Washington state.

Requires a dental laboratory operating, doing business, or intending to operate or do business in this state to register with the department of health and pay the established fee.

Concerning veteran and national guard tuition waivers.

Concerning the revised uniform unclaimed property act.

Concerning television airtime for candidates for local office.

Providing property tax relief for senior citizens and qualifying veterans.

Modifying the learning assistance program.

Restores flexibility to the use of learning assistance program funds and requires school districts to budget and expend learning assistance program funds at both the district and school levels in a manner consistent with the Washington integrated student supports protocol.

Requires monitoring of school district learning assistance programs to ensure fidelity in implementing best practices in a manner consistent with the protocol.

Encourages school districts, in preparation for the required implementation of the protocol, to expend the appropriations for the learning assistance program in a manner consistent with the protocol; plans for district expenditures should consider the needs of participating students at the school district's various schools, and prioritize student needs based on system-level, including district, school, and community, needs assessments, and student-level needs assessments performed as part of the protocol.

Amending the schedule for updates to the comprehensive plan of Kitsap county that are required under the growth management act to match the update schedules of other central Puget Sound counties.

Concerning school district elections.

Allows a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds.

Assuring access to health care services for medicaid beneficiaries by applying the medicare rate floor to health care services furnished under medicaid by health care providers.

Continuing access to medicaid services.

Requires medical assistance to be provided for pregnant women who are state residents and whose family income at the time of application is no greater than one hundred ninety-three percent of the federal poverty level as adjusted for family size and determined annually by the federal department of health and human services.

Revising hydraulic project eligibility standards under RCW 77.55.181 for conservation district-sponsored fish habitat enhancement projects.

Concerning rangeland fire protection associations.

Addresses rangeland fire protection associations which are defined as a nonprofit corporation or nonprofit unincorporated association that has entered into an agreement for the detection, prevention, or suppression of wildfires with the state or an agency of the state.

Authorizes an association to enter into agreements with fire protection service agencies for the detection, prevention, or suppression of wildfires.

Requires an association to identify the physical boundaries within which it will provide detection, prevention, and suppression of wildfire services and resources.

Requires a local wildland fire liaison to provide information to an association concerning the department of natural resources wildfire detection, prevention, and suppression activities taking place within the boundaries of the association.

Concerning ferry system performance measures.

Eliminating gender-based barriers from elections for state and county political party positions.

Concerning school notifications.

Concerning solemnizing marriage.

Calculating the benchmark rate for certain community residential services.

Requires the department of social and health services to use the King county classification for the purpose of determining the benchmark rate in Snohomish county for community residential service businesses.

Preventing toxic pollution that affects public health or the environment.

Establishes the pollution prevention for healthy people and Puget Sound act.

Concerning the efficient administration of campaign finance and public disclosure reporting and enforcement.

Allowing for the year round observation of daylight saving time.

States that the time of the state of Washington and all of its political subdivisions is Pacific daylight time throughout the calendar year, as determined by reference to coordinated universal time.

Provides for submission of this act to a vote of the people.

Concerning gold star license plates.

Requiring health care providers sanctioned for sexual misconduct to notify patients.

Concerning health care for working individuals with disabilities.

Authorizes the state health care authority to consider a person's income when establishing cost-sharing requirements.

Prohibits the authority from establishing eligibility restrictions for the buy-in program based upon a person's income or maximum age.

Addressing catastrophic incidents that are natural or human-caused emergencies by providing guidance that may be used by state public schools to plan for seismic catastrophic incidents.

Concerning the Washington national guard postsecondary education grant program.

Creates the Washington national guard postsecondary education grant program.

Requires the program to be administered by the office of student financial assistance, and requires the office to: (1) With the assistance of the state military department, select eligible students to receive the grant; and notify participants of their additional service obligation or required repayment of the grant;

(2) Award grants funded by federal and state funds, private donations, or repayments from a participant who does not complete his or her service obligation;

(3) Adopt rules and policies, including establishing a priority for eligible students;

(4) Adopt participant selection criteria; and

(5) Collect repayments from participants who do not meet the service obligations.

Changes, for purposes of this act: (1) The name of the office of the adjutant general of the state military department to the office of student financial assistance; and

Concerning ensuring fairness and compliance with public works and procurement practices.

Requires the office of minority and women's business enterprises to identify state agencies and educational institutions: (1) In the lowest quintile of utilization of minority and women-owned contractors as a percentage of all contracts issued by the agency;

(2) In the lowest quintile of the dollar value awarded to minority and women-owned contractors as a percentage of the dollar value of all contracts issued by the agency; and

(3) That are performing significantly below their established goals, as determined by the office.

Establishes an investigation unit within the office for the purpose of detecting and investigating fraud and violations.

Repeals the attorney general's authority to investigate and enforce compliance with regard to contracts with minority and women-owned businesses.

Requires the department of enterprise services to work with the municipal research and services center to notify local governments that are authorized to use small works rosters of this authority and to provide guidance on how to use the authority.

Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to review implementation of changes to small works roster and limited public works processes.

Reporting lost or stolen firearms.

Requires an owner or other person lawfully in possession of a firearm that has been lost or stolen to report the loss or theft to the local law enforcement agency within five days after the loss or theft.

Concerning the responsible management of plastic packaging.

Prohibits a producer of plastic packaging, beginning January 1, 2022, from selling, offering for sale, or distributing plastic packaging for use in the state unless the producer is participating in a plastic packaging stewardship organization with a plan approved by the department of ecology.

Requires each producer, by June 1, 2021, to ensure that a plan is submitted on its behalf to the department of ecology by a stewardship organization.

Exempts retailers that are not producers from the requirements of this act.

Allows the department of ecology to administratively impose a civil penalty on a person who violates this act in an amount of up to one thousand dollars per violation per day.

Reducing pollution from plastic bags by establishing minimum state standards for the use of bags at retail establishments.

Prohibits a retail establishment from: (1) Providing to a customer or a person at an event: (a) A single-use plastic carryout bag; or (b) a paper carryout bag or reusable carryout bag made of film plastic that does not meet recycled content requirements; and

(2) Using or providing certain polyethylene or other noncompostable plastic bags.

Authorizes a retail establishment to provide a reusable carryout bag or a recycled content paper carryout bag of any size to a customer at the point of sale.

Requires a retail establishment to collect a pass-through charge of not less than ten cents for every recycled content paper carryout bag or reusable carryout bag made of film plastic it provides.

Prohibits a city, town, county, or municipal corporation from implementing a local carryout bag ordinance.

Concerning park models, tiny homes, and manufactured homes.

Revises certain definitions in the manufactured mobile home landlord-tenant act in order to avoid unintended interpretations and consequences.

Concerning manufactured housing communities.

Concerning public accounting services.

Providing prepaid postage for all election ballots.

Requires the state to reimburse counties for the cost of return postage on mail and absentee ballots for elections.

Allowing nonresident children from military families to enroll in Washington's public schools prior to arrival in the state.

States that a child of a military family complies with the residency requirements for enrollment in a school district if his or her parent is transferred to, or is pending transfer to, a military installation within the state while on active duty.

Supporting Washington's clean energy economy and transitioning to a clean, affordable, and reliable energy future.

Establishes the Washington clean energy transformation act.

Addresses the elimination of coal-fired electricity and the transition of the state's electricity supply to one hundred percent carbon neutral by 2030.

Provides that it is the policy of the state that all retail sales of electricity to the state's customers be greenhouse gas neutral by January 1, 2030.

Requires the department of commerce to convene an energy and climate policy advisory committee to develop recommendations to the legislature for the coordination of existing resources, or the establishment of new ones, to: (1) Examine the costs and benefits of energy-related policies, programs, functions, activities, and incentives; and

(2) Conduct other energy-related studies and analyses as may be directed by the legislature.

Prohibiting the names of county auditors and the secretary of state in their official capacity on election materials.

Granting local governments the authority to make challenges related to growth management planning subject to direct review in superior court.

Establishes the growth management reform act of 2019.

Allows jurisdictions with fewer government resources the ability to seek judicial interpretations of the growth management act without the costly and time-consuming practice of an initial review by the growth management hearings board.

Repealing growth management planning requirements in chapter 36.70A RCW.

Repeals chapter 36.70A RCW, the growth management act.

Prohibiting balance billing by health care providers.

Prohibits an out-of-network provider that provides services at an in-network facility from balance billing an enrollee for certain health care services.

-- 2019 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16	First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness.