Authorizing marijuana retailers to sell certain products and merchandise.

Authorizes the state liquor and cannabis board to adopt rules regarding: (1) Retail product design and marketing standards for marijuana merchandise and other products sold by licensed retailers; and

Regarding the ability of business and nonprofit entities to obtain a marijuana license.

Prohibits the issuance of any kind of marijuana-related license to a business entity or nonprofit entity, unless formed under state law or holding a certain certificate of registration.

Requires a person holding more than ten percent interest in the entity to possess the same qualifications required of the licensee, with the exception of any residency requirement.

Authorizes the state liquor and cannabis board to impose additional licensing fees to recover additional costs incurred in investigating a nonresident who is required to be investigated.

Creating an apprenticeship program for inmates.

Requires the secretary of the department of corrections to award a nongovernmental agency experienced with preapprenticeship training and employment navigation with one hundred thousand dollars annually to establish an apprenticeship opportunity pilot program at the Monroe correctional complex.

Requires the nongovernmental agency partner to: (1) Provide former inmates with the requisite tools and other support services to increase the likelihood of former inmates completing their apprenticeships; and

(2) Track certain information regarding the participating inmate for two years after his or her release.

Preventing breed-based dog regulations.

Prohibits a city or county from: (1) Prohibiting the possession of a dog based upon its breed;

(2) Imposing requirements specific to possession of a dog based upon its breed; or

Concerning provisions governing firearms possession by persons who have been found incompetent to stand trial and who have a history of one or more violent acts.

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

Concerning notification of felony voting rights and restoration.

Concerning emergency medical services for animals.

Concerning retail pet stores.

Prohibits a retail pet store from selling or offering for sale, a dog or cat, unless the dog or cat has been: (1) Obtained from an animal care and control agency or animal rescue group; and

(2) Spayed or neutered, or will be spayed or neutered before the buyer takes possession of the animal.

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

Prohibiting the use of live animals to practice invasive medical procedures in paramedic training programs.

Authorizes paramedic training programs that train individuals in the medical treatment of persons to: (1) Only use human-based training methods; and

(2) Not use pigs or other live animals.

Concerning the adoption of dogs and cats used for science or research purposes.

Making 2017-2019 supplemental transportation appropriations.

Making transportation appropriations for the 2019-2021 fiscal biennium.

Encouraging economic growth by providing a state business tax credit for new employment positions.

Provides a business and occupation tax credit for: (1) New employees hired for new positions created after July 1, 2019; and

(2) New positions filled by existing employees if the position vacated by the existing employee is filled by a new hire.

Requires the department of revenue to determine eligible areas for the following calendar year.

Developing multistage threat assessments to increase safety in K-12 schools and institutions of higher education.

Requires school districts and institutions of higher education to develop and implement a multistage threat assessment process that meets local safety needs and aligns with an evidence-based model.

Defines a threat assessment as a multistage structured team process used to evaluate the risk posed by a student, individuals, or groups typically as a response to an actual or perceived threat or concerning behavior.

Requires educational service districts to develop and maintain the capacity to offer training, coordination, and evaluation on the multistage threat assessment process.

Concerning industrial insurance wage loss.

Revises the state industrial insurance act regarding the computation of wages and lost earning capacity of workers, and additional payments for prior pensioners.

Concerning mobile food units.

Requires a local regulatory authority to grant a permit to operate a mobile food unit to an applicant in the authority's jurisdiction if the applicant: (1) Has obtained a valid permit to operate the mobile food unit from another local regulatory authority; and

(2) Provides certain information to the local regulatory authority from which the applicant is seeking a permit.

Concerning condominium construction warranties.

Modifying the election and authority of regional transit authority board members.

Revises certain regional transit authority provisions regarding the authority, accountability, and election of board members.

Concerning disclosure of contributions from political committees to other political committees.

Creating the whole Washington health trust.

Concerning net metering.

Modifies certain net metering of electricity provisions regarding the cumulative generating capacity available; unused kilowatt-hour credits used to assist qualified low-income residential customers; and kilowatt-hours of electricity consumed for the most recent twelve-month period required on customer billing statements.

Requires the state building code council, in consultation with the department of commerce and local governments, to conduct a study of the state building code and adopt changes necessary to encourage greater use of renewable energy systems.

Requires the department of commerce to convene a work group to identify issues and laws associated with the future of net metering.

Concerning advisory votes.

Clarifying the contracting procedures for cities.

Concerning the off-duty conduct of an employee or a prospective employee.

Concerning deadlines for receipt of voter registrations by election officials.

Requires voter registration applications to be received by an election official by the required voter registration deadline.

Concerning the authorization to impose special excise taxes on the sale of lodging.

Concerning the presidential primary.

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

Concerning veteran survivor tuition waiver eligibility.

Concerning the qualifications of a legal newspaper.

Creating an alternative process for sick leave benefits for workers represented by collective bargaining agreements.

Allows workers covered under a collective bargaining agreement for the construction industry to negotiate comparable benefits that ensure that: (1) Eligibility can be achieved; and

Modifying the excise tax for medical marijuana patients with recognition cards for products identified as beneficial for medical use.

Provides that, the marijuana excise tax does not apply to sales of the following, when sold by certain marijuana retailers: Marijuana concentrates, useable marijuana, or marijuana-infused products, identified by the department of health to be beneficial for medical use.

Concerning plumbing.

Encouraging apprenticeships.

Requires the following to employ a coordinator to do outreach and assist in establishing registered apprenticeship programs where they do not exist in state government, public education, and the health care industry: (1) The department of labor and industries, through the supervisor of apprenticeship;

(2) The office of financial management;

(3) The office of the superintendent of public instruction; and

(4) The department of health.

Creating a work group to replace certain Marcus Whitman statues.

Creates a work group to study and make recommendations on an appropriate historical figure to represent the state in the state capitol and the national statuary hall in the United States capitol.

Concerning concussions in youth sports.

Requires the University of Washington medicine sports health and safety institute and the Harborview injury prevention and research center to collect and synthesize: (1) The most current scientific research, data, evidence-based best practices to improve concussion recognition, and to educate parents, teachers, coaches, and other supervising adults to intervene when a sports concussion is suspected;

(2) The most current research and data on the impact of concussions to female youth athletes and youth athletes participating in other than high-impact contact sports; and

(3) Materials for licensed health care providers regarding concussion care.

Requires the University of Washington medicine sports health and safety institute to: (1) Develop and maintain a web site to serve as a repository for the collected information; and

(2) Work in conjunction with the Washington interscholastic activities association to promote the developed web site throughout the state.

Concerning commercial transportation services freight deliverers.

Authorizing the state investment board to invest the assets of the first-class cities' retirement systems.

Authorizes the state investment board to enter into agreements with the city councils or commissions of first-class cities to assume the duties of investing the retirement funds of the first-class cities' retirement systems.

Expanding the operable intent of RCW 34.05.271 and 34.05.272 to certain activities of natural resources agencies.

Requires the department of natural resources, before enacting a significant legislative rule, giving final approval to technical guidance documents, or finalizing habitat conservation plans, to identify the sources of scientific information reviewed and relied upon by the agency in the course of preparing to take the activity.

Concerning the economic development of rural counties.

Concerning standing before the growth management hearings board.

Creating a domestic violence offender registry.

Requires the court, when a person is convicted of a qualifying domestic violence offense, to enter an order designating the person a serious domestic violence offender and requiring the person to appear on the serious domestic violence offender registry.

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

(2) Upon request of a person who appears on the registry, investigate whether the person's registration period has ended by operation of law;

(3) Notify registered serious domestic violence offenders of any changes to the registration requirements; and

Clarifying what science may be used by cities and counties to designate critical areas.

Concerning sunshine committee recommendations.

Addresses recommendations of the sunshine committee on the public records act.

Exempts the following from public inspection and copying: (1) Applications for public employment other than for vacancies in elective office;

(2) Certain residential addresses but not including city, state, and zip codes, passports, and visa numbers;

(3) Proprietary data, trade secrets, or other information that is submitted by a vendor to the department of social and health services for purposes of the development, acquisition, or implementation of state purchased health care;

(4) Trade secrets; and

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.

Changing the definition of theft.

Eliminating certain requirements for the annexation of an unincorporated island of territory.

Concerning permanent daylight saving time in Washington state.

Requires the standard time for the state to be permanent daylight saving time year-round, which is that of the fifth zone designated by federal law as Pacific Standard Time, 15 U.S.C. Secs. 261 and 263, advanced by one hour.

Concerning prescription drug cost transparency.

Requires the following to submit certain prescription drug cost and utilization data or prescription drug data or other data, as appropriate, for the previous calendar year, to the office of financial management: (1) A health carrier;

(2) A pharmacy benefit manager; and

(3) A pharmacy services administrative organization representing a pharmacy or pharmacy chain in the state.

Requires a manufacturer to submit written notice informing the state health care authority that the manufacturer has filed the following with the federal food and drug administration: (1) A new drug application or biologics license application for a pipeline drug; or

(2) A biologics license application for a biological product or biosimilar drug.

Providing for approval of school district bonds by fifty-five percent of the voters voting.

Provides for approval by fifty-five percent of voters voting to authorize school district bonds.

Concerning the use of "van accessible" parking spots.

Prohibits a person from parking in a parking space designated as "van accessible" unless they are parking a vehicle that is equipped for and using wheelchairs or mobility equipment.

Modifying the operation of motorcycles on roadways laned for traffic.

Allows an operator of a motorcycle to overtake and pass in the same lane occupied by the vehicle being overtaken, under certain circumstances.

Prohibiting road usage charges in rural counties.

Concerning the use of the term birth center.

Restricting the practice of female genital mutilation.

Preventing the sexual harassment and sexual assault of certain isolated workers.

Requires every hospitality, retail, behavioral health care, or custodial employer, or labor contractor who employs a custodian, security guard, hotel or motel housekeeper, or worker who spends a majority of his or her working hours alongside two or fewer coworkers at a location that is not his or her home to: (1) Adopt a sexual harassment policy;

(2) Provide mandatory training to the managers, supervisors, and employees;

(3) Provide a list of resources for the employees to use; and

(4) Provide a panic button to each worker that spends most of his or her working hours alongside two or fewer coworkers at a location that is not his or her home.

Requires the director of the department of labor and industries to establish procedures for licensing property service contractors.

-- 2019 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 16	First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce.