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.

Concerning driver's license suspensions and revocations.

Addresses department of licensing requirements with regard to the relicensing program; the suspension and/or revocation of a driver's license; and failure to comply with the terms of a criminal complaint or criminal action.

Authorizes the department of licensing to administratively reinstate suspended licenses except those licenses: (1) That are suspended under Article IV of the nonresident violator compact or from a jurisdiction that has entered into an agreement with the department; and

Ensuring the funding of agricultural fairs.

Creating the capacity for the state treasurer's office to provide separately managed investment portfolios to eligible governmental entities.

Requires money remitted for pooled investment under chapter 43.250 RCW (investment of local government funds) to be deposited in the public funds investment account.

Creates a trust fund to be known as the separately managed public funds investment account; and a trust fund to be known as the separately managed state agency investment account. These accounts are to be separately accounted for and invested by the state treasurer.

Creates a separately managed state treasurer's service account in the custody of the state treasurer.

Adding the treasurer to the public works board.

Banning the sale of assault weapons and large capacity magazines.

Regarding establishing natural areas.

Requires the department of natural resources to recommend to the governor a prioritized list of all property acquisitions for the purpose of creating: (1) Washington natural resources conservation areas; and

(2) A Washington natural area preserve.

Concerning department of natural resources' land acquisitions.

Concerning marijuana businesses.

Concerning reviews of voluntary cleanups.

Finds that: (1) Cleaning up and redeveloping contaminated property is essential to the health and economic prosperity of our communities;

(2) Most cleanups are performed voluntarily by property owners and many of these owners request written opinions on the sufficiency of their voluntary cleanups from the department of ecology.

Authorizes the department of ecology to: (1) Establish a program to provide informal advice and assistance on the administrative and technical requirements of the model toxics control act to persons conducting or interested in conducting independent remedial actions at facilities where there is a suspected or confirmed release of hazardous substances; and

(2) Collect costs incurred by it in providing advice and assistance from people requesting the advice and assistance under the program.

Declares an intent to: (1) Cleanup and redevelop contaminated properties in our communities;

(2) Provide the department with additional tools and resources for conducting expedited reviews of voluntary cleanups; and

(3) Waive the department's costs of reviewing voluntary cleanups to encourage voluntary cleanups of these properties.

Concerning state reimbursement of election costs.

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 distribution of monetary penalties to local courts and state agencies paid for failure to comply with discover pass requirements.

Requires a county treasurer to remit, to the state treasurer, seventy-five percent of the money received from penalties with regard to the display of a discover pass, vehicle access pass, or day-use permit.

Correcting agency names and accounts in statutes to reflect the organizational structure, duties, and responsibilities of the office of financial management.

Concerning public works contracting procedures.

Modifies provisions relating to alternative public works contracting procedures.

Concerning continuing care retirement communities.

Provides independent residents of continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) access to the office of the state long-term care ombuds through a pilot project.

Requires an applicant for a registration as a CCRC to submit the following to the department of commerce: (1) Service or care agreements used for nonindependent residents that the CCRC intends to use for the certification period; and

(2) A copy of the most recent actuarial report.

Requires a CCRC to prepare a disclosure statement that includes: (1) Whether, and in what manner, funds have been set aside for reserves or other contingent liabilities reflected in the financial statements;

(2) Management fees or other compensation paid by the CCRC to a management company or related party, that controls the CCRC during the CCRC's two preceding fiscal years; and

(3) An actuarial summary of the CCRC's most recent actuarial report.

Requires a CCRC to notify independent residents that audited financial statements and actuarial evaluations are available to the residents within thirty days after they are delivered to the chief financial officer.

Requires the department of commerce and a private nonprofit organization to enter into a separate contract for additional services which will enable the ombuds to provide services to the residents of CCRCs through a pilot project in a county that has a suitable concentration of CCRCs.

Recovering service credit withdrawn from the public employees' retirement system for certain law enforcement officers and firefighters.

Concerning device registration, civil penalties, and service agent registration for the weights and measures program.

Extending collective bargaining rights to assistant attorneys general.

Grants the right to assistant attorneys general to collectively bargain unless otherwise excluded below.

Excludes the following from collective bargaining: Division chiefs, deputy attorneys general, the solicitor general, special assistant attorneys general, certain confidential employees, and any assistant or deputy attorney general who reports directly to the attorney general.

Creating the reinvesting in our colleges program.

Creates the reinvesting in our colleges program to provide for the allocation of state funding that the legislature deems necessary to support community and technical colleges in offering the instructional programs under chapter 28B.50 RCW (the community and technical college act of 1991).

Exempting certain leasehold interests in arenas with a seating capacity of more than two thousand from the leasehold excise tax.

Creating a self-exclusion program for persons with a gambling problem or gambling disorder.

Requires the gambling commission, the horse racing commission, and the state lottery commission to jointly develop problem gambling and gambling disorder informational signs that include a toll-free hotline number for individuals with a gambling problem or gambling disorder.

Requires the gambling commission to establish a statewide self-exclusion program for all licensees that will allow a person to voluntarily exclude themself from gambling at certain gambling establishments.

Prohibits a person who is registered with the program from participating in gambling activities associated with the program and requires the person to forfeit money and things of value obtained by or owed to the person by the establishment as a result of prohibited wagers or gambling activities.

Requires the forfeited money and things of value to be distributed to the problem gambling account and/or certain charitable or nonprofit organizations.

Removing certain restrictions on subsidized child care for students at institutions of higher education.

Concerning career and technical education in alternative learning experience programs.

Concerning notices of disqualification in courts of limited jurisdiction.

Prohibits a district court judicial officer and a municipal court judicial officer from presiding in the following case: When a party to or an attorney appearing in an action or proceeding has disqualified the judicial officer from hearing the matter.

Prohibits a reduction in salary from occurring when a judge pro tempore serves while a district court judge is disqualified from serving following the filing of a notice of disqualification.

Permits a presiding municipal court judge to designate one or more persons as judges pro tem to serve in the absence or disability of the elected or duly appointed judges of the court, subsequent to the filing of a notice of disqualification.

Concerning the Washington uniform common interest ownership act.

Providing a sales and use tax exemption on eligible purchases made on behalf of Washington chapters of the veterans of foreign wars.

Provides a sales and use tax exemption for members, employees, and officers of the state's veterans of foreign wars chapters on qualifying purchases to support our local chapters.

-- 2019 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 18	First reading, referred to Finance.