Modifying the maximum amount of leave school employees may accumulate.

Concerning notice to active duty military owners of impounded vehicles.

Prohibits a tow truck operator from selling a vehicle, until criteria provided in the servicemembers civil relief act has been satisfied, if the legal or registered owner shows an active duty military status as provided by the department of licensing.

Modernizing resident distillery marketing and sales restrictions.

Modernizes certain alcoholic beverage control restrictions regarding resident distillery marketing and sales.

Concerning nonresident pharmacies.

Requires a nonresident pharmacy, for initial licensure and license renewal by the department of health, to submit a copy of an inspection report: (1) Conducted by an inspection program approved by the pharmacy quality assurance commission as having substantially equivalent standards to those of the commission; and

Concerning the purchase of an optional life annuity benefit for certain public retirement system members.

Authorizes the following, at the time of retirement, to purchase an optional actuarially equivalent life annuity benefit from: (1) The public employees' retirement system plan 1 fund;

(2) The public employees' retirement system combined plan 2 and plan 3 fund;

(3) The public safety employees' retirement system plan 2 fund; or

Paying state retirement benefits until the end of the month in which the retiree or beneficiary dies.

Modifying funding of the medical marijuana authorization database.

Changes the account, from the health professions account to the dedicated marijuana account: (1) From which expenses are paid for carrying out health professions licensing activities of the department of health and implementing and administering the medical marijuana authorization database; and

Concerning liquor licensees' promotion of retailers' events, including licensed events and other events and activities at retail locations.

Concerning search warrants for toxicological analysis of blood samples.

Expanding access to building trades apprenticeships.

Requires the Marysville school district to collaborate with Everett Community College, Arlington school district, other local school districts, local labor unions, and local industry groups to develop the regional apprenticeship pathways program.

Requires the program to: (1) Establish an education-based apprenticeship preparation program that prepares individuals for registered apprenticeships in the building trades; and

Removing the prohibition on planning for a nuclear attack in emergency management plans.

Reducing the current standard business and occupation tax rates for manufacturers to the current aerospace preferential business and occupation tax rates.

Funding investigations to protect individuals with disabilities in the supported living program.

Addresses vulnerable adults and state services.

Requires a certified provider, after initial certification, to pay an annual certification fee which will be established in the omnibus appropriations act.

Requires the fee to include the department of social and health services' cost of paying providers for the certification fee attributed to medicaid clients.

Prohibits the fee from being required of government-operated programs or court-appointed receivers.

Requires the department of social and health services to: (1) Use the funds to conduct complaint investigations in certified residential services and supports programs;

(2) Cease collecting the fee if the centers for medicare and medicaid services determine that federal funds cannot be appropriated to match state expenditures under this act; and

Concerning the protection of vulnerable adults.

Concerning safe egress from adult family homes.

Requires adult family homes to house nonambulatory residents on a level with safe egress to a public right-of-way.

Concerning access to state career and technical course equivalencies.

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 cooperation between conservation districts.

Allows two or more conservation districts to: (1) Engage in joint activities by agreement between or among them including engineering a program or project concerned with the conservation of renewable natural resources; and

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

Concerning the disclosure of attributes of electricity products.

Recognizes that: (1) The generation, transmission, and delivery of electricity occurs through a complex network of interconnected facilities and contractual arrangements; and

(2) The required disclosures in this act reflect the characteristics of electricity products offered by retail suppliers to customers.

Extending the dairy milk assessment fee to June 30, 2025.

Concerning the licensing and enforcement system modernization project account.

Concerning joint self-insurance programs for property and liability risks.

Permits the board of pilotage commissioners to: (1) Participate in a local government joint self-insurance program covering liability risks; and

(2) Participate in the program to obtain liability insurance coverage, but not property insurance coverage.

Concerning hospital privileges for advanced registered nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

Requiring health insurance payment parity for advanced registered nurse practitioners.

Eliminating the use of the valid court order exception to place youth in detention for noncriminal behavior.

Finds that: (1) This state, more than any other state in the country, has been using the valid court order exception of the juvenile justice and delinquency prevention act, a loophole in federal law allowing judges to detain status offenders for disobeying court orders;

(2) Use of the exception to detain youth for acts like truancy, breaking curfew, or running away from home is counterproductive;

(3) These youth should not be confined with or treated with the same intervention as criminal offenders; and

(4) Studies show a disproportionality in race, gender, and socioeconomic status of youth referred to courts or detained, or both.

Making statutory requirements and policies for cultural access programs the same in all counties of the state.

Concerning snow bikes.

Creates a single vehicle license that allows for the operation of a motorcycle as either a motorcycle or as a snow bike.

Addressing noncollection of taxes by county treasurers.

Concerning unemployment benefit eligibility for apprentices.

Requiring permission to bring a concealed firearm into another person's residence or dwelling place.

Prohibits a person from carrying a concealed firearm into the residence or dwelling place of another person without first obtaining the express permission of the owner or person in legal control or possession of the residence or dwelling place.

Requires the court, upon conviction for a violation, to: (1) Order the person to surrender any concealed pistol license; and

Providing longer notice of rent increases.

Requires a landlord to provide a minimum of sixty days' written notice of an increase in rent to each affected tenant.

Concerning the financing of local infrastructure.

Authorizes the housing finance commission to develop and implement a program to provide financing to local governments for infrastructure projects.

Concerning names used by candidates in elections.

Requires a candidate, when filing for office, to use the name appearing on his or her voter registration.

Extending the tax preferences in RCW 82.04.260(12).

Concerning appliance efficiency standards.

Modifies provisions regarding efficiency standards for appliances.

-- 2019 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 22	First reading, referred to Environment & Energy.