Requesting that Congress establish more checks and balances to reduce the possibility of nuclear war.

Requests congress to establish more checks and balances to reduce the possibility of nuclear war.

-- 2019 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 7	First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Relations.

by Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology (originally sponsored by Senators Carlyle, Palumbo, Wellman, Hunt, Saldaña, Liias, and Kuderer; by request of Department of Commerce)

Concerning appliance efficiency standards.

Providing religious accommodations for postsecondary students.

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

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

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

Requires every hotel, motel, retail, behavioral health, custodial employer, or property services contractor who employs a custodian, security guard, hotel or motel housekeeper, or room service employee who spends a majority of his or her working hours alone or whose primary work responsibility involves working without another coworker present, 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 alone or whose primary work responsibility involves working without another coworker present, at a location that is not his or her home.

Requires the department of labor and industries to publish advice and guidance for employers with fifty or fewer employees relating to the requirements mentioned above.

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

Encouraging the success of agriculture on agricultural land.

Provides that, encouraging the conservation of productive agricultural lands requires local governments to have a regulatory strategy that allows agricultural landowners to successfully engage in agriculture.

Permits counties and cities to use other measures, with regard to agricultural lands that include: Consolidating multiple permit requirements; reducing the amount of time required for permit review; expanding opportunities for county or city employees to provide technical assistance to landowners; and increasing coordination among counties, cities, and other agencies to avoid duplication of work during permit review.

Authorizes the department of commerce to provide financial assistance and incentives to counties and cities to promote innovative zoning techniques and other measures.

Changes the date to July 1, 2020, in which the county legislative authority must adopt certain ordinances or resolutions that allow it to participate in the voluntary stewardship program.

Requiring that cursive writing be taught in common schools.

Requires common schools to give instruction in cursive writing.

Establishing a kinship care legal aid coordinator.

Creates the role of kinship care legal aid coordinator in the office of civil legal aid.

Requires the coordinator to consult with the kinship care oversight committee, the state supreme court access to justice board's pro bono council, the state bar association moderate means program, the department of social and health services aging and long-term support administration, and the office of public defense, to identify and facilitate the development of local and regional kinship care legal aid initiatives and to further efforts to implement relevant recommendations from the kinship care oversight committee.

Clarifying personal belonging disposal for impounded vehicles.

Establishing permissible methods of parking a motorcycle.

Requires a motorcycle stopped or parked on a one-way or two-way highway to be stopped or parked parallel or at an angle to the curb or edge of the highway with at least one wheel or fender within twelve inches of the curb nearest to which the motorcycle is parked or as close as practicable to the edge of the shoulder nearest to which the motorcycle is parked.

Allows a county, city, or town to, by ordinance, prohibit the angle stopping or parking of a motorcycle however, posting of a visible sign to provide notice of the prohibition is required.

Allows more than one motorcycle to occupy a parking space, provided that the parked motorcycles occupying the parking space do not exceed the boundaries of that parking space.

Concerning rewards cards.

Relieves businesses from the obligation to report rewards cards as unclaimed property.

Providing for accountability and transparency in government contracting.

Declares an intent to require better evaluation of contract performance by increasing transparency and accountability of public contracts.

Finds that: (1) State agencies and institutions of higher education were prohibited from contracting out for services that were regularly and historically provided by classified state employees; and

(2) The personnel system reform act lifted the prohibition, authorizing state agencies and institutions of higher education to contract out for those services.

Concerning public works contracting procedures.

Revises procedures for public works contracts.

Removes limitations on certain design-build projects.

Provides availability to public entities for job order contracting.

Requires an apprenticeship utilization for some contracts.

Requiring publicly owned wastewater treatment plants that directly discharge to Puget Sound to control pollution from opioids.

Requires a general or individual waste discharge permit or national pollution discharge elimination system permit, issued or renewed by the department of ecology, for a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant that directly discharges to Puget Sound to remove or neutralize opioids and opioid-derived pollution.

States that a public body, subject to the provisions above, is ineligible to receive a grant or loan under the following if the public body is responsible for a water pollution control facility that does not comply with the terms of a permit relating to the reduction of opioid pollution: (1) Chapter 70.146 RCW (water pollution control facilities financing);

(2) Chapter 70.150 RCW (the water quality joint development act);

(3) Chapter 90.48 RCW (water pollution control); and

Eliminating tax preferences for bullion.

Imposing a business and occupation tax surcharge on pharmaceutical advertising revenues for substance abuse and mental health services.

Imposes a business and occupation tax surcharge on amounts received by a person, including persons in the business of radio and television broadcasting, for the sale of advertising space or time in a media outlet to promote the sale of prescription drugs directly to consumers.

Concerning the duties of mental health professionals.

Clarifying the written consent requirement for survivorship benefit options.

Specifies that: (1) Written consent from a spouse or domestic partner is not required if a member who is married or a domestic partner selects a joint and survivor option and names the member's spouse or domestic partner as the survivor beneficiary;

Concerning cloud computing solutions.

Requires state agencies to: (1) Adopt third-party, commercial cloud computing solutions for new information technology or telecommunications investments;

(2) Submit a cloud migration plan to the office of the state chief information officer that outlines its technology sourcing strategy and ways it can use the cloud to reduce costs; and

(3) Receive a waiver from the office if they have a service requirement that prohibits the use of a cloud computing solution.

Requires the office of the state chief information officer to conduct a statewide cloud computing readiness assessment to prepare for the migration of core services to cloud services.

Requires the consolidated technology services agency, in coordination with the department of enterprise services, to conduct a competitive procurements process to identify no more than three contracts to provide cloud computing services or system migration support.

Requires state agency directors of human resources to report to the office and the employment security department on impacts to staffing related to state employees who could not be reassigned to other duties as a result of the cloud migration.

Creates a training program for employees who could not be reassigned.

Compounding drugs.

Exempts the following from the definition of "compounding" for purposes of chapter 18.64 RCW: Mixing, reconstitution, or other acts that are performed in accordance with directions contained in approved labeling provided by the product's manufacturer and other manufacturer directions consistent with that labeling.

Requires medicinal preparations that are compounded for patient administration or distribution to a licensed practitioner for patient use or administration to meet the standards of the official United States pharmacopeia as it applies to nonsterile and sterile administered preparations.

Implementing an identicard program to provide individuals a Washington state issued identicard.

Requires the department of commerce, working in conjunction with the department of licensing, to create and implement an identicard program to provide a state-issued identicard to homeless individuals.

Prohibits charging a fee to a homeless individual who is eligible for issuance of an identicard.

Concerning the creation of a youth development work group within the department of children, youth, and families.

Creates a youth development work group, within the department of children, youth, and families, to develop a mission, vision, and goals over the 2019-2021 biennium for supporting youth ages five to young adulthood with a racial equity and inclusion lens.

Requires the department of children, youth, and families to provide up to five stipends to cover travel and time for work group members that do not have the resources or job classification to participate in a statewide work group.

Expires December 31, 2021.

-- 2019 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 25	First reading, referred to Human Services, Reentry & Rehabilitation.
Feb 7	HSRR - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
	And refer to Ways & Means.
	Minority; without recommendation.
Feb 8	Referred to Ways & Means.

by Senators Hobbs, King, Mullet, Braun, Palumbo, Saldaña, Keiser, and O'Ban

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution creating the Washington state infrastructure bank.

Proposes an amendment to the state Constitution to create the Washington state infrastructure bank.

-- 2019 REGULAR SESSION --
Feb 7	First reading, referred to Financial Institutions, Economic Development & Trade.