Making adjustments to the service and filing fees for vehicle subagents and county auditors.

Doubles the cost of service fees for changes in a certificate of title, changes in ownership for nontitled vehicles, verification of record and preparation of an affidavit of lost title, a registration renewal, and issuing a transit permit.

Promoting affordable housing in unincorporated areas of rural counties within urban growth areas.

Enhancing educational opportunities for vulnerable children and youth using funding distributed from the Puget Sound taxpayer accountability account.

Authorizes counties to: (1) Pledge and use distributions from the Puget Sound taxpayer accountability account to pay debt service on county bonds if the proceeds from the bonds are used for facilities or program costs for children and youth that are low-income, homeless, in foster care, or other vulnerable populations; and

Concerning criminal penalties applicable to licensed marijuana retailers and employees of marijuana retail outlets.

Finds an employee of a retail outlet guilty of a gross misdemeanor if he or she sells marijuana products to a person under the age of twenty-one years in the course of his or her employment.

Permits the prosecution of the employee if he or she sells or otherwise provides marijuana products to a person under the age of twenty-one outside of the course of his or her employment.

Establishing additional uses for automated traffic safety cameras for traffic congestion reduction and increased safety.

     Allows automated traffic safety cameras to be used to detect the following: Stoplight violations; railroad crossing violations; stopping when traffic obstructed violations; stopping at intersection or crosswalk violations; public transportation only lane violations; stopping, standing, or parking violations at locations restricted for emergency response vehicle entry or exit or the boarding or disembarking of public transportation vehicles, including public ferries.

Concerning agreements between licensed marijuana businesses and other people and businesses, including royalty and licensing agreements relating to the use of intellectual property.

Authorizes a licensed marijuana business to enter into an agreement with a person, business, or other entity for goods or services registered as a trademark under federal law or other state or international trademark law.

Ensuring the long-term economic and environmental sustainability of the state's recycling system within the existing regulatory structure.

Declares that it is the state's goal to: Emphasize sustainable recycling practices; reduce contamination and increase the quality of recyclables; prioritize real recycling over arbitrary diversion goals and recycling rates; and ensure the long-term economic and environmental sustainability of recycling.

Requires the department of ecology to: (1) Convene a stakeholder work group;

(2) Conduct a statewide, coordinated public outreach and education campaign for sustainable recycling practices based on recommendations from the work group;

(3) Adopt a rule establishing a process and criteria by which cities and counties may designate materials acceptable for collection in commingled recycling systems; and

(4) Develop a process to keep track of and provide for the transparent management and disposal of collected recyclable materials.

Concerning commercial property assessed clean energy and resilience.

Authorizes the establishment of a commercial property assessed clean energy and resiliency (C-PACER) program that jurisdictions can voluntarily implement to ensure that free and willing owners of agricultural, commercial, and industrial properties and multifamily residential properties with five or more dwelling units can obtain low-cost, long-term financing for qualifying improvements, including energy efficiency, water conservation, renewable energy, and resiliency projects.

Requires the department of commerce to: (1) Establish a voluntary statewide C-PACER program to administer the approval and municipal recordation of qualified improvements; and

(2) Allocate appropriated funds to cover start-up costs associated with the voluntary statewide program over the course of the first twenty-four months following the designation of a contracted program administrator.

Concerning local governments planning and zoning for accessory dwelling units.

Promotes and encourages the creation of accessory dwelling units as a means to address the need for additional affordable housing options and encourages local governments to increase the availability of affordable housing by subsidizing accessory dwelling units with local sales tax revenue.

Requires the state building code council to adopt rules pertaining to accessory dwelling units that are consistent with the definitions and standards in this act.

Requires cities and counties to adopt ordinances, development regulations, and other official controls regarding the minimum gross floor area of accessory dwelling units.

Concerning short-term rentals.

Requires a short-term rental operator to: (1) Obtain a business license from the department of revenue; and

(2) Maintain liability insurance to cover a short-term rental unit in the aggregate of not less than one million dollars.

Prohibits a short-term rental operator from: (1) Engaging in the business of providing a short-term rental unit unless the operator is in compliance with the requirements of this act and applicable local codes; and

Developing a short form for death certificates.

Requires the department of health to establish rules regarding the content and release of an abbreviated death certificate that may be requested from a state or local registrar, and must include identifying information and information related to the fact of death, but does not include: Information related to the cause of death; social security numbers; or names of the parents.

Allowing a local sales and use tax as a credit against the state sales tax for rural high-speed internet infrastructure without increasing the total sales and use tax rate.

Entering abandoned cemeteries for authorized purposes.

Permits entry into an abandoned cemetery for burials, care and maintenance activities, and visitation of graves.

Concerning cemetery district withdrawal of territory.

Increasing the number of school districts that may be authorized to reduce the minimum number of required school days in a school year.

Allowing an additional property tax exemption for seniors, veterans, and persons with disabilities leasing land in a mobile home park or manufactured housing community.

Providing rental assistance to mobile home park tenants.

Creates a mobile home/manufactured housing rental assistance program, that will be administered by the department of commerce, to assist low-income tenants of mobile homes or manufactured housing to maintain an affordable level of rental payments for a mobile home lot.

Authorizes the department to give a tenant monetary rental assistance on a monthly basis for assisting the tenant in the payment of rent for a mobile home lot.

Entitles a tenant, once he or she is approved for monetary rental assistance, to receive the assistance for one year.

Makes an appropriation from the general fund to the department of commerce for the purposes of this act.

Concerning the valuation of vehicles in private sales for purposes of use taxation.

States that bicycles are not considered vehicles for purposes of use taxes.

Extending the tax preference for investment projects in distressed counties and community empowerment zones.

Making the nonprofit and library fund-raising exemption permanent.

Requiring the beneficiaries of the Alaskan Way viaduct project to pay for cost overruns from the project.

Concerning rural health payment changes by the health care authority.

Concerning coverage for hearing instruments for children.

Concerning military spouses.

Establishes the military spouse equal economic opportunity act.

Includes military spouse status as a protected class under the law against discrimination.

Requires state agencies to waive licensing fees and expedite certain business and professional licenses for a military spouse.

Addresses state hiring preferences, business and occupation tax credits, and existing employment initiatives, with regard to military spouses.

Requires the department of commerce to convene a work group to develop recommendations on best practices for collecting demographic data on military families receiving services, support, assistance, and benefits from state agencies.

Requires the office of financial management and the employment security department to develop a report on military spouses who reside in the state, and working-age military spouses residing in the state, as applicable, and issue the report to the joint committee on veterans' and military affairs.

Requires the office of minority and women's business enterprises to design and implement a two-year pilot program to conduct outreach to military spouses who are women and minority business owners, for providing support and technical assistance to those business owners.

Incorporating the costs of employee health benefits into school district contracts for pupil transportation.

Requires a pupil transportation services contract to include: (1) Sufficient funds specifically for the contracting employer to provide the employees of the contractor with an employer health benefits contribution equal to the monthly school employer funding rate for the school employees' benefits board program, less the retiree remittance for the public employees' benefits board; and

Concerning the involuntary treatment act.

Establishing a statewide policy supporting Washington state's economy and immigrants' role in the workplace.

Creates a keep Washington working statewide work group.

Requires the attorney general, in consultation with appropriate stakeholders, to publish model policies for limiting immigration enforcement at public schools, health facilities, courthouses, and shelters, so they remain safe and accessible to all residents, regardless of immigration or citizenship status.

Provides a list of state agencies that are required to review their confidentiality policies and identify any changes necessary to ensure that information collected from individuals is limited to that necessary to perform agency duties and not used or disclosed otherwise.

Making permanent the tax preferences for aircraft owned by nonprofit organizations to provide emergency medical transportation services.

Exempts certain aircraft from aircraft excise taxes, which are aircraft: (1) Owned by a nonprofit organization exempt from federal income taxation under Title 26 U.S.C. Sec. 501(c)(3) of the federal internal revenue code; and

Ensuring for a skilled and trained workforce in high hazard facilities.

Requires the department of labor and industries, in consultation with the Washington state apprenticeship and training council, to approve a curriculum of in-person classroom and laboratory instruction for approved advanced safety training for workers at high hazard facilities.

Authorizes the training to be provided by a registered apprenticeship program approved by the department's supervisor of apprenticeship.

Requiring individual metering of households for water and sewer charges based on the actual water use of the household.

Requires owners, landlords, and property managers of multiunit buildings, condominium buildings, mobile home parks, manufactured housing communities, and manufactured/mobile home communities that charge individual dwelling or rental units for water and sewer utilities to provide submetering or direct metering of each dwelling or rental unit of the property.

-- 2019 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 31	First reading, referred to Civil Rights & Judiciary.