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ELEVENTH DAY
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NOON SESSION
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Senate Chamber, Olympia, Thursday, January 24, 2002
The Senate was called to order at 12:00 noon by President Owen. No roll call was taken.
MOTION
On motion of Senator Betti Sheldon, the reading of the Journal of the previous day was dispensed with and it was approved.
MOTION
On motion of Senator Betti Sheldon, and pursuant to Rule 46, the Committee on Labor, Commerce and Financial Institutions was granted permission to meet during session.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Senate Rule 46 states: ‘No committee shall sit during the daily session of the senate unless by special leave.’
STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS
January 23, 2002
SB 5823 Prime Sponsor, Senator McAuliffe: Repealing student improvement goals. Reported by Committee on Education
MAJORITY Recommendation: That Substitute Senate Bill No. 5823 be substituted therefor, and the substitute bill do pass. Signed by Senators McAuliffe, Chair; Eide, Vice Chair; Carlson, Finkbeiner, Johnson, Kohl-Welles, Prentice, Rasmussen, Regala and Zarelli.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
January 23, 2002
ESSB 6140 Prime Sponsor, Senate Committee on Transportation: Authorizing creation of regional transportation investment districts. Reported by Committee on Transportation
MAJORITY Recommendation: That Second Substitute Senate Bill No. 6140 be substituted therefor, and the second substitute bill do pass. Signed by Senators Haugen, Chair; Gardner, Vice Chair; Benton, Eide, Finkbeiner, Horn, Johnson, Kastama, Keiser, McAuliffe, McDonald, Prentice, T. Sheldon, Shin and Swecker.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
January 23, 2002
SB 6258 Prime Sponsor, Senator Jacobsen: Modifying provisions concerning Class IV forest practices. Reported by Committee on Natural Resources, Parks and Shorelines
MAJORITY Recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Jacobsen, Chair; Poulsen, Vice Chair; McDonald, Morton, Oke, Spanel and Stevens.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
January 23, 2002
SB 6259 Prime Sponsor, Senator Jacobsen: Allowing for the installation of recreational docks and mooring buoys by residential owners abutting state-owned aquatic lands. Reported by Committee on Natural Resources, Parks and Shorelines
MAJORITY Recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Jacobsen, Chair; Poulsen, Vice Chair; McDonald, Morton, Oke, Spanel and Stevens.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
January 22, 2002
SB 6319 Prime Sponsor, Senator Fraser: Changing numbering, placement, and division of subsections in two sections of the water code. Reported by Committee on Environment, Energy and Water
MAJORITY Recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Fraser, Chair; Regala, Vice Chair; Eide, Hale, Honeyford, Jacobsen, Keiser, McDonald and Morton.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
January 23, 2002
SB 6532 Prime Sponsor, Senator Prentice: Requiring business subsidy disclosure. Reported by Committee on State and Local Government
MAJORITY Recommendation: That the bill be referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce and Financial Institutions without recommendation. Signed by Senators Gardner, Chair; Fairley, Vice Chair; Hale, Haugen, Keiser, Kline, McCaslin, T. Sheldon and Swecker.
Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce and Financial Institutions.
January 22, 2002
SJM 8026 Prime Sponsor, Senator Fraser: Requesting increased borrowing authority for the Bonneville Power Administration. Reported by Committee on Environment, Energy and Water
MAJORITY Recommendation: That Substitute Senate Joint Memorial No. 8026 be substituted therefor, and the substitute joint memorial do pass. Signed by Senators Fraser, Chair; Regala, Vice Chair; Eide, Hale, Honeyford, Jacobsen, Keiser, McDonald and Morton.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
January 23, 2002
ESHB 2304 Prime Sponsor, House Committee on Transportation: Adopting certain recommendations of the state Blue Ribbon Commission on Transportation. Reported by Committee on Transportation
MAJORITY Recommendation: Do pass as amended. Signed by Senators Haugen, Chair; Gardner, Vice Chair; Benton, Eide, Finkbeiner, Horn, Jacobsen, Johnson, Kastama, Keiser, McAuliffe, McDonald, Oke, Prentice, T. Sheldon, Shin and Swecker.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
REPORT OF STANDING COMMITTEE
GUBERNATORIAL APPOINTMENT
January 23, 2002
GA 9198 HOWARD GRANGER, appointed November 1, 2001, for a term ending October 1, 2004, as a member of the Small Business Export Finance Assistance Center Board of Directors.
Reported by Committee on Agriculture and International Trade
MAJORITY Recommendation: That said appointment be confirmed. Signed by Senators Rasmussen, Chair; Shin, Vice Chair; Parlette, Sheahan, Snyder, Spanel and Swecker.
Passed to Committee on Rules.
MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE
January 23, 2002
MR. PRESIDENT:
The House has passed:
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 1166,
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 1521,
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 2169,
HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 4016, and the same are herewith transmitted.
CYNTHIA ZEHNDER, Chief Clerk
INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING
SB 6644 by Senators Hochstatter, Swecker, Stevens, Honeyford, Morton, Hewitt, Sheahan, Deccio, Prentice, Gardner and Oke
AN ACT Relating to tax credits against the business and occupation tax for employment of persons in the WorkFirst program; and adding a new section to chapter 82.04 RCW.
Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce and Financial Institutions.
SB 6645 by Senators Hochstatter, Swecker, Carlson, Stevens and Roach
AN ACT Relating to providing for the immediate eviction of a tenant who is involved in criminal actions or unlawful civil disruptions; adding a new section to chapter 59.18 RCW; and creating a new section.
Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
SB 6646 by Senators Prentice, Hochstatter and Stevens
AN ACT Relating to limiting expanded postretirement employment hiring in the public employees' retirement system and the teachers' retirement system to jobs with fewer than four nonretired applicants; amending RCW 41.40.037; reenacting and amending RCW 41.32.570; and repealing 2001 2nd sp.s. c 10 s 12.
Referred to Committee on Ways and Means.
SB 6647 by Senators Eide, Horn, Benton, T. Sheldon, Swecker, Haugen and B. Sheldon
AN ACT Relating to department of licensing agents or subagents; and amending RCW 46.12.070, 46.80.090, and 46.55.100.
Referred to Committee on Transportation.
SB 6648 by Senator Hargrove
AN ACT Relating to the improved early coordination of services between the department of social and health services and public safety agencies when allegations of criminal mistreatment are made; creating new sections; and providing an expiration date.
Referred to Committee on Human Services and Corrections.
SB 6649 by Senators Haugen, Gardner, Jacobsen, Carlson and Winsley
AN ACT Relating to local transportation by authorizing the establishment of municipal street utilities to maintain streets and providing local options for funding local transportation; amending RCW 82.80.020 and 82.80.010; adding new sections to chapter 35.77 RCW; creating a new section; repealing RCW 82.80.040, 82.80.050, and 82.80.060; and providing an effective date.
Referred to Committee on Transportation.
SB 6650 by Senators Shin, Sheahan, Long, McAuliffe, Eide, Keiser, Benton, Oke and Rasmussen
AN ACT Relating to classroom remembrances of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; and adding a new section to chapter 28A.320 RCW.
Referred to Committee on Education.
SB 6651 by Senators T. Sheldon, Stevens, McCaslin and Hochstatter
AN ACT Relating to extending a tax credit for persons engaged in a rural county in the business of providing information technology help desk services to third parties; amending RCW 82.04.4457; and providing an expiration date.
Referred to Committee on Economic Development and Telecommunications.
SB 6652 by Senators Prentice and Haugen
AN ACT Relating to cosmetology, barbering, manicuring, and esthetics; amending RCW 18.16.010, 18.16.020, 18.16.030, 18.16.060, 18.16.090, 18.16.100, 18.16.110, 18.16.140, 18.16.170, 18.16.175, 18.16.200, 18.16.210, 18.16.240, and 18.16.900; reenacting and amending RCW 18.16.050; adding new sections to chapter 18.16 RCW; prescribing penalties; and providing an effective date.
Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce and Financial Institutions.
SB 6653 by Senators Thibaudeau, Parlette and Kohl-Welles
AN ACT Relating to information required to appear on a prescription label; and amending RCW 18.64.246.
Referred to Committee on Health and Long-Term Care.
SB 6654 by Senators Kastama and Rasmussen
AN ACT Relating to homeland security; adding a new section to chapter 38.52 RCW; creating a new section; making an appropriation; and declaring an emergency.
Referred to Committee on State and Local Government.
SB 6655 by Senators Snyder, West and Gardner (by request of Secretary of State Reed)
AN ACT Relating to the primary election process; and creating a new section.
Referred to Committee on State and Local Government.
SB 6656 by Senators Fairley, Kohl-Welles, Keiser and Thibaudeau
AN ACT Relating to unemployment compensation payable to individuals who took family and medical leave; amending RCW 50.04.020; adding a new section to chapter 50.04 RCW; creating new sections; and providing an effective date.
Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce and Financial Institutions.
SB 6657 by Senators Fraser, Hale, Regala, Jacobsen and Keiser
AN ACT Relating to determining the appeals period for certain environmental appeals; amending RCW 43.21B.190, 43.21B.230, and 43.21B.300; and reenacting and amending RCW 43.21B.310.
Referred to Committee on Environment, Energy and Water.
SB 6658 by Senators Poulsen, Hale, Regala, Morton, Fraser, Keiser and Rasmussen
AN ACT Relating to clarifying the types of energy conservation projects a public utility may assist its customers in financing; amending RCW 35.92.360 and 54.16.280; and creating a new section.
Referred to Committee on Environment, Energy and Water.
SB 6659 by Senators Haugen, Jacobsen and Fairley (by request of Governor Locke)
AN ACT Relating to transportation financing; amending RCW 46.16.0621, 46.16.070, 46.68.035, 46.16.071, 82.08.020, 82.12.020, 82.12.045, 82.38.030, 82.38.035, 82.38.045, 82.38.047, and 82.38.075; reenacting and amending RCW 46.68.090 and 82.36.025; adding a new section to chapter 46.04 RCW; and providing an effective date.
Referred to Committee on Transportation.
SB 6660 by Senators Prentice, Long, Kastama, Rossi, McAuliffe, McDonald, Costa, Hale, Keiser, Gardner, Oke and Rasmussen
AN ACT Relating to protection of personal information about law enforcement officers and their families; and reenacting and amending RCW 42.17.310.
Referred to Committee on State and Local Government.
SB 6661 by Senator Spanel
AN ACT Relating to increasing the number of port commissioner districts when a port commission has five commissioners; and amending RCW 53.12.010.
Referred to Committee on State and Local Government.
SB 6662 by Senator McAuliffe (by request of State Board of Education)
AN ACT Relating to balanced student achievement calendar planning grants; creating a new section; making an appropriation; and providing an expiration date.
Referred to Committee on Education.
SB 6663 by Senators Roach, Haugen, Shin, Kohl-Welles, Stevens, McDonald, Parlette, Prentice, Jacobsen, Honeyford and Gardner
AN ACT Relating to vehicle impoundment; and amending RCW 46.55.110.
Referred to Committee on Transportation.
SB 6664 by Senators Costa and Hargrove
AN ACT Relating to the department of corrections' authority to require offenders eligible for release to community custody status in lieu of earned release to propose a release plan that complies with the department's program for placing offenders in the community in lieu of early release; amending RCW 9.94A.728; creating new sections; and declaring an emergency.
Referred to Committee on Human Services and Corrections.
SB 6665 by Senators Johnson and Keiser
AN ACT Relating to state route 167; and creating a new section.
Referred to Committee on Transportation.
INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING OF HOUSE BILLS
SHB 1166 by House Committee on Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Representatives Rockefeller, Buck, Doumit, Pennington and Edwards) (by request of Salmon Recovery Funding Board)
Allowing state agencies to sponsor salmon recovery projects.
Referred to Committee on Natural Resources, Parks and Shorelines.
SHB 1521 by House Committee on Local Government and Housing (originally sponsored by Representatives Simpson, Mulliken, Dunshee, Mielke and Haigh)
Authorizing the state treasurer to distribute interest from the local leasehold excise tax account.
Referred to Committee on State and Local Government.
SHB 2169 by House Committee on Local Government and Housing (originally sponsored by Representative Alexander)
Issuing warrants by fire districts.
Referred to Committee on State and Local Government.
HJM 4016 by Representatives Morris, Crouse, Ogden, Linville and Jackley
Requesting increased borrowing authority for the Bonneville Power Administration.
Referred to Committee on Environment, Energy and Water.
MOTION
At 12:02 p.m., on motion of Senator Betti Sheldon, the Senate adjourned until 10:00 a.m., Friday, January 25, 2002.
BRAD OWEN, President of the Senate
TONY M. COOK, Secretary of the Senate