ELEVENTH DAY
NOON SESSIONSenate Chamber, Olympia, Thursday, January 20, 2005
The Senate was called to order at 12:00 noon by President Owen. No roll call was taken.
MOTION
On motion of Senator Eide, the reading of the Journal of the previous day was dispensed with and it was approved.
MOTION
There being no objection, the Senate advanced to the first order of business.
REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES
January 19, 2005
SB 5054 Prime Sponsor, Johnson: Regarding patient authorization of disclosure of health care information. Reported by Committee on Health & Long-Term Care
MAJORITY recommendation: Without recommendation. Signed by Senators Keiser, Chair; Brandland, Franklin, Johnson, Kastama, Kline and Parlette
Passed to Committee on Judiciary.
MOTION
On motion of Senator Eide, all measures listed on the Standing Committee report were referred to the committees as designated.
MOTION
On motion of Senator Eide, the Senate advanced to the fifth order of business.
INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING
SB 5311 by Senators Rasmussen, Jacobsen, McAuliffe, Mulliken, Stevens, Roach, Shin, Kohl-Welles and Spanel
AN ACT Relating to creating an autism task force; and creating new sections.
Referred to Committee on Health & Long-Term Care.
SB 5312 by Senators Swecker, Mulliken, Hewitt, Schmidt, Stevens, Benson, Schoesler, Honeyford, Zarelli, Oke, Roach, Carrell and Benton
AN ACT Relating to the application of referendum powers to growth management measures; amending RCW 36.70A.030; and adding a new section to chapter 36.70A RCW.
Referred to Committee on Government Operations & Elections.
SB 5313 by Senators Stevens, Swecker, Johnson, Carrell, Esser, Zarelli, Benson, Mulliken and Benton
AN ACT Relating to verification that applicants for driver's licenses, permits, and identicards are lawfully within the United States; amending RCW 46.20.031, 46.20.117, 46.20.181, and 46.20.207; reenacting and amending RCW 46.20.055 and 46.20.070; adding new sections to chapter 46.20 RCW; and providing an effective date.
Referred to Committee on Transportation.
SB 5314 by Senators Stevens, Esser, Honeyford, Johnson, Roach, Carrell, Swecker, Schmidt, Schoesler, Mulliken and Benton
AN ACT Relating to criminal offenses involving animals or natural resources; amending RCW 9A.82.090, 9A.82.100, 9A.82.120, and 9.94A.535; reenacting and amending RCW 9A.82.010 and 9.94A.515; adding a new chapter to Title 9A RCW; and prescribing penalties.
Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
SB 5315 by Senators Schoesler, Hewitt, Morton, Johnson, Swecker, Oke, Delvin, Carrell, Stevens, Honeyford, Roach, Sheldon, Mulliken, Parlette and Benton
AN ACT Relating to election procedures; amending RCW 29A.08.625, 29A.24.050, 29A.40.070, 29A.40.091, 29A.40.110, 29A.40.130, 29A.48.010, 29A.48.050, and 29A.60.160; adding a new section to chapter 29A.60 RCW; and repealing RCW 29A.24.210, 29A.24.211, and 29A.28.011.
Referred to Committee on Government Operations & Elections.
SB 5316 by Senators Jacobsen, Swecker, Haugen, Parlette, Kohl-Welles and Oke
AN ACT Relating to Washington state parks and recreation commission special license plates; reenacting and amending RCW 46.16.313; and adding new sections to chapter 46.16 RCW.
Referred to Committee on Transportation.
SB 5317 by Senators Benton, Keiser, Benson, Prentice, Roach and Shin
AN ACT Relating to providing confidentiality to certain insurance commissioner examinations; and amending RCW 48.02.065.
Referred to Committee on Financial Institutions, Housing & Consumer Protection.
SB 5318 by Senators Thibaudeau, Keiser, Kline, Franklin, Poulsen, McAuliffe and Kohl-Welles
AN ACT Relating to improving health care professional and health care facility patient safety practices; amending RCW 43.70.110, 43.70.250, and 5.64.010; adding new sections to chapter 43.70 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 7.70 RCW; creating new sections; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.
Referred to Committee on Health & Long-Term Care.
SB 5319 by Senators Oke, Doumit, Roach, Hargrove, Honeyford, Swecker, Schoesler, Rasmussen, Berkey, Delvin, Morton, Regala, Sheldon, Stevens, Johnson and Mulliken
AN ACT Relating to trapping; amending RCW 77.08.010, 77.15.194, 77.65.450, 77.65.460, 77.32.545, and 77.15.198; adding new sections to chapter 77.12 RCW; repealing RCW 77.15.192; and declaring an emergency.
Referred to Committee on Natural Resources, Ocean & Recreation.
SB 5320 by Senators Hargrove and Brandland
AN ACT Relating to the certification of corrections officers; amending RCW 43.101.085, 43.101.010, 43.101.380, and 43.101.400; adding new sections to chapter 43.101 RCW; and providing an effective date.
Referred to Committee on Human Services & Corrections.
SB 5321 by Senators Haugen, Swecker, Jacobsen and Esser
AN ACT Relating to disclosure of addresses of vehicle owners; and amending RCW 46.12.370 and 46.12.380.
Referred to Committee on Transportation.
AN ACT Relating to district court jurisdiction; and amending RCW 3.66.020.
Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
SB 5323 by Senators Kline, Esser, Hargrove, Carrell, Stevens, Regala, Fairley, Thibaudeau and Shin
AN ACT Relating to threshold property values for crimes against property; amending RCW 9A.48.070, 9A.48.080, 9A.48.090, 9A.56.030, 9A.56.040, 9A.56.050, 9A.56.060, 9A.56.096, 9A.56.150, 9A.56.160, and 9A.56.170; and prescribing penalties.
Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
SB 5324 by Senators Pflug, Doumit, Parlette, Fraser, Kohl-Welles and Rasmussen
AN ACT Relating to allowing members of the teachers' retirement system plan 1 who are employed less than full time as psychologists, social workers, nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, or speech language pathologists or audiologists to annualize their salaries when calculating their average final compensation; and amending RCW 41.32.010.
Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.
SB 5325 by Senators Zarelli, Brown, Doumit, Kline, Shin, Sheldon, Pflug, Mulliken, Kohl-Welles, Rasmussen and Pridemore
AN ACT Relating to community revitalization financing; amending RCW 39.89.020, 39.89.030, 39.89.050, 39.89.060, 39.89.070, and 39.89.080; adding new sections to chapter 39.89 RCW; adding new sections to chapter 82.14 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 82.32 RCW; and creating new sections.
Referred to Committee on International Trade & Economic Development.
SB 5326 by Senators Kohl-Welles, Pridemore, Esser, Kline, Weinstein, Poulsen, Finkbeiner, McAuliffe, Keiser and Spanel
AN ACT Relating to providing home rule charter cities the ability to choose their election system; and amending RCW 29A.52.210.
Referred to Committee on Government Operations & Elections.
SB 5327 by Senators Fairley and Kohl-Welles
AN ACT Relating to creating an office of privacy protection; adding a new section to chapter 43.10 RCW; and providing an effective date.
Referred to Committee on Financial Institutions, Housing & Consumer Protection.
SB 5328 by Senators Fairley and McAuliffe
AN ACT Relating to restricting the use of personal credit histories and credit scores; adding a new section to chapter 48.18 RCW; and repealing RCW 48.18.545 and 48.19.035.
Referred to Committee on Financial Institutions, Housing & Consumer Protection.
SB 5329 by Senators Pflug, Shin, Esser, Schoesler, Roach, Rasmussen, Rockefeller, Berkey and Mulliken
AN ACT Relating to cluster-based economic development; amending RCW 43.330.090; and creating a new section.
Referred to Committee on International Trade & Economic Development.
SB 5330 by Senators Shin, Rasmussen, Berkey, McAuliffe and Kohl-Welles
AN ACT Relating to economic development grants; adding a new section to chapter 43.330 RCW; and creating a new section.
Referred to Committee on International Trade & Economic Development.
SB 5331 by Senators Doumit, Hewitt, Brown, Honeyford, Fraser, Hargrove, Parlette and Jacobsen
AN ACT Relating to creating a historic county courthouse program; adding a new section to chapter 27.34 RCW; creating a new section; making an appropriation; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.
Referred to Committee on Government Operations & Elections.
SB 5332 by Senators Kline, Franklin, Shin, Keiser, Weinstein, Poulsen, Thibaudeau, Prentice, Kohl-Welles, Eide, Finkbeiner, Rasmussen and Pridemore
AN ACT Relating to honoring the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.; and amending RCW 36.04.170.
Referred to Committee on Government Operations & Elections.
SB 5333 by Senators Regala, Esser, Prentice, Hewitt, Pridemore and McCaslin
AN ACT Relating to voter-approved regular property tax levies; and amending RCW 84.55.050.
Referred to Committee on Government Operations & Elections.
SB 5334 by Senators Kastama, Finkbeiner, Esser and Keiser
AN ACT Relating to equalizing the costs of providing municipal services to newly annexed areas; adding a new section to chapter 35.21 RCW; and creating a new section.
Referred to Committee on Government Operations & Elections.
SB 5335 by Senators Fairley and Delvin
AN ACT Relating to local government insurance transactions; amending RCW 48.62.031; and adding a new section to chapter 48.62 RCW.
Referred to Committee on Financial Institutions, Housing & Consumer Protection.
SB 5336 by Senators Jacobsen and Oke
AN ACT Relating to park rangers employed by the state parks and recreation commission; and amending RCW 10.93.020, 10.93.140, 41.26.030, and 79A.05.160.
Referred to Committee on Natural Resources, Ocean & Recreation.
SB 5337 by Senators Rockefeller, Kastama and Roach
AN ACT Relating to metropolitan park districts; amending RCW 35.61.290, 35.61.300, and 36.69.310; creating a new section; and declaring an emergency.
Referred to Committee on Government Operations & Elections.
SB 5338 by Senators Fraser and Honeyford
AN ACT Relating to the establishment of a water court; amending RCW 2.08.010, 43.03.012, 90.03.110, 90.03.120, 90.03.160, 90.03.180, 90.03.190, 90.03.210, 90.03.230, 34.05.514, 34.05.518, 34.05.570, 34.05.578, and 34.05.588; reenacting and amending RCW 34.05.526; adding a new chapter to Title 2 RCW; creating new sections; and providing a contingent effective date.
Referred to Committee on Water, Energy & Environment.
SB 5339 by Senators Franklin, Regala, Hewitt, Brown, McCaslin, Fairley, Zarelli, Weinstein, Stevens, Kline, Hargrove and Kohl-Welles
AN ACT Relating to recidivism reduction through discharge of convicted felons; amending RCW 9.94A.637; and creating a new section.
Referred to Committee on Human Services & Corrections.
SB 5340 by Senators Rasmussen, Roach, Shin, Jacobsen, Delvin, Carrell, Rockefeller, Fraser, Franklin, Kastama, Regala and Pridemore
AN ACT Relating to military department accounts; amending RCW 38.20.010; and adding new sections to chapter 38.40 RCW.
Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.
SB 5341 by Senators Fraser, Delvin, Regala, Esser and Rasmussen
AN ACT Relating to member contribution rates in the Washington state patrol retirement system; amending RCW 41.45.0631; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.
Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.
SB 5342 by Senators Kohl-Welles, Regala, Fairley, Kline, Thibaudeau, McAuliffe and Keiser
AN ACT Relating to safe storage of firearms; amending RCW 9A.36.050; adding a new section to chapter 9.41 RCW; and prescribing penalties.
Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
SB 5343 by Senators Kohl-Welles, Fairley, Regala, Kline and Thibaudeau
AN ACT Relating to the sale of firearms at gun shows and events; amending RCW 9.41.010; adding a new section to chapter 9.41 RCW; and prescribing penalties.
Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
SB 5344 by Senators Fairley, Kohl-Welles, Prentice, Kline, Berkey, Haugen, Rasmussen, McAuliffe, Regala, Keiser, Spanel, Thibaudeau and Fraser
AN ACT Relating to possession of firearms on the state capitol campus; reenacting and amending RCW 9.41.300; and prescribing penalties.
Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
AN ACT Relating to the timber land revitalization board; amending RCW 84.33.041, 84.33.051, 84.33.081, 43.84.092, and 79.17.200; reenacting and amending RCW 43.84.092; adding a new chapter to Title 76 RCW; creating a new section; making appropriations; providing an effective date; and providing an expiration date.
Referred to Committee on Natural Resources, Ocean & Recreation.
SB 5346 by Senators Jacobsen, Esser, Thibaudeau, Finkbeiner, Rasmussen and Kohl-Welles
AN ACT Relating to establishing the office of citizen councilor; and adding new sections to chapter 43.09 RCW.
Referred to Committee on Government Operations & Elections.
SJR 8205 by Senators Fraser and Honeyford
Amending the Constitution to authorize a water court.
Referred to Committee on Water, Energy & Environment.
MOTION
On motion of Senator Eide, all measures listed on the Introduction and First Reading report were referred to the committees as designated.
MOTION
At 12:02 p.m. on motion of Senator Eide, the Senate adjourned until 10:00 a.m. Friday, January 21, 2005.
BRAD OWEN, President of the Senate
THOMAS HOEMANN, Secretary of the Senate