NOON SESSION
Senate Chamber, Olympia, Thursday, March 26, 2015
The Senate was called to order at 12:00 o’clock noon by President Owen. No roll call was taken.
MOTION
On motion of Senator Fain, 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
March 25, 2015
SB 5400 Prime Sponsor, Senator Conway: Implementing a temporary additional fee on licenses and permits issued by the Washington state liquor control board. Reported by Committee on Commerce & Labor
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Baumgartner, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Hasegawa, Ranking Minority Member; Conway; Keiser; King and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Ways & Means.
March 25, 2015
HB 1004 Prime Sponsor, Representative Springer: Clarifying provisions that allow for the tasting of alcohol by students under twenty-one years of age. Reported by Committee on Commerce & Labor
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Baumgartner, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Hasegawa, Ranking Minority Member; Conway; Keiser; King and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
HB 1014 Prime Sponsor, Representative Appleton: Concerning antifreeze products. Reported by Committee on Commerce & Labor
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Baumgartner, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Hasegawa, Ranking Minority Member; Conway; Keiser; King and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
HB 1032 Prime Sponsor, Representative Blake: Amending the fee structure provided in RCW 77.55.321 to encourage habitat projects that provide a public benefit. Reported by Committee on Natural Resources & Parks
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Pearson, Chair; Hatfield, Ranking Minority Member; Chase and McAuliffe.
MINORITY recommendation: Do not pass. Signed by Senator Dansel, Vice Chair.
MINORITY recommendation: That it be referred without recommendation. Signed by Senators Hewitt and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
SHB 1043 Prime Sponsor, Committee on Business & Financial Services: Concerning self-service storage facilities. Reported by Committee on Commerce & Labor
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Baumgartner, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Hasegawa, Ranking Minority Member; Conway; Keiser; King and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
SHB 1048 Prime Sponsor, Committee on Business & Financial Services: Updating, clarifying, and strengthening department of financial institutions' enforcement, licensing, and examination statutes relating to residential mortgage lending, and enhancing the crime of mortgage fraud in the residential mortgage lending process. Reported by Committee on Financial Institutions & Insurance
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass as amended. Signed by Senators Benton, Chair; Angel, Vice Chair; Mullet, Ranking Minority Member; Darneille; Hobbs; Litzow; Pedersen and Roach.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
SHB 1063 Prime Sponsor, Committee on Business & Financial Services: Concerning cosmetology, hair design, barbering, esthetics, and manicuring. Reported by Committee on Commerce & Labor
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Baumgartner, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Hasegawa, Ranking Minority Member; Conway; Keiser; King and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
2SHB 1118 Prime Sponsor, Committee on General Government & Information Technology: Creating cost savings by providing administrative flexibility to the department of fish and wildlife in its implementation of Title 77 RCW while not directing any changes to resource management outcomes. Reported by Committee on Natural Resources & Parks
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Pearson, Chair; Hatfield, Ranking Minority Member; Chase; Hewitt; McAuliffe and Warnick.
MINORITY recommendation: Do not pass. Signed by Senator Dansel, Vice Chair.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 24, 2015
HB 1168 Prime Sponsor, Representative Ormsby: Correcting restrictions on collecting a pension in the public employees' retirement system for retirees returning to work in an ineligible position or a position covered by a different state retirement system. Reported by Committee on Ways & Means
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Hill, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Dammeier, Vice Chair; Hargrove, Ranking Member; Keiser, Assistant Ranking Member on the Capital Budget; Ranker, Ranking Minority Member, Operating; Bailey; Becker; Billig; Brown; Conway; Fraser; Hasegawa; Hatfield; Hewitt; Kohl-Welles; O'Ban; Parlette; Rolfes; Schoesler and Warnick.
MINORITY recommendation: Do not pass. Signed by Senator Honeyford, Vice Chair, Capital Budget Chair.
MINORITY recommendation: That it be referred without recommendation. Signed by Senator Padden.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
ESHB 1170 Prime Sponsor, Committee on Local Government: Granting port districts certain administrative powers. Reported by Committee on Trade & Economic Development
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Brown, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Chase, Ranking Minority Member; Angel; Frockt and McCoy.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
HB 1179 Prime Sponsor, Representative Lytton: Exempting cider makers from the wine commission assessment. Reported by Committee on Commerce & Labor
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Baumgartner, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Hasegawa, Ranking Minority Member; Conway; Keiser; King and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
SHB 1194 Prime Sponsor, Committee on Labor: Addressing the death benefits of a surviving spouse of a member of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system or the state patrol retirement system. Reported by Committee on Commerce & Labor
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Baumgartner, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Hasegawa, Ranking Minority Member; Conway; Keiser; King and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Ways & Means.
March 25, 2015
HB 1232 Prime Sponsor, Representative Chandler: Concerning employer-purchased fishing guide licenses. Reported by Committee on Natural Resources & Parks
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Pearson, Chair; Hatfield, Ranking Minority Member; Chase; Hewitt; McAuliffe and Warnick.
MINORITY recommendation: Do not pass. Signed by Senator Dansel, Vice Chair.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
HB 1263 Prime Sponsor, Representative Stokesbary: Exempting certified public accountants from private investigator regulations. Reported by Committee on Commerce & Labor
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Baumgartner, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Hasegawa, Ranking Minority Member; Conway; Keiser; King and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
HB 1279 Prime Sponsor, Representative Kochmar: Modifying the definition of legislative authority for purposes of local tourism promotion areas. Reported by Committee on Trade & Economic Development
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Brown, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Chase, Ranking Minority Member; Angel; Frockt and McCoy.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
SHB 1283 Prime Sponsor, Committee on Business & Financial Services: Concerning nonprofit organizations engaged in debt adjusting. Reported by Committee on Financial Institutions & Insurance
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass as amended. Signed by Senators Benton, Chair; Angel, Vice Chair; Mullet, Ranking Minority Member; Darneille; Hobbs; Litzow; Pedersen and Roach.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
HB 1309 Prime Sponsor, Representative Vick: Concerning the sale of floating homes or floating on-water residences by brokers. Reported by Committee on Commerce & Labor
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Baumgartner, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Hasegawa, Ranking Minority Member; Conway; Keiser; King and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
SHB 1337 Prime Sponsor, Committee on Finance: Increasing the flexibility for industrial development district levies for public port districts. Reported by Committee on Trade & Economic Development
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Brown, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Chase, Ranking Minority Member; Angel; Frockt and McCoy.
Passed to Committee on Ways & Means.
March 25, 2015
HB 1392 Prime Sponsor, Representative Stanford: Concerning the administrative rate the recreation and conservation funding board may retain to administer the grant programs established in chapter 79A.15 RCW. Reported by Committee on Natural Resources & Parks
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass as amended. Signed by Senators Pearson, Chair; Chase; Hewitt; McAuliffe and Warnick.
MINORITY recommendation: Do not pass. Signed by Senator Dansel, Vice Chair.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
HB 1465 Prime Sponsor, Representative MacEwen: Creating a dedicated account for elevators, lifting devices, moving walks, manufactured and mobile homes, recreational and commercial vehicles, factory built housing and commercial structures, and contractor registration and compliance activities. Reported by Committee on Commerce & Labor
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Baumgartner, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Hasegawa, Ranking Minority Member; Conway; Keiser; King and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Ways & Means.
March 25, 2015
2SHB 1469 Prime Sponsor, Committee on Appropriations: Addressing removal of payment credentials and other sensitive data from state data networks. Reported by Committee on Financial Institutions & Insurance
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Benton, Chair; Angel, Vice Chair; Mullet, Ranking Minority Member; Darneille; Hobbs; Litzow; Pedersen and Roach.
Passed to Committee on Ways & Means.
March 24, 2015
E2SHB 1491 Prime Sponsor, Committee on Appropriations: Improving quality in the early care and education system. Reported by Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass as amended. Signed by Senators Litzow, Chair; Dammeier, Vice Chair; McAuliffe, Ranking Member; Billig; Fain; Hill; Mullet; Rivers and Rolfes.
Passed to Committee on Ways & Means.
March 25, 2015
SHB 1496 Prime Sponsor, Committee on Labor: Addressing vocational rehabilitation by making certain recommendations from the vocational rehabilitation subcommittee permanent and creating certain incentives for employers to employ injured workers with permanent disabilities. Reported by Committee on Commerce & Labor
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Baumgartner, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Hasegawa, Ranking Minority Member; Conway; Keiser; King and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 24, 2015
SHB 1516 Prime Sponsor, Committee on Finance: Providing an exemption for certain lodging services from the convention and trade center tax. Reported by Committee on Ways & Means
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Hill, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Honeyford, Vice Chair, Capital Budget Chair; Hargrove, Ranking Member; Keiser, Assistant Ranking Member on the Capital Budget; Ranker, Ranking Minority Member, Operating; Bailey; Becker; Billig; Brown; Conway; Fraser; Hasegawa; Hatfield; Hewitt; Kohl-Welles; O'Ban; Padden; Parlette; Rolfes; Schoesler and Warnick.
MINORITY recommendation: That it be referred without recommendation. Signed by Senator Dammeier, Vice Chair.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 24, 2015
E2SHB 1546 Prime Sponsor, Committee on Appropriations: Concerning dual credit opportunities provided by Washington state's public institutions of higher education. Reported by Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass as amended. Signed by Senators Litzow, Chair; Dammeier, Vice Chair; McAuliffe, Ranking Member; Fain; Hill; Mullet; Rivers and Rolfes.
MINORITY recommendation: That it be referred without recommendation. Signed by Senator Billig.
Passed to Committee on Ways & Means.
March 25, 2015
SHB 1564 Prime Sponsor, Committee on Commerce & Gaming: Concerning the local option prohibition on the sale of liquor. Reported by Committee on Commerce & Labor
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Baumgartner, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Hasegawa, Ranking Minority Member; Conway; Keiser; King and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
SHB 1575 Prime Sponsor, Committee on Capital Budget: Regulating retainage bonds on public contracts. Reported by Committee on Financial Institutions & Insurance
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Benton, Chair; Angel, Vice Chair; Mullet, Ranking Minority Member; Darneille; Hobbs; Litzow; Pedersen and Roach.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
HB 1620 Prime Sponsor, Representative Tharinger: Increasing the surcharge to fund biotoxin testing and monitoring. Reported by Committee on Natural Resources & Parks
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass as amended. Signed by Senators Pearson, Chair; Hatfield, Ranking Minority Member; Chase and McAuliffe.
MINORITY recommendation: Do not pass. Signed by Senator Dansel, Vice Chair.
MINORITY recommendation: That it be referred without recommendation. Signed by Senators Hewitt and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Ways & Means.
March 25, 2015
HB 1627 Prime Sponsor, Representative Schmick: Expanding the existing prohibition on unlawfully entering the land of another to hunt or to retrieve hunted wildlife under Title 77 RCW to include entering the land of another to collect wildlife parts. Reported by Committee on Natural Resources & Parks
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Pearson, Chair; Dansel, Vice Chair; Hatfield, Ranking Minority Member; Chase; Hewitt; McAuliffe and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
HB 1641 Prime Sponsor, Representative Blake: Adding shellfish to the list of species types listed in RCW 77.15.260(1)(a). Reported by Committee on Natural Resources & Parks
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Pearson, Chair; Dansel, Vice Chair; Hatfield, Ranking Minority Member; Chase; Hewitt; McAuliffe and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
SHB 1651 Prime Sponsor, Committee on Labor: Concerning definitions related to human trafficking. Reported by Committee on Commerce & Labor
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Baumgartner, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Hasegawa, Ranking Minority Member; Conway; Keiser; King and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
2SHB 1654 Prime Sponsor, Committee on General Government & Information Technology: Controlling noxious weeds while still supporting pollen-rich forage plant communities for honey bees. Reported by Committee on Natural Resources & Parks
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Pearson, Chair; Hatfield, Ranking Minority Member; Chase; Hewitt; McAuliffe and Warnick.
MINORITY recommendation: Do not pass. Signed by Senator Dansel, Vice Chair.
Passed to Committee on Ways & Means.
March 25, 2015
SHB 1676 Prime Sponsor, Committee on General Government & Information Technology: Understanding the effects of predation on wild ungulate populations. Reported by Committee on Natural Resources & Parks
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Pearson, Chair; Dansel, Vice Chair; Hatfield, Ranking Minority Member; Chase; Hewitt; McAuliffe and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Ways & Means.
March 24, 2015
EHB 1859 Prime Sponsor, Representative Kilduff: Concerning the amendment, recodification, decodification, or repeal of statutes relating to state capital construction funds and accounts and bond authorizations that are inactive, obsolete, or no longer necessary for continued publication in the Revised Code of Washington. Reported by Committee on Ways & Means
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Hill, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Dammeier, Vice Chair; Honeyford, Vice Chair, Capital Budget Chair; Hargrove, Ranking Member; Keiser, Assistant Ranking Member on the Capital Budget; Ranker, Ranking Minority Member, Operating; Bailey; Becker; Billig; Brown; Conway; Fraser; Hasegawa; Hatfield; Hewitt; Kohl-Welles; O'Ban; Padden; Parlette; Rolfes; Schoesler and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 24, 2015
HB 1940 Prime Sponsor, Representative Stokesbary: Exempting levies imposed by qualifying flood control zone districts from certain limitations upon regular property tax levies. Reported by Committee on Ways & Means
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass as amended. Signed by Senators Hill, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Dammeier, Vice Chair; Honeyford, Vice Chair, Capital Budget Chair; Hargrove, Ranking Member; Keiser, Assistant Ranking Member on the Capital Budget; Ranker, Ranking Minority Member, Operating; Bailey; Becker; Billig; Brown; Conway; Fraser; Hasegawa; Hatfield; Hewitt; Kohl-Welles; O'Ban; Rolfes; Schoesler and Warnick.
MINORITY recommendation: That it be referred without recommendation. Signed by Senators Padden and Parlette.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
HB 2000 Prime Sponsor, Representative Hurst: Authorizing the governor to enter into agreements with federally recognized Indian tribes in the state of Washington concerning marijuana. Reported by Committee on Commerce & Labor
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Braun, Vice Chair; Hasegawa, Ranking Minority Member; Conway; Keiser; King and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Ways & Means.
March 24, 2015
HB 2007 Prime Sponsor, Representative Zeiger: Concerning reimbursement to eligible providers for medicaid ground emergency medical transportation services. Reported by Committee on Ways & Means
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Hill, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Dammeier, Vice Chair; Honeyford, Vice Chair, Capital Budget Chair; Hargrove, Ranking Member; Keiser, Assistant Ranking Member on the Capital Budget; Ranker, Ranking Minority Member, Operating; Bailey; Becker; Billig; Brown; Conway; Fraser; Hatfield; Hewitt; Kohl-Welles; O'Ban; Parlette; Rolfes; Schoesler and Warnick.
MINORITY recommendation: That it be referred without recommendation. Signed by Senators Hasegawa and Padden.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
2SHB 2040 Prime Sponsor, Committee on Appropriations: Initiating a campaign to increase veteran employment. Reported by Committee on Commerce & Labor
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Baumgartner, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Hasegawa, Ranking Minority Member; Conway; Keiser; King and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.
March 25, 2015
ESHB 2093 Prime Sponsor, Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources: Concerning wildland fire suppression. Reported by Committee on Natural Resources & Parks
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass as amended. Signed by Senators Pearson, Chair; Dansel, Vice Chair; Hatfield, Ranking Minority Member; Chase; Hewitt; McAuliffe and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Ways & Means.
March 25, 2015
SHB 2107 Prime Sponsor, Committee on Appropriations: Requiring the department of fish and wildlife to update the 2011 wolf conservation and management plan to ensure the establishment of a self-sustaining population of gray wolves while also ensuring social tolerance of wolf recovery. Reported by Committee on Natural Resources & Parks
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass. Signed by Senators Pearson, Chair; Dansel, Vice Chair; Hatfield, Ranking Minority Member; Chase; Hewitt; McAuliffe and Warnick.
Passed to Committee on Ways & Means.
March 25, 2015
SHB 2109 Prime Sponsor, Committee on Appropriations: Creating the Washington small business retirement marketplace. Reported by Committee on Financial Institutions & Insurance
MAJORITY recommendation: Do pass as amended. Signed by Senators Benton, Chair; Mullet, Ranking Minority Member; Darneille; Hobbs; Litzow; Pedersen and Roach.
MINORITY recommendation: That it be referred without recommendation. Signed by Senator Angel, Vice Chair.
Passed to Committee on Ways & Means.
MOTION
On motion of Senator Fain, all measures listed on the Standing Committee report were referred to the committees as designated.
MOTION
Pursuant to Rule 46, on motion of Senator Fain, and without objection, the Committee on Agriculture, Water & Rural Economic Development and the Committee on Human Services, Mental Health & Housing were granted special leave to meet during the day’s floor session.
MOTION
At 12:01 p.m., on motion of Senator Fain, the Senate adjourned until 10:00 o’clock a.m. Friday, March 27, 2015.
BRAD OWEN, President of the Senate
HUNTER G. GOODMAN, Secretary of the Senate
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