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UNCLAIMED PROPERTY  UNCLAIMED PROPERTY RSS Feed
               
Surplus funds, fees for locating certain funds from taxes and other funds held by a county: * HB 2428, CH 29 (2010)
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION  UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION RSS Feed
               
Administrative contingency fund, high-demand occupation training program funds for certain unemployed persons to come from separate account within: * E2SSB 5809, CH 566 (2009) PV
Benefits and employer contributions, adjustment to help unemployed and low-income persons: HB 3129
Benefits eligibility for certain workers participating in workforce training: SB 5809
Benefits, defining individuals eligible for benefits for workers. compensation and unemployment insurance purposes: SB 6585
Benefits, effect of voluntary termination of employment on: SB 6334, SSB 6334
Business and occupation tax credit for certain employer unemployment compensation contributions: HB 2008
Corporate officer, defined: SB 5471
Corporate officers, eligibility: HB 1274
Economic security, improving through unemployment compensation: HB 1906, * ESHB 1906, CH 3 (2009)
Economic security, modifications of unemployment compensation for: 2SSB 5319
Economic stimulus, modifications of unemployment insurance program for: SB 5319, SSB 5319
Eligibility, allowing certain individuals to seek part-time employment while maintaining: HB 2647, SB 6526
Employer contribution rates, correcting references in RCW provisions concerning: HB 2649, * SHB 2649, CH 25 (2010), SB 6525, SSB 6525
Employer contribution rates, limiting: HB 2920, SB 6587
Employer contribution rates, providing hiring incentives to employers by reducing: HB 3103
Employer contribution rates, revisions: HB 2204, SB 5963, * SSB 5963, CH 493 (2009)
Employer contributions and benefits, adjustment to help unemployed and low-income persons: HB 3129
Employer experience rating chapter, correcting statutory references: * HB 1339, CH 225 (2009), SB 5257
Employers, good cause for late filing of reports, contributions, penalties, or interest: * HB 1338, CH 83 (2009), SB 5258
Employers, unemployment insurance penalties and contribution rates for employers who are not "qualified employers": HB 2648, SHB 2648, SB 6524, * SSB 6524, CH 72 (2010)
Experience rating accounts of employers, correcting references in RCW provisions concerning: HB 2649, * SHB 2649, CH 25 (2010), SB 6525, SSB 6525
Experience rating accounts of employers, military service benefit charge exemption: HB 2332, SB 5009, * SSB 5009, CH 50 (2009)
Farm internship pilot project, establishment and impact on benefits: * SSB 6349, CH 160 (2010) PV
Farm internship program, establishment and impact on benefits: SB 6349
Incarceration, disqualification from benefits after absence from work due to: HB 1305
Language service providers, exemption from definitions of employment and worker: HB 1990, SB 5771
Leaving work, good cause reasons for: HB 1628
Median wages, computation for unemployment compensation purposes: HB 1711
Payment relief for employers: HB 2236
Qualifying for benefits, defining good cause for leaving work voluntarily: SB 5242
Reforming the unemployment compensation system, various provisions: HB 2269
Underground economic activity, employment security department authority to issue subpoenas for agency investigations of: HB 2789, * SHB 2789, CH 22 (2010), SB 6574
Unemployment benefits, improvement of: HB 2385, HB 2553, SHB 2553
Unemployment compensation fund, reducing employer payments to: SSB 5809
Voluntarily leaving part-time work, qualifying for benefits under certain circumstances: * SB 5804, CH 247 (2009)
Washington state essential worker pilot program, established by department of employment security: HB 1896, SB 5831
Workforce training grants, availability through colleges for certain persons exhausting benefits: SB 6600
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON  UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON RSS Feed
               
Alternative public works contracting procedures, authorization and restrictions: * EHB 1690, CH 21 (2010)
Board of regents, adding a faculty member to board: HB 1841, SHB 1841
Bond retirement fund: * ESHB 2254, CH 499 (2009)
Botanic gardens endowed curatorship: SB 5061, SSB 5061, SB 5092
Building account, use of funds for certificates of participation authorized: HB 2254, * ESHB 2254, CH 499 (2009), SB 5842
Building fee, university authority to establish: SB 5078
Buildings, use of building fees and net proceeds of the university tract for university building purposes: HB 3146, SB 6806
Center for aerospace technology innovation, creation of: SB 6678, SSB 6678, 2SSB 6678
Clean energy collaborative established, Washington technology center to create by contract: SB 5921
Climatologist, office of the state: SB 5138
Commercializing research at state universities, promoting university-industry relationships: SB 6594
Consolidated endowment fund, disclosure of private investment information related to: * HB 1640, CH 394 (2009), SB 5526, SSB 5526
Engineering, programs in chemical, mechanical, and civil engineering no longer restricted to UW and WSU: HB 1312, SB 5276, * SSB 5276, CH 207 (2009)
Extension lecturers in English language programs permitted to engage in collective bargaining: SB 5986
Forest resources, school of forestry resources to work with various interests concerning: * ESHB 2541, CH 188 (2010)
Global Asia institute and institute advisory board, creation within Henry M. Jackson school of international studies: * SSB 5177, CH 466 (2009)
Global Asia institute, creation within Henry M. Jackson school of international studies: SB 5177
Graduate opportunities and minority achievement program, honoring: * SR 8695 (2010)
Health sciences library, online access to by certain health care providers: HB 1611, HB 2435, SB 5913, * SSB 5913, CH 558 (2009) PV
Honorary degrees, authorizing for students who were ordered into internment camps in 1942: * SB 6467, CH 51 (2010)
Human rights center, creation: HB 2246, SB 5172, * SSB 5172, CH 465 (2009)
Institute of forest resources, coordination of university cooperatives and centers: SB 5097, SB 6325, SSB 6325
Johnson, Will, recognition for being named a Putnam fellow: * SR 8725 (2010)
Midwives, online access to health sciences library: HB 2435
Opportunity grant program, establishment: HB 2306
President, compensation subject to certain limitations: HB 2240
Primary care physician conditional tuition waiver program to be administered by university: SB 5502, ESSB 5502
Public works contracting procedures: HB 1641, HB 1916, SHB 1916, HB 3047, SHB 3047, SB 5527, SB 5760, SSB 5760
Research at state universities, commercialization through formation of companies: SB 6706, * SSB 6706, CH 14 (2010)
Safety, health, and energy efficiency improvements to university facilities, creating jobs by issuing bonds to fund construction of: HB 2334, SHB 2334
Scandinavian department, honoring: SR 8639
Shellfish biotoxins, surcharge to fund monitoring by Olympic region harmful algal bloom program of the Olympic natural resources center: * SB 6121, CH 577 (2009)
Snohomish county branch campus, establishment: HB 1467, SB 5864
Technology law and public policy clinic of U of W law school to prepare telecommunications report for legislature: HB 2601, SHB 2601
Tuition fees rates, board of regents authority to establish: SB 5710, SB 6276
Tuition fees, establishment and waiver for certain resident undergraduate students: SB 6625
Tuition, resident and nonresident undergraduates: * SSB 5734, CH 574 (2009) PV
Tuition-setting authority, full-time tuition fees for resident undergraduates to be determined by governing board: HB 2946, SB 6562
Tuition-setting authority, provisions: SSB 6562, E2SSB 6562
Warren G. Magnuson trust fund, elimination of: SB 6572, * SSB 6572, CH 9 (2010) PV
Washington park arboretum, mitigating impacts of SR 520 corridor project on: HB 2967, SB 6321
Washington park arboretum, natural resource collections: SB 5061, SSB 5061, SB 5092
Washington technology center, university to contract with: SB 5553, SSB 5553
Washington trade corps fellowship program, establishment and function at university: SB 6731
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UTILITIES  UTILITIES RSS Feed
               (See also ELECTRIC UTILITIES; TELECOMMUNICATIONS)
Alternative energy resource purchase programs, incentives for voluntary participation by utilities: HB 1658
Alternative energy, siting of small alternative energy resource facilities: HB 2516, SHB 2516
Baseload renewable power facilities, role in meeting utility's annual conservation targets: HB 2784, SB 6682
Billing statements, tax information to be included on customer billings: HB 1855
Biomass, county authority to enter into ownership agreements for electric generating facilities powered by biomass: SB 6692, * SSB 6692, CH 167 (2010)
Biomass, tax incentives for forest derived biomass used for electricity, steam, or heat production: SB 6691
Bonneville power administration, business and occupation tax exemption for certain amounts received from: HB 2951, SB 6614, * SSB 6614, CH 295 (2010)
Carbon dioxide emissions, disclosure to electric customers of emissions associated with their electricity consumption: HB 1994, SHB 1994
Coal-powered facilities, strategies to replace energy and jobs lost by closure of: SB 5766
Conservation project loans from municipal utilities and public utility districts, repayment period expanded: * HB 1184, CH 416 (2009)
County utility tax, authorizing: HB 2637, HB 2749
Electric vehicles, utilities encouraged to use: HB 1481, SB 5418
Eligible renewable resource, modifying requirements: SB 6089
Emergency responses to properties, notification required to owners: HB 1537
Energy conservation and renewable energy targets, load growth as an exception in meeting: HB 1686
Energy conservation programs, local finance tool authorization to fund efficiency upgrades and implement programs: HB 2853, SB 6656
Energy conservation services, authority of certain municipalities to create an energy conservation services utility as part of a pilot program: ESSB 6656
Energy efficiency and greenhouse gases in built environment, maintaining energy consumption data on certain nonresidential and public agency buildings as part of strategic plan concerning: HB 1747, SHB 1747, E2SHB 1747, SB 5854, SSB 5854, * E2SSB 5854, CH 423 (2009)
Energy independence act, modifying definitions applicable to chapter 19.285 RCW: SB 6437
Energy independence act, renewable energy and conservation requirements: HB 1133, HB 3034, SB 5840, ESSB 5840, SB 6441, SB 6672, SSB 6672
Facilities, notice of necessary relocation from public agency: EHB 1499
Facilities, siting of small alternative energy resource facilities: HB 2516, SHB 2516
Gas companies, date utilities and transportation commission sets pipeline safety fees: SSB 5451
Gas companies, date utilities and transportation commission sets pipeline safety fees changed: HB 1388, * SHB 1388, CH 91 (2009), SB 5451
Gas companies, public utility tax credit to recover up to fifty percent of rebates given for solar water heating systems installations: HB 1134, SHB 1134, SSB 5161, SB 5198
Greenhouse gas emissions performance standard, compliance provisions: HB 1854, SHB 1854, SB 6090, SSB 6090
Homes, developing strategies to improve energy efficiency of existing homes: HB 2765
Hydroelectric generation, municipally owned facility impact payments: HB 2925, * ESHB 2925, CH 199 (2010) PV, SB 6480
Infrastructure development, provision of economic development infrastructure by private utilities: SB 6808, SSB 6808
Intermittent alternative energy sources, utility plans for energy sources to be used when intermittent sources are unavailable: HB 1955
Lake Tapps water supply, exercise of eminent domain authority by watershed management partnership: * SHB 1332, CH 504 (2009)
Liens against rental premises for utility charges when tenant is delinquent: SB 5281
Liens against rental premises for utility charges when tenant vacates or is delinquent: HB 1298, SB 5667
Light and power businesses, creating a public utility tax for the sale of fully unbundled renewable energy credits: HB 2417
Light and power businesses, public utility tax credit against sales and use tax paid for development of eligible renewable resources: HB 2131, SHB 2131
Light and power businesses, public utility tax credit to recover up to fifty percent of rebates given for solar water heating systems installations: HB 1134, SHB 1134, SSB 5161, SB 5198
Local option street maintenance utilities, formation and authority: HB 2618, SB 6616
Local utility districts, new withdrawal of water from a well prohibited within service area in certain cases: HB 1534
Low-carbon energy generation facilities, tax and regulatory incentives to encourage the construction of: HB 2813
Pacific Power, honoring: * SR 8713 (2010)
Public service companies, customer interest protections in proceedings before utilities and transportation commission: SB 5055, * SSB 5055, CH 24 (2009)
Public service companies, limits on recoverability of benefits to executive officer or any employee through rates or charges: SB 5072
Puget Sound Energy/Puget Holdings merger proposal, urging utilities and transportation commission to rehear: HJM 4007
Rates, discounts for low-income and low-income senior customers of gas and electric companies: SB 5290, * SSB 5290, CH 32 (2009)
Renewable energy and renewable energy credits, electric utilities: SB 5345
Renewable energy credits, creating a public utility tax for the sale of fully unbundled renewable energy credits: HB 2417
Renewable energy plants, electric utilities to enter into power purchase agreements with: HB 2135
Renewable energy sources, tax incentives for use of biomass fuels to generate electricity: HB 1610, SB 5441, SSB 5441, SB 6170, * ESSB 6170, CH 469 (2009)
Renewable energy systems, creating a standard offer contract for certain systems: HB 2536
Renewable energy systems, investment cost recovery incentives: HB 1399, SHB 1399
Renewable energy targets, conservation achieved by electric utilities in excess of biennial conservation acquisition targets to be counted against: SB 5280
Renewable energy targets, role of baseload renewable power facility in meeting utility's annual conservation targets: HB 2784, SB 6682
Renewable energy targets, utilities to be considered in compliance in certain cases: HB 1833, HB 2857
Renewable energy targets, utility waiver from targets related to integration into the electrical grid: HB 1693
Renewable or alternative energy resources, definition: SB 5505
Renewable resource requirements for utilities, using eligible renewable resources or renewable energy credits to meet: HB 2009
Renewable resources, electric utilities: SB 5137
Renewable resources, large utilities to obtain certain percentages of their electricity from: HB 1294
Renewable resources, modifying requirements for an eligible renewable resource: SB 6089
Renewable resources, tax exemptions for sales and use of machinery and equipment: SB 6763
Services collections against rental property, prohibiting collecting from owner or designee under certain circumstances: SSB 6261
Services collections against residential rental property, prohibiting collecting from owner or designee under certain circumstances: * ESB 6261, CH 135 (2010)
Solar electric generating systems, tax incentives in certain cases for manufacturing, selling, and using: HB 2537, SHB 2537
Solar energy, community solar projects incentives: SSB 5161, SB 5185, SB 6170, * ESSB 6170, CH 469 (2009)
Solar water heating systems, grant program and rebate for installation to customers of light and power businesses and gas companies: HB 2185
Solar water heating systems, installation cost rebate to customers of light and power businesses and gas companies: HB 1134, SHB 1134, SSB 5161, SB 5198
Sustainable energy resources and smart energy technology, promoting through systems benefit charge: HB 2590
Sustainable energy trusts, monthly smart and sustainable energy charge: HB 1007
System benefits charge, electric and gas utility authority to collect a monthly charge: HB 2590
Underground facilities, requirements for notification prior to excavation: HB 1996, ESHB 1996, SB 5955
Waste to energy facilities, electricity generated by certain facilities defined as an eligible renewable resource for purposes of energy independence act: HB 2892
Wastewater companies, regulation and infrastructure development: SSB 6808
Watershed management partnerships, eminent domain authority granted: HB 1332, * SHB 1332, CH 504 (2009), SB 5254, SB 5910, SSB 5910
Watershed management partnerships, exercise of eminent domain authority in the case of the Lake Tapps water supply: * SHB 1332, CH 504 (2009)
UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION  UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION RSS Feed
               
Electric rates, utilities and transportation commission to study and make recommendations on optional time of use electric rates: SSB 6258
Electric rates, utilities and transportation commission to study and make recommendations on time of use electric rates: SB 6258
Electrical companies, renewable energy and renewable energy credits: SB 5345
Electrical companies, renewable resources alternative compliance rate: SB 5137
Eligible distributed generators, commission role in purchase of electric service from: HB 1086, SHB 1086
Energy facility site evaluation council, commission to supervise and provide administrative and staff support for: HB 2527
Energy independence act, renewable energy and conservation requirements: HB 1133, HB 3034, SB 5840, ESSB 5840, SB 6441, SB 6672, SSB 6672
Gas companies, date commission sets pipeline safety fees: SSB 5451
Gas companies, date commission sets pipeline safety fees changed: HB 1388, * SHB 1388, CH 91 (2009), SB 5451
Household goods carriers, permits and conditions for advertising: * HB 1536, CH 94 (2009), SB 5450
Information and telecommunications industries in the state, commission analysis: SSB 5628
Motor carriers, agreements to indemnify against liability for negligence involving carriers: SB 6674, * SSB 6674, CH 120 (2010)
Motor carriers, commission responsibility for adoption and enforcement of safety requirements: HB 1843, * SHB 1843, CH 46 (2009)
Public service companies, customer interest protections in proceedings before commission: SB 5055, * SSB 5055, CH 24 (2009)
Puget Sound Energy/Puget Holdings merger proposal, urging utilities and transportation commission to rehear: HJM 4007
Railroad crossing petitions, entry of final orders applicable to: SB 6558
Railroads, commission to adopt fire risk minimization rules for: SB 6652, SSB 6652
Rate and service regulation of certain transportation services, commission authority to forebear from: * ESB 5894, CH 557 (2009), SSB 5894
Rates, commission to study and make recommendations on optional time of use electric rates: SSB 6258
Rates, commission to study and make recommendations on time of use electric rates: SB 6258
Rates, discounts for low-income and low-income senior customers of gas and electric companies: SB 5290, * SSB 5290, CH 32 (2009)
Recycling, optimizing collection of source separated materials within the current regulatory structure: HB 2539, SHB 2539, * E2SHB 2539, CH 154 (2010)
Renewable energy plants, commission to establish standards for interconnection with grid system: HB 2135
Renewable energy systems, commission to create a standard offer contract for certain systems: HB 2536
Renewable resources, large utilities to obtain certain percentages of their electricity from: HB 1294
Solar energy, community solar projects incentives: SB 5185, SB 6170, * ESSB 6170, CH 469 (2009)
Solid waste collection companies, certification requirement and penalties for failure to comply: HB 2399, * ESHB 2399, CH 24 (2010)
Solid waste collection companies, keeping regulated and unregulated business activities separate to ensure fair competition: HB 1863
Solid waste management, optimizing collection of source separated materials within the current regulatory structure: HB 2539, SHB 2539, * E2SHB 2539, CH 154 (2010)
Wastewater companies, regulation and infrastructure development: SSB 6808