WAGES AND HOURS
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Community and technical college employees, academic, receiving step increases through collective bargaining process:
HB 1348, SB 5350 |
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Conservation districts, disbursement of employee salaries, wages, and other reimbursement by electronic deposit:
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SB 5770, CH 164 (2013) |
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Cost-of-living increases, ongoing suspension for certain educational and academic employees:
HB 2043, SB 5194 |
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Direct deposit of public employee salaries and wages, authorizing, including exceptions:
HB 2027 |
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Employee fair classification act:
HB 1440, SHB 1440, 2SHB 1440, SB 5526 |
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Health care facility employees, mandatory overtime provisions:
HB 1153 |
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Minimum wage act, amending:
HB 1440, SHB 1440, 2SHB 1440, SB 5526 |
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Minimum wage, adjusted, increasing annually by rate of inflation:
HB 2032 |
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Minimum wage, employer failure to pay, good faith defense:
HB 1462, SB 5158 |
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Minimum wage, employment status of independent contractors in news business for purposes of:
HB 1659,
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SB 5476, CH 141 (2013) |
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Overtime compensation, employer failure to pay, good faith defense:
HB 1462, SB 5158 |
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Prevailing wages, exemption from paying, certain filings no longer required when exempt:
HB 1254 |
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Prevailing wages, exemption from paying, prohibiting department of labor and industries from charging fee when affidavit of wages paid is filed:
SHB 1254 |
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Prevailing wages, exemption, school plant facilities receiving funding through school construction assistance program:
HB 1255 |
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Prevailing wages, public building service maintenance contracts, exemption for rural school districts:
SB 5508, SSB 5508 |
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Prevailing wages, public works, determinations of prevailing wage rates, revising procedures and requirements:
HB 1672, SB 5685 |
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Prevailing wages, public works, exempting certain workers who deliver materials from requirements:
ESSB 5684 |
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Prevailing wages, public works, exemption for rural school districts:
SB 5508, SSB 5508 |
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Prevailing wages, public works, exemption for wildfire damage repair projects in certain cases:
HB 1249, SB 5619 |
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Prevailing wages, public works, exemption from requirements for certain distressed counties:
SB 5727, SSB 5727 |
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Prevailing wages, public works, modifying prevailing wage survey provisions:
SB 5686, SSB 5686 |
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Prevailing wages, public works, provisions of employee fair classification act:
HB 1440, SHB 1440, 2SHB 1440, SB 5526 |
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Prevailing wages, public works, specifying applicability to individuals employed in construction activities:
SB 5684 |
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Prevailing wages, residential construction workers, public works requirements:
SB 5107 |
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Prevailing wages, subsidized public works, requirements for affidavits of wages paid:
HB 1025, SHB 1025, SB 5395 |
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Railroad employees, yardmaster working hours:
HB 1621, SHB 1621, SB 5721 |
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Salaries of public employees, authorizing direct deposit, including exceptions:
HB 2027 |
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Salary, average, for pension purposes of state and local employees, as certified by employer:
HB 1820 |
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Tipped employees, requiring minimum wage for employees age eighteen and older and study group to assess effectiveness:
HB 1346 |
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Tow truck operators, lunch breaks:
HB 1611 |
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Training wage, allowing employers to pay for specified period:
HB 1150, SB 5275 |
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Wage claims, liens against real property of employer by employee:
HB 1440, SHB 1440, 2SHB 1440, SB 5526 |
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Wage complaints and claims, collection procedures, adding various provisions:
HB 1467, ESHB 1467, SB 5360 |
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Wage payment act, amending:
HB 1440, SHB 1440, 2SHB 1440, SB 5526 |
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Wage-related laws, employer compliance with, improving:
HB 1440, SHB 1440, 2SHB 1440, SB 5526 |
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Wages of public employees, authorizing direct deposit, including exceptions:
HB 2027 |
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WAREHOUSING
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Tax exemption, warehouse or grain elevator lessor or owner, apprentice utilization requirement:
HB 1023, SHB 1023, SB 5393 |
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Tax exemption, warehouse or grain elevator lessor or owner, prevailing wage requirement:
HB 1025, SHB 1025, SB 5395 |
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Tax exemption, warehouse or grain elevator lessor or owner, resident workers requirement:
HB 1026, SB 5394 |
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WASHINGTON ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
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Constitutional authority, federal or state, requiring citation in rules:
HB 1163 |
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Rule making, emergency, use by public disclosure commission in certain cases:
HB 1377, SHB 1377, SB 5257 |
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Rule making, legislature to provide specific grants of legislative authority through legislation:
HB 1163 |
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Rule making, moratorium, exceptions:
HB 1163, HB 1478, SB 5819 |
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Rule making, prohibiting required participation in a health care system:
HB 1168 |
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Rule making, regulating of greenhouse gas emissions, prohibiting without legislative authorization:
HB 1169 |
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Rule making, regulatory fairness act of 2013:
HB 1162 |
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Rule making, regulatory freedom and accountability act:
HB 1163 |
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Rule making, requiring citation of constitutional authority in rules:
HB 1163 |
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Rule making, requiring legislative approval of certain rules:
HJR 4204 |
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Rule making, significant legislative rules, requirement that governor sign:
SB 5641 |
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Rule making, specified economic impact notification by agency and enactment into law by legislature:
HB 1162, HB 1163 |
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Rules, review of, certain agencies to conduct for streamlining purposes:
HB 1591, SHB 1591, SB 5679, SSB 5679 |
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WASHINGTON STATE PATROL RETIREMENT SYSTEM (WSPRS)
(See RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS) |
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WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
(See COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES) |
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WASTE
(See HAZARDOUS WASTE; SOLID WASTE) |
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WASTEWATER
(See UTILITIES; WATER POLLUTION) |
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WATER
(See also WATER-SEWER DISTRICTS) |
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Bottled water, eliminating sales and use tax exemptions to provide basic education and higher education funding:
HB 2036, HB 2038, ESHB 2038 |
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Efficiency, standards for toilets, water closets, and urinals:
HB 1017, SHB 1017, 2SHB 1017 |
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Efficiency, standards for various plumbing fixtures, exceptions:
SHB 1017, 2SHB 1017 |
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Facilities, contracts between municipalities and real estate owners for construction of, contract and fee provisions:
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ESHB 1717, CH 243 (2013) |
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Fire suppression water facilities and services, provision for critical public services by water purveyors:
HB 1512,
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SHB 1512, CH 127 (2013), SB 5606 |
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Irrigation districts, administration, various provisions:
HB 1417, SHB 1417 |
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Irrigation districts, financing improvements with local improvement district bonds, requirements:
HB 1416, SHB 1416,
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2SHB 1416, CH 177 (2013), SB 5824 |
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Irrigation districts, hydroelectric generation by, qualifying as eligible renewable resource:
SB 5290 |
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Irrigation districts, hydroelectric generation by, qualifying for renewable energy credit:
HB 1415, HB 1950 |
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Irrigation pipes and canals and water and wastewater pipes, hydroelectric generation in, qualifying as eligible renewable resource:
ESSB 5290 |
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Irrigation, applications for changes in place or purpose of use or point of diversion, provisions:
HB 1438, SB 5199 |
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Irrigation, changes in water right certificates to reflect certain changes in water right uses:
SHB 1438, SSB 5199, 2SSB 5199 |
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Irrigation, modifying public utility tax deduction provisions:
SB 5041 |
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Property improvements benefitting water quality or quantity, property tax exemption:
HB 1570,
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SB 5593, CH 236 (2013) |
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Public water systems, certain water purveyor facilities as essential public facilities:
HB 1016, SHB 1016, SB 5612 |
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Water companies, uncontested rate modifications:
HB 1046, SHB 1046, SB 5006, SSB 5006 |
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Water delivery infrastructure replacement, encouraging low-cost alternatives to traditional construction techniques through public works assistance:
SB 5313 |
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Water distribution businesses, public utility tax collected from, depositing certain revenues in education legacy trust account:
SB 5895, ESSB 5895 |
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Water distribution businesses, public utility tax collected from, using portion for health programs of departments of ecology and health:
HB 1685 |
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Water purveyors, providing fire suppression water facilities and services:
HB 1512,
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SHB 1512, CH 127 (2013), SB 5606 |
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Wells, permit exempt, use for potable supply to a subdivision:
HB 1350, SHB 1350, SB 5836, SSB 5836 |
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WATER COMPANIES
(See WATER) |
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WATER POLLUTION
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Highly impacted communities, including community organizations in permit issuance and clean-up plan adoption:
HB 1434 |
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Pollutant discharge elimination permit system applications and reports, electronic filing:
SB 5407 |
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Storm water, compliance pilot project:
HB 1237, SB 5435 |
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Storm water, contamination by transportation infrastructure, use of certain tax revenues for prevention and mitigation:
HB 1954 |
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Storm water, financial assistance for management of runoff, prioritizing:
HB 1235, SB 5441 |
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Storm water, new requirements for phase I jurisdictions, delaying:
HB 1234, SB 5326 |
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Storm water, replacing infrastructure, encouraging low-cost alternatives to traditional construction techniques through public works assistance:
SB 5313 |
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Transportation projects, environmental review and permitting, prohibiting adoption or maintaining of requirements by certain agencies when more stringent:
HB 1996 |
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Wastewater, domestic facility permits, modifying annual municipality fee:
HB 1275, SB 5788 |
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Wastewater, publicly owned industrial wastewater treatment facilities, authorizing water pollution control facility loans for:
HB 1557 |
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Water pollution control revolving administration account, creation of account and establishment of loan debt service charges to be deposited:
HB 1141,
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SHB 1141, CH 96 (2013) |
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WATER RIGHTS
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Applications, changes in place or purpose of use or point of diversion, decision to be based on existing requirements:
HB 1438, SB 5199 |
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Applications, changes in water right certificates to reflect certain changes in water right uses:
SHB 1438, SSB 5199, 2SSB 5199 |
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Applications, consolidating water of multiple water rights or permits, conditions and department of ecology role:
HB 1549, SB 5462 |
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Applications, moving withdrawal point to another existing right, conditions and department of ecology role:
HB 1548, SB 5463 |
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Columbia river basin taxable bond water supply development account, transferring certain bond proceeds to:
HB 1088, SHB 1088, SB 5036, SSB 5036 |
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Developments, groundwater for, consolidation into public water systems in some cases:
HB 1375, SHB 1375, SB 5200, ESSB 5200 |
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Examiners, certified, amending bonding requirement for certification:
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HB 1146, CH 70 (2013) |
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Local economy trust water account, transferring state agency water rights to account:
SB 5219, SSB 5219, E2SSB 5219 |
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Methow watershed, authorization and implementation of water management board in, provisions:
SB 5677 |
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Public water systems, consolidation into system of new exempt groundwater withdrawal for new development:
HB 1375, SHB 1375, SB 5200, ESSB 5200 |
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Relinquishment of water rights, extending beneficial use time period:
SB 5071 |
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State agency purchased lands, retaining water rights for later transfer to local economy trust water account:
SB 5219, SSB 5219, E2SSB 5219 |
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Water banks, limited purpose local water banks, creation:
HB 1350, SHB 1350 |
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Watershed planning grants, modifying provisions:
HB 1924 |
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Yakima river basin, integrated water resource management plan, implementing plan and creating accounts:
HB 1196, HB 1414, SHB 1414, SB 5367, SSB 5367 |
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WATER-SEWER DISTRICTS
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Connection charge, deposit in account for existing facility expansion and new facilities:
SB 5192 |
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Contractor's bond, district authority to determine, limitations:
HB 1241,
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SB 5186, CH 28 (2013) |
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Critical infrastructure, powers with respect to facilities:
HB 1239, SHB 1239, SB 5185 |
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Job order contracting, use by certain districts, authorization:
HB 1240, SB 5309 |
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Mosquito control, inhibiting mosquito breeding in storm water retention ponds through certain measures:
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ESSB 5324, CH 209 (2013) |
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Mosquitos, controlling using integrated pest management:
SB 5324,
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ESSB 5324, CH 209 (2013) |
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WATERSHEDS
(See WATER RIGHTS) |
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WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
(See COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES) |
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WILDLIFE
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Bighorn sheep, damage to commercial crops by, payment of claims for compensation by department of fish and wildlife:
SB 5760, SSB 5760 |
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Carnivores, large wild, livestock injury or loss due to certain wildlife:
HB 1219, SB 5193, SSB 5193,
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E2SSB 5193 (2013) |
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Damage to livestock by wildlife, additional personalized license plate registration fee to be used for payment of claims for compensation:
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E2SSB 5193 (2013) |
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Damage to livestock by wildlife, payment of claims for compensation:
HB 1219, HB 1501, SHB 1501, SB 5193, SSB 5193,
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E2SSB 5193 (2013) |
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Endangered species, gray wolf, permitting livestock owner to kill gray wolf without a permit, conditions:
SSB 5187 |
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Endangered species, permitting livestock owner to kill any predator without a permit, conditions:
HB 1191, SB 5187 |
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Environmental law violations, involving fish and wildlife enforcement code, attorney general authority and power:
HB 1655 |
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Habitat lands, acquisition by state:
SB 5054, SSB 5054 |
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Predators, attacking livestock, permitting owner to kill any predator without a permit, conditions:
HB 1191, SB 5187 |
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Predators, gray wolf attacking livestock, permitting owner to kill gray wolf without a permit, conditions:
SSB 5187 |
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Property improvements benefitting habitat, property tax exemption:
HB 1570,
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SB 5593, CH 236 (2013) |
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State lands, department of fish and wildlife-owned, leasing for grazing when near a wolf pack, conditions:
SB 5300 |
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Wolves, gray wolf translocation to western Washington, instituting program:
HB 1258 |
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Wolves, gray wolf, listing as big game species:
SB 5193 |
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Wolves, gray wolf, permitting livestock owner to kill gray wolf without a permit, conditions:
SSB 5187 |
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Wolves, gray wolf, restricting classification as threatened or endangered, conditions:
HB 1337 |
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Wolves, imminent threat to commercial livestock, county authority to declare threat and authorize removal:
SB 5188 |
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Wolves, livestock damage caused by, payment of claims for compensation:
HB 1219, HB 1501, SHB 1501, SB 5079, SB 5193, SSB 5193,
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E2SSB 5193 (2013), SB 5300 |
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Wolves, management of, use of Washington's wolves license plate fees:
HB 1219, HB 1500, HB 1501, SHB 1501, SB 5193, SSB 5193, SB 5299 |
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Wolves, nonlethal management cooperative agreements with livestock owners, department of fish and wildlife to enter into:
SB 5300 |
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WINE
(See ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES) |
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WOLVES
(See FISH AND WILDLIFE, DEPARTMENT; WILDLIFE) |
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WOMEN
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Abortion, health coverage for voluntary termination of pregnancy, plan requirements and right of objection:
EHB 1044, SB 5009, SB 5576, SB 5798 |
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Abortion, parental notification, requirements:
HB 1257, SB 5156 |
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Abortion, woman under age eighteen, court informed consent determination when woman rejects parental notification:
HB 1257 |
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Abortion, woman under age eighteen, parental notification and abortion procedure requirements:
SB 5156 |
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Gender-based terms in RCW, technical corrections:
SB 5077,
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SSB 5077, CH 23 (2013) PV |
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Legislators, honoring the legacy of women legislators:
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SR 8616 (2013) |
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Midwifery, duties and licensing requirements, modifying:
HB 1773, ESHB 1773, SB 5626 |
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Red hat day, celebrating:
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SR 8659 (2013) |
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Seattle Raging Grannies, honoring:
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SR 8629 (2013) |
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Sports, Cleveland High School women's basketball team, congratulating:
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HR 4632 (2013) |
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Sports, Colton High School Wildcats girls basketball team, recognizing:
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HR 4633 (2013) |
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Sports, Mark Morris High School, girls bowling and basketball teams, honoring:
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SR 8640 (2013) |
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Sports, Washington girls and women in, honoring:
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SR 8615 (2013) |
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Thatcher, Margaret, honoring the life of:
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SR 8657 (2013) |
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Transportation workforce development, apprenticeship program, recruiting women and persons of color:
HB 1922 |
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Transportation workforce development, apprenticeship program, recruiting women, veterans, and persons of color:
ESHB 1922 |
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WORKERS' COMPENSATION
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Appeals, claim-related, setting attorney's fees and fixing costs for reimbursement:
HB 1354 |
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Benefits, calculation of, adding certainty and simplifying:
HB 1464, SB 5124, SSB 5124 |
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Claim files and compensation provisions, modifying:
HB 1357 |
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Claims for compensation, benefits, adding electronic means of payment:
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HB 1468, CH 125 (2013), SB 5361 |
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Claims for compensation, defining terms:
HB 1355 |
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Disability, long-term for injured workers, reducing disability and workers' compensation system costs:
HB 1463, SB 5128, ESSB 5128 |
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Farm internship pilot project, establishment and relationship to workers' compensation:
SB 5123, SSB 5123 |
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For hire vehicle operators, industrial insurance coverage provisions:
HB 1718, SB 5814 |
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High risk classifications, forest products industry, creating workers' compensation state fund high risk premium subsidy program:
SB 5744 |
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Horse racing employees, grooms, industrial insurance premium assessment for, payment:
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HB 1469, CH 80 (2013), SB 5363 |
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Industrial insurance coverage, introducing private competition:
SB 5675 |
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Industrial insurance, joint legislative task force on private competition in industrial insurance, establishing:
SB 5675 |
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Legal actions, defining "recovery" for purposes of actions under industrial insurance statutes:
HB 1465, SB 5126 |
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Legal actions, reimbursement from third-party recovery:
HB 1465, SB 5126 |
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Limousine businesses, including chauffeurs, industrial insurance coverage provisions:
HB 1718, SB 5814 |
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Logging operations, creating workers' compensation state fund high risk premium subsidy program:
SB 5744 |
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Logging operations, logger safety initiative, department of labor and industries to report concerning:
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ESSB 5744 (2013) |
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Medical exams and consultations, independent, scheduling authority for retrospective rating plan employers and groups:
HB 1316, SB 5112 |
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Misclassification of employees, penalties under employee fair classification act:
HB 1440, SHB 1440, 2SHB 1440, SB 5526 |
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News business, independent contractors in, employment status for worker's compensation purposes:
HB 1659,
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SB 5476, CH 141 (2013) |
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Occupational disease claims, clarification:
SB 5125 |
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Occupational disease claims, rate of compensation provisions:
HB 1884, SHB 1884 |
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Occupational disease claims, study of:
HB 1463, SB 5128 |
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Premiums for industrial insurance, contractor liability, modifying provisions:
HB 1616, SB 5789 |
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Recovery of benefits paid on behalf of worker or beneficiary, legal actions:
HB 1465, SB 5126 |
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Return to work provisions, study of:
HB 1463, SB 5128, ESSB 5128 |
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Self-insurers, claims files and compensation provisions:
HB 1357 |
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Self-insurers, defining terms:
HB 1355 |
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Settlement agreements, structured, age limit and worker's best interest provisions:
HB 1097, SB 5127, ESSB 5127 |
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Settlement agreements, voluntary, authorization and study of:
HB 1463, SB 5128, ESSB 5128 |
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Studies, independent, department of labor and industries to contract for multiple studies:
HB 1463, SB 5128, ESSB 5128 |
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Taxicab businesses, industrial insurance coverage provisions:
HB 1718, SB 5814 |
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Transitional or light duty work, providing in certain cases:
HB 1463, SB 5128, ESSB 5128 |
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Vocational rehabilitation, plans, educational options to include obtaining baccalaureate degree:
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EHB 1887 (2013) |
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Vocational rehabilitation, scheduling authority for retrospective rating plan employers and groups:
HB 1316, SB 5112 |
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Vocational rehabilitation, subcommittee recommendations concerning pilot program and other provisions:
EHB 1470, SB 5362,
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SSB 5362 (2013) |
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WORKFIRST PROGRAM
(See PUBLIC ASSISTANCE) |
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WORKFORCE TRAINING AND EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD
(See also VOCATIONAL EDUCATION) |
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ASSET program, alliance for student success in education and training, establishment, with administration by board:
HB 1871, SB 5754, SSB 5754 |
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Business license center, participation by board:
HB 1403,
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ESHB 1403, CH 111 (2013), SB 5680, SSB 5680, E2SSB 5680 |
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Computer science education, board to convene computer science professional shortage task force:
HB 1472 |
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Indicators of educational system health, statewide, establishment as basis for performance goals and measurements, board role:
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ESSB 5491, CH 282 (2013) |
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Online higher education transfer and student advising system, board role in establishing:
HB 1320, SHB 1320, SB 5544, SSB 5544 |
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STEM fields, work-integrated learning opportunities in, increasing connections and access to, board role:
HB 1871, SB 5754, SSB 5754 |
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Work-integrated learning opportunities, increasing connections and access to, including STEM fields, board role:
HB 1871, SB 5754, SSB 5754 |
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Workforce training, state comprehensive plan for, seeking approval of "high skills, high wages" plan:
HCR 4403 |