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WAGES AND HOURS  WAGES AND HOURS RSS Feed
               
Apprentices, requirements for labor hours on public works projects by four-year higher education institutions to be performed by: SB 5873, * ESSB 5873, CH 197 (2009)
Citizens' commission on salaries for elected officials, definition of "immediate family" for purpose of membership on: HB 2033
Health care employees, hours of labor: SB 5563, SSB 5563
Health care facility employees, meal and rest periods: HB 1642
Living wage requirement for state contracts with private contractors: HB 1716
Minimum wage and overtime compensation complaints, good faith defense: HB 2176, SB 5463
Minimum wage rate, minors: HB 1928
Minimum wage, defining "employ" for purposes of: HB 2144, SB 5466
Minimum wage, increasing: HB 1735
Minors, minimum wage rate: HB 1928
Nurses, hours of labor: SB 5563, SSB 5563
Nurses, meal and rest periods when employed by health care facilities: HB 1642
Overtime, mandatory limits for corrections officers and sergeants employed by city or county jail: HB 1800, SB 5907
Overtime, mandatory limits for corrections officers and sergeants employed by county jail: SSB 5907
Prevailing rate of wage to be paid on construction projects involving tax incentives, loans, or public land or property that is sold or leased: HB 1992
Prevailing wage, definition of independent contractor: HB 1786, SHB 1786, SB 5904, * SSB 5904, CH 63 (2009)
Residential construction wage rates for public works projects: * SB 5903, CH 62 (2009)
WARRANTIES  WARRANTIES RSS Feed
               
Motor vehicle warranties, provisions: HB 1215, * SHB 1215, CH 351 (2009), SB 5235, SSB 5235
WASHINGTON ADMINISTRATIVE CODE  WASHINGTON ADMINISTRATIVE CODE RSS Feed
               
Office of regulatory assistance, procedures for improving function of environmental and business regulatory processes: HB 1730, * SHB 1730, CH 97 (2009), SB 5748
Office of regulatory assistance, program for improving function of environmental and business regulatory processes: SSB 5748
Rule-making information, each state agency to post on its web site: * HB 1475, CH 93 (2009)
Rules qualifying as significant legislative rules, governor's signature required: HB 1853
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY  WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY RSS Feed
               
Board of regents, adding a faculty member to board: HB 1841, SHB 1841
Bond retirement fund: * ESHB 2254, CH 499 (2009)
Building account, use of funds for certificates of participation authorized: HB 2254, * ESHB 2254, CH 499 (2009), SB 5842
Energy efficiency assistance program, creation within university's energy program: SB 5649, SSB 5649
Energy efficiency upgrade pilot programs, extension energy program authority to implement grants for: * E2SSB 5649, CH 379 (2009) PV
Engineering, programs in chemical, mechanical, and civil engineering no longer restricted to UW and WSU: HB 1312, SB 5276, * SSB 5276, CH 207 (2009)
Opportunity grant program, establishment: HB 2306
President, compensation subject to certain limitations: HB 2240
Public works contracting procedures: HB 1916, SHB 1916, SB 5760, SSB 5760
Safety, health, and energy efficiency improvements to university facilities, creating jobs by issuing bonds to fund construction of: HB 2334, SHB 2334
Small business development center to include satellite offices as deemed appropriate: SB 5723
Small business development center, duties of center and establishment and expansion of satellite offices: * SSB 5723, CH 486 (2009)
Statewide telework program, WSU collaboration with department of transportation: SB 6018
Tuition fees rates, board of regents authority to establish: SB 5710
Tuition, resident and nonresident undergraduates: * SSB 5734, CH 574 (2009) PV
Vision impairments/orientation and mobility coordinator, position to be housed at WSU-Vancouver: HB 2181, SB 5176, SSB 5176, 2SSB 5176
Weatherization programs, reviewing and making recommendations for consolidation: SSB 5649
WATER  WATER RSS Feed
               
Bottled water, local sales and use tax to fund local health jurisdiction core public health functions: HB 1307
Columbia and lower Snake rivers, using conservation operation and maintenance savings for water resource management: HB 1334, SHB 1334, SB 5299
Columbia river basin water supply development program, using state moneys for potential water storage sites under the program prohibited: HB 1627
Conservation appliances, requirements for high efficiency toilets and urinals: SB 5948, SSB 5948
Interjurisdictional funding of water conservation projects through interjurisdictional bonds to be repaid by allocating shared responsibility: SB 5334
Lake Tapps water supply, exercise of eminent domain authority by watershed management partnership: * SHB 1332, CH 504 (2009)
Lewis county watershed planning and economic development demonstration project funding: SB 6058
Mobile home parks, protecting sole source aquifers in certain Eastern Washington counties by providing sewer utility service: SB 5507
Petroleum products in storm water, mitigation and prevention projects: HB 1614, ESHB 1614, SB 5518
Rainwater collection facilities, permits and permit exemptions: HB 2097
Reclaimed water systems, water-sewer districts authorized to construct, condemn and purchase, add to, maintain, and operate: ESSB 5485
Reclaimed water use, permitting requirements and violations and penalties: HB 1482, SHB 1482, SB 5504, * SSB 5504, CH 456 (2009)
Solar hot water components, sales and use tax exemption: HB 1188
Solar water heater systems, requirements for new homes: HB 1187
Walla Walla watershed community, establishing a water management board and pilot local water management program: HB 1580, SHB 1580, * 2SHB 1580, CH 183 (2009), SB 5647, SSB 5647
Water banking, trust water rights program used for: * ESSB 5583, CH 283 (2009)
Water banks, interlocal agreements for operation by watershed management partnerships: HB 1494, SB 5583
Water pollution account, fee imposed on first possession of petroleum products contributing to storm water pollution: HB 1614, ESHB 1614, SB 5518
Water pollution control facilities, department of ecology may award grants or loans to publicly owned industrial wastewater treatment facilities: SB 5940
Water reclamation systems, water-sewer districts authorized to construct, condemn and purchase, add to, maintain, and operate: HB 1532, * SHB 1532, CH 253 (2009), SB 5485
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)
Watersheds, Lewis county watershed planning and economic development demonstration project funding: SB 6058
Wells, new withdrawal of water from a well prohibited in certain cases: HB 1534
WATER COMPANIES  WATER COMPANIES RSS Feed
               (See also PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS)
Benefits to executive officer or any employee, limits on recoverability through rates or charges: SB 5072
Customer interest protections in proceedings before utilities and transportation commission: SB 5055
Group B public water systems, waiver of some requirements by state board of health for systems with fewer than five connections: SB 6171, * SSB 6171, CH 495 (2009)
Public water systems, chlorine residual measurement requirements for certain group A water systems: * SSB 5199, CH 367 (2009) PV
Public water systems, operator certification and responsibilities: HB 1283, * SHB 1283, CH 221 (2009), SB 5199
Safe and reliable drinking water supply, maintaining through consistency of water system plans with comprehensive plans or development regulations: HB 1998
Small water systems, tax exemptions: SB 5855
Water facility construction, contract requirements: * HB 2146, CH 344 (2009)
WATER POLLUTION  WATER POLLUTION RSS Feed
               (See also ECOLOGY, DEPARTMENT)
Dairy nutrient management program, compliance with: SB 5677
Dairy nutrient management program, violations: * SSB 5677, CH 143 (2009)
Lake Whatcom, demonstration project to reduce phosphorus loading in: * SB 5944, CH 48 (2009)
National pollutant discharge elimination system municipal separate storm sewer systems permit program, certain cities exempted: HB 2053
Petroleum products in storm water, mitigation and prevention projects: HB 1614, ESHB 1614, SB 5518
Reclaimed water use, permitting requirements and violations and penalties: HB 1482, SHB 1482, SB 5504, * SSB 5504, CH 456 (2009)
Storm water technical resource center and advisory committee, department of ecology to create in partnership with a university or other entity: * ESHB 2222, CH 449 (2009)
Storm water, construction and industrial storm water general permits: HB 2222
Water discharge fees, changes: HB 1413, * SHB 1413, CH 249 (2009), SB 5430, SSB 5430
Water pollution account, fee imposed on first possession of petroleum products contributing to storm water pollution: HB 1614, ESHB 1614, SB 5518
Water pollution control facilities, funding from water pollution control revolving fund: HB 2116, ESHB 2116
Water pollution control revolving fund, use of moneys in fund by department of ecology: HB 2116, ESHB 2116
Water quality standards, amendment by department of ecology to authorize compliance schedules for discharge permits in certain cases: HB 2243, SB 6036, * SSB 6036, CH 457 (2009)
WATER QUALITY  WATER QUALITY RSS Feed
               
Ambient groundwater and surface water monitoring and assessment program, department of ecology to enhance in phases: HB 2235
Groundwater information within water resource inventory areas, department of ecology to prepare a data gap analysis: HB 2235
Habitat of threatened or endangered species, process for transfer or sale of conservation easement of private forest land containing: * 2SHB 1484, CH 354 (2009) PV
Habitat of threatened or endangered species, program for purchase as part of riparian open space program: HB 1484, SHB 1484, SB 5401, * SSB 5401, CH 246 (2009)
Habitat of threatened or endangered species, replacement of state forest lands with endangered species-based encumbrances with productive, working forest lands: * 2SHB 1484, CH 354 (2009) PV
Lake Whatcom, demonstration project to reduce phosphorus loading in: * SB 5944, CH 48 (2009)
Phosphorus-containing turf fertilizer, restrictions on use to protect lake water quality: HB 1636, SB 5503
Reclaimed water use, permitting requirements and violations and penalties: HB 1482, SHB 1482, SB 5504, * SSB 5504, CH 456 (2009)
Standards, amendment by department of ecology to authorize compliance schedules for discharge permits in certain cases: HB 2243, SB 6036, * SSB 6036, CH 457 (2009)
Water discharge fees, changes: HB 1413, * SHB 1413, CH 249 (2009), SB 5430, SSB 5430
Water pollution control facilities, department of ecology may award grants or loans to publicly owned industrial wastewater treatment facilities: SB 5940
Water quality account, elimination: HB 1453, SB 5408
WATER RIGHTS  WATER RIGHTS RSS Feed
               
Adjudication, procedures: HB 1571, * ESHB 1571, CH 332 (2009), SB 5533, SSB 5533
Columbia and lower Snake rivers, using conservation operation and maintenance savings for water resource management: HB 1334, SHB 1334, SB 5299
Columbia Basin project, funds for phase II: HJM 4012
Fire suppression ponds, exemption from water use permit requirements: SB 6017
Groundwater and surface water, department of ecology to prepare data gap analysis of available information on water levels and quality in each water resource inventory area: SB 6077, SSB 6077
Groundwater, managing permit exempt withdrawals: SB 5888
Groundwater, permit to use public groundwaters to water lawn: HB 1179
Groundwater, public water withdrawal for stock-watering: HB 1091
Instream flows, setting: HB 2022, SB 5754
Irrigation districts providing municipal water service, conditions for retaining water rights: SB 6076
Maury Island aquatic reserve, requirements for wells on industrial or mining sites on lands adjacent to: HB 1708
Maury Island aquatic reserve, requirements for wells on lands adjacent to: SHB 1708
Nonuse, liberal construal according to legislative intent: HB 1267
Nonuse, sufficient cause: HB 1266, SB 5692
Nonuse, sufficient cause involving crop rotation: HB 1269
Phosphorus-containing turf fertilizer, restrictions on use to protect lake water quality: HB 1636, SB 5503
Public groundwaters, exemption from permit requirement for stock watering: HB 1489, SHB 1489, SB 5578
Rainwater collection facilities, permits and permit exemptions: HB 2097
Reclaimed water use, permitting requirements and violations and penalties: HB 1482, SHB 1482, SB 5504, * SSB 5504, CH 456 (2009)
Relinquishment, eliminating partial relinquishment: HB 1268, SB 5114
Stock watering, definition: HB 1509
Walla Walla watershed community, establishing a water management board and pilot local water management program: HB 1580, SHB 1580, * 2SHB 1580, CH 183 (2009), SB 5647, SSB 5647
Water banking, trust water rights program used for: * ESSB 5583, CH 283 (2009)
Water banks, interlocal agreements for operation by watershed management partnerships: HB 1494, SB 5583
Water discharge fees, changes: HB 1413, * SHB 1413, CH 249 (2009), SB 5430, SSB 5430
Water management improvement through filing of notices of forgone water use with department of ecology: SSB 6077
Wells, new withdrawal of water from a well prohibited in certain cases: HB 1534
Wetlands and fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas, to be protected through local government's shoreline master program: HB 1653, SB 5726
WATER-SEWER DISTRICTS  WATER-SEWER DISTRICTS RSS Feed
               
Assumption of districts by cities, provisions: HB 1897
Assumptions of districts by cities in counties with more than one million five hundred thousand residents: HB 2172
Jurisdictional public highway transfers from a city or county to the state, state responsibility for buried pipelines under public highways: HB 1894
Lake Tapps water supply, exercise of eminent domain authority by watershed management partnership: * SHB 1332, CH 504 (2009)
Reclaimed water systems, water-sewer districts authorized to construct, condemn and purchase, add to, maintain, and operate: ESSB 5485
Water or sewer facility construction, municipal participation in funding and reimbursement amounts: * EHB 1513, CH 230 (2009)
Water reclamation systems, water-sewer districts authorized to construct, condemn and purchase, add to, maintain, and operate: HB 1532, * SHB 1532, CH 253 (2009), SB 5485
Watershed management partnerships, eminent domain authority granted: HB 1332, * SHB 1332, CH 504 (2009), SB 5254
Watershed management partnerships, exercise of eminent domain authority in the case of the Lake Tapps water supply: * SHB 1332, CH 504 (2009)
WATERSHEDS  (See WATER)
WEEDS  WEEDS RSS Feed
               
Invasive plant species, noxious weed control board to amend definitions to address weeds spreading by seed and other reproductive propagules: SB 5745
WELLS  WELLS RSS Feed
               
Maury Island aquatic reserve, requirements for wells on industrial or mining sites on lands adjacent to: HB 1708
Maury Island aquatic reserve, requirements for wells on lands adjacent to: SHB 1708
WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY  WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY RSS Feed
               
Board of trustees, adding a faculty member to board: HB 1841, SHB 1841
Capital projects account, use of funds for certificates of participation authorized: HB 2254, * ESHB 2254, CH 499 (2009), SB 5842
Opportunity grant program, establishment: HB 2306
Peer mentoring pilot program in collaboration with a community or technical college: * EHB 1986, CH 446 (2009)
President, compensation subject to certain limitations: HB 2240
Safety, health, and energy efficiency improvements to university facilities, creating jobs by issuing bonds to fund construction of: HB 2334, SHB 2334
Termination of football team, review by legislative task force of decision: HB 1884, SB 5784
Tuition, resident and nonresident undergraduates: * SSB 5734, CH 574 (2009) PV
WETLANDS  WETLANDS RSS Feed
               
Soil and wetland science, advisory committee: HB 1881, SB 5698
Soil and wetland scientists, certification: SB 5698, SSB 5698
Soil and wetland scientists, licensing: HB 1881
WILDLIFE  WILDLIFE RSS Feed
               
Access facilities improved by department of fish and wildlife, vehicle permit and special license plate requirements: SSB 6023
Airport wildlife trapping, authority and requirements: HB 2260
California condor and other vulnerable wildlife, protection from lead poisoning: SB 5095
Cruelty to animals, violations and penalties: HB 1968, SB 5402, * SSB 5402, CH 287 (2009)
Damage, compensation when crops damaged or livestock injured or killed by wildlife: HB 1626, SB 5272, SSB 5272
Department of fish and wildlife, revising provisions in title 77 RCW: SSB 5404
Endangered species act, federal and state cooperation: * SJM 8001 (2009)
Feeding by humans, regulations: HB 1885, SHB 1885
Habitat conservation account and riparian protection account provisions, references to mitigation banking projects removed: HB 1846, * SB 5348, CH 16 (2009)
Invasive species council, assessment and control of invasive species in state: SB 5070
Mice and rat traps, exemption from restrictions on traps: SB 5382
Modernizing certain fish and wildlife provisions in title 77 RCW: HB 1778, * SHB 1778, CH 333 (2009) PV, SB 5404
Mole trapping, body-gripping traps: SB 5123
Olympic marmot, official state endemic mammal: * SB 5071, CH 464 (2009)
Ornithologist, state: SB 5066
Predatory wildlife damage, reimbursing commercial livestock owners for livestock injured or killed: HB 1354, SB 5274
State wildlife account, funding from state lottery account: SB 6107
State wildlife account, funding to include proceeds from online keno game account: HB 2305
Trapping at airports, authority and requirements: HB 2260
Trapping, licensing and regulations: HB 1115, SB 5389
Viewing opportunities, department of fish and wildlife authority to provide web-based information regarding: HB 1972
Watchable wildlife program and raffle pilot project: SB 5062
Wetlands and fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas, to be protected through local government's shoreline master program: HB 1653, SB 5726
Wildlife and recreation program, qualified applicants and procedures for funding from accounts: HB 1957, * SHB 1957, CH 341 (2009), SB 5843, SSB 5843
Wildlife viewing opportunities, department authority to provide web-based information regarding: SSB 6023
Wildlife viewing opportunities, requirements for viewing on department of fish and wildlife land and department authority to provide web-based information regarding: SHB 1972
Wolf-hybrid classified as a potentially dangerous wild animal: SB 5383, SSB 5383
Yukon to Yellowstone Rocky mountain ecosystem management: SB 5064
WINE  (See ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES)
WOMEN  WOMEN RSS Feed
               (See also DISCRIMINATION)
Abortion, informed consent and related provisions in the case of minor females and females subject to guardianship: HB 1688
Breastfeeding, protecting women's right to do so in certain public places: * HB 1596, CH 164 (2009)
Discrimination against women, adoption of an anti-discrimination treaty: HJM 4013, * SJM 8012 (2009)
Equal suffrage amendment, centennial of submission to the people of Washington: * HR 4618 (2009), * SR 8628 (2009)
International Women's Day and National Women's History Month: * SR 8641 (2009)
Linked deposit program for women's business enterprises, setting interest rates of time certificate of deposits for: * EHB 1167, CH 385 (2009) PV
Linked deposit program, barriers to participation by women's small business enterprises: SB 5883
Office of minority and women's business enterprises, requirement and schedule for submission of data by state agencies and educational institutions to: * EHB 1087, CH 348 (2009) PV
WORKERS' COMPENSATION  WORKERS' COMPENSATION RSS Feed
               
Benefit award orders, process and appeals: SB 6008
Benefits calculation, simplifying and adding certainty: SB 5462
Contracts for health care with a health care provider, required provisions: HB 2213
Drywall installation and finishing business owners, mandatory industrial insurance coverage: HB 1351
Employee information, handling for compensation purposes: HB 2256
Family and medical leave act of 2007, repealed: SB 5558
For-hire vehicle operators, mandatory industrial insurance coverage funded by public utility tax: HB 1625, SB 5785
Industrial insurance appeals, restrictions on contact with medical providers after filing: HB 1402, * SHB 1402, CH 391 (2009), SB 5627
Industrial insurance final settlement agreements, requirements: HB 2145, SB 5465
Industrial insurance funds, proper and improper use of accident fund, medical fund, and supplemental pension fund: HB 1386, SB 5464
Language service providers, exemption from definitions of employment and worker for industrial insurance purposes: HB 1990, SB 5771
Occupational diseases of firefighters, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus and esophageal cancer considered to be in certain cases: HB 1932
Ombudsman for workers of industrial insurance self-insured employers, abolished and superseded by office of the citizen advocate: SB 5456
Retrospective rating plans, evaluation and increased transparency of retrospective rating system: SB 6035, ESSB 6035
Seamen, claims brought for injury, illness, or death occurring from employment with the state: SB 6003
Social security retirement benefits, industrial insurance offset: HB 1211
Statewide centers of occupational health and education program, department of labor and industries to create: SB 5949
Surviving spouses of members of certain retirement systems, industrial insurance death benefits: HB 1212
Taxicab and limousine operators, mandatory industrial insurance coverage funded by public utility tax: HB 1625, SB 5785
Violations, department of labor and industries authority to issue stop work orders: HB 1554, SHB 1554, SB 5613, * SSB 5613, CH 196 (2009)
WORKFORCE TRAINING AND EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD  WORKFORCE TRAINING AND EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD RSS Feed
               
Building bridges advisory committee, establishing and meeting high school graduation and reengagement goals: HB 1813, SHB 1813, SB 5449
Coal-powered facilities, strategies to replace jobs lost by closure of: SB 5766
Comprehensive plan for workforce training and education, timeline for submission and updates by board revised: * HB 1394, CH 92 (2009), SB 5316
Energy audits and retrofits, workforce training for performing: SB 5649, SSB 5649
Entrepreneurial education and training, board to help foster in conjunction with economic development commission: SB 5879, SSB 5879
Evergreen jobs act, provisions relating to vocational education: HB 2227, SHB 2227
Evergreen jobs act, provisions relating to vocational education, including green industry skill panels: * E2SHB 2227, CH 536 (2009) PV
Green jobs, provisions of evergreen jobs act, including evergreen jobs initiative and training account: * E2SHB 2227, CH 536 (2009) PV
High school graduation and reengagement goals, establishing and meeting: ESSB 5449
High-cost critical college programs, identifying and managing competitive processes for awarding funds for: HB 1904
High-demand occupation training program funds, role of board in use by workforce development councils to help certain economically disadvantaged adults and unemployed workers: * E2SSB 5809, CH 566 (2009) PV
Lifelong learning account steering committee: HB 1129, SHB 1129, SB 5555, ESSB 5555
Opportunity internship program, board to study outcome: HB 1355, SHB 1355, * 2SHB 1355, CH 238 (2009), SB 5773, SSB 5773
Opportunity internship program, incentive payment for participating opportunity internship consortium offering paid internships within certain guidelines: * 2SHB 1355, CH 238 (2009)
Workforce and economic development, clarifying terms for: * HB 1395, CH 353 (2009), SB 5317, SSB 5317
Workforce and economic development, comprehensive plan for coordination of: HB 1323, * SHB 1323, CH 151 (2009), SB 5048, SSB 5048
Workforce and economic development, multi-agency report to legislature on progress: * SHB 1323, CH 151 (2009)
Workforce training, state comprehensive plan for 2008-2018: HCR 4403, SCR 8404, * SSCR 8404 (2009)
Youth innovation education programs, board to advise superintendent of public instruction in distribution of grant moneys to: SB 5900



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