 | WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE | |
| Legislative Digest No. 2 | ||
| SIXTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE | ||
| Wednesday, January 16, 2013 | 3rd Day - 2013 Regular Session | |
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This publication includes digest and history for bills, joint memorials, joint resolutions, concurrent resolutions, initiatives, and substitutes. Engrossed measures may be republished if the amendment makes a substantive change.
Electronic versions of Legislative Digests are available at http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/digests.aspx?year=2013.
HB 1070
by Representatives Hurst and Dahlquist
Addressing employer notification upon commercial driver's license suspension.
Requires the department of licensing to: (1) Notify a driver's employer, if the employer is on file with the department, upon a determination regarding the suspension, revocation, or cancellation of a commercial driver's license or disqualification of the driver from operating a commercial motor vehicle; and(2) Establish a voluntary database in which an employer may register an employee for which the employer wishes to receive the notification mentioned above.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
HB 1071
by Representatives Blake and Chandler
Regarding state and private partnerships for managing salmonid hatcheries.
Expands the long-range business plan, with regard to state and private partnerships for managing salmonid hatcheries, to include the harvesting of hatchery chum salmon.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. | |
HB 1072
by Representatives Chandler, Sells, Ormsby, Reykdal, Freeman, Fagan, and Morrell
Creating the agricultural labor skills and safety grant program.
Requires the department of commerce, subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, to create and administer the agricultural labor skills and safety grant program to provide training opportunities for agricultural workers.Expires July 1, 2016.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development. | |
HB 1073
by Representatives Johnson, Blake, Chandler, Haigh, Takko, Ross, and Schmick
Concerning payments to counties in lieu of property taxes on state-owned land.
Requires the state treasurer, on behalf of the department of fish and wildlife, to pay an amount on game lands, in lieu of real property taxes.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. | |
HB 1074
by Representatives Angel, Takko, Buys, and Pike
Concerning requirements governing and associated with plat approvals.
Changes certain time limitations governing and associated with plat approvals.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Local Government. | |
HB 1075
by Representatives Lytton, Blake, Chandler, Haigh, and Morris
Concerning the number of Puget Sound Dungeness crab fishery licenses that one vessel may be designated to carry.
Increases the number of Puget Sound Dungeness crab fishery licenses that one vessel may be designated to carry.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. | |
HB 1076
by Representatives Haigh, Johnson, Takko, Fagan, Lytton, Short, and Dahlquist
Expanding participation in innovation academy cooperatives.
Allows high school students residing in other school districts to enroll in the innovation academy cooperative.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
HB 1077
by Representatives Haigh, Lytton, Takko, and Johnson
Authorizing the educational service district board to fill vacancies on the board of directors in second-class school districts with an at-large appointment if after one hundred twenty days a candidate from the director district cannot be recruited.
Authorizes an educational service district board, when filling a position in a second-class school district that has been vacant for more than ninety days, to appoint, under certain conditions, a qualified candidate who is a resident of the school district but does not reside in the director district where there is a vacancy.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Education. | |
SB 5025
by Senators Roach and Conway; by request of Governor Gregoire
Providing that a proclamation of a state of emergency is effective upon the governor's signature.
Provides that a proclamation of a state of emergency is effective upon the governor's signature.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations . | |
SB 5026
by Senator Hasegawa
Creating a peer mentoring program to encourage elementary school students to attend college.
Requires the six four-year institutions of higher education to create and implement a peer mentoring program.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Higher Education . | |
SB 5027
by Senator Hasegawa
Requiring prepaid postage for primary and general election ballots.
Requires return envelopes for primary and general election ballots to include prepaid postage.Requires the state to reimburse counties for the cost of return postage on mail and absentee ballots for primary and general elections.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations . | |
SB 5028
by Senator Hasegawa
Changing state need grant eligibility provisions.
Changes eligibility requirements for a state need grant.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Higher Education . | |
SB 5029
by Senators Hasegawa, Chase, Shin, Conway, Rolfes, Darneille, Hargrove, and Keiser
Creating the Washington investment trust.
Creates the Washington investment trust as a legacy institution that amasses sufficient capital reserves to address opportunities now and in the future.Creates the Washington investment trust commission as the primary governing authority of the trust.Creates the trust transition board and the investment trust advisory board. The trust transition board expires July 1, 2014.Exempts the trust from payment of all fees and taxes levied by the state or any of its subdivisions.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance . | |
SB 5030
by Senator Roach
Extending the Chinook scenic byway.
Sets the western terminus of the Chinook scenic byway within Enumclaw's city limits and makes attractions within the city eligible for future grant opportunities by establishing an all-encompassing entrance point for the Chinook scenic byway.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Transportation. | |
SB 5031
by Senator Padden
Requiring actions for damage to real property resulting from construction, alteration, or repair on adjacent property to be commenced within two years after the property owner first discovered or reasonably should have discovered the damage.
Requires actions for damage to real property resulting from construction, alteration, or repair on an adjacent property to be commenced within two years after the property owner first discovered or reasonably should have discovered the damage.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Law & Justice . | |
SB 5032
by Senator Ericksen
Extending the tax credit expiration date for certain contributions made to electric utility rural economic development revolving funds.
Extends the expiration date, from June 30, 2011, to June 30, 2018, on the tax credit for certain contributions made to electric utility rural economic development revolving funds.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5033
by Senators Hill and Hargrove; by request of Governor Gregoire
Making 2013 supplemental operating appropriations.
Makes 2013 supplemental operating appropriations.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5034
by Senators Hill and Hargrove; by request of Governor Gregoire
Making 2013-2015 operating appropriations.
Makes 2013-2015 operating appropriations.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5035
by Senators Honeyford and Nelson; by request of Governor Gregoire
Adopting the 2013-2015 capital budget.
Adopts the 2013-2015 capital budget.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5036
by Senators Honeyford and Nelson; by request of Governor Gregoire
Concerning state general obligation bonds and related accounts.
Authorizes the state finance committee to issue general obligation bonds of the state to finance the projects described and authorized by the legislature in the capital and operating appropriations acts for the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5037
by Senator Ranker
Concerning the labeling of seafood.
Revises seafood labeling requirements.Addresses penalties for unlawful misbranding of food fish or shellfish.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Natural Resources & Parks . | |
SB 5038
by Senators McAuliffe, Chase, Shin, Keiser, Rolfes, Nelson, Kohl-Welles, Kline, and Hobbs; by request of Governor Gregoire
Enhancing the basic education allocation formula for principals, assistant principals, and other certificated building-level administrators to support the teacher evaluation program requirements of RCW 28A.405.100.
Adjusts principal staffing ratios in the prototypical school models to assure implementation of the new teacher evaluation system.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 5039
by Senator McAuliffe; by request of Governor Gregoire
Increasing revenues dedicated to basic education purposes.
Extends the time for additional taxes on certain business and service activities.Requires the revenues collected from the additional tax to be deposited into the education legacy trust account.Imposes a new excise tax on taxable fuel to provide funding for state allocations to school districts for pupil transportation purposes.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5040
by Senators Hasegawa and Conway
Incorporating state tax expenditures into the state budget process.
Requires the omnibus operating appropriations bill enacted by the legislature to include a section on the following: (1) All discretionary state tax expenditures together with an estimate of the state revenue impact associated with each expenditure;(2) The total estimated revenue impact from all discretionary state tax expenditures, total appropriations, and total state expenditures representing the sum of discretionary state tax expenditures and appropriations; and(3) The total state revenue impact from all nondiscretionary tax expenditures.Changes the duties of the department of revenue with regard to preparation and submission of a listing of the amount of reduction in the revenues of the state, or the revenues of local government collected by the state, as a result of tax expenditures.Requires the governor to prepare a tax expenditure report as part of the biennial budget documents.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5041
by Senators Hasegawa and Conway
Implementing recommendations related to the tax preference review process conducted by the joint legislative audit and review committee and the citizen commission for performance measurement of tax preferences.
Implements recommendations related to the tax preference review process conducted by the joint legislative audit and review committee and the citizen commission for performance measurement of tax preferences.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5042
by Senator Hasegawa
Narrowing the business and occupation tax deduction for investment and related income.
Modifies provisions relating to business and occupation tax deductions on amounts derived from certain investments, dividends or distributions, and interest on loans.Prohibits a taxpayer from claiming a total deduction of more than one million dollars in any calendar year, beginning with calendar year 2013.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5043
by Senator Hasegawa
Narrowing the property tax exemption for intangibles.
Narrows the property tax exemption for intangibles.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 5044
by Senator Hasegawa
Establishing the GET ready for college program.
Establishes the GET ready for college program.Requires the office of student financial assistance to pay for the fifty-dollar enrollment fee and one GET unit to open a GET account on behalf of certain children.Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to enter into any necessary data-sharing agreements with the office of student financial assistance to facilitate implementation of the program.Creates the GET ready for college account.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Higher Education . | |
SB 5045
by Senators Keiser and Honeyford
Allowing day spas to offer or supply without charge wine or beer by the individual glass to a customer for consumption on the premises.
Creates a day spa permit that allows the permit holder to offer or supply wine or beer to customers for consumption on the premises.
| Jan 15 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |