 | WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE | |
| Legislative Digest No. 7 | ||
| SIXTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE | ||
| Wednesday, January 22, 2014 | 10th Day - 2014 Regular Session | |
| SENATE |
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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=2014.
HB 2080-S
by House Committee on Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs (originally sponsored by Representatives Sawyer, Zeiger, Appleton, Angel, DeBolt, Blake, Haler, McCoy, Wilcox, Fitzgibbon, Hurst, Freeman, S. Hunt, Santos, and Ryu)
Vacating convictions for certain tribal fishing activities.
Allows a person who was convicted before January 1, 1975, of violating certain statutes or rules regarding the regulation of fishing activities, who claimed to be exercising a treaty Indian fishing right, to apply to the sentencing court for vacation of his or her record of the misdemeanor, gross misdemeanor, or felony conviction for the offense.Allows a deceased person's family member or an official representative of the deceased person's tribe to apply to the court on behalf of the deceased person.
| Jan 14 | Public hearing in the House Committee on Community Development and Housing & Tribal Affairs at 1:30 PM. | |
| Jan 17 | CDHT - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Executive action taken in the House Committee on Community Development and Housing & Tribal Affairs at 1:30 PM. | ||
HB 2545
by Representatives Moscoso, Reykdal, Appleton, Sells, Roberts, Goodman, Pollet, and Freeman
Prohibiting employers from asking about or using nonconviction information in initial applications for employment.
Establishes the Washington jobs assistance act.Prohibits an employer from including a question on an application for employment, inquiring orally or in writing, or receiving information through a criminal history background check or otherwise, about nonconviction information, before having determined the applicant is otherwise qualified for the position.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2546
by Representatives Reykdal, Morrell, Haler, Gregerson, and Manweller
Decodifying, expiring, and making technical clarifications to higher education provisions.
Decodifies, makes technical clarifications to, and provides a July 1, 2014, expiration date for certain higher education provisions.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2547
by Representatives Ormsby, Manweller, Riccelli, Warnick, and Parker
Providing for the creation of a less than countywide port district within a county containing no port districts.
Authorizes a port district comprising territory less than the entire county to be created in a county with no port district.Expires December 31, 2020.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Local Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2548
by Representatives Bergquist, Haigh, Harris, and Magendanz; by request of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Concerning basic education minimum instructional hours.
Requires any hours scheduled by a school district for noninstructional purposes during the last five school days for students who are graduating from high school to count toward the instructional hours requirement.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2549
by Representatives Freeman, Kochmar, and Morrell
Addressing the enhancement for attempting to elude a police vehicle.
Requires the enhancement for attempting to elude a police vehicle to: (1) Be mandatory;(2) Be served in total confinement; and(3) Run consecutively with all other sentencing provisions.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2550
by Representatives Schmick, DeBolt, Morrell, Van De Wege, Harris, Walsh, Freeman, Moeller, Gregerson, and Tarleton
Preserving patient and practitioner freedom to obtain and provide health care by prohibiting unfair and deceptive practices in contracting for and managing health care delivery under health plans.
Prohibits unfair and deceptive practices in contracting for and managing health care delivery under health plans to preserve patient and practitioner freedom to obtain and provide health care.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2551
by Representatives Overstreet, Taylor, Shea, Holy, Rodne, Klippert, Blake, Takko, Hayes, Condotta, and Scott
Protecting the constitutionally guaranteed right to the lawful possession of firearms during an emergency.
Prohibits the governor or any governmental entity or political subdivision of this state from imposing a restriction on the possession, transfer, sale, transport, storage, display, or use of a firearm or ammunition that is otherwise authorized or guaranteed by law.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2552
by Representatives Reykdal, Appleton, Sawyer, Kirby, Smith, Ormsby, Buys, Vick, S. Hunt, Fey, and Tarleton
Concerning signature gathering for initiatives, referenda, and recall petitions.
Requires a person paid to gather signatures of electors on a state or local initiative, referendum, or recall petition to register with the secretary of state and complete a training program prescribed by the secretary before collecting signatures.Requires the secretary of state to assign each registered signature gatherer a registration number.Requires a signature gathering business engaged in the activity of collecting signatures for state or local initiatives, referenda, or recall petitions and using paid signature gatherers to register with the secretary of state.Assesses a fine of five hundred dollars on a prime sponsor of an initiative, referendum, or recall petition or the signature gathering business for each of its paid signature gatherers who are not registered.Expands the information required on a recall petition, an initiative, and a referendum.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2553
by Representatives Pettigrew, Springer, Lytton, Zeiger, Roberts, Gregerson, and Pollet
Authorizing competitive grants to persistently lowest-achieving schools to implement models of family and community engagement.
Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to award grants on a competitive basis to persistently lowest-achieving schools to support implementation of successful models of family and community engagement.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Appropriations Subcommittee on Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2554
by Representatives Pettigrew, Dahlquist, Springer, Lytton, and Gregerson
Expanding the urban school turnaround initiative.
Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to select up to four schools in two large urban school districts to participate in an urban school turnaround initiative beginning in the 2014-2015 school year.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Appropriations Subcommittee on Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2555
by Representatives Dunshee and Tarleton
Concerning alternative contracting performance goals.
Requires a public body, upon selection of the finalists of a design-build contract, to issue a request for proposals to the finalists, which shall provide building performance goals and validation requirements.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Capital Budget (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2556
by Representatives Freeman, Rodne, Kagi, and Pollet
Encouraging the establishment of therapeutic courts.
Authorizes and encourages trial and juvenile courts to establish and operate therapeutic courts to develop and process cases in ways which depart from traditional judicial processes.Authorizes and encourages trial courts to establish multijurisdictional partnerships and/or interlocal agreements to enhance and expand the coverage area of the therapeutic court.Authorizes district and municipal courts specifically to work cooperatively with each other and with the superior courts to identify and implement nontraditional case processing methods which can eliminate traditional barriers that decrease judicial efficiency.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2557
by Representatives Kirby and Muri
Concerning residence locations of felony sex offenders of minors.
Prohibits certain felony sex offenders from residing within one thousand feet of a school, child care center, playground, or other grounds or facilities where children are present.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2558
by Representatives Fey, Jinkins, and Freeman
Disposing tax foreclosed property to cities for affordable housing purposes.
Requires a county legislative authority to give notice to a city in which any tax foreclosed property is located within at least sixty days of acquiring the property and prohibits the county from disposing of the property at public auction or by private negotiation before giving the notice.Requires the notice to offer the city the opportunity to purchase the property for the principal amount of the unpaid taxes, and requires the city to: (1) Accept the offer within thirty days;(2) Provide that the property is suitable and will be used for an affordable housing development; and(3) Agree to transfer the property to a local housing authority, a nonprofit housing organization, or other entity eligible to receive assistance from the affordable housing program.Authorizes a county selling property to a city for affordable housing purposes to negotiate with the city to defer payment of all real property taxes levied on the property for the period that the city owns the property.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2559
by Representatives Goodman, Orwall, Roberts, Fitzgibbon, Jinkins, and Springer
Concerning parental rights and responsibilities of sexual assault perpetrators and survivors.
Establishes a process whereby a survivor who becomes pregnant as a result of a sexual assault and who elects to raise the child can seek the court's assistance in avoiding continued forced interactions with the rapist and the consequent inability to fully heal from the assault.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2560
by Representatives Stonier, Haigh, Muri, Magendanz, Fey, Fagan, Seaquist, Morrell, S. Hunt, and Bergquist
Concerning school library information and technology programs.
Addresses teacher-librarians and the provision of resources and materials for the operation of school library information and technology programs.Changes the name of the "school-library media program" to the "school library information and technology program."
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2561
by Representatives Taylor and Manweller
Changing ballot tabulation and receipt provisions.
Establishes the mail in ballot deadline act.Requires ballots to be received by the county auditor on election day to increase the efficiency of the voter tabulation process and save money for the state and individual counties.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2562
by Representatives Sawyer and Tarleton
Addressing water system vulnerabilities to hazards such as terrorism and natural disasters.
Requires certain group A public water systems and certain other water systems to develop and submit to the department of health a hazard mitigation plan.Authorizes the department of health to share pertinent information about water systems' natural and human-caused disaster preparedness with the capital budget committee and other appropriate committees of the legislature in order to allow the state to make wise allocation and prioritization decisions about investments in water system preparedness and infrastructure improvements.Exempts from disclosure under the public records act, hazard mitigation plans and related reports filed with the department of health by a public water system.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2563
by Representatives Fitzgibbon, Farrell, Reykdal, Gregerson, Fey, Bergquist, Pollet, and Freeman
Concerning local transit revenue.
Authorizes the legislative body of a city transit system, a county transportation authority, a metropolitan municipal corporation transit system, a public transportation benefit area, an unincorporated transportation benefit area, a regional transit authority, or a special purpose district formed to operate a public transportation system to impose: (1) A local motor vehicle excise tax on the value of a motor vehicle;(2) A tax for the privilege of selling or exchanging capital assets; and(3) An excise tax on a certain percentage of the total payroll of an employer with a specific number of employees.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2564
by Representatives Robinson, Manweller, S. Hunt, Stanford, Bergquist, Pollet, and Freeman
Authorizing the use of electronic signatures by state agencies.
Authorizes state agencies to use or accept secure electronic signatures for written communications that require a signature.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2565
by Representative Rodne
Concerning a mutual accountability model for clinical practices and healthy behaviors.
Requires the public employees' benefits board to conduct a pilot project for enrollees in the uniform medical plan to test the mutual accountability model in which financial incentives are offered to both health care providers and their patients for declaring or demonstrating to one another adherence to best clinical practices and healthy behaviors.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2566
by Representatives Kretz, Blake, Short, Condotta, and Freeman
Concerning the establishment of a dedicated local jurisdiction marijuana fund and the distribution of a specified percentage of marijuana excise tax revenues to cities and counties.
Creates the dedicated local jurisdiction marijuana fund and requires certain marijuana excise taxes to be credited to the fund.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Government Accountability & Oversight (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2567
by Representatives Zeiger, Morrell, Rodne, and Jinkins
Concerning the approval of minutes from annual meetings of homeowners' associations.
Requires the secretary or other officers specified in the bylaws of a homeowners' association to provide each owner of record, for approval, the minutes from the annual meeting by means of any available delivery options not less than fourteen nor more than sixty days after the meeting.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2568
by Representatives Wilcox, Manweller, and Schmick
Concerning oversight of health reform implementation by the joint select committee on health care implementation and oversight.
Abolishes the joint select committee on health care oversight that was created in 2013.Creates the joint select committee on health care implementation and oversight to provide oversight of health reform implementation by the state health care authority, the health benefit exchange, the office of the insurance commissioner, the department of health, and the department of social and health services to avoid duplication of efforts, to increase the quality of services, and to reduce costs for consumers.Requires the office of the insurance commissioner, in consultation with the health benefit exchange and the state health care authority, to provide a quarterly report to the joint select committee on health care implementation and oversight.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2569
by Representatives Hargrove and Pollet
Reducing air pollution associated with diesel emissions.
Creates the diesel idle reduction account.Requires the department of ecology to use the money in the account to provide loans with low or no interest and grants to eligible partners for the purpose of reducing exposure to diesel emissions and improving public health by investing in diesel idle emission reduction technologies and infrastructure.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Environment (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2570
by Representative Cody
Concerning term limits for members of the medical quality assurance commission.
Prohibits a member of the medical quality assurance commission from serving more than three consecutive full terms.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2571
by Representatives Riccelli, Cody, and Morrell
Concerning continuity of care for enrollees in the Washington health benefit exchange during grace periods.
Establishes the health benefit exchange grace period act.Ensures continuity of care for enrollees in the Washington health benefit exchange during grace periods.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2572
by Representative Cody; by request of Governor Inslee
Concerning the effectiveness of health care purchasing and transforming the health care delivery system.
Improves the effectiveness of health care purchasing and transforms the health care delivery system by advancing value-based purchasing, promoting community health, and providing greater integration of chronic illness care and needed social supports.Exempts from state antitrust laws and provides immunity from federal antitrust laws through the state action doctrine, certain activities convened and supervised by the director of the state health care authority or the director of the office of financial management pursuant to this act that might otherwise be constrained by such laws.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2573
by Representative Hudgins
Requiring the department of licensing to conduct a review of the need for regulation of theatrical wrestling events.
Requires the department of licensing to conduct a review of the need for regulation of theatrical wrestling events using certain public criteria in order to develop recommendations to the legislature regarding the regulation.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Business & Financial Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2574
by Representatives Chandler and Blake
Making alterations to the years applicable to earning the right of first refusal to purchase a geoduck diver license in 2015.
Changes the right of first refusal requirements regarding the purchase of a geoduck diver license.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2575
by Representatives Bergquist, Dahlquist, Stonier, and Santos; by request of Professional Educator Standards Board
Requiring that certain teacher assignment and reassignment data be included in data submitted to the office of the superintendent of public instruction.
Requires school districts, no later than the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year, to also include dates of teacher assignments and reassignments in the data they submit to the office of the superintendent of public instruction.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2576
by Representatives Reykdal, Kirby, and Pollet
Establishing a mandatory occupational disease exposure reporting requirement for firefighters.
Requires the department of labor and industries to begin rule making to require the reporting of hazardous exposures suffered in the course of employment by firefighters.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2577
by Representatives Van De Wege, Fitzgibbon, Holy, Hayes, Reykdal, Bergquist, and Freeman; by request of LEOFF Plan 2 Retirement Board
Creating an optional life annuity benefit for plan 2 members of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system.
Authorizes plan 2 members of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system, at the time of retirement, to purchase an optional actuarially equivalent life annuity benefit from the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 2 retirement fund.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2578
by Representatives Dunshee, DeBolt, and MacEwen
Exempting from public inspection certain public works proposals and documents.
Exempts from disclosure and inspection under the public records act, proposals submitted in response to a competitive solicitation and related evaluation documents.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2579
by Representatives Tarleton and Pollet
Concerning small scale prospecting and mining hydraulic projects in state waters.
Establishes the give fish a chance act.Prohibits the department of fish and wildlife from issuing a permit for the use of a suction dredge in certain state waters.Requires a mineral prospecting and mining permit to conduct small scale prospecting and mining and any mineral prospecting and mining not specifically prohibited.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2580
by Representatives Tarleton, Haler, Fey, Wylie, Seaquist, Pollet, Ryu, and Carlyle
Fostering economic resilience and development in Washington by supporting the maritime industry and other manufacturing sectors.
Supports the maritime industry and other manufacturing sectors to foster economic resilience and development in this state.Creates a joint select legislative task force on the economic resilience of manufacturing in Washington.Requires the state geologist to update and improve the seismic scenario catalog maintained by the department of natural resources with respect to the geographic areas designated as manufacturing industrial centers by the Puget Sound regional council and the adjacent geographic areas and infrastructure critical to the operations of industry in those designated manufacturing industrial centers.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Technology & Economic Development (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2581
by Representatives Tarleton, S. Hunt, Pollet, and Carlyle
Regarding on-water dwellings.
Provides a definition for "floating on-water residence" for purposes of the shoreline management act.Classifies a floating on-water residence that is permitted or legally established before July 1, 2014, as a conforming preferred use.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Environment (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2582
by Representatives Hargrove, Kagi, and Walsh
Concerning filing a petition seeking termination of parental rights.
Requires the department of social and health services, in a case where the court approves a sole permanency plan of adoption, to file a petition seeking termination of parental rights unless the court makes a good cause exception as to why the filing of a petition seeking termination of parental rights is not appropriate.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2583
by Representative Dahlquist
Adding charter school chief executive officers to the list of individuals who may file complaints of unprofessional conduct regarding certificated employees.
Permits charter school chief executive officers to file complaints of unprofessional conduct regarding certificated employees.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2584
by Representative Blake
Allowing prepayment of the penalty for removal of land from the farm and agricultural land current use property tax classification.
Authorizes the prepayment of a penalty for removal of land from the farm and agricultural land current use property tax classification.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2585
by Representatives Walsh and Pettigrew; by request of Department of Social and Health Services
Concerning income eligibility for temporary assistance for needy families benefits for a child.
Authorizes the department of social and health services to, by rule, exempt fifty percent of a caregiver's unearned income in determining temporary assistance for needy families eligibility and benefit standards.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & Human Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
HB 2586
by Representatives Christian, Muri, Haler, and Pollet
Adding transparency to elections through the installation of web camera surveillance systems.
Requires county auditors to install a web camera surveillance system in counting centers to allow for monitoring of ballot processing during an election.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Government Operations & Elections (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). | |
SB 5246-S
by Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education (originally sponsored by Senators Litzow, Tom, Hobbs, Delvin, Padden, Schoesler, and Smith)
Clarifying the teacher and principal evaluation process with the intent of strengthening the process.
Requires school districts to use student growth data to create: (1) A rank order of teachers based on the amount of average student growth achieved in each teacher's classroom; and(2) A rank order of principals based on the amount of average student growth achieved by the teachers in each principal's school.Requires one of the multiple measures of student growth, for certain teachers and for certain principals, to be student results on relevant assessments.Requires seniority to only be used as a tiebreaker when determining how multiple factors will be used in making certain human resource or personnel decisions.
| Feb 4 | Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 1:30 PM. | |
| Jan 15 | Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 1:30 PM. | |
| Jan 20 | Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 1:30 PM. | |
| Jan 21 | EDU - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. | |
| Minority; do not pass. | ||
| Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. | ||
| Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. | ||
SB 6319
by Senators Bailey, Roach, Sheldon, Braun, and Angel
Modifying the definition of residential real property in homeowners' associations.
Revises the definition of "residential real property," for purposes of homeowners' associations, to exempt a marina slip that is incorporated as its own community association from the definition.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions, Housing & Insurance. | |
SB 6320
by Senators Conway, Cleveland, McAuliffe, Chase, and Keiser; by request of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Concerning basic education minimum instructional hours.
Requires any hours scheduled by a school district for noninstructional purposes during the last five school days for students who are graduating from high school to count toward the instructional hours requirement.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 6321
by Senators Bailey and Conway; by request of Select Committee on Pension Policy
Removing the statutory provision that allows members of plan 3 of the public employees' retirement system, school employees' retirement system, and teachers' retirement system to select a new contribution rate option each year.
Removes the provision allowing members of plan 3 of the public employees' retirement system, the school employees' retirement system, and the teachers' retirement system to select a new contribution rate option each year.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 6322
by Senators Brown, Hewitt, Angel, Ericksen, Bailey, Honeyford, Dammeier, Braun, Becker, and Parlette
Providing telecommunications investment incentives.
Provides a sales and use tax exemption for telecommunications machinery and equipment and tangible personal property that becomes an ingredient or component of telecommunications machinery and equipment.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications. | |
SB 6323
by Senators Brown, Dammeier, Honeyford, Braun, Tom, Padden, Angel, Bailey, Becker, Hill, and Roach
Changing public disclosure commission membership provisions.
Terminates, effective July 31, 2014, the terms of existing public disclosure commission members and requires the commission, beginning August, 1, 2014, to be composed of five members appointed as provided in this act.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 6324
by Senators Darneille, Conway, McCoy, Chase, Kohl-Welles, Keiser, and Kline
Disposing tax foreclosed property to cities for affordable housing purposes.
Requires a county legislative authority to give notice to a city in which any tax foreclosed property is located within at least sixty days of acquiring the property and prohibits the county from disposing of the property at public auction or by private negotiation before giving the notice.Requires the notice to offer the city the opportunity to purchase the property for the principal amount of the unpaid taxes, and requires the city to: (1) Accept the offer within thirty days;(2) Provide that the property is suitable and will be used for an affordable housing development; and(3) Agree to transfer the property to a local housing authority or other nonprofit entity eligible to receive assistance from the affordable housing program.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions, Housing & Insurance. | |
SB 6325
by Senators Fain and Conway; by request of LEOFF Plan 2 Retirement Board
Correcting the expiration date of a definition of firefighter.
Corrects an expiration date in section 4, chapter 304, Laws of 2007, relating to transfers of service credit for emergency medical technicians under plan 2 of LEOFF.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 6326
by Senators O'Ban and Angel
Modifying provisions governing the competitive bidding process of water-sewer districts.
Addresses contracts and competitive bidding of water-sewer districts regarding the estimated cost of work ordered that exceeds ninety thousand dollars.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Governmental Operations. | |
SB 6327
by Senators Darneille and Chase
Expanding the categories of offenses eligible for the parenting program with the department of corrections.
Addresses eligibility for the parenting sentencing alternative for an offender that has no prior or current conviction for a felony that is a serious violent offense.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Human Services & Corrections. | |
SB 6328
by Senators Roach and Kline
Concerning deferred compensation plans.
Authorizes the state, when contracting with an employee to defer a portion of that employee's income, to purchase individual securities with the deferred portion.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 6329
by Senator Sheldon
Concerning state employment of persons with disabilities.
Establishes the state employment disability parity act.Requires certain state agencies and the division of vocational rehabilitation to submit a report to the department of personnel regarding employment for persons with disabilities.Requires new hires by all state agencies to equal five percent of all placements by the division of vocational rehabilitation.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Health Care. | |
SB 6330
by Senator Sheldon
Promoting affordable housing in urban growth areas.
Encourages increased residential opportunities, including affordable housing opportunities, in cities within urban growth areas.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Financial Institutions, Housing & Insurance. | |
SB 6331
by Senators Hobbs, Benton, and Roach
Concerning self-service storage facilities.
Authorizes certain notifications from self-service storage facilities to be sent via e-mail.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 6332
by Senators Kohl-Welles, Darneille, Chase, Hasegawa, McCoy, and Keiser
Requiring a policy and procedures for notifying parents that their child was injured on school property.
Requires the state school directors' association, with the assistance of the office of the superintendent of public instruction, to convene an advisory group to develop a model policy and procedures that require a school that receives a report that a student was physically injured on school property to notify the injured student's parents or guardians.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. | |
SB 6333
by Senators Schoesler and Hargrove
Concerning tax statute clarifications, simplifications, and technical corrections.
Provides clarification, simplification, and technical corrections to certain tax statutes.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Ways & Means. | |
SB 6334
by Senators Keiser, Hewitt, Kohl-Welles, Honeyford, Parlette, and Kline
Concerning the sales of growlers of wine or beer.
Addresses the sale of growlers of wine or beer.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |
SB 6335
by Senators Hewitt, Kohl-Welles, Keiser, and Kline
Allowing multiple liquor licenses at the same physical premises.
Allows, under certain circumstances, any number or combination of liquor licenses or approvals to be issued and approved for the same premises, overlapping premises, adjacent premises, or separate premises to the same licensee or to different licensees, including different licensees under common ownership.
| Jan 21 | First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor. | |