WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE
Legislative Digest No. 21
SIXTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
Tuesday, February 11, 2014		30th Day - 2014 Regular Session

by House Committee on Environment (originally sponsored by Representatives Goodman, Warnick, McCoy, Fey, Liias, Farrell, Ryu, S. Hunt, Pollet, and Moscoso)

Concerning paint stewardship.

by House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Representatives Shea and Crouse)

Concerning pass-through wholesale food distributors.

by House Committee on Labor & Workforce Development (originally sponsored by Representatives Condotta and Buys)

Concerning voluntary independent contractor certification.

by House Committee on Government Accountability & Oversight (originally sponsored by Representatives Dahlquist, Hurst, S. Hunt, Morrell, and Moscoso)

Preventing theft of alcoholic spirits from licensed retailers.

by House Committee on Health Care & Wellness (originally sponsored by Representatives Jinkins, Pollet, Appleton, S. Hunt, Buys, Haler, Warnick, Pettigrew, Manweller, Goodman, Clibborn, Santos, Harris, and Kagi)

Allowing physical therapists to perform spinal manipulation.

by House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Takko and Blake)

Extending the date by which counties participating in the voluntary stewardship program must review and, if necessary, revise development regulations that apply to critical areas in areas used for agricultural activities.

by House Committee on Environment (originally sponsored by Representatives Pollet, Fitzgibbon, Moscoso, Farrell, Ryu, Santos, Freeman, Walkinshaw, Bergquist, Goodman, Tarleton, and Roberts)

Involving communities in environmental decision making.

by House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Haigh, S. Hunt, Magendanz, Orwall, Fagan, Ormsby, Kagi, Morrell, Seaquist, and Pollet)

Promoting expanded learning opportunities as a strategy to close the educational opportunity gap and prevent summer learning loss.

by House Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Zeiger, Seaquist, Haler, Pollet, Manweller, Riccelli, Freeman, Fagan, Magendanz, Morrell, Orwall, Tharinger, and Smith)

Increasing transparency in higher education by requiring certain departmental budget detail to be available online.

by House Committee on Government Accountability & Oversight (originally sponsored by Representatives Condotta and Haler)

Addressing license issuance fees imposed on spirits retail licensees.

by House Committee on Environment (originally sponsored by Representatives Fitzgibbon, Farrell, Senn, Ryu, and Pollet)

Concerning water conservation appliances.

by House Committee on Health Care & Wellness (originally sponsored by Representatives Liias, Walsh, Moeller, Cody, Walkinshaw, Jinkins, Lytton, Goodman, Stanford, Wylie, Riccelli, Pettigrew, Roberts, Orwall, Ryu, Tarleton, Reykdal, Habib, Bergquist, Gregerson, Farrell, Pollet, and Ormsby)

Restricting the practice of sexual orientation change efforts.

by House Committee on Public Safety (originally sponsored by Representatives Orwall, Kochmar, Appleton, Sells, Takko, Dahlquist, Roberts, Wylie, Goodman, Stonier, Moscoso, Springer, Jinkins, Fitzgibbon, and Carlyle)

Establishing a work group on preservation of evidence for criminal justice purposes.

by House Committee on Labor & Workforce Development (originally sponsored by Representatives Reykdal, Sells, Fitzgibbon, Goodman, Pollet, and Moscoso)

Concerning commercial janitorial services.

by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Rodne, Jinkins, Morrell, and Tharinger)

Concerning liability of health care providers responding to an emergency.

by House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Representatives Wilcox, Tharinger, Buys, Lytton, Vick, Orcutt, Reykdal, Springer, and Haigh)

Concerning current use valuation for land primarily used for commercial horticultural purposes.

by House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives S. Hunt, Zeiger, Goodman, Wylie, Rodne, Ross, Pike, Moeller, Roberts, Tharinger, and Haigh)

Establishing new authority for courts to assess cost recovery fees for costs associated with new indigent defense standards.

by House Committee on Public Safety (originally sponsored by Representatives Klippert, Hayes, and Haler)

Concerning the operation of a vessel under the influence of an intoxicant.

by House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Freeman, Goodman, Walsh, Kochmar, S. Hunt, Wylie, Stonier, Haler, Scott, Sawyer, Kagi, Green, and Haigh)

Concerning review of licensing, unsupervised access to children, and employment decisions by the children's administration.

by House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Stonier, Morrell, Magendanz, Fey, Bergquist, Haigh, Freeman, and Lytton; by request of Governor Inslee)

Establishing career and technical course equivalencies in science and mathematics.

by House Committee on Government Operations & Elections (originally sponsored by Representatives Reykdal, Appleton, Sawyer, Kirby, Smith, Ormsby, Buys, Vick, S. Hunt, Fey, and Tarleton)

Concerning signature gathering for initiative, referendum, and recall petitions.

by House Committee on Labor & Workforce Development (originally sponsored by Representatives Reykdal, Kirby, and Pollet)

Establishing a mandatory occupational disease exposure reporting requirement for firefighters.

by House Committee on Government Operations & Elections (originally sponsored by Representatives Dunshee, DeBolt, and MacEwen)

Exempting from public inspection certain public works proposals and documents.

by House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Roberts, Hayes, Moscoso, Robinson, and Freeman)

Concerning the arrest of individuals who suffer from chemical dependency.

by House Committee on Health Care & Wellness (originally sponsored by Representatives Moeller, Harris, Green, Cody, Morrell, Clibborn, Riccelli, Van De Wege, Bergquist, and Freeman; by request of Governor Inslee)

Concerning state purchasing of mental health and chemical dependency treatment services.

by House Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Hansen, Haler, Zeiger, Magendanz, and Pollet)

Requiring creation of a higher education transparency web site.

by House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Fitzgibbon, Kochmar, Hargrove, Springer, Bergquist, and Freeman)

Including costs associated with preparing for new annexations within city sales and use tax authority.

by House Committee on Technology & Economic Development (originally sponsored by Representatives Orcutt, Takko, DeBolt, and Blake)

Extending specific aerospace tax preferences to include other types of commercial aircraft to encourage the migration of good wage jobs in the state.

by House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Kagi, Walsh, Senn, Zeiger, Roberts, Klippert, Pettigrew, Sawyer, Jinkins, Farrell, Smith, Fey, Goodman, and Ormsby)

Providing caregivers authority to allow children placed in their care to participate in normal childhood activities based on a reasonable and prudent parent standard.

by Representatives Springer and Chandler

Lowering to seventy-seven and one-half percent the sums collected and remitted under RCW 82.08.150 (1) and (2) that are deposited into the state general fund.

by Representatives Young, Haigh, Seaquist, G. Hunt, MacEwen, Smith, and Hayes

Providing a limited-duration preferential business and occupation tax rate for information technology services provided in the vicinity of federal military installations.

by Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Sheldon and Carrell)

Modifying indigent defense provisions.

by Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Benton, Sheldon, Holmquist Newbry, Padden, Honeyford, Carrell, Hewitt, Delvin, Ericksen, Dammeier, Braun, Rivers, King, Smith, Bailey, Pearson, Shin, and Roach)

Requiring notification to parents or guardians in cases of abortion.

by Senate Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Senators Bailey, Keiser, Kohl-Welles, Schlicher, and Kline)

Creating a silver alert system.

by Senate Committee on Governmental Operations (originally sponsored by Senators Kohl-Welles, Nelson, Hargrove, Keiser, Hobbs, Frockt, and Kline)

Concerning property tax refunds.

by Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education (originally sponsored by Senators McAuliffe, Hargrove, Rolfes, Mullet, Hasegawa, Chase, McCoy, Fraser, Kline, Fain, Hill, Keiser, King, and Rivers)

Concerning accountability in providing opportunities for certain students to participate in transition services.

by Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education (originally sponsored by Senators Ericksen, Braun, King, Honeyford, Bailey, and Parlette)

Eliminating the reduction in state basic education funding that occurs in counties with federal forest lands.

by Senate Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Senators Rivers, Keiser, Cleveland, Tom, Kline, and McAuliffe)

Concerning the grace period for enrollees of the Washington health benefit exchange.

by Senate Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Senators O'Ban, Becker, Pedersen, Keiser, Dammeier, Darneille, Baumgartner, Rolfes, Kohl-Welles, Parlette, Hill, and Brown)

Concerning communication of mammographic breast density information to patients.

by Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education (originally sponsored by Senators Litzow, Billig, Fain, Rolfes, Tom, Angel, Rivers, McAuliffe, Hobbs, Dammeier, Frockt, Cleveland, Kohl-Welles, Mullet, and O'Ban)

Improving quality in the early care and education system.

by Senate Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Senators Conway, Pearson, Parlette, and Keiser)

Regulating pharmacy benefit managers and pharmacy audits.

by Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Senators Fain, Angel, McAuliffe, Hill, Benton, Hobbs, Dammeier, Rivers, Schoesler, Tom, Frockt, and Kohl-Welles)

Concerning cosmetology training and licensure requirements.

by Senate Committee on Governmental Operations (originally sponsored by Senators Litzow, Rolfes, Fain, Sheldon, McCoy, Hasegawa, McAuliffe, Conway, and Kline)

Subjecting federally recognized Indian tribes to the same conditions as state and local governments for property owned exclusively by the tribe.

by Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Senator King)

Concerning certain public works contracting requirements.

by Senate Committee on Human Services & Corrections (originally sponsored by Senators Pearson, Brown, O'Ban, and Roach)

Requiring the department of corrections to supervise domestic violence offenders who have a conviction and were sentenced for a domestic violence felony offense that was plead and proven.

by Senate Committee on Governmental Operations (originally sponsored by Senators Darneille, Honeyford, Kohl-Welles, and Conway; by request of Washington State Historical Society)

Concerning the Washington state historical society.

by Senate Committee on Agriculture, Water & Rural Economic Development (originally sponsored by Senators Kohl-Welles, Hatfield, Hasegawa, Hewitt, and Chase)

Concerning industrial hemp production.

by Senate Committee on Human Services & Corrections (originally sponsored by Senators Dammeier, Conway, and O'Ban)

Concerning residence locations of felony sex offenders.

by Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Senators Sheldon, Roach, and Hill)

Regarding miniature hobby boilers.

by Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Senators Becker, Rivers, Braun, and Angel)

Protecting public sector workers' rights through public disclosure of public sector unions' finances.

by Senate Committee on Human Services & Corrections (originally sponsored by Senators Darneille, Hargrove, Rolfes, McAuliffe, Ranker, Conway, Cleveland, Fraser, McCoy, Keiser, and Kohl-Welles; by request of Governor Inslee)

Concerning state purchasing of mental health and chemical dependency treatment services.

by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Hill, Keiser, and Fraser; by request of Department of Revenue)

Simplifying the taxation of amusement, recreation, and physical fitness services.

by Senator Holmquist Newbry

Establishing a priority for awarding state need grants to legally present resident students.

by Senators Holmquist Newbry, Angel, Benton, and Padden

Increasing legislative transparency by providing mandatory notice and waiting periods before legislative action, banning title-only bills, and opening all legislative committees to the public.