Bills by Topic Results
Bills that have passed the Legislature are shown in bold text with an * preceding them.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
 (See also BONDS; CITIES AND TOWNS; CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES AND JAILS; COUNTIES; ELECTIONS; GROWTH MANAGEMENT; LAND USE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT; OPEN PUBLIC MEETINGS; PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AND EMPLOYEES; PUBLIC WORKS; RECORDS; ROADS AND HIGHWAYS; SPECIAL AND SPECIAL PURPOSE DISTRICTS; TAXES - LODGING TAX) |
|
|
Aerial imagery needs assessment study for state and local agencies, conducting:
HB 2108, SB 5824 |
|
|
Affordable housing, accessory dwelling units, property owner tax exemption program, local:
SHB 2480 |
|
|
Affordable housing, rental, property owner tax exemption program, local:
HB 2480 |
|
|
Airports, government-owned, community aviation revitalization loan program:
EHB 1656 |
|
|
Airports, public use general aviation airport loan program, authorizing:
*
SHB 1656 (2018) V |
|
|
Amtrak derailment, men and women from local government providing aid after, honoring:
*
HR 4662 (2018),
*
SR 8696 (2018) |
|
|
Arrest warrant, person with, on agency property, employee requirements:
SB 5218 |
|
|
Boards, advisory, subject to open public meetings act, when:
HB 1989 |
|
|
Boundary review boards, annexation boundaries, actions involving:
HB 1682, ESB 5652 |
|
|
Business ecosystems areas and area financing for local public improvements:
SB 6499 |
|
|
Catastrophic incidents, continuity of government planning:
HB 2263, SHB 2263, SB 6011, SSB 6011 |
|
|
Catastrophic incidents, continuity of governmental operations:
HJR 4210, SHJR 4210, SJR 8211 |
|
|
Committees, advisory, subject to open public meetings act, when:
HB 1989 |
|
|
Communication plans, life safety information for limited-English proficient persons:
*
SSB 5046, CH 312 (2017) |
|
|
Construction, local government, via indebtedness, sales and use tax exemption:
SB 5166 |
|
|
Counties, formation of new, procedures for, establishing:
SB 5932 |
|
|
Covenants on land used by local agencies, restrictive, process for removal of:
*
HB 1959, CH 119 (2017) |
|
|
Creative districts, state-certified, designation and certification of:
HB 1183,
*
SHB 1183, CH 240 (2017), SB 5300, SSB 5300, 2SSB 5300 |
|
|
Criminal justice funding, using certain funds to supplant existing funding, when:
HB 2006, SHB 2006, E2SHB 2006 |
|
|
Disaster areas, designated, creating and financing with bonds and tax revenues:
HB 2048 |
|
|
Early childhood education and assistance program, funding, local government role:
*
2SSB 5107, CH 178 (2017) |
|
|
Early learning programs, funding from community sources, local pathway for:
SB 5107, SSB 5107,
*
2SSB 5107, CH 178 (2017) |
|
|
Electronic data, federal agencies collecting, agency cooperation with, prohibiting:
HB 1193 |
|
|
Employees, claims against public entities for tortious conduct of, liability:
HB 2506, SB 5896, SSB 5896 |
|
|
Employment laws and contracts, unionized and nonunionized employees:
HB 1143 |
|
|
Ethnicity, public agency disclosure to federal authorities, prohibitions:
*
EHB 2097, CH 303 (2018) PV, SB 5828 |
|
|
Firearms, local regulation of, in addition to or more restrictive than state:
HB 2666, SB 6146 |
|
|
Growth management act, local actions under, GMA victims response act:
HB 2584 |
|
|
Hazardous substances remedial actions, local government clean-up projects:
SB 6285 |
|
|
Health sciences and services authorities, designation as, application deadline:
HB 1922 |
|
|
Homeless campsites, unauthorized, in ten largest cities, identifying on map:
SB 5864, SSB 5864, SB 6364 |
|
|
Homeless encampments on religious organization property, allowing, requirements:
HB 2044, SHB 2044, SB 5657, SSB 5657 |
|
|
Homeless encampments, guidelines and regulations, state preemption of:
SB 5656, SB 5864, SSB 5864, SB 6364 |
|
|
Homeless housing, document-recording surcharges for, local government use:
SB 5254, SSB 5254,
*
E2SSB 5254, CH 16 (2017), SB 5656, SB 5864, SSB 5864, SB 6364 |
|
|
Homeless parking, safe, religious organizations, local actions and regulations:
HB 2044, SHB 2044, SB 5657, SSB 5657 |
|
|
Homeless shelters, bed availability reporting, to central information system:
SB 5656, SB 5864, SSB 5864, SB 6364 |
|
|
Homeless shelters, religious organizations, local actions and regulations:
HB 2044, SB 5657, SSB 5657 |
|
|
Homeless, hosting by religious organization, limits imposed by local government, prohibiting:
SB 6555 |
|
|
Housing, accessory apartments, within or outside urban growth areas:
HB 2503, SB 6505 |
|
|
Housing, affordable, certain real estate excise taxes and revenues to support:
HB 1536, HB 1797, SHB 1797 |
|
|
Housing, affordable, imposing sales tax for, councilmanic authority for:
HB 1797, SHB 1797 |
|
|
Housing, affordable, on religious organization property, increased density bonus for:
2SHB 1987 |
|
|
Housing, affordable, on religious organization property, non-restriction of:
HB 1987 |
|
|
Housing, affordable, on religious organization property, non-restriction of density:
SHB 1987 |
|
|
Housing, affordable, very low-income, local property tax exemption program:
HB 1536, SB 5182, SSB 5182, 2SSB 5182, SB 5254, SSB 5254 |
|
|
Housing, local investment programs, establishment of, city/county notice to DOR:
HB 2046 |
|
|
Information, personal, sale of, prohibitions:
HB 2278, SHB 2278 |
|
|
Infrastructure, debt guarantee by state for, constitutional amendment to allow:
HJR 4200, SJR 8201 |
|
|
Infrastructure, for workforce or affordable housing, local investment programs for:
HB 2046 |
|
|
Infrastructure, infrastructure policy advisory team, establishing:
HB 1677, SB 5496 |
|
|
Infrastructure, lend Washington program and finance board, establishing:
SB 6480 |
|
|
Infrastructure, loans and grants for, value planning and system improvement team:
HB 1677,
*
ESHB 1677, CH 10 (2017) PV, SB 5496 |
|
|
Infrastructure, local financing tool program, excess revenues, carrying forward:
*
HB 2858, CH 178 (2018), SB 6177 |
|
|
Infrastructure, local, for drinking water, stormwater, and wastewater:
HB 1677, SB 5496 |
|
|
Infrastructure, local, for drinking water, stormwater, wastewater, and solid waste:
*
ESHB 1677, CH 10 (2017) PV |
|
|
Infrastructure, local, publicly owned depositary for, structure and business plan for:
SB 6375 |
|
|
Infrastructure, project financing, loan agreements with housing finance commission:
HB 1324, ESSB 5033, SB 5088 |
|
|
Infrastructure, public works financing assistance program, establishing:
HB 1051, SB 5033, ESSB 5033 |
|
|
Infrastructure, small cell wireless, investment-ready for certain technologies:
HB 2592, SHB 2592 |
|
|
Infrastructure, Washington investment trust, creating for funding of:
HB 2059, SB 5464 |
|
|
Land use, local project permits and review, vested rights and controlling law in:
HB 2100 |
|
|
Land, local government-owned, recorded restrictive covenant, removal hearing:
HB 2674 |
|
|
Land, local government-owned, recorded restrictive or unrecorded-deed covenant, removal hearing:
ESB 6379 |
|
|
Laws, rules, and policies, state, municipality self-designated sanctuary from:
HB 2178 |
|
|
Leave systems, changes to, in relation to state retirement systems:
HB 2122 |
|
|
Legal action against government, interim attorneys' fees and costs, payment:
SB 5058 |
|
|
Marijuana excise tax distributions, increasing:
SB 6552 |
|
|
Marijuana excise tax distributions, increasing limits on:
HB 2076 |
|
|
Marijuana excise tax distributions, requiring marijuana retailer in municipality for:
HB 2060 |
|
|
Marijuana, businesses, siting or operation of, processes for prohibiting:
HB 2336, SHB 2336, HB 2484, SB 6291 |
|
|
Marijuana, indoor cultivation of, local government ordinances requiring:
HB 2960 |
|
|
Marijuana, retail businesses, siting or operation of, local processes for prohibiting:
HB 2215, HB 2336, SHB 2336, HB 2484, SB 6291 |
|
|
Marriages, solemnizing of, by local elected officials:
HB 2385 |
|
|
Mental health/chemical dependency funding, using funds to supplant existing funds:
HB 2006, SHB 2006, E2SHB 2006 |
|
|
Military benefit financing pilot projects, establishing:
HB 2635, SHB 2635, SB 6272 |
|
|
Military benefit zones, creating, using to finance public improvements:
HB 2635, SHB 2635, SB 6272 |
|
|
Motor vehicles, alternative fuel and electric, agency acquisition of, provisions:
SB 5931, SB 6080, SSB 6080 |
|
|
National origin, public agency disclosure to federal authorities, prohibitions:
*
EHB 2097, CH 303 (2018) PV, SB 5828 |
|
|
Notices, about emergencies and disasters, for limited-English-proficient persons:
HB 1540, SHB 1540, 2SHB 1540, SB 5046,
*
SSB 5046, CH 312 (2017) |
|
|
Planning, long-range SEPA, municipal corporation application fees for costs of:
HB 2599 |
|
|
Private property rights, international law or accords infringing, prohibitions:
HB 1202 |
|
|
Private roadways, city or county repair of:
HB 1367 |
|
|
Property, seizure by agencies and forfeiture, procedures and reporting:
HB 2718, SHB 2718, E2SHB 2718 |
|
|
Records, electronic, of local agencies, internet-based data storage system for:
HB 1516, SHB 1516 |
|
|
Religious beliefs, agency disclosure to federal authorities, prohibiting:
*
EHB 2097, CH 303 (2018) PV, SB 5828 |
|
|
Rent control, residential, local prohibition and state preemption, repealing:
HB 2583, SB 6400 |
|
|
Residential dwellings, demolition fee, deposit in city's affordable housing fund:
HB 1536 |
|
|
Resource data, private land unlawful entry by agency to collect:
HB 1104 |
|
|
Revenue authority and constitutional/statutory obligations of governments, studying:
HB 2011 |
|
|
Revitalization, local infrastructure investment programs, sales tax remittance for:
HB 2046 |
|
|
Safe streets pilot project, creating to foster community engagement:
HB 1557, SHB 1557, SB 5650 |
|
|
Self-insurance risk programs, local government joint, state agency participation:
HB 2467, HB 2843, SHB 2843, SB 6443, SSB 6443 |
|
|
Sensing devices, extraordinary, government agency use:
HB 1102 |
|
|
Streets, retrofitting with disability-accessible parking spaces, plans for:
HB 2729 |
|
|
Surplus public property, transfer, lease, or disposal for public benefit:
HB 2382, SHB 2382, 2SHB 2382,
*
3SHB 2382, CH 217 (2018) |
|
|
Surplus state-owned real property, disposal, government agency first refusal:
HB 2382, SHB 2382, 2SHB 2382,
*
3SHB 2382, CH 217 (2018) |
|
|
Tax revenue capacity of local entities, in relation to obligations, studying:
HB 2737, SHB 2737 |
|
|
Transfers and obligations, incurred by debtor, uniform voidable transactions act:
*
SB 5085, CH 57 (2017) |
|
|
Volunteers, not appointed by an agency, records disclosure exemption, when:
SB 5784 |