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=2019. HB 1028-S by House Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Representatives Shea, Kraft, and Eslick) Modifying the types of off-road vehicles subject to local government regulation. Includes wheeled all-terrain vehicles in the definition of "off-road vehicles."
HB 1110-S by House Committee on Environment & Energy (originally sponsored by Representatives Fitzgibbon, Slatter, Kloba, Peterson, Tharinger, Jinkins, Macri, Cody, Bergquist, Doglio, Robinson, Pollet, Stanford, and Frame) Reducing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with transportation fuels. Supports the deployment of clean transportation fuel technologies through a carefully designed program that reduces the carbon intensity of fuel used in the state, in order to: (1) Reduce levels of conventional air pollutants from diesel and gasoline that are harmful to public health;(2) Reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with transportation fuels, which are the state's largest source of greenhouse gas emissions; and(3) Create jobs and spur economic development based on innovative clean fuel technologies.Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to: (1) Analyze, by December 1, 2027, the impacts of the initial five years of clean fuels program implementation; and(2) Submit a report to the legislature that summarizes the analysis.
HB 1112-S by House Committee on Environment & Energy (originally sponsored by Representatives Fitzgibbon, Kloba, Peterson, Tharinger, Jinkins, Macri, Goodman, Bergquist, Doglio, Robinson, Pollet, Stanford, and Frame) Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from hydrofluorocarbons. Transitions to the use of less damaging hydrofluorocarbons or suitable substitutes in various applications in the state, in a manner similar to the regulations that were adopted by the environmental protection agency, and that have been or will be adopted in several other states around the country.Requires the department of ecology, in consultation with the department of commerce and the utilities and transportation commission, to complete a report addressing how to: (1) Increase the use of refrigerants with a low global warming potential in mobile sources, utility equipment, and consumer appliances; and(2) Reduce other uses of hydrofluorocarbons.Requires the department of enterprise services to establish purchasing and procurement policies that provide a preference for products that: (1) Are not restricted;(2) Do not contain hydrofluorocarbons or contain hydrofluorocarbons with a comparatively low global warming potential;(3) Are not designed to function only in conjunction with hydrofluorocarbons characterized by a comparatively high global warming potential; and(4) Were not manufactured using hydrofluorocarbons or were manufactured using hydrofluorocarbons with a low global warming potential.
HB 1114-S by House Committee on Environment & Energy (originally sponsored by Representatives Doglio, Slatter, Fey, Peterson, Ryu, Fitzgibbon, Tharinger, Jinkins, Macri, and Walen) Reducing the wasting of food in order to fight hunger and reduce environmental impacts. Establishes a goal for the state to reduce by fifty percent the amount of food waste generated annually by 2030, relative to 2015 levels.Requires the department of ecology, in consultation with the department of agriculture and the department of health, to develop and adopt a state wasted food reduction and food waste diversion plan designed to achieve the goal.
HB 1148-S by House Committee on Consumer Protection & Business (originally sponsored by Representatives Kirby, Vick, and Reeves) Concerning architect registration. Revises certain architect statutes with regard to: (1) Changing the term "intern architect" to "architectural associate";(2) Including the rendering of related work requiring architectural education, training, and experience, in the definition of "practice of architecture"; and(3) Application, qualifications, and examinations for certificate of registration.
HB 1244-S by House Committee on Consumer Protection & Business (originally sponsored by Representative Walen; by request of Department of Licensing) Concerning appraisal management company Title XI compliance and license expiration. Changes the amount of time, from two years to one year, in which a license is valid for appraisal management companies.Revises the limitations and requirements for owners of appraisal management companies.Exempts the following from the requirements of chapter 18.310 RCW: An appraisal management company that is a subsidiary owned and controlled by a financial institution regulated by a federal financial institution regulatory agency.
HB 1365 by Representatives Tharinger, Harris, Chapman, Appleton, Dolan, Fitzgibbon, Jinkins, Riccelli, Stanford, Robinson, Kloba, Doglio, Pollet, Leavitt, Santos, Ormsby, and Ortiz-Self Creating the Washington Indian health improvement act. Establishes the Washington Indian health improvement act.Creates the governor's Indian health advisory council and directs the council to: (1) Adopt the biennial Indian health improvement advisory plan;(2) Address policies or actions that have tribal implications that are not able to be resolved or addressed at the agency level; and(3) Provide oversight of certain service organizations or entities to address their impacts on services to American Indians and Alaska Natives and relationships with Indian health care providers.Creates the reinvestment committee of the council and requires the committee, with assistance from the state health care authority, the American Indian health commission for Washington state, and other member entities of the advisory council, to prepare a biennial Indian health improvement advisory plan.Creates the Indian health improvement reinvestment account.
HB 1366 by Representatives Sullivan, Jenkin, Ryu, Entenman, Doglio, Pollet, and Santos Removing disincentives to the creation of community facilities districts. Modifies community facilities districts provisions to remove disincentives to the creation of those districts.Exempts the formation of a community facilities district from compliance with the state environmental policy act, unless the formation constitutes a final agency decision to undertake construction of a structure or facility not otherwise exempt under state law or rule.
HB 1367 by Representatives Sullivan, McCaslin, Eslick, Dent, Senn, Corry, Appleton, and Frame Concerning child-placing agencies. Requires the department of children, youth, and families to: (1) Conduct a child-placing agency contract evaluation that includes consideration of whether current contracts reflect the services provided by and responsibilities awarded to child-placing agencies;(2) Contract with an outside entity to conduct a rate analysis of current rates compared with actual costs incurred by child-placing agencies; and(3) Facilitate a stakeholder work group in a collaborative effort to design a child-placing agency rate payment methodology based on actual provider costs of care.Expires July 1, 2020.
HB 1368 by Representatives Springer, Kretz, Riccelli, Orcutt, Goodman, Maycumber, Wylie, Dent, Steele, and Doglio Reauthorizing the business and occupation tax deduction for cooperative finance organizations. Provides a business and occupation tax deduction on amounts received by a cooperative finance organization where the amounts are derived from loans to rural electric cooperatives or other nonprofit or governmental providers of utility services.
HB 1369 by Representatives Macri, Harris, Robinson, Graham, Riccelli, Stonier, Jinkins, Appleton, Cody, Reeves, Pollet, Leavitt, Ormsby, and Ortiz-Self; by request of Department of Health Concerning maternal mortality reviews. Changes the composition and duties of the maternal mortality review panel.Authorizes the department of health to request and receive data for specific maternal deaths from the department of children, youth, and families and its licensees and providers.Requires hospitals and licensed birth centers to make an effort to report deaths that occur during pregnancy or within forty-two days of the end of pregnancy to the local coroner or medical examiner.Requires a county to be reimbursed, from the death investigations account, if the county bears the cost of an autopsy related to maternal mortality.
HB 1370 by Representatives Kloba, Stanford, and Appleton; by request of Liquor and Cannabis Board Creating additional training requirements for licensed marijuana retailers and their employees. Prohibits a marijuana retailer and its employees from performing work involving the sale or service of marijuana products to the public unless the individual holds a valid budtender permit.Requires the state liquor and cannabis board to immediately suspend the budtender permit of a person who has been certified as being a responsible parent who is not in compliance with a child support order.Requires a budtender permit holder, who has his or her permit suspended for failure to pay child support, to contact the department of social and health services to have the suspension released.Requires the department to notify the state liquor and cannabis board when it determines the parent's noncompliance status has changed.
HB 1371 by Representatives Eslick, Pollet, Irwin, Appleton, Griffey, Stokesbary, Senn, Thai, and Doglio Concerning the creation of parks benefit districts. Authorizes the legislative authority of a county, city, metropolitan park district, or park and recreation district to establish a parks benefit district for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, improving, providing, and funding park maintenance and improvement within the district.
HB 1372 by Representatives Klippert and Ryu Concerning the retirement age for state guard members. Allows the renewal of an extension of service age, for a state guard member, beyond age sixty-four, subject to the discretion of the adjutant general.
HB 1373 by Representatives Wylie, Smith, Doglio, Vick, Maycumber, Blake, Frame, Orcutt, Springer, Chandler, Pollet, MacEwen, DeBolt, Kloba, Griffey, Tarleton, Walsh, Dent, Fey, Slatter, Schmick, Morris, Dye, Fitzgibbon, Sullivan, Appleton, Paul, Chapman, and Valdez Modifying provisions of the universal communications services program. Delays, until July 1, 2029, the termination of the state universal communications services program.Addresses the provision, enhancement, and maintenance of broadband services, recognizing that the incumbent public network functions to provide all communications services including voice and broadband services; distribution formula for eligible communications providers; and adoption of rules and required reporting by the utilities and transportation commission.Permits expenditures from the universal communications services account to be used for commission expenses related to implementation and administration of certain statutes.
HB 1374 by Representatives Macri, Doglio, Jinkins, Ormsby, Cody, Fey, Robinson, Slatter, Davis, Frame, Stanford, Dolan, Fitzgibbon, Appleton, Riccelli, Valdez, and Santos Relating to local government authority to regulate firearms. Finds that: (1) Gun violence is a public health crisis in the state;(2) Local governments have been blocked from taking action to prevent gun violence because of the statewide preemption of local regulations;(3) Local jurisdictions must have the ability to build upon state standards and adopt approaches to regulations to address the epidemic of firearm violence in their communities.
HB 1375 by Representatives Wylie, Stonier, Vick, Harris, Gregerson, Kraft, Appleton, Dolan, Pellicciotti, Doglio, and Fey Applying campaign contribution limits to candidates for all port districts. Applies campaign contribution limits to port districts candidates.
HB 1376 by Representatives Sells, Klippert, Senn, Kilduff, Appleton, and Eslick Concerning faith-based exemptions regarding criminal mistreatment of children and vulnerable adults. Addresses Christian Science treatment, faith-based exemptions, and the criminal mistreatment of children and vulnerable adults.
HB 1377 by Representatives Walen, Barkis, Jenkin, Harris, Springer, Macri, Wylie, Ryu, Reeves, Robinson, Griffey, Appleton, Bergquist, Jinkins, Tharinger, Slatter, Kloba, Doglio, Goodman, Leavitt, Ormsby, and Santos Concerning affordable housing development on religious organization property. Requires a city planning under chapter 35.63 RCW (planning commissions), a city planning under chapter 35A.63 RCW (planning and zoning in code cities), and a city and county fully planning under chapter 36.70A RCW (the growth management act), to allow an increased density bonus consistent with local needs for an affordable housing development of a single-family or multifamily residence located on real property owned or controlled by a religious organization.
HB 1378 by Representatives McCaslin, Dolan, Walsh, Ryu, Senn, Volz, Dent, Graham, Shea, Orwall, Lovick, Corry, Eslick, Slatter, and Leavitt Concerning education equivalencies for licensed child care providers. Requires the department of children, youth, and families to adopt education equivalencies for licensed child care providers that identify professional experience and skills that may be considered equivalent to education levels required by child care licensing rules.
HB 1379 by Representatives Pellicciotti, Hudgins, Appleton, Gregerson, Pollet, Macri, Valdez, Kloba, Bergquist, Tarleton, Doglio, Frame, Goodman, Reeves, and Fey Concerning disclosure of contributions from political committees to other political committees. Revises the fair campaign practices act regarding political action committees avoiding the requirement that political advertisements disclose the sponsor and the sponsor's top five donors.
HB 1380 by Representatives Pellicciotti, Goodman, Pettigrew, Chapman, Ormsby, Reeves, and Macri Providing an aggravating circumstance for assault against a utility worker. Provides that the following supports a sentence above the standard range: A current offense involving the assault of a utility employee of a publicly or privately owned utility company or agency, who was at the time of the act engaged in official duties.
HB 1381 by Representatives Pellicciotti, Irwin, Griffey, Orwall, Kilduff, Chapman, and Appleton Addressing the use of unmanned aircraft to deliver contraband. Revises the crimes of introducing contraband in the first, second, and third degree regarding the use of an unmanned aircraft to deliver, or attempt to deliver, a deadly weapon or other contraband to a person confined in a detention facility or secure facility under chapter 71.09 RCW (sexually violent predators).
HB 1382 by Representatives Pellicciotti, Kraft, Macri, Goodman, Doglio, Pettigrew, Ormsby, Jinkins, Stanford, Appleton, and Riccelli Increasing access to emergency assistance for victims by providing immunity from prosecution for prostitution offenses in some circumstances. Provides immunity from prostitution charges to a victim of one of the following offenses, or a person seeking emergency assistance on behalf of the victim: (1) A violent offense as defined in RCW 9.94A.030;(2) Assault in the third degree under RCW 9A.36.031;(3) Assault in the fourth degree under RCW 9A.36.041 or an equivalent municipal ordinance; or(4) Rape in the third degree under RCW 9A.44.060.
HB 1383 by Representatives Pellicciotti, Kraft, Kilduff, Orwall, Dolan, Doglio, Ormsby, Ryu, Macri, Stanford, Appleton, Riccelli, and Leavitt Modifying the crime of patronizing a prostitute. Revises penalties for the crime of patronizing a prostitute, which is a misdemeanor, however, a second or subsequent conviction is a gross misdemeanor.
HB 1384 by Representatives Jenkin, Kilduff, Steele, Ortiz-Self, Callan, Rude, Stonier, Santos, Bergquist, Thai, Valdez, Kloba, Doglio, Frame, and Leavitt Reducing the high poverty learning assistance program threshold to the state average percentage for free or reduced-price meals student eligibility. Lowers the high poverty learning assistance program threshold to a rolling state average for free and reduced-price meal eligibility, which will: (1) Provide additional funding and supports for more than two hundred schools and nearly fifty thousand additional students;(2) Eliminate penalizing schools with a diverse student population; and(3) Enable the state to offer support for students who need extra attention and instruction to succeed.
HB 1385 by Representatives Springer, Kretz, Blake, Chandler, Gregerson, and Walsh; by request of Department of Agriculture Exempting United States food and drug administration nonpublic information from disclosure under the state public disclosure act. Exempts the following from inspection and copying under the public records act: Information or records obtained under a food and drug administration contract or commissioning agreement.
HB 1386 by Representatives Kilduff, Young, Kirby, Volz, Reeves, Leavitt, and Ortiz-Self Creating a military benefit zone program. Finds that: (1) Washington state has the sixth highest regional concentration of military presence in the country;(2) Joint Base Lewis-McChord is the second largest installation in the country and the largest in the state; and(3) The base supports sixty thousand family members and nearly thirty thousand military retirees.Declares an intent to: (1) Provide the necessary means to assist communities, that have significant military installations, in supporting and sustaining those installations;(2) Encourage communities to initiate a coordinated program of response and plan of action in advance of future actions of the federal government relating to base realignments and closures; and(3) Create a military benefit zone program.Authorizes a sponsoring military community to adopt an ordinance creating a military benefit zone if certain conditions are met.Authorizes a local government to finance public improvements using military benefit financing subject to certain conditions.
HB 1387 by Representatives Stanford, MacEwen, Ryu, Goodman, Appleton, Volz, Tharinger, Bergquist, Kloba, and Ormsby Concerning the distribution of shared game lottery proceeds to the Washington opportunity pathways account. Modifies provisions regarding the distribution of shared game lottery proceeds to the Washington opportunity pathways account.
HB 1388 by Representatives Doglio, Volz, Dolan, Caldier, Fitzgibbon, Appleton, and Ortiz-Self Allowing retirees who retired under alternate early retirement factors enacted in chapter 491, Laws of 2007, to use postretirement options prior to reaching age sixty-five. Authorizes the use of postretirement options before reaching age sixty-five for retirees who retired under alternate early retirement factors that were enacted in chapter 491, Laws of 2007.
HB 1389 by Representatives Morgan, Young, Jinkins, Entenman, Ormsby, Lekanoff, Thai, Reeves, Stonier, Kilduff, and Stanford Concerning reporting requirements for common carriers who transport liquor into the state. Requires a carrier that delivers an item, that he or she knows contains liquor, to a recipient in the state, to report the delivery to the state liquor and cannabis board and the department of revenue on or before the end of the calendar month following the month the delivery is completed.
HB 1390 by Representatives Leavitt, Volz, Dolan, Fitzgibbon, Caldier, Wylie, Pellicciotti, MacEwen, Griffey, Callan, Kilduff, Appleton, Jinkins, Tharinger, Blake, Ramos, Eslick, Slatter, Valdez, Schmick, Shewmake, Doglio, Goodman, Pollet, and Ortiz-Self; by request of Select Committee on Pension Policy Providing a benefit increase to certain retirees of the public employees' retirement system plan 1 and the teachers' retirement system plan 1. Requires beneficiaries who are receiving a monthly benefit from the public employees' retirement system plan 1 or the teachers' retirement system plan 1 on July 1, 2018, to receive, effective July 1, 2019, an increase to their monthly benefit of three percent multiplied by the beneficiaries' monthly benefit, not to exceed sixty-two dollars and fifty cents.
HB 1391 by Representatives Senn, Dent, Eslick, Reeves, Pollet, and Ortiz-Self Implementing improvements to the early achievers program as reviewed and recommended by the joint select committee on the early achievers program. Raises base subsidy rates for licensed child care centers and family homes to the seventy-fifth percentile of market rates.Provides adequate funding to increase needs-based grants, scholarships, and professional development assistance and reduces early achievers coaching ratios to support providers in continuous improvement.Supports the work of the department of children, youth, and families' professional equivalencies committee and the development of the proficiency review process.
HB 1392 by Representatives Dent, Senn, Griffey, McCaslin, Frame, Chandler, Kilduff, Lovick, Appleton, Eslick, and Reeves Establishing the cost of child care regulations work group. Creates the cost of child care regulations work group and requires the work group to study: (1) The financial impacts of department of children, youth, and families' licensing regulations on child care businesses; and(2) Direct and indirect costs and benefits to child care providers that are associated with participation in the early achievers quality rating system.Expires January 10, 2020.
HB 1393 by Representatives Cody, Jinkins, Macri, Harris, Robinson, Goodman, Tharinger, Slatter, Valdez, Pollet, and Ortiz-Self; by request of Office of the Governor Concerning fully implementing behavioral health integration for January 1, 2020, by removing behavioral health organizations from law; clarifying the roles and responsibilities among the health care authority, department of social and health services, and department of health, and the roles and responsibilities of behavioral health administrative services organizations and medicaid managed care organizations; and making technical corrections related to the behavioral health system. Changes the name of the community mental health services act to the community behavioral health services act.Addresses the implementation of behavioral health integration for January 1, 2020; clarifying the roles and responsibilities among the state health care authority, the department of social and health services, and the department of health; and the roles and responsibilities of behavioral health administrative services organizations and medicaid managed care organizations.
HB 1394 by Representatives Schmick, Cody, Jinkins, Kilduff, Davis, Griffey, Riccelli, Macri, Harris, Robinson, Goodman, Sullivan, Appleton, Bergquist, Thai, Tharinger, Slatter, Doglio, Pollet, Callan, Leavitt, and Ormsby; by request of Office of the Governor Concerning community facilities needed to ensure a continuum of care for behavioral health patients. Requires the secretary of the department of health to: (1) License or certify intensive behavioral health treatment facilities and mental health drop-in centers that meet state minimum standards; and(2) Establish rules working with the state health care authority and the department of social and health services to create standards for licensure or certification of intensive behavioral health treatment facilities and mental health drop-in centers.Requires the state health care authority and certain entities to: (1) Work with willing community hospitals and evaluation and treatment facilities to assess their capacity to become licensed or certified to provide long-term mental health placements; and(2) Enter into contract and payment arrangements with the hospitals and facilities choosing to provide the placements.
HB 1395 by Representatives Pellicciotti, Hansen, Reeves, Sells, Frame, Peterson, Dolan, Doglio, Ormsby, Blake, Riccelli, Valdez, and Goodman Concerning direct contractor liability for payment of wages and benefits. Protects construction employees by ensuring that employment obligations of wage and benefit contribution payments are made for their work on privately funded construction projects; and protects construction employers who are put at a competitive disadvantage by others that fail to pay wages and benefit contributions.Encourages self-policing in the construction industry and gives direct contractors the means to monitor the wage and benefit contribution payments of subcontractors.
HB 1396 by Representative Hudgins Concerning redistricting. Addresses the Washington state redistricting act.Provides a definition for "efficiency gap" and for "wasted votes" for purposes of the redistricting act.Requires the redistricting commission plan to accomplish the following:(1) Districts must not purposefully favor or discriminate against a political party;(2) A legislative or congressional plan is presumed to purposefully favor or discriminate against a political party when the efficiency gap is greater than seven percent; and(3) Require the commission, for plans that are presumed to purposefully favor or discriminate against a political party, to include its reasoning in its published report for why the plan does not purposefully favor or discriminate against a political party.Permits a commission member to actively participate, while a member of the commission, in or contribute to a political campaign of a candidate for state or federal elective office if certain conditions are met.
HB 1397 by Representatives Slatter, Dent, Fey, Orcutt, Kloba, Valdez, Wylie, Pollet, Fitzgibbon, Tharinger, Morris, Eslick, Doglio, and Ortiz-Self Encouraging the use of electric or hybrid-electric aircraft for regional air travel. Establishes the linking communities by encouraging regional aircraft electrification act or LINK-AIR act.Requires the department of transportation to convene a work group to study the state of the electrically powered aircraft industry and assess infrastructure needs related to the deployment of electric or hybrid-electric aircraft for commercial air travel in the state.
HB 1398 by Representatives Dolan, Sells, Doglio, Ormsby, Valdez, Gregerson, Appleton, and Frame; by request of Employment Security Department Concerning the H-2A temporary agricultural program. Declares it to be in the public interest to clarify the state's role in the H-2A temporary agricultural program to provide: (1) Adequate protection for foreign and domestic workers; and(2) Education and outreach opportunities to help growers maintain the stable workforce they need.Creates the office of H-2A compliance and farm labor within the employment security department.Requires an employer to submit an H-2A application to the department and pay a fee for each H-2A application submitted to the department.Requires the commissioner of the employment security department to appoint an advisory committee to review issues and topics of interest related to this act.Creates the H-2A enforcement account.
HB 1399 by Representatives Robinson, Doglio, Sells, Hudgins, Ormsby, Springer, Gregerson, Frame, Appleton, Bergquist, Riccelli, Tharinger, Stanford, Slatter, Goodman, Reeves, Macri, and Ortiz-Self; by request of Employment Security Department Concerning paid family and medical leave. Modifies and reorganizes certain statutes in the family and medical leave program.
HB 1400 by Representatives Sells, Hudgins, Doglio, Ormsby, Robinson, Morris, Valdez, Gregerson, Appleton, and Reeves; by request of Employment Security Department Concerning confidentiality of employment security department records and data. Revises employment security department provisions regarding records, information, privacy, and confidentiality.
HB 1401 by Representatives Shea, Blake, Chandler, Walsh, Eslick, and Kloba Concerning hemp production. Requires the department of agriculture to develop: (1) An agricultural commodity program to replace the industrial hemp research pilot program;(2) A proposal outlining the state's plan for regulating hemp production in accordance with this act and the agricultural improvement act; and(3) A post harvest test protocol for testing hemp that includes testing of whole plant samples.Creates the legislative task force on the availability of crop insurance for hemp producers to ensure that crop insurance is available in this state for hemp producers.Creates the hemp regulatory account.Makes an appropriation from the general fund to the department of agriculture for the purposes of this act.Repeals, effective January 1, 2020, chapter 15.120 RCW (the industrial hemp research program).
HB 1402 by Representatives Blake, Tharinger, Van Werven, Griffey, and Senn Authorizing product certification agencies to certify building products and methods of construction, design, and systems as an alternate code compliance for modern technical methods, devices, and improvements. Revises the state building code act by adding to the list of purposes for the act as follows: (1) To foster innovation; and(2) To aid in demonstrating compliance with adopted codes by ensuring that materials, building products, methods of construction, designs, and systems receiving a listing or evaluation from a product certification agency is an acceptable method that demonstrates compliance with the requirements of the code or standard.Authorizes a product certification agency to certify building materials, products, methods of construction, designs, and systems for modern technical methods, devices, products, and improvements.Requires the certification to include a listing of the acceptance criteria referenced in the evaluation or listing report.
HB 1403 by Representatives Frame, Orcutt, and Stokesbary Simplifying the administration of municipal business and occupation tax apportionment. Simplifies the administration of municipal business and occupation tax apportionment.
HB 1404 by Representatives Blake and Appleton Concerning a comprehensive study of human-caused impacts to streambeds. Requires the department of fish and wildlife, in consultation with the department of ecology and the department of natural resources, to conduct a scientific literature review of the impacts to the beds of the state's rivers and streams resulting from human-caused sources of disturbance.Requires the department of ecology to coordinate with the state academy of sciences to assemble a peer review panel to develop methods for and consider the results of the literature review.Expires June 30, 2020.
HB 1405 by Representative Schmick Concerning reimbursement for the use of an emergency generator during a planned interruption of retail electricity service. Requires an electric utility to reimburse costs incurred by a retail electric customer who uses an emergency generator to provide electricity to his or her home or business during an interruption of service, scheduled by the electric utility, for the primary purpose of connecting neighboring retail electric customers.
HB 1406 by Representatives Robinson, Macri, Chapman, Valdez, Senn, Peterson, Kloba, Tharinger, Gregerson, Stanford, Walen, Doglio, Frame, Jinkins, Riccelli, Slatter, Ormsby, and Santos Encouraging investments in affordable and supportive housing. Encourages investments in affordable and supportive housing.
HB 1407 by Representatives Stonier, Goodman, Orwall, Jinkins, Santos, Davis, Ortiz-Self, Dolan, Wylie, Pettigrew, Riccelli, Senn, Cody, Sells, Frame, Pollet, Hudgins, Stanford, Doglio, Fitzgibbon, Slatter, Bergquist, Robinson, Macri, Kloba, Peterson, Thai, Fey, Appleton, Valdez, Tarleton, Shewmake, Kilduff, Callan, Ormsby, and Walen; by request of Superintendent of Public Instruction Concerning comprehensive sexual health education. Requires each public school, by September 1, 2020, to provide comprehensive sexual health education as an integral part of the curriculum that is evidence-informed, medically and scientifically accurate, age-appropriate, and inclusive for all students regardless of their protected class status under the state civil rights act, and includes information and skills-based instruction that: (1) Encourages healthy relationships that are based on mutual respect and affection and are free from violence, coercion, and intimidation;(2) Teaches how to identify and respond to attitudes and behaviors that contribute to sexual violence; and(3) Emphasizes the importance of affirmative consent as a requirement before sexual activity.Requires instruction and materials to be inclusive and use language and strategies that recognize all members of a protected class under the state civil rights act.Requires the superintendent of public instruction to develop comprehensive sexual health education instructional materials review tools and make them available on his or her web site.
HB 1408 by Representatives Volz, Ormsby, Fitzgibbon, and Bergquist; by request of Select Committee on Pension Policy and LEOFF Plan 2 Retirement Board Clarifying the written consent requirement for survivorship benefit options. Specifies that: (1) Written consent from a spouse or domestic partner is not required if a member who is married or a domestic partner selects a joint and survivor option and names the member's spouse or domestic partner as the survivor beneficiary;(2) "Member" means a member of one of the following retirement systems: Law enforcement officers and firefighters; teachers; school employees; public safety employees; public employees; and the Washington state patrol.
HJM 4003 by Representatives Shea and McCaslin Petitioning for the creation of a new state in eastern Washington. Petitions for the creation of a new state in eastern Washington.
HJM 4004 by Representatives Riccelli, Wylie, Kirby, Peterson, Cody, Fitzgibbon, Dolan, Orwall, Gregerson, Springer, Senn, Frame, Tarleton, Valdez, Ormsby, and Pollet Asking Congress to call a limited convention, authorized under Article V of the United States Constitution, for the purpose of proposing a free and fair elections amendment to that Constitution. Asks congress to call a limited convention, authorized under Article V of the United States Constitution, for the purpose of proposing a free and fair elections amendment to that Constitution.
HJM 4005 by Representatives Young, Griffey, Jenkin, Kraft, and MacEwen Applying to Congress for a convention to propose an amendment to the United States Constitution related to a balanced federal budget. Applies to congress for a convention to propose an amendment to the United States Constitution related to a balanced federal budget.
HJR 4205 by Representatives Young, Shea, and Walsh Requiring a balanced budget. Proposes an amendment to the state Constitution requiring a balanced budget.
HCR 4401 by Representatives Macri, Mosbrucker, Peterson, Doglio, Ryu, Orwall, Pellicciotti, Fey, Sells, Goodman, Shewmake, Wylie, Fitzgibbon, Kilduff, Senn, Appleton, Chapman, Rude, Lovick, Ortiz-Self, Paul, Springer, Slatter, Callan, Walen, Gregerson, Dolan, Irwin, Ramos, Thai, Pettigrew, Valdez, Bergquist, MacEwen, Robinson, Smith, Steele, Stokesbary, Van Werven, Gildon, Barkis, Griffey, Dufault, Stanford, Ormsby, Kirby, Maycumber, Tharinger, Cody, Eslick, Hudgins, Sutherland, Jinkins, Lekanoff, Pollet, Stonier, Frame, Davis, Leavitt, Dent, Dye, Graham, Reeves, Sullivan, and Riccelli Adopting the code of conduct of the Washington state legislature. Adopts the code of conduct of the Washington state legislature.
SB 5398 by Senators Keiser, King, Van De Wege, and Conway Concerning unemployment benefit eligibility for apprentices. Addresses the eligibility of apprentices to receive unemployment benefits.
SB 5399 by Senators Pedersen, Walsh, Dhingra, Frockt, Kuderer, Salomon, Mullet, Palumbo, Holy, Wellman, and Wilson, C. Concerning child relocation by a person with joint decision-making authority and equal residential time. Requires the court, in determining whether to restrict a parent's right to relocate with a child or in determining a modification of the court order based on the proposed relocation, to make a determination in the best interests of the child considering certain factors.
SB 5400 by Senators Conway, Bailey, Hunt, Zeiger, Wilson, C., Van De Wege, Hasegawa, Holy, Kuderer, Pedersen, and Saldaña; by request of Select Committee on Pension Policy Providing a benefit increase to certain retirees of the public employees' retirement system plan 1 and the teachers' retirement system plan 1. Requires beneficiaries who are receiving a monthly benefit from the public employees' retirement system plan 1 or the teachers' retirement system plan 1 on July 1, 2018, to receive, effective July 1, 2019, an increase to their monthly benefit of three percent multiplied by the beneficiaries' monthly benefit, not to exceed sixty-two dollars and fifty cents.
SB 5401 by Senators Keiser, Rivers, Carlyle, Conway, and Rolfes Concerning health care provider and health care facility whistleblower protections. Addresses whistleblower protection provisions with regard to health care providers and health care facilities.
SB 5402 by Senators Schoesler and Rolfes Improving tax and licensing laws administered by the department of revenue, but not including changes to tax laws that are estimated to affect state or local tax collections as reflected in any fiscal note prepared and approved under the process established in chapter 43.88A RCW. Addresses the improvement of department of revenue-administered tax and licensing laws.
SB 5403 by Senators Bailey, Darneille, Conway, Rivers, Keiser, and Kuderer; by request of Department of Social and Health Services Concerning safe egress from adult family homes. Requires adult family homes to house nonambulatory residents on a level with safe egress to a public right-of-way.Requires these residents to have a bedroom on the floor of the home from which the resident can be evacuated to a designated safe location outside the home without the use of stairs, elevators, chair lifts, platform lifts, or other devices.
SB 5404 by Senators Rolfes, Honeyford, Van De Wege, McCoy, Salomon, and Hasegawa Expanding the definition of fish habitat enhancement projects. Requires a fish habitat enhancement project, in order to receive the permit review and approval process, to meet certain criteria and be a project to accomplish the restoration of native kelp and eelgrass beds and restoring native oysters.
SB 5405 by Senators Padden, Randall, Zeiger, Fortunato, Billig, Wilson, C., Nguyen, and Kuderer Concerning nondiscrimination in access to organ transplants. Prohibits a covered entity from the following, solely on the basis of a qualified individual's mental or physical disability: (1) Deeming an individual ineligible to receive an anatomical gift or organ transplant;(2) Denying medical or related organ transplantation services;(3) Refusing to refer the individual to a transplant center or other related specialist for the purpose of evaluation or receipt of an organ transplant;(4) Refusing to place an individual on an organ transplant waiting list; or(5) Declining insurance coverage for a procedure associated with the receipt of the anatomical gift.
SB 5406 by Senators Warnick and Wagoner Providing small winery tax relief. Provides a tax exemption for a winery's sales of the first twenty thousand gallons of wine in a calendar year, except any amount of the tax that may be designated for disbursement to the state wine commission for certain uses.
SB 5407 by Senators Mullet, Conway, Braun, Rolfes, and Schoesler Providing that scan-down allowances on food and beverages intended for human and pet consumption are bona fide discounts for purposes of the business and occupation tax. Provides a business and occupation tax deduction on scan-down allowances.
SB 5408 by Senators Mullet, Das, and Liias; by request of Insurance Commissioner Concerning the creation of the insurance fraud surcharge account. Provides that the annual cost of operating the insurance fraud program is charged to all organizations as an insurance fraud surcharge.Requires each class of organization to contribute a sufficient amount to the insurance commissioner's fraud account to pay the reasonable costs of the program, including overhead.Prohibits the insurance fraud surcharge from exceeding one-eighth of one percent of receipts; the minimum insurance fraud surcharge is one hundred dollars.Creates the insurance commissioner's fraud account and requires the money collected for the surcharge to be deposited in that account.
SB 5409 by Senators Palumbo, Rivers, and Liias Concerning the ability of business and nonprofit entities to obtain a marijuana license. Permits a business or a nonprofit entity to qualify for a marijuana license if certain requirements are met.
SB 5410 by Senators Mullet, Rivers, Palumbo, Liias, and Wilson, C. Establishing a systemwide credit policy regarding advanced placement, international baccalaureate, and Cambridge international exams. Requires the student achievement council to: (1) Establish an evidence-based systemwide policy for granting undergraduate course credits to students who have earned a certain score; and(2) Conduct a biannual review of the systemwide credit policies and report noncompliance to the appropriate legislative committees.
SB 5411 by Senators Kuderer, Honeyford, Randall, King, Wagoner, Van De Wege, Darneille, Keiser, and Saldaña Concerning physician assistants. Modernizes the practice of physician assistants in order to: (1) Increase access to care;(2) Reduce barriers to employment of physician assistants; and(3) Optimize the manner in which physician assistants deliver quality medical care.Repeals chapter 18.57A RCW (osteopathic physician assistants).
SB 5412 by Senators Saldaña, Carlyle, Palumbo, Das, Nguyen, McCoy, Darneille, Frockt, Hunt, Keiser, Kuderer, Liias, Pedersen, and Rolfes Reducing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with transportation fuels. Supports the deployment of clean transportation fuel technologies through a carefully designed program that reduces the carbon intensity of fuel used in the state, in order to: (1) Reduce levels of conventional air pollutants from diesel and gasoline that are harmful to public health;(2) Reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with transportation fuels, which are the state's largest source of greenhouse gas emissions; and(3) Create jobs and spur economic development based on innovative clean fuel technologies.Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to: (1) Analyze, by December 1, 2027, the impacts of the initial five years of clean fuels program implementation; and(2) Submit a report to the legislature that summarizes the analysis.
SB 5413 by Senators Keiser, King, Wellman, Holy, Das, Saldaña, Wilson, C., Hasegawa, and Hunt Concerning the pipeline for paraeducators conditional scholarship program. Requires paraeducators without a college degree to have at least one year of classroom experience, instead of three years, to participate in the pipeline for paraeducators conditional scholarship program. Candidates enrolled in the program should complete their associate of arts degree at a community and technical college in four years or less, instead of two years.Requires a recipient to be accepted and maintain enrollment at a community and technical college for no more than four years, instead of two years, in order to receive conditional scholarship awards.
SB 5414 by Senators Hunt and Van De Wege Modifying the maximum amount of leave school employees may accumulate. Changes the amount of annual leave that may be accumulated by a part-time employee who is under contract with a school district.
SB 5415 by Senators McCoy, Rivers, Cleveland, Saldaña, Van De Wege, Billig, Conway, Frockt, Kuderer, Nguyen, and Rolfes Creating the Washington Indian health improvement act. Establishes the Washington Indian health improvement act.Creates the governor's Indian health advisory council and directs the council to: (1) Adopt the biennial Indian health improvement advisory plan;(2) Address policies or actions that have tribal implications that are not able to be resolved or addressed at the agency level; and(3) Provide oversight of certain service organizations or entities to address their impacts on services to American Indians and Alaska Natives and relationships with Indian health care providers.Creates the reinvestment committee of the council and requires the committee, with assistance from the state health care authority, the American Indian health commission for Washington state, and other member entities of the advisory council, to prepare a biennial Indian health improvement advisory plan.Creates the Indian health improvement reinvestment account.
SB 5416 by Senators Conway, Walsh, Keiser, and Hasegawa; by request of Gambling Commission Creating a self-exclusion program for persons with a gambling problem or gambling disorder. Requires the gambling commission, the horse racing commission, and the state lottery commission to jointly develop problem gambling and gambling disorder informational signs that include a toll-free hotline number for individuals with a gambling problem or gambling disorder.Requires the gambling commission to establish a statewide self-exclusion program for all licensees that will allow a person to voluntarily exclude themself from gambling at certain gambling establishments.Prohibits a person who is registered with the program from participating in gambling activities associated with the program and requires the person to forfeit money and things of value obtained by or owed to the person by the establishment as a result of prohibited wagers or gambling activities.Requires the forfeited money and things of value to be distributed to the problem gambling account and/or certain charitable or nonprofit organizations.Exempts the following from inspection and copying under the public records act: Information submitted by a person to the state, Indian tribes, or tribal enterprises that own gambling operations or facilities with class III gaming compacts.
SB 5417 by Senators Padden, Hobbs, Van De Wege, and Wagoner Authorizing military surplus vehicles to operate on public highways. Permits military surplus vehicles that are in good operating order to travel on the state's public highways in limited circumstances.Includes military surplus vehicles in the definitions of "collectible vehicle" and "collector vehicle" for purposes of Title 46 RCW (motor vehicles).
SB 5418 by Senators Takko, Zeiger, and Liias Concerning local government procurement modernization and efficiency. Authorizes a county to procure public works with a unit priced contract for the purpose of completing anticipated types of work based on hourly rates or unit pricing for one or more categories of work or trades.Requires unit priced contracts to be executed for an initial contract term not to exceed three years, with the county having the option of extending or renewing the contract for one additional year.
SB 5419 by Senators Hobbs, Warnick, Brown, Bailey, Rivers, Walsh, Keiser, Fortunato, Das, Wagoner, Honeyford, Wilson, L., Sheldon, Becker, Cleveland, Dhingra, Kuderer, Liias, and Schoesler Providing an adjustment of vehicle service fees. Increases the following service fees that are collected by the department of licensing, county auditors or other agents, and subagents: (1) Twenty-four dollars for changes in a certificate of title or ownership for nontitled vehicles and for verification of record and preparation of an affidavit of lost title; and(2) Ten dollars for a registration renewal, issuing a transit permit, and certain other services.
SB 5420 by Senators King, Takko, Becker, Sheldon, Hawkins, Pedersen, and Kuderer Concerning the distribution of monetary penalties to local courts and state agencies paid for failure to comply with discover pass requirements. Requires a county treasurer to remit, to the state treasurer, seventy-five percent of the money received from penalties with regard to the display of a discover pass, vehicle access pass, or day-use permit.Requires the balance of noninterest money received by a county treasurer to be deposited in the county current expense fund.
SB 5421 by Senators Kuderer, Short, Rivers, Keiser, Conway, Darneille, and Hasegawa Expanding access to pharmacy services. Requires a retail community pharmacy that requests to enter into a contractual agreement to join a retail pharmacy network to be considered part of a pharmacy benefit manager's retail pharmacy network for purposes of an enrollee's or dependent's right to choose where to purchase covered prescription drugs if certain conditions are met.Requires a health benefit plan or pharmacy benefit manager, if a retail community pharmacy enters into a contractual retail pharmacy network agreement, to permit each enrollee and dependent, at their option, to fill a covered prescription that may be obtained by mail at a retail community pharmacy of his or her choice within the pharmacy benefit manager's retail pharmacy network.
SB 5422 by Senators Kuderer, Short, Rivers, Keiser, Conway, Darneille, Hasegawa, and Saldaña Regulating pharmacy benefit managers. Requires a pharmacy benefit manager to: (1) Discharge his or her fiduciary duty to a health carrier client under the provisions of state and federal law;(2) Perform its duties with care, skill, prudence, diligence, and professionalism;(3) Notify a health carrier client of an activity, policy, or practice of the manager that presents a conflict of interest with the imposed duties; and(4) Submit a transparency report containing data from the prior calendar year to the office of financial management.
SB 5423 by Senators Palumbo, Warnick, Hobbs, Takko, Schoesler, Sheldon, King, Brown, Short, Wilson, L., Wagoner, Wellman, Honeyford, and Van De Wege Creating the Washington rural development and opportunity zone act. Establishes the Washington rural development and opportunity zone act.Requires the department of commerce to accept applications for approval as a rural development and opportunity zone fund.Establishes an insurance premium tax credit and a business and occupation tax credit.Creates the rural development and opportunity zone account.Provides a July 1, 2025, expiration date for the tax credits.
SB 5424 by Senators Palumbo, Liias, Nguyen, and O'Ban Establishing minimum density standards around regional transit. Prohibits a regional transit authority from approving or adopting a final alignment, or selecting a preferred alternative, for a light rail station proposed to be funded in the regional transit system plan approved by voters in 2016, unless the city or county in which a proposed station is to be located has adopted the minimum density standards below.Requires cities and counties to establish a minimum gross urban density of no less than one hundred fifty dwelling units per acre in areas designated for residential use and located within one-half mile of a light rail station.
SB 5425 by Senators Cleveland, Keiser, Becker, and Hasegawa; by request of Department of Health Concerning maternal mortality reviews. Changes the composition and duties of the maternal mortality review panel.Authorizes the department of health to request and receive data for specific maternal deaths from the department of children, youth, and families and its licensees and providers.Requires hospitals and licensed birth centers to make an effort to report deaths that occur during pregnancy or within forty-two days of the end of pregnancy to the local coroner or medical examiner.Requires a county to be reimbursed, from the death investigations account, if the county bears the cost of an autopsy related to maternal mortality.
SB 5426 by Senators Mullet, Palumbo, Rivers, Nguyen, Dhingra, and Rolfes Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from hydrofluorocarbons. Phases out the use of hydrofluorocarbons in various applications in the state, in a manner similar to the regulations that were adopted by the environmental protection agency, and that have been or will be adopted in several other states around the country.Requires the department of ecology, in consultation with the department of commerce and the utilities and transportation commission, to complete a study addressing how to: (1) Increase the use of refrigerants with a low global warming potential in mobile sources, utility equipment, and consumer appliances; and(2) Reduce other uses of hydrofluorocarbons.Requires the department of enterprise services to establish purchasing and procurement policies that provide a preference for products that: (1) Are not restricted;(2) Do not contain hydrofluorocarbons;(3) Are not designed to function only in conjunction with hydrofluorocarbons; and(4) Were not manufactured using hydrofluorocarbons.
SB 5427 by Senators Wellman, Hasegawa, Kuderer, and Wilson, C.; by request of Superintendent of Public Instruction Concerning dual credit programs. Revises certain common school provisions regarding dual credit programs.Removes reporting requirements of the office of the superintendent of public instruction regarding information on the demographics of students earning dual credits in certain schools receiving grants for the prior school year.
SB 5428 by Senators Wilson, L., Palumbo, Becker, Brown, Wagoner, Warnick, Nguyen, and Zeiger Concerning veterans' mental health services at institutions of higher education. Requires state universities, regional universities, and the state college to each employ at least one full-time licensed mental health counselor who has experience and training specifically related to working with active members of the military or military veterans.
SB 5429 by Senators Nguyen, Das, Saldaña, Hasegawa, Salomon, Darneille, Wilson, C., Zeiger, Randall, and Kuderer Including referred and diverted youth in establishing community juvenile accountability program guidelines. Revises the juvenile justice act of 1977.Includes a referred youth in establishing guidelines for a community juvenile accountability program.Requires the department of children, youth, and families to: (1) Provide an annual report to the appropriate legislative committees that includes a county by county description of the youth served by the funded programs; and(2) Implement a stop loss policy when allocating funding.Requires the block grant oversight committee to establish a minimum base level of funding for juvenile courts.
SB 5430 by Senators Conway, Hunt, and Darneille Allowing retirees who retired under alternate early retirement factors enacted in chapter 491, Laws of 2007, to use postretirement options prior to reaching age sixty-five. Authorizes the use of postretirement options before reaching age sixty-five for retirees who retired under alternate early retirement factors that were enacted in chapter 491, Laws of 2007.
SB 5431 by Senators Frockt, Rivers, O'Ban, Dhingra, Darneille, Cleveland, Keiser, Wagoner, Das, Van De Wege, Zeiger, Conway, Hunt, Kuderer, and Nguyen; by request of Office of the Governor Concerning community facilities needed to ensure a continuum of care for behavioral health patients. Requires the secretary of the department of health to: (1) License or certify intensive behavioral health treatment facilities and mental health drop-in centers that meet state minimum standards; and(2) Establish rules working with the state health care authority and the department of social and health services to create standards for licensure or certification of intensive behavioral health treatment facilities and mental health drop-in centers.Requires the state health care authority and certain entities to: (1) Work with willing community hospitals and evaluation and treatment facilities to assess their capacity to become licensed or certified to provide long-term mental health placements; and(2) Enter into contract and payment arrangements with the hospitals and facilities choosing to provide the placements.
SB 5432 by Senators Dhingra, Rivers, Cleveland, Darneille, O'Ban, Keiser, Conway, Das, and Kuderer; by request of Office of the Governor Concerning fully implementing behavioral health integration for January 1, 2020, by removing behavioral health organizations from law; clarifying the roles and responsibilities among the health care authority, department of social and health services, and department of health, and the roles and responsibilities of behavioral health administrative services organizations and medicaid managed care organizations; and making technical corrections related to the behavioral health system. Changes the name of the community mental health services act to the community behavioral health services act.Addresses the implementation of behavioral health integration for January 1, 2020; clarifying the roles and responsibilities among the state health care authority, the department of social and health services, and the department of health; and the roles and responsibilities of behavioral health administrative services organizations and medicaid managed care organizations.
SB 5433 by Senators Wilson, C., Nguyen, Das, Darneille, Dhingra, Hasegawa, Kuderer, and Saldaña Providing postsecondary education opportunities to enhance public safety. Authorizes postsecondary education degree opportunities and training of incarcerated adults through the community and technical colleges and the department of corrections.Supports the use of secure internet connections expressly for the purposes of furthering postsecondary education degree opportunities and training of incarcerated adults.
SB 5434 by Senators Wilson, C., Hunt, Keiser, Kuderer, Nguyen, and Pedersen Restricting possession of weapons in certain locations. Prohibits a person from carrying or possessing the following weapons on licensed child care center premises, child care center-provided transportation, or areas of facilities while being used exclusively by a child care center: A firearm; any other dangerous weapon; an air gun, air pistol, or air rifle; a portable device manufactured to function as a weapon that is commonly known as a stun gun, including a projectile stun gun; or a device, object, or instrument that is used or intended to be used as a weapon with the intent to injure a person by an electric shock, charge, or impulse.Prohibits a person from entering the following places when he or she possesses or has a weapon under his or her control: The premises of a library; or the premises of a local government's neighborhood, community, or regional park facilities at which children and youth are likely to be present.
SB 5435 by Senators Wilson, C., Darneille, Keiser, Kuderer, and Saldaña Expanding membership of the department of children, youth, and families oversight board to include two youth under the age of twenty-five. Changes the composition of the oversight board for children, youth, and families by including one current or former foster youth representative under twenty-five years old and one person under twenty-five years old with current or former involvement in the juvenile rehabilitation administration system.
SB 5436 by Senators Wilson, C., Frockt, Hasegawa, Hunt, Keiser, Kuderer, and Saldaña Concerning child care access. Establishes the Washington child care access now act.Creates the child care access work group and requires the work group to: (1) Develop a regional mechanism to measure the cost of quality that can be used to determine child care subsidy rates;(2) Consider how the measure of area median income could be used in place of federal poverty level when determining eligibility for child care subsidy;(3) Evaluate recommendations from the department of children, youth, and families' technical work group on compensation to achieve pay parity with K-12 teachers by January 1, 2025; and(4) Develop a phased implementation plan for policy changes to the working connections child care program.Provides a December 1, 2020, expiration date for the work group.
SB 5437 by Senators Wilson, C., Palumbo, Wellman, Hunt, Saldaña, Nguyen, Randall, Das, Billig, Mullet, Darneille, Dhingra, Hasegawa, Kuderer, and Takko; by request of Office of the Governor Expanding eligibility to the early childhood education and assistance program. Requires the department of children, youth, and families to: (1) Establish a pilot project to implement a state-funded birth to three early childhood education and assistance program to eligible children who are under thirty-six months old;(2) Offer home visiting services that the child or family are eligible for under the particular home visiting service's statutory eligibility requirements; and(3) Select up to ten pilot project locations during the first year of the project, with an attempt to select a combination of rural, urban, and suburban locations.Requires the children included in the early childhood education and assistance program to have a family income at or less than two hundred percent of the federal poverty level.
SB 5438 by Senators McCoy, Saldaña, Conway, Van De Wege, Keiser, Rolfes, Wellman, Dhingra, Hasegawa, and Kuderer; by request of Employment Security Department Concerning the H-2A temporary agricultural program. Declares it to be in the public interest to clarify the state's role in the H-2A temporary agricultural program to provide: (1) Adequate protection for foreign and domestic workers; and(2) Education and outreach opportunities to help growers maintain the stable workforce they need.Creates the office of H-2A compliance and farm labor within the employment security department.Requires an employer to submit an H-2A application to the department and pay a fee for each H-2A application submitted to the department.Requires the commissioner of the employment security department to appoint an advisory committee to review issues and topics of interest related to this act.Creates the H-2A enforcement account.
SB 5439 by Senators Keiser, King, Kuderer, Conway, McCoy, Saldaña, and Wellman; by request of Employment Security Department Concerning confidentiality of employment security department records and data. Revises employment security department provisions regarding records, information, privacy, and confidentiality.
SB 5440 by Senators Palumbo, Nguyen, Liias, and Saldaña Concerning the housing element of comprehensive plans required under the growth management act. Revises the growth management act regarding the housing element of a city or county comprehensive plan.
SB 5441 by Senators Nguyen, Wilson, C., Darneille, Cleveland, Salomon, Randall, Hasegawa, and Kuderer Extending rental vouchers for eligible offenders. Permits the department of corrections, if unable to approve an offender's release plan, to provide rental vouchers to the offender for a period not to exceed six months if rental assistance will result in an approved release plan.
SB 5442 by Senators Takko, Rivers, and Rolfes Concerning the administration of marijuana to students for medical purposes. Requires a school district to permit a student who meets certain requirements to consume marijuana concentrates for medical purposes on school grounds, aboard a school bus, or while attending a school-sponsored event.Requires the board of directors of a school district, upon request of a parent or guardian who meets certain requirements, to adopt a policy that authorizes parents or guardians to administer marijuana concentrates to a student for medical purposes while the student is on school grounds, aboard a school bus, or attending a school-sponsored event.
SB 5443 by Senators Van De Wege and Zeiger Concerning the state board of registration for professional engineers and land surveyors. Separates the state board of registration for professional engineers and land surveyors from the department of licensing and establishes the board as a separate, independent state agency.
SB 5444 by Senators Dhingra, O'Ban, Darneille, Wagoner, Frockt, Kuderer, and Nguyen; by request of Office of the Governor Providing timely competency evaluations and restoration services to persons suffering from behavioral health disorders within the framework of the forensic mental health care system consistent with the requirements agreed to in the Trueblood settlement agreement. Recognizes that: (1) There has been a nationwide increase of individuals with behavioral health disorders in the criminal justice system; and(2) Reforms must be made to behavioral health systems and services to meet the increasing demands.Authorizes a court to appoint an impartial forensic navigator approved by the department of social and health services to assist individuals who are referred for competency evaluation or restoration to navigate the forensic legal process and access available behavioral health resources.Requires the forensic navigator to: (1) Investigate and collect relevant information about an individual and report the information to the court;(2) Meet with, interview, or observe the individual; and(3) Monitor court orders for compliance and bring to the court's attention any change in circumstances.Requires the court, when ordering a defendant to undergo outpatient restoration, to set appropriate conditions of release and enforce those conditions.Prohibits the court from issuing an order to undergo outpatient competency restoration unless there is an outpatient restoration program that is available and has adequate space for the person.
SB 5445 by Senators Cleveland and Rivers Concerning the temporary sale of liquor at special events. Establishes a retailer's license, designated as a promoter special event license, to sell spirits, beer, wine, and cider by the individual serving for on-premises consumption at a specified event at a specified date and time.
SB 5446 by Senators Mullet, Rivers, Cleveland, Becker, Keiser, Bailey, and Kuderer Concerning electronic prescriptions. Requires prescription medications to be electronically communicated to a pharmacy of a patient's choice using a specific method for electronic prescribing.Requires the pharmacy quality assurance commission to adopt rules to implement this act.
SB 5447 by Senators Van De Wege and Warnick; by request of Department of Agriculture Extending the dairy milk assessment fee to June 30, 2025. Delays, until June 30, 2025, the expiration date for the dairy milk assessment fee.
SB 5448 by Senators Wellman, Hunt, Zeiger, Padden, McCoy, Conway, Dhingra, Hasegawa, Keiser, Nguyen, and Wilson, C. Concerning career and technical education in alternative learning experience programs. States that, in addition to the allocation provided by the superintendent of public instruction to school districts for each student enrolled in an alternative learning experience course, if a course is a vocational alternative learning experience course then the allocated state funding must also include vocational program funding enhancements.
SB 5449 by Senators Keiser, King, Liias, Wellman, Saldaña, Conway, Hunt, and Wilson, C.; by request of Employment Security Department Concerning paid family and medical leave. Modifies and reorganizes certain statutes in the family and medical leave program.
SB 5450 by Senators Rivers and Wilson, L.; by request of Board For Judicial Administration Concerning superior court judges. Increases the number of superior court judges in Clark county and in Ferry, Pend Oreille, and Stevens counties jointly.
SB 5451 by Senator King Concerning the definition of hydraulic project in relation to the hydraulic project approval permits. Revises the definition of "hydraulic project," for purposes of chapter 77.55 RCW (construction projects in state waters), to include work at or below the ordinary high water line.
SB 5452 by Senators King and Cleveland Modifying dates related to the application due date for health sciences and services authorities and their sales and use tax authority. Changes the due dates of applications for health sciences and services authorities and their sales and use tax authority.
SB 5453 by Senators Takko and Short Concerning the administration of irrigation districts. Modifies irrigation district provisions with regard to duties of director, oaths of office, official bonds, and bids on construction work.
SB 5454 by Senators Keiser, Bailey, Van De Wege, and Kuderer Clarifying the definition of a geriatric behavioral health worker for individuals with a bachelor's or master's degree in social work, behavioral health, or other related areas. Revises the definition of "geriatric behavioral health worker," for purposes of chapter 74.42 RCW (nursing homes--resident care, operating standards), to include a person with a bachelor's or master's degree in social work, behavioral health, or other related areas.Requires a geriatric behavioral health worker to have a bachelor's or master's degree in social work, behavioral health, or other related areas, in order to qualify for the exception which allows the worker to be recognized in minimum staffing requirements as part of the direct care service delivery to individuals who have a behavioral health condition.
SB 5455 by Senators Takko, Warnick, McCoy, Honeyford, and Van De Wege; by request of Department of Agriculture Exempting United States food and drug administration nonpublic information from disclosure under the state public disclosure act. Exempts the following from inspection and copying under the public records act: Information or records obtained under a food and drug administration contract or commissioning agreement.
SB 5456 by Senators Keiser, Conway, Hunt, and Nguyen Requiring the use of American or recycled steel products on certain public works. Requires public works contracts to include a provision requiring that all steel products used or supplied in the performance of the contract and in any related subcontract must be: (1) Produced in the United States, at a facility regulated by the United States environmental protection agency; or(2) Produced in a country where more than sixty-five percent of that country's total crude steel output is produced by means of electric arc furnaces that use postconsumer scrap steel material as the major feedstock.
SB 5457 by Senators Keiser, Saldaña, Conway, Hasegawa, Hunt, and Nguyen Naming of subcontractors by prime contract bidders on public works contracts. Requires each prime contract bidder to submit, as part of the bid on a public works contract, the names of the subcontractors that the bidder will subcontract with for work performed by contractors required to be registered as described in chapter 18.27 RCW.
SB 5458 by Senators Hobbs, Wagoner, Salomon, Bailey, McCoy, Palumbo, Keiser, Wilson, C., and Saldaña Expanding access to building trades apprenticeships. Requires the Marysville school district to collaborate with Everett Community College, Arlington school district, other local school districts, local labor unions, and local industry groups to develop the regional apprenticeship pathways program.Requires the program to: (1) Establish an education-based apprenticeship preparation program that prepares individuals for registered apprenticeships in the building trades; and(2) Provide dual credit for participants by meeting high school graduation requirements and providing opportunities for credit leading to a college credential.
SB 5459 by Senators Cleveland, Frockt, Hasegawa, and Kuderer; by request of Department of Health Concerning nonresident pharmacies. Requires a nonresident pharmacy, for initial licensure and license renewal by the department of health, to submit a copy of an inspection report: (1) Conducted by an inspection program approved by the pharmacy quality assurance commission as having substantially equivalent standards to those of the commission; and(2) Issued within two years of application or renewal of a license.
SB 5460 by Senators Cleveland, Bailey, Keiser, Conway, O'Ban, Liias, Kuderer, and Short Joining the nurse licensure compact. Establishes the interstate nurse licensure compact of 2019.Creates and establishes a joint public entity known as the interstate commission of nurse licensure compact administrators which is an instrumentality of the party states.Requires the nursing care quality assurance commission to: (1) Obtain fingerprints from each applicant for a multistate license and submit them through the Washington state patrol to the federal bureau of investigation for criminal background checks; and(2) Use the results of the record search in making multistate licensure decisions.
SB 5461 by Senators Cleveland, Darneille, and Wilson, C. Concerning the sharing of information between participants in multidisciplinary coordination of child sexual abuse investigations. Addresses multidisciplinary child protection teams and involvement of agencies and counties in the investigation of child sexual abuse, online sexual exploitation and commercial sexual exploitation of minors, child fatality, child physical abuse, and criminal child neglect cases.
SJR 8205 by Senators Brown, Becker, Fortunato, Schoesler, Warnick, Braun, and Wilson, L. Authorizing a tax court. Proposes an amendment to the state Constitution authorizing a tax court.
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