Concerning authorization for projects and appropriating funds recommended by the public works board.

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

Concerning WAC 173-563-020(4) and 173-531A-060 regarding the processing of applications for Columbia river water right permits to clarify legislative intent to ensure that the rules can be implemented as written.

Allowing public transportation benefit area authorities to use job order contracts and procedure.

Clarifying the duties of court clerks.

Changes the duty of a court clerk from "conform to the direction of the court" to "support the court in the performance of the courts' statutory duties."

Exempting property owned or used by community and technical colleges from property tax.

Making crimes and threats against persons because of their occupation as a law enforcement officer a hate crime.

Concerning compensation for property damage caused by wild deer or elk.

Removes the definition for "commercial crop" and provides a definition for "agricultural crop" for purposes of chapter 77.36 RCW (wildlife damage).

Creating Washington state aviation special license plates.

Requiring the court to remove any person serving as a court-appointed special advocate or volunteer guardian ad litem if that person has made a materially false statement under oath.

Requires a court to remove a person from serving as a court-appointed special advocate or volunteer guardian ad litem if the court is: (1) Notified that the person has been removed from another county's registry pursuant to the disposition of a grievance; or

Concerning the rights and obligations associated with incapacitated persons and other vulnerable adults.

Prohibits a guardian or limited guardian from restricting an incapacitated person's or other vulnerable adult's right to communicate, visit, interact, or otherwise associate with persons of the incapacitated person's or vulnerable adult's choosing.

Requires a guardian or limited guardian of an incapacitated person to inform certain persons, within five days, after the incapacitated person: (1) Makes a change in residence;

(2) Has been admitted to a medical facility for emergency or acute care; or

(3) Dies.

Encouraging job creation and retention in rural economies through the transparent and accountable provision of targeted tax relief for silicon smelters.

Conducting a workforce study of employment opportunities in the agriculture, environment, and natural resources economic sectors intended to provide educators with the information needed for informing students about employment opportunities in the studied fields.

Establishing a statute of limitation for toll collections.

Adjusting the surface mining funding structure.

Concerning expiration dates affecting the department of natural resources’ contract harvesting program.

Concerning class B elevator work permits.

Modifying the weight limitation for certain vessels exempt from the pilotage act.

Authorizes the board of pilotage commissioners to grant an exemption, from the provisions of the pilotage act, to a vessel that the board finds is: (1) A small passenger vessel that is not more than one thousand three hundred gross tons (international), does not exceed two hundred feet in overall length, and is operated exclusively in the waters of the Puget Sound pilotage district and lower British Columbia; or

Authorizing certain public transportation benefit areas to impose a sales and use tax increase approved by voters.

Concerning dental licensure through completion of a residency program.

Creating a pilot project to provide middle and junior high school students strategic and intentional academic support beyond the traditional school day.

Creates the accountability, responsibility, academic achievement, and opportunity act.

Establishes a pilot project to create learning labs in public middle and junior high schools to provide students with an organized and consistent learning environment to support them in meeting or exceeding grade-level standards, obtaining the skills to be successful high school students, and being well prepared for postsecondary education.

Requires the department of commerce to administer the pilot project.

Specifying to whom information and records related to mental health services may be disclosed for the purposes of care coordination and treatment.

Concerning dental health services in tribal settings.

Authorizes dental health aide therapist services under certain conditions.

Provides that dental health aide therapist services are eligible for medicaid funding in order to promote increased dental care access for persons served in settings operated by Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations.

Concerning statewide high school student assessments.

Declares an intent: (1) To simplify existing state assessment requirements and administer the ACT test as the statewide high school assessment for reading or language arts, mathematics, and science; and

Increasing the penalty for use of marijuana in public places.

Concerning the harmonization of the open public meetings act with the public records act in relation to information technology security matters.

Allows a governing body to hold an executive session during a regular or special meeting to consider information regarding: (1) Infrastructure and security of computer and telecommunications networks;

(2) Security and service recovery plans; and

Establishing a blue ribbon panel on cybersecurity.

Requires the office of the state chief information officer to convene a blue ribbon panel on cybersecurity to review the following issues: (1) Protecting critical infrastructure from the threat of cyberattack;

(2) Protecting data transfer and enhancing the security of the state's intergovernmental network; and

Granting the governor authority to proclaim a state of emergency in the event of a substantial cybersecurity incident.

Concerning theatrical wrestling.

Authorizes a theatrical wrestling school to: (1) Hold wrestling shows at a school facility, or hold a limited number of wrestling shows off the school premises, for training purposes; and

(2) Charge an admission fee.

Authorizes the department of licensing to grant an annual license to a theatrical wrestling school.

Concerning the removal of payment credentials and other sensitive data from state data networks.

Prohibits state agencies from storing payment credentials on state data systems.

Requires payment credentials, collected on behalf of a state agency to process payments for the agency, to be accepted and stored by a third-party institution.

Creating the Washington rural jobs act.

Establishes the Washington rural jobs act.

Requires the department of commerce to accept applications for approval as a rural growth fund.

Allows a nonrefundable tax credit, for taxpayers that made a credit-eligible capital contribution to the rural growth fund and were issued a tax credit certificate, and allows the credit to be claimed against the following: Business and occupation taxes; insurance premium taxes; and retaliatory taxes.

Concerning the excise taxation of personal and alcohol monitoring devices and services.

Ensuring a parent or guardian has the authority to admit and keep a minor child into a treatment facility for chemical dependency treatment for fourteen days.

Authorizes a parent or guardian to: (1) Admit a minor child to a chemical dependency treatment program; and

Creating the Washington next generation educational savings account pilot program.

Creates the Washington next generation educational savings account pilot program to expand education opportunity and financial capability by creating children's educational savings accounts.

Requires the student achievement council to administer the pilot program.

Requires initial and incentive grant dollars received by an eligible beneficiary through the pilot program to be used to attend an eligible educational institution for qualifying higher education expenses.

Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to review the pilot program including information regarding the individual college savings program accounts opened up under the pilot program and the eligible beneficiaries of the accounts.

Concerning persons and entities to whom the department of health may provide prescription monitoring program data.

Authorizes the department of health to provide data in the prescription monitoring program to the following: (1) Personnel of the department for assessing prescribing practices, including controlled substances-related mortality and morbidity, and providing quality improvement feedback to providers;

(2) The local health officer of a local health jurisdiction for patient follow-up and care coordination following a controlled substance overdose event; and

(3) The coordinated care electronic tracking program.

Requires the department of health to: (1) Provide certain facilities, entities, and provider groups with certain prescriber information;

(2) In consultation with the state hospital association, the state medical association, and the state health care authority, to determine what prescriber information will be provided; and

Concerning opioid treatment programs.

Concerning construction projects in state waters.

Concerning aquatic invasive species management.

Concerning the review and adoption of electrical rules.

Increasing the number of members on the board of osteopathic medicine and surgery.

Concerning foundational public health services.

Addresses the protection of the public's health in the state, core public health services and essential capabilities that comprise foundational public health services, and development of a governmental public health improvement plan.

Decoupling services and activities fees from tuition.

Adding the use of shared leave for employees who are sick or temporarily disabled because of pregnancy disability or for the purposes of parental leave to bond with the employee's newborn, adoptive, or foster child.

Allows an agency head to permit an employee to receive leave, under the state leave sharing program, if the employee: (1) Needs the time for parental leave; or

Concerning adoption of the International Plumbing Code as an alternative recognized building code.

Concerning the state building code council.

Changes the composition and duties of the state building code council.

Requires the department of enterprise services to employ permanent and temporary staff and contract for services for the state building code council.

Creates the legislative task force on the state building code council's administration and operations.

Adding a faculty member to the board of regents at the research universities.

Suspending four-year balanced budget requirements in order to fulfill the state's education funding obligations.

Regulating the institutions of higher education, including for-profit institutions and private vocational schools, to protect students from unfair business practices.

Protects students from unfair business practices by regulating the institutions of higher education, including for-profit institutions and private vocational schools.

Creates the office of the ombuds serving students of for-profit degree granting institutions and private vocational schools within the student achievement council to provide assistance to students of for-profit postsecondary institutions and private vocational schools.

Establishing a student loan bill of rights.

Establishes the Washington student education loan bill of rights.

Requires the student achievement council to designate a student education loan ombuds within the office of student financial assistance to provide timely assistance to a student education loan borrower with a student education loan.

Requires the director of the department of financial institutions to establish fees sufficient to cover the costs of administering the department's program for student education loan servicers and the student education loan ombuds.

Requires the state institute for public policy to conduct a study on the impact and cost-effectiveness of establishing a student loan authority to refinance existing federal and private undergraduate and graduate student loans from the proceeds of tax-exempt bonds.

Creates the student education loan ombuds account.

Prohibiting purchases of land within urban growth areas by state agencies.

Providing an exemption from the false academic credential law for doctorate degrees awarded by a religious institution.

Exempts the following from the definition of "false academic credential": Doctorate degrees issued by a religious seminary, institute, college, or university whose certificate, diplomas, or degrees clearly identify the religious character of the educational program.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 19	First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).