Condemning the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement.

Condemns the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 24	First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

by Senators Frockt, Miloscia, Walsh, Mullet, Billig, and Kuderer

Concerning the preservation of housing options for tenants.

Increasing the notice of termination for tenancies under the residential landlord-tenant act.

Extending the sales and use tax deferral for historic automobile museums.

Addressing contracts between insurance carriers and vision care providers.

Prohibits a contract between a vision care provider and an entity that offers vision care insurance or a vision care discount care plan from: (1) Limiting or specifying the fee that a vision care provider may charge for vision care services or materials that are not reimbursed by the vision care insurance or discount care plan;

(2) Requiring a vision care provider to participate in one vision care insurance plan or discount care program as a condition for participating in another insurance plan;

(3) Changing terms, contractual discounts, or reimbursement rates, under vision care insurance or a discount card, without a signed acknowledgment that the provider agrees to the changes; and

Concerning eye care.

Establishes the consumer protection in eye care act.

Concerning the state building code council.

Requires the state building code council to: (1) Adopt a revised process for the review of proposed statewide amendments and proposed or enacted local amendments to the codes enumerated in RCW 19.27.031;

(2) Create a procedure for the approval of any material, product, equipment, method of construction, design, or system that has been certified pursuant to the international organization for standardization/international electrotechnical commission standard number 17065; and

(3) In consultation with the office of the chief information officer, assess the costs and benefits of the potential acquisition and implementation of open public access information technologies to enhance the council's code adoption process.

Changes the composition 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.

Concerning physician limited licenses.

Concerning public transportation services for elderly persons and persons with disabilities.

Requires certain counties, cities, and transportation authorities to provide transportation services, such as paratransit or dial-a-ride, throughout its entire service area to a person: (1) Who is over seventy years old;

(2) With disabilities; or

Creating a tax on plastic shopping bags.

Repealing the tax exemption on intangible property to provide funding for essential government services.

Requiring the state to compensate associated student body program food or beverage sales revenue losses.

Enacting recommendations of the sunshine committee.

Concerning paint stewardship.

Creates an architectural paint recovery program that will be enforced by the department of ecology.

Requires all producers of architectural paint selling in or into the state to participate in an approved state paint stewardship plan.

Prohibits a producer or paint retailer from selling architectural paint in the state unless the producer or brand of architectural paint is participating in an approved stewardship plan.

Exempts from disclosure under the public records act, records filed with the department of ecology under this act that a court has determined are confidential valuable commercial information.

Encouraging educating students on the content and importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Protecting salmon and steelhead spawning beds.

Requires the department of fish and wildlife to: (1) Prohibit activities that harm or disturb spawning beds of salmon, steelhead, and other fish on rivers and streams where spawning activities occur; and

Addressing workplace bullying by making it an unfair practice to subject an employee to an abusive work environment.

Revises the state civil rights act to provide: (1) Legal recourse for employees who have been harmed by being deliberately subjected to abusive work environments; and

Creating the unlawful dog tethering act.

Establishes the unlawful dog tethering act of 2017.

Strengthening funding for oil spill programs in Washington by increasing revenue to the oil spill prevention account.

Increasing the number of tasting rooms allowed under a domestic winery license.

Providing small winery tax relief.

Addressing the costs of litigation for condominium associations.

Reducing the number of violent interactions between law enforcement officers and members of the public.

Requires the criminal justice training commission to: (1) Review, update, and provide basic and in-service training for peace officers and corrections officers;

(2) Incorporate a training component that requires cadets to meet with local minority advisory boards in each jurisdiction; and

(3) Pair cadets with seasoned veteran officers to patrol minority communities in order to observe how that officer interacts with members of the community.

Concerning notice to a victim when a registered out-of-state sex offender moves to Washington.

Concerning the protection of composting from nuisance lawsuits.

Concerning the funding allocation for special education programs for students with disabilities.

Concerning informed decision making for death with dignity decisions.

Concerning the addition of services for long-term placement of mental health patients in community hospitals that voluntarily contract and are certified by the department of social and health services.

Revises the community mental health services act with regard to the insufficient capacity at eastern and western state hospitals to meet current and growing demand for services and patients.

Requires the department of social and health services and the entities identified in RCW 71.24.310 and 71.24.380 (sections 2 and 3 of this act) to: (1) Work with willing community hospitals to assess their capacity to become certified to provide long-term mental health placements and to meet the requirements of the community mental health services act; and

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

Expanding patient access to health services through telemedicine by further defining where a patient may receive the service.

Concerning the weighmaster program.

Promoting the completion of environmental impact statements within two years.

Providing sales and use tax exemptions, in the form of a remittance of tax paid, to encourage coal-fired electric generation plants to convert to natural gas-fired plants or biomass energy facilities.

Establishing the legislative-executive WorkFirst poverty reduction oversight task force.

Creates the legislative-executive WorkFirst poverty reduction oversight task force to, among other responsibilities: (1) Reduce the overall percentage of people living below two hundred percent of the federal poverty level;

(2) Prevent and address adverse childhood experiences and the trauma of children who are living in poverty; and

(3) Direct the department of social and health services to develop a five-year plan and a ten-year plan to address intergenerational poverty.

Creates the intergenerational poverty advisory committee to assist the task force.

Concerning certain procedures upon initial detention under the involuntary treatment act.

Revises involuntary treatment act provisions regarding a person who presents a likelihood of serious harm and the possession or control of a firearm.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 24	First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing.

by Senators Chase and Hasegawa

Urging the United States Congress to adopt the proposed "American Recovery" program.

Urges the United States Congress to adopt the proposed "American Recovery" program.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 24	First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance.