Returning bills to their house of origin.

Adjourning SINE DIE.

Adjourns SINE DIE.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Apr 21	Read first time, rules suspended, and placed on second reading calendar.
Apr 23	Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
	Third reading, adopted.
-- IN THE SENATE --
	First Reading.
	Placed on second reading.
	Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
	Third reading, adopted.
-- IN THE HOUSE --
	Speaker signed.
	Delivered to Governor.
	Filed with Secretary of State.

by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Honeyford, Hobbs, Bailey, Becker, Miloscia, Angel, Brown, Sheldon, Rivers, Warnick, and Rossi)

Creating a community aviation revitalization board.

Creates the community aviation revitalization board and authorizes the board to: (1) Make direct loans to political subdivisions of the state and privately owned airports for the purpose of improvements at public use airports that primarily support general aviation activities; and

(2) Provide loans to privately owned airports for the purpose of airport improvements if certain conditions are met.

Requires the department of transportation to provide management services, including fiscal and contract services, to assist the board in implementing this act.

Authorizing theaters with more than four screens to obtain a license to sell beer and wine.

Concerning liquor licenses.

Authorizes theaters with more than four screens to obtain a theater license to sell beer, including strong beer, and/or wine at retail for consumption on theater premises.

Allows a grocery store licensee to be issued an endorsement to offer beer and wine tasting if the licensee derives at least fifty percent of its revenue from the sale of any combination of fresh meat, fresh poultry, seafood, or cheese.

Making financial services available to marijuana producers, processors, retailers, qualifying patients, health care professionals, and designated providers as authorized under chapters 69.50 and 69.51A RCW.

Concerning investing in Washington families by improving the fairness of the state's excise tax system by narrowing or eliminating tax preferences, imposing a business and occupation tax surcharge while eliminating tax liability for small businesses, enacting an excise tax on capital gains, modifying the real estate excise tax, making administrative changes, and implementing marketplace fairness in Washington.

Addresses the state's tax system with regard to: (1) Capital gains taxes;

(2) Business and occupation tax rate change and deduction;

(3) Eliminating the sales and use tax exemption for bottled water;

(4) Repealing the preferential business and occupation tax rate for warehousing and reselling prescription drugs;

(5) Narrowing a use tax exemption for self-produced fuel;

(6) Eliminating the preferential business and occupation tax rate for international investment management services;

(7) Nonresident sales tax exemption remittances;

(8) Graduated real estate excise tax rates;

(9) Real estate excise tax on foreclosures;

(10) Requiring local governments that issue building permits to supply subcontractor information to the department of revenue;

(11) Sales and use tax collection regarding remote sellers, referrers, and marketplace facilitators;

(12) The expansion of individual liability for an entity's unpaid tax obligations;

(13) Reducing interest on tax refunds; and

Establishing a carbon pollution tax.

Establishes the carbon reduction and environmental resiliency act.

Imposes a carbon pollution tax on the sale or use of fossil fuels, including fossil fuels used in generating electricity.

Requires the department of social and health services to establish and administer a low-income carbon pollution mitigation tax grant for residents to assist in the equitable transition to lower carbon emission energy sources.

Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee, in consultation with the department of revenue, the department of commerce, and the department of ecology, to conduct a review of the carbon pollution tax.

Concerning public agency acquisition of electric and alternative fuel vehicles.

Requires all state agencies and local government subdivisions of the state, to the extent determined practicable by rules adopted by the department of commerce, to satisfy the following for the percentage of their fuel use for operating publicly owned vessels, vehicles, and construction equipment from electricity or biofuel: (1) Fifty percent by June 1, 2020;

(2) Seventy-five percent by June 1, 2023; and

(3) One hundred percent by June 1, 2025.

Requires the state agencies and local governments to submit a report to the department of commerce documenting its progress in meeting the fuel use goals.

Requires school districts and educational service districts to be reimbursed for any additional costs to replace a diesel or gasoline bus with a bus powered by an alternative fuel, where the replacement contributes toward the district's compliance with certain goals.

Concerning new counties.

Concerning the acquisition of marijuana seeds for certain qualifying patients and designated providers.

Concerning convicted persons.

Modifies the seriousness level of certain crimes.

Addresses the following with regard to convicted persons: (1) Community custody;

(2) Habitual property offenders; and

(3) Identicards for persons released from the department of corrections.

Establishes a pilot program for the supervision of offenders convicted of felonies relating to the theft or taking of a motor vehicle.

-- 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION --
May 1	First reading, referred to Law & Justice.
May 2	LAW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
	Minority; do not pass.
	Public hearing and executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 9:30 AM.

by Senators Liias, Pedersen, Fain, Rivers, Walsh, Ranker, Chase, Hasegawa, Darneille, Conway, Saldaña, Hunt, Billig, Nelson, Rolfes, McCoy, Palumbo, Cleveland, Wellman, Takko, Kuderer, Mullet, Frockt, Van De Wege, Hobbs, Keiser, and Carlyle

Concerning the victims of the persecution in Chechnya.

Addresses the victims of the persecution in Chechnya.

-- 2017 REGULAR SESSION --
Apr 21	First reading, referred to State Government.
-- 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION --
Apr 24	By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.

by Senator Fain

Specifying the status of bills, memorials, and resolutions for the 2017 regular and first special sessions of the Sixty-fifth Legislature.

Specifies the status of bills, memorials, and resolutions for the 2017 regular and first special sessions of the sixty-fifth legislature.

-- 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION --
Apr 24	Read first time, rules suspended, and placed on second reading calendar.
	Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
	Third reading, adopted.
-- IN THE HOUSE --
	Adopted.
-- IN THE SENATE --
Apr 28	President signed.
-- IN THE HOUSE --
May 2	Speaker signed.