WALeg Day 22: Marijuana, abortion, revenge porn, Uber
OLYMPIA -- A wide range of issues in bills before legislative committees today.
Various aspects of the state's marijuana laws will be up in House Commerce and Gaming and Senate Commerce and Labor. More examples of how pot is an issue of commerce, not of criminality.
Senate Law & Justice, meanwhile has hearings into a topic that has popped up for decades -- whether parents should be notified when their minor child has abortion -- and a more recent issue -- the posting of intimate pictures online, sometimes known as revenge porn.
Senate Transportation takes up a bill to require hired transportation services to be licensed by the state.
It's also "Have a Heart for Kids Day", when the Children's Alliance brings people concerned about youngsters to Olympia to lobby for legislation they support. They have a rally on the Capitol steps at 11:30 a.m. One can only hope the kids that accompany them will be properly attired for the rain and fog that has settled over the city today.
Definitely a busy afternoon for a post Super Bowl Monday. Here's the full list of hearings:
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Monday, February 02, 2015 |
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10:00 AM |
HOUSE SESSION/CAUCUS |
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Senate Hearing Rm 2 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 4 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 1 |
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12:00 PM |
PRO FORMA SENATE SESSION |
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12:30 PM |
House Hearing Rm A |
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1:30 PM |
Senate Hearing Rm 2 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 1 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 4 |
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House Hearing Rm E |
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House Hearing Rm B |
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House Hearing Rm C |
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House Hearing Rm D |
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3:30 PM |
Senate Hearing Rm 1 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 4 |
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House Hearing Rm A |
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House Hearing Rm B |
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House Committees
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session:
- Briefing on early learning programs and funding.
- Briefing on programs and funding in the Department of Social and Health Services' Economic Services Administration.
Commerce & Gaming
2/2/15 12:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing: HB 1461 - Relating to marijuana.
The hearing will be on a proposed substitute. PSHB 1461 (relating to marijuana) is available at the link below: http://leg.wa.gov/House/Committees/COG/Documents/1461-PSHB.pdf
Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs*
2/2/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm E
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/30/2015 1:21 PM
Possible Executive Session:
- HB 1213 - Concerning the definition of veteran for the purposes of the county veterans assistance fund.
- HB 1241 - Providing a business and occupation tax credit for businesses that hire veterans.
- HB 1370 - Increasing the total amount of tax credits allowed under the Washington main street program.
- HB 1383 - Concerning community redevelopment financing in apportionment districts.
- HJR 4202 - Providing for community redevelopment financing in apportionment districts.
- HB 1223 - Allowing the use of lodging taxes for financing workforce housing.
- HB 1123 - Regulating the minimum dimensions of habitable spaces in single-family residential areas.
- HB 1261 - Limiting enforcement action against tribal hunters.
- HB 1279 - Modifying the definition of legislative authority for purposes of local tourism promotion areas.
- HB 1280 - Establishing a commission on government-to-government relations in Washington.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Executive Session:
- HB 1031 - Expanding participation in college in the high school programs.
- HB 1121 - Regarding the financial education public-private partnership.
Public Hearing:
- HB 1331 - Concerning school library and technology programs.
- HB 1345 - Adopting a definition and standards of professional learning.
- HB 1408 - Concerning the development of a definition and model for "family engagement coordinator" and other terms used interchangeably with it.
- HB 1492 - Addressing technology literacy.
- HB 1562 - Requiring posting of allergen information in public schools.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm C
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/29/2015 2:22 PM
Public Hearing: HB 1472 - Concerning use of chemical action plans to require safer chemicals in Washington.
Possible Executive Session:
- HB 1160 - Stamping out litter in Washington state by increasing penalties for littering while providing additional funding to state parks.
- HB 1378 - Protecting waterways from pollution from synthetic plastic microbeads.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm D
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 1127 - Creating the agricultural labor skills and safety program.
- HB 1387 - Supporting apprenticeship training for building officials.
- HB 1590 - Requiring completion of an apprenticeship program to receive a journey level or residential specialty electrician certificate of competency.
- HB 1595 - Changing the definition of labor hours for the purposes of the apprenticeship utilization statute.
- HB 1646 - Enacting the equal pay opportunity act by amending and enhancing enforcement of the equal pay act and protecting worker communications about wages and employment opportunities.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 1218 - Implementing public-private partnership best practices for nontoll transportation projects.
- HB 1534 - Modifying the use of motor vehicle and special fuel tax proceeds by border area transportation benefit districts.
- HB 1655 - Modifying meeting times of the motorcycle safety education advisory board.
Possible Executive Session:
- HB 1159 - Concerning teen driving safety.
- HB 1180 - Concerning dedicated funding sources for high capacity transportation service.
- HB 1219 - Authorizing expedited permitting and contracting for Washington state bridges deemed structurally deficient.
- HB 1221 - Creating passenger-only ferry service districts.
- HB 1222 - Modifying certain firefighting apparatus length and weight limits.
- HB 1318 - Concerning deficit reimbursement agreements with counties owning and operating ferry systems.
- HB 1358 - Restricting the use of bond proceeds to pay certain taxes on transportation projects.
Senate Committees
The schedule is subject to the addition of more committee agendas. Please check our website, http://www.leg.wa.gov/legislature/pages/calendar.aspx
Commerce & Labor*
2/2/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 2
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/30/2015 1:09 PM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5332 - Regulating local employment laws and contracts.
- SB 5552 - Accommodating the civil rights of religious objectors to mandatory payments to labor organizations.
- SB 5576 - Addressing worker reporting of workplace injuries for purposes of industrial insurance.
- SB 5508 - Concerning recovery for purposes of legal actions under the industrial insurance statutes.
- SB 5051 - Clarifying transportation and delivery services for marijuana producers, marijuana processors, and marijuana retailers.
- SB 5417 - Concerning local government marijuana policies.
- SB 5572 - Concerning the sales, distribution, and delivery of marijuana.
Executive Session: SB 5467 - Providing a single point of excise taxation on sales of recreational marijuana.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Early Learning & K-12 Education*
2/2/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/29/2015 10:37 AM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5391 - Concerning applied baccalaureate degree programs at community and technical colleges leading to teacher certification. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.)
- SB 5419 - Enacting the student user privacy in education rights act.
- SJM 8006 - Requesting Congress, the President, and the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Justice to take action to implement the recommendations of the Government Accountability Office concerning efforts to prevent and respond to child sexual abuse by school personnel and sexual abuse between peers.
- SB 5517 - Concerning sexual harassment prevention and response through policies and training in schools.
- SB 5506 - Including information on preventing sexual abuse and violence in sexual health education.
If draft bills, proposed substitutes, or striking amendments are to be heard, they can be obtained from committee staff or on the committee's website, http://www.leg.wa.gov/Senate/Committees/EDU/Pages/default.aspx, as soon as they are available. Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Government Operations & Security*
2/2/15 10:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 2
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/29/2015 3:22 PM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5411 - Providing liability immunity for local jurisdictions when wheeled all-terrain vehicles are operated on public roadways. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.)
- SB 5140 - Allowing motor voter preregistration for sixteen and seventeen year olds.
- SB 5364 - Concerning proceedings of the joint administrative rules review committee.
- SB 5365 - Providing that an administrative rule may be abrogated by act of the governor or either house of the legislature.
- SB 5368 - Limiting the enforcement of administrative rules and policies.
- SB 5369 - Authorizing the removal of an adjudicative proceeding to the office of administrative hearings.
- SB 5371 - Modifying limitations on agency declaratory orders.
- SB 5532 - Modifying certain Washington gift of life award provisions.
If proposed substitutes are to be heard, they can be obtained from committee staff or on the committee's website, http://www.leg.wa.gov/Senate/Committees/GOS/Pages/default.aspx, as soon as they are available. Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/29/2015 1:04 PM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5317 - Requiring universal screening and provider payment for autism and developmental delays for children in medicaid programs.
- SB 5143 - Concerning the availability of childhood immunization resources for expecting parents.
- SB 5243 - Concerning services provided by residential habilitation centers.
- SB 5441 - Addressing patient medication coordination.
- SB 5448 - Concerning the treatment of Lyme disease.
- SB 5460 - Allowing practitioners to prescribe and distribute prepackaged emergency medications to emergency room patients when a pharmacy is not available.
- SB 5340 - Concerning qualified health plan claims in grace periods.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Human Services, Mental Health & Housing*
2/2/15 10:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/30/2015 1:59 PM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5655 - Concerning the provision of homeownership opportunities.
- SB 5578 - Giving preferences to housing trust fund projects that involve collaboration between local school districts and housing authorities or nonprofit housing providers to help children of low-income families succeed in school.
- SB 5600 - Modifying certain definitions concerning the abuse of vulnerable adults.
- SB 5605 - Concerning the arrest of sixteen and seventeen year olds for domestic violence assault.
- SB 5607 - Concerning the complaint procedure for the modification or termination of guardianship.
Executive Session: To be announced.
Other business.
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- SB 5289 - Requiring notification to parents or guardians in cases of abortion.
- Wrongful birth/life beneficiaries of wrongful death [S-0078.2].
- SB 5106 - Creating a civil action for webcam unauthorized remote access.
- SB 5502 - Concerning the distribution of intimate images.
If draft bills, proposed substitutes, or striking amendments are to be heard, they can be obtained from committee staff or on the committee's website, http://www.leg.wa.gov/Senate/Committees/LAW/Pages/default.aspx, as soon as they are available. Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- SB 5362 - Concerning the regulation of passenger charter and excursion carriers.
- SB 5457 - Modifying certain firefighting apparatus length and weight limits.
- SB 5529 - Transferring a railroad right-of-way to the Port of Royal Slope.
- SB 5550 - Regulating providers of commercial transportation services.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- SB 5463 - Concerning access to and creation of cultural and heritage programs and facilities.
- SB 5511 - Reducing the frequency of local sales and use tax changes.
- SB 5017 - Defining honey bee products and services as an agricultural product.
- SB 5382 - Continuing tax preferences for aluminum smelters.
- SB 5624 - Concerning financing essential public infrastructure.
- SB 5203 - Modifying certain job order contracting requirements.
- SJR 8204 - Amending the Constitution to allow the state to guarantee debt issued on behalf of a political subdivision for essential public infrastructure.
- SB 5210 - Authorizing an optional life annuity benefit for members of the Washington state patrol retirement system.
- SB 5211 - Correcting restrictions on collecting a pension in the public employees' retirement system for retirees returning to work in an ineligible position or a position covered by a different state retirement system.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.