WALeg Day 17: Felony campaign offenses? Split Washington in two?
Meanwhile, a group of Eastern Washington legislators have introduced an old favorite, a bill to split the state in half. HB 1818 would set up a 10-member task force to figure out "the legal and political processes" of creating two states.
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Senate Hearing Rm 2 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 3 |
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House Hearing Rm B |
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House Hearing Rm A |
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House Hearing Rm D |
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House Hearing Rm E |
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House Hearing Rm C |
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10:00 AM |
SENATE CAUCUS / PRO FORMA SENATE SESSION |
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HOUSE SESSION/CAUCUS |
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1:30 PM |
Senate Hearing Rm 1 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 4 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 2 |
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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 A |
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House Hearing Rm C |
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House Hearing Rm D |
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2:00 PM |
Senate Hearing Rm 4 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 3 |
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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
Agriculture & Natural Resources
1/28/15 8:00 am
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 1137 - Authorizing licensed geologists to perform the duties of licensed water well operators or resource protection well operators.
- HB 1179 - Exempting cider makers from the wine commission assessment.
- HB 1182 - Concerning a geological hazards assessment.
- HB 1256 - Providing the department of natural resources with discretionary authority to use resources available in the derelict vessel removal account to fund complementary derelict vessel prevention programs.
- HB 1271 - Increasing rock collecting opportunities on state lands.
- HB 1435 - Designating a class of existing commercial ocean vessels that may be allowed to moor, without satisfying the insurance requirements of chapter 195, Laws of 2014, at a moorage facility without the moorage facility assuming additional liability.
Appropriations*
1/28/15 3:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/22/2015 3:19 PM
Public Hearing:
- HB 1080 - Restoring funding to the health professional loan repayment and scholarship program fund.
- HB 1274 - Implementing a value-based system for nursing home rates.
Possible Executive Session:
- HB 1258 - Concerning court review of detention decisions under the involuntary treatment act.
- HB 1105 - Making 2015 supplemental operating appropriations.
Business & Financial Services*
1/28/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm E
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/27/2015 11:34 AM
Public Hearing:
- HB 1212 - Prohibiting retail businesses from recording consumer identification information during transactions.
- HB 1308 - Addressing surplus lines of insurance.
- HB 1309 - Concerning the sale of floating homes or floating on-water residences by brokers.
- HB 1329 - Addressing electronic notices and document delivery of insurance products.
Possible Executive Session:
- HB 1176 - Concerning pawnbroker fees and interest rates.
- HB 1249 - Providing authority for two or more nonprofit corporations to participate in a joint self-insurance program covering property or liability risks.
- HB 1263 - Exempting certified public accountants from private investigator regulations.
- HB 1336 - Allowing fingerprint-based background checks for the licensing of any security guard.
- HB 1283 - Concerning nonprofit organizations engaged in debt adjusting.
- HB 1054 - Concerning collection agency transaction fees for processing electronic payments.
Early Learning & Human Services
1/28/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing: HB 1491 - Improving quality in the early care and education system.
Executive Session:
- HB 1126 - Concerning department of early learning fatality reviews.
- HB 1150 - Requiring the department of social and health services to notify the military regarding child abuse and neglect allegations of families with an active military status.
Health Care & Wellness
1/28/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 1190 - Concerning the use of hydrocodone products by licensed optometrists in Washington state.
- HB 1259 - Allowing advanced registered nurse practitioners to sign and attest to certain documentation.
- HB 1339 - Allowing the secretary of health to intercede and stay any decision of a disciplining authority that expands scope of practice.
- HB 1340 - Developing a process to allow pilot programs for health care professionals to learn new skills or roles, use existing skills in new circumstances, and accelerate training.
- HB 1369 - Enabling student volunteers to provide health care services.
Higher Education
1/28/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm C
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 1238 - Concerning affordable tuition planning.
- HB 1154 - Creating the affordable college for everyone grant contract program.
- HB 1344 - Creating the nurse educator pay it forward program.
- HB 1367 - Requiring the student achievement council to develop a grant program to encourage training for students studying in the medical field to work with individuals with disabilities.
- HB 1138 - Creating a task force on mental health and suicide prevention in higher education.
- HB 1052 - Requiring institutions of higher education to make an early registration process available to spouses and domestic partners of active members of the military.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 1287 - Concerning less restrictive alternative orders under the involuntary treatment act.
- HB 1450 - Concerning involuntary outpatient mental health treatment.
- HB 1451 - Regarding civil commitment.
- HB 1448 - Providing procedures for responding to reports of threatened or attempted suicide.
Local Government*
1/28/15 8:00 am
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm D
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/22/2015 11:41 AM
Public Hearing:
- HB 1310 - Concerning standards adopted by the national fire protection association and the state building code council.
- HB 1313 - Granting fire protection districts and regional fire protection service authorities biennial budget authority.
- HB 1317 - Revising the lien for collection of sewer charges by counties.
- HB 1337 - Increasing the flexibility for industrial development district levies for public port districts.
Possible Executive Session:
- HB 1009 - Allowing rural counties providing emergency medical services to locations with a rural amphitheater to impose an additional admissions surcharge.
- HB 1145 - Allowing joint meetings of county legislative authorities under certain circumstances.
- HB 1170 - Granting port districts certain administrative powers.
- HB 1189 - Regarding hours of availability of cities, towns, and special purpose districts for inspection and copying of public records.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm D
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 1175 - Creating a penalty for concealing the source of a campaign contribution.
- HB 1178 - Expanding assault in the third degree provisions.
- HB 1252 - Prescribing penalties for allowing or permitting unlicensed practice of massage therapy or reflexology.
- HB 1499 - Concerning vulnerable adults.
State Government
1/28/15 8:00 am
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm E
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 1136 - Concerning employment after public service in state government.
- HB 1188 - Delaying annual leave payments upon employment termination.
- HB 1217 - Concerning the capitol furnishings preservation committee.
- HB 1364 - Establishing a citizens' initiative review pilot program.
Technology & Economic Development
1/28/15 8:00 am
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm C
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 1255 - Concerning the office of minority and women's business enterprises account.
- HB 1265 - Creating a bond issuance exemption for qualifying local revitalization financing projects.
Work Session:
- Department of Commerce Maritime Report by Steve Sewell.
- Report on Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership by Robin Twyman, Consul, United Kingdom Government Office.
- Washington State Arts Commission, Creative Vitality Index.
- Other Department of Commerce Reports required by Statute or Budget Proviso.
Possible Executive Session:
Transportation
1/28/15 3:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session: Public Transportation.
- Status update for the state's transit systems.
- Sound Transit and the ST3 proposal.
Public Hearing:
- HB 1180 - Concerning dedicated funding sources for high capacity transportation service.
- HB 1221 - Creating passenger-only ferry service districts.
- HB 1219 - Authorizing expedited permitting and contracting for Washington state bridges deemed structurally deficient.
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
Accountability and Reform*
1/28/15 8:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 2
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/23/2015 4:13 PM
Work Session:
- Performance audits of state agencies.
- Baldrige assessments of organizations.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Commerce & Labor*
1/28/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/27/2015 10:38 AM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5001 - Clarifying provisions that allow for the tasting of alcohol by students under twenty-one years of age.
- SB 5212 - Increasing the number of tasting rooms allowed under a domestic winery license.
- SB 5248 - Expanding authorized personal services by liquor industry members to retailers.
- SB 5260 - Exempting cider makers from the wine commission assessment.
- SB 5301 - Concerning spirits retailers when selling for resale.
Executive Session:
- SB 5226 - Protecting public sector workers' rights through public disclosure of public sector unions' finances.
- SB 5045 - Concerning the deauthorization of union security provisions by public employees.
- SB 5234 - Regarding miniature hobby boilers.
- SB 5007 - Concerning the regulation of employment agencies.
- SB 5156 - Concerning the disclosure of information regarding elevators and other conveyances in certain real estate transactions.
- SB 5402 - Ensuring safe, responsible, and legal acquisition of marijuana by adults.
Other business.
Energy, Environment & Telecommunications
1/28/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Jt. w/ Senate Natural Resources & Parks
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session: Update on invasive species from the Pacific Northwest Economic Region.
Meeting is scheduled to end at 2:00 PM. Other business.
Energy, Environment & Telecommunications*
1/28/15 2:00 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/23/2015 8:31 AM
Public Hearing: SB 5424 - Allowing public utility districts to produce and distribute renewable natural gas.
Work Session: I-937 and the implications of the renewable target increase.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Financial Institutions & Insurance*
1/28/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 2
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/23/2015 10:53 AM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5216 - Modifying rental agreement renewal requirements under the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act.
- SB 5217 - Concerning the maintenance of manufactured home title and registration certificates by tenants under the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act.
- SB 5218 - Expanding the definition of unlawful detainer to include a provision governing at-will tenancies.
- SB 5219 - Concerning unlawful detainer.
- SB 5220 - Concerning the entering of monetary judgments against defendants under the residential and manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant acts.
- SB 5221 - Concerning the disposition of tenant property placed upon the nearest public property.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Natural Resources & Parks
1/28/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Jt. w/ Senate Energy, Environment & Telecomm
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session: Update on invasive species from the Pacific Northwest Economic Region.
Meeting is scheduled to end at 2:00 PM. Other business.
Natural Resources & Parks*
1/28/15 2:00 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 3
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/22/2015 4:26 PM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5380 - Modifying provisions of the code that deal with migratory birds.
- SB 5241 - Concerning ivory and rhinoceros horn trafficking.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Trade & Economic Development
1/28/15 8:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 3
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session: Life sciences sector overview.
Public Hearing:
- SB 5043 - Providing greater small business assistance by modifying the filing threshold for excise tax purposes.
- SB 5339 - Creating a business and occupation tax credit for new businesses.
Executive Session:
- SB 5111 - Concerning projects of statewide significance for economic development and transportation.
- SB 5230 - Creating a pilot program that provides incentives for investments in Washington state job creation and economic development.
- SB 5112 - Creating a pilot program that provides incentives for investments in Washington state job creation and economic development.
Possible Executive Session: Bills previously heard. Other business.
Transportation
1/28/15 3:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- SB 5242 - Creating passenger-only ferry service districts.
- SB 5272 - Concerning heavy haul industrial corridors.
- SB 5307 - Concerning deficit reimbursement agreements with counties owning and operating ferry systems.
- SB 5314 - Modifying the use of local storm water charges paid by the department of transportation.
- SB 5323 - Extending and modifying the commute trip reduction tax credit.
- SB 5324 - Concerning the distribution and use of aircraft excise taxes.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/23/2015 10:11 AM
Work Session: Criminal justice.