Legislative Update 01.05.2024

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

HB 1895(SB 5839)

Working families' tax credit

H Prefiled

Thai

Monitoring

Modifying the working families' tax credit by clarifying the refundable nature of the credit, the application requirements, and the eligibility verification process.

SB 5839(HB 1895)

Working families' tax credit

S Prefiled

Nguyen

Monitoring

Modifying the working families' tax credit by clarifying the refundable nature of the credit, the application requirements, and the eligibility verification process.

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

SHB 1136(Dead)

Employee expenditures

H Rules C

Reeves

Medium

Neutral

Requiring employers to reimburse employees for necessary expenditures and losses.

E2SHB 1320(Dead) (SSB 5061)

Personnel records

H Rules 3C

Reed

High

Oppose

Concerning access to personnel records.

Specifies that an employer must provide the employee's complete, unredacted personnel file within 14 calendar days of the request from the employee, former employee, or their attorney, agent, or fiduciary. • Requires an employer to provide to a former employee, upon request, a statement of the employee's discharge date and reasons, if any, for the discharge. • Creates a private cause of action to enforce the requirements. • Requires the Department of Labor and Industries and the Employment Security Department to provide employers with information regarding the employer's obligations and the employee's rights.

E2SHB 1541(Dead) (SB 5616)

Lived experience

H Rules 3C

Farivar

Monitoring

Establishing the nothing about us without us act.

ESHB 1554(Dead)

Lead impacts

H Rules 3C

Doglio

Monitoring

Reducing public health and environmental impacts from lead.

HB 1870

Local comm. federal funding

H Prefiled

Barnard

Monitoring

Promoting economic development by increasing opportunities for local communities to secure federal funding.

HB 2103(SB 5955)

Large port districts

H Prefiled

Orwall

Monitoring

Mitigating harm and improving equity in large port districts.

HB 2149

H Prefiled

Reeves

Monitoring

Protecting consumer personal information.

SSB 5110(Dead)

Labor practices/penalties

S Rules 3

Keiser

High

Oppose

Adding penalties for certain prohibited practices in chapter 49.44 RCW.

This bill allows for a private right of action on any employment prohibited practice in RCW 49.44. We believe that enforcement mechanisms should be transparent and included in each bill, and not include a blanket private right of action for any subject attached to RCW 49.44. As an example, there are several bills moving through the system in 2023 that will be placed in RCW 49.44 (SB 5123 relating to cannabis in employment and SB 5417 relating to political speech). A private right of action should be transparent and not a default for any employment matter referenced in RCW 49.44. The business community is opposed to private rights of action because it is the least effective route to settle employment disputes, leads to unnecessary litigation, costs and delays. The business community prefers administrative remedies that settle disputes quickly. Adds penalties for the provisions in the Revised Code of Washington, Chapter 49.44 that do not already have specified criminal or civil remedies. 

SSB 5171(Dead) (HB 1152)

Consumer products/gender

S Rules 3

Dhingra

Medium

Concerns

Addressing consumer gender discrimination.

SB 5240(Dead) (HB 1656)

Unemployment ins. appeals

S Rules 3

Braun

Medium

Support

Concerning unemployment insurance benefits appeal procedures.

SB 5835

Rule making websites

S Prefiled

Wilson

Monitoring

Concerning transparency in rule making.

SB 5955(HB 2103)

Large port districts

S Prefiled

Keiser

Monitoring

Mitigating harm and improving equity in large port districts.

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

HB 2101

Child care licensing fees

H Prefiled

Rule

Monitoring

Eliminating child care licensing fees.

HB 2111 (SB 5941)

Subsidized child care

H Prefiled

Nance

Monitoring

Clarifying requirements for subsidized child care.

HB 2124

Child care prg. eligibility

H Prefiled

Eslick

Monitoring

Supporting and expanding access to child care and early learning programs.

SB 5941 (HB 2111)

Subsidized child care

S Prefiled

Wilson

Monitoring

Clarifying requirements for subsidized child care.

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

HB 1005(Dead)

Military/employer tax incen.

H Rules C

Abbarno

Monitoring

Concerning employer tax incentives for the support of veterans and military families.

SHB 1067(Dead)

High-hazard facility wages

H Rules C

Bronoske

High

Oppose

Concerning wages for journeypersons in high-hazard facilities.

Requires certain workers in petroleum refining or petrochemical manufacturing to be paid at least the prevailing hourly wage rate. 

HB 1146(Dead)

Dual credit program notice

H Rules 3C

Paul

Low

Notifying high school students and their families about available dual credit programs and any available financial assistance.

If this bill moves, we should get language to help statewide programs. Because we work with so many different colleges, collecting the costs statewide could create a burden. Requires public high schools to notify students and their parents about available dual credit programs and any financial assistance available to reduce the cost of these programs.

HB 1244(Dead) (SB 5692)

Enrichment levy authority

H Rules C

Ramel

Medium

Neutral

Increasing the maximum per pupil limit for enrichment levy authority.

ESHB 1277(Dead)

Paraeducator course of study

H Rules 3C

Donaghy

Low

Establishing rules to improve the consistency and quality of the implementation of the fundamental courses of study for paraeducators.

2SHB 1305(Dead)

Students with disabilities

H Rules C

Pollet

Monitoring

Improving access to and provision of a free appropriate public education for students with disabilities.

Students with disabilities: Creates new timelines and parent notifications for referrals Makes changes to requirements related to initial student evaluations for special education and to development and implementation of individualized education programs. • Establishes certain special education due process hearing requirements. Establishes a grant program to make school psychologists and other providers available to conduct special education evaluations. • Makes additional changes to special education laws.

E2SHB 1565(Dead)

Prof. education workforce

H Rules 3C

Ortiz-Self

Low

Supporting and strengthening the professional education workforce. 

HB 1944

Running start for the trades

H Prefiled

Orwall

Monitoring

Establishing a running start for the trades grant program.

E2SSB 5311(Dead) (HB 1211)

Special education funding

S Rules 3

Wellman

Monitoring

Concerning special education funding formula.

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

2SHB 1131(Dead) (SSB 5154)

Solid waste management

H Rules C

Berry

High

Concerns

Improving Washington's solid waste management outcomes.

This is the WRAP act that would create producer responsibility organizations to manage the waste stream for the packaging their products create. It also includes a bottle bill. Requires producers of certain paper products and packaging (covered PPP) to participate in and fund the operations of a producer responsibility organization (PRO) to collect and manage covered PPP from consumers and carry out other specified activities. • Makes changes to minimum postconsumer recycled content (PCRC) requirements, including: requiring additional types of products to meet PCRC requirements; moving responsibility for the registration and reporting of covered PPP products that are also to PCRC requirements to the PRO; and amending existing PCRC requirements for products subject to PCRC requirements that are not covered PPP. • Provides for producers of certain beverage containers to satisfy producer responsibility obligations for the beverage containers through the formation of a distributor responsibility organization (DRO) and the establishment of a deposit return system (DRS) 

2SHB 1391(Dead)

Energy in buildings

H Rules 3C

Ramel

Low

Concerns

Concerning energy in buildings.

Directs the Department of Commerce to contract with one or more administrators to establish a Statewide Building Energy Upgrade Navigator Program (Navigator Program) by March 1, 2024. • Requires the administrator(s) to align the Navigator Program with programs and funding under the federal Inflation Reduction Act, provide outreach, and deliver energy services to residences, commercial buildings under 20,000 square feet, and multifamily buildings. • Requires Commerce to convene a technical advisory group to provide ongoing guidance to the Navigator Program by December 2023, and to report to the Legislature.

2SHB 1433(Dead)

Energy labeling/residential

H Rules 3C

Duerr

Low

Oppose

Concerning energy labeling of residential buildings.

• Directs the Department of Commerce to adopt by rule the asset-based Home Energy Score developed by the United States Department of Energy as the primary home energy performance scoring system by which a person may evaluate the energy efficiency and relative greenhouse gas emissions of the building. • Directs the Department of Licensing to adopt rules and implement a program for the licensing of home energy assessors. • Prohibits, beginning March 1, 2026, a person from engaging in, conducting business, advertising, or holding himself or herself out as a home energy assessor without first obtaining a license.

ESHB 1589(Dead) (SSB 5562)

Clean energy

H Rules 3C

Doglio

High

Supporting Washington's clean energy economy and transitioning to a clean, affordable, and reliable energy future.

Prohibits any large gas company that serves more than 500,000 retail natural gas customers in Washington as of June 30, 2023, from furnishing or supplying gas service, instrumentalities, and facilities to any commercial or residential location that did not receive gas service or have filed applications for gas service as of June 30, 2023. • Requires a large gas company to file a gas decarbonization plan and an electrification plan with the Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) as part of any multi-year rate plan filed on or after January 1, 2026. • Requires the UTC to establish a target for a gas decarbonization plan and a cost target for an electrification plan, each of which must be 2.5 percent of the gas revenue requirement and electric revenue requirement, respectively, approved by the UTC for each year of the multiyear rate plan. • Requires that 60 percent of the total capacity and energy needed for a combination utility to meet the requirements of the Clean Energy Transformation Act must be supplied from resources owned and operated by the combination utility or an affiliate of the combination utility. • • Directs the UTC to adopt a merger of the rate bases supporting gas and electric operations of a combination utility into a single rate base if the ratio of the rate base for gas operations to the combined rate base of gas and electric operations is less than or equal to 0.2. • Establishes labor requirements for any project in a gas decarbonization plan or electrification plan with a cost of more than $1 million. • Encourages a variety of types of electric utilities to work with large gas companies providing gas service within the service areas of the electric utilities to identify opportunities for electrification and the provision of peaking service by the large gas companies.

SHB 1729(Dead)

Hydrogen fuel products

H Rules 3C

Abbarno

High

Creating and expanding tax incentives for the research, development, production, and sale of hydrogen fuel products in Washington state.

Provides business and occupation preferential tax rate and credits for qualified hydrogen fuel product manufacturers, processor for hires, retailers, and wholesalers. 

HB 2070(SB 5990)

Env. justice/SEPA projects

H Prefiled

Mena

Monitoring

Integrating environmental justice considerations into certain project decisions.

SB 5570(Dead)

Energy efficiency loans

S Environment, E

Lovelett

Monitoring

Authorizing electric utilities to establish energy efficiency revolving loan programs.

SB 5826

Utility bills/CCA charges

S Prefiled

MacEwen

Monitoring

Requiring customer charges to be listed on utility billing statements if the charges are a result of implementing the Washington climate commitment act.

SB 5875

Energy code/residential

S Prefiled

Fortunato

Monitoring

Balancing energy efficiency with consideration of other factors such as housing affordability, development costs, and feasibility in the state energy code for residential structures.

SB 5990(HB 2070)

Env. justice/SEPA projects

S Prefiled

Lovelett

Monitoring

Integrating environmental justice considerations into certain project decisions.

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

ESHB 1508(Dead) (SB 5519)

Health care cost board

H Rules 3C

Macri

Medium

Concerns

Improving consumer affordability through the health care cost transparency board.

Directs the Health Care Cost Transparency Board (Transparency Board) to conduct an annual survey of underinsurance among Washington residents and a study of how state tax preferences affect the calculation of total health care expenditures. • Authorizes the Transparency Board to require that payers or health care providers that frequently exceed the health care cost growth benchmark without a reasonable justification submit a performance improvement plan or pay a civil fine.

ESHB 1547(Dead)

Out-of-state health prov.

H Rules 3C

Caldier

Medium

Support

Increasing the health care workforce by authorizing out-of-state providers to practice immediately.

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

SHB 1026(Dead)

Local gov. design review

H Rules C

Walen

High

Support

Concerning local government design review.

Requires any design review of housing development permit applications to be conducted administratively by local government employees.

HB 1052(Dead)

Nonprofit housing/tax ex.

H Rules 3C

Ramel

Medium

Providing a property tax exemption for qualified real and personal property owned or used by a nonprofit entity in providing qualified housing funded in whole or part through a local real estate excise tax.

Expands the property tax exemption for nonprofit organizations providing rental housing or mobile home park spaces to qualifying households to those nonprofit organizations financed by the local real estate excise tax for affordable housing.

HB 1054(Dead)

Occupancy limits

H Rules 3C

Walen

Medium

Support

Addressing the authority of owners' associations in common interest communities to regulate or limit occupancy by unrelated persons.

Prohibits an association of unit owners in a common interest community from regulating or limiting the number of unrelated persons that may occupy a unit.

E2SHB 1167(Dead)

Residential housing

H Rules 3C

Duerr

High

Support

Concerning residential housing regulations.

Requires the Department of Commerce to develop and administer a grant program to assist counties and cities adopt preapproved middle housing plans. • Directs the State Building Code Council to convene a work group to recommend needed changes to apply the International Residential Code to multiplex housing. • Prohibits a city or county from imposing any regulations, reviews, or standards on multiplex housing that is not applied to detached singlefamily residences, except when necessary for fire and life safety.

ESHB 1245(Dead) (SSB 5364)

Lot splitting

H Rules 3C

Barkis

High

Support

Increasing housing options through lot splitting.

Requires cities to allow the splitting of a single residential lot if specific conditions are met. • Prohibits cities from imposing certain regulations on a residential lot that is the result of a lot split.

HB 1252(Dead)

Impact fee deferrals

H Rules C

Bateman

Medium

Support

Concerning impact fee deferrals.

ESHB 1282(Dead) (SSB 5322)

Public building materials

H Rules 3C

Duerr

Medium

Oppose

Requiring environmental and labor reporting for public building construction and renovation material.

HB 1367(Dead)

Homeless funding

H Rules 3C

Donaghy

Monitoring

Eliminating unnecessary homeless funding budget and auditing requirements.

HB 1401(Dead)

Housing permit process

H Rules C

Jacobsen

High

Support

Allowing cities and counties to create a simple, standardized housing permit process for affordable housing units in areas designated for housing.

Specifies that all cities and counties may adopt development regulations that create a simple, low cost, expedited permit process for development of single-family, duplex, triplex, or accessory dwelling housing units with less than 1,801 square feet per unit in locations designated for residential housing. • Requires cities and counties that adopt an expedited permitting process to count the number of housing units built and report the amount to the Department of Commerce (Commerce). • Requires Commerce to post a report on its website detailing the total number of housing units built as reported by cities and counties.

HB 1468(Dead)

Impact fee deferrals

H Rules C

Goehner

High

Support

Concerning impact fee deferrals.

Repeals provisions requiring that a lien be imposed on a property receiving an impact fee deferral in favor of the local government providing the deferral. • Repeals provisions requiring the Department of Commerce to submit an annual report to the Legislature on impact fee deferrals. • Repeals the option to defer collection of an impact fee until the time of closing of the first sale of the property.

SHB 1510(Dead)

Community preservation auth.

H Rules C

Santos

Monitoring

Establishing permanent funding for community preservation and development authorities approved through RCW 43.167.060.

HB 1519(Dead)

Local project review

H Rules C

Barkis

High

Support

Concerning local project review.

What it does: INCREASES NEW HOUSING SUPPLY  Provides varying timelines for different kinds of permits.  Provides local governments a safe harbor for adopting recommended permit timeline.  Enables local governments to adopt different permit timelines than those in state law.  Provides clarity on permit clock stoppages and starting.  Defines that a day is a workday.  Requires written notice of a correction request and thus a timeline clock stoppage.  Defines procedural completeness for applications.  Creates a toolkit for easier adoption of cost recovery model for fees so local governments can properly staff and review permits.  Provides refund if permit timelines as adopted are not met if a jurisdiction has not adopted 3 best practices for permit timelines.  Requires Commerce to provide permitting and other technical assistance to local governments. Why it’s needed: PERMIT DELAYS PRICES RESIDENTS OUT OF HOUSING  Washington’s average permit timeline delay is 6.5 months, adding nearly $32,000 in costs.  Local governments need options for different timelines that make sense based on what the permit is.  Local governments need ability to easier adopt a cost recovery fee schedule.  Washington’s builders need certainty around the timeclock to continue to invest in communities to build homes.  Creates best practices for permit processing. Predictable, stable, and consistent permitting results in predictable, stable, and consistent new housing stock. Provides that a project permit application is complete if it meets the procedural submission requirements of the local government as outlined on the project permit application. • Provides default permit processing deadlines for local governments that do not, by ordinance or resolution, adopt different deadlines. • Provides for the calculation of time periods related to permit processing deadlines and determinations of completeness. • Requires local governments to provide refunds of permitting fees if permitting deadlines are missed, with a refund of either 10 percent or 20 percent of the fee, depending on by how long the deadline was missed. • Provides optional additional project review provisions which, if at least three provisions are adopted, exempt the local government from the requirement to provide refunds if a permit processing deadline is missed.

HB 1585(Dead)

Local infra. project areas

H Finance

Cortes

Monitoring

Addressing local infrastructure project areas.

SHB 1596(Dead)

Affordable housing incentive

H Rules C

Kloba

High

Providing local governments with options to increase affordable housing in their communities.

Allows counties and cities to establish Affordable Housing Exemption Programs that can exempt accessory dwelling units rented to very lowincome households from ad valorem property taxation for six-year periods. • Specifies conditions for an exemption to be granted and continuing requirements for an exemption to be maintained. • Provides for the cancelation of a tax exemption, including the imposition of a monetary penalty if the cancelation is because of noncompliance with exemption requirements.

SHB 1709(Dead) (ESSB 5301)

Commerce housing programs

H Rules C

Tharinger

High

Concerning housing programs administered by the department of commerce.

HB 1890(SB 5807)

Housing authorities

H Prefiled

Alvarado

Monitoring

Concerning housing authorities.

HB 1892

Workforce housing prg.

H Prefiled

Leavitt

Monitoring

Concerning the workforce housing accelerator program.

HB 1987

Public facilities tax use

H Prefiled

Low

Monitoring

Concerning the use of moneys from the rural public facilities sales and use tax for affordable workforce housing infrastructure and facilities.

HB 2008

Housing cost task force

H Prefiled

Klicker

Monitoring

Creating a task force on housing cost driver analysis.

HB 2026

Rental income/property tax

H Prefiled

Doglio

Monitoring

Concerning rental income received by people eligible for certain property tax exemption programs.

HB 2039

Env. & land use appeals

H Prefiled

Fitzgibbon

Monitoring

Modifying the appeals process for environmental and land use matters.

HB 2044

Voter-approved property tax

H Prefiled

Duerr

Monitoring

Standardizing limitations on voter-approved property tax levies.

HB 2063

Homebuyers/REET exemption

H Prefiled

Wylie

Monitoring

Providing an exemption from the real estate excise tax for transfers of property to qualifying low-income first-time homebuyers.

HB 2064

Homebuyers/REET exemption

H Prefiled

Wylie

Monitoring

Providing for an exemption from the real estate excise tax for transfers of property to qualifying low-income first-time homebuyers.

HB 2071

Residential housing

H Prefiled

Duerr

Monitoring

Concerning residential housing regulations.

HB 2074

Landowner's lessee/penalties

H Prefiled

Dye

Monitoring

Limiting the application of certain civil penalties to protect landowners from incurring penalties based on the actions of the landowner's lessee.

HB 2081(SB 5968)

Home equity sharing

H Prefiled

Hackney

Monitoring

Regulating home equity sharing agreements under the consumer loan act.

HB 2113

GMA housing element

H Prefiled

Bateman

Monitoring

Concerning compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act.

HB 2114(SB 5961)

Residential tenants

H Prefiled

Alvarado

Monitoring

Improving housing stability for tenants subject to the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act by limiting rent and fee increases, requiring notice of rent and fee increases, limiting fees and deposits, establishing a landlord resource center and associated services, authorizing tenant lease termination, creating parity between lease types, and providing for attorney general enforcement.

HB 2140

H Prefiled

Griffey

Monitoring

Modifying laws related to adverse possession to protect legal owners of property.

HB 2141

H Prefiled

Donaghy

Monitoring

Promoting affordable housing in unincorporated areas within urban growth areas of large counties.

HB 2158

Urban growth area boundaries

Connors

Monitoring

Expanding urban growth area boundaries for residential development.

HB 2160

Housing development

Reed

Monitoring

Promoting community and transit-oriented housing development. 

SB 5118(Dead)

Multifamily property tax ex.

S Housing

Kuderer

Monitoring

Concerning modifying the multifamily property tax exemption to promote development of long-term affordable housing.

SSB 5235(Dead) (HB 1276)

Accessory dwelling units

S Rules 3

Shewmake

Medium

Support

Concerning accessory dwelling units.

SSB 5303(Dead)

Public works trust account

S Rules 3

Mullet

Monitoring

Creating the public works assistance revolving account.

ESSB 5334(Dead)

Affordable housing funding

S Rules 3

Lovelett

Monitoring

Providing a local government option for the funding of essential affordable housing programs.

ESSB 5466(Dead) (HB 1517)

Transit-oriented development

S Rules 3

Liias

High

Support

Promoting transit-oriented development.

Requires the Department of Transportation to establish a competitive grant program to help finance qualifying housing projects within rapid transit corridors, and to provide technical assistance for implementing, and compliance review of, transit-oriented development regulations. • Establishes that cities planning under the Growth Management Act (GMA) may not enact or enforce any new development regulation within a transit station area that prohibits the siting of multifamily residential housing on parcels where any other residential use is permissible. • Establishes that cities planning under the GMA may not enact any new development regulation within a transit station area or hub that imposes a maximum floor area ratio of less than the applicable transit-oriented density for any use otherwise permitted, or imposes a maximum residential density, measured in residential units per acre or other metric of land area. • Prohibits counties and cities planning under the GMA from requiring off-street parking as a condition of permitting development within a transit station area, with exceptions. • Expands the categorical exemption for infill development to facilitate the timely and certain deployment of sustainable transit-oriented development.

SB 5792

Multiunit res./definition

S Prefiled

Padden

Monitoring

Concerning the definition of multiunit residential buildings.

SB 5807(HB 1890)

Housing authorities

S Prefiled

Frame

Monitoring

Concerning housing authorities.

SB 5834

Urban growth areas

S Prefiled

Short

Monitoring

Concerning urban growth areas.

SB 5961(HB 2114)

Residential tenants

S Prefiled

Trudeau

Monitoring

Improving housing stability for tenants subject to the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act by limiting rent and fee increases, requiring notice of rent and fee increases, limiting fees and deposits, establishing a landlord resource center and associated services, authorizing tenant lease termination, creating parity between lease types, and providing for attorney general enforcement.

SB 5968(HB 2081)

Home equity sharing

S Prefiled

Stanford

Monitoring

Regulating home equity sharing agreements under the consumer loan act.

SB 5975

S Prefiled

Hasegawa

Monitoring

Authorizing use of the housing trust fund and other legislative appropriations to finance social housing.

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

2SHB 1746(Dead) (SB 5718)

State broadband map

H Rules 3C

Ryu

Medium

Concerning a state broadband map.

Requires the Statewide Broadband Office (Office) to develop and maintain a state broadband map. • Requires "covered entities" to submit data concerning broadband infrastructure deployment to the Office to assist in developing and maintaining the state broadband map. • Requires broadband service providers to have provided broadband mapping data to the Office in order to object to a proposed Public Works Board (PWB) broadband project. • Allows the PWB to prioritize applications from broadband service providers who have submitted broadband mapping data to the Office within the previous year.

HB 1882(SSB 5723)

Even-numbered year elections

H Prefiled

Farivar

Monitoring

Giving cities and towns the freedom to switch their general elections to even-numbered years.

HB 2137

H Prefiled

Berg

Monitoring

Concerning technical changes to allowable exemptions for tourism promotion area assessments.

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

2SHB 1025(Dead)

Police/private actions

H Rules C

Thai

Monitoring

Creating a private right of action for harm from violations of the state Constitution or state law by peace officers.

SHB 1304(Dead)

Electric security alarms

H Rules C

Hackney

Monitoring

Regulating electric security alarm systems.

ESHB 1387(Dead)

Law enf. applicant pool

H Rules 3C

Ramos

Monitoring

Requiring the criminal justice training commission to establish a program to recruit and train a pool of applicants who may be employed by certain law enforcement agencies in the state.

HB 1530(Dead)

Law enf. employ. eligibility

H Rules 3C

Cortes

Medium

Support

Expanding eligibility for employment of certain law enforcement and prosecutor office positions.

2SHB 1579(Dead)

Independent prosecutions

H Rules 3C

Stonier

Monitoring

Establishing a mechanism for independent prosecutions within the office of the attorney general of criminal conduct arising from police use of force.

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

HB 1871

Ferry empl./COVID-19 vaccine

H Prefiled

Lekanoff

Monitoring

Concerning the Washington state ferries' treatment of employees and applicants without consideration of COVID-19 vaccines.

HB 1904

Hybrid electric ferries

H Prefiled

Walsh

Monitoring

Using climate commitment act revenues to pay for hybrid electric ferries.

HB 2134(SB 5947)

Transportation budget, supp.

H Prefiled

Fey

Monitoring

Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium.

SB 5292(Dead) (HB 1334)

PTBA aquatic lands access

S Rules 3

Randall

Monitoring

Addressing the access of certain aquatic lands by a public transportation benefit area.

SSB 5743(Dead)

Transportation resources

S Rules 3

Liias

Monitoring

Making certain nonsubstantive, corrective changes resulting from enactment of chapter 182, Laws of 2022 (transportation resources).

SB 5763(Dead)

Connecting WA bonds

S Rules 3

Liias

High

Neutral

Increasing existing bond authority for 2015 connecting Washington projects and improvements.

SB 5947(HB 2134)

Transportation budget, supp.

S Prefiled

Liias

Monitoring

Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium.

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

SHB 1124(Dead)

Residential rent and fees

H Rules C

Peterson

High

Concerns

Protecting tenants from excessive rent and related fees by providing at least six months' notice for rent increases over a certain amount, allowing tenants the right to terminate a tenancy without penalty, and limiting late fees.

Requires landlords to provide at least 180 days' and no more than 220 days' notice for rent increases over 5 percent. • Allows a tenant to terminate a tenancy without penalty for any rent increase over 5 percent. • Limits late rental payment fees under the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act to $75.

E2SHB 1479(Dead) (SB 5559)

Student restraint, isolation

H Rules 3C

Callan

Low

Support

Concerning restraint or isolation of students in public schools and educational programs.

Sign in support

HB 1872

Homeless housing grants

H Prefiled

Graham

Monitoring

Establishing accountability requirements for homeless housing grant programs.

HB 1896

Tourism marketing funding

H Prefiled

Ryu

Monitoring

Simplifying the funding provisions of the statewide tourism marketing account.

HB 1932

Even-numbered year elections

H Prefiled

Gregerson

Monitoring

Shifting general elections for local governments to even-numbered years to increase voter participation.

HB 2012

Rental housing/nonprofits

H Prefiled

Street

Monitoring

Concerning eligibility for a property tax exemption for nonprofits providing affordable rental housing built with city and county funds.