South Sound Chamber of Commerce Legislative Coalition Legislative Report – February 16, 2024
We are now past the House of Origin cut off so bills that are remaining are those that will be considered alive for the session. Unless of course something is determined “necessary to implement a budget” – then it might come back to life.
The next cut off dates is February 21 for bills to be out of the opposite house policy committee so you can see from the list below that there is a frantic effort to move bills out committees. The “upcoming events” report below will give you a pretty good look at bills that are going to be considered and moved. Executive Session means it will come up for a vote, but basically any bill that has had a hearing could be moved out of committee pretty quickly.
Monday, February 26th is the date for bills to be out of the opposite house fiscal committee. After that date, it will be all floor session voting, conference committees, amendments, and long caucuses for the next 10 days until the Legislature adjourns Sine Die on March 7th.
The bills we seem moving that potentially have the most controversy include ESHB 1893, which would provide unemployment insurance to striking workers and ESHB 2114 which is the rent control bill. ESHB 1893 was heard in Senator Labor & Commerce this week (thank you to everyone who signed in opposed). ESHB 2114 will be heard next week in Ways and Means – click on the bill number below to sign in to oppose that bill in committee. ESHB 1589, the PSE natural gas bill, was also moved out of the Senate Energy, Environment and Technology Committee this morning.
Both House and Senate budgets will be out next week – along with commensurate hearings in the appropriate committees. This will let us know if there is any assumption for the REET tax or property tax – or any of the other taxes. We are also hearing rumors that some of the initiatives may still be in play for floor discussion. We’ll see if that actually happens.
I’ve attached the Revenue Forecast released on 2/14 for those who are interested.
Also, here is a link to housing bills moving from the perspective of the “Sightline Institute” and “Homes 4 Washington.” I’m not sure we would have the same positions as these groups, but it is a pretty comprehensive look at the housing bills still in play.
Also attached is “dead bill” list so you can see what is not moving now – but might come back to life.
And here is a synopsis of general business bills:
Here's a summary of important bills that may impact your business that are still moving:
HB 1893/SB 5777 (OPPOSE), Unemployment benefits for striking workers – The bills would have all employers subsidize unemployment benefits for striking workers, relieving or at least heavily reducing union obligations to fund strikes from their own war chests. The Employment Security Department has provided data showing a strike where workers earn $80,000 or more (think Boeing or Amazon) could cost as much as $500 million. That would be a huge hit to our $3.7 billion trust fund, as of the November report, likely triggering a tax increase on all employers in the state. The House moved HB 1893 by a 53-44 vote at 2 in the morning. The bill has a Senate hearing on February 15th.
SB 5897/HB 1894, Business licensing (SUPPORT) – Companion bills requested by the Department of Revenue could advance from their chamber of origin, but it appears the Senate version will most likely be sent to the governor’s desk. SB 5897 passed the senate Thursday, February 8. Meanwhile, HB 1894 was placed on second reading on Saturday, February 10th. The bills would increase the size of the reserve account used for programming and other updates to the online Business Licensing Service.
HB 2430, waiving fees (SUPPORT)- This bill waives handling and delinquency fees for businesses closed by government order due to a disaster or declared emergency and was placed on second reading on Saturday, February 10th. Supported by other small businesses, it only has a couple more days to be passed out of its house of origin or it is considered dead for session.
SB 5778/HB 1940, Employer political speech (OPPOSE) – The Senate passed SB 5778 on Wednesday, February 7, on a nearly party-line vote. The bill would prohibit employers from requiring workers to attend company meetings where management addresses unionization efforts, discusses new or proposed laws or regulations impacting the business, or where any political or religious matter is the meeting topic. Its companion, HB 1940, passed the House labor committee and was sent to Rules, where it is likely to remain.
SB 5793/HB 1991, Paid sick leave (NEUTRAL) – The senate narrowed the bill from “sick leave for snow days” to allowing sick leave to be used when a child’s school or care facility is closed due to a declared emergency. On February 7, the bill passed the senate, 28-21. The House has already scheduled the bill for a public hearing and executive action next week. The companion, HB 1991 is eligible for a floor vote in the House, but it is very likely that the bill will not move due to the passage of the senate version.
HB 5924, Personnel records (OPPOSE) – This bill requires the employers to provide employees a copy of their personnel file within 21 days after the employee requests their file, at no cost. Additionally, the employer must furnish a written statement stating the effective date of discharge to a former employee, as well as the reasons. This bill was scheduled for executive action in Way and Means, but failed to moved, so it is considered dead for session.
HB 2266/SB 6107, Sanitary conditions for construction workers who menstruate or express milk(OPPOSE UNTIL MODIFIED) – The bill requires employers would be required to provide hygiene products to workers, a private, lockable bathroom or lactation station, and chilled storage for breastmilk. HB 2266 passed the House with a vote of 84-13, 1 excused on Thursday, February 8th. The senate companion, SB 6107 received a public hearing, but no further action, in the Senate Labor & Commerce Committee.
Upcoming Events
Labor & Commerce (Senate) - SHR 1 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg - 2/19 @ 10:30am
• SHB 2467 - Public Hearing - Increasing access to the long-term services and supports trust. (Remote Testimony Available). (Monitoring)
• HB 2031 - Public Hearing - Recognizing posttraumatic stress disorder as an occupational disease for county coroners, examiners, and investigative personnel. (Remote Testimony Available). (Oppose/Medium)
• HB 1898 - Exec Session - Concerning unemployment insurance benefit charging. (Support/Medium)
• ESHB 1893 - Exec Session - Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for striking or lockout workers. (Oppose/High)
• HB 1901 - Exec Session - Removing the sunset on changes to the unemployment insurance voluntary contribution program. (Support/Medium)
• 2SHB 2320 - Exec Session - Concerning high THC cannabis products. (Monitoring)
Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks (Senate) - SHR 3 and Virtual JACB - 2/19 @ 1:30pm
• HB 2074 - Exec Session - Limiting the application of certain civil penalties to protect landowners from incurring penalties based on the actions of the landowner's lessee. (Monitoring)
Community Safety, Justice, & Reentry (House) - HHR D and Virtual JLOB - 2/19 @ 1:30pm
Early Learning & K-12 Education (Senate) - SHR 1 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg - 2/19 @ 1:30pm
• E4SHB 1239 - Public Hearing - Establishing a simple and uniform system for complaints related to, and instituting a code of educator ethics for, conduct within or involving public elementary and secondary schools. (Remote Testimony Available). (Low)
• ESHB 2236 - Public Hearing - Expanding and strengthening career and technical education core plus programs. (Remote Testimony Available). (Neutral/Medium)
• ESHB 2494 - Public Hearing - Increasing state funding for operating costs in schools. (Remote Testimony Available). (Medium)
• 2SHB 2124 - Public Hearing - Supporting and expanding access to child care and early learning programs. (Remote Testimony Available). (Monitoring)
Education (House) - HHR A and Virtual JLOB - 2/19 @ 1:30pm
• E2SSB 5670 - Exec Session - Permitting 10th grade students to participate in running start in online settings. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Providing summer running start for rising juniors.) (Monitoring)
• ESB 5344 - Public Hearing - Establishing a public school revolving fund. (Remote Testimony Available). (Monitoring)
Housing (House) - HHR B and Virtual JLOB - 2/19 @ 1:30pm
• E2SSB 6175 - Public Hearing - Providing a sales and use tax incentive for existing structures. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning housing affordability tax incentives for existing structures.) (Remote Testimony Available). (Monitoring)
• SB 5792 - Exec Session - Concerning the definition of multiunit residential buildings. (Monitoring)
• ESSB 5657 - Public Hearing - Concerning city and town permitting of kit homes. (Remote Testimony Available). (Monitoring)
Transportation (House) - HHR B and Virtual JLOB - 2/19 @ 4:00pm
• HB 2134 - Public Hearing - Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium. (Hearing is on the proposed substitute bill). (Monitoring)
Business, Financial Services, Gaming & Trade (Senate) - SHR 2 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg - 2/20 @ 8:00am
• SHB 1870 - Public Hearing - Promoting economic development by increasing opportunities for local communities to secure federal funding. (Remote Testimony Available). (Monitoring)
• SHB 2329 - Public Hearing - Conducting a study of the insurance market for housing providers receiving housing trust fund resources. (Remote Testimony Available). (Monitoring)
• SHB 1870 - Exec Session - Promoting economic development by increasing opportunities for local communities to secure federal funding. (Monitoring)
• SHB 2329 - Exec Session - Conducting a study of the insurance market for housing providers receiving housing trust fund resources. (Monitoring)
Health & Long Term Care (Senate) - SHR 4 and Virtual JACB - 2/20 @ 8:00am
• ESHB 2361 - Public Hearing - Phasing in the requirement that only standardized health plans may be offered on the health benefit exchange. (Remote Testimony Available). (Concerns/Medium)
Local Government, Land Use & Tribal Affairs (Senate) - SHR 3 and Virtual JACB - 2/20 @ 8:00am
• ESHB 1510 - Exec Session - Establishing permanent funding for community preservation and development authorities approved through RCW 43.167.060. (Monitoring)
• HB 1987 - Exec Session - Concerning the use of moneys from the rural public facilities sales and use tax for affordable workforce housing infrastructure and facilities. (Monitoring)
• 2SHB 2071 - Exec Session - Concerning residential housing regulations. (Monitoring)
• SHB 2428 - Exec Session - Allowing cities to voluntarily share certain sales and use tax revenue. (Monitoring)
• E2SHB 2354 - Exec Session - Creating an option for impacted taxing districts to provide a portion of their new revenue to support any tax increment area proposed within their jurisdiction and clarifying that a tax increment area must be dissolved when all bond obligations are paid. (Monitoring)
• E2SHB 2160 - Exec Session - Promoting community and transit-oriented housing development. (Monitoring)
Civil Rights & Judiciary (House) - HHR A and Virtual JLOB - 2/20 @ 10:30am
• ESB 5241 - Exec Session - Concerning material changes to the operations and governance structure of participants in the health care marketplace. (Monitoring)
Human Services (Senate) - SHR 2 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg - 2/20 @ 10:30am
• 2SHB 1929 - Exec Session - Supporting young adults following inpatient behavioral health treatment. (Support/Medium)
Labor & Commerce (Senate) - SHR 1 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg - 2/20 @ 10:30am
• SHB 2467 - Exec Session - Increasing access to the long-term services and supports trust. (Monitoring)
• HB 2031 - Exec Session - Recognizing posttraumatic stress disorder as an occupational disease for county coroners, examiners, and investigative personnel. (Oppose/Medium)
Labor & Workplace Standards (House) - HHR D and Virtual JLOB - 2/20 @ 10:30am
• ESSB 5778 - Exec Session - Protecting the rights of workers to refrain from attending meetings or listening to their employer's speech on political or religious matters. (Oppose/High)
• ESSB 5793 - Exec Session - Concerning paid sick leave. (Oppose/Medium)
• SSB 5980 - Public Hearing - Concerning the timeline for issuing a citation for a violation of the Washington industrial safety and health act. (Remote Testimony Available). (Support/Medium)
Law & Justice (Senate) - SHR 4 and Virtual JACB - 2/20 @ 10:30am
• 3SHB 1579 - Exec Session - Establishing a mechanism for independent prosecutions within the office of the attorney general of criminal conduct arising from police use of force. (Monitoring)
Local Government (House) - HHR E and Virtual JLOB - 2/20 @ 10:30am
• ESSB 5334 - Exec Session - Providing a local government option for the funding of essential affordable housing programs. (Monitoring)
• ESSB 6291 - Exec Session - Streamlining the state building code council operating procedures by establishing criteria for statewide amendments to the state building code. (Support/Medium)
• E2SSB 5955 - Public Hearing - Mitigating harm and improving equity in large port districts. (Remote Testimony Available). (Monitoring)
Consumer Protection & Business (House) - HHR C and Virtual JLOB - 2/20 @ 1:30pm
• E2SSB 5838 - Public Hearing - Establishing an artificial intelligence task force. (Remote Testimony Available). (High)
• ESSB 5968 - Public Hearing - Regulating home equity sharing agreements under the consumer loan act. (Remote Testimony Available). (Monitoring)
Environment, Energy & Technology (Senate) - SHR 1 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg - 2/20 @ 1:30pm
• E3SHB 1433 - Public Hearing - Concerning energy labeling of residential buildings. (Remote Testimony Available). (Oppose/Low)
State Government & Elections (Senate) - SHR 2 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg - 2/20 @ 1:30pm
• 2E2SHB 1541 - Exec Session - Establishing the nothing about us without us act. (Monitoring)
• ESHB 1932 - Exec Session - Shifting general elections for local governments to even-numbered years to increase voter participation. (Monitoring)
State Government & Tribal Relations (House) - HHR E and Virtual JLOB - 2/20 @ 1:30pm
• SSB 5835 - Exec Session - Concerning transparency in rule making. (Monitoring)
Community Safety, Justice, & Reentry (House) - HHR D and Virtual JLOB - 2/20 @ 4:00pm
• SSB 5588 - Exec Session - Concerning the mental health sentencing alternative. (Monitoring)
Education (House) - HHR A and Virtual JLOB - 2/20 @ 4:00pm
• SB 5180 - Exec Session - Adopting the interstate teacher mobility compact. (Support/Medium)
• ESB 5344 - Exec Session - Establishing a public school revolving fund. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Establishing a school modernization loan program.) (Monitoring)
Housing (House) - HHR B and Virtual JLOB - 2/20 @ 4:00pm
• E2SSB 6175 - Exec Session - Providing a sales and use tax incentive for existing structures. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning housing affordability tax incentives for existing structures.) (Monitoring)
• ESSB 5657 - Exec Session - Concerning city and town permitting of kit homes. (Monitoring)
Ways & Means (Senate) - SHR 4 and Virtual JACB - 2/20 @ 4:00pm
• HB 2044 - Public Hearing - Standardizing limitations on voter-approved property tax levies. (Remote Testimony Available). (Monitoring)
Higher Education & Workforce Development (Senate) - SHR 2 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg - 2/21 @ 8:00am
• 2SHB 2214 - Exec Session - Permitting beneficiaries of public assistance programs to automatically qualify as income-eligible for the purpose of receiving the Washington college grant. (Support/Medium)
• ESHB 2441 - Exec Session - Establishing a pilot program eliminating college in the high school fees for private not-for-profit four-year institutions. (Support/Medium)
Labor & Workplace Standards (House) - HHR D and Virtual JLOB - 2/21 @ 8:00am
• ESSB 5368 - Exec Session - Expanding access to the workers' compensation stay-at-work program through off-site light duty return to work opportunities. (Support/High)
• SSB 5980 - Exec Session - Concerning the timeline for issuing a citation for a violation of the Washington industrial safety and health act. (Support/Medium)
Local Government (House) - HHR E and Virtual JLOB - 2/21 @ 8:00am
• SSB 5834 - Exec Session - Concerning urban growth areas. (Monitoring)
• SSB 6015 - Exec Session - Concerning residential parking configurations. (Support/Medium)
• ESSB 6061 - Exec Session - Concerning exemptions for housing development under the state environmental policy act. (Monitoring)
• E2SSB 5955 - Exec Session - Mitigating harm and improving equity in large port districts. (Monitoring)
Consumer Protection & Business (House) - HHR C and Virtual JLOB - 2/21 @ 1:30pm
• E2SSB 5838 - Exec Session - Establishing an artificial intelligence task force. (High)
• ESSB 5968 - Exec Session - Regulating home equity sharing agreements under the consumer loan act. (Monitoring)
Transportation (Senate) - SHR 1 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg - 2/21 @ 3:00pm
• SB 5947 - Public Hearing - Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.) (Remote Testimony Available). (Monitoring)
Transportation (House) - HHR B and Virtual JLOB - 2/21 @ 4:00pm
• SSB 6277 - Public Hearing - Creating a new statutory framework for the use of public-private partnerships for transportation projects. (Remote Testimony Available). (High)
• HB 2134 - Exec Session - Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium. (Monitoring)
Appropriations (House) - HHR A and Virtual JLOB - 2/22 @ 1:30pm
• SB 6080 - Exec Session - Simplifying the funding provisions of the statewide tourism marketing account. (Support/High)
Transportation (House) - HHR B and Virtual JLOB - 2/22 @ 1:30pm
• SSB 6302 - Public Hearing - Creating a Washington state supply chain competitiveness infrastructure program. (Remote Testimony Available). (Medium)
Ways & Means (Senate) - SHR 4 and Virtual JACB - 2/22 @ 1:30pm
• ESHB 2114 - Public Hearing - 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. (Remote Testimony Available). (Oppose/High)
Transportation (Senate) - SHR 1 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg - 2/23 @ 1:30pm
• SB 5947 - Exec Session - Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium. (Monitoring)
BUDGET & TAXES
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
HB 1895 (SB 5839) |
Working families' tax credit |
Modifying the working families' tax credit by clarifying the refundable nature of the credit, the application requirements, and the eligibility verification process. |
S 2nd Reading |
Thai |
|
Monitoring |
|
SI 2109 (HI 2109) |
Capital gains tax repeal |
Concerning taxes on long-term capital assets. |
S Ways & Means |
|
|
High |
|
HI 2109 (SI 2109) |
Capital gains tax repeal |
Concerning taxes on long-term capital assets. |
H Finance |
|
|
High |
|
E2SHB 2354(SB 6230) |
Tax increment areas |
Creating an option for impacted taxing districts to provide a portion of their new revenue to support any tax increment area proposed within their jurisdiction. |
S Loc Gov, Land U |
Street |
|
Monitoring |
|
Sales and use tax sharing |
Allowing cities to voluntarily share certain sales and use tax revenue. |
S Loc Gov, Land |
Klicker |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
ESHB 2482(SB 6137) |
Semiconductor tax incentives |
Reinstating semiconductor tax incentives. |
S Business, Fin S |
Harris |
Support |
High |
|
HJR 4209 (SJR 8209) |
Residential ex./property tax |
Concerning a constitutional amendment providing for a residential real property exemption from property taxes levied for state purposes. |
H Finance |
Berg |
Oppose |
High |
|
SB 6080 (HB 1896) |
Tourism marketing funding |
Simplifying the funding provisions of the statewide tourism marketing account. |
H Approps |
Boehnke |
Support |
High |
|
SB 6137(ESHB 2482) |
Semiconductor tax incentives |
Reinstating semiconductor tax incentives. |
S Ways & Means |
Cleveland |
Support |
High |
|
SJR 8209 (HJR 4209) |
Residential ex./property tax |
Concerning a constitutional amendment providing for a residential real property exemption from property taxes levied for state purposes. |
S Ways & Means |
Robinson |
|
Monitoring |
BUSINESS
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
2E2SHB 1541(SB 5616) |
Lived experience |
Establishing the nothing about us without us act. |
S State Govt & E |
Farivar |
|
Monitoring |
|
Local comm. federal funding |
Promoting economic development by increasing opportunities for local communities to secure federal funding. |
S Business, Fin S |
Barnard |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
2SHB 2320(SSB 6220) |
High THC cannabis products |
Concerning high THC cannabis products. |
S Labor & Comm |
Davis |
|
Monitoring |
|
Stay-at-work program |
Expanding access to the workers' compensation stay-at-work program through off-site light duty return to work opportunities. |
H Labor & Workpla |
Keiser |
Support |
High |
|
|
Rule making websites |
Concerning transparency in rule making. |
H State Govt & Tr |
Wilson |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
E2SSB 5838(2SHB 1934) |
AI task force |
Establishing an artificial intelligence task force. |
H ConsPro&Bus |
Nguyen |
|
High |
|
SB 5897 (HB 1894) |
Business licensing service |
Modifying provisions of the business licensing service program. |
H Finance |
Mullet |
Support |
Medium |
|
E2SSB 5955(HB 2103) |
Large port districts |
Mitigating harm and improving equity in large port districts. |
H Local Govt |
Keiser |
|
Monitoring |
|
ESSB 6069(HB 2244) |
Retirement savings |
Improving retirement security for Washingtonians by establishing Washington saves, an automatic enrollment individual retirement savings account program, and updating the Washington retirement marketplace statute. |
H ConsPro&Bus |
Mullet |
|
High |
|
Supply chain competitiveness |
Creating a Washington state supply chain competitiveness infrastructure program. |
H Transportation |
Liias |
|
Medium |
CHILD CARE
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
HB 2111 (SB 5941) |
Subsidized child care |
Clarifying requirements for subsidized child care. |
S EL/K-12 |
Nance |
|
Monitoring |
|
Child care prg. eligibility |
Supporting and expanding access to child care and early learning programs. |
S EL/K-12 |
Eslick |
|
Monitoring |
EDUCATION/WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
Dual credit program notice |
Notifying high school students and their families about available dual credit programs and any available financial assistance. |
S EL/K-12 |
Paul |
|
Low |
|
|
Educator ethics & complaints |
Establishing a simple and uniform system for complaints related to, and instituting a code of educator ethics for, conduct within or involving public elementary and secondary schools. |
S EL/K-12 |
Santos |
|
Low |
|
|
Paraeducator course of study |
Establishing rules to improve the consistency and quality of the implementation of the fundamental courses of study for paraeducators. |
S EL/K-12 |
Donaghy |
|
Low |
|
|
E4SHB 1479(SB 5559) |
Student restraint, isolation |
Concerning restraint or isolation of students in public schools and educational programs. |
S EL/K-12 |
Callan |
|
Medium |
|
SHB 1915 (SB 5819) |
Financial education |
Making financial education instruction a graduation prerequisite and a required component of public education. |
S EL/K-12 |
Rude |
Support |
Medium |
|
SHB 2180 (SB 6014) |
Special education cap |
Increasing the special education enrollment funding cap. |
S EL/K-12 |
Callan |
|
Medium |
|
2SHB 2214(SSB 6300) |
College grant/public assist. |
Permitting beneficiaries of public assistance programs to automatically qualify as income-eligible for the purpose of receiving the Washington college grant. |
S Higher Ed & Wo |
Slatter |
Support |
Medium |
|
Tech. ed. core plus programs |
Expanding and strengthening career and technical education core plus programs. |
S EL/K-12 |
Shavers |
Neutral |
Medium |
|
|
College in the HS fees |
Establishing a pilot program eliminating college in the high school fees for private not-for-profit four-year institutions. |
S Higher Ed & Wor |
Corry |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
School operating costs |
Increasing state funding for operating costs in schools. |
S EL/K-12 |
Bergquist |
|
Medium |
|
|
Teacher mobility compact |
Adopting the interstate teacher mobility compact. |
H Education |
Hunt |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
School modernization loans |
Establishing a public school revolving fund. |
H Education |
Schoesler |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Running start/rising juniors |
Permitting 10th grade students to participate in running start in online settings. |
H Education |
Hawkins |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
SSB 6053 (HB 2443) |
Education data sharing |
Improving equitable access to postsecondary education. |
H Exec Action |
Holy |
|
Medium |
ENERGY/CLIMATE CHANGE
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
Energy in buildings |
Concerning energy in buildings. |
S Environment, En |
Ramel |
Concerns |
Low |
|
|
Energy labeling/residential |
Concerning energy labeling of residential buildings. |
H 3rd Reading |
Duerr |
Oppose |
Low |
|
|
ESHB 1589(SSB 5562) |
Clean energy |
Supporting Washington's clean energy economy and transitioning to a clean, affordable, and reliable energy future. |
S Environment, En |
Doglio |
|
High |
|
CCA tax exemptions |
Creating business and occupation and public utility tax exemptions for certain amounts received as the result of receipt, generation, purchase, sale, transfer, or retirement of allowances, offset credits, or price ceiling units under the climate commitment act. |
S Environment, En |
Orcutt |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
ESSB 6291(SHB 2465) |
State building code council |
Streamlining the state building code council operating procedures by establishing criteria for statewide amendments to the state building code. |
H Local Govt |
Wilson |
Support |
Medium |
HEALTH CARE
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
2ESHB 1508(SB 5519) |
Health care cost board |
Improving consumer affordability through the health care cost transparency board. |
S Health & Long T |
Macri |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
Physician assistant compact |
Adopting the physician assistant compact. |
S Health & Long T |
Leavitt |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
Social work compact |
Adopting the social work licensure compact. |
S Health & Long T |
Orwall |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
LTSS program statements |
Promoting access to information regarding the long-term services and supports trust program. |
S Labor & Comm |
Chambers |
Neutral |
Medium |
|
|
ESHB 2361(SB 6258) |
Standardized health plans |
Phasing in the requirement that only standardized health plans may be offered on the health benefit exchange. |
S Health & Long |
Riccelli |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
LTSS trust access |
Increasing access to the long-term services and supports trust. |
S Labor & Comm |
Macri |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
ESB 5241 (HB 1263) |
Health care marketplace |
Concerning material changes to the operations and governance structure of participants in the health care marketplace. |
H Civil R & Judi |
Randall |
|
Monitoring |
|
Physician assistant compact |
Adopting the physician assistant compact. |
H Exec Action |
Muzzall |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
SSB 5986 (HB 2285) |
Out-of-network health costs |
Protecting consumers from out-of-network health care services charges. |
H HC/Wellness |
Cleveland |
Support |
Medium |
HOUSING/HOMELESSNESS
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
Nonprofit housing/tax ex. |
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. |
S Housing |
Ramel |
|
Medium |
|
|
Occupancy limits |
Addressing the authority of owners' associations in common interest communities to regulate or limit occupancy by unrelated persons. |
S Law & Justice |
Walen |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
ESHB 1245(SSB 5364) |
Lot splitting |
Increasing housing options through lot splitting. |
S Loc Gov, Land U |
Barkis |
Support |
High |
|
2ESHB 1282(SSB 5322) |
Public building materials |
Requiring environmental and labor reporting for public building construction and renovation material. |
S Environment, En |
Duerr |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
Impact fee deferrals |
Concerning impact fee deferrals. |
S Loc Gov, Land U |
Goehner |
Support |
High |
|
|
Community preservation auth. |
Establishing permanent funding for community preservation and development authorities approved through RCW 43.167.060. |
S Loc Gov, Land U |
Santos |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
HB 1890 (SB 5807) |
Housing authorities |
Concerning housing authorities. |
S Housing |
Alvarado |
|
Monitoring |
|
Workforce housing prg. |
Concerning the workforce housing accelerator program. |
S Housing |
Leavitt |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
2SHB 1929(SB 6050) |
Postinpatient housing |
Supporting young adults following inpatient behavioral health treatment. |
S Human Services |
Cortes |
Support |
Medium |
|
Public facilities tax use |
Concerning the use of moneys from the rural public facilities sales and use tax for affordable workforce housing infrastructure and facilities. |
S Loc Gov, Land U |
Low |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Env. & land use appeals |
Modifying the appeals process for environmental and land use matters. |
S Environment, En |
Fitzgibbon |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Voter-approved property tax |
Standardizing limitations on voter-approved property tax levies. |
S Ways & Means |
Duerr |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Residential housing |
Concerning residential housing regulations. |
S Loc Gov, Land |
Duerr |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
HB 2074 (SB 6260) |
Landowner's lessee/penalties |
Limiting the application of certain civil penalties to protect landowners from incurring penalties based on the actions of the landowner's lessee. |
S Ag/Water/Natura |
Dye |
|
Monitoring |
|
HI 2113 (SI 2113) |
Police vehicular pursuits |
Concerning vehicular pursuits by peace officers. |
H Community Safet |
|
|
High |
|
ESHB 2114(SB 5961) |
Residential tenants |
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. |
S Ways & Means |
Alvarado |
Oppose |
High |
|
E2SHB 2160(SB 6024) |
Housing development |
Promoting community and transit-oriented housing development. |
S Loc Gov, Land U |
Reed |
|
Monitoring |
|
Department of housing |
Creating a Washington state department of housing. |
S Housing |
Morgan |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
SHB 2296(SSB 6150) |
Comprehensive plan revisions |
Extending the comprehensive plan revision schedule for select local governments. |
S Loc Gov, Land U |
Griffey |
|
Monitoring |
|
Middle housing requirements |
Modifying middle housing requirements and the definitions of transit stop. |
S Housing |
Bateman |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Insurance market/housing |
Conducting a study of the insurance market for housing providers receiving housing trust fund resources. |
S Business, Fin S |
Macri |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Senior property tax ex./ADUs |
Including an accessory dwelling unit under property that qualifies for the senior citizens property tax exemption. |
S Housing |
Goehner |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Affordable housing funding |
Providing a local government option for the funding of essential affordable housing programs. |
H Local Govt |
Lovelett |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Kit home permitting |
Concerning city and town permitting of kit homes. |
H Housing |
Wilson |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Multiunit res./definition |
Concerning the definition of multiunit residential buildings. |
H Housing |
Padden |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Urban growth areas |
Concerning urban growth areas. |
H Local Govt |
Short |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
ESSB 5968(SHB 2081) |
Home equity sharing |
Regulating home equity sharing agreements under the consumer loan act. |
H ConsPro&Bus |
Stanford |
|
Monitoring |
|
Residential parking |
Concerning residential parking configurations. |
H Local Govt |
Shewmake |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
ADU tax exemptions |
Amending the county population threshold for counties that may exempt from taxation the value of accessory dwelling units to incentivize rental to low-income households. |
H Finance |
Braun |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Housing development/SEPA |
Concerning exemptions for housing development under the state environmental policy act. |
H Local Govt |
Lovelett |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
SSB 6150(SHB 2296) |
Comprehensive plan revisions |
Extending the comprehensive plan revision schedule for select local governments. |
H Local Govt |
Cleveland |
|
Monitoring |
|
E2SSB 6175(2SHB 2308) |
Existing structures/tax |
Concerning housing affordability tax incentives for existing structures. |
H Housing |
Trudeau |
|
Monitoring |
|
SJR 8209 (HJR 4209) |
Residential ex./property tax |
Concerning a constitutional amendment providing for a residential real property exemption from property taxes levied for state purposes. |
S Ways & Means |
Robinson |
|
Monitoring |
OTHER CHAMBER BILLS
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
2ESHB 1371(SSB 5494) |
Freight railroad infra. |
Providing incentives to improve freight railroad infrastructure. |
S Business, Fin S |
Barkis |
|
Medium |
|
HB 2137 (SB 6202) |
Tourism promotion exemptions |
Concerning technical changes to allowable exemptions for tourism promotion area assessments. |
S Business, Fin S |
Berg |
|
Monitoring |
|
Main street tax credits |
Allowing main street programs to use remaining main street tax credits after a certain date. |
S Ways & Means |
Steele |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
SSB 5494(2ESHB 1371) |
Freight railroad infra. |
Providing incentives to improve freight railroad infrastructure. |
S Ways & Means |
Wilson |
|
Medium |
PUBLIC SAFETY
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
Electric security alarms |
Regulating electric security alarm systems. |
S Loc Gov, Land U |
Hackney |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Law enf. employ. eligibility |
Expanding eligibility for employment of certain law enforcement and prosecutor office positions. |
S Law & Justice |
Cortes |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
Independent prosecutions |
Establishing a mechanism for independent prosecutions within the office of the attorney general of criminal conduct arising from police use of force. |
S Law & Justice |
Stonier |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
HI 2113 (SI 2113) |
Police vehicular pursuits |
Concerning vehicular pursuits by peace officers. |
H Community Safet |
|
|
High |
|
Catalytic converter theft |
Deterring the theft of catalytic converters. |
S Law & Justice |
Ryu |
|
High |
|
|
Organized retail theft |
Concerning organized retail theft. |
H Community Safet |
Torres |
Support |
High |
|
|
Mental health sentencing alt |
Concerning the mental health sentencing alternative. |
H Community Safe |
Nobles |
|
Monitoring |
TRANSPORTATION
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
HB 2134 (SB 5947) |
Transportation budget, supp. |
Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium. |
H Transportation |
Fey |
|
Monitoring |
|
Ferries 75 work group |
Creating the Washington state ferries 75 work group. |
H Transportation |
Nance |
|
Medium |
|
|
SB 5947 (HB 2134) |
Transportation budget, supp. |
Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium. |
S Transportation |
Liias |
|
Monitoring |
|
Transportation partnerships |
Creating a new statutory framework for the use of public-private partnerships for transportation projects. |
H Transportation |
Liias |
|
High |
Uncategorized Bills
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
Continuing education/K-12 |
Posting of approved courses and providers of continuing education. |
S EL/K-12 |
Santos |
|
Medium |
|
|
ESHB 1893(SB 5777) |
Unemp ins/strikes & lockouts |
Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for striking or lockout workers. |
S Labor & Comm |
Doglio |
Oppose |
High |
|
Unempl. benefit charging |
Concerning unemployment insurance benefit charging. |
S Labor & Comm |
Schmidt |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
Unempl. voluntary program |
Removing the sunset on changes to the unemployment insurance voluntary contribution program. |
S Labor & Comm |
Springer |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
SHB 1905(SSB 5894) |
Equal pay/protected classes |
Including protected classes in the Washington equal pay and opportunities act. |
S Labor & Comm |
Mena |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
HB 1927 (SB 5932) |
Temporary total disability |
Reducing the number of days that a worker's temporary total disability must continue to receive industrial insurance compensation for the day of an injury and the three-day period following the injury. |
S Labor & Comm |
Bronoske |
Oppose |
Monitoring |
|
Even-numbered year elections |
Shifting general elections for local governments to even-numbered years to increase voter participation. |
S State Govt & E |
Gregerson |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
HB 1975 (SB 6028) |
Unemployment overpayments |
Relieving individuals from paying interest on certain unemployment insurance overpayment assessments. |
S Labor & Comm |
Ortiz-Self |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
Rental housing/nonprofits |
Concerning eligibility for a property tax exemption for nonprofits providing affordable rental housing built with city and county funds. |
S Housing |
Street |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
PTSD/coroners & examiners |
Recognizing posttraumatic stress disorder as an occupational disease for county coroners, examiners, and investigative personnel. |
S Labor & Comm |
Abbarno |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
|
SHB 2102 (SB 6177) |
PFML benefits/health info. |
Establishing requirements for the disclosure of health care information for qualifying persons to receive paid family and medical leave benefits. |
S Health & Long T |
Berry |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
ESSB 5778(SHB 1940) |
Employer political speech |
Protecting the rights of workers to refrain from attending meetings or listening to their employer's speech on political or religious matters. |
H Labor & Workpla |
Keiser |
Oppose |
High |
|
ESSB 5793(SHB 1991) |
Paid sick leave |
Concerning paid sick leave. |
H Labor & Workpl |
Saldana |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
WISHA violation timeline |
Concerning the timeline for issuing a citation for a violation of the Washington industrial safety and health act. |
H Labor & Workpla |
Keiser |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
SB 6028 (HB 1975) |
Unemployment overpayments |
Relieving individuals from paying interest on certain unemployment insurance overpayment assessments. |
H Labor & Workpla |
Braun |
Concerns |
Medium |
SSCCLC 2024 SESSION HALF WAY POINT DEAD BILL LIST – February 16, 2024
Below is a list of bills that are considered “dead” (for now) in the 2024 Legislative Session. Budget releases next week may shock some of these back into life.
BUDGET & TAXES
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
HB 1000(Dead) |
Working families' tax credit |
Providing sales tax relief by expanding the working families' tax credit. |
H Finance |
Stokesbary |
|
Medium |
|
SHB 1140(Dead) (ESSB 5187) |
Operating budget |
Making 2023-2025 fiscal biennium operating appropriations. |
H Rules X |
Ormsby |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1141(Dead) (SB 5188) |
Operating budget, supp. |
Making 2021-2023 fiscal biennium second supplemental operating appropriations. |
H Approps |
Ormsby |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 1147(Dead) (ESSB 5200) |
Capital budget |
Concerning the capital budget. |
H Rules X |
Tharinger |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1191(Dead) (SB 5166) |
Cooperative finance org. B&O |
Reauthorizing the business and occupation tax deduction for cooperative finance organizations. |
H Rules X |
Springer |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1473(Dead) (SB 5486) |
Wealth/property tax |
Investing in Washington families and creating a more fair tax system by enacting a narrowly tailored property tax on extreme wealth derived from the ownership of stocks, bonds, and other financial intangible property. |
H Finance |
Thai |
Oppose |
High |
|
HB 1484(Dead) |
Estate tax exclusion amount |
Updating the estate tax exclusion amount. |
H Finance |
Orcutt |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1644(Dead) (SB 5482) |
Margin tax |
Concerning the margin tax. |
H Finance |
Walen |
Oppose |
High |
|
HB 1670(Dead) |
Property tax limit factor |
Raising the limit factor for property taxes. |
H Rules R |
Ormsby |
|
High |
|
HB 1702(Dead) (SB 5686) |
Senior citizens local tax |
Imposing a local sales tax wholly credited against the state sales tax to support programs for senior citizens. |
H Local Govt |
Orcutt |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1703(Dead) |
Local property tax levies |
Imposing local property tax levies wholly credited against the state property tax to provide support and services for veterans' assistance and for persons with developmental disabilities or mental health needs. |
H Local Govt |
Orcutt |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1704(Dead) |
Sales and use tax rate |
Reducing the state sales and use tax rate. |
H Finance |
Orcutt |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1727(Dead) |
Transaction fees |
Ensuring fairness and consistency for Washington state businesses by leveling the playing field on transaction fees. |
H ConsPro&Bus |
Chapman |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1793(Dead) |
Wireless devices tax |
Funding digital equity by imposing a tax on certain wireless devices. |
H Finance |
Gregerson |
Oppose |
High |
|
HB 1795(Dead) |
Estate tax |
Making the estate tax more progressive. |
H Finance |
Street |
Oppose |
High |
|
HB 1820(Dead) |
Local sales tax uses |
Increasing permissible uses of existing local sales tax authority. |
H Local Govt |
Walsh |
|
Medium |
|
HB 1966(Dead) |
Manufacturing machinery/REET |
Exempting manufacturing machinery and equipment from real estate excise tax. |
H Finance |
Walen |
Support |
High |
|
HB 2278(Dead) (SB 6248) |
Capital gains tax |
Modifying the capital gains tax under chapter 82.87 RCW and related statutes by closing loopholes, repealing and replacing the business and occupation tax credit with a capital gains tax credit, clarifying ambiguities and making technical corrections in a manner that is not estimated to affect state or local tax collections, treating spouses and domestic partners more consistently, modifying and adding definitions, creating a good faith penalty waiver, and modifying the publication schedule for inflation adjustments. |
H Finance |
Thai |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2418(Dead) (SB 6250) |
Working families/prop. tax |
Increasing the working families' tax credit to reflect the economic burden of property taxes incorporated into rental amounts charged to residential tenants. |
H Finance |
Berg |
|
High |
|
HB 2419(Dead) |
Homeowner property tax ex. |
Providing housing safety, security, and protection by creating the homeowner relief property tax exemption. |
H Finance |
Berg |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2436(Dead) |
Local sales and use tax |
Creating a local sales and use tax. |
H Local Govt |
Corry |
|
Medium |
|
HB 2439(Dead) |
Personal income taxes |
Concerning personal income. |
H Finance |
Volz |
Support |
Medium |
|
HJR 4202(Dead) |
Tax referendums |
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for an automatic referendum on tax acts. |
H State Govt & T |
Volz |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5030 (Dead) (HB 1018) |
Hog fuel/tax exemption |
Changing the expiration date for the sales and use tax exemption of hog fuel to comply with the 2045 deadline for fossil fuel-free electrical generation in Washington state and to protect jobs with health care and retirement benefits in economically distressed communities. |
S Ways & Means |
Van De Wege |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5136 (Dead) |
Sales and use tax exemptions |
Exempting permanently from the sales and use tax purchases of clothing, products for children, and prepared food. |
S Ways & Means |
Fortunato |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5158(Dead) |
State & local taxation |
Concerning transparency in state and local taxation. |
S Rules X |
Wilson |
Support |
Medium |
|
SB 5407 (Dead) (HB 1303) |
Property tax administration |
Concerning the administration of property taxes. |
S Ways & Means |
Robinson |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5482 (Dead) (HB 1644) |
Margin tax |
Concerning the margin tax. |
S Business, Fin |
Frame |
Oppose |
High |
|
SB 5486 (Dead) (HB 1473) |
Wealth/property tax |
Investing in Washington families and creating a more fair tax system by enacting a narrowly tailored property tax on extreme wealth derived from the ownership of stocks, bonds, and other financial intangible property. |
S Ways & Means |
Frame |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5539 (Dead) (HB 1527) |
Tax increment financing |
Making technical corrections to the local tax increment financing program. |
S Ways & Means |
Cleveland |
Support |
Low |
|
SB 5612 (Dead) (HB 1575) |
Cultural access programs/tax |
Modifying the sales and use tax for cultural access programs by allowing the tax to be imposed by a councilmanic or commission authority and defining timelines and priorities for action. |
S Loc Gov, Land |
Lovelett |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5618 (Dead) |
Local property tax limit |
Increasing the local property tax revenue growth limit. |
S Loc Gov, Land |
Kuderer |
Oppose |
High |
|
SB 5686 (Dead) (HB 1702) |
Senior citizens local tax |
Imposing a local sales tax wholly credited against the state sales tax to support programs for senior citizens. |
S Loc Gov, Land |
Braun |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5721 (Dead) |
Advanced aerospace training |
Authorizing a business and occupation tax credit to incentivize private sector investment in advanced aerospace manufacturing training and education. |
S Ways & Means |
Boehnke |
Support |
High |
|
SB 5767 (Dead) |
Hospital exec. excise tax |
Funding health care access by imposing an excise tax on the annual compensation paid to certain highly compensated hospital employees. |
S Ways & Means |
Randall |
|
Low |
|
SSB 5770(Dead) |
Property tax |
Providing state and local property tax reform. |
S Rules X |
Pedersen |
Oppose |
High |
|
SB 5839 (Dead) (HB 1895) |
Working families' tax credit |
Modifying the working families' tax credit by clarifying the refundable nature of the credit, the application requirements, and the eligibility verification process. |
S Ways & Means |
Nguyen |
|
Medium |
|
SB 5987 (Dead) |
Gift certificates |
Improving consumer protection on gift certificates. |
S Business, Fin S |
Trudeau |
Oppose |
High |
|
SB 6230 (Dead) (E2SHB 2354) |
Tax increment areas |
Creating an option for impacted taxing districts to provide a portion of their new revenue to support any tax increment area proposed within their jurisdiction. |
S Loc Gov, Land |
Rivers |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 6248 (Dead) (HB 2278) |
Capital gains tax |
Modifying the capital gains tax under chapter 82.87 RCW and related statutes by closing loopholes, repealing and replacing the business and occupation tax credit with a capital gains tax credit, clarifying ambiguities and making technical corrections in a manner that is not estimated to affect state or local tax collections, treating spouses and domestic partners more consistently, modifying and adding definitions, creating a good faith penalty waiver, and modifying the publication schedule for inflation adjustments. |
S Ways & Means |
Robinson |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 6249 (Dead) |
Homeowner property tax ex. |
Providing housing safety, security, and protection by creating the homeowner relief property tax exemption. |
S Ways & Means |
Robinson |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
SB 6250 (Dead) (HB 2418) |
Working families/prop. tax |
Increasing the working families' tax credit to reflect the economic burden of property taxes incorporated into rental amounts charged to residential tenants. |
S Ways & Means |
Robinson |
|
Monitoring |
|
SJR 8204(Dead) |
Property taxes/residence |
Concerning property tax relief. |
S Ways & Means |
Wilson |
|
Monitoring |
|
SJR 8206(Dead) (HJR 4205) |
Property tax rebates |
Concerning property tax rebates. |
S Ways & Means |
Kuderer |
|
Monitoring |
BUSINESS
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
HB 1011(Dead) |
Long-term care/repeal |
Repealing the long-term services and supports trust program. |
H HC/Wellness |
Abbarno |
|
High |
|
SHB 1095(Dead) (SSB 5109) |
Wage replacement |
Creating a wage replacement program for certain Washington workers excluded from unemployment insurance. |
H Approps |
Walen |
Oppose |
High |
|
SHB 1136(Dead) |
Employee expenditures |
Requiring employers to reimburse employees for necessary expenditures and losses. |
H Rules C |
Reeves |
Neutral |
Medium |
|
HB 1137(Dead) |
Return-to-work opportunities |
Creating equitable access to return-to-work opportunities in workers' compensation. |
H Labor & Workpl |
Mosbrucker |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1152(Dead) (SSB 5171) |
Consumer products/gender |
Addressing consumer gender discrimination. |
H ConsPro&Bus |
Mena |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
HB 1227(Dead) |
Employer health care funding |
Assessing employers for their employees' health care costs paid by the state. |
H Labor & Workpl |
Reeves |
|
Monitoring |
|
E2SHB 1320(Dead) (SSB 5061) |
Personnel records |
Concerning access to personnel records. |
H Rules 3C |
Reed |
Oppose |
High |
|
HB 1398(Dead) |
Economic development info. |
Requiring state agencies to share information to encourage economic development. |
H Labor & Workpl |
Chapman |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1502(Dead) |
PFML job protection study |
Concerning studying the impacts of job protection on the utilization of paid family medical leave benefits. |
H Labor & Workpl |
Berry |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
HB 1537(Dead) |
Child care licensing |
Concerning licensing requirements for child care centers and indoor early learning programs. |
H Human Svc, You |
Couture |
|
Monitoring |
|
ESHB 1554(Dead) |
Lead impacts |
Reducing public health and environmental impacts from lead. |
H Rules 3C |
Doglio |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1557(Dead) (SB 5483) |
Digital processing services |
Concerning the classification of digital processing services. |
H Finance |
Santos |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 1561(Dead) |
Public utility tax exemption |
Increasing the public utility tax exemption threshold and annually adjusting the threshold for inflation. |
H Rules R |
Jacobsen |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1616(Dead) (SB 5643) |
Personal data rights charter |
Creating a charter of people's personal data rights. |
H Civil R & Judi |
Kloba |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1623(Dead) |
Regional economic dev. |
Concerning regional economic development visions and action plans. |
H Approps |
Volz |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1649(Dead) |
Prejudgment interest |
Concerning prejudgment interest. |
H Civil R & Judi |
Hackney |
Oppose |
High |
|
HB 1687(Dead) (SB 5548) |
Vehicle service fees |
Addressing vehicle service fees. |
H Transportation |
Eslick |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1716(Dead) |
Child care B&O credit |
Supporting employers providing child care assistance to employees by establishing a business and occupation tax credit for businesses and requiring the department of revenue to provide a report to the legislature. |
H Finance |
Rule |
Support |
High |
|
SHB 1743(Dead) |
Employee ownership |
Concerning employee ownership. |
H Approps |
Doglio |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 1767(Dead) |
Federal funding opps. |
Concerning the role of the department of commerce in monitoring and providing technical assistance related to federal funding opportunities. |
H Approps |
Barnard |
Support |
Medium |
|
HB 1785(Dead) |
COVID-19/occupational |
Establishing COVID-19 as an occupational disease. |
H Labor & Workpl |
Berry |
Oppose |
High |
|
HB 1787(Dead) |
Transport and delivery |
Concerning the planning and implementation of infrastructure to facilitate the transport and delivery of goods. |
H Local Govt |
Sandlin |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1799(Dead) |
Data brokers |
Concerning the registration of business entities that qualify as data brokers. |
H ConsPro&Bus |
Kloba |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1801(Dead) |
COVID-19 vaccine/state empl. |
Eliminating COVID-19 vaccine requirements for new or prospective employees of state agencies. |
H Labor & Workpla |
Jacobsen |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1894(Dead) (SB 5897) |
Business licensing service |
Modifying provisions of the business licensing service program. |
H 2nd Reading |
Walen |
Support |
Medium |
|
2SHB 1934(Dead) (E2SSB 5838) |
AI task force |
Establishing an artificial intelligence task force. |
H 2nd Reading |
Couture |
|
High |
|
HB 2103(Dead) (E2SSB 5955) |
Large port districts |
Mitigating harm and improving equity in large port districts. |
H Local Govt |
Orwall |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2149(Dead) |
Consumer personal info. |
Protecting consumer personal information. |
H ConsPro&Bus |
Reeves |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2244(Dead) (ESSB 6069) |
Retirement savings |
Improving retirement security for Washingtonians by establishing Washington saves, an automatic enrollment individual retirement savings account program, and updating the Washington retirement marketplace statute. |
H ConsPro&Bus |
Reeves |
Concerns |
High |
|
HB 2430(Dead) |
Business licensing fees |
Waiving business licensing handling and delinquency fees for eligible businesses. |
H 2nd Reading |
Springer |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 2437(Dead) |
Retirement savings |
Incentivizing retirement savings options for Washington businesses and their employees. |
H Approps |
Santos |
|
Medium |
|
HJR 4206(Dead) |
Personal property taxation |
Concerning the taxation of personal property. |
H Rules R |
Leavitt |
Support |
High |
|
SSB 5061(Dead) (E2SHB 1320) |
Personnel records |
Concerning access to personnel records. |
S Ways & Means |
Kuderer |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
SB 5063(Dead) |
Gubernatorial emergencies |
Establishing balanced legislative oversight of gubernatorial powers during a declared emergency. |
S State Govt & E |
Wilson |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5090(Dead) |
Torts |
Concerning tort actions. |
S Law & Justice |
Padden |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5109(Dead) (SHB 1095) |
Wage replacement |
Creating a wage replacement program for certain Washington workers excluded from unemployment insurance. |
S Ways & Means |
Saldana |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5110(Dead) |
Labor practices/penalties |
Adding penalties for certain prohibited practices in chapter 49.44 RCW. |
S Rules X |
Keiser |
Oppose |
High |
|
SSB 5171(Dead) (HB 1152) |
Consumer products/gender |
Addressing consumer gender discrimination. |
S Rules X |
Dhingra |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
SB 5212(Dead) (SHB 1068) |
Injured worker medical exams |
Concerning injured workers' rights during compelled medical examinations. |
S Labor & Comm |
Stanford |
Oppose |
High |
|
SB 5240(Dead) (HB 1656) |
Unemployment ins. appeals |
Concerning unemployment insurance benefits appeal procedures. |
S Rules X |
Braun |
Support |
Medium |
|
SB 5310(Dead) (HB 1197) |
Workers' comp. providers |
Defining attending provider and clarifying other provider functions for workers' compensation claims, and adding psychologists as attending providers for mental health only claims. |
S Rules X |
Lovelett |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
SB 5356(Dead) |
Procurement/automated system |
Establishing guidelines for government procurement and use of automated decision systems in order to protect consumers, improve transparency, and create more market predictability. |
S Environment, E |
Hasegawa |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5417(Dead) |
Employer political speech |
Protecting the rights of workers to refrain from attending meetings or listening to their employer's speech on political or religious matters. |
S Rules X |
Keiser |
Oppose |
High |
|
SB 5418(Dead) |
Definition of public work |
Expanding the definition of public work. |
S State Govt & E |
Conway |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5423(Dead) |
Working conn. child care |
Providing eligibility for working connections child care benefits. |
S Ways & Means |
Nobles |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5429(Dead) (SHB 1457) |
Motor carriers/restrooms |
Concerning a motor carrierâs ability to access restroom facilities required by rules authorized under chapter 49.17 RCW. |
S Ways & Means |
Stanford |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5472(Dead) |
Hard-to-place job seekers |
Providing incentives to employers to hire certain hard-to-place job seekers. |
S Labor & Comm |
Gildon |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5479(Dead) |
Long-term care/referendum |
Repealing the long-term services and supports trust program. |
S Labor & Comm |
Schoesler |
Support |
High |
|
SB 5483(Dead) (HB 1557) |
Digital processing services |
Concerning the classification of digital processing services. |
S Ways & Means |
Stanford |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5524(Dead) (SHB 1521) |
Industrial insurance/duties |
Concerning the duties of industrial insurance self-insured employers and third-party administrators. |
S Rules X |
Van De Wege |
Oppose |
High |
|
SSB 5541(Dead) |
Supply chain transparency |
Providing transparency in supply chains. |
S Ways & Means |
Dhingra |
Oppose |
High |
|
SB 5548(Dead) (HB 1687) |
Vehicle service fees |
Addressing vehicle service fees. |
S Transportation |
Wilson |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5579(Dead) |
Hydrofluorocarbons/supply |
Expanding the department of ecology's authority to refrain from enforcing chapter 70A.60 RCW to mitigate the effects of supply chain problems or other similar disruptions. |
S Ways & Means |
Braun |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5639(Dead) |
LTSS trust exemptions/recert |
Prohibiting the recertification of existing long-term services and supports trust program exemptions. |
S Labor & Comm |
Muzzall |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5643(Dead) (HB 1616) |
Personal data rights charter |
Creating a charter of people's personal data rights. |
S Environment, E |
Hasegawa |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5717(Dead) |
Industrial ins. compliance |
Concerning a voluntary compliance program for industrial insurance. |
S Labor & Comm |
Stanford |
|
Medium |
|
SB 5718(Dead) (2SHB 1746) |
State broadband map |
Concerning a state broadband map. |
S Environment, E |
Wellman |
|
Medium |
|
SB 5987(Dead) |
Gift certificates |
Improving consumer protection on gift certificates. |
S Business, Fin S |
Trudeau |
Oppose |
High |
|
SSB 6220(Dead) (2SHB 2320) |
High THC cannabis products |
Concerning high THC cannabis products. |
S Ways & Means |
Salomon |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 6241(Dead) (HB 2349) |
Job posting wage disclosures |
Strengthening pay transparency requirements. |
S Labor & Comm |
Randall |
Support |
High |
|
SB 6243(Dead) |
Technology manuf./B&O tax |
Providing a state business and occupation tax exemption to encourage clean technology manufacturing in Washington. |
S Business, Fin |
Mullet |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 6299(Dead) |
Employees/digital technology |
Protecting employee rights in the workplace with regards to the use of digital technology. |
S Rules X |
Stanford |
|
Medium |
CHILD CARE
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
HB 2101(Dead) |
Child care licensing fees |
Eliminating child care licensing fees. |
H Approps |
Rule |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 2322(Dead) |
Child care/tax preferences |
Creating a tax preference child care requirement. |
H Rules R |
Senn |
Oppose |
High |
|
SB 5941 (Dead) (HB 2111) |
Subsidized child care |
Clarifying requirements for subsidized child care. |
S Rules X |
Wilson |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 6253 (Dead) |
Learning assistance program |
Increasing funding for the learning assistance program. |
S EL/K-12 |
Nobles |
|
Monitoring |
EDUCATION/WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
SHB 1003(Dead) |
Dual credit program access |
Expanding access to dual credit programs. |
H Approps |
Stokesbary |
|
Medium |
|
HB 1005(Dead) |
Military/employer tax incen. |
Concerning employer tax incentives for the support of veterans and military families. |
H Rules C |
Abbarno |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 1067(Dead) |
High-hazard facility wages |
Concerning wages for journeypersons in high-hazard facilities. |
H Rules C |
Bronoske |
Oppose |
High |
|
HB 1211(Dead) (E2SSB 5311) |
Special education funding |
Concerning special education funding formula. |
H Approps |
Bergquist |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1244(Dead) (SB 5692) |
Enrichment levy authority |
Increasing the maximum per pupil limit for enrichment levy authority. |
H Rules C |
Ramel |
Neutral |
Medium |
|
SHB 1273(Dead) (E2SSB 5243) |
High school and beyond plans |
Concerning high school and beyond planning. |
H Approps |
Berg |
|
Monitoring |
|
2SHB 1305(Dead) |
Students with disabilities |
Improving access to and provision of a free appropriate public education for students with disabilities. |
H Rules C |
Pollet |
|
Monitoring |
|
3SHB 1338(Dead) |
DOC ed. and vocational prgs. |
Concerning education and vocational programs in state correctional institutions. |
H Rules R |
Reeves |
Support |
Medium |
|
HB 1374(Dead) (SSB 5305) |
Office of career connect WA |
Establishing the office of career connect Washington. |
H Postsec Ed & W |
Slatter |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1411(Dead) |
Cross-sector prof. dev. |
Supporting student success through cross-sector professional development. |
H Approps |
Ortiz-Self |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1429(Dead) |
Educational employee strikes |
Prohibiting strikes by employees covered by the educational employment relations act and authorizing interest arbitration. |
H Labor & Workpla |
Stokesbary |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1545(Dead) |
Vaccination/online students |
Prohibiting institutions of higher education from imposing vaccine or immunization mandates on online-only students. |
H Postsec Ed & W |
Caldier |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1549(Dead) |
AP course options |
Increasing AP course options. |
H Education |
Stonier |
|
Monitoring |
|
3SHB 1565(Dead) |
Prof. education workforce |
Supporting and strengthening the professional education workforce. |
H 2nd Reading |
Ortiz-Self |
|
Low |
|
HB 1605(Dead) (SSB 5668) |
Small districts/skill center |
Concerning small districts with less than 2,750 students and significant participation in skill centers. |
H Approps |
Rule |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1710(Dead) (SSB 5248) |
Tutoring & extended learning |
Using COVID-19 relief funding on high quality tutoring and rigorous extended learning programs. |
H Approps |
Rude |
Support |
Medium |
|
HB 1721(Dead) |
Skill center class size |
Concerning skill center class size. |
H Approps |
Paul |
Support |
Monitoring |
|
HB 1741(Dead) |
Prototypical school formulas |
Increasing prototypical school formulas to support student health, well-being, and educational outcomes. |
H Approps |
Rule |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 1821(Dead) |
Postsecondary credentials |
Creating a postsecondary credential transparency work group. |
H Approps |
Slatter |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1897(Dead) (SSB 5809) |
Charter schools/enrichment |
Concerning enrichment funding for charter public schools. |
H Approps |
Springer |
Support |
Medium |
|
SHB 1914(Dead) |
Special education services |
Improving the education of students with varying abilities by enhancing special education services. |
H Approps |
Couture |
|
Medium |
|
HB 1944(Dead) |
Running start for the trades |
Establishing a running start for the trades grant program. |
H Education |
Orwall |
Support |
Medium |
|
HB 2087(Dead) |
Apprenticeship objections |
Concerning objections to apprenticeship programs. |
H Labor & Workpl |
Schmidt |
Support |
High |
|
SHB 2130(Dead) |
Special education services |
Extending special education services. |
H Approps |
Pollet |
|
Medium |
|
HB 2174(Dead) |
Funded special education |
Concerning funded special education enrollment. |
H Education |
Pollet |
|
Medium |
|
HB 2175(Dead) |
Special education limits |
Removing the enrollment limit for special education funding. |
H Approps |
Caldier |
|
Medium |
|
HB 2360(Dead) |
Digital workforce |
Creating the Washington digital empowerment and workforce inclusion act. |
H Approps |
Slatter |
Support |
High |
|
HB 2380(Dead) (SB 6082) |
Paraeducator compensation |
Increasing compensation for Washington paraeducators. |
H Approps |
Shavers |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2406(Dead) (SB 6289) |
16&17 y/o employ. work group |
Establishing a work group to assess the restrictions on the employment of 16 and 17 year olds. |
H Labor & Workpl |
Connors |
Support |
Medium |
|
HB 2443(Dead) (SSB 6053) |
Education data sharing |
Improving equitable access to postsecondary education. |
H Postsec Ed & W |
Nance |
|
Medium |
|
HB 2448(Dead) |
Public school grant assist. |
Expanding grant access opportunities for public schools. |
H Approps |
Mosbrucker |
|
Medium |
|
SHB 2458(Dead) |
K-12 experience factors |
Making experience factor adjustments for certificated instructional staff. |
H 2nd Reading |
Rule |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5221(Dead) (SHB 1289) |
Opportunity scholarship |
Concerning program administration for the Washington state opportunity scholarship program. |
S Rules X |
Liias |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5247(Dead) (2SHB 1176) |
Climate-ready communities |
Developing opportunities for service and workforce programs to support climate-ready communities. |
S Ways & Means |
Nobles |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5248(Dead) (HB 1710) |
Tutoring & extended learning |
Using COVID-19 relief funding on high quality tutoring and rigorous extended learning programs. |
S Ways & Means |
Braun |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5251(Dead) (HB 1058) |
Commercial driver's licenses |
Streamlining the licensing process for a commercial driver's license by allowing the department to waive requirements for applicants that previously surrendered the license, allowing the license to be renewed online, and modifying the license test fees. |
S Rules X |
Valdez |
Support |
Medium |
|
SSB 5305(Dead) (HB 1374) |
Office of career connect WA |
Establishing the office of career connect Washington. |
S Ways & Means |
Wellman |
|
Monitoring |
|
E2SSB 5311(Dead) (HB 1211) |
Special education funding |
Concerning special education funding formula. |
S Rules X |
Wellman |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5327(Dead) |
Intern wages |
Concerning paying interns. |
S Labor & Comm |
Keiser |
Concerns |
High |
|
SB 5343(Dead) |
School construction costs |
Reducing costs and increasing efficiency in school construction. |
S EL/K-12 |
Schoesler |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5345(Dead) |
School buildings/energy |
Exempting certain public school buildings from the state energy performance standard. |
S Environment, E |
Schoesler |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5408(Dead) |
Ninth grade success grants |
Establishing the ninth grade success grant program. |
S Ways & Means |
Liias |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5441(Dead) |
School district curricula |
Promoting the adoption of school district curricula that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. |
S Ways & Means |
Wilson |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5522(Dead) |
College grant prg. stipend |
Adding a stipend to the Washington college grant program. |
S Higher Ed & Wo |
Liias |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5566(Dead) (2SHB 1559) |
Postsecondary student needs |
Establishing the student basic needs at public postsecondary institutions act. |
S Ways & Means |
Shewmake |
Support |
Medium |
|
SSB 5655(Dead) |
WA achievers grant program |
Creating the Washington achievers grant program. |
S Rules X |
Torres |
|
Medium |
|
SB 5661(Dead) |
Skill center class sizes |
Reinstating skill center class size. |
S EL/K-12 |
Boehnke |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5668(Dead) (HB 1605) |
Small districts/skill center |
Concerning small districts with less than 2,750 students and significant participation in skill centers. |
S Ways & Means |
Shewmake |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5692(Dead) (HB 1244) |
Enrichment levy authority |
Increasing the maximum per pupil limit for enrichment levy authority. |
S EL/K-12 |
Lovelett |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5712(Dead) |
College grant/promise prg. |
Expanding the Washington college grant and establishing the Washington college promise program. |
S Higher Ed & Wo |
Liias |
|
Monitoring |
|
2SSB 5736(Dead) |
Workforce shortages |
Addressing high demand workforce shortages. |
S Rules X |
Nobles |
|
High |
|
SSB 5809(Dead) (HB 1897) |
Charter schools/enrichment |
Concerning enrichment funding for charter public schools. |
S Ways & Means |
Mullet |
Support |
Medium |
|
SB 5819(Dead) (SHB 1915) |
Financial education |
Making financial education instruction a graduation prerequisite and a required component of public education. |
S EL/K-12 |
Valdez |
Support |
High |
|
SB 5958(Dead) |
Career skills grant program |
Establishing the Washington career skills grant program. |
S Higher Ed & Wo |
Boehnke |
Support |
High |
|
SB 6014(Dead) (SHB 2180) |
Special education cap |
Increasing the special education enrollment funding cap. |
S Ways & Means |
Wellman |
|
Medium |
|
SB 6082(Dead) (HB 2380) |
Paraeducator compensation |
Increasing compensation for Washington paraeducators. |
S EL/K-12 |
Nobles |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 6254(Dead) |
Student navigational support |
Providing student navigational supports to increase postsecondary enrollment. |
S Ways & Means |
Nobles |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 6289(Dead) (HB 2406) |
16&17 y/o employ. work group |
Establishing a work group to assess the restrictions on the employment of 16 and 17 year olds. |
S Labor & Comm |
Boehnke |
Support |
High |
|
SSB 6300(Dead) (2SHB 2214) |
College grant/public assist. |
Permitting beneficiaries of public assistance programs to automatically qualify as income-eligible for the purpose of receiving the Washington college grant. |
S Ways & Means |
Randall |
Support |
Medium |
ENERGY/CLIMATE CHANGE
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
2SHB 1131(Dead) (SSB 5154) |
Solid waste management |
Improving Washington's solid waste management outcomes. |
H Rules X |
Berry |
Concerns |
High |
|
HB 1164(Dead) |
Appliance management |
Providing for the responsible management of appliances containing harmful gases and other materials. |
H Env & Energy |
Doglio |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 1192(Dead) (SSB 5165) |
Electric transm. planning |
Concerning electric power system transmission planning. |
H Rules X |
Duerr |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1193(Dead) |
Greenhouse gas/building code |
Affirming that the legislature has not provided authority for the state building code council to use greenhouse gas emissions as a consideration in residential building codes or energy codes. |
H Env & Energy |
Dye |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1223(Dead) |
Emissions limits/use |
Clarifying that the statutory statewide emissions limits are not to be used for evaluation and government decision making with respect to individual projects or government decisions except where such use is explicitly statutorily authorized. |
H Env & Energy |
McEntire |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1342(Dead) |
Embodied carbon reductions |
Modeling, measurement, and reporting embodied carbon emission reductions from structural building products in state-funded projects. |
H Cap Budget |
Steele |
Support |
Medium |
|
HB 1404(Dead) (SB 5117) |
State building code council |
Reforming the state building code council, its operations and procedures, and its statutory authority. |
H Local Govt |
Goehner |
Support |
Medium |
|
HB 1480(Dead) |
All-hazard emergency manage. |
Concerning energy resilience, cybersecurity, and all-hazard emergency management. |
H Approps |
Donaghy |
|
Low |
|
HB 1509(Dead) |
Community solar |
Concerning fair access to community solar. |
H Env & Energy |
Hackney |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
HB 1574(Dead) |
Methane/agriculture |
Supporting Washington agriculture by capturing methane and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. |
H Approps |
Rule |
Support |
Medium |
|
HB 1619(Dead) |
Renewable energy resources |
Incentivizing development and acquisition of renewable energy resources. |
H Env & Energy |
Fey |
Support |
Medium |
|
HB 1659(Dead) |
Carbon market prices |
Preventing carbon market price manipulation. |
H Env & Energy |
Dye |
|
High |
|
HB 1723(Dead) (SSB 5651) |
GMA/equity and env. justice |
Concerning equity and environmental justice in the growth management act. |
H Local Govt |
Duerr |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 1729(Dead) |
Hydrogen fuel products |
Creating and expanding tax incentives for the research, development, production, and sale of hydrogen fuel products in Washington state. |
H Rules 3C |
Abbarno |
|
High |
|
HB 1780(Dead) |
Climate comm. act/fuel use |
Addressing unintended consequences of the climate commitment act. |
H Env & Energy |
Schmick |
|
Medium |
|
SHB 2070(Dead) (SB 5990) |
Env. justice/SEPA projects |
Integrating environmental justice considerations into certain project decisions. |
H Approps |
Mena |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2376(Dead) |
CCA public entity oblig. |
Concerning the regulatory obligations of certain public entities, including municipal gas utilities, under the climate commitment act. |
H Env & Energy |
Robertson |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 2465(Dead) (ESSB 6291) |
State building code council |
Streamlining the state building code council operating procedures by establishing criteria for statewide amendments to the state building code. |
H Rules R |
Ramel |
|
Medium |
|
SB 5037(Dead) |
Natural gas/energy code |
Ensuring that the Washington state energy code may not prohibit the use of natural gas in buildings. |
S Environment, E |
Wilson |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5057(Dead) |
Energy standards/commercial |
Creating a work group to evaluate the costs of the state energy performance standard for covered commercial buildings. |
S Rules X |
Mullet |
|
Monitoring |
|
2SSB 5091(Dead) |
Hydrogen fuel products |
Creating and expanding tax incentives for the research, development, production, and sale of hydrogen fuel cells in Washington state. |
S Business, Fin S |
King |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5093(Dead) (E2SHB 1170) |
Climate response strategy |
Improving climate resilience through updates to the state's integrated climate response strategy. |
S Rules X |
Rolfes |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5154(Dead) (2SHB 1131) |
Solid waste management |
Improving Washington's solid waste management outcomes. |
S Ways & Means |
Rolfes |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
SB 5168(Dead) |
Energy independence act |
Modernizing the energy independence act to avoid regulatory duplication and overlap with other laws. |
S Environment, E |
Boehnke |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5203(Dead) (E2SHB 1181) |
Climate change/planning |
Improving the state's response to climate change by updating the state's planning framework. |
S Ways & Means |
Lovelett |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5233(Dead) (ESHB 1175) |
Petroleum storage tanks |
Creating a state financial assurance program for petroleum underground storage tanks. |
S Environment, E |
Wellman |
Support |
Low |
|
SB 5312(Dead) |
Clean energy/residential |
Creating a residential property assessed clean energy and resiliency program. |
S Loc Gov, Land |
Lovelett |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5366(Dead) (ESHB 1329) |
Utility shutoffs/heat |
Preventing utility shutoffs for nonpayment during extreme heat. |
S Rules X |
Nguyen |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5380(Dead) (E2SHB 1216) |
Clean energy siting |
Concerning clean energy siting. |
S Ways & Means |
Nguyen |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5416(Dead) (HB 1409) |
Building code classif. |
Compelling the state building code council to expand residential building code classifications. |
S State Govt & E |
Braun |
Support |
Medium |
|
SB 5535(Dead) |
Air pollution/human health |
Protecting human health from excessive air pollution. |
S Environment, E |
Stanford |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5551(Dead) |
Methane capture |
Supporting Washington's crop and livestock farms, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and generating renewable energy by capturing methane. |
S Ag/Water/Natur |
Shewmake |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5562(Dead) (ESHB 1589) |
Clean energy |
Supporting Washington's clean energy economy and transitioning to a clean, affordable, and reliable energy future. |
S Ways & Means |
Nguyen |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5570(Dead) |
Energy efficiency loans |
Authorizing electric utilities to establish energy efficiency revolving loan programs. |
S Ways & Means |
Lovelett |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5659(Dead) |
Gas companies/renewable res. |
Incentivizing gas companies to develop and acquire renewable energy resources. |
S Environment, E |
Boehnke |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5766(Dead) |
Emissions exemptions |
Improving the administrability of emissions exemptions and business practices under the climate commitment act. |
S Ways & Means |
Mullet |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5769(Dead) |
Climate act price ceiling |
Concerning the price ceiling under chapter 70A.65 RCW, the climate commitment act. |
S Environment, En |
Mullet |
|
Medium |
|
SB 5826(Dead) |
Utility bills/CCA charges |
Requiring customer charges to be listed on utility billing statements if the charges are a result of implementing the Washington climate commitment act. |
S Environment, E |
MacEwen |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5875(Dead) |
Energy code/residential |
Balancing energy efficiency with consideration of other factors such as housing affordability, development costs, and feasibility in the state energy code for residential structures. |
S Environment, En |
Fortunato |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5990(Dead) (SHB 2070) |
Env. justice/SEPA projects |
Integrating environmental justice considerations into certain project decisions. |
S Environment, E |
Lovelett |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 6233(Dead) |
Energy code amendments |
Concerning substantive amendments to the state energy code for nonresidential buildings. |
S Environment, E |
Wilson |
Support |
High |
HEALTH CARE
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
HB 1263(Dead) (ESB 5241) |
Health care marketplace |
Concerning material changes to the operations and governance structure of participants in the health care marketplace. |
H Civil R & Judi |
Simmons |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1495(Dead) (SB 5373) |
ARNP, PA, & MD reimbursement |
Requiring equal reimbursement for advanced registered nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians. |
H HC/Wellness |
Simmons |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
ESHB 1547(Dead) |
Out-of-state health prov. |
Increasing the health care workforce by authorizing out-of-state providers to practice immediately. |
H HC/Wellness |
Caldier |
Support |
Medium |
|
HB 1571(Dead) (SSB 5526) |
Nursing facility rates |
Concerning nursing facility rates. |
H Approps |
Tharinger |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1733(Dead) |
Nursing degrees |
Accessing degrees in nursing. |
H Postsec Ed & W |
Paul |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1748(Dead) (2SSB 5532) |
Small rural hospital payment |
Providing enhanced payment to low volume, small rural hospitals. |
H HC/Wellness |
Mosbrucker |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2066(Dead) (SB 5948) |
Health provider contracting |
Addressing affordability through health care provider contracting. |
H HC/Wellness |
Riccelli |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2272(Dead) |
LTSS commission recs. |
Addressing recommendations of the long-term services and supports trust commission by increasing access to benefits, establishing a voluntary private market supplemental long-term care insurance option, creating a pilot project to assess the long-term services and supports trust program, and making operational changes to streamline and enhance fairness in the administration of the long-term services and supports trust program. |
H HC/Wellness |
Macri |
Neutral |
Medium |
|
HB 2285(Dead) (SSB 5986) |
Out-of-network health costs |
Protecting consumers from out-of-network health care services charges. |
H HC/Wellness |
Riccelli |
Support |
Medium |
|
HB 2378(Dead) |
Health care facility fees |
Concerning facility fees charged by certain affiliated health care providers. |
H HC/Wellness |
Tharinger |
|
Medium |
|
SB 5335(Dead) |
Washington health trust |
Developing the Washington health trust. |
S Health & Long |
Hasegawa |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5373(Dead) (HB 1495) |
ARNP, PA, & MD reimbursement |
Requiring equal reimbursement for advanced registered nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians. |
S Ways & Means |
Randall |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5519(Dead) (2ESHB 1508) |
Health care cost board |
Improving consumer affordability through the health care cost transparency board. |
S Health & Long |
Robinson |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5526(Dead) (HB 1571) |
Nursing facility rates |
Concerning nursing facility rates. |
S Ways & Means |
Van De Wege |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5537(Dead) |
Hospital staffing collab. |
Establishing the Washington state hospital patient care unit staffing innovation collaborative. |
S Ways & Means |
Cleveland |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5665(Dead) |
Hospitals/guardianship |
Allowing courts to order appropriate hospital discharge and transition to long-term care services or residence for an individual in a hospital during the pendency of a guardianship process. |
S Law & Justice |
Wagoner |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5948(Dead) (HB 2066) |
Health provider contracting |
Addressing affordability through health care provider contracting. |
S Health & Long T |
Robinson |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 6177(Dead) (SHB 2102) |
PFML benefits/health info. |
Establishing requirements for the disclosure of health care information for qualifying persons to receive paid family and medical leave benefits. |
S Health & Long |
Stanford |
Support |
Medium |
HOUSING/HOMELESSNESS
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
SHB 1026(Dead) |
Local gov. design review |
Concerning local government design review. |
H Housing |
Walen |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1099(Dead) |
Public works wages |
Requiring certain wages in public works contracts to be at least the prevailing wage in effect when the work is performed. |
H Cap Budget |
Berry |
Oppose |
High |
|
SHB 1133(Dead) (SB 5357) |
Detached ADUs |
Establishing limitations on detached accessory dwelling units outside urban growth areas. |
H Housing |
Chapman |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1135(Dead) (SB 5452) |
Impact fee use |
Authorizing impact fee revenue to fund improvements to bicycle and pedestrian facilities. |
H Rules X |
Slatter |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
HB 1149(Dead) (SSB 5202) |
Housing/capital expenditures |
Reducing homelessness in Washington state through capital expenditures for programs that address housing insecurity. |
H Cap Budget |
Tharinger |
|
High |
|
E2SHB 1167(Dead) |
Residential housing |
Concerning residential housing regulations. |
H Housing |
Duerr |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1224(Dead) |
Environmental permitting |
Expediting environmental permitting for job-creating investment in Washington. |
H Env & Energy |
McEntire |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 1231(Dead) (SSB 5229) |
Site readiness grants |
Accelerating rural job growth and promoting economic recovery across Washington through site readiness grants. |
H Rules X |
Berg |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1252(Dead) |
Impact fee deferrals |
Concerning impact fee deferrals. |
H Housing |
Bateman |
Support |
Medium |
|
HB 1276(Dead) (SSB 5235) |
Accessory dwelling units |
Concerning accessory dwelling units. |
H Housing |
Pollet |
|
High |
|
HB 1296(Dead) (2SSB 5290) |
Local permit review |
Concerning consolidating local permit review processes. |
H Approps |
Peterson |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1298(Dead) (E2SSB 5258) |
Condos and townhouses |
Increasing the supply and affordability of condominium units and townhouses as an option for homeownership. |
H Civil R & Judi |
Hutchins |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1347(Dead) |
Comm.-based health assess. |
Integrating community-based health assessments into foundational environmental policies to improve environmental justice. |
H Env & Energy |
Pollet |
Oppose |
High |
|
HB 1350(Dead) |
Multifamily unit conversion |
Expanding the multifamily tax exemption program to include converting existing multifamily units. |
H Housing |
Walen |
|
Low |
|
SHB 1351(Dead) (SB 5456) |
Minimum parking requirements |
Prohibiting the imposition of minimum parking requirements except under certain circumstances. |
H Local Govt |
Reed |
Neutral |
Medium |
|
HB 1366(Dead) |
First-time home buyers |
Changing the definition of first-time home buyer. |
H Cap Budget |
Donaghy |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1367(Dead) |
Homeless funding |
Eliminating unnecessary homeless funding budget and auditing requirements. |
H Rules X |
Donaghy |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 1388(Dead) |
Residential rent practices |
Protecting tenants by prohibiting predatory residential rent practices and by applying the consumer protection act to the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act. |
H Approps |
Macri |
Oppose |
High |
|
2SHB 1389(Dead) (SB 5435) |
Residential rent increases |
Concerning residential rent increases under the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act. |
H Rules X |
Ramel |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
HB 1401(Dead) |
Housing permit process |
Allowing cities and counties to create a simple, standardized housing permit process for affordable housing units in areas designated for housing. |
H Housing |
Jacobsen |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1402(Dead) |
Urban growth boundaries |
Adjusting urban growth boundaries to account for situations where property owners have not developed property as expected in comprehensive plans and development regulations. |
H Local Govt |
Jacobsen |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1409(Dead) (SB 5416) |
Building code classif. |
Compelling the state building code council to expand residential building code classifications. |
H Local Govt |
Abbarno |
Support |
Medium |
|
SHB 1449(Dead) |
Project permits/reports |
Amending reporting requirements for the project permit application processing timeline. |
H Rules R |
Alvarado |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1467(Dead) |
Property infill/GMA |
Concerning infill for properties uniquely situated between boundaries and existing development. |
H Local Govt |
Barkis |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1476(Dead) (SB 5289) |
Impact fees/law enforcement |
Concerning allowing the use of impact fees for law enforcement. |
H Local Govt |
Shavers |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1517(Dead) (ESSB 5466) |
Transit-oriented development |
Promoting transit-oriented development. |
H Housing |
Reed |
|
High |
|
HB 1519(Dead) |
Local project review |
Concerning local project review. |
H Rules X |
Barkis |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1524(Dead) (ESSB 5528) |
Prime contractor retainage |
Concerning the retainage percentage withheld by prime contractors. |
H Labor & Workpl |
Bronoske |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1585(Dead) |
Local infra. project areas |
Addressing local infrastructure project areas. |
H Finance |
Cortes |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 1596(Dead) |
Affordable housing incentive |
Providing local governments with options to increase affordable housing in their communities. |
H Finance |
Kloba |
|
High |
|
HB 1611(Dead) |
Local government permitting |
Concerning local government permitting. |
H Finance |
Reed |
|
High |
|
HB 1625(Dead) (SB 5615) |
Rent controls/local gov. |
Enabling local governments to plan and adopt programs to stabilize and control rents. |
H Housing |
Pollet |
Oppose |
High |
|
2SHB 1628(Dead) |
Real estate excise tax |
Increasing the supply of affordable housing by modifying the state and local real estate excise tax. |
H Rules X |
Chopp |
Oppose |
High |
|
SHB 1633(Dead) |
Homes for heroes program |
Creating a homes for heroes program. |
H Cap Budget |
Connors |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1667(Dead) (SB 5563) |
Prevailing wage |
Concerning how the prevailing wage for public works is determined. |
H Labor & Workpl |
Schmidt |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 1709(Dead) (ESSB 5301) |
Commerce housing programs |
Concerning housing programs administered by the department of commerce. |
H Rules X |
Tharinger |
|
High |
|
HB 1723(Dead) (SSB 5651) |
GMA/equity and env. justice |
Concerning equity and environmental justice in the growth management act. |
H Local Govt |
Duerr |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 1735(Dead) |
GMA/net ecological gain |
Adding net ecological gain as a voluntary element of comprehensive plans under the growth management act. |
H Approps |
Lekanoff |
Oppose |
High |
|
HB 1817(Dead) (SB 5741) |
Housing gap voucher pilot |
Establishing a housing gap voucher pilot program. |
H Housing |
Rule |
Support |
High |
|
SHB 2008(Dead) |
Housing cost task force |
Creating a task force on housing cost driver analysis. |
H Approps |
Klicker |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 2026(Dead) |
Rental income/property tax |
Concerning rental income received by people eligible for certain property tax exemption programs. |
H Rules R |
Doglio |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2063(Dead) |
Homebuyers/REET exemption |
Providing an exemption from the real estate excise tax for transfers of property to qualifying low-income first-time homebuyers. |
H Finance |
Wylie |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2064(Dead) |
Homebuyers/REET exemption |
Providing for an exemption from the real estate excise tax for transfers of property to qualifying low-income first-time homebuyers. |
H Finance |
Wylie |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 2081(Dead) (ESSB 5968) |
Home equity sharing |
Regulating home equity sharing agreements under the consumer loan act. |
H Rules R |
Hackney |
|
Monitoring |
|
2SHB 2113(Dead) |
GMA housing element |
Concerning compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act. |
H Rules R |
Bateman |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2140(Dead) |
Adverse possession |
Modifying laws related to adverse possession to protect legal owners of property. |
H Civil R & Judi |
Griffey |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2141(Dead) |
Housing in unincorp. areas |
Promoting affordable housing in unincorporated areas within urban growth areas of large counties. |
H Finance |
Donaghy |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2158(Dead) |
Urban growth area boundaries |
Expanding urban growth area boundaries for residential development. |
H Housing |
Connors |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2219(Dead) |
Affordable housing/tax ex. |
Providing tax relief for nonprofit development of affordable housing. |
H Finance |
Hackney |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2228(Dead) |
Middle housing density |
Decreasing the minimum density requirements for middle housing. |
H Housing |
Christian |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2276(Dead) (SB 6191) |
Housing/taxes |
Increasing the supply of affordable and workforce housing. |
H Finance |
Berg |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
2SHB 2308(Dead) (E2SSB 6175) |
Existing structures/housing |
Concerning housing affordability tax incentives for existing structures. |
H Rules R |
Walen |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2323(Dead) (SB 6212) |
Rent payments/credit reports |
Requiring landlords to report on-time rent payments to consumer reporting agencies. |
H Rules R |
Peterson |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2345(Dead) |
Landlord-tenant task force |
Preparing for revisions to the residential landlord-tenant act. |
H Housing |
Barkis |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2353(Dead) |
Residential targeted areas |
Promoting affordable housing in unincorporated areas within urban growth areas of counties. |
H Housing |
Nance |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2418(Dead) (SB 6250) |
Working families/prop. tax |
Increasing the working families' tax credit to reflect the economic burden of property taxes incorporated into rental amounts charged to residential tenants. |
H Finance |
Berg |
|
High |
|
HB 2419(Dead) |
Homeowner property tax ex. |
Providing housing safety, security, and protection by creating the homeowner relief property tax exemption. |
H Finance |
Berg |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2425(Dead) |
Rental support program |
Enacting the home affordability sustainment act, a rental support program. |
H Housing |
Rule |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2450(Dead) (SB 6285) |
Use of impact fees |
Ensuring the timely and balanced use of impact fees. |
H Local Govt |
Hutchins |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2451(Dead) (SB 6284) |
Impact fees |
Increasing the consistency and transparency of impact fees. |
H Local Govt |
Hutchins |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2452(Dead) |
Manuf housing/building codes |
Addressing the impacts of certain codes on manufactured housing inventory. |
H Rules R |
Barkis |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2453(Dead) |
Housing gap voucher program |
Creating a housing gap voucher program. |
H Housing |
Hutchins |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2460(Dead) |
Tenants/eviction after sale |
Concerning evictions of residential tenants after a property owner elects to sell a unit or apartment in a common interest community. |
H Housing |
Connors |
|
Monitoring |
|
HJR 4200(Dead) |
Owner-occupied property/tax |
Setting the taxable value of owner-occupied property. |
H Finance |
Walsh |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5016 (Dead) |
Homelessness |
Addressing homelessness through providing emergency shelter, incentivizing employment of workers experiencing homelessness, and building homes for a better future. |
S Housing |
Fortunato |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5027 (Dead) |
American dream homes |
Promoting housing affordability by incentivizing the construction of American dream homes. |
S Ways & Means |
Fortunato |
|
Medium |
|
SSB 5060(Dead) |
Rental & vacant properties |
Requiring the registration of rental and vacant housing units. |
S Ways & Means |
Kuderer |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5117 (Dead) (HB 1404) |
State building code council |
Reforming the state building code council, its operations and procedures, and its statutory authority. |
S State Govt & E |
Wilson |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5118(Dead) |
Multifamily property tax ex. |
Concerning modifying the multifamily property tax exemption to promote development of long-term affordable housing. |
S Ways & Means |
Kuderer |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5159 (Dead) (HB 1544) |
Shoreline program review |
Concerning shoreline master program review schedules. |
S Rules X |
Torres |
Support |
Medium |
|
SSB 5190(Dead) (E2SHB 1110) |
Middle housing |
Increasing middle housing in areas traditionally dedicated to single-family detached housing. |
S Ways & Means |
Trudeau |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5202(Dead) (HB 1149) |
Housing/capital expenditures |
Reducing homelessness in Washington state through capital expenditures for programs that address housing insecurity. |
S Ways & Means |
Trudeau |
|
High |
|
SSB 5235(Dead) (HB 1276) |
Accessory dwelling units |
Concerning accessory dwelling units. |
S Rules X |
Shewmake |
Support |
Medium |
|
SB 5279 (Dead) |
Housing equity property |
Expanding a sales and use tax deferral program for affordable housing to include structures initially used as temporary employee housing for employees constructing warehouses, distribution centers, and other large facilities. |
S Ways & Means |
Wilson |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5289 (Dead) (HB 1476) |
Impact fees/law enforcement |
Concerning allowing the use of impact fees for law enforcement. |
S Loc Gov, Land |
Shewmake |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5303(Dead) |
Public works trust account |
Creating the public works assistance revolving account. |
S Rules X |
Mullet |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5322(Dead) (2ESHB 1282) |
Public building materials |
Requiring environmental and labor reporting for public building construction and renovation material. |
S Ways & Means |
Wellman |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5332 (Dead) |
Homeless camps/schools, etc. |
Prohibiting locating homeless encampments near schools and early learning facilities. |
S Loc Gov, Land |
King |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5337 (Dead) |
Property sale and leaseback |
Exempting the sale and leaseback of property by a seller from the residential landlord-tenant act when the seller agrees to a written lease at closing. |
S Housing |
Cleveland |
Support |
High |
|
SB 5357 (Dead) (SHB 1133) |
Detached ADUs |
Establishing limitations on detached accessory dwelling units outside urban growth areas. |
S Loc Gov, Land |
Gildon |
Support |
Medium |
|
SSB 5364(Dead) (ESHB 1245) |
Lot splitting |
Increasing housing options through lot splitting. |
S Rules X |
Frame |
Support |
Medium |
|
SB 5391 (Dead) |
Embodied carbon reductions |
Modeling, measurement, and reporting embodied carbon emission reductions from structural building products in state-funded projects. |
S Environment, E |
Van De Wege |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5395 (Dead) |
Real estate technology fee |
Increasing the real estate technology fee dedicated to the maintenance and operation of property tax and real estate excise tax electronic processing, reporting, and revaluation systems. |
S Ways & Means |
Lovick |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5416 (Dead) (HB 1409) |
Building code classif. |
Compelling the state building code council to expand residential building code classifications. |
S State Govt & E |
Braun |
Support |
Medium |
|
SB 5435 (Dead) (2SHB 1389) |
Residential rent increases |
Concerning residential rent increases under the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act. |
S Housing |
Trudeau |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5456 (Dead) (SHB 1351) |
Minimum parking requirements |
Prohibiting the imposition of minimum parking requirements except under certain circumstances. |
S Loc Gov, Land |
Frame |
|
Monitoring |
|
ESSB 5466(Dead) (HB 1517) |
Transit-oriented development |
Promoting transit-oriented development. |
S Rules X |
Liias |
|
High |
|
SB 5469 (Dead) |
Covenant homeownership prg. |
Creating the covenant homeownership account and program to address the history of housing discrimination due to racially restrictive real estate covenants in Washington state. |
S Housing |
Lovick |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5473 (Dead) |
Project permit timelines |
Concerning project permit timelines. |
S Loc Gov, Land |
Gildon |
Support |
High |
|
SSB 5493(Dead) |
Financial instit./B&O tax |
Eliminating a business and occupation tax deduction for financial institutions to fund affordable housing. |
S Ways & Means |
Kuderer |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5496(Dead) (2SHB 1474) |
Covenant homeownership prg. |
Creating the covenant homeownership account and program to address the history of housing discrimination due to racially restrictive real estate covenants in Washington state. |
S Ways & Means |
Lovick |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5530 (Dead) |
Digital experience |
Creating a work group to develop a "Whole WA" digital experience that will connect Washington residents to services. |
S Environment, E |
Gildon |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5563 (Dead) (HB 1667) |
Prevailing wage |
Concerning how the prevailing wage for public works is determined. |
S Labor & Comm |
King |
Support |
Medium |
|
SSB 5609(Dead) |
Housing approval |
Establishing housing approval requirements that will eliminate Washington's housing shortage. |
S Ways & Means |
Braun |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5615 (Dead) (HB 1625) |
Rent controls/local gov. |
Enabling local governments to plan and adopt programs to stabilize and control rents. |
S Loc Gov, Land |
Valdez |
Concerns |
High |
|
SB 5637 (Dead) |
Graduated rental rates |
Providing for graduated rental rate agreements under the transitional housing operating and rent program. |
S Housing |
Fortunato |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5651(Dead) (HB 1723) |
GMA/equity and env. justice |
Concerning equity and environmental justice in the growth management act. |
S Ways & Means |
Lovelett |
Oppose |
High |
|
SB 5674 (Dead) (HB 1695) |
Surplus property/housing |
Defining affordable housing for purposes of using surplus public property for public benefit. |
S Rules X |
Frame |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5719 (Dead) (HB 1679) |
Student homelessness group |
Modifying and extending requirements of a work group convened to address the needs of students in foster care, experiencing homelessness, or both. |
S Ways & Means |
Hunt |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5741 (Dead) (HB 1817) |
Housing gap voucher pilot |
Establishing a housing gap voucher pilot program. |
S Housing |
Braun |
|
High |
|
SB 5807 (Dead) (HB 1890) |
Housing authorities |
Concerning housing authorities. |
S Rules X |
Frame |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5961 (Dead) (ESHB 2114) |
Residential tenants |
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. |
S Housing |
Trudeau |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5975 (Dead) |
Social housing |
Authorizing use of the housing trust fund and other legislative appropriations to finance social housing. |
S Housing |
Hasegawa |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 6029(Dead) |
Detached ADUs |
Establishing limitations on detached accessory dwelling units outside urban growth areas. |
S Rules X |
Braun |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 6050 (Dead) (2SHB 1929) |
Postinpatient housing |
Supporting young adults following inpatient behavioral health treatment. |
S Human Services |
Dhingra |
Support |
Medium |
|
SB 6065 (Dead) |
Housing/property tax ex. |
Concerning the property tax exemption for cities or counties providing affordable housing to qualifying households. |
S Housing |
Saldana |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 6136(Dead) |
Rental property B&O tax |
Reestablishing a business and occupation tax on the privilege of providing property for rent and supporting access to affordable rental property by exempting from tax landlords participating in a rent stabilization program. |
S Ways & Means |
Kuderer |
Oppose |
High |
|
SSB 6152(Dead) |
Housing needs gap |
Requiring certain counties to measure the gap between estimated existing housing units and existing housing needs. |
S Ways & Means |
Cleveland |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 6191 (Dead) (HB 2276) |
Housing/taxes |
Increases the portion of the selling price subject to the state real estate excise tax (REET) rate of 1.1 percent from $525,000 to $750,000. Imposes a new real estate transfer tax (RETT) of 1 percent on the portion of the real estate selling price above $3.025 million. Also changes how monies is distributed. |
S Ways & Means |
Frame |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
SB 6199 (Dead) |
Housing authority notices |
Requiring housing authorities to use notification methods designed to provide evidence of delivery. |
S Housing |
Dozier |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 6211 (Dead) |
Mobile home rent increases |
Creating clarity and consistency in rental agreements under the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act. |
S Rules X |
McCune |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 6212 (Dead) (HB 2323) |
Rent payments/credit reports |
Requiring landlords to report on-time rent payments to consumer reporting agencies. |
S Rules X |
Shewmake |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 6249 (Dead) |
Homeowner property tax ex. |
Providing housing safety, security, and protection by creating the homeowner relief property tax exemption. |
S Ways & Means |
Robinson |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
SB 6250 (Dead) (HB 2418) |
Working families/prop. tax |
Increasing the working families' tax credit to reflect the economic burden of property taxes incorporated into rental amounts charged to residential tenants. |
S Ways & Means |
Robinson |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 6260 (Dead) (HB 2074) |
Landowner's lessee/penalties |
Limiting the application of certain civil penalties to protect landowners from incurring penalties based on the actions of the landowner's lessee. |
S Ag/Water/Natura |
Warnick |
|
Monitoring |
OTHER CHAMBER BILLS
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
HB 1215(Dead) (SB 5266) |
Riparian areas |
Concerning the protection and restoration of riparian areas. |
H Ag&Nr |
Chapman |
|
Medium |
|
HB 1535(Dead) |
Gubernatorial proclamations |
Increasing legislative involvement in gubernatorial proclamations relating to a state of emergency. |
H State Govt & T |
Corry |
|
Monitoring |
|
2SHB 1746(Dead) (SB 5718) |
State broadband map |
Concerning a state broadband map. |
H Rules X |
Ryu |
|
Medium |
|
HB 1882(Dead) (SSB 5723) |
Even-numbered year elections |
Giving cities and towns the freedom to switch their general elections to even-numbered years. |
H State Govt & T |
Farivar |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5266(Dead) (HB 1215) |
Riparian areas |
Concerning the protection and restoration of riparian areas. |
S Ag/Water/Natur |
Shewmake |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5458(Dead) |
Port district public works |
Concerning port districts public works contracting. |
S Loc Gov, Land |
Kauffman |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5465(Dead) (SHB 1258) |
Tourism marketing |
Increasing tourism to Washington state through enhancement of the statewide tourism marketing account and changing necessary match requirements. |
S Ways & Means |
Stanford |
Support |
High |
|
SB 5577(Dead) |
Capital broadband program |
Establishing and making appropriations for the capital broadband investment acceleration program. |
S Environment, E |
Torres |
Support |
Medium |
|
SSB 5723(Dead) (HB 1882) |
Even-numbered year elections |
Giving cities and towns the freedom to switch their general elections to even-numbered years. |
S Rules X |
Valdez |
|
Monitoring |
PUBLIC SAFETY
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
2SHB 1025(Dead) |
Police/private actions |
Creating a private right of action for harm from violations of the state Constitution or state law by peace officers. |
H Civil R & Judi |
Thai |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 1363(Dead) (ESB 5352) |
Vehicular pursuits |
Concerning vehicular pursuits. |
H Rules X |
Rule |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1380(Dead) |
Law enf. officer funding |
Providing funding for the recruitment, retention, and support of law enforcement officers. |
H Approps |
Stokesbary |
Support |
High |
|
ESHB 1387(Dead) |
Law enf. applicant pool |
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. |
H Community Safet |
Ramos |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1446(Dead) (SSB 5361) |
Law enf. officers/increase |
Incentivizing cities and counties to increase employment of commissioned law enforcement officers. |
H Local Govt |
Stokesbary |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1456(Dead) |
Definition of theft |
Concerning the definition of theft. |
H Community Safe |
Griffey |
Support |
High |
|
2SHB 1492(Dead) |
State v. Blake relief |
Providing relief for persons affected by State v. Blake. |
H Rules X |
Simmons |
Concerns |
High |
|
2SHB 1586(Dead) |
Vehicular pursuits work grp. |
Requiring the criminal justice training commission to establish a work group and grant program related to vehicular pursuits. |
H Rules X |
Goodman |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1606(Dead) |
Electronic commerce |
Increasing accountability for products sold on electronic commerce platforms. |
H ConsPro&Bus |
Ryu |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1613(Dead) (SB 5467) |
Controlled sub. possession |
Encouraging treatment for possession of certain counterfeit drugs or controlled substances. |
H Community Safe |
Rule |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1691(Dead) |
Eluding a police vehicle |
Expanding penalties for the crime of attempting to elude a pursuing police vehicle. |
H Community Safe |
Connors |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1802(Dead) |
Minors in possession |
Concerning minors in possession of alcohol, cannabis, or controlled substances. |
H Community Safet |
Cheney |
|
Medium |
|
2SHB 2113(Dead) |
GMA housing element |
Concerning compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act. |
H Rules R |
Bateman |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2211(Dead) (SB 6076) |
Criminal justice local tax |
Granting local taxing authority to fund criminal justice. |
H Local Govt |
Stearns |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2231(Dead) |
Law enforcement funding |
Incentivizing cities and counties to attract and retain commissioned law enforcement officers. |
H Local Govt |
Walen |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 2390(Dead) (SB 6200) |
Eluding & resisting arrest |
Concerning penalties related to eluding police vehicles and resisting arrest. |
H Approps |
Shavers |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2420(Dead) |
Law enforcement training |
Concerning law enforcement training. |
H Community Safe |
Donaghy |
|
High |
|
SB 5034 (Dead) |
Vehicular pursuits |
Concerning the authority for a peace officer to engage in a vehicular pursuit. |
S Law & Justice |
Padden |
Support |
High |
|
SB 5062 (Dead) |
Online marketplaces |
Concerning online marketplace consumer protection caused by organized retail crime. |
S Environment, E |
Lovick |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5138 (Dead) |
Vehicles as homestead |
Providing that vehicles illegally parked on public property or in a public right-of-way are not homesteads under chapter 6.13 RCW. |
S Housing |
Fortunato |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5259(Dead) |
Product theft |
Ensuring commerce and workplaces are safe from product theft. |
S Ways & Means |
Keiser |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5361(Dead) (HB 1446) |
Law enf. officers/increase |
Incentivizing cities and counties to increase employment of commissioned law enforcement officers. |
S Ways & Means |
Holy |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5467 (Dead) (HB 1613) |
Controlled sub. possession |
Encouraging treatment for possession of certain counterfeit drugs or controlled substances. |
S Law & Justice |
Salomon |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5549 (Dead) |
Electric security alarms |
Concerning electric security alarm systems. |
S Loc Gov, Land |
Rivers |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5644 (Dead) (HB 1769) |
Juvenile records |
Concerning juvenile records. |
S Human Services |
Frame |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
SB 5682 (Dead) |
State hospitals/police costs |
Concerning policing costs driven by proximity to state hospitals. |
S Law & Justice |
Holy |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 6054 (Dead) |
Definition of theft |
Concerning the definition of theft. |
S Law & Justice |
Torres |
Support |
Monitoring |
|
SB 6076 (Dead) (HB 2211) |
Criminal justice local tax |
Granting local taxing authority to fund criminal justice. |
S Ways & Means |
Keiser |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 6200 (Dead) (SHB 2390) |
Eluding & resisting arrest |
Concerning penalties related to eluding police vehicles and resisting arrest. |
S Law & Justice |
Lovick |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 6217 (Dead) |
Retail robberies |
Deterring robberies from retail establishments. |
S Law & Justice |
McCune |
Support |
High |
|
SB 6235 (Dead) |
Criminal justice assistance |
Concerning the city and county criminal justice assistance accounts. |
S Ways & Means |
Wilson |
Support |
High |
TRANSPORTATION
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
HB 1126(Dead) (SB 5164) |
Transportation budget, supp. |
Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2021-2023 fiscal biennium. |
H Transportation |
Fey |
Support |
High |
|
HB 1198(Dead) (SB 5402) |
PTBA/limited law enforcement |
Authorizing public transportation benefit areas to become limited authority Washington law enforcement agencies. |
H Community Safet |
Bronoske |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1219(Dead) (SB 5575) |
PTBA governing bodies |
Concerning public transportation benefit area governing bodies. |
H Transportation |
Pollet |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1472(Dead) |
Motor vehicle sales tax |
Dedicating the state sales tax on motor vehicles for transportation. |
H Approps |
Barkis |
Support |
Medium |
|
HB 1719(Dead) |
I-405 express & HOV lanes |
Modifying the hours of operation for the Interstate 405 express toll lanes and high occupancy vehicle lanes. |
H Transportation |
Walsh |
Concerns |
High |
|
HB 1832(Dead) |
Vehicle per mile charge |
Implementing a per mile charge on vehicle usage of public roadways. |
H Transportation |
Fey |
|
High |
|
HB 1871(Dead) |
Ferry empl./COVID-19 vaccine |
Concerning the Washington state ferries' treatment of employees and applicants without consideration of COVID-19 vaccines. |
H Transportation |
Walsh |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1904(Dead) |
Hybrid electric ferries |
Using climate commitment act revenues to pay for hybrid electric ferries. |
H Approps |
Walsh |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2498(Dead) |
Ferry system emergency decl. |
Declaring the ferry system to be in a state of emergency to authorize expedient actions. |
H Transportation |
Barkis |
|
Medium |
|
SB 5017(Dead) |
Motor vehicles sales tax use |
Dedicating the sales tax on motor vehicles to highway uses. |
S Ways & Means |
Fortunato |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5018(Dead) |
Sales tax/transp. projects |
Concerning sales tax revenues of transportation projects being used for transportation purposes. |
S Transportation |
Fortunato |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5068(Dead) |
Motor vehicle sales tax |
Dedicating the state sales tax on motor vehicles for transportation. |
S Ways & Means |
MacEwen |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5162(Dead) (EHB 1125) |
Transportation budget |
Making transportation appropriations for the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium. |
S Rules X |
Liias |
Concerns |
High |
|
SB 5164(Dead) (HB 1126) |
Transportation budget, supp. |
Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2021-2023 fiscal biennium. |
S Transportation |
Liias |
Concerns |
High |
|
SB 5194(Dead) |
Insurance commissioner |
Rendering the Washington state insurance commissioner an appointed position. |
S State Govt & E |
Mullet |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5292(Dead) (HB 1334) |
PTBA aquatic lands access |
Addressing the access of certain aquatic lands by a public transportation benefit area. |
S Rules X |
Randall |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5360(Dead) |
Vehicle combinations |
Concerning vehicle combinations that may be operated on public highways. |
S Transportation |
MacEwen |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5362(Dead) |
Clean fuels program report |
Advancing the due date for the department of ecology's report on the effects of the clean fuels program. |
S Environment, E |
MacEwen |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5574(Dead) |
Pay per mile fee system |
Establishing a pay per mile fee system. |
S Transportation |
Fortunato |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5575(Dead) (HB 1219) |
PTBA governing bodies |
Concerning public transportation benefit area governing bodies. |
S Transportation |
Liias |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5584(Dead) |
SR 520 tolls |
Addressing toll relief on the state route number 520 corridor during planned closures of Interstate 90 between Seattle and Bellevue. |
S Transportation |
Mullet |
|
Monitoring |
|
SSB 5743(Dead) |
Transportation resources |
Making certain nonsubstantive, corrective changes resulting from enactment of chapter 182, Laws of 2022 (transportation resources). |
S Rules X |
Liias |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5756(Dead) |
Fuel tax suspension |
Concerning a temporary suspension of the state motor vehicle fuel tax. |
S Transportation |
Muzzall |
|
Medium |
|
SB 5757(Dead) (ESHB 1838) |
Transp. revenue forecast |
Transferring the responsibilities for the transportation revenue forecast for the transportation budget to the economic and revenue forecast council. |
S Transportation |
Shewmake |
|
High |
|
SB 5763(Dead) |
Connecting WA bonds |
Increasing existing bond authority for 2015 connecting Washington projects and improvements. |
S Transportation |
Liias |
Neutral |
High |
|
SSB 6304(Dead) |
Transp. electrification |
Implementing certain recommendations of the transportation electrification strategy. |
S Rules X |
Liias |
Oppose |
High |
|
SB 6311(Dead) |
Pension returns/transp. |
Using savings that are the result of extraordinary investment returns in the stateâs pension systems to fund transportation projects. |
S Ways & Means |
Mullet |
|
Medium |
|
SJR 8200(Dead) |
Revenue for highway purposes |
Amending the state Constitution so that state revenue collected from a road usage charge, vehicle miles traveled fee, or other similar type of comparable charge, must be used exclusively for highway purposes. |
S Transportation |
Fortunato |
Support |
High |
Uncategorized Bills
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
SHB 1124(Dead) |
Residential rent and fees |
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. |
H Rules C |
Peterson |
Concerns |
High |
|
HB 1505(Dead) (ESSB 5447) |
Alternative jet fuel |
Promoting the alternative jet fuel industry in Washington. |
H Env & Energy |
Slatter |
Support |
Medium |
|
HB 1556(Dead) (SB 5495) |
Property tax rebates |
Concerning property tax rebates for homeowners and renters. |
H Finance |
Berg |
Oppose |
High |
|
HB 1612(Dead) (E2SSB 5367) |
Products containing THC |
Concerning the regulation of products containing THC. |
H Reg Subst & Ga |
Kloba |
Concerns |
High |
|
SHB 1761(Dead) |
Property tax exemption |
Increasing the personal property tax exemption. |
H 2nd Reading |
Christian |
Support |
Medium |
|
HB 1872(Dead) |
Homeless housing grants |
Establishing accountability requirements for homeless housing grant programs. |
H Approps |
Graham |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 1896(Dead) (SB 6080) |
Tourism marketing funding |
Simplifying the funding provisions of the statewide tourism marketing account. |
H Rules R |
Ryu |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 1940(Dead) (ESSB 5778) |
Employer political speech |
Protecting the rights of workers to refrain from attending meetings or listening to their employer's speech on political or religious matters. |
H Rules R |
Fosse |
Oppose |
High |
|
SHB 1959(Dead) |
PFML/small employers |
Extending parts of the paid family and medical leave program to employers with fewer than 50 employees. |
H Approps |
Walen |
Oppose |
High |
|
SHB 1991(Dead) (ESSB 5793) |
Paid sick leave |
Concerning paid sick leave. |
H 2nd Reading |
Fosse |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
HB 2035(Dead) |
Work restrictions/age 16, 17 |
Concerning restrictions on the working conditions and hours of sixteen- and seventeen-year olds. |
H Labor & Workpl |
McClintock |
Support |
Medium |
|
HB 2051(Dead) |
Small off-road engines |
Reducing emissions from small off-road engines. |
H Env & Energy |
Walen |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
HB 2168(Dead) (SB 5991) |
Industrial insurance/duties |
Concerning the duties of industrial insurance self-insured employers and third-party administrators. |
H Labor & Workpl |
Alvarado |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
HB 2349(Dead) (SB 6241) |
Job posting wage disclosures |
Strengthening pay transparency requirements. |
H Labor & Workpl |
Stonier |
Support |
Medium |
|
SB 5495(Dead) (HB 1556) |
Property tax rebates |
Concerning property tax rebates for homeowners and renters. |
S Ways & Means |
Kuderer |
Oppose |
High |
|
SB 5559(Dead) (E4SHB 1479) |
Student restraint, isolation |
Concerning restraint or isolation of students in public schools and educational programs. |
S EL/K-12 |
Wilson |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 5777(Dead) (ESHB 1893) |
Unemp ins/strikes & lockouts |
Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for striking or lockout workers. |
S Rules X |
Keiser |
Oppose |
High |
|
SSB 5894(Dead) (SHB 1905) |
Equal pay/protected classes |
Including protected classes in the Washington equal pay and opportunities act. |
S Rules X |
Nobles |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
SB 5932(Dead) (HB 1927) |
Temporary total disability |
Reducing the number of days that a worker's temporary total disability must continue to receive industrial insurance compensation for the day of an injury and the three-day period following the injury. |
S Labor & Comm |
Stanford |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
SB 5991(Dead) (HB 2168) |
Industrial insurance/duties |
Concerning the duties of industrial insurance self-insured employers and third-party administrators. |
S Labor & Comm |
Lovelett |
Concerns |
Medium |
