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OLYMPIA -- Heavy day of committee hearings with a wide range of topics, including vaccination exemptions for school children and Senate Republicans' plans for transportation system reforms.

Committees will try to beat the clock and vote on many bills they've previously heard, like a higher minimum wage for aerospace workers, which has drawn some fire from Inland Northwest firms.

That, plus Secretary of State Kim Wyman has an 11 a.m. press conference on the 2016 presidential primary. Voters said they wanted one in 1989, but the state skipped it four years ago because of high expense and low interest.

Here's the full committee schedule:

Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Time	Committee	Location
8:00 AM	Agriculture, Water & Rural Economic Development (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 3
	Law & Justice (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 4
	Business & Financial Services (H)	House Hearing Rm B
	Early Learning & Human Services (H)	House Hearing Rm E
	Health Care & Wellness (H)	House Hearing Rm A
	Higher Education (H)	House Hearing Rm C
	Public Safety (H)	House Hearing Rm D
9:55 AM	PRO FORMA HOUSE SESSION
10:00 AM	Government Operations & Security (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 2
	Health Care (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 4
	Human Services, Mental Health & Housing (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 1
	Agriculture & Natural Resources (H)	House Hearing Rm B
	Judiciary (H)	House Hearing Rm A
	Local Government (H)	House Hearing Rm D
	State Government (H)	House Hearing Rm E
	Technology & Economic Development (H)	House Hearing Rm C
12:00 PM	PRO FORMA SENATE SESSION
1:30 PM	Early Learning & K-12 Education (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 1
	Energy, Environment & Telecommunications (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 4
	Higher Education (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 3
	Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs (H)	House Hearing Rm E
	Education (H)	House Hearing Rm A
	Environment (H)	House Hearing Rm B
	Labor (H)	House Hearing Rm D
3:30 PM	Transportation (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 1
	Ways & Means (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 4
	Capital Budget (H)	House Hearing Rm D
	Finance (H)	House Hearing Rm A
	General Government & Information Technology (H)	House Hearing Rm C
5:30 PM	Government Operations & Security (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 2
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House Committees

Agriculture & Natural Resources*
2/17/15 10:00 am

House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/12/2015 4:30 PM

Public Hearing: HB 2093 - Concerning wildland fire suppression.

Possible Executive Session:

1. HB 1187 - Concerning best practices for water banks.
2. HB 1232 - Concerning employer-purchased fishing guide licenses.
3. HB 1338 - Concerning the diversion of certain municipal waters.
4. HB 1522 - Establishing an intrastate meat inspection program.
5. HB 1836 - Concerning state drought preparedness.
6. HB 1838 - Concerning the baiting of black bears.

 

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Business & Financial Services*
2/17/15 8:00 am

House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/16/2015 2:09 PM

Public Hearing:

1. HB 1763 - Regulating music licensing agencies.
2. HB 1923 - Regulating income share agreements.
3. HB 2131 - Relating to insurance for providers of commercial transportation services.

Possible Executive Session:

1. HB 1578 - Authorizing insurers to offer customer satisfaction benefits.
2. HB 1730 - Concerning the handling of earnest money.
3. HB 1761 - Addressing insurance producers, insurers, and title insurance agents activities with customers and potential customers.
4. HB 1871 - Addressing credit unions' corporate governance and investments.
5. HB 1398 - Concerning registration of persons providing debt settlement services.
6. HB 1329 - Addressing electronic notices and document delivery of insurance products.

 

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Capital Budget*
2/17/15 3:30 pm

House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm D
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/16/2015 4:13 PM

Public Hearing:

1. HB 1464 - Transferring public water system financial assistance activities from the public works board and the department of commerce to the department of health.
2. HJR 4209 - Requiring a balanced budget.
3. HB 2035 - Lengthening the maximum terms of leases entered into by the director of enterprise services in certain counties.
4. HB 1793 - Working within the existing in-stream flow rules adopted by the department of ecology to provide a suite of tools, applicable to property owners located in areas with limited access to legal new water withdrawals, for alternative water procurement that does not result in a net loss to area surface waters.

Possible Executive Session:

1. HB 1192 - Concerning the transfer of federal land to the state.
2. HB 1262 - Creating a task force to examine land ownership by the federal government in Washington.
3. HB 1754 - Adding building envelope to the list of building trades that a prime contractor must list for bids on public works.
4. HB 1859 - Concerning the amendment, recodification, decodification, or repeal of statutes relating to state capital construction funds and accounts and bond authorizations that are inactive, obsolete, or no longer necessary for continued publication in the Revised Code of Washington.
5. HB 1959 - Concerning public works.

 

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Commerce & Gaming*
2/17/15 1:30 pm

House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm C
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

MEETING CANCELLED.

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Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs*
2/17/15 1:30 pm

House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm E
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/16/2015 4:42 PM

Public Hearing:

1. HB 1997 - Authorizing the creation and use of community facilities districts in limited areas of more intensive rural development.
2. HB 2040 - Initiating a campaign to increase veteran employment.
3. HB 2114 - Providing for representation of the state veterans' homes on the governor's veterans affairs advisory committee.

Executive Session:

1. HB 2022 - Creating the natural disaster economic recovery account to support economic recovery from natural disasters.
2. HB 1938 - Enacting the tourism marketing act.
3. HB 1540 - Concerning tribal timber harvest excise tax agreements.
4. HB 1383 - Concerning community redevelopment financing in apportionment districts.

 

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Early Learning & Human Services*
2/17/15 8:00 am

House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm E
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/14/2015 12:39 PM

Public Hearing:

1. HB 1970 - Addressing permanency plans of care for dependent children.
2. HB 1999 - Coordinating services and programs for foster youth in order to improve educational outcomes.
3. SB 5079 - Requiring the department of social and health services to notify the military regarding child abuse and neglect allegations of families with an active military status.

Possible Executive Session:

1. HB 1501 - Concerning public-private financing of prevention-based social service programs.
2. HB 1505 - Allowing prosecutors to refer juveniles to restorative justice programs.
3. HB 1800 - Concerning filing a petition seeking termination of parental rights.
4. HB 1875 - Concerning the definition of work activity for the purposes of the WorkFirst program.
5. HB 1888 - Transferring certification responsibilities for chemical dependency treatment programs from the department of social and health services to the department of health.

 

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Education
2/17/15 1:30 pm

House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

Executive Session:

1. HB 1149 - Providing for educational data on students from military families.
2. HB 1240 - Concerning restraint or isolation of students, including students with disabilities, in public schools.
3. HB 1363 - Eliminating the requirement to obtain a certificate of academic achievement or certificate of individual achievement to graduate from high school.
4. HB 1541 - Implementing strategies to close the educational opportunity gap, based on the recommendations of the educational opportunity gap oversight and accountability committee.
5. HB 1546 - Concerning dual credit opportunities provided by Washington state's public institutions of higher education.
6. HB 1591 - Concerning high school and beyond plans.
7. HB 1666 - Making the results on the statewide assessments available as norm-referenced results and as student growth percentiles.
8. HB 1682 - Improving educational outcomes for homeless students through increased in-school guidance supports, housing stability, and identification services.
9. HB 1703 - Modifying the high school assessment system by changing the administration of alternative assessments, continuing the requirement for students to demonstrate achievement of state academic standards to earn a high school diploma, and aligning the system with career and college ready graduation requirements.
10. HB 1714 - Concerning the achievement index rating system.
11. HB 1760 - Providing students with skills that promote mental health and well-being and increase academic performance.
12. HB 1783 - Expanding dual language and bilingual instruction for early learners through secondary students.
13. HB 1785 - Eliminating the certificate of academic achievement as a requirement for high school graduation.
14. HB 1790 - Clarifying the authority of a nurse working in a school setting.
15. HB 1804 - Concerning the confidentiality of educator professional growth plans.
16. HB 1813 - Expanding computer science education.
17. HB 1855 - Waiving local graduation requirements for certain students.
18. HB 1864 - Supporting evidence-based strategies to promote high school graduation.
19. HB 1900 - Defining the role of the school counselor, social worker, and psychologist.
20. HB 2048 - Concerning the division of large first-class school districts.

 

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Environment*
2/17/15 1:30 pm

House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/16/2015 12:55 PM

Work Session: Update on Flame Retardants in furniture and children's products.

Possible Executive Session:

1. HB 1449 - Concerning oil transportation safety.
2. HB 1472 - Concerning use of chemical action plans to require safer chemicals in Washington.
3. HB 1695 - Establishing a priority for the use, reuse, and recycling of construction aggregate and recycled concrete materials in Washington.
4. HB 1851 - Creating an expedited permitting and contracting process for bridges owned by local governments that are deemed structurally deficient.
5. HB 1891 - Concerning stage II gasoline vapor control programs.
6. HB 1487 - Reducing emissions by making changes to the clean car standards and clean car program.
7. HB 1715 - Protecting Puget Sound through funding and implementing local on-site sewage program management plans.
8. HB 1741 - Allowing disabled persons to access public recreational sites or lands without a discover pass, vehicle access pass, or day-use permit.
9. HB 1826 - Creating flexibility in the state's recreational fee-for-access programs to better accommodate families that recreate with multiple vehicles.
10. HB 1833 - Concerning timing free access days at state parks with local community events.
11. HB 1845 - Concerning pharmaceutical waste.
12. HJM 4009 - Requesting action to address global climate change.

 

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Finance*
2/17/15 3:30 pm

House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/13/2015 4:55 PM

Public Hearing:

1. HB 1337 - Increasing the flexibility for industrial development district levies for public port districts.
2. SHB 1223 - Allowing the use of lodging taxes for financing workforce housing.
3. SHB 1393 - Authorizing certain public transportation benefit areas to impose a sales and use tax approved by voters.
4. HB 1513 - Concerning local infrastructure project areas.
5. HB 1648 - Concerning infrastructure financing for local governments.

Executive Session:

1. HB 1279 - Modifying the definition of legislative authority for purposes of local tourism promotion areas.
2. HB 1516 - Providing an exemption for certain lodging services from the convention and trade center tax.
3. HB 1619 - Providing a business and occupation tax exemption for environmental handling charges.
4. HB 1990 - Concerning use tax on vehicles transferred between immediate family members for no consideration other than to relieve the transferor of the underlying debt on the vehicle.

 

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General Government & Information Technology*
2/17/15 3:30 pm

House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm C
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/13/2015 4:57 PM

Public Hearing:

1. SHB 1118 - Creating cost savings by providing administrative flexibility to the department of fish and wildlife in its implementation of Title 77 RCW while not directing any changes to resource management outcomes.
2. SHB 1278 - Concerning building energy use disclosure requirements.
3. HB 2128 - Concerning fees assessed by the department of agriculture.

Possible Executive Session:

1. HB 1171 - Concerning expiration dates related to real estate broker provisions.
2. HB 1234 - Modifying certain building permit fees.
3. SHB 1252 - Prescribing penalties for allowing or permitting unlicensed practice of massage therapy or reflexology.
4. HB 1391 - Aligning functions of the consolidated technology services agency, office of the chief information officer, and department of enterprise services.

 

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Health Care & Wellness*
2/17/15 8:00 am

House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/13/2015 3:00 PM

Public Hearing:

1. HB 1600 - Creating a pilot project to test a three-part aim solution that improves health and health care in a manner that lowers overall health care costs in a normally distributed population.
2. HB 1667 - Establishing the bleeding disorder collaborative for care.
3. HB 1712 - Concerning audit procedures to assist medicaid providers.
4. HB 1852 - Addressing the pediatric oral services essential health benefit category.
5. HB 2009 - Concerning exemptions from immunizations for school-age children.

Possible Executive Session:

1. HB 1140 - Requiring the health care authority to establish a primary care psychiatric consultation services program.
2. HB 1151 - Creating pilot projects to offer respite services to primary caregivers of people with severe mental illness.
3. HB 1173 - Prohibiting noncompete agreements that restrict the right of physicians to practice in a geographic area for a period of time after termination of an employment contract.
4. HB 1424 - Concerning suicide prevention.
5. HB 1458 - Concerning the age of individuals at which sale or distribution of tobacco and vapor products may be made.
6. HB 1471 - Mitigating barriers to patient access to care resulting from health insurance contracting practices.
7. HB 1504 - Standardizing hospital charity care determinations.
8. HB 1514 - Concerning dental office support services.
9. HB 1545 - Encouraging the safe practice of public health nurses dispensing certain medications.
10. HB 1625 - Concerning provision of drugs to ambulance or aid services.
11. HB 1669 - Establishing a task force on continuity of health coverage and care.
12. HB 1721 - Concerning the transport of patients by ambulance to facilities other than hospitals.
13. HB 1762 - Concerning the relationship between a health insurer and a contracting health care provider.
14. HB 1879 - Directing the health care authority to issue a request for proposals for integrated managed health and behavioral health services for foster children.
15. HB 1890 - Concerning a second-party payment process for paying insurers.
16. HB 1916 - Integrating administrative provisions for chemical dependency and mental health.
17. HB 1932 - Concerning medication management for youth.
18. HB 1946 - Concerning Washington wellness trust obligations for hospitals.
19. HB 1956 - Creating independent review organizations.
20. HB 1967 - Directing the health care authority to apply for federal waivers concerning health care coverage.

 

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Higher Education*
2/17/15 8:00 am

House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm C
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/13/2015 3:03 PM

Public Hearing:

1. HB 1958 - Limiting the cost of assigned textbooks for institutions of higher education.
2. HB 1961 - Decodifying, expiring, and making nonsubstantive changes to community and technical college provisions.
3. HB 1973 - Creating an open education pilot program at Eastern Washington University.
4. HB 1977 - Creating a tuition and fees exemption for children and surviving spouses of certain highway workers.
5. HB 1982 - Enhancing student completion through advising, mentoring, recapture initiatives, remedial programs, and accelerated precollege instruction and creating the innovations for student completion program.

Possible Executive Session:

1. HB 1592 - Concerning tuition waivers for state and educational employees.
2. HB 1696 - Modifying provisions related to tuition setting authority at public institutions of higher education.
3. HB 1814 - Creating the certified public accounting scholarship program.
4. HB 1825 - Modifying the definition of resident student to comply with federal requirements established by the veterans access, choice, and accountability act of 2014.
5. HB 1705 - Concerning basic education for adults at community and technical colleges.
6. HB 1893 - Increasing transparency in community and technical colleges by requiring certain budget detail to be available online.
7. HB 1445 - Using computer sciences to satisfy world language college admission requirements.
8. HB 1556 - Strengthening the Washington advanced college tuition payment program by setting new requirements on the purchase and use of tuition units.
9. HB 1400 - Increasing transparency in higher education by requiring budgeting information to be available online.
10. HB 1154 - Creating the affordable college for everyone grant contract program.

 

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Judiciary*
2/17/15 10:00 am

House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/13/2015 4:05 PM

Public Hearing:

1. HB 1243 - Providing flexibility for how school districts address truancy of students.
2. HB 1476 - Removing references to faith-based exemptions regarding criminal mistreatment of children and vulnerable adults.
3. HB 1894 - Creating a cause of action for the protection of workers acting in furtherance of public policy.
4. HB 2060 - Concerning timeliness of competency evaluation and restoration services.
5. HB 2033 - Concerning sexual assault protection orders.
6. HB 1524 - Authorizing the termination of all legal responsibilities of a nonparent if genetic testing shows by clear and convincing evidence that a man is not the genetic father of a child.
7. HB 2051 - Concerning the provision of time and assistance for tenants to relocate due to a rent increase or change of use of the residential unit.

**Meeting is scheduled to end at 12:55 p.m.

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Labor*
2/17/15 1:30 pm

House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm D
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/12/2015 11:29 AM

Possible Executive Session:

1. HB 1122 - Addressing arbitration for dispatch operators of public employers.
2. HB 1127 - Creating the agricultural labor skills and safety program.
3. HB 1230 - Authorizing the ordering of interest arbitration.
4. HB 1577 - Restricting employment noncompetition agreements.
5. HB 1613 - Authorizing treatment to protect life or alleviate pain of injured workers with permanent partial disabilities.
6. HB 1651 - Concerning definitions related to human trafficking.
7. HB 1701 - Prohibiting employers from asking about arrests or convictions before an applicant is determined otherwise qualified for a position.
8. HB 1749 - Concerning contractor registration requirements for owners of property.
9. HB 1786 - Establishing a statewide wage standard for aerospace employment as a requirement to qualify for certain aerospace-related tax incentives.
10. HB 1809 - Establishing minimum crew size on certain trains.
11. HB 1821 - Addressing industrial insurance requirements and options for owners and lessees of for hire vehicles, limousines, and taxicabs.
12. HB 1863 - Modifying collective bargaining law related to providing additional compensation for academic employees at community and technical colleges.
13. HB 1926 - Restricting noncompetition agreements.
14. HB 1930 - Addressing the nonemployee status of athletes in amateur sports.
15. HB 1964 - Addressing the public employees' collective bargaining act as applied to commissioned officers of the department of fish and wildlife.
16. HB 1986 - Permitting certain uniformed personnel, as defined in chapter 41.56 RCW, who are employed by counties and are members of the public employees' retirement system or the public safety employees' retirement system to negotiate to have their employers make the member retirement system contributions that are picked up pursuant to the federal tax code.
17. HB 1987 - Adding certain commissioned court marshals of county sheriff's offices to the definition of uniformed personnel for the purposes of public employees' collective bargaining.
18. HB 2034 - Authorizing collective bargaining for assistant attorneys general.
19. HB 2078 - Addressing collective bargaining by ferry employee organizations.

 

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Local Government*
2/17/15 10:00 am

House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm D
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/12/2015 9:45 AM

Public Hearing:

1. HB 1957 - Concerning the maximum total dollar amount that may be awarded under a job order contract for cities with a population of more than four hundred thousand.
2. HB 2036 - Improving permit and approval efficiencies under the shoreline management act.
3. HB 2084 - Imposing fines, withholding taxes, and other measures to encourage local jurisdictions to timely file state-required reports.
4. HB 2112 - Addressing annexation of islands of unincorporated territory in areas subject to boundary review.

Possible Executive Session:

1. HB 1009 - Allowing rural counties providing emergency medical services to locations with a rural amphitheater to impose an additional admissions surcharge.
2. HB 1250 - Concerning notice and review processes for annexations, deannexations, incorporations, disincorporations, consolidations, and boundary line adjustments under Titles 35 and 35A RCW.
3. HB 1420 - Concerning school siting and school district aid in reducing overall school construction costs.
4. HB 1529 - Modifying per diem rates for port district officers and employees.
5. HB 1605 - Modifying certain provisions governing benefit charges of fire protection districts and regional fire protection service authorities.
6. HB 1606 - Establishing regional fire protection service authorities within the boundaries of regional cities.
7. HB 1702 - Addressing local authority in the regulation of fireworks.
8. HB 1709 - Establishing a process for the payment of impact fees through provisions stipulated in recorded covenants.
9. HB 1789 - Granting counties and cities greater flexibility with real estate excise tax proceeds.
10. HB 1802 - Concerning optional methods of financing long-range planning costs.
11. HB 1815 - Revising local government treasury practices and procedures.
12. HB 1824 - Promoting fire safety with long-life smoke detection devices.
13. HB 1848 - Requiring voter approval for direct petition annexations.
14. HB 1850 - Exempting certain department of transportation actions from local review or permit processes under the shoreline management act.
15. HB 1868 - Expanding county road fund purposes for certain counties.
16. HB 1911 - Authorizing municipalities to create assessment reimbursement areas for the construction or improvement of water or sewer facilities.
17. HB 1929 - Requiring incentives for electric vehicle readiness in buildings.
18. HB 1957 - Concerning the maximum total dollar amount that may be awarded under a job order contract for cities with a population of more than four hundred thousand.
19. HB 1989 - Concerning water storage asset management services.
20. HB 2036 - Improving permit and approval efficiencies under the shoreline management act.
21. HB 2046 - Adding a definition of streams to the shoreline management act.

 

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Public Safety
2/17/15 8:00 am

House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm D
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

Public Hearing:

1. HB 1943 - Concerning home detention.
2. HB 2025 - Prohibiting the sale and commercial display of human remains.
3. HB 2085 - Providing alternatives for penalties stemming from traffic infractions.
4. HB 2098 - Establishing a statewide training program on human trafficking laws for criminal justice personnel.

 

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State Government*
2/17/15 10:00 am

House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm E
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/13/2015 4:20 PM

Public Hearing:

1. HB 1819 - Concerning appointments to inspect the books of account of a political committee or a candidate committee.
2. HB 1866 - Improving voter registration by providing new residential tenants with voter registration information.
3. HB 1942 - Concerning ballot measures regarding required information and filing fees.
4. HB 2055 - Concerning statements on ballot measures in voters' pamphlets.

Executive Session:

1. HB 1086 - Establishing a cost recovery mechanism for public records sought for commercial purposes.
2. HB 1136 - Concerning employment after public service in state government.
3. HB 1684 - Concerning charges for the cost of providing public records in response to public records requests.
4. HB 1691 - Concerning remedies for actions under the public records act.
5. HB 1780 - Regulating interpreter services.
6. HB 1849 - Concerning uniform ballot design.

 

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Technology & Economic Development
2/17/15 10:00 am

House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm C
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

Public Hearing:

1. HB 1998 - Allowing public utility districts to produce and sell renewable natural gas.
2. HB 2045 - Promoting development of reliable distributed energy resources through extending and modifying an existing tax incentive for certain net metering systems, preserving the existing ground rules for net metering until net metering systems' generating capacity equals 0.5 percent of the utility's 1996 peak demand, requiring distribution resources planning, and authorizing a reliability charge and other alternatives to existing ground rules for net metering, for a utility that has achieved the existing 0.5 percent interconnection requirement for net metering systems.
3. HB 1759 - Modifying the computer data center sales and use tax exemption.
4. HB 1764 - Creating a business and occupation tax credit for advanced composite manufacturing and wholesaling.
5. HB 1736 - Extending specific aerospace tax preferences to include other types of commercial aircraft to encourage the migration of good wage jobs in the state.
6. HB 2064 - Providing compliance options for qualifying utilities.

Possible Executive Session:

1. HB 1078 - Enhancing the protection of consumer financial information.
2. HB 1352 - Allowing incremental electricity produced as a result of efficiency improvements to hydroelectric generation projects whose energy output is marketed by the Bonneville power administration to qualify as an eligible renewable resource under the energy independence act.
3. HB 1381 - Concerning encouraging job retention and creation in rural economies through the transparent and accountable extension of aluminum smelter tax preferences.
4. HB 1681 - Increasing jobs in the maritime trades industry.
5. HB 1853 - Encouraging utility leadership in electric vehicle charging infrastructure build-out.
6. HB 1758 - Extending the expiration date of tax preferences for biofuel, biomass, and energy conservation.
7. HB 1897 - Creating the joint center for deployment and research in earth-abundant materials.
8. HB 1098 - Aligning electric utility regulation and business models with emerging customer values not realized in volumetric monetization.
9. HB 1710 - Fostering economic growth in Washington by supporting the in-state production, processing, and distribution of food supply.
10. HB 2050 - Establishing the small business enhancement program.
11. HJM 4007 - Encouraging the successful negotiation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the United States and the European Union.

 

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Senate Committees

The schedule is subject to the addition of more committee agendas. Please check our website, http://www.leg.wa.gov/legislature/pages/calendar.aspx

Agriculture, Water & Rural Economic Development*
2/17/15 8:00 am

Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 3
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/16/2015 1:44 PM

Public Hearing:

1. SB 5965 - Evaluating mitigation options for impacts to base flows and minimum instream flows.
2. SB 5972 - Concerning the procurement of seeds by state agencies. (Hearing is on proposed substitute).
3. SB 6003 - Concerning conservation districts' special assessments.

Work Session: Agriculture and water quality advisory committee.

Executive Session:

1. SB 5013 - Regarding the use of designated agricultural lands.
2. SB 5016 - Retaining water resources to assure the vitality of local economies.
3. SB 5298 - Concerning the diversion of certain municipal waters.
4. SB 5470 - Concerning municipal procurement of water services.
5. SB 5584 - Concerning water quality determinations made by the department of ecology.
6. SB 5555 - Concerning irrigation district review and conditioning authority.
7. SB 5708 - Concerning the taxation of certain rented property owned by nonprofit fair associations.
8. SB 5733 - Authorizing a livestock movement reporting system.
9. SB 5801 - Creating a water commission.
10. Possible other bills referred to committee.

If draft bills, proposed substitutes, or striking amendments are to be heard, they can be obtained from committee staff or on the committee's website, http://www.leg.wa.gov/Senate/Committees/AWRD/Pages/default.aspx. Other business.

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Early Learning & K-12 Education*
2/17/15 1:30 pm

Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/13/2015 8:05 AM

Public Hearing:

1. SB 5942 - Concerning an outcome evaluation of the national guard youth challenge program.
2. SB 5930 - Requiring music education in elementary schools.
3. SB 5856 - Creating a competitive grant program for high-quality, evidence-based outreach programs that improve high school graduation rates for college bound scholarship students.
4. SB 5787 - Concerning a model policy and procedures for language access by limited-English proficient parents of students.

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.

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Energy, Environment & Telecommunications*
2/17/15 1:30 pm

Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/12/2015 8:05 AM

Public Hearing:

1. SB 5760 - Concerning contracts for materials or work required by joint operating agencies.
2. SJM 8010 - Requesting the President and United States Congress to take action to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.
3. SB 5842 - Providing a compliance path based on sound utility planning under the energy independence act.
4. SB 5274 - Revising the responsibilities of the joint administrative rules review committee.
5. SB 5892 - Encouraging reliable distributed solar energy.
6. SB 5684 - Concerning flame retardants.

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.

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Government Operations & Security*
2/17/15 10:00 am

Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 2
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/13/2015 4:16 PM

Public Hearing:

1. SB 5585 - Granting counties and cities greater flexibility with real estate excise tax proceeds. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.)
2. SB 5853 - Modifying the authority and duties of county treasurers.
3. SB 5866 - Providing that counties are not required to distribute to the cities within the county certain county sales and use tax proceeds.
4. SB 5753 - Creating a county property tax exemption for energy efficient construction.
5. SB 5795 - Authorizing municipalities to create assessment reimbursement areas for the construction or improvement of water or sewer facilities.
6. SB 5920 - Changing the time for filing initiative measures.
7. SB 5201 - Concerning the verification of voter registration qualifications.
8. SB 5867 - Enhancing public disclosure of lobbying and campaign activity.

If draft bills, proposed substitutes, or striking amendments are to be heard, they can be obtained from committee staff or on the committee's website, http://www.leg.wa.gov/Senate/Committees/GOS/Pages/default.aspx, as soon as they are available. Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.

Government Operations & Security
2/17/15 5:30 pm

Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 2
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

Possible Executive Session: Bills previously heard.

Other business.

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Health Care *
2/17/15 10:00 am

Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/12/2015 4:23 PM

Public Hearing:

1. SB 5935 - Concerning biological products.
2. SB 5709 - Concerning a consumer's right to assign hours to individual providers and the department of social and health services' authority to establish criteria regarding the payment of individual providers.
3. SB 5379 - Adding posttraumatic stress disorder to the terminal or debilitating medical conditions that qualify for the medical use of marijuana.
4. SB 5877 - Concerning due process for adult family home licensees.
5. SB 5870 - Prohibiting the use of aversion therapy in the treatment of minors.
6. SB 5947 - Creating a training program in integrated care psychiatry.
7. SB 5458 - Concerning health district banking.

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.

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Higher Education*
2/17/15 1:30 pm

Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 3
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/13/2015 5:04 PM

Public Hearing:

1. SGA 9009 - Teresita Batayola, Member, Seattle College District Board of Trustees.
2. SGA 9011 - Kathryn Bennett, Member, Board of Trustees, Community College District No. 4 (Skagit Valley College).
3. SGA 9029 - Jerome O Cohen, Member, Higher Education Facilities Authority.
4. SGA 9121 - Robert J Moser, Member, Central Washington University Board of Trustees.
5. SGA 9194 - Doris Wood, Member, Board of Trustees, Community College District No. 12 (Centralia College).
6. SB 5954 - Reducing tuition.

Executive Session:

1. SB 5547 - Requiring a minimum grade point average or equivalent to renew a state need grant.
2. SB 5619 - Concerning basic education for adults at community and technical colleges.
3. SB 5133 - Concerning a study of higher education cost drivers.
4. SB 5746 - Including Everett Community College as an aerospace training or educational program.
5. SB 5841 - Creating a tuition and fees exemption for children and surviving spouses of certain highway workers.
6. SGA 9052 - Chase Franklin, Member, Western Washington University Board of Trustees.
7. SGA 9146 - Juanita Richards, Member, Board of Trustees, Big Bend Community College District No. 18.
8. SGA 9100 - Kevin Massimino, Member, Board of Regents, Washington State University.
9. SGA 9007 - Don Barbieri, Member, Board of Regents, Washington State University.

Other business.

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Human Services, Mental Health & Housing*
2/17/15 10:00 am

Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/13/2015 10:05 AM

Public Hearing:

1. SB 5888 - Concerning near fatality incidents of children who have received services from the department of social and health services.
2. SB 5631 - Concerning the administration of a statewide network of community-based domestic violence victim services by the department of social and health services.
3. SB 5925 - Concerning diversion of nonfelony charges when a party has raised the issue of competency to stand trial.

Executive Session: Bills previously heard.

Other business.

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Law & Justice*
2/17/15 8:00 am

Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/16/2015 4:05 PM

Public Hearing:

1. SB 5933 - Establishing a statewide training program on human trafficking laws for criminal justice personnel.
2. SB 5498 - Revising the uniform interstate family support act.
3. SB 5783 - Authorizing peace officers to assist the department of corrections with the supervision of offenders.
4. SB 5505 - Creating an office of corrections ombuds.
5. SB 5823 - Concerning guardians ad litem.
6. SB 5914 - Addressing local authority in the regulation of fireworks.
7. SB 5921 - Preserving the common law interpretation and application of the vested rights doctrine.
8. SB 5713 - Concerning legal financial obligations.

Executive Session:

1. SB 5650 - Modifying provisions governing inmate funds subject to deductions.
2. SB 5809 - Requiring the provision of comprehensive information in writing to real property owners during negotiations for the acquisition of the property by government agencies.
3. SB 5793 - Providing credit towards child support obligations for veterans benefits.
4. SB 5919 - Concerning informed decision making for death with dignity decisions.
5. SB 5373 - Modifying limitations on new evidence taken on judicial review of administrative actions.
6. SB 5292 - Protecting children and youth from powdered alcohol.

Other business.

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Transportation*
2/17/15 3:30 pm

Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/12/2015 4:06 PM

Public Hearing:

1. SB 5990 - Transferring certain state sales and use taxes collected on transportation projects to the connecting Washington account.
2. SB 5991 - Concerning activities at the department of transportation funded by the environmental legacy stewardship account.
3. SB 5992 - Modifying certain requirements for ferry vessel construction.
4. SB 5993 - Concerning public works contracts and projects.
5. SB 5994 - Concerning permits for state transportation corridor projects.
6. SB 5995 - Modifying the transportation system policy goal of mobility.
7. SB 5996 - Concerning Washington state department of transportation projects.
8. SB 5997 - Concerning transportation project delivery.

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.

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Ways & Means*
2/17/15 3:30 pm

Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/12/2015 11:34 AM

Public Hearing:

1. SB 5206 - Addressing state audit findings of noncompliance with state law.
2. SB 5251 - Transferring public water system financial assistance activities from the public works board and the department of commerce to the department of health.
3. SB 5435 - Expanding participation in the Washington state deferred compensation program.
4. SB 5466 - Clarifying employee eligibility for benefits from the public employees' benefits board and conforming the eligibility provisions with federal law.
5. SSB 5082 - Providing for career and technical education opportunities for elementary school students.
6. SSB 5486 - Creating the parents for parents program.
7. SB 5181 - Addressing the scope of state fire service mobilization and ensuring compliance with existing state and federal disaster response policies.
8. SB 5166 - Concerning the management of forage fish resources.
9. SB 5347 - Creating demonstration projects for preserving agricultural land and public infrastructure in flood plains.
10. SSB 5057 - Concerning the safe transport of hazardous materials.

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.

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