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WaLeg Week 10: Back to the committees

Monday, March 16, 2015
Time Committee Location
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
12:00 PM PRO FORMA SENATE SESSION  
1:30 PM Early Learning & K-12 Education (S) Senate Hearing Rm 1
  Law & Justice (S) Senate Hearing Rm 4
  Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs (H) House Hearing Rm E
  Commerce & Gaming (H) House Hearing Rm C
  Education (H) House Hearing Rm A
  Environment (H) House Hearing Rm B
3:30 PM Transportation (S) Senate Hearing Rm 1
  Appropriations (H) House Hearing Rm A
  Transportation (H) House Hearing Rm B

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House Committees

Appropriations
3/16/15 3:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

Public Hearing:
  1. SB 5210 - Authorizing an optional life annuity benefit for members of the Washington state patrol retirement system.
  2. 2SSB 5215 - Establishing the Washington internet crimes against children account.
  3. SB 5466 - Clarifying employee eligibility for benefits from the public employees' benefits board and conforming the eligibility provisions with federal law.
  4. SB 5468 - Authorizing the use of nonappropriated funds on certain administrative costs and expenses of the stay-at-work and self-insured employer programs.
  5. SB 5693 - Authorizing the department of social and health services special commitment center to seek eligibility and reimbursement for health care costs covered by federal medicare, medicaid, and veterans health benefits.
  6. SSB 5999 - Addressing the caseload forecast council.
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Commerce & Gaming
3/16/15 1:30 pm
Watch on TVWHouse Full Committee
House Hearing Rm C
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

Public Hearing:
  1. HB 1645 - Concerning youth substance use prevention associated with tobacco and drug delivery e-cigarettes and vapor products.
  2. ESSB 5477 - Requiring substances intended for use in a vapor product to satisfy child-resistant effectiveness standards, adopting warning standards, and prohibiting the use of vapor products in schools.
  3. SSB 5012 - Authorizing the growing of industrial hemp.
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Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs
3/16/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm E
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

Public Hearing:
  1. SB 5164 - Concerning transient lodging for military service members in armories.
  2. SB 5171 - Concerning the definition of veteran for the purposes of the county veterans assistance fund.
  3. SSB 5633 - Creating a coordinator for the helmets to hardhats program in the department of veterans affairs.
  4. SB 5958 - Providing for representation of the state veterans' homes on the governor's veterans affairs advisory committee.
  5. SJM 8008 - Calling for a National Guard Stryker Brigade stationed on the west coast.
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Education
3/16/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

Work Session: Shortage of Substitute Teachers.

Public Hearing:
  1. SB 5941 - Concerning certification of adjunct faculty as common school substitute teachers.
  2. SB 5120 - Concerning school district dissolutions.
  3. ESSB 5316 - Concerning privacy and security of personally identifiable student information.
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Environment
3/16/15 1:30 pm Back to Top
Labor*
3/16/15 1:30 pm Back to Top
Transportation
3/16/15 3:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA

Public Hearing:
  1. SB 5307 - Concerning deficit reimbursement agreements with counties owning and operating ferry systems.
  2. SSB 5362 - Concerning the regulation of passenger charter and excursion carriers.
  3. ESB 5416 - Concerning service fees on vessel-related transactions.
  4. SSB 5438 - Allowing bicycles and mopeds to stop and proceed through traffic control signals under certain conditions.
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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
 
Early Learning & K-12 Education*
3/16/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 3/13/2015 1:52 PM

Public Hearing:
  1. SGA 9102 - Dennis W Mathews, Member, Board of Trustees, State School for the Blind.
  2. SGA 9048 - Michelle Farrell, Member, Board of Trustees, State School for the Blind.
  3. E2SHB 1541 - Implementing strategies to close the educational opportunity gap, based on the recommendations of the educational opportunity gap oversight and accountability committee.
  4. SHB 1295 - Concerning breakfast after the bell programs.
  5. ESHB 1495 - Enacting the student user privacy in education rights act.
  6. SHB 1570 - Creating flexibility for the educator retooling conditional scholarship program.
  7. SHB 1031 - Expanding participation in college in the high school programs.

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
 
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Government Operations & Security
3/16/15 10:00 am
Watch on TVWSenate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 2
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

Public Hearing:
  1. SHB 1085 - Requiring lobbying reports to be filed electronically.
  2. EHB 1123 - Regulating the minimum dimensions of habitable spaces in single-family residential areas.
  3. SHB 1382 - Addressing the delivery of basic firefighter training and testing.
  4. SHB 1313 - Granting fire protection districts and regional fire protection service authorities biennial budget authority.
  5. HB 1317 - Revising the lien for collection of sewer charges by counties.
  6. HB 1561 - Concerning the consideration of information technology security matters.
  7. HB 1560 - Recognizing the thirty-first of March as Cesar Chavez Day.

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
 
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Health Care 
3/16/15 10:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

Public Hearing:
  1. HB 1339 - Allowing the secretary of health to intercede and stay any decision of a disciplining authority that expands scope of practice.
  2. SHB 1625 - Concerning provision of drugs to ambulance or aid services.
  3. SHB 1667 - Establishing the bleeding disorder collaborative for care.
  4. SHB 1727 - Modifying the definition of health care facility relating to nursing assistants' practice settings.
  5. SHB 1002 - Prohibiting unfair and deceptive dental insurance practices.
  6. SHB 1132 - Concerning the regulation of adult family homes.

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
 
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Human Services, Mental Health & Housing*
3/16/15 10:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 3/13/2015 9:31 AM

Public Hearing:
  1. ESHB 1126 - Concerning department of early learning fatality reviews.
  2. 2SHB 1735 - Concerning extended foster care services.
  3. ESHB 1875 - Concerning the definition of work activity for the purposes of the WorkFirst program.
  4. SHB 1319 - Making technical corrections to processes for persons sentenced for offenses committed prior to reaching eighteen years of age.
  5. HB 1599 - Concerning secure facilities for the criminally insane.

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
 
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Law & Justice*
3/16/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 3/12/2015 2:42 PM

Public Hearing:
  1. E2SHB 1272 - Concerning the crime of disclosing intimate images.
  2. SHB 2160 - Concerning the distribution of intimate images.
  3. SHB 1617 - Concerning the use of the judicial information system by courts before granting certain orders.
  4. SHB 1248 - Concerning court proceedings.
  5. HB 1943 - Concerning home detention.
  6. SHB 1068 - Concerning sexual assault examination kits.
  7. EHB 1632 - Concerning domestic violence.

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
 
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Transportation
3/16/15 3:30 pm
Watch on TVWSenate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

Public Hearing:
  1. SGA 9074 - Roy Jennings, Member, Transportation Commission.
  2. SGA 9180 - Joe M Tortorelli, Member, Transportation Commission.
  3. HB 1222 - Modifying certain firefighting apparatus length and weight limits.
  4. EHB 1087 - Concerning automated traffic safety cameras in school speed zones.
  5. SHB 1159 - Establishing a pilot program requiring certain drivers under eighteen years of age to display a decal on a vehicle being operated by the driver.
  6. SHB 1480 - Creating intermittent-use trailer license plates.
  7. SHB 1738 - Concerning marine, off-road recreational vehicle, and snowmobile fuel tax refunds based on actual fuel taxes paid.

Work Session: WTP 2035 - Washington Transportation Plan - WA Transportation Commission.

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
 
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Senate committees begin to take up bills the House passed, and vice versa. Among those to watch: The House Environment Committee will take up an oil transportation bill that environmentalists hate and the oil industry prefers Monday, and the Senate Energy, Environment and Telecom Committee will take up an oil transportation bill that the oil industry hates and environmentalists prefer Wednesday.

Look for other clashes of political will throughout the week. Here's Monday's schedule: 

 

Jim Camden
Jim Camden joined The Spokesman-Review in 1981 and retired in 2021. He is currently the political and state government correspondent covering Washington state.

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