WaLeg Day 74: Tuition, transportation on tap
OLYMPIA -- A busy committee hearing day today with some big Senate initiatives getting an airing in House committees.
The Senate transportation package, with its 11.7 cent gas tax and a long list of projects (including the North Spokane Corridor/North-South Freeway/We-don't-care-what-you-call-it-if-you-just-finish-it) gets a hearing in the House Transpo Committee.
The Senate proposal to cut college tuition to a percentage of the state's average wage gets a skeptical hearing in the House Higher Education Committee.
But wait, there's more, as the announcer always says in cheesy TV sales pitches. Here's the full list of hearings:
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Thursday, March 26, 2015 |
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8:00 AM |
Senate Hearing Rm 4 |
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House Hearing Rm A |
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9:00 AM |
House Hearing Rm C |
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House Hearing Rm B |
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House Hearing Rm D |
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9:55 AM |
PRO FORMA HOUSE SESSION |
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10:00 AM |
Senate Hearing Rm 3 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 2 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 4 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 3 |
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House Hearing Rm E |
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House Hearing Rm A |
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House Hearing Rm C |
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House Hearing Rm D |
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12:00 PM |
PRO FORMA SENATE SESSION |
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1:30 PM |
Senate Hearing Rm 3 |
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House Hearing Rm B |
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House Hearing Rm A |
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3:30 PM |
Senate Hearing Rm 4 |
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House Hearing Rm B |
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House Committees
Agriculture & Natural Resources
3/26/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- ESSB 5407 - Concerning the effects of instream flow rules on water use.
- SB 5491 - Maintaining reservations of water for certain future uses.
- SSB 5965 - Evaluating mitigation options for impacts to base flows and minimum instream flows.
Appropriations*
3/26/15 3:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
MEETING CANCELLED.
Business & Financial Services*
3/26/15 10:00 am
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
MEETING CANCELLED.
Commerce & Gaming*
3/26/15 9:00 am
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm C
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 3/24/2015 3:14 PM
Possible Executive Session:
- SSB 5292 - Protecting children and youth from powdered alcohol.
- E2SSB 5353 - Concerning marketing opportunities for spirits produced in Washington by craft and general licensed distilleries.
- SSB 5398 - Concerning marijuana, useable marijuana, and marijuana-infused products in public.
- SB 5662 - Authorizing a licensed domestic brewery or microbrewery to provide promotional items to a nonprofit charitable corporation or association.
- SB 5903 - Restricting certain methods of selling marijuana.
Early Learning & Human Services*
3/26/15 10:00 am
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm E
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 3/25/2015 9:48 AM
Possible Executive Session:
- E2SSB 5564 - Concerning the sealing of juvenile records and fines imposed in juvenile cases.
- 2SSB 5404 - Concerning homeless youth prevention and protection.
- E2SSB 5452 - Improving quality in the early care and education system.
- SSB 5740 - Concerning extended foster care services.
- SSB 5897 - Concerning funding for medical evaluations of suspected victims of child abuse.
- SB 5692 - Addressing permanency plans of care for dependent children.
- 2SSB 5888 - Concerning near fatality incidents of children who have received services from the department of social and health services.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Executive Session:
- SB 5120 - Concerning school district dissolutions.
- SSB 5163 - Providing for educational data on students from military families.
- SSB 5202 - Regarding the financial education public-private partnership.
- ESB 5419 - Enacting the student user privacy in education rights act.
- E2SSB 5688 - Providing students with skills that promote mental health and well-being and increase academic performance.
- SB 5805 - Concerning conflict resolution programs in schools.
- SB 5941 - Concerning certification of adjunct faculty as common school substitute teachers.
Work Session:
- Report on the work of the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Community and Technical Colleges regarding course transitions.
- Report by the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Work Group regarding course equivalencies.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 3/23/2015 9:11 AM
Public Hearing: ESSB 5994 - Concerning permits for state transportation corridor projects.
Health Care & Wellness*
3/26/15 10:00 am
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 3/20/2015 4:08 PM
Possible Executive Session:
- SSB 5027 - Providing access to the prescription drug monitoring database for clinical laboratories.
- SSB 5028 - Raising licensure limits to allow assisted living facilities to serve a higher acuity resident population.
- SB 5143 - Concerning the availability of childhood immunization resources for expecting parents.
- SSB 5145 - Concerning the membership of the health technology clinical committee.
- SSB 5147 - Establishing a medicaid baseline health assessment and monitoring the medicaid population's health.
- SSB 5175 - Regarding telemedicine.
- SSB 5436 - Concerning the joint legislative executive committee on aging and disability.
- ESSB 5441 - Addressing patient medication coordination.
- SSB 5448 - Requiring a study of the effects long-term antibiotic therapy has on certain Lyme disease patients.
- ESSB 5460 - Allowing practitioners to prescribe and distribute prepackaged emergency medications to emergency room patients when a pharmacy is not available.
- SSB 5488 - Concerning applied behavior analysis.
- ESSB 5557 - Addressing services provided by pharmacists.
- SSB 5591 - Allowing emergency medical services to develop community assistance referral and education services programs.
- SB 5606 - Modifying provisions related to licensing and scope of practice for dental professionals.
- SB 5779 - Reducing penalties applied to regional support networks and behavioral health organizations.
- ESSB 5857 - Addressing registration and regulation of pharmacy benefit managers.
- SSB 5870 - Protecting youth from aversive mental health therapies.
- SSB 5877 - Concerning due process for adult family home licensees.
- ESB 5935 - Concerning biological products.
Higher Education*
3/26/15 10:00 am
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm C
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 3/25/2015 2:19 PM
Public Hearing:
- ESSB 5954 - Reducing tuition.
- HB 2201 - Funding tuition reductions and other higher education programs.
Possible Executive Session:
- ESSB 5133 - Concerning a review of higher education costs.
- SB 5977 - Decodifying, expiring, and making nonsubstantive changes to community and technical college provisions.
- 2SSB 5851 - Concerning recommendations of the college bound scholarship program work group.
- SB 5638 - Changing state need grant eligibility provisions.
- SB 5318 - Creating the wildlife college student loan program.
- SSB 5355 - Modifying the definition of resident student to comply with federal requirements established by the veterans access, choice, and accountability act of 2014.
- SB 5746 - Including Everett Community College as an aerospace training or educational program.
- SSB 5518 - Creating procedures to address campus sexual violence.
- SSB 5719 - Creating a task force on campus sexual violence prevention.
- SB 5620 - Authorizing waivers of building fees and services and activities fees for certain military service members.
- SB 5841 - Creating a tuition and fees exemption for children and surviving spouses of certain highway workers.
- SSB 5534 - Creating the certified public accounting scholarship program.
- SB 5122 - Concerning precollege placement measures.
- SB 5295 - Concerning the display of campus information on the statewide public four-year dashboard.
- SSB 5328 - Disseminating financial aid information.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Possible Executive Session:
- SB 5387 - Creating uniformity in common provisions governing business organizations and other entities.
- SSB 5004 - Establishing the position and authority of warrant officers.
- SSB 5059 - Creating the patent troll prevention act.
- SB 5106 - Creating a civil action for webcam unauthorized remote access.
- SSB 5381 - Creating a protocol for the return of firearms in the possession of law enforcement agencies.
- SSB 5593 - Concerning delivery and payment for health care services by hospitals for inmates and persons detained by law enforcement.
- SSB 5501 - Preventing animal cruelty.
- SB 5227 - Creating the international commercial arbitration act.
- SB 5658 - Concerning the role of parties in cases related to certain notices and records.
- SB 5302 - Addressing the prudent investor rule for Washington state trusts, delegation of trustee duties by trustees of a Washington state trust, and standards for authorization and treatment of statutory trust advisors and directed trustees incident to the establishment of Washington state directed trusts.
- ESSB 5498 - Revising the uniform interstate family support act.
- SSB 5600 - Modifying certain definitions concerning the abuse of vulnerable adults.
- SB 5647 - Allowing counties to create guardianship courthouse facilitator programs.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm D
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 3/24/2015 3:26 PM
Public Hearing: SSB 5418 - Creating a pilot program to improve care for catastrophically injured workers.
Possible Executive Session:
- SSB 5451 - Addressing vocational rehabilitation by making certain recommendations from the vocational rehabilitation subcommittee permanent and creating certain incentives for employers to employ injured workers with permanent disabilities.
- SSB 5763 - Establishing a coalition of commissioned officers of the department of fish and wildlife for the purposes of collective bargaining.
- ESB 5510 - Simplifying and adding certainty to the calculation of workers' compensation benefits by creating a working group to develop recommendations.
Public Safety*
3/26/15 10:00 am
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm D
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 3/20/2015 2:26 PM
Possible Executive Session:
- SSB 5037 - Modifying organized retail theft provisions.
- SSB 5066 - Concerning the collection of blood samples for forensic testing.
- SB 5070 - Requiring the department of corrections to supervise domestic violence offenders who have a conviction and were sentenced for a domestic violence felony offense that was plead and proven.
- SSB 5072 - Modifying the crime of failing to summon assistance.
- SSB 5154 - Concerning registered sex or kidnapping offenders.
- ESSB 5158 - Requiring call location information to be provided to law enforcement responding to an emergency.
- 2SSB 5311 - Requiring crisis intervention training for peace officers.
- ESSB 5346 - Providing first responders with contact information for subscribers of personal emergency response services during an emergency.
- SSB 5631 - Concerning the administration of a statewide network of community-based domestic violence victim services by the department of social and health services.
- ESSB 5884 - Concerning the trafficking of persons.
- SSB 5933 - Establishing a statewide training program on human trafficking laws for criminal justice personnel.
Transportation
3/26/15 3:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- ESSB 5987 - Concerning transportation revenue.
- ESSB 5988 - Concerning additive transportation funding and appropriations.
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
3/26/15 10:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Jt. w/ Senate Human Servs/Mental Hlth & Hse
Senate Hearing Rm 3
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session: Farmworker housing.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Early Learning & K-12 Education*
3/26/15 8:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
MEETING CANCELLED.
Energy, Environment & Telecommunications*
3/26/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
MEETING CANCELLED.
Financial Institutions & Insurance*
3/26/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 2
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
MEETING CANCELLED.
Government Operations & Security
3/26/15 10:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 2
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- SHB 1919 - Clarifying the timing of special elections.
- HB 1294 - Enhancing youth voter registration.
- SHB 1428 - Concerning voter registration.
- HB 2055 - Concerning statements on ballot measures in voters' pamphlets.
- HB 1858 - Prohibiting the names of county auditors and the secretary of state from being included on ballot envelopes and in voters' pamphlets when running for reelection.
- HB 1819 - Concerning appointments to inspect the books of account of a political committee or a candidate committee.
- HB 1397 - Concerning personal financial affairs statement reporting requirements for elected and appointed officials, candidates, and appointees.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- E2SHB 1471 - Mitigating barriers to patient access to care resulting from health insurance contracting practices.
- SHB 1183 - Concerning radiology benefit managers.
Work Session: SB 5986 - Creating the board of telemedicine.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Higher Education*
3/26/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 3
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 3/19/2015 3:38 PM
Public Hearing:
- SGA 9208 - Tim Clark, Member, Green River Community College Board of Trustees.
- SGA 9067 - Nancee R Hofmeister, Member, Board of Trustees, Cascadia Community College District No. 30.
- SGA 9212 - D. Michael Kelly, Member, Cascadia Community College Board of Trustees.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Human Services, Mental Health & Housing
3/26/15 10:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Jt. w/ Senate Ag., Water & Rural Eco. Dev.
Senate Hearing Rm 3
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session: Farmworker housing.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Human Services, Mental Health & Housing*
3/26/15 11:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
MEETING CANCELLED.
Law & Justice*
3/26/15 8:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 3/19/2015 4:38 PM
Public Hearing:
- SGA 9150 - Kecia Rongen, Member, Indeterminate Sentence Review Board.
- SGA 9156 - Tom Sahlberg, Member, Indeterminate Sentence Review Board.
- SGA 9154 - Stanley Rumbaugh, Member, Sentencing Guidelines Commission.
- SGA 9184 - Bernard Warner, Secretary, Department of Corrections.
- HB 1113 - Authorizing tribal court judges to solemnize marriages.
- HB 1512 - Encouraging fairness in disciplinary actions of peace officers.
- HB 1839 - Concerning services that provide support for decision making.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Transportation*
3/26/15 3:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
MEETING CANCELLED.
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session: To be announced.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.