WALeg Day 25: Of wolves and whales, initiatives and cowboys
OLYMPIA -- Committees from both chambers will take up animal issues this afternoon. One is by land, the other by sea.
House Agriculture and Natural Resources has several bills about wolves. You can read about them in this story from today's paper. The committee also looks at legislation spawned by the Central Washington fires this summer.
Senate Natural Resources and Parks has a bill about captive whales and dolphins which has caused a bit of a national stir. Rumors are that one water-themed amusement facility is so opposed it is flying in a team of execs.
Senate Government Operations will look at several bills to tighten up the state's initiative process, or as initiative entrepreneur Tim Eyman calls them "anti-initiative bills." He's promising "fireworks" in his latest fund-raising appeal to supporters.
And if that's not enough to chap everyone's hide, Gov Ops also has a bill to declare "national cowboy day."
Here's the day's schedule:
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Thursday, February 05, 2015 |
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8:00 AM |
Senate Hearing Rm 3 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 1 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 4 |
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House Hearing Rm E |
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House Hearing Rm A |
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House Hearing Rm B |
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House Hearing Rm D |
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10:00 AM |
HOUSE SESSION/CAUCUS |
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Senate Hearing Rm 2 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 4 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 1 |
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12:00 PM |
PRO FORMA SENATE SESSION |
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1:30 PM |
Senate Hearing Rm 4 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 2 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 3 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 1 |
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House Hearing Rm B |
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House Hearing Rm A |
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House Hearing Rm D |
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House Hearing Rm E |
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House Hearing Rm C |
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3:30 PM |
Senate Hearing Rm 4 |
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House Hearing Rm A |
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House Hearing Rm B |
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House Committees
Agriculture & Natural Resources
2/5/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 1237 - Providing landowners with necessary tools for the protection of their property from forest fires.
- HB 1508 - Providing permissive authority for counties to assume authority over local forest fire management.
- HB 1509 - Giving priority selection to forest fire suppression resource contractors that are located geographically close to fire suppression activities.
- HB 1677 - Giving preference to using the nearest available qualified firefighters upon notification of a forest fire.
- HB 1676 - Understanding the effects of predation on wild ungulate populations.
- HB 1199 - Providing the fish and wildlife commission with the tools necessary to enact changes to the status of a species.
- HB 1225 - Increasing the social acceptance of endangered species recovery by providing the fish and wildlife commission with the tools necessary to enact changes to the status of a species.
- HB 1224 - Accelerating the rate of wolf recovery in Washington.
- HB 1791 - Requiring the department of fish and wildlife to manage wolf-related wildlife interactions using lethal means when certain conditions are satisfied.
- HB 1792 - Requiring the department of fish and wildlife to amend the existing wolf conservation and management plan.
- HJM 4002 - Requesting the Washington fish and wildlife commission to revisit the gray wolf conservation and management plan.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session: Professional development opportunities for early learning through community and technical colleges.
Possible Executive Session:
- HB 1036 - Addressing survivor benefits from the public employees' retirement system for survivors of members in registered domestic partnerships prior to December 2012.
- HB 1109 - Authorizing membership in the teachers' retirement system for certificated employees of the superintendent of public instruction.
- HB 1168 - Correcting restrictions on collecting a pension in the public employees' retirement system for retirees returning to work in an ineligible position or a position covered by a different state retirement system.
- HB 1169 - Authorizing an optional life annuity benefit for members of the Washington state patrol retirement system.
- HB 1322 - Addressing membership in state retirement plans prior to attaining the normal retirement age in another plan.
Commerce & Gaming*
2/5/15 9:00 am
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm C
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
MEETING CANCELLED.
Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs*
2/5/15 8:00 am
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm E
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 2/4/2015 10:27 AM
Public Hearing:
- HB 1513 - Concerning local infrastructure project areas.
- HB 1648 - Concerning infrastructure financing for local governments.
- HB 1720 - Concerning healthy housing.
Work Session: Washington Department of Veterans Affairs: Veteran's Incarcerated Reintegration Services.
Executive Session: HB 1107 - Concerning access to and creation of cultural and heritage programs and facilities.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Executive Session: HB 1295 - Concerning breakfast after the bell programs.
Public Hearing:
- HB 1495 - Enacting the student user privacy in education rights act.
- HB 1546 - Concerning dual credit opportunities provided by Washington state's public institutions of higher education.
- HB 1591 - Concerning high school and beyond plans.
- HB 1666 - Making the results on the statewide assessments available as norm-referenced results and as student growth percentiles.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 2/3/2015 7:23 AM
Public Hearing:
- HB 1487 - Reducing emissions by making changes to the clean car standards and clean car program.
- HB 1571 - Concerning paint stewardship.
Possible Executive Session:
- HB 1130 - Concerning water power license fees.
- HB 1174 - Concerning flame retardants.
- HB 1278 - Concerning building energy use disclosure requirements.
- HB 1378 - Protecting waterways from pollution from synthetic plastic microbeads.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/30/2015 3:47 PM
Possible Executive Session:
- HB 1282 - Addressing the crime of driving while license suspended where the suspension is based on noncompliance with a child support order.
- HB 1302 - Clarifying the applicability of child abduction statutes to residential provisions ordered by a court.
- HB 1305 - Encouraging the establishment of therapeutic courts.
- HB 1316 - Allowing for an arrest without a warrant when a police officer has probable cause to believe a person has violated certain temporary protection orders.
- HB 1287 - Concerning less restrictive alternative orders under the involuntary treatment act.
- HB 1448 - Providing procedures for responding to reports of threatened or attempted suicide.
- HB 1390 - Concerning legal financial obligations.
- HB 1120 - Providing immunity for school bus drivers.
- HB 1191 - Concerning concealed pistol license renewal notices.
Public Hearing:
- HB 1407 - Concerning procedures for guardianship termination and modification.
- HB 1567 - Revising the uniform interstate family support act.
- HB 1618 - Concerning objecting to relocation in child custody cases.
- HB 1839 - Concerning services that provide support for decision making.
- HB 1726 - Modifying certain definitions concerning the abuse of vulnerable adults.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm D
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 1284 - Concerning hours of service for certain railroad employees.
- HB 1496 - 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.
- HB 1602 - Allowing for certain prima facie presumptions for occupational diseases affecting emergency medical technicians.
- HB 1603 - Allowing for certain prima facie presumptions for occupational diseases affecting public employee fire investigators.
- HB 1604 - Studying an occupational disease exposure reporting requirement for firefighters.
- HB 1611 - Addressing claims and compensation under the industrial insurance laws.
- HB 1612 - Addressing the payment of workers' compensation benefits by self-insured employers pending appeal.
- HB 1613 - Authorizing treatment to protect life or alleviate pain of injured workers with permanent partial disabilities.
Local Government*
2/5/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm D
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/29/2015 10:15 AM
Possible Executive Session:
- HB 1009 - Allowing rural counties providing emergency medical services to locations with a rural amphitheater to impose an additional admissions surcharge.
- HB 1084 - Addressing notice requirements for land use applications, approvals, and decisions.
- HB 1102 - Concerning a local government installing a public sewage system within the public right-of-way under certain circumstances.
- HB 1133 - Authorizing counties to impose a public utility tax.
- HB 1153 - Concerning lumber grading.
- HB 1158 - Granting local governments the authority to make challenges related to growth management planning subject to direct review in superior court.
- HB 1197 - Concerning water-sewer districts.
- HB 1215 - Restricting the conversion of agricultural land to other uses under the growth management act.
- HB 1234 - Modifying certain building permit fees.
- HB 1250 - Concerning notice and review processes for annexations, deannexations, incorporations, disincorporations, consolidations, and boundary line adjustments under Titles 35 and 35A RCW.
- HB 1264 - Concerning conservation districts' rates and charges.
- HB 1310 - Concerning standards adopted by the national fire protection association and the state building code council.
- HB 1313 - Granting fire protection districts and regional fire protection service authorities biennial budget authority.
- HB 1317 - Revising the lien for collection of sewer charges by counties. (If measure is referred to committee.)
- HB 1337 - Increasing the flexibility for industrial development district levies for public port districts.
- HB 1368 - Removing disincentives to the voluntary formation of regional fire protection service authorities by equalizing certain provisions with existing laws governing fire protection districts and by clarifying the formation process.
- HB 1410 - Modifying provisions governing the competitive bidding process of water-sewer districts.
- HB 1417 - Subjecting a resolution or ordinance adopted by the legislative body of a city or town to assume a water-sewer district to a referendum.
- HB 1420 - Concerning school siting and school district aid in reducing overall school construction costs.
- HB 1629 - Prohibiting conversion of agricultural lands to wetlands or fish habitat under the shoreline management act.
- HB 1630 - Prohibiting conversion of agricultural lands to wetlands or fish habitat under the growth management act and the shoreline management act.
State Government*
2/5/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm E
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 2/3/2015 1:36 PM
Public Hearing:
- HB 1425 - Ensuring that entities performing government functions and advisory committees are subject to the open public meetings act and public records act.
- HB 1691 - Concerning remedies for actions under the public records act.
- HB 1745 - Enacting the Washington voting rights act.
Executive Session:
- HB 1143 - Allowing voters to return a voted ballot and signed declaration by fax or email.
- HB 1397 - Concerning personal financial affairs statement reporting requirements for elected and appointed officials, candidates, and appointees.
- HB 1431 - Modifying exemptions relating to real estate appraisals.
- HB 1447 - Granting the director of the department of enterprise services the authority to fine contractors as a penalty for certain behaviors.
- HB 1547 - Authorizing funding and expenditures for the hosting of the annual conference of the national association of state treasurers.
- HB 1806 - Correcting references to elections statutes.
Technology & Economic Development*
2/5/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm C
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/30/2015 3:47 PM
Public Hearing: HB 1607 - Recognizing hydroelectricity as an eligible renewable resource in the energy independence act.
Possible Executive Session:
- HB 1078 - Enhancing the protection of consumer financial information.
- HB 1094 - Concerning biometric identifiers.
- HB 1095 - Promoting thermal energy efficiency.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 1332 - Modifying yellow light intervals and monetary penalties related to automated traffic safety cameras.
- HB 1404 - Requiring a bistate work group for certain transportation projects.
- HB 1409 - Concerning the disclosure of vessel owner information.
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*
2/5/15 8:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 3
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 2/4/2015 2:26 PM
Work Session: Economic development.
Public Hearing:
- SB 5209 - Concerning a hazardous substance tax exemption for certain hazardous substances defined under RCW 82.21.020(1)(c) that are used as agricultural crop protection products and warehoused but not otherwise used, manufactured, packaged, or sold in this state.
- SB 5273 - Concerning native and reclamation seeds.
- SB 5313 - Increasing the total amount of tax credits allowed under the Washington main street program. (Hearing is on proposed substitute.)
- SB 5442 - Concerning eligibility criteria for the community economic revitalization board programs.
- SB 5601 - Requiring the Washington state department of agriculture to approve the comparable recertification standards of private entities for the purposes of waiving the recertification requirements under the Washington pesticide control act.
Executive Session:
- SB 5556 - Concerning irrigation district administration.
- SB 5603 - Changing cottage food operation provisions.
- Possible other bills previously heard.
Other business.
Early Learning & K-12 Education*
2/5/15 8:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 2/4/2015 9:41 AM
Public Hearing:
- SGA 9103 - Tre Maxie, Member, State Board of Education.
- SB 5526 - Preventing harassment, intimidation, and bullying in public schools.
- SB 5657 - Creating a pilot program to encourage school districts to extend the school day to provide homework assistance to middle schools.
- SB 5679 - Concerning transition services for special education students.
- SB 5688 - Providing students with skills that promote mental health and well-being and increase academic performance.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Energy, Environment & Telecommunications*
2/5/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/30/2015 9:00 AM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5446 - Requiring incentives for electric vehicle readiness in buildings.
- SB 5414 - Regulating trees and shrubs located near solar energy systems.
- SB 5445 - Extending the alternative fuel vehicle retail sales and use tax exemption.
- SB 5735 - Providing incentives for carbon reduction investments.
Work Session:
- Supercritical Technologies.
- Helion Energy.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Financial Institutions & Insurance
2/5/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 2
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- SB 5321 - Concerning registration of persons providing debt settlement services.
- SB 5485 - Concerning nonprofit organizations engaged in debt adjusting.
- SB 5613 - Raising the cap on the total number of small loans a borrower may have in a twelve-month period.
- SB 5471 - Addressing electronic notices and document delivery of insurance products.
- SB 5581 - Addressing the benefits of group life and disability insurance policies.
- SB 5538 - Creating procedures for disposing property in the leased premises of a deceased tenant.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Government Operations & Security
2/5/15 10:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 2
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- SGA 9087 - Anne Levinson, Member, Public Disclosure Commission.
- SB 5540 - Recognizing the national day of the cowboy.
- SB 5522 - Expanding the definition of special district to include lake water quality districts.
- SB 5524 - Enhancing the employment of persons with disabilities.
- SB 5527 - Concerning voter registration.
- SB 5528 - Concerning contributions from political committees to other political committees.
- SB 5375 - Requiring disclosure by entities that compensate for petition signatures.
- SB 5535 - Establishing a citizens' initiative review pilot program.
- SB 5661 - Allowing the legislature to hold public hearings on ballot propositions.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 2/3/2015 1:42 PM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5149 - Concerning certificates of need appeals process.
- SB 5443 - Concerning disclosure of provider compensation programs by health plan carriers.
- SB 5453 - Establishing extended stay recovery centers. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.)
- SB 5454 - Requiring reporting of infections consequent to laser in-situ keratomileusis surgery.
- SB 5549 - Concerning the registration and disciplining of pharmacy assistants.
Possible Executive Session: Bills previously heard.
If proposed substitutes are to be heard, they can be obtained from committee staff or on the committee's website, http://www.leg.wa.gov/Senate/Committees/HLTH/Pages/default.aspx, as soon as they are available. Other business.
Higher Education*
2/5/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 3
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 2/4/2015 4:11 PM
Work Session: Overview of the Veteran Supportive Campus designation for institutions of higher education.
Public Hearing:
- SGA 9019 - Margaret Brown, Member, Board of Regents, University of Washington.
- SGA 9026 - Michael J Ciraulo, Member, Board of Trustees, Clark Community College District No. 14.
- SGA 9178 - Elizabeth J Thew, Member, Board of Trustees, Community College District No. 17 (Spokane and Spokane Falls Community Colleges).
- SGA 9191 - Janice H Wigen, Member, Board of Trustees, Community College District No. 17 (Spokane and Spokane Falls Community Colleges).
- SB 5484 - Modifying provisions related to tuition setting authority at public institutions of higher education.
- SB 5559 - Concerning tuition waivers for state and educational employees.
- SB 5355 - Modifying the definition of resident student to comply with federal requirements established by the veterans access, choice, and accountability act of 2014.
- SB 5561 - Concerning veteran survivor tuition waiver eligibility.
- SB 5620 - Authorizing waivers of building fees and services and activities fees for certain military service members.
Executive Session:
- SGA 9129 - Stassney J Obregon, Member, Bellevue College Board of Trustees.
- SGA 9196 - Nicholas R Wooten, Member, The Evergreen State College Board of Trustees.
- SGA 9039 - Michael Deller, Member, Board of Trustees, Community College District No. 5 (Everett Community College).
- SB 5719 - Creating a task force on campus sexual violence prevention.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Human Services, Mental Health & Housing*
2/5/15 10:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 2/3/2015 8:08 AM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5564 - Concerning the sealing of juvenile records and fines imposed in juvenile cases.
- 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.
- SB 5779 - Reducing penalties applied to regional support networks and behavioral health organizations.
Executive Session: To be announced.
Other business.
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/30/2015 8:34 PM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5658 - Concerning the role of parties in cases related to certain notices and records.
- SB 5247 - Concerning driving while license suspended when the suspension is based on noncompliance with a child support order.
- SB 5686 - Addressing adjudicative proceedings involving a state agency that is also a party to the proceeding.
- SB 5103 - Requiring that hearings involving the office of the insurance commissioner be presided over by administrative law judges.
- SB 5650 - Modifying provisions governing inmate funds subject to deductions.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Natural Resources & Parks*
2/5/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/30/2015 2:34 PM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5551 - Concerning salmon recovery project funds.
- SB 5583 - Providing the fish and wildlife commission with the tools necessary to enact changes to the status of a species.
- SJM 8007 - Requesting Congress to provide the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries with sufficient resources to expedite review of Puget Sound hatchery and genetic management plans and that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries prioritize and conduct immediate review and approval of these plans.
- SB 5666 - Concerning cetacean captivity.
- SB 5739 - Protecting salmon and steelhead spawning beds.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Transportation*
2/5/15 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
REVISED 1/30/2015 2:37 PM
Public Hearing:
- SHB 1105 - Making 2015 supplemental operating appropriations.
- SB 5097 - Concerning the capital budget.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
