WALeg Day 11: Senate committee to hear med school plans for Spokane
OLYMPIA -- The state's two major universities will get a chance to explain their plans for medical school expansion in Spokane before the Senate Higher Education Committee today.
Washington State University President Elson Floyd and University of Washington President Michael Young have a 1:30 p.m. date with the committee, whose chairwoman Barbara Bailey has said she's undecided about the different plans but thinks the state needs more medical professionals.
"We need to look at ways that we can collaborate and utilize available resources wisely," Bailey, R-Oak Harbor, said in announcing the work session, which comes a day after bills were introduce to open the door for WSU to start a medical school.
Also up today is a hearing on one of several proposals to blend the state's medical and recrational marijuana systems. Marijuana activists will gather on the Capitol steps after the hearing.
It's also Black Thursday, when the motorcycle activists from ABATE, for A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments, come to lobby for their favorite bills. Not sure if there will be any synergy between the marijuana activists and the biker activists.The Food Industry and the service employees union are also in town, as are more than 100 folks from the Spokane area in a lobbying journey coordinated by Greater Spokane Inc.
And there's a busy day of hearings on a wide range of topics. Here's the full schedule.
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Thursday, January 22, 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 1 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 3 |
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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 1 |
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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
1/22/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session:
- Introduction to the new state veterinarian.
- Animal disease traceability update.
Appropriations*
1/22/15 3:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/19/2015 5:56 PM
Work Session:
- Briefing on programs/funding in the Department of Social and Health Services for long-term care and for persons with developmental disabilities.
- Briefing on funding for higher education.
Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs
1/22/15 8:00 am
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm E
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session: Community Development.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/15/2015 11:31 AM
Work Session:
- Financial Education Public Private Partnership: Annual Report.
- K-12 Education Paraeducator Development: Report by Professional Educator Standards Board & Paraeducator Work Group.
- Career Education Opportunities Task Force: Final Report.
Public Hearing: HB 1121 - Regarding the financial education public-private partnership.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/15/2015 11:11 AM
Public Hearing: HB 1278 - Concerning building energy use disclosure requirements.
Work Session: Update on ocean acidification activities from the Marine Resources Advisory Council.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/16/2015 3:15 PM
Work Session: Overview and discussion of the structure and operations of the Washington state judiciary.
Executive Session:
- HB 1029 - Establishing the position and authority of warrant officers in first-class cities to enforce court orders and outstanding warrants.
- HB 1037 - Implementing changes to child support based on the child support schedule work group report.
- HB 1061 - Increasing the number of district court judges in Skagit county.
- HB 1067 - Reauthorizing the medicaid fraud false claims act.
- HB 1092 - Creating the patent troll prevention act.
- HB 1111 - Concerning court transcripts.
- HB 1113 - Authorizing tribal court judges to solemnize marriages.
- HB 1258 - Concerning court review of detention decisions under the involuntary treatment act.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm D
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/16/2015 8:04 AM
Work Session: Noncompete clauses.
Public Hearing: HB 1211 - Addressing fees and costs related to methods of wage payment.
Local Government*
1/22/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm D
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/15/2015 3:45 PM
Public Hearing:
- HB 1158 - Granting local governments the authority to make challenges related to growth management planning subject to direct review in superior court.
- HB 1133 - Authorizing counties to impose a public utility tax.
- 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.
State Government*
1/22/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm E
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/21/2015 9:15 AM
Public Hearing:
- HJM 4000 - Asking congress to call a limited convention, authorized under Article V of the United States Constitution, for the purpose of proposing a free and fair elections amendment to that Constitution.
- HJM 4001 - Requesting that Congress allow states to adopt year-round daylight savings time.
- HB 1266 - Creating a task force on elections for irrigation districts.
Executive Session:
- HB 1039 - Allowing the use of a signature stamp for voting purposes.
- HB 1089 - Adding adherence to state wage payment laws to the state's responsible bidder criteria.
Technology & Economic Development
1/22/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm C
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 1096 - Promoting a more efficient and reliable electric distribution system.
- HB 1097 - Concerning policies to promote clean energy job growth by encouraging installation of renewable energy systems.
Transportation
1/22/15 3:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session: Update on WSDOT Mega projects: SR 520 floating bridge/corridor and SR 99/Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement.
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*
1/22/15 8:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 3
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/21/2015 1:24 PM
Work Session:
- Water availability for agriculture:
- Current and predicted availability.
- Impact of potential increased availability.
- Manure management.
Other business.
Early Learning & K-12 Education
1/22/15 8:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- SB 5083 - Enacting the sudden cardiac arrest awareness act.
- SB 5163 - Providing for educational data on students from military families.
- SB 5179 - Concerning paraeducators.
- SB 5120 - Concerning school district dissolutions.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Possible other business.
Energy, Environment & Telecommunications*
1/22/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/16/2015 4:59 PM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5008 - Concerning beverage containers.
- SB 5056 - Concerning the use of chemical action plans for recommendations of safer chemicals.
Work Session: SB 5057 - Concerning the safe transport of hazardous materials.
Update from and questions for Governor's Office, Utilities and Transportation Commission and Ecology.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Government Operations & State Security*
1/22/15 10:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 2
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/20/2015 12:25 PM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5020 - Concerning state agencies continuity of operations planning requirements.
- SB 5181 - Addressing the scope of state fire service mobilization and ensuring compliance with existing state and federal disaster response policies.
- SB 5172 - Revising the lien for collection of sewer charges by counties.
- SB 5184 - Authorizing counties to establish and conduct polling place voting.
- SB 5185 - Creating a six-year time frame for substantial building code amendments.
- SB 5315 - Aligning functions of the consolidated technology services agency, office of the chief information officer, and department of enterprise services.
- SB 5238 - Concerning public water systems' public participation notice provisions.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Health Care *
1/22/15 10:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/20/2015 3:12 PM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5011 - Addressing third-party payor release of health care information.
- SB 5023 - Concerning filing requirements for large group health benefit plans, stand-alone dental plans, and stand-alone vision plans. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.)
- SB 5121 - Establishing a marijuana research license.
- SB 5052 - Establishing the cannabis patient protection act.
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. Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Higher Education*
1/22/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/19/2015 2:27 PM
Work Session:
- Washington State University and University of Washington medical school education proposals.
- Overview of health care workforce shortage.
- Overview of graduate medical education.
Other business.
Human Services, Mental Health & Housing*
1/22/15 10:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/20/2015 8:49 AM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5244 - Disposing tax foreclosed property to cities for affordable housing purposes.
- SB 5193 - Exempting documents recording a water-sewer district lien from the surcharge for local homeless housing and assistance.
- SB 5261 - Concerning community policing at and around western state hospital.
- SB 5033 - Concerning sexually violent predators.
- SB 5099 - Restricting conditional releases of sexually violent predators outside their county of origin.
Executive Session: To be announced.
Other business.
Law & Justice*
1/22/15 8:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/16/2015 9:24 AM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5105 - Making a fourth driving under the influence offense a felony.
- SB 5125 - Increasing district court civil jurisdiction.
- SB 5124 - Prohibiting the sale of vapor products to minors.
- SB 5154 - Concerning registered sex or kidnapping offenders.
- SB 5232 - Modifying indigent defense provisions.
- SB 5233 - Concerning notice against trespass.
- SB 5270 - Concerning a nonoperating advisory board reporting to the state patrol.
- SB 5277 - Making the crime of patronizing a prostitute a gross misdemeanor.
- SB 5041 - Concerning seizure and forfeiture of property for patronizing a prostitute.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Natural Resources & Parks*
1/22/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 3
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/19/2015 10:18 AM
Work Session:
- Natural disaster emergency communications briefing.
- Department of Natural Resources Geological Hazards Program update.
Public Hearing:
- SB 5088 - Concerning a geological hazards assessment.
- SB 5204 - Providing an exemption from hydraulic project permit fees for certain emergency permits.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Transportation*
1/22/15 3:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/16/2015 3:21 PM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5025 - Modifying the apportionment of quick title service fees collected by appointed subagents.
- SB 5068 - Requiring the restoration of signage advertising free coffee at safety rest areas.
- SB 5085 - Authorizing siblings of United States armed forces members who died while in service or as a result of service to apply for gold star license plates.
- SB 5100 - Concerning the processing of certain motor vehicle-related violations applicable to rental cars.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session: Higher education capital budget issues.
Other business.