WALeg Day 15: Voting laws, minimum wage and powdered booze
OLYMPIA -- Legislators have a wide range of topics for bills on the schedule for today's hearings.
Possible changes to state election laws, including a requirement for return postage on mail-in ballots.
Upping the state's minimum wage to $12 an hour.
Legalizing industrial hemp.
Restricting powdered alcohol.
Opening state employee labor negotiations.
Here's the complete schedule:
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Monday, January 26, 2015 |
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9:00 AM |
Senate Hearing Rm 4 |
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Senate Hearing Rm 4 |
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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 2 |
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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 C |
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House Hearing Rm A |
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House Hearing Rm D |
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House Hearing Rm B |
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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
Appropriations*
1/26/15 3:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/22/2015 3:27 PM
Public Hearing:
- HB 1258 - Concerning court review of detention decisions under the involuntary treatment act. (If measure is referred to committee.)
- HB 1105 - Making 2015 supplemental operating appropriations.
The hearing will be on a proposed substitute bill.
The proposed substitute bill will be available online on Friday, January 23.
Commerce & Gaming
1/26/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm C
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 1343 - Concerning spirits retailers when selling for resale.
- HB 1552 - Concerning industrial hemp.
Possible Executive Session:
- HB 1004 - Clarifying provisions that allow for the tasting of alcohol by students under twenty-one years of age.
- HB 1108 - Creating a food truck beer and/or wine license.
- HB 1124 - Permitting the sampling of beer and wine at locations licensed to serve beer and wine for on-premises consumption.
- HB 1198 - Concerning the sale of beer and cider by grocery store licensees.
- HB 1290 - Increasing the number of tasting rooms allowed under a domestic winery license.
- HB 1296 - Establishing special license endorsements for cigar lounges and retail tobacconist shops.
Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs
1/26/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm E
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 1223 - Allowing the use of lodging taxes for financing workforce housing.
- HB 1123 - Regulating the minimum dimensions of habitable spaces in single-family residential areas.
- HB 1261 - Limiting enforcement action against tribal hunters.
- HB 1277 - Concerning transient lodging for military service members in armories.
- HB 1279 - Modifying the definition of legislative authority for purposes of local tourism promotion areas.
- HB 1280 - Establishing a commission on government-to-government relations in Washington.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 1142 - Modifying school district authority with respect to student parking.
- HB 1149 - Providing for educational data on students from military families.
- HB 1240 - Concerning restraint or isolation of students, including students with disabilities, in public schools.
- HB 1293 - Concerning paraeducators.
Executive Session: HB 1003 - Concerning the development of a model policy on natural disaster school infrastructure recovery.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm D
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/23/2015 11:21 AM
Public Hearing:
- HB 1306 - Concerning the management of state-owned aquatic lands by cities for the purposes of operating a publicly owned marina.
- HB 1346 - Allowing additional hunting opportunities on state land.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 1354 - Concerning the employee antiretaliation act.
- HB 1355 - Increasing the minimum hourly wage to twelve dollars over four years.
- HB 1356 - Establishing minimum standards for sick and safe leave from employment.
Transportation
1/26/15 3:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session: Governor Inslee's requested proposals for transportation revenue, bonds, and budget.
Public Hearing:
- HB 1318 - Concerning deficit reimbursement agreements with counties owning and operating ferry systems.
- HB 1358 - Restricting the use of bond proceeds to pay certain taxes on transportation projects.
Possible Executive Session:
- HB 1007 - Limiting the use of automated traffic safety cameras to detect speed violations not in school zones to certain cities.
- HB 1087 - Concerning automated traffic safety cameras in school speed zones.
- HB 1112 - 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.
- HB 1157 - Modifying the apportionment of quick title service fees collected by appointed subagents.
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
Commerce & Labor*
1/26/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 2
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/23/2015 9:37 AM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5007 - Concerning the regulation of employment agencies.
- SB 5234 - Regarding miniature hobby boilers.
- SB 5237 - Placing restrictions on when representation under a public collective bargaining agreement may be challenged.
- SB 5329 - Requiring public employee collective bargaining sessions to be open meetings.
- SB 5296 - Concerning locksmith services.
- SB 5282 - Concerning residential security system installations.
- SB 5281 - Creating a nonresidential security system specialty electrician certificate.
Possible Executive Session:
- SB 5155 - Modifying special occasion licenses provisions.
- SB 5009 - Concerning self-service storage facilities.
Other business.
Early Learning & K-12 Education*
1/26/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/22/2015 10:16 AM
Work Session: Overview of Early Achievers.
Public Hearing:
- SB 5098 - Increasing efficiency in child care reporting. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.)
- SB 5452 - Improving quality in the early care and education system.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Government Operations & State Security
1/26/15 10:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 2
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- SB 5108 - Clarifying the order of candidate names on ballots.
- SB 5409 - Concerning the use of credit cards for campaign expenditures.
- SB 5344 - Providing prepaid postage for primary and general election ballots.
- SB 5276 - Concerning refunds of property taxes paid as a result of manifest errors in descriptions of property.
- SB 5337 - Modifying per diem rates for port district officers and employees.
- SB 5308 - Concerning personal financial affairs statement reporting requirements for elected and appointed officials, candidates, and appointees.
- SB 5309 - Improving efficiency of public disclosure commission operations and requirements.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Health Care *
1/26/15 10:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/22/2015 4:09 PM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5142 - Modifying health benefit exchange provisions related to the aggregation or delegating the aggregation of funds that comprise the premium for a health plan.
- SB 5175 - Regarding telemedicine. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.)
- SB 5144 - Requiring all meetings of the Robert Bree collaborative to be subject to the open public meetings act.
- SB 5268 - Concerning refilling eye drop prescriptions.
- SB 5293 - Concerning the use of hydrocodone products by licensed optometrists in Washington state.
- SB 5010 - Restoring funding to the health professional loan repayment and scholarship program fund.
If draft bills 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.
Human Services, Mental Health & Housing
1/26/15 10:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- SB 5245 - Concerning substance abuse prevention and treatment programs funded by the marijuana excise tax.
- SB 5256 - Requiring reasonable suspicion before allowing strip searches of juveniles in juvenile detention facilities.
- SB 5266 - Concerning secure facilities for the criminally insane.
- SB 5262 - Releasing juvenile case records to the Washington state office of civil legal aid.
Work Session: Review of civil and forensic systems for involuntary mental health treatment.
Executive Session: To be announced.
Other business.
Law & Justice
1/26/15 9:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Jt. w/ Senate Trade & Economic Development
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing: SB 5449 - Creating a tax division of the court of appeals.
Possible executive session: bills heard in committee. Other business..
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- SB 5072 - Modifying the crime of failing to summon assistance.
- SB 5058 - Concerning the financial fraud and identity theft crimes investigation and prosecution program.
- SB 5215 - Establishing the Washington internet crimes against children account.
- SB 5188 - Limiting the power of eminent domain.
- SB 5158 - Requiring call location information to be provided to law enforcement responding to an emergency.
- SB 5292 - Protecting children and youth from powdered alcohol.
- SB 5032 - Specifying when a transaction in the form of a lease does not create a security interest for purposes of the uniform commercial code.
Trade & Economic Development
1/26/15 9:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Jt. w/ Senate Law & Justice
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing: SB 5449 - Creating a tax division of the court of appeals.
Possible executive session: bills heard in committee. Other business..
Transportation
1/26/15 3:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session: Update on REAL ID Act - Department of Licensing.
Public Hearing:
- SB 5199 - Concerning members of regional transportation planning organizations representing out-of-state governments or organizations.
- SB 5207 - Concerning office hours for registered tow truck operators.
- SB 5336 - Limiting the use of automated traffic safety cameras to detect speed violations not in school zones to certain cities.
- SB 5357 - Concerning clean alternative fuel motorcycles.
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:
- Stormwater, flood control, and water supply [S-0544.4].
- SB 5141 - Concerning the alternative process for awarding contracts for university medical buildings and facilities.
- SB 5275 - Concerning tax code improvements that do not affect state revenue collections.
- SB 5257 - Providing a reduced public utility tax for log transportation businesses.
Work Session: Flooding, stormwater, and other water issues (continued from 1/15/2015).
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/WM/Pages/default.aspx, as soon as they are available. Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.