WALeg Day 18: Summer fires get scrutiny, Joel’s Law gets a vote
OLYMPIA -- A House committee takes up questions about the state's early response to the fires that turned into the Carlton Complex and the full House votes on Joel's Law.
Central Washington legislators have been critical of the time it took Department of Natural Resources crews to fight the fires near Brewster this summer. The House Natural Resources Committee will air that out at an early afternoon work session.
This morning the House is expected to give strong support to a law that would allow relatives to have an easier time getting mental health treatment for family members. It is also likely to pass a supplemental budget, making short-term adjustments to the state's Operating Budget between now and June 30.
Here's the official schedule for the day:
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Thursday, January 29, 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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9:00 AM |
House Hearing Rm C |
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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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6:00 PM |
House Hearing Rm A |
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House Hearing Rm A |
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House Committees
Agriculture & Natural Resources
1/29/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session: State forest fire response and recovery through the lens of the Carleton Complex fire.
Appropriations*
1/29/15 3:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/22/2015 3:17 PM
Public Hearing:
- 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*
1/29/15 9:00 am
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm C
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/28/2015 4:10 PM
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.
- HB 1342 - Permitting the sale of cider in microbrewery tasting rooms.
- HB 1362 - Allowing sales of growlers of wine.
- HB 1380 - Creating a special permit by a manufacturer of wine to hold a private event for the purpose of tasting and selling wine of its own production.
- HB 1429 - Expanding authorized personal services by liquor industry members to retailers.
- HB 1457 - Authorizing sixteen and seventeen year old store employees to handle liquor.
- HB 1478 - Allowing additional liquor distributor employees to stock liquor under certain circumstances.
- HB 1552 - Concerning industrial hemp.
Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs*
1/29/15 8:00 am
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm E
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/23/2015 12:31 PM
Work Session: Economic Recovery from the Carlton Complex wildfires.
Public Hearing:
- HB 1125 - Concerning expenditures from the economic development strategic reserve account to support economic recovery of businesses due to the wildfires in Okanogan and Chelan counties.
- HB 1416 - Exempting documents recording a water-sewer district lien from the surcharge for local homeless housing and assistance.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session: Discipline.
- History of discipline laws.
- Update from Student Discipline Task Force.
Education
1/29/15 6:00 pm
House Full Committee
Jt. w/ House Health Care & Wellness
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session:
- SHB 2739 (Chapter 196, Laws of 2014) Report (Re: Geographic analysis to identify areas where cumulative effects of family factors, such as health status and safety, correlate with academic and behavioral indicators of student success.)
- ESHB 1336 (Chapter 197, Laws of 2013) Update (Re: Increasing capacity of school districts to recognize and respond to troubled youth.)
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/27/2015 4:26 PM
Public Hearing:
- HB 1378 - Protecting waterways from pollution from synthetic plastic microbeads.
- HB 1314 - Implementing a carbon pollution market program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (continued from 1/27/2015).
Health Care & Wellness
1/29/15 6:00 pm
House Full Committee
Jt. w/ House Education
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session:
- SHB 2739 (Chapter 196, Laws of 2014) Report (Re: Geographic analysis to identify areas where cumulative effects of family factors, such as health status and safety, correlate with academic and behavioral indicators of student success.)
- ESHB 1336 (Chapter 197, Laws of 2013) Update (Re: Increasing capacity of school districts to recognize and respond to troubled youth.)
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm A
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/23/2015 2:04 PM
Possible Executive Session:
- HB 1090 - Concerning the financial fraud and identity theft crimes investigation and prosecution program.
- HB 1099 - Providing consumers the option to cancel contracts over the internet when entered into by the same means.
- HB 1129 - Granting the office of civil legal aid access to juvenile case records.
- HB 1260 - Providing credit towards child support obligations for veterans benefits.
- HB 1092 - Creating the patent troll prevention act.
- HB 1111 - Concerning court transcripts.
- HB 1113 - Authorizing tribal court judges to solemnize marriages.
- HB 1248 - Concerning court proceedings.
- HB 1120 - Providing immunity for school bus drivers.
- HB 1191 - Concerning concealed pistol license renewal notices.
- HB 1177 - Addressing the regulation of service contracts.
Public Hearing:
- HB 1288 - Directing the Washington state institute for public policy to complete a study regarding the involuntary treatment act.
- HB 1419 - Concerning restrictions on outings from state facilities.
- HB 1426 - Concerning competency to stand trial evaluations.
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm D
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 1273 - Implementing family and medical leave insurance.
- HB 1163 - Concerning paid vacation leave.
Possible Executive Session:
- 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.
- HB 1231 - Establishing the prevailing rate of wage based on collective bargaining agreements or other methods if collective bargaining agreements are not available.
Local Government*
1/29/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm D
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/28/2015 2:10 PM
Public Hearing:
- 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.
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 1197 - Concerning water-sewer districts.
- 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 1317 - Revising the lien for collection of sewer charges by counties.
State Government
1/29/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm E
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 1144 - Extending the time period for voter registration.
- HB 1210 - Concerning poll-site voting and voting identification requirements.
- HB 1294 - Enhancing youth voter registration.
- HB 1428 - Concerning voter registration.
Executive Session:
- HB 1079 - Allowing public agencies to enter into contracts providing for the joint utilization of architectural or engineering services.
- HB 1085 - Requiring lobbying reports to be filed electronically.
- HB 1086 - Establishing a cost recovery mechanism for public records sought for commercial purposes.
- HB 1188 - Delaying annual leave payments upon employment termination.
- HB 1217 - Concerning the capitol furnishings preservation committee.
Technology & Economic Development
1/29/15 1:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm C
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session: University of Washington Clean Energy Institute.
Possible Executive Session:
- HB 1100 - Creating new appliance efficiency standards.
- HB 1093 - Concerning unmanned aircraft.
- HB 1091 - Concerning the unauthorized interference of ticket sales over the internet.
Transportation
1/29/15 3:30 pm
House Full Committee
House Hearing Rm B
John L. O'Brien Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing:
- HB 1159 - Concerning teen driving safety.
- HB 1222 - Modifying certain firefighting apparatus length and weight limits.
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*
1/29/15 8:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 3
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/26/2015 11:43 AM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5134 - Concerning base flows and minimum instream flows.
- SB 5135 - Ensuring that certain existing water uses are not subject to interruption.
- SB 5136 - Repealing an instream flow rule and adopting a new instream flow rule.
- SB 5129 - Concerning overriding considerations of the public interest in management of the waters of the state.
- SB 5131 - Concerning the Skagit instream flow rule.
- SB 5407 - Concerning existing lots and the Skagit instream flow rule.
- SB 5491 - Maintaining reservations of water for certain future uses.
Possible Executive Session: Bills previously heard. Other business.
Early Learning & K-12 Education*
1/29/15 8:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/23/2015 2:51 PM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5312 - Creating flexibility for the educator retooling conditional scholarship program.
- SB 5316 - Concerning privacy and security of personally identifiable student information.
- SB 5392 - Eliminating the quality education council.
- SB 5433 - Requiring Washington's tribal history, culture, and government to be taught in the common schools.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Possible other business.
Energy, Environment & Telecommunications*
1/29/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/27/2015 5:05 PM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5089 - Revising definitions in the energy independence act to promote the use of clean energy in the future.
- SB 5090 - Providing an additional alternative compliance option in the energy independence act to promote the use of clean energy in the future.
- SB 5094 - Allowing incremental electricity produced as a result of efficiency improvements to hydroelectric generation projects whose energy output is marketed by the Bonneville power administration to qualify as an eligible renewable resource under the energy independence act.
- SB 5430 - Amending the energy independence act.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Financial Institutions & Insurance*
1/29/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 2
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/23/2015 8:08 AM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5222 - Concerning collection agency transaction fees for processing electronic payments.
- SB 5236 - Concerning the ratification of budgets for certain homeowners' associations.
- SB 5255 - Concerning the linked deposit program.
- SB 5341 - Concerning the linked deposit investment program.
- SB 5265 - Allowing a public depository to arrange for reciprocal deposits of public funds.
No executive action scheduled. Other business.
Government Operations & Security*
1/29/15 10:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 2
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/27/2015 6:43 PM
Public Hearing:
- SGA 9170 - Robert K St. John, Director, Consolidated Technology Services.
- SB 5348 - Allowing public agencies to enter into contracts providing for the joint utilization of architectural or engineering services.
- SB 5350 - Concerning water-sewer districts.(Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.)
- SB 5396 - Exempting information of guardians or family members of children enrolled in child care, early learning, parks and recreation, after-school, and youth development programs.
- SB 5383 - Addressing gifts of food and beverage to state officers and state employees. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.)
- SB 5386 - Addressing the reporting of gifts in the form of food and beverage to state officers and state employees.
The committee name has changed to Senate Government Operations & Security. This agenda was previously published under the committee name, Senate Government Operations & State Security. 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/GOSS/Pages/default.aspx, as soon as they are available. Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Health Care *
1/29/15 10:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/27/2015 2:02 PM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5290 - Authorizing law enforcement and prosecutorial officials of federally recognized Indian tribes access to prescription monitoring data.
- SB 5027 - Providing access to the prescription drug monitoring database for clinical laboratories.
- SB 5034 - Concerning referral of medical cases to occupational therapists.
- SB 5049 - Concerning the registration and professional education of surgical technologists. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.)
- SB 5340 - Concerning qualified health plan claims in grace periods.
Possible Executive Session: Bills previously heard.
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. Other business.
Higher Education*
1/29/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 3
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/23/2015 2:17 PM
Public Hearing:
- SGA 9023 - Harry L Carthum, Member, Board of Trustees, Community College District No. 2 (Grays Harbor College).
- SGA 9111 - Carol L McVicker, Member, State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.
- SGA 9112 - Rosalinda Mendoza, Member, Board of Trustees, Community College District No. 16 (Yakima Valley Community College).
- SB 5122 - Concerning precollege placement measures.
- SB 5295 - Concerning the display of campus information on the statewide public four-year dashboard.
- SB 5328 - Disseminating financial aid information.
- SB 5349 - Requiring live financial literacy seminars for students at institutions of higher education.
Work Session: Overview of career college sector.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Human Services, Mental Health & Housing*
1/29/15 10:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/23/2015 2:25 PM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5404 - Concerning homeless youth prevention and protection.
- SB 5486 - Creating the parents for parents program.
- SB 5403 - Concerning competency to stand trial evaluations.
- SB 5408 - Removing references to faith-based exemptions regarding criminal mistreatment of children and vulnerable adults.
Executive Session: To be announced.
Other business.
Law & Justice*
1/29/15 8:00 am
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/28/2015 9:01 AM
Public Hearing:
- SB 5412 - Addressing the regulation of service contracts.
- SB 5227 - Creating the international commercial arbitration act.
- SB 5311 - Requiring crisis intervention training for peace officers.
- SB 5500 - Permitting retired law enforcement officers to carry firearms on school facilities.
- SB 5593 - Concerning delivery and payment for health care services by hospitals for inmates and persons detained by law enforcement.
- SJR 8205 - Amending the state Constitution so that justices of the supreme court are elected by qualified electors of a supreme court judicial district. (If measure is referred to committee.)
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Natural Resources & Parks*
1/29/15 1:30 pm
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 1/23/2015 2:51 PM
Work Session:
- Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group update.
- Briefing on the salmon cannon.
Public Hearing:
- SB 5356 - Concerning a fishing line or monofilament recycling pilot program.
- SB 5372 - Limiting the enforcement of policies of the department of fish and wildlife and providing for abrogation of policies by act of the governor or either house of the legislature.
- SB 5464 - Concerning unlawfully engaging in fishing guide activity.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
Transportation*
1/29/15 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 1/23/2015 10:20 AM
Public Hearing: SB 5478 - Financing facilities to support education reform.
Work Session: K-12 capital issues.
