Both the House and Senate released budgets this week – Operating, Transportation (supplemental – not the package), and Capital. All are moving and being prepped to move off of the respective floors by early next week to allow more than a week for negotiation. Negotiations are technically already happening to help speed up this process.
For information, project summaries, and details on each of these budgets – go to THIS LINK. You can then click on the appropriate 2022 budget, which House and then see all the back up and summary documents – including project lists for the Capital and Transportation budgets.
Tomorrow is the cut off for bills to be out of the opposite house policy committee and Monday is the cut off for bills to be out of the opposite house fiscal committees
Transportation (Senate) - Virtual - 2/23 @ 3:00pm
• SB 5975 - Exec Session - Concerning additive transportation funding and appropriations. (High)
Transportation (House) - Virtual - 2/23 @ 3:30pm
• HB 1990 - Public Hearing - Concerning a sales and use tax deferral for projects to improve the state route number 167 and Interstate 405 corridor. (Remote testimony.) (Support/High)
• SB 5510 - Public Hearing - Concerning renewal of the sales and use tax for transportation benefit districts. (Remote testimony.) (Medium)
• SB 5898 - Public Hearing - Concerning the use of vehicle-related fees to fulfill certain state general obligation bonds. (Remote testimony.) (High)
Business, Financial Services & Trade (Senate) - Virtual - 2/24 @ 8:00am
• E2SHB 1015 - Exec Session - Creating the Washington equitable access to credit act. (Support/High)
Finance (House) - Virtual - 2/24 @ 8:00am
• SB 5823 - Exec Session - Addressing local infrastructure project areas. (Medium)
Housing & Local Government (Senate) - Virtual - 2/24 @ 8:00am
• E2SHB 1117 - Exec Session - Promoting salmon recovery through revisions to the state's comprehensive planning framework. (Concerns/High)
• ESHB 1660 - Exec Session - Concerning accessory dwelling units. (Support/Medium)
Labor, Commerce & Tribal Affairs (Senate) - Virtual - 2/24 @ 8:00am
• 2SHB 1827 - Exec Session - Creating the community reinvestment account and community reinvestment program. (Support/High)
• EHB 1837 - Exec Session - Restoring the state's ability to address work-related musculoskeletal injuries. (Oppose/High)
• E2SHB 1868 - Exec Session - Improving worker safety and patient care in health care facilities by addressing staffing needs, overtime, meal and rest breaks, and enforcement. (Oppose/High)
Environment & Energy (House) - Virtual - 2/24 @ 10:00am
• SB 5312 - Exec Session - Facilitating transit-oriented development and increasing housing inventory. (Support/High)
• SSB 5626 - Exec Session - Adding a climate resilience element to water system plans. (Medium)
• SSB 5678 - Exec Session - Concerning energy transformation, nonemitting electric generation, and renewable resource project analysis and declaratory orders. (Support/Medium)
• SSB 5818 - Public Hearing - Promoting housing construction in cities through amendments to and limiting appeals under the state environmental policy act and growth management act. (Remote testimony.) (Support/High)
• SSB 5818 - Exec Session - Promoting housing construction in cities through amendments to and limiting appeals under the state environmental policy act and growth management act. (Support/High)
• E2SSB 5842 - Exec Session - Concerning state laws that address climate change. (Concerns/Medium)
• SSB 5910 - Exec Session - Accelerating the availability and use of renewable hydrogen in Washington state. (Support/High)
Housing, Human Services & Veterans (House) - Virtual - 2/24 @ 10:00am
• ESSB 5268 - Exec Session - Transforming services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities by increasing the capabilities of community residential settings and redesigning the long-term nature of intermediate care facilities. (Medium)
• ESSB 5758 - Exec Session - Concerning condominium conversions. (Support/High)
Public Safety (House) - Virtual - 2/24 @ 10:00am
• ESB 5919 - Exec Session - Concerning the standard for law enforcement authority to detain or pursue persons. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning the definition of "physical force," "necessary," and "totality of the circumstances," and the standard for law enforcement authority to use physical force and providing the authority for a peace officer to engage in a vehicular pursuit when there is reasonable suspicion a person has violated the law and the officer follows appropriate safety standards.) (High)
Law & Justice (Senate) - Virtual - 2/24 @ 10:30am
• ESHB 2037 - Exec Session - Modifying the standard for use of force by peace officers. (Support/High)
Appropriations (House) - Virtual - 2/24 @ 1:30pm
• SHB 1988 - Public Hearing - Concerning tax deferrals for investment projects in clean technology manufacturing, clean alternative fuels production, and renewable energy storage. (Remote testimony.) (Support/High)
• HB 2018 - Public Hearing - Creating a three-day shop local and save sales and use tax holiday to benefit all Washington families for certain items $1,000 or less during the month of September. (Remote testimony.) (High)
• 2SSB 5241 - Public Hearing - Promoting economic inclusion. (Remote testimony.) (If measure is referred to committee.) (Medium)
Higher Education & Workforce Development (Senate) - Virtual - 2/24 @ 1:30pm
• SHB 2019 - Exec Session - Increasing educational and training opportunities for careers in retail. (Support/High)
Transportation (House) - Virtual - 2/24 @ 1:30pm
• HB 1786 - Exec Session - Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2021-2023 fiscal biennium. (High)
• HB 2118 - Exec Session - Concerning additive transportation funding and appropriations. (High)
• SSB 5528 - Public Hearing - Concerning the imposition of supplemental revenue sources within a regional transit authority area. (Remote testimony.) (Medium)
Ways & Means (Senate) - Virtual - 2/24 @ 4:00pm
• E2SHB 1099 - Public Hearing - Improving the state's climate response through updates to the state's comprehensive planning framework. (Remote testimony.) (Oppose/High)
Transportation (House) - Virtual - 2/25 @ 10:00am
• HB 1990 - Exec Session - Concerning a sales and use tax deferral for projects to improve the state route number 167 and Interstate 405 corridor. (Support/High)
• SB 5510 - Exec Session - Concerning renewal of the sales and use tax for transportation benefit districts. (Medium)
• SB 5898 - Exec Session - Concerning the use of vehicle-related fees to fulfill certain state general obligation bonds. (High)
CLIMATE CHANGE/CARBON TAX
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Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
ESHB 1770 (SB 5669) |
Energy codes |
Strengthening energy codes. |
S Environment, E |
Duerr |
Oppose |
High |
|
Hydrogen |
Expanding the production, distribution, and use of hydrogen not produced from a fossil fuel feedstock. |
H Rules R |
Ramel |
Support |
High |
|
|
Energy facility site council |
Modernizing the energy facility site evaluation council to meet the state's clean energy goals. |
S Environment, En |
Fitzgibbon |
|
Medium |
|
|
SHB 1988 (SSB 5744) |
Clean tech. tax deferrals |
Concerning tax deferrals for investment projects in clean technology manufacturing, clean alternative fuels production, and renewable energy storage. |
H Approps |
Shewmake |
Support |
High |
|
Water system plans/climate |
Adding a climate resilience element to water system plans. |
H Env & Energy |
Rolfes |
|
Medium |
|
|
Energy project orders |
Concerning energy transformation, nonemitting electric generation, and renewable resource project analysis and declaratory orders. |
H Env & Energy |
Short |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
SSB 5722 (HB 1774) |
Greenhouse gases/buildings |
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in buildings. |
H ENVIDP |
Nguyen |
Neutral |
High |
|
Climate change |
Concerning state laws that address climate change. |
H Env & Energy |
Carlyle |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
|
Commercial energy program |
Concerning technical changes to the commercial property assessed clean energy and resiliency program. |
H Rules R |
Lovelett |
|
Medium |
|
|
Hydrogen |
Accelerating the availability and use of renewable hydrogen in Washington state. |
H Env & Energy |
Carlyle |
Support |
High |
|
|
Financial instit./climate |
Imposing a state climate resiliency and mitigation surcharge on large financial institutions financing the global fossil fuel industry while recognizing the financial institution industry's efforts to address climate change. |
S Ways & Means |
Carlyle |
|
Medium |
CTE
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
Apprenticeship programs |
Concerning the sustainability and expansion of state registered apprenticeship programs. |
H Exec Action |
Keiser |
Concerns |
High |
GENERAL BUSINESS PRIORITIES
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
Equitable access to credit |
Creating the Washington equitable access to credit act. |
S Business, Finan |
Maycumber |
Support |
High |
|
|
Employer reports/private |
Concerning shared reporting responsibilities for both the paid family and medical leave and the long-term services and supports trust programs to clarify that information collected from employer reports shall remain private. |
S Rules 2 |
Sells |
Neutral |
Medium |
|
|
Dishonored paycheck fees |
Requiring an employer to reimburse employee fees when a paycheck is dishonored by nonacceptance or nonpayment. |
S Rules 2 |
Hoff |
Neutral |
Medium |
|
|
Nondisclosure/illegal acts |
Prohibiting nondisclosure and nondisparagement provisions from employers regarding illegal acts of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour violations, and sexual assault. |
S Labor, Comm & T |
Berry |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
|
Musculoskeletal injuries |
Restoring the state's ability to regulate work-related (ergonomics) musculoskeletal injuries. |
S Labor, Comm & T |
Bronoske |
Oppose |
High |
|
|
Sales and use tax holiday |
Creating a three-day shop local and save sales and use tax holiday to benefit all Washington families for certain items $1,000 or less during the month of September. |
H Approps |
Paul |
|
High |
|
|
Careers in retail |
Increasing educational and training opportunities for careers in retail. |
S Higher Ed & Wo |
Boehnke |
Support |
High |
|
|
Business practices/emergency |
Regulating unfair business practices and prohibiting predatory price increases during states of emergency. |
S Rules X |
Darneille |
Concerns |
High |
|
|
Economic inclusion |
Promoting economic inclusion. |
H HHSVDPA |
Dhingra |
|
Medium |
|
|
Employee assistance programs |
Protecting the confidentiality of employees using employee assistance programs. |
H Rules R |
Keiser |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
|
Main street programs/pop. |
Concerning population criteria for designation of local downtown and neighborhood commercial district revitalization and official local main street programs. |
H Rules R |
Cleveland |
|
High |
|
|
Family and medical leave |
Modifying the Washington state paid family and medical leave act. |
H Exec Action |
Robinson |
Concerns |
High |
|
|
Wage and salary information |
Concerning employer requirements for providing wage and salary information to applicants for employment. |
H LAWSDP |
Randall |
Oppose |
High |
|
|
Industrial insurance appeals |
Concerning attorney and witness fees in industrial insurance court appeals. |
H LAWSDP |
Keiser |
Oppose |
High |
|
|
ESSB 5873 (HB 2031) |
Unemployment insurance |
Concerning unemployment insurance, family leave, and medical leave premiums. |
H Rules R |
Keiser |
Support |
High |
|
Gubernatorial emerg. powers |
Concerning legislative oversight of gubernatorial powers concerning emergency proclamations and unanticipated receipts. |
H Exec Action |
Randall |
Support |
High |
HOUSING/HOMELESSNESS
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
Comprehensive planning |
Improving the state's climate response through updates to the state's comprehensive planning framework. |
S Ways & Means |
Duerr |
Oppose |
High |
|
|
Comp. planning/salmon |
Promoting salmon recovery through revisions to the state's comprehensive planning framework. |
S Housing & Local |
Lekanoff |
Concerns |
High |
|
|
Growth management act plans |
Planning under the growth management act. |
S Housing & Local |
Duerr |
Concerns |
High |
|
|
State upland leases |
Concerning the duration of state upland leases for lands managed by the department of natural resources. |
S Rules 2 |
Kloba |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
ESHB 1643 (SSB 5642) |
Affordable housing/REET |
Exempting a sale or transfer of real property for affordable housing to a nonprofit entity, housing authority, public corporation, county, or municipal corporation from the real estate excise tax. |
S Housing & Local |
Hackney |
Support |
High |
|
ESHB 1660 (SB 5648) |
Accessory dwelling units |
Concerning accessory dwelling units. |
S Housing & Local |
Shewmake |
Support |
Medium |
|
GMA planning/tribes |
Concerning tribal participation in planning under the growth management act. |
S Housing & Loca |
Pollet |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
|
2SHB 1827 (SSB 5706) |
Community reinvestment |
Creating the community reinvestment account and community reinvestment program. |
S Labor, Comm & T |
Morgan |
Support |
High |
|
SHB 1880 (SB 5861) |
Housing benefit districts |
Concerning housing benefit districts. |
H Finance |
Ryu |
Concerns |
High |
|
Public improvements/housing |
Adding permanently affordable housing to the definition of public improvements. |
S Rules 2 |
Ormsby |
|
High |
|
|
GMA actions effective date |
Concerning the effective date of certain actions taken under the growth management act. |
H Rules R |
Salomon |
Concerns |
High |
|
|
Transit-oriented development |
Facilitating transit-oriented development and increasing housing inventory. |
H Env & Energy |
Mullet |
Support |
High |
|
|
Condominium conversions |
Concerning condominium conversions. |
H Hous, Human Svc |
Gildon |
Support |
High |
|
|
Housing/SEPA & GMA |
Promoting housing construction in cities through amendments to and limiting appeals under the state environmental policy act and growth management act. |
H Env & Energy |
Salomon |
Support |
High |
|
|
Local permit review process |
Concerning consolidated local permit review processes. |
H Exec Action |
Mullet |
Neutral |
Medium |
|
|
Affordable housing funding |
Providing a local government option for the funding of essential affordable housing programs. |
S Housing & Loca |
Lovelett |
|
High |
OTHER CHAMBER BILLS
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
ESHB 1673 (SSB 5580) |
Public works board/broadband |
Concerning broadband infrastructure loans and grants made by the public works board. |
S Rules 2 |
Ryu |
|
Medium |
|
Peace officers/use of force |
Modifying the standard for use of force by peace officers. |
S Rules 2 |
Johnson |
|
High |
|
|
Data centers tax preference |
Providing a tax preference for rural and nonrural data centers. |
H Rules R |
Berg |
Concerns |
High |
|
|
E2SHB 1868 (SB 5751) |
Health care staffing |
Improving worker safety and patient care in health care facilities by addressing staffing needs, overtime, meal and rest breaks, and enforcement. |
S Labor, Comm & |
Riccelli |
Oppose |
High |
|
Peace officers/use of force |
Modifying the standard for use of force by peace officers. |
S Law & Justice |
Goodman |
Support |
High |
|
|
Dev. disability services |
Transforming services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities by increasing the capabilities of community residential settings and redesigning the long-term nature of intermediate care facilities. |
H Hous, Human Svc |
Keiser |
|
Medium |
|
|
Law enf. detention & pursuit |
Concerning the standard for law enforcement authority to detain or pursue persons. |
H Public Safety |
Van De Wege |
|
High |
STREAMLINED SALES TAX
No bills.
TRADE, AEROSPACE & MFG
No bills.
TRANSPORTATION
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
HB 1786 (SB 5689) |
Transportation budget, supp. |
Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2021-2023 fiscal biennium. |
H Transportation |
Fey |
|
High |
|
HB 1990 (SB 5705) |
SR 167 & I-405 tax deferral |
Concerning a sales and use tax deferral for projects to improve the state route number 167 and Interstate 405 corridor. |
H Transportation |
Duerr |
Support |
High |
|
HB 2024 (SB 5899) |
SR 520 sales tax deferral |
Concerning a sales and use tax deferral for projects to improve the state route number 520 corridor. |
H Rules R |
Fey |
|
High |
|
HB 2118 (SB 5975) |
Additive transp. funding |
Concerning additive transportation funding and appropriations. |
H Transportation |
Fey |
|
High |
|
HB 2119 (ESSB 5974) |
Transportation resources |
Addressing transportation resources. |
H Exec Action |
Fey |
Concerns |
High |
|
Transp. benefit district tax |
Concerning renewal of the sales and use tax for transportation benefit districts. |
H Transportation |
King |
|
Medium |
|
|
SSB 5528 (HB 2062) |
RTA supplemental revenue |
Concerning the imposition of additive revenue sources within a regional transit authority area. |
H Transportation |
Pedersen |
|
Medium |
|
Local infra. project areas |
Addressing local infrastructure project areas. |
H Finance |
Das |
|
Medium |
|
|
Vehicle fees/state bonds |
Concerning the use of vehicle-related fees to fulfill certain state general obligation bonds. |
H Transportation |
Liias |
|
High |
|
|
ESSB 5974 (HB 2119) |
Transportation resources |
Addressing transportation resources. |
H Transportation |
Liias |
|
High |
|
SB 5975 (HB 2118) |
Additive transp. funding |
Concerning additive transportation funding and appropriations. |
S Transportation |
Liias |
|
High |
Uncategorized Bills
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
Organized retail theft |
Concerning organized retail theft. |
H Public Safety |
Padden |
Support |
High |
