Legislative Update 01.12.2024

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

SHB 1140(ESSB 5187)

Operating budget

H Rules X

Ormsby

Monitoring

Making 2023-2025 fiscal biennium operating appropriations.

SHB 1147(ESSB 5200)

Capital budget

H Rules X

Tharinger

Monitoring

Concerning the capital budget.

Makes biennial capital budget appropriations for the 2023-25 fiscal biennium. • Makes 2023 supplemental capital budget appropriations for the 2021-23 fiscal biennium.

HB 1191 (SB 5166)

Cooperative finance org. B&O

H Rules X

Springer

Monitoring

Reauthorizing the business and occupation tax deduction for cooperative finance organizations.

HB 1895 (SB 5839)

Working families' tax credit

H Finance

Thai

Monitoring

Modifying the working families' tax credit by clarifying the refundable nature of the credit, the application requirements, and the eligibility verification process.

HB 2354

Tax increment areas

H Local Govt

Street

Monitoring

Creating an option for impacted taxing districts to provide a portion of their new revenue to support any tax increment area proposed within their jurisdiction.

SB 5770

Property tax

S Ways & Means

Pedersen

High

Oppose

Providing state and local property tax reform.

SB 5839 (HB 1895)

Working families' tax credit

S Ways & Means

Nguyen

Medium

Modifying the working families' tax credit by clarifying the refundable nature of the credit, the application requirements, and the eligibility verification process.

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

HB 1870

Local comm. federal funding

H Innov, Comm &

Barnard

Monitoring

Promoting economic development by increasing opportunities for local communities to secure federal funding.

HB 2103 (SB 5955)

Large port districts

H Local Govt

Orwall

Monitoring

Mitigating harm and improving equity in large port districts.

HB 2149

Consumer personal info.

H ConsPro&Bus

Reeves

Monitoring

Protecting consumer personal information.

SSB 5110

Labor practices/penalties

S Rules X

Keiser

High

Oppose

Adding penalties for certain prohibited practices in chapter 49.44 RCW.

This bill allows for a private right of action on any employment prohibited practice in RCW 49.44. We believe that enforcement mechanisms should be transparent and included in each bill, and not include a blanket private right of action for any subject attached to RCW 49.44. As an example, there are several bills moving through the system in 2023 that will be placed in RCW 49.44 (SB 5123 relating to cannabis in employment and SB 5417 relating to political speech). A private right of action should be transparent and not a default for any employment matter referenced in RCW 49.44. The business community is opposed to private rights of action because it is the least effective route to settle employment disputes, leads to unnecessary litigation, costs and delays. The business community prefers administrative remedies that settle disputes quickly. Adds penalties for the provisions in the Revised Code of Washington, Chapter 49.44 that do not already have specified criminal or civil remedies. 

SSB 5368

Stay-at-work program

S Rules 2

Keiser

High

Support

Expanding access to the workers' compensation stay-at-work program through off-site light duty return to work opportunities.

Washington’s Stay at Work program, which has proven successful in helping injured workers transition back to the workplace – is limited to only the “employer of injury” SB 5368 will allow smaller employers and frontline workers, who may not have light duty work opportunities available for transitioning back to work, to partner with local non-profit organizations to offer light duty volunteer positions. The bill protects injured workers by providing an option to refuse, or terminate, a light duty position with a non-profit without any risk to their benefits and medical care SB 5368 is triple win --- allows small businesses and more injured workers to access light duty positions, assists injured workers in their transition back to work, and assists local non profits in their efforts to serve their communities. Allows an employer with 100 or fewer employees to offer off-site light duty work to a worker with an established nonprofit organization under the Stay-at-Work Program and to seek reimbursement for certain wages paid the worker and expenditures subject to certain conditions. • Allows the Department of Labor and Industries or the employee of injury to contract with an established return-to-work employment agency for the purpose of offering the work.

SB 5835

Rule making websites

S State Govt & El

Wilson

Monitoring

Concerning transparency in rule making.

SB 5955 (HB 2103)

Large port districts

S Loc Gov, Land U

Keiser

Monitoring

Mitigating harm and improving equity in large port districts.

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

HB 2101

Child care licensing fees

H Exec Action

Rule

Monitoring

Eliminating child care licensing fees.

HB 2111 (SB 5941)

Subsidized child care

H Exec Action

Nance

Monitoring

Clarifying requirements for subsidized child care.

HB 2124

Child care prg. eligibility

H Exec Action

Eslick

Monitoring

Supporting and expanding access to child care and early learning programs.

HB 2322

Child care/tax preferences

H Finance

Senn

Monitoring

Creating a tax preference child care requirement.

SB 5941 (HB 2111)

Subsidized child care

S EL/K-12

Wilson

Monitoring

Clarifying requirements for subsidized child care.

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

HB 1146

Dual credit program notice

H Passed 3rd

Paul

Low

Notifying high school students and their families about available dual credit programs and any available financial assistance.

If this bill moves, we should get language to help statewide programs. Because we work with so many different colleges, collecting the costs statewide could create a burden. Requires public high schools to notify students and their parents about available dual credit programs and any financial assistance available to reduce the cost of these programs.

2SHB 1239

Educator ethics & complaints

H Education

Santos

Low

Establishing a simple and uniform system for complaints related to, and instituting a code of educator ethics for, conduct within or involving public elementary and secondary schools.

ESHB 1277

Paraeducator course of study

S EL/K-12

Donaghy

Low

Establishing rules to improve the consistency and quality of the implementation of the fundamental courses of study for paraeducators.

E2SHB 1565

Prof. education workforce

H Education

Ortiz-Self

Low

Supporting and strengthening the professional education workforce. 

HB 1944

Running start for the trades

H Education

Orwall

Medium

Support

Establishing a running start for the trades grant program.

E2SSB 5311(HB 1211)

Special education funding

S Rules X

Wellman

Monitoring

Concerning special education funding formula.

SB 5344

Public school revolving fund

S Rules 2

Schoesler

Monitoring

Establishing a public school revolving fund.

2SSB 5670

Running start/10th grade

S Rules 2

Hawkins

Monitoring

Permitting 10th grade students to participate in running start in online settings.

Permits 10th grade students to participate in online-only Running Start courses. • Requires that 10th grade Running Start students take no more than five quarter credits per term, or the semester equivalent. • Defines online courses as those in which the entirety of the course time is spent in a virtual setting or not in person.

2SSB 5736

Workforce shortages

S Rules 2

Nobles

High

Addressing high demand workforce shortages.

Specifies that a portion of the funds in the Workforce Education Investment Account must only be used for higher education programs in advanced computing or a related field.

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

2SHB 1131(SSB 5154)

Solid waste management

H Rules X

Berry

High

Concerns

Improving Washington's solid waste management outcomes.

This is the WRAP act that would create producer responsibility organizations to manage the waste stream for the packaging their products create. It also includes a bottle bill. Requires producers of certain paper products and packaging (covered PPP) to participate in and fund the operations of a producer responsibility organization (PRO) to collect and manage covered PPP from consumers and carry out other specified activities. • Makes changes to minimum postconsumer recycled content (PCRC) requirements, including: requiring additional types of products to meet PCRC requirements; moving responsibility for the registration and reporting of covered PPP products that are also to PCRC requirements to the PRO; and amending existing PCRC requirements for products subject to PCRC requirements that are not covered PPP. • Provides for producers of certain beverage containers to satisfy producer responsibility obligations for the beverage containers through the formation of a distributor responsibility organization (DRO) and the establishment of a deposit return system (DRS) 

SHB 1192 (SSB 5165)

Electric transm. planning

H Rules X

Duerr

High

Support

Concerning electric power system transmission planning.

Requires electric utility Integrated Resource Plans (IRPs) to include a 20-year, rather than 10-year, forecast of the availability and requirements for regional generation and transmission capacity, and adds to IRP transmission assessment requirements. • Requires electric utilities to consider conditional firm transmission services when selecting and acquiring renewable resources. • Requires electric utilities to seek support from federal, interstate, and industry entities to plan and develop transmission capacity, and encourages utilities to engage in statewide, multiutility, and interstate transmission planning processes. • Directs the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC) to oversee the siting of transmission facilities that are at least 500,000 volts, and are located in more than one county and one electric utility service territory. • Directs EFSEC to coordinate state agency environmental review for federally-proposed or sited transmission projects.

2SHB 1433

Energy labeling/residential

H Env & Energy

Duerr

Low

Oppose

Concerning energy labeling of residential buildings.

• Directs the Department of Commerce to adopt by rule the asset-based Home Energy Score developed by the United States Department of Energy as the primary home energy performance scoring system by which a person may evaluate the energy efficiency and relative greenhouse gas emissions of the building. • Directs the Department of Licensing to adopt rules and implement a program for the licensing of home energy assessors. • Prohibits, beginning March 1, 2026, a person from engaging in, conducting business, advertising, or holding himself or herself out as a home energy assessor without first obtaining a license.

ESHB 1589(SSB 5562)

Clean energy

H 3rd Reading

Doglio

High

Supporting Washington's clean energy economy and transitioning to a clean, affordable, and reliable energy future.

Prohibits any large gas company that serves more than 500,000 retail natural gas customers in Washington as of June 30, 2023, from furnishing or supplying gas service, instrumentalities, and facilities to any commercial or residential location that did not receive gas service or have filed applications for gas service as of June 30, 2023. • Requires a large gas company to file a gas decarbonization plan and an electrification plan with the Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) as part of any multi-year rate plan filed on or after January 1, 2026. • Requires the UTC to establish a target for a gas decarbonization plan and a cost target for an electrification plan, each of which must be 2.5 percent of the gas revenue requirement and electric revenue requirement, respectively, approved by the UTC for each year of the multiyear rate plan. • Requires that 60 percent of the total capacity and energy needed for a combination utility to meet the requirements of the Clean Energy Transformation Act must be supplied from resources owned and operated by the combination utility or an affiliate of the combination utility. • • Directs the UTC to adopt a merger of the rate bases supporting gas and electric operations of a combination utility into a single rate base if the ratio of the rate base for gas operations to the combined rate base of gas and electric operations is less than or equal to 0.2. • Establishes labor requirements for any project in a gas decarbonization plan or electrification plan with a cost of more than $1 million. • Encourages a variety of types of electric utilities to work with large gas companies providing gas service within the service areas of the electric utilities to identify opportunities for electrification and the provision of peaking service by the large gas companies.

HB 2070 (SB 5990)

Env. justice/SEPA projects

H Env & Energy

Mena

Monitoring

Integrating environmental justice considerations into certain project decisions.

HB 2199

CCA tax exemptions

H Finance

Orcutt

Monitoring

Creating business and occupation and public utility tax exemptions for certain amounts received as the result of receipt, generation, purchase, sale, transfer, or retirement of allowances, offset credits, or price ceiling units under the climate commitment act.

2SSB 5091

Hydrogen fuel products

S Business, Fin S

King

Monitoring

Creating and expanding tax incentives for the research, development, production, and sale of hydrogen fuel cells in Washington state.

Authorizes state business and occupation tax incentives for hydrogen fuel product research, development, production, and sale. • Requires the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee to evaluate the effectiveness of the tax incentives in achieving their stated public policy objectives prior to the expiration of the tax incentives in 2035.

SB 5570

Energy efficiency loans

S Environment, E

Lovelett

Monitoring

Authorizing electric utilities to establish energy efficiency revolving loan programs.

SB 5826

Utility bills/CCA charges

S Environment, En

MacEwen

Monitoring

Requiring customer charges to be listed on utility billing statements if the charges are a result of implementing the Washington climate commitment act.

SB 5875

Energy code/residential

S Environment, En

Fortunato

Monitoring

Balancing energy efficiency with consideration of other factors such as housing affordability, development costs, and feasibility in the state energy code for residential structures.

SB 5990 (HB 2070)

Env. justice/SEPA projects

S Environment, En

Lovelett

Monitoring

Integrating environmental justice considerations into certain project decisions.

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

ESHB 1547

Out-of-state health prov.

H HC/Wellness

Caldier

Medium

Support

Increasing the health care workforce by authorizing out-of-state providers to practice immediately.

SB 5241 (HB 1263)

Health care marketplace

S Rules 2

Randall

Monitoring

Concerning material changes to the operations and governance structure of participants in the health care marketplace.

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

SHB 1026

Local gov. design review

H Workroom

Walen

High

Support

Concerning local government design review.

Requires any design review of housing development permit applications to be conducted administratively by local government employees.

SHB 1133 (SB 5357)

Detached ADUs

H Workroom

Chapman

High

Support

Establishing limitations on detached accessory dwelling units outside urban growth areas.

Authorizes counties planning under the Growth Management Act to allow detached accessory dwelling units (ADUs) outside of urban growth areas if the ADU is subject to development regulations that include certain limits.

HB 1135 (SB 5452)

Impact fee use

H Rules X

Slatter

Medium

Oppose

Authorizing impact fee revenue to fund improvements to bicycle and pedestrian facilities.

E2SHB 1167

Residential housing

H Workroom

Duerr

High

Support

Concerning residential housing regulations.

Requires the Department of Commerce to develop and administer a grant program to assist counties and cities adopt preapproved middle housing plans. • Directs the State Building Code Council to convene a work group to recommend needed changes to apply the International Residential Code to multiplex housing. • Prohibits a city or county from imposing any regulations, reviews, or standards on multiplex housing that is not applied to detached singlefamily residences, except when necessary for fire and life safety.

SHB 1231 (SSB 5229)

Site readiness grants

H Rules X

Berg

Monitoring

Accelerating rural job growth and promoting economic recovery across Washington through site readiness grants.

ESHB 1245(SSB 5364)

Lot splitting

S Loc Gov, Land U

Barkis

High

Support

Increasing housing options through lot splitting.

Requires cities to allow the splitting of a single residential lot if specific conditions are met. • Prohibits cities from imposing certain regulations on a residential lot that is the result of a lot split.

HB 1252

Impact fee deferrals

H Workroom

Bateman

Medium

Support

Concerning impact fee deferrals.

SHB 1351 (SB 5456)

Minimum parking requirements

H Local Govt

Reed

Medium

Neutral

Prohibiting the imposition of minimum parking requirements except under certain circumstances.

HB 1367

Homeless funding

H Rules X

Donaghy

Monitoring

Eliminating unnecessary homeless funding budget and auditing requirements.

2SHB 1389 (SB 5435)

Residential rent increases

H Rules X

Ramel

Medium

Oppose

Concerning residential rent increases under the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act.

HB 1401

Housing permit process

H Workroom

Jacobsen

High

Support

Allowing cities and counties to create a simple, standardized housing permit process for affordable housing units in areas designated for housing.

Specifies that all cities and counties may adopt development regulations that create a simple, low cost, expedited permit process for development of single-family, duplex, triplex, or accessory dwelling housing units with less than 1,801 square feet per unit in locations designated for residential housing. • Requires cities and counties that adopt an expedited permitting process to count the number of housing units built and report the amount to the Department of Commerce (Commerce). • Requires Commerce to post a report on its website detailing the total number of housing units built as reported by cities and counties.

HB 1519

Local project review

H Rules X

Barkis

High

Support

Concerning local project review.

What it does: INCREASES NEW HOUSING SUPPLY  Provides varying timelines for different kinds of permits.  Provides local governments a safe harbor for adopting recommended permit timeline.  Enables local governments to adopt different permit timelines than those in state law.  Provides clarity on permit clock stoppages and starting.  Defines that a day is a workday.  Requires written notice of a correction request and thus a timeline clock stoppage.  Defines procedural completeness for applications.  Creates a toolkit for easier adoption of cost recovery model for fees so local governments can properly staff and review permits.  Provides refund if permit timelines as adopted are not met if a jurisdiction has not adopted 3 best practices for permit timelines.  Requires Commerce to provide permitting and other technical assistance to local governments. Why it’s needed: PERMIT DELAYS PRICES RESIDENTS OUT OF HOUSING  Washington’s average permit timeline delay is 6.5 months, adding nearly $32,000 in costs.  Local governments need options for different timelines that make sense based on what the permit is.  Local governments need ability to easier adopt a cost recovery fee schedule.  Washington’s builders need certainty around the timeclock to continue to invest in communities to build homes.  Creates best practices for permit processing. Predictable, stable, and consistent permitting results in predictable, stable, and consistent new housing stock. Provides that a project permit application is complete if it meets the procedural submission requirements of the local government as outlined on the project permit application. • Provides default permit processing deadlines for local governments that do not, by ordinance or resolution, adopt different deadlines. • Provides for the calculation of time periods related to permit processing deadlines and determinations of completeness. • Requires local governments to provide refunds of permitting fees if permitting deadlines are missed, with a refund of either 10 percent or 20 percent of the fee, depending on by how long the deadline was missed. • Provides optional additional project review provisions which, if at least three provisions are adopted, exempt the local government from the requirement to provide refunds if a permit processing deadline is missed.

HB 1585

Local infra. project areas

H Finance

Cortes

Monitoring

Addressing local infrastructure project areas.

SHB 1596

Affordable housing incentive

H Finance

Kloba

High

Providing local governments with options to increase affordable housing in their communities.

Allows counties and cities to establish Affordable Housing Exemption Programs that can exempt accessory dwelling units rented to very lowincome households from ad valorem property taxation for six-year periods. • Specifies conditions for an exemption to be granted and continuing requirements for an exemption to be maintained. • Provides for the cancelation of a tax exemption, including the imposition of a monetary penalty if the cancelation is because of noncompliance with exemption requirements.

2SHB 1628

Real estate excise tax

H Rules X

Chopp

High

Oppose

Increasing the supply of affordable housing by modifying the state and local real estate excise tax.

Adds a new state real estate excise tax threshold of $5,000,000 on January 1, 2025, with the portion of the selling price that is above the threshold taxed at a rate of 4 percent. • Provides for the distribution of the increase in revenue from the new threshold over what would have been collected had the new threshold not been imposed, including to a newly created Developmental Disabilities Trust Account that can be used for housing support for individuals with developmental disabilities. • Allows a county or city to impose an additional 0.25 percent real estate excise tax for the construction and support of affordable housing beginning on January 1, 2024. • Removes the expiration date on the ability to use certain local government real estate excise tax funds for facilities for those experiencing homelessness or for affordable housing, and removes a $1,000,000 limit on the annual use of such funds in larger jurisdictions. • Creates a real estate excise tax exemption for certain sales or transfers of properties that qualify for a property tax exemption that will be used for a community purpose.

SHB 1709(ESSB 5301)

Commerce housing programs

H Rules X

Tharinger

High

Concerning housing programs administered by the department of commerce.

HB 1890 (SB 5807)

Housing authorities

H Local Govt

Alvarado

Monitoring

Concerning housing authorities.

HB 1892

Workforce housing prg.

H Housing

Leavitt

Monitoring

Concerning the workforce housing accelerator program.

HB 1987

Public facilities tax use

H Local Govt

Low

Monitoring

Concerning the use of moneys from the rural public facilities sales and use tax for affordable workforce housing infrastructure and facilities.

HB 2008

Housing cost task force

H Exec Action

Klicker

Monitoring

Creating a task force on housing cost driver analysis.

HB 2026

Rental income/property tax

H Finance

Doglio

Monitoring

Concerning rental income received by people eligible for certain property tax exemption programs.

HB 2039

Env. & land use appeals

H Env & Energy

Fitzgibbon

Monitoring

Modifying the appeals process for environmental and land use matters.

HB 2044

Voter-approved property tax

H Finance

Duerr

Monitoring

Standardizing limitations on voter-approved property tax levies.

HB 2063

Homebuyers/REET exemption

H Finance

Wylie

Monitoring

Providing an exemption from the real estate excise tax for transfers of property to qualifying low-income first-time homebuyers.

HB 2064

Homebuyers/REET exemption

H Finance

Wylie

Monitoring

Providing for an exemption from the real estate excise tax for transfers of property to qualifying low-income first-time homebuyers.

HB 2071

Residential housing

H Housing

Duerr

Monitoring

Concerning residential housing regulations.

HB 2074

Landowner's lessee/penalties

H Ag&Nr

Dye

Monitoring

Limiting the application of certain civil penalties to protect landowners from incurring penalties based on the actions of the landowner's lessee.

HB 2081 (SB 5968)

Home equity sharing

H ConsPro&Bus

Hackney

Monitoring

Regulating home equity sharing agreements under the consumer loan act.

HB 2113

GMA housing element

H Housing

Bateman

Monitoring

Concerning compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act.

HB 2114 (SB 5961)

Residential tenants

H Housing

Alvarado

Monitoring

Improving housing stability for tenants subject to the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act by limiting rent and fee increases, requiring notice of rent and fee increases, limiting fees and deposits, establishing a landlord resource center and associated services, authorizing tenant lease termination, creating parity between lease types, and providing for attorney general enforcement.

HB 2140

Adverse possession

H Civil R & Judi

Griffey

Monitoring

Modifying laws related to adverse possession to protect legal owners of property.

HB 2141

Housing in unincorp. areas

H Housing

Donaghy

Monitoring

Promoting affordable housing in unincorporated areas within urban growth areas of large counties.

HB 2158

Urban growth area boundaries

H Housing

Connors

Monitoring

Expanding urban growth area boundaries for residential development.

HB 2160 (SB 6024)

Housing development

H Housing

Reed

Monitoring

Promoting community and transit-oriented housing development. 

HB 2219

Affordable housing/tax ex.

H Finance

Hackney

Monitoring

Providing tax relief for nonprofit development of affordable housing.

HB 2228

Middle housing density

H Housing

Christian

Monitoring

Decreasing the minimum density requirements for middle housing.

HB 2270

Department of housing

H Housing

Morgan

Monitoring

Creating a Washington state department of housing.

HB 2276 (SB 6191)

Housing/taxes

H Finance

Berg

Monitoring

Increasing the supply of affordable and workforce housing.

HB 2296 (SB 6150)

Comprehensive plan revisions

H Local Govt

Griffey

Monitoring

Extending the comprehensive plan revision schedule for select local governments.

HB 2308 (SB 6175)

Existing structures/housing

H Housing

Walen

Monitoring

Concerning housing affordability tax incentives for existing structures.

HB 2321

Middle housing requirements

H Housing

Bateman

Monitoring

Modifying middle housing requirements and the definitions of transit stop.

HB 2323 (SB 6212)

Rent payments/credit reports

H Housing

Peterson

Monitoring

Requiring landlords to report on-time rent payments to consumer reporting agencies.

HB 2329

Insurance market/housing

H ConsPro&Bus

Macri

Monitoring

Conducting a study of the insurance market for housing providers receiving housing trust fund resources.

HB 2345

Landlord-tenant task force

H Housing

Barkis

Monitoring

Preparing for revisions to the residential landlord-tenant act.

HB 2353

Residential targeted areas

H Housing

Nance

Monitoring

Promoting affordable housing in unincorporated areas within urban growth areas of counties.

SB 5118

Multifamily property tax ex.

S Housing

Kuderer

Monitoring

Concerning modifying the multifamily property tax exemption to promote development of long-term affordable housing.

SSB 5235 (HB 1276)

Accessory dwelling units

S Rules X

Shewmake

Medium

Support

Concerning accessory dwelling units.

ESSB 5466(HB 1517)

Transit-oriented development

S Rules X

Liias

High

Promoting transit-oriented development.

Requires the Department of Transportation to establish a competitive grant program to help finance qualifying housing projects within rapid transit corridors, and to provide technical assistance for implementing, and compliance review of, transit-oriented development regulations. • Establishes that cities planning under the Growth Management Act (GMA) may not enact or enforce any new development regulation within a transit station area that prohibits the siting of multifamily residential housing on parcels where any other residential use is permissible. • Establishes that cities planning under the GMA may not enact any new development regulation within a transit station area or hub that imposes a maximum floor area ratio of less than the applicable transit-oriented density for any use otherwise permitted, or imposes a maximum residential density, measured in residential units per acre or other metric of land area. • Prohibits counties and cities planning under the GMA from requiring off-street parking as a condition of permitting development within a transit station area, with exceptions. • Expands the categorical exemption for infill development to facilitate the timely and certain deployment of sustainable transit-oriented development.

SSB 5657

Kit home permitting

S Rules 2

Wilson

Monitoring

Concerning city and town permitting of kit homes.

SB 5792

Multiunit res./definition

S Law & Justice

Padden

Monitoring

Concerning the definition of multiunit residential buildings.

SB 5807 (HB 1890)

Housing authorities

S Housing

Frame

Monitoring

Concerning housing authorities.

SB 5834

Urban growth areas

S Loc Gov, Land U

Short

Monitoring

Concerning urban growth areas.

SB 5961 (HB 2114)

Residential tenants

S Housing

Trudeau

Monitoring

Improving housing stability for tenants subject to the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act by limiting rent and fee increases, requiring notice of rent and fee increases, limiting fees and deposits, establishing a landlord resource center and associated services, authorizing tenant lease termination, creating parity between lease types, and providing for attorney general enforcement.

SB 5968 (HB 2081)

Home equity sharing

S Business, Fin S

Stanford

Monitoring

Regulating home equity sharing agreements under the consumer loan act.

SB 5975

Social housing

S Housing

Hasegawa

Monitoring

Authorizing use of the housing trust fund and other legislative appropriations to finance social housing.

SB 6029

Detached ADUs

S Loc Gov, Land U

Braun

Monitoring

Establishing limitations on detached accessory dwelling units outside urban growth areas.

SB 6030

ADU tax exemptions

S Housing

Braun

Monitoring

Amending the county population threshold for counties that may exempt from taxation the value of accessory dwelling units to incentivize rental to low-income households.

SB 6061

Housing development/SEPA

S Loc Gov, Land U

Lovelett

Monitoring

Concerning exemptions for housing development under the state environmental policy act.

SB 6065

Housing/property tax ex.

S Housing

Saldana

Monitoring

Concerning the property tax exemption for cities or counties providing affordable housing to qualifying households.

SB 6136

Rental property B&O tax

S Housing

Kuderer

Monitoring

Oppose

Reestablishing a business and occupation tax on the privilege of providing property for rent and supporting access to affordable rental property by exempting from tax landlords participating in a rent stabilization program.

SB 6150 (HB 2296)

Comprehensive plan revisions

S Loc Gov, Land U

Cleveland

Monitoring

Extending the comprehensive plan revision schedule for select local governments.

SB 6152

Housing needs gap

S Loc Gov, Land

Cleveland

Monitoring

Requiring certain counties to measure the gap between estimated existing housing units and existing housing needs.

SB 6175 (HB 2308)

Existing structures/housing

S Housing

Trudeau

Monitoring

Concerning housing affordability tax incentives for existing structures.

SB 6191 (HB 2276)

Housing/taxes

S Ways & Means

Frame

Monitoring

Increasing the supply of affordable and workforce housing.

SB 6199

Housing authority notices

S Housing

Dozier

Monitoring

Requiring housing authorities to use notification methods designed to provide evidence of delivery.

SB 6211

Mobile home rent increases

S Housing

McCune

Monitoring

Creating clarity and consistency in rental agreements under the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act.

SB 6212 (HB 2323)

Rent payments/credit reports

S Housing

Shewmake

Monitoring

Requiring landlords to report on-time rent payments to consumer reporting agencies.

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

2SHB 1746 (SB 5718)

State broadband map

H Rules X

Ryu

Medium

Concerning a state broadband map.

Requires the Statewide Broadband Office (Office) to develop and maintain a state broadband map. • Requires "covered entities" to submit data concerning broadband infrastructure deployment to the Office to assist in developing and maintaining the state broadband map. • Requires broadband service providers to have provided broadband mapping data to the Office in order to object to a proposed Public Works Board (PWB) broadband project. • Allows the PWB to prioritize applications from broadband service providers who have submitted broadband mapping data to the Office within the previous year.

HB 1882 (SSB 5723)

Even-numbered year elections

H State Govt & T

Farivar

Monitoring

Giving cities and towns the freedom to switch their general elections to even-numbered years.

HB 2137 (SB 6202)

Tourism promotion exemptions

H Local Govt

Berg

Monitoring

Concerning technical changes to allowable exemptions for tourism promotion area assessments.

HB 2306

Main street tax credits

H Finance

Steele

Monitoring

Allowing main street programs to use remaining main street tax credits after a certain date.

SSB 5723 (HB 1882)

Even-numbered year elections

S Rules 2

Valdez

Monitoring

Giving cities and towns the freedom to switch their general elections to even-numbered years.

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

2SHB 1025

Police/private actions

H Civil R & Judi

Thai

Monitoring

Creating a private right of action for harm from violations of the state Constitution or state law by peace officers.

SHB 1363(ESB 5352)

Vehicular pursuits

H Rules X

Rule

High

Support

Concerning vehicular pursuits.

Lowers the evidentiary threshold required for engaging in a vehicular pursuit by allowing an officer to conduct the vehicular pursuit if the officer has reasonable suspicion that a person in the vehicle has committed or is committing any criminal offense. • Eliminates the provisions limiting a vehicular pursuit to situations where the vehicular pursuit is necessary for the purpose of identifying or apprehending a person, the person poses an imminent threat to the safety of others, and the officer receives authorization from a supervisor and there is supervisory control. • Modifies certain vehicular pursuit requirements related to supervisory oversight and establishes new requirements related to direct communication with specified entities, development of a plan to end the vehicular pursuit, and the pursuing officer's training and certifications.

ESHB 1387

Law enf. applicant pool

H Community Safet

Ramos

Monitoring

Requiring the criminal justice training commission to establish a program to recruit and train a pool of applicants who may be employed by certain law enforcement agencies in the state.

2SHB 1492

State v. Blake relief

H Rules X

Simmons

High

Concerns

Providing relief for persons affected by State v. Blake.

Establishes procedures and requirements for vacating convictions, resentencing, and refunding legal financial obligations (LFOs) and other costs pursuant to the decision in State v. Blake. • Requires the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) to develop lists for each court of all qualifying convictions subject to vacation and qualifying nonconvictions eligible for a refund of LFOs and other costs. • Requires prosecutors to review the lists and take certain actions, including filing ex parte motions to vacate qualifying convictions and to refund LFOs and other costs for qualifying convictions and qualifying nonconvictions. • Sets forth required contents and effect of a vacation order. • Defines LFOs and other costs entitled to reimbursement, creates rules for determining refund amounts, and requires the AOC to establish a refund bureau to provide direct refunds to persons entitled to refunds. • Allows persons to challenge the amount of any refund, or to bring their own motion to vacate a qualifying conviction or seek a refund of LFOs and other costs for a qualifying nonconviction.

2SHB 1579

Independent prosecutions

H Approps

Stonier

Monitoring

Establishing a mechanism for independent prosecutions within the office of the attorney general of criminal conduct arising from police use of force.

2SHB 1586

Vehicular pursuits work grp.

H Rules X

Goodman

High

Support

Requiring the criminal justice training commission to establish a work group and grant program related to vehicular pursuits.

Requires the Criminal Justice Training Commission (CJTC) to convene a work group by June 30, 2023, to develop legislative policy recommendations related to vehicular pursuits by law enforcement. • Requires the CJTC to develop and implement a vehicular pursuit technology grant program by October 31, 2023, for the purpose of providing modern vehicular pursuit management technology to local law enforcement agencies.

HB 2211 (SB 6076)

Criminal justice local tax

H Local Govt

Stearns

Monitoring

Granting local taxing authority to fund criminal justice.

HB 2231

Law enforcement funding

H Local Govt

Walen

Monitoring

Incentivizing cities and counties to attract and retain commissioned law enforcement officers.

SB 5160

Organized retail theft

S Rules 2

Torres

High

Support

Concerning organized retail theft.

Adds an additional way to commit organized retail theft in the 2nd degree.

SSB 5588

Mental health sentencing alt

S Rules 2

Nobles

Monitoring

Concerning the mental health sentencing alternative.

SB 6054

Definition of theft

S Law & Justice

Torres

Monitoring

Support

Concerning the definition of theft.

SB 6076 (HB 2211)

Criminal justice local tax

S Ways & Means

Keiser

Monitoring

Granting local taxing authority to fund criminal justice.

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

HB 1871

Ferry empl./COVID-19 vaccine

H Transportation

Walsh

Monitoring

Concerning the Washington state ferries' treatment of employees and applicants without consideration of COVID-19 vaccines.

HB 1904

Hybrid electric ferries

H Approps

Walsh

Monitoring

Using climate commitment act revenues to pay for hybrid electric ferries.

HB 2134 (SB 5947)

Transportation budget, supp.

H Transportation

Fey

Monitoring

Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium.

SSB 5162(EHB 1125)

Transportation budget

S Rules X

Liias

High

Concerns

Making transportation appropriations for the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium.

SB 5292 (HB 1334)

PTBA aquatic lands access

S Rules X

Randall

Monitoring

Addressing the access of certain aquatic lands by a public transportation benefit area.

SSB 5743

Transportation resources

S Rules X

Liias

Monitoring

Making certain nonsubstantive, corrective changes resulting from enactment of chapter 182, Laws of 2022 (transportation resources).

SB 5763

Connecting WA bonds

S Transportation

Liias

High

Neutral

Increasing existing bond authority for 2015 connecting Washington projects and improvements.

SB 5947 (HB 2134)

Transportation budget, supp.

S Transportation

Liias

Monitoring

Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium.

Bill Details

Status

Sponsor

Priority

Position

HB 1872

Homeless housing grants

H Approps

Graham

Monitoring

Establishing accountability requirements for homeless housing grant programs.

HB 1896 (SB 6080)

Tourism marketing funding

H Approps

Ryu

Monitoring

Simplifying the funding provisions of the statewide tourism marketing account.

HB 1932

Even-numbered year elections

H Exec Action

Gregerson

Monitoring

Shifting general elections for local governments to even-numbered years to increase voter participation.

HB 2012

Rental housing/nonprofits

H Finance

Street

Monitoring

Concerning eligibility for a property tax exemption for nonprofits providing affordable rental housing built with city and county funds.