SSCCLC LEGISLATIVE REPORT – February 4, 2024 Upcoming Events Report
Upcoming Events
Ways & Means (Senate) - SHR 4 and Virtual JACB - 2/2 @ 1:30pm
• SB 6069 - Exec Session - Improving retirement security for Washingtonians by establishing Washington saves, an automatic enrollment individual retirement savings account program, and updating the Washington retirement marketplace statute. (High)
• SSB 5809 - Public Hearing - Concerning enrichment funding for charter public schools. (Remote Testimony Available). (Support/Medium)
Appropriations (House) - HHR A and Virtual JLOB - 2/3 @ 9:00am
• HB 1905 - Exec Session - Including protected classes in the Washington equal pay and opportunities act. (Concerns/Medium)
• HB 2071 - Exec Session - Concerning residential housing regulations. (Monitoring)
• HB 2113 - Exec Session - Concerning compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act. (Monitoring)
• HB 2214 - Exec Session - Permitting beneficiaries of public assistance programs to automatically qualify as income-eligible for the purpose of receiving the Washington college grant. (Support/Medium)
• SHB 1929 - Exec Session - Supporting young adults following inpatient behavioral health treatment. (Support/Medium)
• SHB 2236 - Exec Session - Expanding and strengthening career and technical education core plus programs. (Neutral/Medium)
• HB 2441 - Public Hearing - Establishing a pilot program eliminating college in the high school fees for private not-for-profit four-year institutions. (Remote Testimony Available). (Support/Medium)
• HB 2114 - Exec Session - 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. (Oppose/High)
• SHB 1934 - Public Hearing - Establishing an artificial intelligence task force. (Remote Testimony Available). (High)
• SHB 2270 - Public Hearing - Creating a Washington state department of housing. (Remote Testimony Available). (Monitoring)
• 3SHB 1239 - Public Hearing - 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. (Remote Testimony Available). (Low)
• 3SHB 1479 - Public Hearing - Concerning restraint or isolation of students in public schools and educational programs. (Remote Testimony Available). (Medium)
• SHB 2329 - Public Hearing - Conducting a study of the insurance market for housing providers receiving housing trust fund resources. (Remote Testimony Available). (Monitoring)
• SHB 2390 - Public Hearing - Concerning penalties related to eluding police vehicles and resisting arrest. (Remote Testimony Available). (Monitoring)
Ways & Means (Senate) - SHR 4 and Virtual JACB - 2/3 @ 9:00am
• SSB 6220 - Public Hearing - Concerning high THC cannabis products. (Remote Testimony Available). (Monitoring)
• SSB 5955 - Public Hearing - Mitigating harm and improving equity in large port districts. (Remote Testimony Available). (Monitoring)
• SSB 6254 - Public Hearing - Providing student navigational supports to increase postsecondary enrollment. (Remote Testimony Available). (Monitoring)
• SSB 6300 - Public Hearing - Permitting beneficiaries of public assistance programs to automatically qualify as income-eligible for the purpose of receiving the Washington college grant. (Remote Testimony Available). (Support/Medium)
Finance (House) - HHR A and Virtual JLOB - 2/5 @ 8:00am
• HB 2322 - Exec Session - Creating a tax preference child care requirement. (Oppose/High)
• HB 1987 - Exec Session - Concerning the use of moneys from the rural public facilities sales and use tax for affordable workforce housing infrastructure and facilities. (Monitoring)
• HB 2306 - Exec Session - Allowing main street programs to use remaining main street tax credits after a certain date. (Monitoring)
• SHB 2308 - Exec Session - Concerning housing affordability tax incentives for existing structures. (Monitoring)
• SHB 2354 - Exec Session - 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 and clarifying that a tax increment area must be dissolved when all bond obligations are paid. (Monitoring)
• HB 2482 - Exec Session - Reinstating semiconductor tax incentives. (Support/High)
Appropriations (House) - HHR A and Virtual JLOB - 2/5 @ 10:30am
• SHB 2109 - Exec Session - Regulating permanent cosmetics. (High)
• HB 2441 - Exec Session - Establishing a pilot program eliminating college in the high school fees for private not-for-profit four-year institutions. (Support/Medium)
• HB 1893 - Exec Session - Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for striking or lockout workers. (Oppose/High)
• HB 2124 - Exec Session - Supporting and expanding access to child care and early learning programs. (Monitoring)
• HB 1239 - Exec Session - 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. (Low)
• HB 1479 - Exec Session - Concerning restraint or isolation of students in public schools and educational programs. (If measure is referred to committee.) (Medium)
• HB 1934 - Exec Session - Establishing an artificial intelligence task force. (High)
• HB 2270 - Exec Session - Creating a Washington state department of housing. (Monitoring)
• HB 2329 - Exec Session - Conducting a study of the insurance market for housing providers receiving housing trust fund resources. (Monitoring)
• HB 2390 - Exec Session - Concerning penalties related to eluding police vehicles and resisting arrest. (Monitoring)
Transportation (Senate) - SHR 1 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg - 2/5 @ 1:30pm
• SB 6304 - Exec Session - Implementing certain recommendations of the transportation electrification strategy. (Medium)
• SB 6277 - Exec Session - Creating a new statutory framework for the use of public-private partnerships for transportation projects. (High)
• SB 6302 - Exec Session - Creating a Washington state supply chain competitiveness infrastructure program. (Medium)
BUDGET & TAXES
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
HB 1895 (SB 5839) |
Working families' tax credit |
Modifying the working families' tax credit by clarifying the refundable nature of the credit, the application requirements, and the eligibility verification process. |
S WMDP |
Thai |
|
Monitoring |
|
Manufacturing machinery/REET |
Exempting manufacturing machinery and equipment from real estate excise tax. |
H Finance |
Walen |
Support |
High |
|
|
SI 2109 (HI 2109) |
Capital gains tax repeal |
Concerning taxes on long-term capital assets. |
S Ways & Means |
|
|
High |
|
HI 2109 (SI 2109) |
Capital gains tax repeal |
Concerning taxes on long-term capital assets. |
H Finance |
|
|
High |
|
HB 2278 (SB 6248) |
Capital gains tax |
Modifying the capital gains tax under chapter 82.87 RCW and related statutes by closing loopholes, repealing and replacing the business and occupation tax credit with a capital gains tax credit, clarifying ambiguities and making technical corrections in a manner that is not estimated to affect state or local tax collections, treating spouses and domestic partners more consistently, modifying and adding definitions, creating a good faith penalty waiver, and modifying the publication schedule for inflation adjustments. |
H Finance |
Thai |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 2354 (SB 6230) |
Tax increment areas |
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. |
H Finance |
Street |
|
Monitoring |
|
HB 2418 (SB 6250) |
Working families/prop. tax |
Increasing the working families' tax credit to reflect the economic burden of property taxes incorporated into rental amounts charged to residential tenants. |
H Finance |
Berg |
|
High |
|
Homeowner property tax ex. |
Providing housing safety, security, and protection by creating the homeowner relief property tax exemption. |
H Finance |
Berg |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Sales and use tax sharing |
Allowing cities to voluntarily share certain sales and use tax revenue. |
H Rules R |
Klicker |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Personal income taxes |
Concerning personal income. |
H Finance |
Volz |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
HB 2482 (SB 6137) |
Semiconductor tax incentives |
Reinstating semiconductor tax incentives. |
H Finance |
Harris |
Support |
High |
|
HJR 4209 (SJR 8209) |
Residential ex./property tax |
Concerning a constitutional amendment providing for a residential real property exemption from property taxes levied for state purposes. |
H Finance |
Berg |
Oppose |
High |
|
Property tax |
Providing state and local property tax reform. |
S Ways & Means |
Pedersen |
Oppose |
High |
|
|
SB 5839 (HB 1895) |
Working families' tax credit |
Modifying the working families' tax credit by clarifying the refundable nature of the credit, the application requirements, and the eligibility verification process. |
S Ways & Means |
Nguyen |
|
Medium |
|
SB 6080 (HB 1896) |
Tourism marketing funding |
Simplifying the funding provisions of the statewide tourism marketing account. |
S Ways & Means |
Boehnke |
Support |
High |
|
SB 6137 (HB 2482) |
Semiconductor tax incentives |
Reinstating semiconductor tax incentives. |
S Ways & Means |
Cleveland |
Support |
High |
|
SB 6248 (HB 2278) |
Capital gains tax |
Modifying the capital gains tax under chapter 82.87 RCW and related statutes by closing loopholes, repealing and replacing the business and occupation tax credit with a capital gains tax credit, clarifying ambiguities and making technical corrections in a manner that is not estimated to affect state or local tax collections, treating spouses and domestic partners more consistently, modifying and adding definitions, creating a good faith penalty waiver, and modifying the publication schedule for inflation adjustments. |
S Ways & Means |
Robinson |
|
Monitoring |
|
Homeowner property tax ex. |
Providing housing safety, security, and protection by creating the homeowner relief property tax exemption. |
S Ways & Means |
Robinson |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
|
SB 6250 (HB 2418) |
Working families/prop. tax |
Increasing the working families' tax credit to reflect the economic burden of property taxes incorporated into rental amounts charged to residential tenants. |
S Ways & Means |
Robinson |
|
Monitoring |
|
SJR 8209 (HJR 4209) |
Residential ex./property tax |
Concerning a constitutional amendment providing for a residential real property exemption from property taxes levied for state purposes. |
S Ways & Means |
Robinson |
|
Monitoring |
BUSINESS
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
Child care B&O credit |
Supporting employers providing child care assistance to employees by establishing a business and occupation tax credit for businesses and requiring the department of revenue to provide a report to the legislature. |
H Finance |
Rule |
Support |
High |
|
|
Local comm. federal funding |
Promoting economic development by increasing opportunities for local communities to secure federal funding. |
H Approps |
Barnard |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
HB 1894 (SB 5897) |
Business licensing service |
Modifying provisions of the business licensing service program. |
H Rules R |
Walen |
Support |
Medium |
|
SHB 1934(SSB 5838) |
AI task force |
Establishing an artificial intelligence task force. |
H Approps |
Couture |
|
High |
|
SHB 2320(SSB 6220) |
High THC cannabis products |
Concerning high THC cannabis products. |
H Approps |
Davis |
|
Monitoring |
|
Business licensing fees |
Waiving business licensing handling and delinquency fees for eligible businesses. |
H Rules R |
Springer |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Retirement savings |
Incentivizing retirement savings options for Washington businesses and their employees. |
H Approps |
Santos |
|
Medium |
|
|
Stay-at-work program |
Expanding access to the workers' compensation stay-at-work program through off-site light duty return to work opportunities. |
S Passed 3rd |
Keiser |
Support |
High |
|
|
Rule making websites |
Concerning transparency in rule making. |
S Passed 3rd |
Wilson |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
SSB 5838(SHB 1934) |
AI task force |
Establishing an artificial intelligence task force. |
S Ways & Means |
Nguyen |
|
High |
|
SB 5897 (HB 1894) |
Business licensing service |
Modifying provisions of the business licensing service program. |
S WMDP |
Mullet |
Support |
Medium |
|
SSB 5955 (HB 2103) |
Large port districts |
Mitigating harm and improving equity in large port districts. |
S Ways & Means |
Keiser |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 6069 (HB 2244) |
Retirement savings |
Improving retirement security for Washingtonians by establishing Washington saves, an automatic enrollment individual retirement savings account program, and updating the Washington retirement marketplace statute. |
S Ways & Means |
Mullet |
|
High |
|
SSB 6220(SHB 2320) |
High THC cannabis products |
Concerning high THC cannabis products. |
S Ways & Means |
Salomon |
|
Monitoring |
|
Employees/digital technology |
Protecting employee rights in the workplace with regards to the use of digital technology. |
S Rules 2 |
Stanford |
|
Medium |
|
|
Supply chain competitiveness |
Creating a Washington state supply chain competitiveness infrastructure program. |
S Transportation |
Liias |
|
Medium |
CHILD CARE
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
Child care licensing fees |
Eliminating child care licensing fees. |
H Approps |
Rule |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
HB 2111 (SB 5941) |
Subsidized child care |
Clarifying requirements for subsidized child care. |
S EL/K-12 |
Nance |
|
Monitoring |
|
Child care prg. eligibility |
Supporting and expanding access to child care and early learning programs. |
H Approps |
Eslick |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Child care/tax preferences |
Creating a tax preference child care requirement. |
H Finance |
Senn |
Oppose |
High |
|
|
SB 5941 (HB 2111) |
Subsidized child care |
Clarifying requirements for subsidized child care. |
S Rules 2 |
Wilson |
|
Monitoring |
EDUCATION/WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
Dual credit program notice |
Notifying high school students and their families about available dual credit programs and any available financial assistance. |
S EL/K-12 |
Paul |
|
Low |
|
|
Educator ethics & complaints |
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. |
H Approps |
Santos |
|
Low |
|
|
Paraeducator course of study |
Establishing rules to improve the consistency and quality of the implementation of the fundamental courses of study for paraeducators. |
S EL/K-12 |
Donaghy |
|
Low |
|
|
DOC ed. and vocational prgs. |
Concerning education and vocational programs in state correctional institutions. |
H Rules R |
Reeves |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
3SHB 1479(SB 5559) |
Student restraint, isolation |
Concerning restraint or isolation of students in public schools and educational programs. |
H Approps |
Callan |
|
Medium |
|
Prof. education workforce |
Supporting and strengthening the professional education workforce. |
H Rules R |
Ortiz-Self |
|
Low |
|
|
HB 1897 (SSB 5809) |
Charter schools/enrichment |
Concerning enrichment funding for charter public schools. |
H Approps |
Springer |
Support |
Medium |
|
Special education services |
Improving the education of students with varying abilities by enhancing special education services. |
H Approps |
Couture |
|
Medium |
|
|
SHB 1915 (SB 5819) |
Financial education |
Making financial education instruction a graduation prerequisite and a required component of public education. |
H Rules R |
Rude |
Support |
Medium |
|
Special education services |
Extending special education services. |
H Approps |
Pollet |
|
Medium |
|
|
Special education limits |
Removing the enrollment limit for special education funding. |
H Approps |
Caldier |
|
Medium |
|
|
SHB 2180 (SB 6014) |
Special education cap |
Increasing the special education enrollment funding cap. |
H Rules R |
Callan |
|
Medium |
|
SHB 2214(SSB 6300) |
College grant/public assist. |
Permitting beneficiaries of public assistance programs to automatically qualify as income-eligible for the purpose of receiving the Washington college grant. |
H Approps |
Slatter |
Support |
Medium |
|
Tech. ed. core plus programs |
Expanding and strengthening career and technical education core plus programs. |
H Approps |
Shavers |
Neutral |
Medium |
|
|
Digital workforce |
Creating the Washington digital empowerment and workforce inclusion act. |
H Approps |
Slatter |
Support |
High |
|
|
HB 2380 (SB 6082) |
Paraeducator compensation |
Increasing compensation for Washington paraeducators. |
H Approps |
Shavers |
|
Monitoring |
|
College in the HS fees |
Establishing a pilot program eliminating college in the high school fees for private not-for-profit four-year institutions. |
H Approps |
Corry |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
Public school grant assist. |
Expanding grant access opportunities for public schools. |
H Approps |
Mosbrucker |
|
Medium |
|
|
K-12 experience factors |
Making experience factor adjustments for certificated instructional staff. |
H Approps |
Rule |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Teacher mobility compact |
Adopting the interstate teacher mobility compact. |
S Passed 3rd |
Hunt |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
Public school revolving fund |
Establishing a public school revolving fund. |
S 2nd Reading |
Schoesler |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Running start/10th grade |
Permitting 10th grade students to participate in running start in online settings. |
S Passed 3rd |
Hawkins |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Workforce shortages |
Addressing high demand workforce shortages. |
S Rules 2 |
Nobles |
|
High |
|
|
SSB 5809 (HB 1897) |
Charter schools/enrichment |
Concerning enrichment funding for charter public schools. |
S Ways & Means |
Mullet |
Support |
Medium |
|
SB 6014 (SHB 2180) |
Special education cap |
Increasing the special education enrollment funding cap. |
S Ways & Means |
Wellman |
|
Medium |
|
SSB 6053 (HB 2443) |
Education data sharing |
Improving equitable access to postsecondary education. |
S Passed 3rd |
Holy |
|
Medium |
|
Student navigational support |
Providing student navigational supports to increase postsecondary enrollment. |
S Ways & Means |
Nobles |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
SSB 6300(SHB 2214) |
College grant/public assist. |
Permitting beneficiaries of public assistance programs to automatically qualify as income-eligible for the purpose of receiving the Washington college grant. |
S Ways & Means |
Randall |
Support |
Medium |
ENERGY/CLIMATE CHANGE
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
Energy labeling/residential |
Concerning energy labeling of residential buildings. |
H Rules R |
Duerr |
Oppose |
Low |
|
|
Methane/agriculture |
Supporting Washington agriculture by capturing methane and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. |
H Approps |
Rule |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
ESHB 1589(SSB 5562) |
Clean energy |
Supporting Washington's clean energy economy and transitioning to a clean, affordable, and reliable energy future. |
S Environment, En |
Doglio |
|
High |
|
SHB 2070 (SB 5990) |
Env. justice/SEPA projects |
Integrating environmental justice considerations into certain project decisions. |
H Approps |
Mena |
|
Monitoring |
|
CCA tax exemptions |
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. |
H Rules R |
Orcutt |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
SHB 2465(SSB 6291) |
State building code council |
Streamlining the state building code council operating procedures by establishing criteria for statewide amendments to the state building code. |
H Rules R |
Ramel |
|
Medium |
|
Energy efficiency loans |
Authorizing electric utilities to establish energy efficiency revolving loan programs. |
S Ways & Means |
Lovelett |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
SSB 6291(SHB 2465) |
State building code council |
Streamlining the state building code council operating procedures by establishing criteria for statewide amendments to the state building code. |
S Rules 2 |
Wilson |
Support |
Medium |
HEALTH CARE
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
ESHB 1508(SB 5519) |
Health care cost board |
Improving consumer affordability through the health care cost transparency board. |
H 3rd Reading |
Macri |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
Physician assistant compact |
Adopting the physician assistant compact. |
S Health & Long T |
Leavitt |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
Social work compact |
Adopting the social work licensure compact. |
S Health & Long T |
Orwall |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
LTSS program statements |
Promoting access to information regarding the long-term services and supports trust program. |
H Approps |
Chambers |
Neutral |
Medium |
|
|
SHB 2361 (SB 6258) |
Standardized health plans |
Phasing in the requirement that only standardized health plans may be offered on the health benefit exchange. |
H Rules R |
Riccelli |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
LTSS trust access |
Increasing access to the long-term services and supports trust. |
H Rules R |
Macri |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
SB 5241 (HB 1263) |
Health care marketplace |
Concerning material changes to the operations and governance structure of participants in the health care marketplace. |
S 2nd Reading |
Randall |
|
Monitoring |
|
Physician assistant compact |
Adopting the physician assistant compact. |
S Passed 3rd |
Muzzall |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
SB 5986 (HB 2285) |
Out-of-network health costs |
Protecting consumers from out-of-network health care services charges. |
S Ways & Means |
Cleveland |
Support |
Medium |
HOUSING/HOMELESSNESS
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
Occupancy limits |
Addressing the authority of owners' associations in common interest communities to regulate or limit occupancy by unrelated persons. |
S Law & Justice |
Walen |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
ESHB 1245(SSB 5364) |
Lot splitting |
Increasing housing options through lot splitting. |
S Loc Gov, Land U |
Barkis |
Support |
High |
|
Impact fee deferrals |
Concerning impact fee deferrals. |
H 2nd Reading |
Goehner |
Support |
High |
|
|
Community preservation auth. |
Establishing permanent funding for community preservation and development authorities approved through RCW 43.167.060. |
H 2nd Reading |
Santos |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Local infra. project areas |
Addressing local infrastructure project areas. |
H Finance |
Cortes |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Affordable housing incentive |
Providing local governments with options to increase affordable housing in their communities. |
H Finance |
Kloba |
|
High |
|
|
HB 1890 (SB 5807) |
Housing authorities |
Concerning housing authorities. |
H Rules R |
Alvarado |
|
Monitoring |
|
Workforce housing prg. |
Concerning the workforce housing accelerator program. |
H Exec Action |
Leavitt |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
SHB 1929 (SB 6050) |
Postinpatient housing |
Supporting young adults following inpatient behavioral health treatment. |
H Approps |
Cortes |
Support |
Medium |
|
Public facilities tax use |
Concerning the use of moneys from the rural public facilities sales and use tax for affordable workforce housing infrastructure and facilities. |
H Finance |
Low |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Housing cost task force |
Creating a task force on housing cost driver analysis. |
H Approps |
Klicker |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Rental income/property tax |
Concerning rental income received by people eligible for certain property tax exemption programs. |
H Rules R |
Doglio |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Env. & land use appeals |
Modifying the appeals process for environmental and land use matters. |
H Rules R |
Fitzgibbon |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Voter-approved property tax |
Standardizing limitations on voter-approved property tax levies. |
H Rules R |
Duerr |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Homebuyers/REET exemption |
Providing an exemption from the real estate excise tax for transfers of property to qualifying low-income first-time homebuyers. |
H Finance |
Wylie |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Homebuyers/REET exemption |
Providing for an exemption from the real estate excise tax for transfers of property to qualifying low-income first-time homebuyers. |
H Finance |
Wylie |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Residential housing |
Concerning residential housing regulations. |
H Approps |
Duerr |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
HB 2074 (SB 6260) |
Landowner's lessee/penalties |
Limiting the application of certain civil penalties to protect landowners from incurring penalties based on the actions of the landowner's lessee. |
H Rules R |
Dye |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 2081(SSB 5968) |
Home equity sharing |
Regulating home equity sharing agreements under the consumer loan act. |
H Rules R |
Hackney |
|
Monitoring |
|
GMA housing element |
Concerning compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act. |
H Approps |
Bateman |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
HI 2113 (SI 2113) |
Police vehicular pursuits |
Concerning vehicular pursuits by peace officers. |
H Community Safet |
|
|
High |
|
HB 2114 (SB 5961) |
Residential tenants |
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. |
H Approps |
Alvarado |
Oppose |
High |
|
Housing in unincorp. areas |
Promoting affordable housing in unincorporated areas within urban growth areas of large counties. |
H Finance |
Donaghy |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
SHB 2160 (SB 6024) |
Housing development |
Promoting community and transit-oriented housing development. |
H Exec Action |
Reed |
|
Monitoring |
|
Affordable housing/tax ex. |
Providing tax relief for nonprofit development of affordable housing. |
H Finance |
Hackney |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Department of housing |
Creating a Washington state department of housing. |
H Approps |
Morgan |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
HB 2276 (SB 6191) |
Housing/taxes |
Increasing the supply of affordable and workforce housing. |
H Finance |
Berg |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
SHB 2296(SSB 6150) |
Comprehensive plan revisions |
Extending the comprehensive plan revision schedule for select local governments. |
H Rules R |
Griffey |
|
Monitoring |
|
SHB 2308(SSB 6175) |
Existing structures/housing |
Concerning housing affordability tax incentives for existing structures. |
H Finance |
Walen |
|
Monitoring |
|
Middle housing requirements |
Modifying middle housing requirements and the definitions of transit stop. |
H Rules R |
Bateman |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
HB 2323 (SB 6212) |
Rent payments/credit reports |
Requiring landlords to report on-time rent payments to consumer reporting agencies. |
H Rules R |
Peterson |
|
Monitoring |
|
Insurance market/housing |
Conducting a study of the insurance market for housing providers receiving housing trust fund resources. |
H Approps |
Macri |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Senior property tax ex./ADUs |
Including an accessory dwelling unit under property that qualifies for the senior citizens property tax exemption. |
H Rules R |
Goehner |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
HB 2418 (SB 6250) |
Working families/prop. tax |
Increasing the working families' tax credit to reflect the economic burden of property taxes incorporated into rental amounts charged to residential tenants. |
H Finance |
Berg |
|
High |
|
Homeowner property tax ex. |
Providing housing safety, security, and protection by creating the homeowner relief property tax exemption. |
H Finance |
Berg |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Manuf housing/building codes |
Addressing the impacts of certain codes on manufactured housing inventory. |
H Rules R |
Barkis |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Multifamily property tax ex. |
Concerning modifying the multifamily property tax exemption to promote development of long-term affordable housing. |
S Ways & Means |
Kuderer |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Affordable housing funding |
Providing a local government option for the funding of essential affordable housing programs. |
S Passed 3rd |
Lovelett |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Kit home permitting |
Concerning city and town permitting of kit homes. |
S 2nd Reading |
Wilson |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Multiunit res./definition |
Concerning the definition of multiunit residential buildings. |
S Rules 2 |
Padden |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
SB 5807 (HB 1890) |
Housing authorities |
Concerning housing authorities. |
S Rules 2 |
Frame |
|
Monitoring |
|
Urban growth areas |
Concerning urban growth areas. |
S 2nd Reading |
Short |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
SSB 5968(SHB 2081) |
Home equity sharing |
Regulating home equity sharing agreements under the consumer loan act. |
S Rules 2 |
Stanford |
|
Monitoring |
|
Residential parking |
Concerning residential parking configurations. |
S Rules 2 |
Shewmake |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
Detached ADUs |
Establishing limitations on detached accessory dwelling units outside urban growth areas. |
S Rules 2 |
Braun |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
ADU tax exemptions |
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. |
S Ways & Means |
Braun |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Housing development/SEPA |
Concerning exemptions for housing development under the state environmental policy act. |
S Rules 2 |
Lovelett |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Rental property B&O tax |
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. |
S Ways & Means |
Kuderer |
Oppose |
High |
|
|
SSB 6150(SHB 2296) |
Comprehensive plan revisions |
Extending the comprehensive plan revision schedule for select local governments. |
S Rules 2 |
Cleveland |
|
Monitoring |
|
Housing needs gap |
Requiring certain counties to measure the gap between estimated existing housing units and existing housing needs. |
S Ways & Means |
Cleveland |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
SSB 6175(SHB 2308) |
Existing structures/housing |
Concerning housing affordability tax incentives for existing structures. |
S Ways & Means |
Trudeau |
|
Monitoring |
|
SB 6191 (HB 2276) |
Housing/taxes |
Increasing the supply of affordable and workforce housing. |
S Ways & Means |
Frame |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
Mobile home rent increases |
Creating clarity and consistency in rental agreements under the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act. |
S Rules 2 |
McCune |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
SB 6212 (HB 2323) |
Rent payments/credit reports |
Requiring landlords to report on-time rent payments to consumer reporting agencies. |
S Rules 2 |
Shewmake |
|
Monitoring |
|
Homeowner property tax ex. |
Providing housing safety, security, and protection by creating the homeowner relief property tax exemption. |
S Ways & Means |
Robinson |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
|
SB 6250 (HB 2418) |
Working families/prop. tax |
Increasing the working families' tax credit to reflect the economic burden of property taxes incorporated into rental amounts charged to residential tenants. |
S Ways & Means |
Robinson |
|
Monitoring |
|
SJR 8209 (HJR 4209) |
Residential ex./property tax |
Concerning a constitutional amendment providing for a residential real property exemption from property taxes levied for state purposes. |
S Ways & Means |
Robinson |
|
Monitoring |
OTHER CHAMBER BILLS
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
ESHB 1371(SSB 5494) |
Freight railroad infra. |
Providing incentives to improve freight railroad infrastructure. |
H Rules 3C |
Barkis |
|
Medium |
|
HB 2137 (SB 6202) |
Tourism promotion exemptions |
Concerning technical changes to allowable exemptions for tourism promotion area assessments. |
H Rules R |
Berg |
|
Monitoring |
|
Main street tax credits |
Allowing main street programs to use remaining main street tax credits after a certain date. |
H Finance |
Steele |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
SSB 5494(ESHB 1371) |
Freight railroad infra. |
Providing incentives to improve freight railroad infrastructure. |
S Ways & Means |
Wilson |
|
Medium |
|
SSB 5723 (HB 1882) |
Even-numbered year elections |
Giving cities and towns the freedom to switch their general elections to even-numbered years. |
S Rules 2 |
Valdez |
|
Monitoring |
PUBLIC SAFETY
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
Law enf. employ. eligibility |
Expanding eligibility for employment of certain law enforcement and prosecutor office positions. |
S Law & Justice |
Cortes |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
Independent prosecutions |
Establishing a mechanism for independent prosecutions within the office of the attorney general of criminal conduct arising from police use of force. |
H Rules R |
Stonier |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
GMA housing element |
Concerning compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act. |
H Approps |
Bateman |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
HI 2113 (SI 2113) |
Police vehicular pursuits |
Concerning vehicular pursuits by peace officers. |
H Community Safet |
|
|
High |
|
Catalytic converter theft |
Deterring the theft of catalytic converters. |
H Transportation |
Ryu |
|
High |
|
|
SHB 2390 (SB 6200) |
Eluding & resisting arrest |
Concerning penalties related to eluding police vehicles and resisting arrest. |
H Approps |
Shavers |
|
Monitoring |
|
Organized retail theft |
Concerning organized retail theft. |
S 2nd Reading |
Torres |
Support |
High |
|
|
Mental health sentencing alt |
Concerning the mental health sentencing alternative. |
S Passed 3rd |
Nobles |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
SB 6076 (HB 2211) |
Criminal justice local tax |
Granting local taxing authority to fund criminal justice. |
S Ways & Means |
Keiser |
|
Monitoring |
|
Criminal justice assistance |
Concerning the city and county criminal justice assistance accounts. |
S Ways & Means |
Wilson |
Support |
High |
TRANSPORTATION
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
Ferry empl./COVID-19 vaccine |
Concerning the Washington state ferries' treatment of employees and applicants without consideration of COVID-19 vaccines. |
H Transportation |
Walsh |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
Hybrid electric ferries |
Using climate commitment act revenues to pay for hybrid electric ferries. |
H Approps |
Walsh |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
HB 2134 (SB 5947) |
Transportation budget, supp. |
Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium. |
H Transportation |
Fey |
|
Monitoring |
|
Connecting WA bonds |
Increasing existing bond authority for 2015 connecting Washington projects and improvements. |
S Transportation |
Liias |
Neutral |
High |
|
|
SB 5947 (HB 2134) |
Transportation budget, supp. |
Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium. |
S Transportation |
Liias |
|
Monitoring |
|
Transportation partnerships |
Creating a new statutory framework for the use of public-private partnerships for transportation projects. |
S Transportation |
Liias |
|
High |
|
|
Transp. electrification |
Implementing certain recommendations of the transportation electrification strategy. |
S Transportation |
Liias |
|
Medium |
|
|
Pension returns/transp. |
Using savings that are the result of extraordinary investment returns in the stateâs pension systems to fund transportation projects. |
S Ways & Means |
Mullet |
|
Medium |
Uncategorized Bills
|
Bill # |
Abbrev. Title |
Short Description |
Status |
Sponsor |
Position |
Priority |
|
Continuing education/K-12 |
Posting of approved courses and providers of continuing education. |
H 3rd Reading |
Santos |
|
Medium |
|
|
Homeless housing grants |
Establishing accountability requirements for homeless housing grant programs. |
H Approps |
Graham |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
SHB 1893 (SB 5777) |
Unemp ins/strikes & lockouts |
Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for striking or lockout workers. |
H Approps |
Doglio |
Oppose |
High |
|
HB 1896 (SB 6080) |
Tourism marketing funding |
Simplifying the funding provisions of the statewide tourism marketing account. |
H Rules R |
Ryu |
|
Monitoring |
|
Unempl. benefit charging |
Concerning unemployment insurance benefit charging. |
S Labor & Comm |
Schmidt |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
Unempl. voluntary program |
Removing the sunset on changes to the unemployment insurance voluntary contribution program. |
H Rules R |
Springer |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
SHB 1905(SSB 5894) |
Equal pay/protected classes |
Including protected classes in the Washington equal pay and opportunities act. |
H Approps |
Mena |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
HB 1927 (SB 5932) |
Temporary total disability |
Reducing the number of days that a worker's temporary total disability must continue to receive industrial insurance compensation for the day of an injury and the three-day period following the injury. |
H Rules R |
Bronoske |
Oppose |
Monitoring |
|
Even-numbered year elections |
Shifting general elections for local governments to even-numbered years to increase voter participation. |
H 2nd Reading |
Gregerson |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
SHB 1940(SSB 5778) |
Employer political speech |
Protecting the rights of workers to refrain from attending meetings or listening to their employer's speech on political or religious matters. |
H Rules R |
Fosse |
Oppose |
High |
|
PFML/small employers |
Extending parts of the paid family and medical leave program to employers with fewer than 50 employees. |
H Approps |
Walen |
Oppose |
High |
|
|
HB 1975 (SB 6028) |
Unemployment overpayments |
Relieving individuals from paying interest on certain unemployment insurance overpayment assessments. |
H Rules R |
Ortiz-Self |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
SHB 1991(SSB 5793) |
Paid sick leave |
Concerning paid sick leave. |
H Rules R |
Fosse |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
Rental housing/nonprofits |
Concerning eligibility for a property tax exemption for nonprofits providing affordable rental housing built with city and county funds. |
H Rules R |
Street |
|
Monitoring |
|
|
PTSD/coroners & examiners |
Recognizing posttraumatic stress disorder as an occupational disease for county coroners, examiners, and investigative personnel. |
H Rules R |
Abbarno |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
|
SHB 2102 (SB 6177) |
PFML benefits/health info. |
Establishing requirements for the disclosure of health care information for qualifying persons to receive paid family and medical leave benefits. |
H Rules R |
Berry |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
SB 5777 (SHB 1893) |
Unemp ins/strikes & lockouts |
Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for striking or lockout workers. |
S 2nd Reading |
Keiser |
Oppose |
High |
|
SSB 5778(SHB 1940) |
Employer political speech |
Protecting the rights of workers to refrain from attending meetings or listening to their employer's speech on political or religious matters. |
S 2nd Reading |
Keiser |
Oppose |
High |
|
SSB 5793(SHB 1991) |
Paid sick leave |
Concerning paid sick leave. |
S Rules 2 |
Saldana |
Oppose |
Medium |
|
SSB 5894(SHB 1905) |
Equal pay/protected classes |
Including protected classes in the Washington equal pay and opportunities act. |
S Rules 2 |
Nobles |
Concerns |
Medium |
|
WISHA violation timeline |
Concerning the timeline for issuing a citation for a violation of the Washington industrial safety and health act. |
S Rules 2 |
Keiser |
Support |
Medium |
|
|
SB 6028 (HB 1975) |
Unemployment overpayments |
Relieving individuals from paying interest on certain unemployment insurance overpayment assessments. |
S 2nd RdConsCal |
Braun |
Concerns |
Medium |
