Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce

Feb 25, 2020 - Business

MID SESSION UPDATE

The Washington State Legislature passed the halfway mark on February 19 and bills must have passed the “house of origin” in order to continue to be alive for the remainder of the session. Bills that are necessary to implement the budget may also be alive until the budgets are passed.

Here is what is happening with some key Climate Change bills:

HB 2856 - Electrification: This bill would have allowed PUDs the ability to create incentive programs for electrification of homes. The way the bill was drafted, however, led to serious problems with keeping houses using natural gas. In addition, it jeopardized the ability for other utilities to work cooperatively with the PUDS. All utilities, including PUDs were opposing.

SHB 2311 – Greenhouse Gas Emissions: This bill passed out of the House and is moving through the Senate. It sets up a more aggressive timeline for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the state

HB 2892/SB 6628 – Carbon Emissions: In late January, the Washington State Supreme Court effectively overturned the Governor’s Clean Air Rule after a lawsuit was filed by the business community challenging whether the Department of Ecology had the legislative authority to do the rule. Since that was overturned, Rep. Joe Fitzgibbons and Sen. Reuven Carlyle both introduced bills to try and give the Department the authority to do emissions reduction rules. We are not sure what the outcome of these bills will be. Both are technically dead but we understand there are negotiations going on around these so we expect to see at least one of them “come back to life.”

Several labor bills are also still moving. Fortunately, bills to require general contactors to have liability for subcontractor wages (HB 1395) and HB 1965, also known as the “qui tam” bill, that would have allowed anyone to bring a wage or employment complaint against an employer – not just an employee, did make it past the house of origin cut off. Also dying were bills that would have regulated “freelance” employees and independent contractors. SB 5717, the secure scheduling bill that would have set up requirements on how certain employers schedule employees also died this session.

Labor bills that are still moving include:

SHB 2409 – Workers’ compensation penalties: This bill would increase penalties in the workers’ compensation system by almost three fold. Now many of these penalties have not been increased in years but the bill also puts an escalator on the increases thus taking away legislative deliberation when it comes to the penalty amounts. In addition, the bill creates a new “fair conduct standard” for self insured and retrospective rating claims management. Violations of this standard would result in penalties paid to the employee. The bill also undermines the premise of workers’ compensation as a non-litigious means of ensuring injured workers get help.

SSB 6440 – Independent Medical Exams: This bill originally put restrictions and requirements on the use and conduct of independent medical exams, the second opinion exams used in the workers’ compensation system. Many of the changes would have reduced the number of available doctors and created costly delays in the system – all of which would have increased workers’ compensation time loss costs. Much of the bill was amended in the Senate though to create a workgroup to examine issues with IMEs and try to come up with more effective solutions.

SHB 1521 – Accountability and Transparency in Government Contracting: This bill is very concerning to the construction industry because of the restrictions and changes to government contracting. It sets very high limits before governments are required to contract out work to community businesses. The construction industry members continue to try and amend the bill to narrow the scope and ensure community contractors are able to bid on local projects.

In the meantime, on Thursday, February 20, 32 House Democrats sent a letter to Transportation Committee Chairs Senator Steve Hobbs (D-Lake Stevens) and Represenative Jake Fey (D-Tacoma) announcing an ultimatum: a clean fuel standard is a preconditin to the passage of a transportation revenue package in 2021. But, of course, a transportation funding package is more than a year and a major election away and is always bi partisan. If Democrats add a low carbon fuel standard to the mix, they will surely lose the Republic support. The bill, SHB 1110, is waiting for a hearing in the Seate Environment, Energy and Telecommunications Committee. It is actually scheduled for a vote our of committee on Tuesday, February 25th, but a hearing has not been scheduled. If passed, cost estimates believe that a low carbon fuel standard could raise the cost of fuel by over 50 cents per gallow. If the state does not pass this bill, the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency will attempt to pass its own low carbon fuel standard that will affect the four counties it oversees (King, Pierce, Snohomish and Kitsap).

We will see the supplemental transportation budget released on Monday.

Legislative budget writers received good news Wednesday, February 19th as they put finishing touches on the supplemental budget proposals scheduled to be released next week. The February forecast shows state revenues increasing by $606 million more than expected through the middle of the current two-year budget cycle ending mid-2021, with total revenues of approximately $52.3 billion. The projections for the next two-year cycle eding mid-2023 also increased by $536 million, putting estimates for that revenue cycle up to $55.7 billion. House and Senate Democrats plan to release their supplemental operating budgets on Monday, Feburary 24th. Republicans have suggested Democrats use the additional revenue to provide tax cuts -- including a limiting motor vehicle fees to $30 for vehicles weighing 10,000 lbs or less. The Republicans would also divert money from new vehicle sales tax to transportation accounts, including a multi-modal account.

At Boeing's request, the Legislature introduced bills 6690 (Liias, D-Mukilteo) and 2945 (Sullivan, D-Convington) this week to suspend Washington's longstanding 40% B&O tax break for aerospace companies until the United State and the European Union resolve the international trade dispute. The Washington State Legislature granted the tax preference in 2003. Last year, the World Trade Organization ruled that Boeing received $5 billion in U.S. tax subsidies prohibited under international trade rules. In a similar decision, the WTO ruled that the European Union has also not ended prohibited subsidies for Boeing competitor Airbus, which prompted the Trump administration to impose tariffs on nearly $7.5 billion in EU goods. The bills will be fast-tracked in the final weeks of session to avoid retaliatory tariffs impacting not just aerospace, but other Washington exports. Other smaller aerospace companies will be affected by the suspension of the tax preference but are supportive of the bills.

Finally, King County legislators are continuing to see if they can find a way to thwart Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant’s head tax on big business by doing their own at the state level. HB 2948 would set a 0.25% payroll tax on any employees earning more than $150,000 per year. Businesses with less than 50 employees and $3 million in gross receipts would be completely exempt. If your businesses has more than 50 employees and $3 million in gross receipts, then you would deduct from the payroll calculation any wages paid to employees earning less than $150,000 per year.

The best thing about the windfall of money is that it will hopefully shut down all conversations this session about a capital gains tax. Most likely we will see additional spending in the areas of Early Learning and Homelessness/Housing/Behavioral Health.

IMPORTANT DATES
Feb 28 – Opposite House Policy Cutoff
March 2 – Opposite House Fiscal Cutoff
March 6 – Opposite House Floor Cutoff
March 12 – Sine Die

UPCOMING EVENTS

Labor & Commerce (Senate) - SHR 1, - 2/24 @ 10:00am

SHB 2409 - Public Hearing - Concerning industrial insurance employer penalties, duties, and the licensing of third-party administrators. (Oppose/High)

Environment & Energy (House) - HHR B, JLOB - 2/24 @ 1:30pm

SSB 6574 - Public Hearing - Clarifying the respective administrative powers, duties, and responsibilities of the growth management hearings board and the environmental land use and hearings office. (If measure is referred to committee.) (Medium)

Health & Long Term Care (Senate) - SHR 4, - 2/24 @ 1:30pm

SHB 2554 - Exec Session - Mitigating inequity in the health insurance market caused by health plans that exclude certain mandated benefits.

Housing Stability & Affordability (Senate) - SHR 2, - 2/24 @ 1:30pm

SHB 2343 - Public Hearing - Concerning urban housing supply. (High)

SHB 2384 - Public Hearing - Concerning the property tax exemption for nonprofit organizations providing rental housing or mobile home park spaces to qualifying households. (High)

HB 2497 - Public Hearing - Adding development of permanently affordable housing to the allowable uses of community revitalization financing, the local infrastructure financing tool, and local revitalization financing. (Concerns/High)

SHB 2634 - Public Hearing - Exempting a sale or transfer of real property for affordable housing to a nonprofit entity, housing authority, or public corporation from the real estate excise tax. (Support/High)

ESHB 2849 - Public Hearing - Concerning housing programs administered by the department of commerce. (High)

Labor & Workplace Standards (House) - HHR E, JLOB - 2/24 @ 1:30pm

ESSB 5473 - Exec Session - Studying exceptions to provisions disqualifying individuals from receiving unemployment benefits for leaving work voluntarily without good cause. (Neutral/Medium)

ESSB 6440 - Public Hearing - Concerning industrial insurance medical examinations. (Concerns/High)

Transportation (House) - HHR B, JLOB - 2/24 @ 3:30pm

HB 2322 - Public Hearing - Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2019-2021 fiscal biennium.

Transportation (Senate) - SHR 1, - 2/24 @ 3:30pm

HB 2271 - Public Hearing - Correcting a reference to an omnibus transportation appropriations act within a prior authorization of general obligation bonds for transportation funding.

Finance (House) - HHR A, JLOB - 2/25 @ 8:00am

HB 2945 - Public Hearing - Concerning aerospace business and occupation taxes and world trade organization compliance. (High)

SSB 6632 - Public Hearing - Providing additional funding for the business licensing service program administered by the department of revenue. (Monitoring)

Financial Institutions, Economic Development & Trade (Senate) - SHR 2, - 2/25 @ 8:00am

ESHB 2879 - Public Hearing - Fostering economic growth in Washington by supporting in-state manufacturing. (If measure is referred to committee.) (Support/High)

Labor & Commerce (Senate) - SHR 1, - 2/25 @ 8:00am

2EHB 1056 - Exec Session - Creating a task force to identify the role of the workplace in helping curb domestic violence. (Concerns/Low)

Local Government (Senate) - SHR 3, - 2/25 @ 8:00am

ESHB 2427 - Public Hearing - Tackling climate change as a goal of the growth management act. (Oppose/Medium)

Environment, Energy & Technology (Senate) - SHR 1, - 2/25 @ 10:00am

E2SHB 1110 - Exec Session - Reducing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with transportation fuels. (Oppose/High)

Local Government (House) - HHR D, JLOB - 2/25 @ 10:00am

SSB 6302 - Public Hearing - Prohibiting local governments from limiting the number of unrelated persons occupying a home. (Concerns/Medium)

Labor & Commerce (Senate) - SHR 1, - 2/25 @ 12:00pm

2EHB 1056 - Exec Session - Creating a task force to identify the role of the workplace in helping curb domestic violence. (Concerns/Low)

HB 1841 - Exec Session - Establishing minimum crew size on certain trains. (Concerns/Medium)

SHB 2409 - Exec Session - Concerning industrial insurance employer penalties, duties, and the licensing of third-party administrators. (Oppose/High)

SHB 2614 - Exec Session - Concerning paid family and medical leave. (Concerns/High)

Human Services, Reentry & Rehabilitation (Senate) - SHR 4, - 2/25 @ 1:30pm

SHB 2388 - Public Hearing - Standardizing definitions of homelessness to improve access to services. (High)

Environment & Energy (House) - HHR B, JLOB - 2/25 @ 3:30pm

ESSB 5946 - Exec Session - Concerning the application of the state environmental policy act to temporary shelters and transitional encampments. (Concerns/High)

ESSB 6574 - Exec Session - Clarifying the respective administrative powers, duties, and responsibilities of the growth management hearings board and the environmental land use and hearings office. (If measure is referred to committee.) (Medium)

ESSB 6617 - Public Hearing - Concerning accessory dwelling unit regulation. (If measure is referred to committee.) (Concerns/Medium)

Labor & Workplace Standards (House) - HHR E, JLOB - 2/25 @ 3:30pm

ESSB 6440 - Exec Session - Concerning industrial insurance medical examinations. (Concerns/High)

Transportation (Senate) - SHR 1, - 2/25 @ 3:30pm

EHB 2461 - Public Hearing - Including health in the state transportation system policy goals. (Concerns/High)

Civil Rights & Judiciary (House) - HHR A, JLOB - 2/26 @ 8:00am

ESB 5165 - Exec Session - Concerning discrimination based on citizenship or immigration status.

Local Government (House) - HHR D, JLOB - 2/26 @ 8:00am

SSB 6302 - Exec Session - Prohibiting local governments from limiting the number of unrelated persons occupying a home. (Concerns/Medium)

Housing Stability & Affordability (Senate) - SHR 2, - 2/26 @ 1:30pm

SHB 2673 - Public Hearing - Concerning exemptions for infill development under the state environmental policy act. (Support/High)

EHB 2687 - Public Hearing - Planning for affordable housing under the growth management act. (If measure is referred to committee.) (Support/High)

EHB 2797 - Public Hearing - Concerning the sales and use tax for affordable and supportive housing. (High)

Human Services & Early Learning (House) - HHR C, JLOB - 2/26 @ 1:30pm

ESSB 6540 - Public Hearing - Concerning working connections child care payment authorizations.

State Government & Tribal Relations (House) - HHR E, JLOB - 2/26 @ 1:30pm

SSB 6408 - Public Hearing - Concerning agency responsibilities to regulated businesses and professions. (If measure is referred to committee.) (Support/High)

Transportation (House) - HHR B, JLOB - 2/26 @ 3:30pm

HB 2322 - Exec Session - Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2019-2021 fiscal biennium.

Transportation (Senate) - SHR 1, - 2/26 @ 3:30pm

SB 6497 - Public Hearing - Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2019-2021 fiscal biennium.

Ways & Means (Senate) - SHR 4, - 2/26 @ 3:30pm

SB 6690 - Public Hearing - Concerning aerospace business and occupation taxes and world trade organization compliance. (High)

Environment & Energy (House) - HHR B, JLOB - 2/27 @ 8:00am

SSB 6256 - Public Hearing - Concerning the heating oil insurance program. (If measure is referred to committee.) (High)

SSB 6256 - Exec Session - Concerning the heating oil insurance program. (If measure is referred to committee.) (High)

ESSB 6617 - Exec Session - Concerning accessory dwelling unit regulation. (If measure is referred to committee.) (Concerns/Medium)

Labor & Workplace Standards (House) - HHR E, JLOB - 2/27 @ 8:00am

ESSB 6440 - Exec Session - Concerning industrial insurance medical examinations. (Concerns/High)

Local Government (Senate) - SHR 3, - 2/27 @ 8:00am

HB 1590 - Public Hearing - Allowing the local sales and use tax for affordable housing to be imposed by a councilmanic authority. (Hearing is on the Proposed Striking Amendment.) (High)

Finance (House) - HHR A, JLOB - 2/27 @ 3:30pm

HB 2945 - Exec Session - Concerning aerospace business and occupation taxes and world trade organization compliance. (High)

HB 2948 - Public Hearing - Granting additional and progressive tax authority for counties with populations exceeding two million and cities therein to impose an excise tax on businesses that addresses the affordable housing crisis and reduces homelessness through evidence-based practices that will save lives and improve public safety, while also ensuring certainty and predictability for businesses. (Oppose/High)

SB 6212 - Public Hearing - Concerning the authority of counties, cities, and towns to exceed statutory property tax limitations for the purpose of financing affordable housing for very low-income households and low-income households. (If measure is referred to committee.) (Support/High)

Transportation (Senate) - SHR 1, - 2/27 @ 3:30pm

SB 6497 - Exec Session - Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2019-2021 fiscal biennium.

Civil Rights & Judiciary (House) - HHR A, JLOB - 2/28 @ 8:00am

ESB 5165 - Exec Session - Concerning discrimination based on citizenship or immigration status.

Local Government (House) - HHR D, JLOB - 2/28 @ 8:00am

SSB 6302 - Exec Session - Prohibiting local governments from limiting the number of unrelated persons occupying a home. (Concerns/Medium)

CLIMATE CHANGE/CARBON TAX

Bill Details		Status	Sponsor	Priority	Position

E2SHB 1110 (SB 5412)	Greenhouse gas/transp. fuels	S Environment, En	Fitzgibbon	High	Oppose
	Reducing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with transportation fuels. Applies clean fuel standards. Estimates are that this will increase costs of fuel in the state by over 50 cents per gallon.

ESHB 2427 (SB 6453)	Climate change/GMA	S Local Governmen	Duerr	Medium	Oppose
	Â Adds, for specified counties and cities, climate change to the planning goals that guide the development and adoption of city and county comprehensive plans and development regulations under the Growth Management Act (GMA). Â Requires the consideration of the climate change planning goal by regional transportation planning organizations and in countywide planning policies under the GMA. Many recommendations to reform the GMA will increase costs and permitting time for development projects. This bill will burden local governments and opens the door to litigation. Vehicle-miles-traveled goals are unachievable. Extra planning costs will make housing more expensive and hurt housing affordability goals.

SHB 2892	Greenhouse gas emissions	H Approps	Fitzgibbon	Medium	Oppose
	Authorizing the department of ecology to regulate greenhouse gas emissions associated with persons who produce or distribute fossil fuel products that emit greenhouse gases in Washington. It appears this bill may become the vehicle.

CTE

Bill Details		Status	Sponsor	Priority	Position

E2SHB 1304 (SB 5448)	CTE/alt. learning exp. prgs.	S EL/K-12	MacEwen	Monitoring	Support
	Concerning career and technical education in alternative learning experience programs. Establishes pilot projects to guide recommendations regarding how to provide enhanced CTE funding to the state's alternative learning programs.

HB 1702	Low-cost course material/CTC	S Higher Ed & Wor	Van Werven	Monitoring
	Informing students of low-cost course materials for community and technical college courses. Requires a community or technical college to provide information to students during registration by displaying the following in the online course description: Whether a course uses low-cost required instructional materials. Defines "low-cost" as the required instructional materials costing fifty dollars or less.

GENERAL BUSINESS PRIORITIES

Bill Details		Status	Sponsor	Priority	Position

2EHB 1056	Domestic violence/workplace	S Labor & Commerc	Mosbrucker	Low	Concerns
	Creating a task force to identify the role of the workplace in helping curb domestic violence. Creates a joint legislative task force on domestic violence and workplace resources to identify the role of the workplace in helping to curb domestic violence. Requires the task force to review: (1) The role of the workplace in the lives of individuals experiencing domestic violence; (2) The appropriate role of employers and employees in helping reduce the incidence of domestic violence; and (3) Whether legislation is needed to address the issues. Expires June 30, 2022.

ESHB 2342	Comprehensive plan updates	H Passed 3rd	Fitzgibbon	High
	Aligning the timing of comprehensive plan updates required by the growth management act with the timing of shoreline master program updates required by the shoreline management act. Changes the frequency of comprehensive plan updates under the Growth Management Act (GMA) from every eight years to every 10 years. ÂModifies the anniversary year by which certain counties and cities are required to update their comprehensive plans under the GMA. ÂRequires certain counties and cities to update certain portions of their comprehensive plans at the five-year mark between full updates of their comprehensive plans. ÂProvides that the five-year update requirement is contingent on the appropriation of certain funding amounts in order to defray the expense of the five-year update. ÂChanges the frequency of shoreline master program periodic reviews within the Shoreline Management Act (SMA) from every eight years to every 10 years, beginning in 2025. Modifies the anniversary year by which certain cities and counties are required to update their shoreline master programs under the SMA.

SHB 2409	Industrial insur./employers	S Labor & Commerc	Kilduff	High	Oppose
	Concerning industrial insurance employer penalties, duties, and the licensing of third-party administrators. Increases certain employer penalties under workers' compensation. Â Specifies an employer responsibility of fair conduct, to be regulated by the Department of Labor and Industries. Â Requires licensure of claims administrators by the Department of Labor and Industries. This is a far-ranging workers compensation penalty bill introduced at the behest of the trial lawyers association. Insofar as it goes after all employers but calls out Retro and Self-Insurance for special treatment â it is one of the most aggressive anti-employer workers comp bills we have seen in years. It should go near the top of everyones oppose list. Tucked away in Section 8 of the bill is a remarkable extension of policy that would purpose to impose upon all employer and their lay representatives an insurance good faith obligation toward injured workers in the handling of their claims. This new bad faith allegation, which could be made against business owners, retro groups, managers, human resources, vocational counselors, fraud investigators, nurse case managers, etc., would be adjudicated by the Department on vague standards and subject to a penalty on a range from (currently) approx. $1,300 to $13,000.

2SHB 2471 (ESSB 6540)	Working connect. payments	H 2nd Reading	Callan
	Concerning working connections child care payment authorizations.

SHB 2554 (2SSB 6400)	Health plan exclusions	S Health & Long T	Stonier
	Mitigating inequity in the health insurance market caused by health plans that exclude certain mandated benefits.

SHB 2614 (SSB 6349)	Paid family & medical leave	S Labor & Commerc	Robinson	High	Concerns
	Concerning paid family and medical leave.

SHB 2634 (SB 6366)	Affordable housing/REET	S Housing Stabil	Walen	High	Support
	Exempting a sale or transfer of real property for affordable housing to a nonprofit entity, housing authority, or public corporation from the real estate excise tax. Property sold to a qualifying grantee used for rental housing for low- income households is exempt from REET. A qualifying grantee includes nonprofit housing providers, housing authority, or public corporation intending to use the property for rental housing for low-income persons. If a qualifying grantee intends to receive or operate existing housing on the property as affordable housing, they must certify by affidavit their intent to qualify the property within one year. If a qualifying grantee intends to develop new affordable housing on the site, they must certify by affidavit their intent to qualify the property within five years. If a qualifying grantee intends to substantially rehabilitate the premises, they must certify by affidavit their intent to qualify the property within three years. If a qualifying grantee fails to receive, or otherwise qualify the property for an exemption within the prescribed timeline, REET must be paid, plus interest. If the property is transferred to another qualifying grantee, REET is not due if the property is operated or developed for the intended purpose within the exemption period of the initial transfer. There is no limit on the number of transfers between qualifying grantees.

HB 2689 (ESSB 6440)	Workers' comp medical exam	H Labor & Workpl	Mead	High	Concerns
	Concerning industrial insurance medical examinations.

HB 2881	Commercial properties/tax	H Finance	Frame
	Providing a property tax exemption for eligible commercial properties located within designated business districts that create a community benefit as determined by the local jurisdictions.

HB 2946	Financial costs by state	H Trans	Stokesbary
	Reducing the financial costs imposed by the state government on working Washington families. This bill reduces taxes in WA state by about $1 billion over 4 years -- about 1/2 of the projected revenue forecast. Caps vehicle excise tax fees for 10,000 lbs or less at $30 and changes valuation to Kelley Blue Book. Sends portions of motor vehicle sales tax to transportation fund. Puts in place a number of other sales tax exemptions.

HB 2948	Local tax authority/housing	H Finance	Springer	High	Oppose
	Granting additional and progressive tax authority for counties with populations exceeding two million and cities therein to impose an excise tax on businesses that addresses the affordable housing crisis and reduces homelessness through evidence-based practices that will save lives and improve public safety, while also ensuring certainty and predictability for businesses.

ESB 5165	Discrimination/immigration	H Civil R & Judi	SaldaÃ±a
	Concerning discrimination based on citizenship or immigration status. SB 5165 - DIGEST Revises the state civil rights act with regard to discrimination based on citizenship or immigration status.

ESSB 5473 (HB 1445)	Unemployment benefits/cause	H Labor & Workpla	SaldaÃ±a	Medium	Neutral
	Â Requires the Employment Security Department to study the impacts to the unemployment trust fund and employer contributions for unemployment insurance by allowing exceptions to provisions disqualifying individuals from receiving unemployment benefits for leaving work voluntarily without good cause related to: (1) inaccessible care for a child or vulnerable adult; (2) substantial increases in job duties or working conditions without commensurate increase in pay; (3) separation from a minor child. Â Requires ESD to meet at least three times with business and worker representatives to discuss the information gathered by ESD. ÂRemoves modifications to the term good cause for unemployment purposes for the separation due to inaccessible care for a child or vulnerable adult and related to separation from work related to the death, illness, or disability of a family member. The bill was turned into a study so it no longer has impact this year.

SSB 6256 (SHB 2424)	Heating oil insurance	S Passed 3rd	Wellman	High
	Concerning the heating oil insurance program. The Pollution Liability Insurance Agency (PLIA) is directed to close out existing claims under the Heating Oil Pollution Liability Insurance Program (Heating Oil Program). Claims received under the existing policy of insurance that would result in payment of more than $15 million in a calendar year may be paid out during the next calendar year. The PLIA is prohibited from registering heating oil tanks for coverage under the Heating Oil Program after July 1, 2020. In order to ensure that the adoption of rules does not delay the PLIA's process of closing out existing claims under the Heating Oil Program, the PLIA is authorized to process claims through interpretive guidance pending the adoption of rules. It is stated as the intent of the Legislature for the PLIA Underground Storage Tank Revolving Loan and Grant Program (Loan and Grant Program) to be used to assist owners and operators of heating oil tanks to remediate past releases and prevent future releases by upgrading, replacing, or removing heating oil systems. A definition of "heating oil tank" is added to the chapter of the Revised Code of Washington that governs the Loan and Grant Program. A heating oil tank is defined as a tank and its connecting pipes, whether above or below ground, or in a basement, with pipes connected to the tank for space-heating of human living or working space on the premises where the tank is located. The actions that the PLIA may take in order to administer the Loan and Grant Program are modified to add the prevention of future releases by upgrading, replacing, or removing a heating oil tank. The maximum amount that the PLIA may loan or grant under the program for a single heating oil tank is $75,000. The scope of the report on the Loan and Grant Program that the PLIA must provide to the Legislature and to the Office of Financial Management every other year is modified. The report must now include the number of heating oil tanks upgraded during the previous biennium. For loans and grants awarded for heating oil tanks, only the general location, status, amount loaned, and amount repaid must be provided. The State Treasurer is authorized upon the request of the PLIA, rather than being automatically required by statutory mandate, to transfer the amount in the Insurance Program Trust Account that exceeds $7.5 million, up to a transfer of $20 million, into the PLIA Underground Storage Tank Revolving Account. The PLIA may request transfers only as needed to maximize the amount in a fiscal biennium from the Insurance Trust Account to the PLIA Underground Storage Tank Revolving Account.

SSB 6349 (SHB 2614)	Paid family & medical leave	S Rules 2	Keiser	High	Concerns
	Concerning paid family and medical leave.

SSB 6408 (2SHB 2577)	Agencies/businesses & profs.	S Passed 3rd	Wilson	High	Support
	Concerning agency responsibilities to regulated businesses and professions.

ESSB 6440 (HB 2689)	Workers' comp medical exam	H Labor & Workpla	Stanford	High	Concerns
	Concerning industrial insurance medical examinations.

ESSB 6540 (2SHB 2471)	Working connect. payments	H H Svcs & Erly L	Wilson
	Concerning working connections child care payment authorizations.

SSB 6632 (SHB 2840)	Business licensing services	H Finance	Takko	Monitoring
	Providing additional funding for the business licensing service program administered by the department of revenue.

SB 6692 (HB 2948)	Local tax authority/housing		Keiser	High	Oppose
	Granting additional and progressive tax authority for counties with populations exceeding two million and cities therein to impose an excise tax on businesses that addresses the affordable housing crisis and reduces homelessness through evidence-based practices that will save lives and improve public safety, while also ensuring certainty and predictability for businesses. This bill applies a .25 percent tax on payroll. Exemptions for small businesses with 50 or fewer employees and grossing $3 million or less per year. Deductions can be taken for any employee grossing less than $150,000 per year.

HOUSING/HOMELESSNESS

Bill Details		Status	Sponsor	Priority	Position

HB 1590	Housing tax/councilmanic	S Local Governmen	Doglio	High
	Authorizes county or city legislative authorities to impose the local sales and use tax for housing and related services and eliminates the requirement that the imposition of the tax be subject to the approval of a majority of county or city voters at a general or special election. Authorizes a county legislative authority to impose a local sales and use tax without going through the election process.

ESHB 2342	Comprehensive plan updates	H Passed 3rd	Fitzgibbon	High
	Aligning the timing of comprehensive plan updates required by the growth management act with the timing of shoreline master program updates required by the shoreline management act. Changes the frequency of comprehensive plan updates under the Growth Management Act (GMA) from every eight years to every 10 years. ÂModifies the anniversary year by which certain counties and cities are required to update their comprehensive plans under the GMA. ÂRequires certain counties and cities to update certain portions of their comprehensive plans at the five-year mark between full updates of their comprehensive plans. ÂProvides that the five-year update requirement is contingent on the appropriation of certain funding amounts in order to defray the expense of the five-year update. ÂChanges the frequency of shoreline master program periodic reviews within the Shoreline Management Act (SMA) from every eight years to every 10 years, beginning in 2025. Modifies the anniversary year by which certain cities and counties are required to update their shoreline master programs under the SMA.

SHB 2343 (SSB 6334)	Urban housing	S Housing Stabil	Fitzgibbon	High
	Concerning urban housing supply. Modifies and adds to the list of planning actions that certain cities are encouraged to take to increase residential building capacity. Â Modifies the date by which certain planning actions must be taken for those actions to be exempt from administrative or judicial appeal under the Growth Management Act and the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA). Â Changes the frequency and level of transit service that triggers a cap on minimum residential parking requirements for certain affordable and market rate multifamily housing units. Â Exempts certain project actions from appeal under SEPA on the basis of impacts to the aesthetics element of the environment if the project is subject to design review at the local government level. Â Directs the Department of Ecology to remove parking as an element of the environment and as a component of the environmental checklist the next time it amends SEPA rules.

SHB 2384 (SB 6232)	Nonprofit housing/prop. tax	S Housing Stabil	Doglio	High
	Concerning the property tax exemption for nonprofit organizations providing rental housing or mobile home park spaces to qualifying households. Beginning July 1, 2021, the maximum income to be considered a qualifying household is increased from 50 percent to 60 percent of county median income. For facilities of any size, if the income of a qualifying household rises above 60 percent of the median income, but remains at or below 80 percent, the exemption will continue so long as the housing continues to meet certification requirements. Nonprofits receiving the exemption are required to recertify their exempt status every third year following the initial qualification for the exemption.

SHB 2388 (SSB 6472)	Homelessness definitions	S Human Svcs, Ree	Senn	High
	Standardizing definitions of homelessness to improve access to services. Early Childhood Education and Assistance and Working Connections Child Care Programs. Under these programs, homeless means without a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence as described in the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, Subchapter VI, Part B: Education for Homeless Children and Youths (McKinney-Vento). Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Under TANF, a recipient is exempt from the 60- month time limit by reason of hardship if the family includes a homeless child or youth without a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence as described in McKinney-Vento. Child Welfare. For the purposes of child welfare, dependency proceedings, the child welfare housing assistance pilot program and for individuals who qualify for a reduced identicard fee, "experiencing homelessness" means an individual who is: living outside or in a building not meant for human habitation or which they have no legal right to occupy, in an emergency shelter, or a temporary housing program that may include a transitional housing program if habitation time limits exist; or lacking a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, including circumstances such as sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, fleeing domestic violence, or a similar reason.

HB 2452	Multiple-unit housing REET	H Finance	Barkis	High	Support
	Reducing the real estate excise tax for multiple-unit housing. Multiple-unit housing is subject to a flat 1.28 percent REET rate and is exempt from the graduated REET rate structure. "Multiple-unit housing" means a building having four or more dwelling units not designed or used as transient accommodations and not including hotels and motels. Multiple-unit housing may result from new construction or rehabilitation or conversion of vacant, underutilized, or substandard buildings to multiple-unit housing.

HB 2490	Urban centers/multiple-units	H Finance	Appleton
	Expanding the property tax exemption for new and rehabilitated multiple-unit dwellings in urban centers.

HB 2497	Affordable housing financing	S Housing Stabil	Ormsby	High	Concerns
	Adding development of permanently affordable housing to the allowable uses of community revitalization financing, the local infrastructure financing tool, and local revitalization financing. The purchase, rehabilitation, energy efficiency retrofit, and construction of housing for creating or preserving permanently affordable housing is added to the public improvement costs authorized for the CRF Act, the LIFT, and the LRF programs. "Permanently affordable housing" is defined as housing, regardless of ownership, for which there is a legally binding, recorded document in effect limiting the price at which the owner may sell.

SHB 2634 (SB 6366)	Affordable housing/REET	S Housing Stabil	Walen	High	Support
	Exempting a sale or transfer of real property for affordable housing to a nonprofit entity, housing authority, or public corporation from the real estate excise tax. Property sold to a qualifying grantee used for rental housing for low- income households is exempt from REET. A qualifying grantee includes nonprofit housing providers, housing authority, or public corporation intending to use the property for rental housing for low-income persons. If a qualifying grantee intends to receive or operate existing housing on the property as affordable housing, they must certify by affidavit their intent to qualify the property within one year. If a qualifying grantee intends to develop new affordable housing on the site, they must certify by affidavit their intent to qualify the property within five years. If a qualifying grantee intends to substantially rehabilitate the premises, they must certify by affidavit their intent to qualify the property within three years. If a qualifying grantee fails to receive, or otherwise qualify the property for an exemption within the prescribed timeline, REET must be paid, plus interest. If the property is transferred to another qualifying grantee, REET is not due if the property is operated or developed for the intended purpose within the exemption period of the initial transfer. There is no limit on the number of transfers between qualifying grantees.

SHB 2673	Infill development	S Housing Stabil	Barkis	High	Support
	Concerning exemptions for infill development under the state environmental policy act. Infill development is eligible for a city- or county-adopted exemption from the State Environmental Policy Act if the government action relates to development that occurs where current density and intensity of use is roughly equal to what is called for in a jurisdiction's comprehensive plan. The categorical exemption may not exempt government action related to development that is inconsistent with the applicable comprehensive plan or that would clearly exceed the density or intensity of use called for in the comprehensive plan.

EHB 2687	GMA/affordable housing plans	S Local Governmen	Barkis	High	Support
	Planning for affordable housing under the growth management act. Mandatory Housing Element of Comprehensive Plans. The housing element of a county or city's comprehensive plan must: Â include a statement of goals, policies, objectives, and mandatory provisions for the preservation, improvement, and development of housing, including single-family residences such as single-family detached dwellings, duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes; Â identify sufficient land for housing, including, but not limited to, government-assisted housing, housing for low-income families, manufactured housing, multifamily housing, group homes and foster care facilities, and single-family residences such as single-family detached dwellings, duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes; and Â make adequate provisions for existing and projected needs of all economic segments of the community, including consideration of housing locations in relation to employment locations. The housing element should link jurisdictional goals with overall county goals to ensure that the housing element goals are met. If a county or city does not plan for each housing type, including single-family residences such as single-family detached dwellings, duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes, then the applicable countywide planning policy required under the GMA must provide for how the county, as a whole, and its cities will meet the existing and projected housing needs of all economic segments of the community during the planning period. Countywide Planning Policies. Countywide planning policies must be updated no later than 14 months prior to any update of a comprehensive plan under the GMA. The minimum planning requirement for affordable housing that must be addressed in a countywide planning policy is amended such that the countywide planning policy must address: Â policies that consider the need for affordable housing, and to address how the county and its cities will jointly meet the requirements to provide for all housing types identified in the mandatory housing element of the comprehensive plan, including single-family residences, such as single-family detached dwellings, duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes; and Â policies to address how the county and its cities will jointly meet the requirements of the mandatory land-use element of the comprehensive plan.

EHB 2797 (SSB 6631)	Housing/sales & use tax	S Housing Stabil	Robinson	High
	Concerning the sales and use tax for affordable and supportive housing. The bill amends the local sales tax for affordable or supportive housing (the tax) in several ways. The deadline to adopt a qualifying local tax is extended to December 31, 2021. Cities that intend to adopt a qualifying local tax are required to adopt a notice of intent to do so by July 28, 2020. Cities that are not currently imposing a qualifying local tax that do not adopt a notice of intent to do so by July 28, 2020, are not eligible to adopt a qualifying local tax for purposes of the program. The rate structure is not conditional on the date and is as follows: Â 0.0146 percent for: (1) a city with a qualifying local tax; (2) a city within a county that is not levying the tax; or (3) a county within its unincorporated areas and within the limits of a city that is not levying the tax; and Â 0.0073 percent for: (1) a city without a qualifying local tax; or (2) a county within the limits of a city levying the tax and within the limits of a city without a qualifying local tax. The requirement to authorize the maximum capacity of the tax is removed. A county or city must send a copy of legislation to authorize the tax to the Department of Revenue within 45 days of its adoption. The Department of Revenue is required to calculate a preliminary annual maximum amount of tax distributions for each county or city levying the tax by January 1, 2021. The Department of Revenue is required to calculate a final annual maximum amount of tax distributions by June 30, 2022. For a participating county, this amount includes the rate of the tax multiplied by the taxable retail sales for fiscal year 2019 within the unincorporated areas of the county, within cities not levying the tax, and within cities levying the tax without a qualifying local tax. The order in which a city or county authorized the tax does not factor into the calculation. Cities and counties are authorized to use revenues collected from the tax on staffing related to the daily operations of permanent supportive housing. Certain small counties and cities are authorized to use up to 6 percent of the revenues collected from the tax on administration related to the tax. A county may not pledge for repayment of bonds any revenues from the tax collected within cities levying the tax: (1) before July 28, 2020; or (2) before June 30, 2022 within cities that have adopted a notice of intent to authorize a qualifying local tax. Cities and counties are authorized to enter into contracts or interlocal agreements with public entities or nonprofit organizations.

ESHB 2849	Commerce housing programs	S Housing Stabil	Tharinger	High
	Concerning housing programs administered by the department of commerce. he Housing Assistance Program and the Affordable Housing Program are statutorily consolidated into the Housing Trust Fund (HTF) Program, with technical corrections and policy clarifications made to and obsolete language removed from related statutes. Housing Trust Fund Programming. The definition of first-time home buyer for purposes of down payment and closing cost assistance under the HTF to include: Â a single parent who only owned a home with a former spouse while married; Â a displaced homemaker; Â an individual who has only owned a principal residence not permanently affixed to a permanent foundation; and Â an individual who has only owned a property that is discerned by a license building inspector as uninhabitable Mortgage subsidies and mortgage insurance guarantee or payments are removed as HTF eligible activities. In awarding HTF grants and loans, priority is given to projects that increase the total number of affordable housing units, instead of to existing privately owned housing stock and then to publicly owned housing stock. The degree of funding that has already been committed to the project by nonstate entities and projects that demonstrate a strong readiness to proceed to construction are each added as preference criteria when evaluating HTF grant and loan applications. Commerce must use a separate application form for applications to provide homeownership opportunities. The housing preservation program and related provisions are added to statute. Any moneys received from repayment of HTF loans made from capital bond proceed appropriations may be used for providing preservation funding. Commerce reporting requirements from the capital budget, including final development cost data reporting for HTF-funded projects, are added to the HTF statute. Commerce must implement policies that require projects to remain as affordable housing for a minimum of: Â 40 years for multifamily rental projects; and Â 25 years for homeownership projects. Administrative Costs. The housing portfolio monitoring account is created as an appropriated account in the state treasury. Account expenditures must be used for costs associated with compliance and monitoring activities of HTF grant and loan recipient activity. Commerce must annually certify the administrative costs needed for compliance and monitoring activities, which may not exceed one-quarter of one percent of the annual contracted amount of state investment in the HTF program. The state treasurer must transfer the certified amount from the HTF account to the housing portfolio monitoring account on July 1st of each year. Commerce may spend up to 3 percent of the HTF appropriation for administrative costs associated with application, distribution, and project development activities. Commerce may spend up to an additional 1 percent from the HTF appropriation if the following conditions are met: Â a spending plan of total anticipated administrative costs is submitted to the Office of Financial Management (OFM) and the appropriate fiscal committees of the Legislature; Â the OFM director finds that the spending plan exceeds the funding available and provides written authorization for Commerce to spend up to an additional 1 percent; and Â the OFM director notifies the appropriate legislative fiscal committees 10 days before authorizing the additional expenditures. Commerce may not charge other service and product delivery area fees for the HTF program. Loan Terms. Commerce must defer loan payments for projects with at least half of the units or beds serving households: Â households at or below 50 percent of the area median income; Â homeless persons, as defined in the homeless housing and assistance program; or Â persons in need of permanent supportive housing. Loans subject to deferred payments must be payable in full at the end of the loan term or on the sale or change of use of the project unless otherwise negotiated with Commerce or the sale is to the original project sponsor, in which the loan may continue to be deferred. For all other loans, Commerce must define cash-flow loan terms and conditions. For projects that receive a low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC), the loan payment may not start until the LIHTC investor exits or the project refinances, but not before the end of the initial 15- year compliance period. Commerce must submit a report to the Governor and Legislature by December 31, 2020, with recommendations for loan terms and conditions for projects not subject to loan deferral.

ESSB 5946	SEPA/shelters & encampments	H Env & Energy	Nguyen	High	Concerns
	Concerning the application of the state environmental policy act to temporary shelters and transitional encampments. Permit actions to site a temporary shelter or transitional encampment are exempt from compliance with SEPA if the facility meets certain criteria. The facility must be used to provide temporary quarters for sleeping and shelter for people experiencing homelessness, include no more than 200 beds, may not allow the use of drugs or alcohol on the premises, and may not be located within 1000 feet of a school or early learning facility. However, a school, early learning facility, or controlling affiliate organization of the school or early learning facility has the option to approve siting a facility within the 1000 feet restriction. In addition, the local jurisdiction must have declared a state of emergency on homelessness and the facility may be used on the site for no more than three years.

SB 6212 (HB 2489)	Affordable housing/prop. tax	S Passed 3rd	Das	High	Support
	Concerning the authority of counties, cities, and towns to exceed statutory property tax limitations for the purpose of financing affordable housing for very low-income households and low-income households. Funds from the affordable housing property tax levy may be used for affordable homeownership, owner-occupied home repair, and foreclosure prevention programs for low-income households. "Low-income household" is defined as a single person, family, or unrelated persons living together whose income is at or below 80 percent of the median income, with adjustments for household size, for the county where the taxing district is located.

SSB 6256 (SHB 2424)	Heating oil insurance	S Passed 3rd	Wellman	High
	Concerning the heating oil insurance program. The Pollution Liability Insurance Agency (PLIA) is directed to close out existing claims under the Heating Oil Pollution Liability Insurance Program (Heating Oil Program). Claims received under the existing policy of insurance that would result in payment of more than $15 million in a calendar year may be paid out during the next calendar year. The PLIA is prohibited from registering heating oil tanks for coverage under the Heating Oil Program after July 1, 2020. In order to ensure that the adoption of rules does not delay the PLIA's process of closing out existing claims under the Heating Oil Program, the PLIA is authorized to process claims through interpretive guidance pending the adoption of rules. It is stated as the intent of the Legislature for the PLIA Underground Storage Tank Revolving Loan and Grant Program (Loan and Grant Program) to be used to assist owners and operators of heating oil tanks to remediate past releases and prevent future releases by upgrading, replacing, or removing heating oil systems. A definition of "heating oil tank" is added to the chapter of the Revised Code of Washington that governs the Loan and Grant Program. A heating oil tank is defined as a tank and its connecting pipes, whether above or below ground, or in a basement, with pipes connected to the tank for space-heating of human living or working space on the premises where the tank is located. The actions that the PLIA may take in order to administer the Loan and Grant Program are modified to add the prevention of future releases by upgrading, replacing, or removing a heating oil tank. The maximum amount that the PLIA may loan or grant under the program for a single heating oil tank is $75,000. The scope of the report on the Loan and Grant Program that the PLIA must provide to the Legislature and to the Office of Financial Management every other year is modified. The report must now include the number of heating oil tanks upgraded during the previous biennium. For loans and grants awarded for heating oil tanks, only the general location, status, amount loaned, and amount repaid must be provided. The State Treasurer is authorized upon the request of the PLIA, rather than being automatically required by statutory mandate, to transfer the amount in the Insurance Program Trust Account that exceeds $7.5 million, up to a transfer of $20 million, into the PLIA Underground Storage Tank Revolving Account. The PLIA may request transfers only as needed to maximize the amount in a fiscal biennium from the Insurance Trust Account to the PLIA Underground Storage Tank Revolving Account.

SSB 6302	Home occupant load limits	H Local Govt	Rolfes	Medium	Concerns
	Prohibiting local governments from limiting the number of unrelated persons occupying a home. Cities, towns, code cities, and counties may not regulate or limit the number of unrelated persons that may occupy a household or dwelling unit except for occupant limits on group living arrangements regulated under state law or on short-term rentals, and any restrictions on occupant load of the structure within the applicable building code.

SSB 6495 (HB 2809)	Essential needs & housing	H Approps	Walsh	Medium	Neutral
	Regarding essential needs and housing support eligibility. Within funds appropriated from the Department of Commerce (Commerce), recipients of the PWA program are eligible for referral to the HEN program, provided they meet eligibility requirements. Recipients of PWA are eligible for HEN for 24 consecutive months from the date Commerce determines PWA eligibility.

ESSB 6574	GMHB & ELUHO powers, duties	S Passed 3rd	Takko	Medium
	Clarifying the respective administrative powers, duties, and responsibilities of the growth management hearings board and the environmental land use and hearings office. Growth Management Hearings Board. The size of the Growth Management Hearings Board (GMHB) is changed from seven members to five. Three members, all of whom must be admitted to practice law in Washington, are appointed by the Governor, one from the central Puget Sound region, one from eastern Washington, and one from western Washington. At least two members of the GMHB shall have been a city or county elected official, one each residing in eastern Washington and western Washington. No more than three members of the GMHB may be members of the same political party. GMHB members operate on a full-time basis, receive an annual salary to be determined by the Governor, receive reimbursement for travel expenses incurred in the discharge of their GMHB duties, and are considered employees of the state of Washington. The principal office of the GMHB must be located in Thurston County, but the GMHB may hold hearings at any other place in the state. The GMHB must annually elect one of its members to be the chair. The duties of the chair include developing GMHB procedures and managing GMHB meetings. Environmental and Land Use Hearings Office. The Governor must appoint a Director of the Environmental and Land Use Hearings Office (ELUHO). The Director of the ELUHO may appoint administrative law judges in cases before the Shoreline Hearings Board, the Pollution Control Hearings Board, and the GMHB. The ELUHO is responsible for all administrative functions pertaining to the GMHB except for developing GMHB procedures and managing GMHB meetings. The ELUHO is responsible for GMHB case assignments.

ESSB 6617	Accessory dwelling units	S Passed 3rd	Liias	Medium	Concerns
	Concerning accessory dwelling unit regulation. Through ordinances, development regulations, and other official controls, cities and counties planning under the Growth Management Act (GMA): Â may allow up to two attached or detached accessory dwelling units (ADUs) on all lots on which there is a single-family unit, duplex, triplex, fourplex, rowhouse, townhome, or apartment building, regardless of zoning district; Â may not require the provision of off-street parking for ADUs within one-half-mile of major transit stops, including bus or transit stops frequented by fixed-route service at intervals of at least every thirty minutes during peak hours; and Â may remove requirements that the owner of a lot on which there is an ADU reside in or occupy the ADU or another housing unit on the lot. GMA-planning cities and counties must adopt required ADU policies by July 1, 2021. Beginning July 1, 2021, the required ADU policies apply and take effect in any covered city or covered county that has not adopted required ADU ordinances, development regulations, or other official controls and supersede, preempt, and invalidate local regulations in conflict with the ADU requirements. Ordinances, development regulations, or other official controls are only required to apply in the portions of covered jurisdictions within an urban growth area designated under the GMA. The adoption of ADU policies that covered jurisdictions are required to adopt are exempt from appeals under the State Environmental Policy Act and the GMA.

OTHER CHAMBER BILLS

Bill Details		Status	Sponsor	Priority	Position

HB 1841 (SB 5877)	Crew size on certain trains	S Labor & Commerc	Riccelli	Medium	Concerns
HB 1841 (SB 5877)	Establishing minimum crew size on certain trains. Establishes minimum crew size requirements for freight and passenger trains and trains carrying hazardous materials. Creates exceptions to the requirements and increases monetary penalties for violations.

STREAMLINED SALES TAX

Bill Details		Status	Sponsor	Priority	Position

EHB 1948 (SSB 5862)	Warehousing & manuf. jobs	S Ways & Means	Entenman	High	Support
	Supporting warehousing and manufacturing job centers. This is the answer to issues dealing with a lack of streamlined sales tax mitigation funds.

SSB 5862 (EHB 1948)	Warehousing & manuf. jobs	S Ways & Means	Das	High	Support
	Supporting warehousing and manufacturing job centers. This is the answer for addressing gaps from lack of streamlined sales tax mitigation

TRADE, AEROSPACE & MFG

Bill Details		Status	Sponsor	Priority	Position

ESHB 2879	In-state manufacturing	H Passed 3rd	Vick	High	Support
	Fostering economic growth in Washington by supporting in-state manufacturing.

HB 2895	Data centers tax preference	H Finance	Gildon	High	Support
	Providing a tax preference for rural and nonrural data centers.

HB 2945 (SB 6690)	Aerospace B&O taxes/WTO	H Finance	Sullivan	High
	Concerning aerospace business and occupation taxes and world trade organization compliance. Repeals age old aerospace B&O tax credit to help Boeing with compliance with European tariffs.

SB 6690 (HB 2945)	Aerospace B&O taxes/WTO	S Ways & Means	Liias	High
	Concerning aerospace business and occupation taxes and world trade organization compliance. Repeals age old aerospace B&O tax credit to help Boeing with compliance with European tariffs.

TRANSPORTATION

Bill Details		Status	Sponsor	Priority	Position

HB 1841 (SB 5877)	Crew size on certain trains	S Labor & Commerc	Riccelli	Medium	Concerns
	Establishing minimum crew size on certain trains. Establishes minimum crew size requirements for freight and passenger trains and trains carrying hazardous materials. Creates exceptions to the requirements and increases monetary penalties for violations.

HB 2271 (SB 6094)	Transp. bonds/budget ref.	S Transportation	Duerr
	Correcting a reference to an omnibus transportation appropriations act within a prior authorization of general obligation bonds for transportation funding.

HB 2322 (SB 6497)	Transp. budget, supplemental	H Trans	Fey
	Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2019-2021 fiscal biennium.

HB 2362 (SB 6652)	Local transportation revenue	H Trans	Ramos
	Addressing local transportation revenue options.

EHB 2461 (SB 6452)	Transp. system goals/health	S Transportation	Riccelli	High	Concerns
	Including health in the state transportation system policy goals.

HB 2913	Transportation revenue	H Trans	Fey
	Concerning transportation revenue.

HB 2914	Transportation funding bonds	H Trans	Fey
	Authorizing bonds for transportation funding.

SB 5970	Transportation funding bonds	S Transportation	Hobbs	High	Neutral
	Authorizing bonds for transportation funding.

SSB 5972	Additive trans funding	S Transportation	Hobbs	High	Concerns
	Concerning additive transportation funding and appropriations.

SB 6398 (HB 2688)	Transportation policy goals	S Transportation	SaldaÃ±a
	Expanding transportation policy goals.

SB 6497 (HB 2322)	Transp. budget, supplemental	S Transportation	Hobbs
	Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2019-2021 fiscal biennium.

SB 6652 (HB 2362)	Local transportation revenue	S Transportation	Nguyen	High	Concerns
	Addressing local transportation revenue options.

Uncategorized Bills

No bills.