Bills that survived the first floor cut-off

  March 14 (5 p.m.) was the final day for bills to be considered in their house of origin. Those bills not passed from the House by that deadline are considered "dead" for the session.

   The following is a report of the survivors. . .

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• Dead or Alive bills listed by priority 

• Agriculture and Natural Resources

• Good Republican bills which passed the House
• Bad Democrat bills which passed the House

• Appropriations

• Good Republican bills which passed the House
• Bad Democrat bills which passed the House

• Capital Budget

• Good Republican bills which passed the House
• Bad Democrat bills which passed the House

• Commerce and Labor

• Good Republican bills which passed the House
• Bad Democrat bills which passed the House

• Community, Economic Development and Trade

• Good Republican bills which passed the House
• Bad Democrat bills which passed the House

• Early Learning and Children's Services

• Good Republican bills which passed the House
• Bad Democrat bills which passed the House

• Education

• Good Republican bills which passed the House
• Bad Democrat bills which passed the House

• Finance

• Good Republican bills which passed the House
• Bad Democrat bills which passed the House

• Health Care

• Good Republican bills which passed the House
• Bad Democrat bills which passed the House

• Higher Education

• Good Republican bills which passed the House
• Bad Democrat bills which passed the House

• Housing

• Good Republican bills which passed the House
• Bad Democrat bills which passed the House

• Insurance, Financial Services and Consumer Protection

• Good Republican bills which passed the House
• Bad Democrat bills which passed the House

• Local Government

• Good Republican bills which passed the House
• Bad Democrat bills which passed the House

• Select Committee on Environmental Health

• Good Republican bills which passed the House
• Bad Democrat bills which passed the House

• Select Committee on Puget Sound

• Good Republican bills which passed the House
• Bad Democrat bills which passed the House

• State Government and Tribal Affairs

• Good Republican bills which passed the House
• Bad Democrat bills which passed the House

• Transportation

• Good Republican bills which passed the House
• Bad Democrat bills which passed the House

• House Bill 1079 (Kretz) - Brings consistency in defining "person of disability" into both fish and hunting statutes.
• House Bill 1122 (Kretz) - Expiration date on contract harvesting of timber on state trust lands is removed.
• House Bill 1123 (Strow) - DNR request bill - makes it possible for DNR to establish contracts/agreements on their aquatic lands rather than having to go through a very complicated and costly lease agreement.
• House Bill 1147 (Kretz) - Allows for commercial owners of livestock (cattle, sheep, horses) harmed/killed/injured by bear, wolves, cougars to receive compensation.
• House Bill 1151 (Pearson) - Creates an advisory committee of livestock producers, hobby farmers, and concerned citizens to review any an animal identification program being considered in the state.
• House Bill 1305 (Kretz) - Removes a $10 per year food locker fee on 14 establishments.
• House Bill 1598 (Kretz) - Requires any entity receive SRF board funds to make public information regarding that funding.
• House Bill 1743 (Kretz) - Requires every county to have a county weed board.
• House Bill 1909 (Orcutt) - Attempts to address many inconsistencies in state law regarding a specialty forests permit.
• House Bill 1972 (Ross) - Brings clarification of ownership in foreclosure procedures involving fees paid to irrigation districts.

• House Bill 1192 (Kessler) Requires the state parks director is appointed by governor rather than the parks commission.
• House Bill 1303 (Dickerson) - Clean air/clean fuels bill. Has an incentive program for school districts to buy new buses but requires the replaced buses to be completely destroyed; and it also mandates state/local auto fleets to use biofuels by 2015.
• House Bill 1488 (Sullivan) Revenue stream is dedicated for Neah Bay tug and for derelict vessels removal.
• House Bill 2056 (Lantz) Requires vendors to provide recycling bins for drinks at any "official gathering."

• House Bill 1242 (Bailey) - Public employment of retirees. Places the same or similar restrictions on retire-rehire for members of TRS 1 as already apply to PERS 1.
• House Bill 1261 (Crouse) - Service credit for disability. Permits members of most state-funded retirement systems to purchase up to 24 consecutive months of service credit for temporary disability.
• House Bill 2147 (Kristiansen) - Vocational rehabilitation services for volunteer firefighters. Provides voc rehab benefits to volunteer firefighters at the discretion of the State Board of the Volunteer Firefighters' and Reserve Officers' Relief and Pension System.

Referrals from other committees:

• House Bill 1122 (Kretz) - Forest health
• House Bill 1333 (Hinkle) - Child welfare
• House Bill 1334 (Hinkle) - Child welfare proceedings

• House Bill 1359 (Miloscia) - New $8 recording fee surcharge.

Referrals from other committees:

• House Bill 1103 Health professions
• House Bill 1186 Judicial campaigns
• House Bill 1303 Cleaner energy
• House Bill 1359 Affordable housing
• House Bill 1422 Children and families of incarcerated children
• House Bill 1569 Reforming health care system
• House Bill 1809 Patient safety act
• House Bill 1922 Youth housing
• House Bill 2098 Blue Ribbon Commission on Health Care
• House Bill 2111 Adult family home providers
• House Bill 5093 Health services for children

• House Bill 2115 (Newhouse) - Heritage barn program. Creates a capital grant program for preservation of historic barns.
• House Bill 2219 (Orcutt) - Small forest landowners. Requires Small Forest Landowner Office in DNR to determine the compensation to be offered to a landowner for an easement as soon as possible after the landowner's application for the Forest Riparian Easement Program (FREP), and makes other changes to the program designed to help forest landowners.

• House Bill 2325 (Kenney) - Community development fund. Creates a new capital grant program to local governments and nonprofit organizations, with ill-defined purposes related to economic development and access to human services, and requiring no local match for state funds. (Final version of legislative slush fund bill. Projects will be named by D's and funded in the capital budget.)
  
  • House Bill 1280 (Ericks) - School district capital funds. Permits school district capital funds (i.e., bonds) to be used for fees for online applications, software and licenses, training, upgrades and other costs related to information technology that are operating rather than capital in nature.

• None

• House Bill 1244 - Defines (adds to calculation) of wages for purposes of workers' comp benefits. (Allows for potential double dipping of the portion of benefits attributed to health care benefits.)

• None

• House Bill 1992 - Community Development Authorities ($$ given to areas surrounding stadiums).
• House Bill 2256 - Asset building bill.

• House Bill 1333 (Rep. Hinkle) - Makes several changes to current law relating to child safety and child welfare cases (known as "Sirita's Law").
• House Bill 1334 (Rep. Hinkle) - Requires DSHS to submit certain documents in reports recommending a child be returned home in a dependency proceeding (known as the "Raphael Gomez Act").
• House Bill 2312 (Rep. Walsh) - Provides legislative oversight of WorkFirst and temporary assistance to needy families.

• None

• House Bill 1285 - Codifies the cases and various components of the definition of "basic education"

• House Bill 1517 - Requires OSPI to hire a staff person to allocate grants for world language programs in elementary & middle school.
• House Bill 2026 - Allows Peace Corp, Job Corp and AmeriCorp access to student information on the same basis as the military.
• House Joint Resolution 4204 - Amends the Constitution to do away with the 60% pass rate required to circumvent the 1% property tax limit.

• None

• House Bill 1139 (McDermott) - Allows Seattle to use state sales tax money to fund annexation of unincorporated areas.
• House Bill 1181 (Ericks) - $3 fee increase for vital records.
• House Bill 1910 (Ormsby) - Adds new requirements for cities to consider regarding the property tax exemption for multiple-unit dwellings.
• House Bill 2008 (Van de Wege) - Quinault Nation Timber Tax Compact - (Republican amendment to prohibit the governor from receiving campaign contributions failed.)
• House Bill 2164 (Dunshee) - Restricts the use of the property tax exemption for multiple-unit dwelling construction if the land is for UW Tacoma or UW Bothell.

• House Bill 1538 (Rep. Bailey) - Study of health benefit mandates, rating requirements, and insurance statutes and rules to determine the impact on premiums and individuals' health.
• House Bill 1848 (Rep. Curtis) - Requires the Department of Social and Health Services and the Health Care Authority to enter into data-sharing agreements with Oregon and Idaho to assure the valid residency of applicants for health care services in Washington.

• 2SSB 5093 (Sen. Marr) - Expands eligibility for children's health care coverage through the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and the Children's Health Program (CHP) for non-citizen children to 300 percent of the Federal Poverty Level.
• House Bill 1809 (Rep. Morrell) - Requires hospitals to establish a staffing committee to develop and implement staffing plans for each patient care unit, and the committee must consist of at least 50 percent registered nurses.

• None

• House Bill 1779 - Creates a $30 million grant program for math and science scholarships for lower-income students.
• House Bill 1131 - Creates a $6 million grant program for former foster youth.

• None

• House Bill 1359 - Creates a statewide Affordable Housing For All (AHFA) program and a $8 document recording fee increase to fund CTED's administration of the program as well as pass-through to counties to run their local AHFA programs.
• House Bill 1910 - Mandates that cities which issue property tax exemptions for multi-unit housing projects adopt and implement affordable housing requirements, and reduces the city population requirement from 30,000 to 15,000 to qualify for the exemption.
• House Bill 1922 - Creates the Independent Youth Housing Program within CTED to provide housing stipends and case management services to young adults ages 18-23 who are former foster kids.
• House Bill 1956 - Prohibits discrimination based on a person's lawful source of income in rental housing transactions and creates specific civil penalties for violating this prohibition.

• House Bill 1236 (Roach) - Office of the Insurance Commissioner request bill that establishes certain capital and surplus requirements necessary to transact insurance.

• House Bill 1492 - Requires all automobile liability policies that provide personal injury protection (PIP) coverage to have a binding arbitration clause that allows either the insurer or insured to request arbitration, and requires that the insurer pay for the costs of the arbitrator.

• House Bill 2104 (Curtis) - Secretary of State request legislation that adopts the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act, establishing the definitions, standards, procedures, and authority needed by county auditors related to the implementation of a system for the recording, storage, and transmission of documents existing in electronic form.
• House Bill 1925 (Curtis) - Removes the Dec. 31, 2007 deadline for eligible counties to engage in the urban industrial land bank planning process.
• House Bill 1258 (Alexander) - Allows monies collected for an air pollution control authority in accordance with specified provisions may be disbursed upon warrants drawn either by an authority or a county auditor designated by the authority's board of directors.

• House Bill 2212 - Delays any new development regulations as they would apply to agricultural activities until July 1, 2009, and during the intervening time the Ruckelshaus Center must, with stakeholder involvement, conduct an examination of the conflicts between agricultural activities and critical areas regulations that negatively impact them and report back to the governor and Legislature by Sept. 1, 2008.

• None

• House Bill 1024 (Hunter) - Bans most PBDE's in the state, except for transportation manufacturers; and creates a trigger for deca-PBDE to be banned in TVs, computer monitors once a fire safety committee determines there are alternatives and the DOH/DOE finds a product which is environmentally safe.
• House Bill 2261 - Creates a wood smoke advisory committee which will look at ways to reduce burning, primarily involving wood stoves.

• None

• House Bill 1374 - (Upthegrove) Super-state agency created which will direct other state agencies, local governments, and other governmental entities to restore Puget Sound by 2020.
• House Bill 1595 (Appleton) - Requires counties to establish shellfish protection districts before recreational/commercial harvesting areas are closed due to a downgrade listing as a polluted waterbody area….and without any funds provided by the state.
• House Bill 2220 (Lantz) - Prohibits DNR from leasing any tracts of state-owned aquatic lands until 2014 when an advisory committee will provide info on regulating all future geoduck operations on both state and private aquatic lands.

• House Bill 1940 - Requires government to notify land owners of land dispositions

• House Bill 1189 - Requires that limited liability corporations with a common partial owner are limited to one campaign contribution.
• House Bill 1226 - Requires the state to recognize tribal issued teacher certification for teachers of tribal language, culture & history.
• House Bill 1671 - Loosens requirements for the state to adjust salary classifications of employees.
• House Bill 1706 - Makes permanent the state's waiver of sovereignty regarding gambling compacts.
• House Bill 2008 - Gives the governor the ability to give a tribe the right to collect timber excise taxes.
• House Bill 2079 - Permits unions to use agency fees for elections.

• House Bill 1214 (McDonald) - Prohibits text messaging while driving.
• House Bill 2373 (McCune) - Increasing school bus driver safety.

• House Bill 1426 (Clibborn) - Tribal fuel tax compacts - amendment to prohibit the governor from receiving campaign contributions failed.
• House Bill 1858 (Fromhold) - Allows counties and cities to impose a $20 car tab fee without voter approval.