Prime Sponsored Bills

Bill AB 1025 Career technical education.

Bill AB 1074 Contractors: fraudulent license numbers.

Bill AB 1094 Medical Board of California: physician and surgeon well-being.

Bill AB 1191 Alcoholic beverages: proof of age: passports.

Bill AB 1290 Public employment: internship program.

Bill AB 1438 Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.

Bill AB 1450 Health care.

Bill AB 1468 Biologics.

Bill AB 1654 School districts: emergency vehicles.

Bill AB 492 Community colleges: nursing faculty.

Bill AB 500 Foster children: educational placement: school of origin.

Bill AB 556 Personal services contracts.

Bill AB 609 County employees retirement: disability retirement.

Bill AB 723 Community colleges: career technical education programs of instruction.

Bill AB 820 Public employees.

Bill ACR 36 Greatest Generation Memorial Highway.

Bill ACR 40 West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week.

Bill AB 1698 School volunteers: athletic programs.

Bill AB 1707 Employment: apprentice training.

Bill AB 1709 Biologics.

Bill ACR 110 Step Up California Month and Step Up California Day.

Bill HB 1001 Concerning veterans' burials.

Bill HB 1015 Prohibiting the sale or distribution of certain novelty lighters.

Bill HB 1020 Creating an Afghanistan-Iraq war memorial.

Bill HB 1023 Changing educational associates' service credit provisions for nonschool employment.

Bill HB 1036 Concerning the Washington code of military justice.

Bill HB 1039 Establishing a statewide CBRNE response program.

Bill HB 1040 Clarifying and prescribing penalties for gambling under the age of eighteen.

Bill HB 1049 Concerning veterans' relief.

Bill HB 1050 Adjusting veterans' scoring criteria.

Bill HB 1051 Improving veterans' access to services.

Bill HB 1053 Increasing raffle ticket prices. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning raffle ticket prices. )

Bill HB 1055 Requiring workers to have licenses, certificates, or permits in their possession when performing work in certain construction trades.

Bill HB 1060 Updating the weatherization statute.

Bill HB 1075 Enacting the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children.

Bill HB 1095 Increasing small business access to state contracting opportunities.

Bill HB 1102 Concerning the property tax revenue limit for the county veterans' assistance levy.

Bill HB 1114 Regarding youth hunting privileges.

Bill HB 1121 Creating the Washington state flag account.

Bill HB 1123 Reducing the spread of multidrug resistant organisms.

Bill HB 1125 Offering health insurance premiums to members of the national guard.

Bill HB 1148 Protecting animals from perpetrators of domestic violence.

Bill HB 1161 Concerning early intervention services for children with disabilities.

Bill HB 1191 Providing incentives to support renewable solar energy.

Bill HB 1217 Providing the gambling commission with authority to determine locations where amusement games may be conducted.

Bill HB 1262 Establishing conditions for video monitoring in public schools.

Bill HB 1271 Regarding dispensing and administration of drugs to registered or licensed veterinary personnel.Revised for 1st Substitute: Regarding the preparing and administration of drugs by registered or licensed veterinary personnel.

Bill HB 1276 Placing symphony orchestras, operas, and performing arts theaters under the jurisdiction of the public employment relations commission for purposes of collective bargaining.

Bill HB 1307 Concerning public health financing.

Bill HB 1309 Regarding dental hygiene.

Bill HB 1315 Concerning the Washington horse racing commission Washington bred owners' bonus fund and breeder awards account.

Bill HB 1318 Providing for an increase in the property tax limit for emergency medical care and services.

Bill HB 1323 Providing for coordination of workforce and economic development.

Bill HB 1329 Providing collective bargaining for child care center directors and workers.

Bill HB 1330 Supporting care for the elderly.

Bill HB 1338 Qualifying for good cause for late filing of reports, contributions, penalties, or interest.

Bill HB 1339 Correcting statutory references.

Bill HB 1340 Modifying collective bargaining law to authorize providing additional compensation to academic employees at community and technical colleges.

Bill HB 1348 Concerning professional athletics regulated by the department of licensing.

Bill HB 1350 Adopting the interstate agreement for the election of the president of the United States by national popular vote.

Bill HB 1355 Establishing the opportunity internship program for high school students.

Bill HB 1362 Concerning conveyances used in prostitution-related offenses.Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning conveyances used in prostitution-related offenses. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Concerning vehicles used in prostitution-related offenses. )

Bill HB 1366 Making technical changes to boiler and unfired pressure vessel statutes.

Bill HB 1373 Concerning children's mental health services.

Bill HB 1389 Applying RCW 41.56.430 through 41.56.490 to employees working under a site certificate issued under chapter 80.50 RCW.

Bill HB 1399 Concerning renewable energy system cost recovery.

Bill HB 1402 Restricting contact with medical providers after appeals have been filed under industrial insurance.

Bill HB 1404 Naming public spaces in the Washington state heritage center.

Bill HB 1409 Providing an emergency response system for the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Bill HB 1415 Providing for the sales of wine at the legislative gift center.

Bill HB 1416 Feeding hungry children through school breakfast and lunch programs and summer food service programs.

Bill HB 1418 Establishing a statewide dropout reengagement system.

Bill HB 1420 Revising real estate seller disclosure requirements.

Bill HB 1422 Concerning the taxation of brokered natural gas and manufactured gas.

Bill HB 1423 Providing for academic employee salary increments for community and technical colleges.

Bill HB 1434 Creating a spirits, beer, and wine nightclub license and eliminating the cap on spirits, beer, and wine restaurant licenses.Revised for 1st Substitute: Creating a spirits, beer, and wine nightclub license and modifying the cap on spirits, beer, and wine restaurant licenses.

Bill HB 1435 Modifying licensing provisions for cigarettes and tobacco products.

Bill HB 1441 Concerning the contractual relationships between distributors and producers of malt beverages.

Bill HB 1443 Creating a Washington state patrol retirement system deferred option plan.

Bill HB 1444 Administering the Washington state patrol retirement system.

Bill HB 1445 Providing benefits to domestic partners under the Washington state patrol retirement system.

Bill HB 1446 Requiring the higher education coordinating board to develop a grant program to encourage training for students studying in the medical field to work with individuals with disabilities.

Bill HB 1459 Concerning direct patient-provider primary care practice arrangements.

Bill HB 1470 Honoring recipients of the purple heart through exemptions from vehicle licensing fees.

Bill HB 1493 Marketing prescription drugs.

Bill HB 1502 Increasing the number of school nurses.

Bill HB 1506 Providing benefits for the survivors of certain firefighters.

Bill HB 1518 Regarding prohibited practices in accountancy.

Bill HB 1525 Promoting economic development and community revitalization.

Bill HB 1528 Prohibiting certain employer communications about political or religious matters.

Bill HB 1541 Granting half-time service credit for half-time educational employment prior to January 1, 1987, in plans 2 and 3 of the school employees' retirement system and the public employees' retirement system.

Bill HB 1542 Repealing certain obsolete state retirement system statutes.

Bill HB 1543 Lowering the general salary increase assumption for the actuarial funding of certain public retirement systems.

Bill HB 1544 Addressing the state actuary's recommendations for assumptions used in the actuarial funding of the state retirement systems.

Bill HB 1545 Authorizing the higher education coordinating board to offer higher education annuities and retirement income plans.

Bill HB 1546 Transferring public employees' retirement system plan 2 members to the school employees' retirement system plan 2.

Bill HB 1547 Increasing the duty-related death benefit for public employees.

Bill HB 1548 Addressing interruptive military service credit within plans 2 and 3 of the public employees' retirement system, plans 2 and 3 of the school employees' retirement system, plans 2 and 3 of the teachers' retirement system, plan 2 of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system, plan 2 of the Washington state patrol retirement system, and the public safety employees' retirement system.

Bill HB 1549 Studying disability benefit options for members of the public employees' retirement system plan 2 and plan 3, the teachers' retirement system plan 2 and plan 3, and the school employees' retirement system plan 2 and plan 3.

Bill HB 1550 Extending the survivor annuity option for preretirement death in plan 1 of the public employees' retirement system to members who die after leaving active service.

Bill HB 1551 Addressing the survivor benefits of employees who die while honorably serving in the national guard or military reserves during a period of war.

Bill HB 1554 Authorizing the department of labor and industries to issue stop work orders for violations of certain workers' compensation provisions.

Bill HB 1555 Addressing the recommendations of the joint legislative task force on the underground economy in the construction industry.

Bill HB 1560 Regarding collective bargaining at institutions of higher education.

Bill HB 1573 Protecting financial and medical information presented to the board of accountancy.

Bill HB 1590 Requiring the appointment of an organized labor member with full voting rights and privileges to the governing bodies of public transportation entities.

Bill HB 1594 Creating the environmental cleanup opportunity grant program.

Bill HB 1599 Providing retirement benefits at earlier ages in the plans 2 and 3 of the public employees' retirement system, the teachers' retirement system, and the school employees' retirement system.

Bill HB 1600 Providing for vesting after five years of service in the defined benefit portion of the public employees' retirement system, the school employees' retirement system, and the teachers' retirement system plan 3.

Bill HB 1601 Participating in insurance plans and contracts by separated plan 2 members of certain retirement systems.

Bill HB 1602 Addressing postretirement employment.

Bill HB 1609 Concerning family and medical leave.

Bill HB 1613 Establishing a meat and poultry inspection program.

Bill HB 1625 Concerning for hire vehicles and for hire vehicle operators.

Bill HB 1633 Providing excise tax exemptions for hog fuel used for production of electricity, steam, heat, or biofuel.

Bill HB 1634 Regarding architects.

Bill HB 1642 Regarding meal and rest periods for employees of health care facilities.

Bill HB 1664 Addressing the termination, cancellation, or nonrenewal of motorsports manufacturer and dealer franchise agreements.

Bill HB 1678 Providing a minimum retirement allowance for members of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 2 who were disabled in the line of duty before January 1, 2001.

Bill HB 1679 Providing access to catastrophic disability medical insurance under plan 2 of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system.Revised for 1st Substitute: Reimbursing medical expenses for certain totally disabled public safety personnel.

Bill HB 1680 Limiting the exceptions to the prohibition on mandatory overtime for employees of health care facilities.

Bill HB 1691 Regarding the use of certain solid fuel burning devices.

Bill HB 1704 Addressing the termination, cancellation, or nonrenewal of franchises between new motor vehicle dealers and manufacturers.

Bill HB 1716 Providing living wages on public contracts.

Bill HB 1722 Addressing plan membership default provisions in the public employees' retirement system.

Bill HB 1727 Expanding the rights and responsibilities of state registered domestic partners.

Bill HB 1742 Providing public retirement benefits for employees of the supreme court, court of appeals, or superior, district, or municipal courts.

Bill HB 1745 Concerning civil marriages.

Bill HB 1756 Creating a military improvement zone program.

Bill HB 1786 Defining independent contractor for purposes of prevailing wage.

Bill HB 1798 Allowing voter registration up to and on election day.

Bill HB 1810 Authorizing a local sales and use tax for parks and recreation, trails, and open space allocation.

Bill HB 1812 Concerning wine labels.

Bill HB 1814 Regarding farm labor contracting activities.

Bill HB 1819 Reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Bill HB 1821 Concerning the department of social and health services' audit program for pharmacy payments.

Bill HB 1822 Authorizing interest arbitration for certain general authority Washington peace officers.

Bill HB 1836 Regarding public works involving off-site prefabrication.

Bill HB 1837 Regarding listing subcontractors on public works projects.

Bill HB 1850 Expanding the application of the prohibition on mandatory overtime for employees of health care facilities.

Bill HB 1876 Providing funds for disabled veterans through voluntary donations.

Bill HB 1893 Creating the Washington voluntary retirement accounts program.

Bill HB 1905 Concerning insurance coverage of pharmacy services.

Bill HB 1906 Improving economic security through unemployment compensation.

Bill HB 1911 Modifying the business and occupation tax rate on wholesalers of solar energy systems and including semiconductor materials.

Bill HB 1915 Changing Running Start provisions.

Bill HB 1925 Creating an exemption for Christian Science treatment of vulnerable adults.

Bill HB 1932 Regarding presumptive occupational diseases affecting firefighters.

Bill HB 1941 Requiring that at least one member on each community college board of trustees be from labor.

Bill HB 1942 Concerning foreclosures on deeds of trust.

Bill HB 1949 Appointing student members on the board of trustees for community colleges.Revised for 1st Substitute: Allowing appointment of student members on the boards of trustees of community colleges.

Bill HB 1952 Regarding the building communities fund program competitive process.

Bill HB 1953 Allowing department of fish and wildlife enforcement officers to transfer service credit.

Bill HB 1988 Regarding alcoholic beverage regulation.

Bill HB 1992 Concerning the application of chapter 39.12 RCW to construction projects that involve tax incentives, loans, or public land or property that is sold or leased.

Bill HB 2029 Concerning enhanced 911 emergency communications service.

Bill HB 2040 Concerning the work of the joint select committee on beer and wine regulation.

Bill HB 2071 Concerning education for parents of needy families.

Bill HB 2088 Improving access to facilities for persons with special transportation needs.

Bill HB 2099 Allowing out-of-state online wine retailers to ship to consumers in the state.

Bill HB 2103 Concerning the taxation of adult entertainment materials and services.

Bill HB 2117 Modifying the basic health plan.

Bill HB 2121 Establishing the guaranteed health benefit program act.

Bill HB 2130 Concerning tax incentives for renewable energy manufacturing facilities.

Bill HB 2141 Concerning the registration of lottery tickets and shares.

Bill HB 2158 Addressing the collective bargaining of adult family home providers' health benefits.

Bill HB 2162 Regulating house-banked social card games.

Bill HB 2176 Creating a good faith defense for certain minimum wage and overtime compensation complaints.

Bill HB 2204 Regarding unemployment insurance.

Bill HB 2205 Addressing the structure and authority of the liquor control board.

Bill HB 2218 Providing property tax relief for senior citizens and persons retired by reason of physical disability by increasing the income thresholds.

Bill HB 2227 Enacting the evergreen jobs act.

Bill HB 2241 Protecting the long-term viability of Washington's agricultural economy.

Bill HB 2246 Establishing a University of Washington center for human rights.

Bill HB 2256 Concerning the handling of employee information for workers' compensation purposes.

Bill HB 2267 Protecting the collective bargaining rights of certain exempt employees.

Bill HB 2288 Concerning eligibility for senior citizen and disabled persons property tax exemptions.

Bill HB 2300 Allowing the state lottery to enter into agreements to conduct multistate shared games.

Bill HB 2309 Creating the commission on safe and healthful food.

Bill HB 2318 Creating the Washington institute of aerospace technology and manufacturing studies.

Bill HB 2321 Concerning the sale of liquor-related products in state liquor stores.

Bill HB 2334 Creating jobs by funding construction of safety, health, and energy-saving improvements to public facilities.

Bill HB 2339 Requiring the department of licensing to collect a donation to benefit the state parks system as part of motor vehicle registration unless a vehicle owner opts not to provide a donation.

Bill HB 2358 Increasing liquor license fees limited to fees for beer and/or wine restaurants; taverns; snack bars; combined beer and wine retailers; grocery stores; beer and/or wine specialty shops; passenger trains, vessels, and airplanes; spirits, beer, and wine restaurants; spirits, beer, and wine private clubs; beer and wine private clubs; and public houses.

Bill HB 2375 Concerning MRSA testing.

Bill HB 2378 Changing the maximum levy percentage for school districts that have a levy approved by the voters prior to May 1, 2009.

Bill HB 2392 Prohibiting the use of public resources by school district officers or employees to support or oppose a teachers' strike.

Bill HB 2394 Establishing a government-to-government relationship between state government and Indian tribes.

Bill HB 2396 Concerning emergency cardiac and stroke care.Revised for 2nd Substitute: Regarding emergency cardiac and stroke care.

Bill HB 2402 Concerning a property tax exemption for property owned by a nonprofit organization and used for the purpose of a farmers market.

Bill HB 2403 Concerning military leave for public employees.

Bill HB 2407 Modifying veterans' layoff and reemployment rights.

Bill HB 2413 Concerning property used to facilitate a criminal street gang-related offense.

Bill HB 2414 Authorizing abatement of nuisances involving criminal street gang activity.

Bill HB 2420 Promoting industries that rely on the state's working land base.

Bill HB 2424 Protecting children from sexual exploitation and abuse.

Bill HB 2426 Expanding provisions relating to vulnerable adults.

Bill HB 2427 Ensuring punishment for domestic violence offenders.

Bill HB 2429 Addressing the resale of motor vehicles previously determined as having nonconformities.

Bill HB 2444 Providing leave from employment for participating in a child's educational activities.

Bill HB 2473 Authorizing a local sales and use tax for parks and recreation, trails, and open space allocation.

Bill HB 2479 Exempting payment of fees at institutions of higher learning for children of certain law enforcement officers or firefighters.

Bill HB 2492 Addressing shared leave for members of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system, plan 2.

Bill HB 2511 Addressing motorcycle profiling.

Bill HB 2519 Addressing duty-related death benefits for public safety employees.

Bill HB 2534 Establishing a program to verify the address of registered sex offenders and kidnapping offenders.

Bill HB 2546 Concerning classroom training for electrical trainees.

Bill HB 2547 Concerning franchise agreements between new motor vehicle dealers and manufacturers.

Bill HB 2553 Addressing unemployment benefits for certain eligible individuals.

Bill HB 2554 Establishing a farm worker-grower advisory committee.

Bill HB 2555 Authorizing the department of labor and industries to issue subpoenas to enforce production of information related to electricians and electrical installations.

Bill HB 2584 Regarding the scope of collective bargaining for nontenured faculty at community and technical colleges.

Bill HB 2625 Addressing bail for felony offenses.

Bill HB 2626 Modifying violation provisions for offenders.

Bill HB 2628 Authorizing persons designated by the decedent to direct disposition, if the decedent died while serving on active duty in any branch of the United States armed forces, United States reserve forces, or national guard.

Bill HB 2630 Creating the opportunity express program.

Bill HB 2631 Creating a dropout prevention recognition program.

Bill HB 2639 Exempting pipe tobacco from restrictions on shipping tobacco to consumers in Washington.

Bill HB 2641 Expanding small business development centers.

Bill HB 2642 Establishing a pilot project to allow wine tasting at farmers markets.

Bill HB 2645 Concerning tax preferences and the public interest.

Bill HB 2646 Improving administration of wage complaints.

Bill HB 2647 Allowing certain individuals to seek part-time employment while maintaining eligibility for unemployment insurance in order to qualify for the unemployment insurance modernization incentive provisions of the American recovery and reinvestment act of 2009.

Bill HB 2648 Addressing unemployment insurance penalties and contribution rates for employers who are not "qualified employers."

Bill HB 2649 Correcting references in RCW 50.29.021(2)(c)(i), (c)(ii), and (3)(e), RCW 50.29.062(2)(b)(i)(B) and (2)(b)(iii), and RCW 50.29.063(1)(b) and (2)(a)(ii) to unemployment insurance statutes concerning employer experience rating accounts and contribution rates.

Bill HB 2650 Providing local flexibility with existing revenues during severe economic downturns.

Bill HB 2672 Concerning tax relief for aluminum smelters.

Bill HB 2678 Modifying distributions of funds by the horse racing commission to nonprofit race meets.

Bill HB 2688 Creating a beer and wine tasting endorsement to the grocery store liquor license.

Bill HB 2697 Concerning real estate broker licensure fees.

Bill HB 2703 Protecting sport shooting ranges.

Bill HB 2720 Concerning the Washington soldiers' home.

Bill HB 2737 Concerning employee meal and rest breaks.

Bill HB 2743 Addressing collective bargaining for certain employees of institutions of higher education and related boards.

Bill HB 2751 Requiring that at least one member on each community college board of trustees be from labor.

Bill HB 2753 Creating a workforce housing program.Revised for 1st Substitute: Creating a workforce housing program. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Creating the Washington works housing program. )

Bill HB 2764 Protecting employees from adverse employment actions because of influenza.

Bill HB 2777 Modifying domestic violence provisions.

Bill HB 2781 Imposing a sanction for offenders who violate sentence conditions by committing an assault against a law enforcement officer, employee of a law enforcement agency, or department of corrections employee.

Bill HB 2789 Authorizing issuance of subpoenas for purposes of agency investigations of underground economy activity.Revised for 1st Substitute: Authorizing issuance of subpoenas for purposes of agency investigations of underground economic activity.

Bill HB 2790 Making technical and clarifying changes to the liquor laws.

Bill HB 2804 Concerning beer and caffeinated or stimulant-enhanced malt beverages.

Bill HB 2805 Regarding public works involving off-site prefabrication.

Bill HB 2815 Repealing the expiration of the fair payment for chiropractic services requirement.

Bill HB 2826 Concerning the recommendations of the joint legislative task force on the underground economy.

Bill HB 2833 Requiring aerospace tax incentive claimants to periodically reaffirm their commitment to the economic well-being of Washington.

Bill HB 2834 Regarding gang and hate group activity at schools and school activities.

Bill HB 2835 Increasing school safety.

Bill HB 2854 Making changes to the state higher education loan program.

Bill HB 2862 Allowing the state director of fire protection to refuse membership in the public employees' retirement system.

Bill HB 2873 Permitting local governments to limit house-banked social card games within their jurisdictions.

Bill HB 2887 Concerning criminal defendants who are guilty and mentally ill.

Bill HB 2888 Concerning continuing education for pharmacy technicians.

Bill HB 2889 Permitting the placement of human trafficking informational posters in rest areas.

Bill HB 2893 Changing school levy provisions.

Bill HB 2919 Requiring a study of disability benefit options for plan 2 and plan 3 members of the public employees' retirement system, the teachers' retirement system, and the school employees' retirement system.

Bill HB 2932 Concerning the assessment and treatment of certain persons with mental illnesses.

Bill HB 2942 Offering human trafficking training for criminal justice and correctional personnel, and other public safety employees.

Bill HB 2947 Concerning special occasion licenses.

Bill HB 2966 Establishing a state meat inspection program.

Bill HB 2970 Addressing tax avoidance.

Bill HB 2971 Limiting tax preferences that have been the subject of administrative or judicial appeals.

Bill HB 2972 Increasing revenues by eliminating and narrowing preferential tax treatment.

Bill HB 2986 Requiring the appointment of nonvoting labor members to public transportation governing bodies.

Bill HB 2998 Suspending certain monetary awards and salary increases.

Bill HB 3003 Placing symphony musicians under the jurisdiction of the public employment relations commission for purposes of collective bargaining.

Bill HB 3021 Establishing the medicaid nursing facility quality assurance trust fund.

Bill HB 3024 Providing uninterrupted meal and rest breaks for hospital employees.Revised for 2nd Substitute: Providing uninterrupted meal and rest breaks for hospital employees. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Providing uninterrupted meal and rest breaks for certain employees. )

Bill HB 3040 Regarding the licensing of appraisal management companies.

Bill HB 3059 Expanding options for educator preparation.

Bill HB 3062 Making the governor the public employer of language access providers.

Bill HB 3129 Concerning the unemployment insurance system, but only with respect to improving unemployment benefits and adjusting unemployment contributions.

Bill HB 3145 Improving administration of wage complaints.

Bill HB 3153 Addressing designation of a spouse for certain survivor benefits under the firefighters' relief and pensions act of 1955.

Bill HB 3155 Allowing the department of social and health services to adopt rules establishing standards for the review and certification of treatment facilities under the problem and pathological gambling treatment program.

Bill HB 3157 Concerning the state business and occupation tax.

Bill HB 3176 Increasing state revenues to preserve funding for education, public safety, health care, and safety net services for elderly, disabled, and vulnerable people by preventing abusive tax avoidance transactions, narrowing or eliminating certain tax preferences, and providing equitable tax treatment.

Bill HB 3191 Relating to modifying Washington state excise tax laws to create jobs and to preserve funding for education, public safety, health care, and safety net services for elderly, disabled, and vulnerable people.Revised for 1st Substitute: Modifying Washington state excise tax laws to create jobs and to preserve funding for education, public safety, health care, and safety net services for elderly, disabled, and vulnerable people.

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