Bills before the Washington Legislature Affecting Property Rights
All Daily Report January 17, 2020 |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1052 |
Agency rule-making authority |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Critical |
| Concerning agency rule-making authority. |
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| X | | X | |
| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1029 |
Environmental impact process |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 5 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Concerning processes and criteria for the consideration of environmental impacts under certain environmental laws. |
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| X | | X | |
| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1045 |
Gray wolves/lethal removal |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -8 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Prohibiting the lethal removal of gray wolves. |
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| X | | X | |
| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1172 |
Capital gains tax/prop. tax |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -6 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Assisting Washington families by improving the fairness of the state's tax system by enacting a capital gains tax and providing property tax relief. |
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| X | | X | |
| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5176 |
Rules, yearly expiration |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 5 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Changing rule-making requirements to require a yearly expiration. |
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| X | | X | |
| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1343 |
Revenue |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -10 (Poor) | Impact is Critical |
| Increasing revenues for the support of state government. |
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| X | | X | |
| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HJR 4201 |
Supreme court judges |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Critical |
| Amending supreme court judge election provisions in the state Constitution. |
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| X | | X | |
| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5129 |
Revenue |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -10 (Poor) | Impact is Critical |
| Imposes a 9 percent tax on the sale or exchange of long-term capital assets.Increases the business and occupation tax rate on service-related activities from 1.5 percent to 2.5 percent. |
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| X | | X | |
| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5195 |
Real estate taxes/housing |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -5 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Authorizes counties and cities required to plan or who are planning under the Growth Management Act to use real estate excise tax revenue for the planning, acquisition, reconstruction, repair, replacement, rehabilitation, or improvement of facilities for persons experiencing homelessness and affordable housing projects. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1030 |
False legislative testimony |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Concerning disciplinary action for state officials and employees who provide false testimony to the legislature. |
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| X | | X | |
| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1081 |
Supreme court judges |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Reducing the number of state supreme court judges. |
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| X | | X | |
| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1214 |
Growth mgmt act, repeal of |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Repealing growth management planning requirements in chapter 36.70A RCW. |
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| X | | X | |
| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1286 |
Assault weapons ban |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -10 (Poor) | Impact is Critical |
| Banning the sale of assault weapons and large capacity magazines. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1374 |
Local gov firearm regulation |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -10 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Relating to local government authority to regulate firearms. |
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| X | | X | |
| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5314 |
Capital gains tax/prop. tax |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -10 (Poor) | Impact is Critical |
| Assisting Washington families by improving the fairness of the state's tax system by enacting a capital gains tax and providing property tax relief. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5340 |
Assault weapons ban |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -10 (Poor) | Impact is Critical |
| Banning the sale of assault weapons and large capacity magazines. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5377 |
Data sales and governance |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 5 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Brief Summary of First Substitute BillProvides that this act be known as the Data Management and Protection Act.Prohibits the sale of personal data to third parties by state agencies except as authorized under law.Requires the Office of Privacy and Data Protection to publish principles that promote stewardship of the state's structured data sets and to develop compliance criteria for the requirements set forth in this act.Requires the Chief Privacy Officer to collaborate with state agencies and report to the Legislature proposing how state agencies should treat personal data and respond to verified requests for personal data from consumers.Provides that state agencies must be transparent and accountable for their processing of personal data by making a privacy notice available. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1509 |
New state/Eastern WA |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Critical |
| Establishing the new state of Liberty. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5194 |
Urban growth area boundaries |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 2 (Good) | Impact is Serious |
| Adds economic development and housing considerations to comprehensive plan elements.Requires consideration of median household income estimates and housing forecasts to ensure urban growth in a way that encourages a variety of housing types, values, and densities.Requires consideration of the cost burden of housing on households as part of the Buildable Lands Report (BLR).Requires all BLRs within five years of the federal census and removes provisions regarding early revisions to the BLR. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5100 |
Cougar control pilot program |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 5 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Reestablishes a five-year pilot project that allows for hunting cougars with the aid of dogs. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5243 |
Growth mngmt board standing |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Removes participation standing and certification by the governor as methods to establish standing before the Growth Management Hearings Board. Adds a new method to establish standing for a person who (1) owns property within the boundaries of the relevant Growth Management Act planning jurisdiction, (2) is or is likely to be prejudiced by the contested action, and (3) will suffer actual injury if the action is upheld. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5245 |
Critical area designation |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Provides a definition for best available science and modifies the best available science to be used and considerations to be made in designating and protecting critical areas.Allows planning jurisdictions to develop a written record to demonstrate that the best available science has been included and allows planning jurisdictions to retain an expert witness in reviews before the Growth Management Hearings Board. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1613 |
State-federal gov agreements |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Reporting agreements between state agencies and the federal government. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1617 |
International law & property |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 8 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Prohibiting the use of international law to infringe on property rights. |
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| X | | X | |
| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1620 |
State estate tax, repealing |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Repealing the state estate tax. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1232 |
Hydroelectricity/renewable |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 8 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Recognizing hydroelectricity as an eligible renewable resource in the energy independence act. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1315 |
Concealed pistol training |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -10 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| (((3)))(5) Any person whose firearms rights have been restricted and who has been granted relief from disabilities by the attorney general under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 925(c) or who is exempt under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 921(a)(20)(A) shall have his or her right to acquire, receive, transfer, ship, transport, carry, and possess firearms in accordance with Washington state law restored except as otherwise prohibited by this chapter. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5329 |
Energy site eval. council |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -10 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Adds three new permanent members to the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC) and removes discretionary members. Incorporates EFSEC consideration of land-use laws into the informational public hearing. Adds clean energy as an additional objective for EFSEC to pursue and balance in legislative findings. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5609 |
State spending limit |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Establishing a responsible state spending limit to protect essential programs and taxpayers from unsustainable state budgets. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5610 |
Sales and use tax rate |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Reducing the state sales and use tax rate. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1639 |
Wolf population expansion |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 4 (Outstanding) | Impact is Critical |
| Ensuring that all Washingtonians share in the benefits of an expanding wolf population. |
| CAPR Comments/Concerns |
| The legislature further finds Bainbridge Island, known for its beauty and biological diversity, is an ideal location for the first state gray wolf sanctuary.
Lethal removal of wolves must be considered for every four confirmed wolf kills of domestic dogs; for every four confirmed wolf kills of domestic cats; and for every two confirmed wolf kills of children; |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5136 |
Water infrastructure program |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -2 (Lacking) | Impact is Serious |
| Establishes the water infrastructure program to provide competitive grants for projects that increase the availability of water for out-of-stream uses, reduce flood risk, improve fish passage, or reduce stormwater pollution.Requires the Office of Columbia River, the Office of Chehalis Basin, the Fish Barrier Removal Board, and the Department of Ecology (DOE) to review applications to ensure projects meet certain criteria. Directs DOE to submit ranked project lists to the Legislature before regular session begins in odd-numbered years. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5104 |
Local gov. vehicle tolls |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Brief Summary of First Substitute BillProhibits most local governments from imposing vehicle tolls. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5255 |
Road usage charges/rural |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Prohibits imposing or collecting a road usage charge or similar type of fee in rural counties. |
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| X | | X | |
| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5758 |
Private school/property tax |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 5 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Exempting homeowners from the state property tax if their children attend private school. |
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| X | | X | |
| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5760 |
New counties |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Critical |
| Concerning new counties. |
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| X | | X | |
| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HJR 4206 |
2/3rd vote for tax increases |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Amending the Constitution to require a two-thirds majority vote of the legislature to raise taxes. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SHB 1113 |
Greenhouse emission limits |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -10 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Modifies state greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets to 19 percent below 1990 levels by 2025, 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2035, and 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.Directs the Department of Ecology to include certain additional information in its biennial greenhouse gas emissions report to the Governor and the Legislature, including the quantity of greenhouse gas emissions from wildfires in the state, and the total and per capita greenhouse gas emissions from Washington and other states.Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee to submit to the Legislature by June 30, 2020, and every five years thereafter, an analysis of the economic impact, whether positive or negative, and the impact on jobs, whether positive or negative, resulting from the greenhouse gas emissions reductions specified in the act. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1213 |
Growth mgmt/sup court review |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Granting local governments the authority to make challenges related to growth management planning subject to direct review in superior court. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5424 |
Transit density standards |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -5 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Requires cities and counties with residential areas located within one-half mile of light rail stations to establish minimum density standards. |
| CAPR Comments/Concerns |
| must establish a minimum gross urban density of no less than one hundred fifty dwelling units per acre |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5451 |
Hydraulic projects |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Provides that a hydraulic project means the construction or performance of work at or below the ordinary high water line for purposes of issuing permits for construction projects in state waters. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1493 |
Affordable housing taxes |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -3 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Authorizing cities and counties to impose additional taxes for affordable housing. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1654 |
Facial recognition tech. |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Brief Summary of Second Substitute BillProhibits a law enforcement officer from using the results of a facial recognition system as the sole basis for establishing probable cause in a criminal investigation.Provides that the results of a facial recognition system may be used together with other information and evidence to establish probable cause in a criminal investigation. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5066 |
School district elections |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -4 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Brief Summary of First Substitute BillLowers voter approval threshold from 60 percent to a majority of voters for school districts to issue general obligation bonds, levy taxes to make payments on those bonds, and exceed the statutory debt limit. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5252 |
School district bonds, 55% |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -5 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Lowers voter approval threshold from 60 percent to 55 percent of voters for school districts to issue general obligation bonds, levy taxes to make payments on those bonds, and exceed the statutory debt limit. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5357 |
Affordable housing taxes |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -10 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Brief Summary of First Substitute BillAuthorizes counties and cities to impose an additional real estate excise tax of 0.25 percent for affordable housing. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SJR 8201 |
School district bonds |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -5 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Amending the Constitution to allow a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1211 |
Clean energy |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -5 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Brief Summary of Second Substitute BillRequires all electric utilities to eliminate coal-fired resources from their allocation of electricity by December 31, 2025.Requires that all retail sales of electricity to Washington customers be greenhouse-gas neutral by January 1, 2030.Requires that nonemitting and renewable resources supply 100 percent of all retail sales of electricity to Washington customers by January 1, 2045.Establishes an administrative penalty of $100 per megawatt-hour of electric generation that is not electricity from a renewable resource or nonemitting resource used to meet an electric utility's retail electric load, times certain source-specific multipliers. Extends the expiration date for a sales and use tax exemption for certain alternative energy machinery and equipment from January 1, 2020, to January 1, 2030.Amends the Utilities and Transportation Commission's ratemaking authorities over investor-owned utilities. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1371 |
Parks benefit districts |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -2 (Lacking) | Impact is Serious |
| Creates parks benefit districts (PBD) for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, improving, providing, and funding park maintenance and improvements within the district.Requires a legislative authority proposing to establish, dissolve, or modify the boundaries of a PBD, to issue public notice of that intent and then hold a public hearing prior to adopting an ordinance for such action.Provides various revenue options available to a PBD in order to finance park maintenance and improvements including levying sales and use tax, issuing bonds, and imposing residential impact fees.Requires the governing body of a PBD to develop a material change policy to address major plan changes that may affect project delivery, cost, or scope and to issue an annual status report of such changes to the public. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1184 |
School district elections |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -4 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Concerning school district elections. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1581 |
Local housing trust funds |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -5 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Authorizes cities to create local housing trust funds for affordable housing. Distributes the state portion of the sales and use tax imposed on construction activities to a qualifying city's local housing trust fund, up to an annual maximum of $5 million per city. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HJR 4203 |
School district bonds |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -5 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Amending the Constitution to allow a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1270 |
Trespass on privacy |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Concerning nonconsensual capture of private, personal, and familial activities by trespassers. |
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| X | | X | |
| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1711 |
New counties |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Critical |
| Concerning new counties. |
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| X | | X | |
| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5589 |
Local taxes/employment |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Prohibits a city or town from imposing a tax measured by employee wages, employee hours, or the number of employment positions, which is initially enacted on or after January 1, 2019. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1591 |
Homelessness rights |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -10 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Codifies the rights in public space of people experiencing homelessness, and provides that such a person may not be prosecuted criminally for exercising these rights when the person has no reasonable alternative but to survive in public space and existing local shelters are inadequate in number or capacity or are functionally inaccessible.Requires, by October 31, 2019, reports: (a) from the state, counties, and cities concerning laws, regulations, and policies that infringe upon certain rights; and (b) from the Office of Homeless Youth Prevention and Protection Programs regarding certain rights of unaccompanied homeless youth and young adults. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1046 |
Hunting with the aid of dogs |
| Prohibiting hunting with the aid of dogs for certain purposes. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5503 |
On-site sewage systems |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 10 (Outstanding) | Impact is Critical |
| Establishes requirements related to state Board of Health rules addressing the repair and inspections of on-site sewage systems. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1597 |
Greenhouse gas/fossil fuels |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -10 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Incorporating comprehensive measurements of greenhouse gas emissions from certain fossil fuels into state environmental laws. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1921 |
Housing market |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -5 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Modifies the State Real Estate Excise Tax (REET) rate structure.Distributes the new REET revenue that is attributable to the rate structure modification to the Housing Trust Fund and the State General Fund. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1889 |
Water infrastructure program |
| Establishes a competitive water infrastructure grant program for projects that promote increasing the availability of water for out-of-stream uses, reducing the risk of flooding, improving fish passage, or reducing stormwater pollution from existing development. Requires the Office of Columbia River, the Office of Chehalis Basin, the Fish Barrier Removal Board, and the Department of Ecology to review applications based on specified criteria.Establishes three appropriated accounts for the Water Infrastructure Program. Expresses legislative intent to provide $500 million per biennium to the Water Infrastructure Program. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1546 |
Marbled murrelet strategy |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 3 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Requires the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to analyze the harvest volume and revenue impacts of the DNR's preferred marbled murrelet long-term strategy alternative.Requires the DNR to hold a 30-day public comment period on the review and subsequently report to the Legislature. Specifies that the Board of Natural Resources may not adopt a long-term strategy alternative until the DNR analysis is complete and available to the public. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5293 |
Energy efficiency |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -10 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Brief Summary of Second Substitute BillEstablishes energy performance standards for larger existing commercial buildings.Provides financial incentives and technical assistance for building owners taking early action.Expands access to commercial building energy consumption data to assist with monitoring progress toward meeting energy performance standards.Authorizes local governments to voluntarily adopt energy codes for residential structures beyond the minimum state energy code. Directs the Building Code Council to require electric vehicle charging capability at all new buildings.Requires gas companies to set natural gas conservation targets and a voluntary renewable natural gas tariff to customers. Allows a natural gas company to propose an renewable natural gas program to procure or produce renewable natural gas for a portion of its natural gas sold to its customers, the costs of which may not exceed 5 percent of retail rates. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change , New Document Bill Reports |
| SB 5434 |
Weapons in certain locations |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -10 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Brief Summary of Engrossed First Substitute BillProhibits possession of firearms on the premises of any licensed child care center, child care center provided-transportation, or other child care center facility.Requires a family day care provider to secure firearms on the premises in a locked gun safe or unloaded in a locked room with a trigger lock or other disabling device. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5489 |
Environmental justice |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -10 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Brief Summary of Second Substitute Bill(As Amended by Committee)Creates a task force, subject to the availability of funds appropriated for this purpose, to recommend various strategies for incorporating environmental justice principles into how certain agencies discharge their responsibilities.Requires certain state agencies to adopt a cumulative impact analysis tool to identify highly impacted communities.Requires the Department of Health to develop model policies for the implementation of the task force's guidance, if any are issued, related to the use of the cumulative impact analysis tool. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SHB 1110 |
Greenhouse gas/transp. fuels |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -10 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Directs the Department of Ecology (Ecology) to adopt a rule establishing a Clean Fuels Program (Program) to limit greenhouse gas emissions per unit of transportation fuel energy to 10 percent below 2017 levels by 2028 and 20 percent below 2017 levels by 2035. Excludes exported fuel, electricity, fuel used by vessels, railroad locomotives, and aircraft, and certain other categories of transportation fuel from the Program's requirements.Requires the Program to include processes for tracking compliance obligations and bankable, tradeable credits.Requires annual reporting by Ecology on the Program, as well as an analysis of the Program's first five years by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee.Retains the current revenue distribution under the 2015 Transportation revenue package, eliminating changes that would have been triggered as a result of the establishment of a Program.Establishes an alternative assessment fee in lieu of compliance with the Clean Fuels Program.Specifies that the alternative assessment will be $6 per metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions of transportation fuels for calendar year 2021 through 2028 and subject to rates specified in subsequent legislation after that time period.Imposes a five cent per gallon tax on the bio-portion of a biofuel blended fuel for calendar years 2021 through 2028. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1622 |
Drought preparedness |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -7 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Brief Summary of Amended BillAuthorizes the Department of Ecology (Ecology) to issue a drought advisory when it appears that drought conditions may develop.Makes various changes to Ecology's responsibilities when an emergency drought order has been issued.Directs Ecology to initiate a pilot program to explore the cost, feasibility, and benefits of entering into long-term water right lease agreements to alleviate water supply conditions which may occur as a result of drought conditions. |
| LINKS | Updated | LINKS | Updated | | House Bill 1622 | 1/24/2019 | Initial House Analysis of House Bill 1622 | 2/8/2019 |
| Digest of House Bill 1622 | 2/13/2019 | | |
| Substitute House Bill 1622 as Recommended by Rural Development, Agriculture, & Natural Resources | 2/21/2019 |
| House Bill Report on House Bill 1622 as Reported by House Rural Development, Agriculture, & Natural Resources on 02-20-2 | 2/20/2019 |
| House Bill Report on House Bill 1622 as Reported by House Capital Budget on 02-26-2019 | 2/26/2019 |
| House Amendment by Rep. Dye (HATF 089) to Substitute House Bill 1622 | 3/5/2019 |
| House Amendment by Rep. Dent (HATF 095) to Substitute House Bill 1622 | 3/7/2019 |
| House Amendment by Rep. Dent (HATF 116) to Substitute House Bill 1622 | 3/11/2019 |
| Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1622 as Recommended by Rural Development, Agriculture, & Natural Resources | 3/13/2019 |
| House Bill Report on Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1622 as Passed House on 03-12-2019 | 3/12/2019 |
| Senate Bill Report on Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1622 | 3/26/2019 |
| Senate Amendment by Senate Committee on Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks (S3628.1) to Engrossed Substitute | 4/3/2019 |
| Senate Bill Report on Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1622 as Reported by Senate Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & | 4/2/2019 |
| Senate Bill Report on Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1622 | 4/8/2019 |
| Senate Bill Report on Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1622 as Reported by Senate Ways & Means on 04-09-2019 | 4/9/2019 |
| Senate Amendment by Senate Committee on Ways & Means (S3965.1) to Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1622 | 4/10/2019 |
| Link to “Public Comment on Bill” for HB 1622 | History/Status | www.washingtonvotes.org | |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1567 |
Solid fuel burning devices |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -5 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Changes the fee on the sale of new woodstoves from $30 to $50, beginning January 1, 2020.Requires the Department of Ecology to establish by rule a process for determining periodic increases to the fee. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1638 |
Vaccine preventable diseases |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -10 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Brief Summary of Amended BillRemoves the philosophical or personal objection exemption for the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine.Allows proof of disease immunity through laboratory evidence or history of disease to substitute for immunization.Requires employees and volunteers at child day care centers to receive the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, provide proof of immunity from the measles, or provide a certification that the vaccine is not medically advisable. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1228 |
Fish barrier removal funding |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -8 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Increasing transportation revenues to help fund state fish barrier removal. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SSB 5116 |
Clean energy |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -7 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Brief Summary of Engrossed Second Substitute Bill(As Amended by House)Requires all electric utilities to eliminate coal-fired resources from their allocation of electricity by December 31, 2025 (Coal Elimination Standard).Requires that all retail sales of electricity to Washington customers be greenhouse gas neutral by January 1, 2030 (Greenhouse Gas Neutral Standard).Establishes a statewide policy that nonemitting and renewable resources supply 100 percent of all retail sales of electricity to Washington customers by January 1, 2045 (Clean Energy Standard).Requires each electric utility to demonstrate its compliance with the Clean Energy Standard by January 1, 2045, and each year thereafter using a combination of nonemitting electric generation and electricity from renewable resources.Establishes an administrative penalty of $100 per megawatt-hour of electric generation, multiplied by certain source-specific multipliers, for noncompliance with the Coal Elimination Standard or Greenhouse Gas Neutral Standard.Extends the expiration date for a sales and use tax exemption for certain alternative energy machinery and equipment from January 1, 2020, to January 1, 2030.Reinstates an expired sales and use tax exemption for solar energy systems smaller than 500 kilowatts AC in size.Amends the Energy Independence Act. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1219 |
Real estate taxes/housing |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -3 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Brief Summary of Engrossed BillAuthorizes counties and cities to use certain real estate excise tax (REET II) revenue for facilities serving the homeless and affordable housing projects until January 1, 2026. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1923 |
Urban residential building |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -3 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Brief Summary of Engrossed Second Substitute BillEncourages cities with a population of greater than 10,000 that are planning fully under the Growth Management Act (GMA) to take certain actions to increase residential building capacity and housing affordability.Encourages cities with a population of greater than 10,000 that are planning fully under the GMA to make certain updates to the housing element of their comprehensive plan.Exempts from the requirements of the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) amendments to development regulations that are made in order to implement the residential building capacity and housing affordability elements of the act.Exempts certain project actions from appeals under SEPA on the basis of transportation impacts, provided they meet certain criteria. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 1680 |
Local infrastructure funding |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -5 (Poor) | Impact is Serious |
| Defines "natural or green infrastructure" and specifies that public works projects may include natural or green infrastructure. Allows for up to 1 percent of the biennial capital budget appropriation for the Public Works Board to be used for value-planning grants.Ends the deposit of 4.1 percent of the Real Estate Excise Tax (REET) into the Education Legacy Trust Account in fiscal year 2019, rather than fiscal year 2023.Prioritizes the 4.1 percent of REET that is deposited into the Public Works Assistance Account, from the 2019-21 through the 2021-23 bienniums, for infrastructure projects that support housing development. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 2206 |
GMA/rural gov. services |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 5 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Concerning equity by authorizing government services outside of urban growth areas. |
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| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| HB 2247 |
Marijuana licensing/zoning |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 3 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Aligning marijuana licensing decisions by the liquor and cannabis board with local zoning ordinances. |
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| X | | X | |
| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 6145 |
Property tax reduction |
| CAPR Recommends DO PASS |
CAPR rating = 4 (Outstanding) | Impact is Serious |
| Reducing the property tax. |
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| X | | X | |
| Schedualed meeting add/change |
| SB 5412 |
Greenhouse gas/transp. fuels |
| CAPR Recommends DO NOT PASS |
CAPR rating = -10 (Poor) | Impact is Critical |
| Directs the Department of Ecology (Ecology) to adopt a rule establishing a Clean Fuels Program (Program) to limit greenhouse gas emissions per unit of transportation fuel energy to 10 percent below 2017 levels by 2028 and 20 percent below 2017 levels by 2035. Excludes exported fuel, electricity, fuel used by vessels, railroad locomotives, and aircraft, and certain other categories of transportation fuel from the Program's requirements.Requires the Program to include processes for tracking compliance obligations and bankable, tradeable credits.Requires annual reporting by Ecology on the Program, as well as an analysis of the Program's first five years by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee.Retains the current revenue distribution under the 2015 Transportation revenue package, eliminating changes that would have been triggered as a result of the establishment of a Program. |
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