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Senator Karen Keiser

Biennium:

Prime Sponsored Bills


Bill NumberBrief Description
SB 5045 Allowing day spas to offer or supply without charge wine or beer by the individual glass to a customer for consumption on the premises.  Fiscal Note
SB 5096 Transferring ferry and flood control zone district functions and taxing authorities to county legislative authorities in counties with a population of one million five hundred thousand or more.  Fiscal Note
SB 5115 Concerning the definition of community mental health service delivery system. 
SB 5144 Modifying medical assistant provisions. 
SB 5145 Allowing fire departments to develop a community assistance referral and education services program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5148 Allowing for redistribution of medications under certain conditions.  Fiscal Note
SB 5196 Restoring payment rates for community residential providers and annually adjusting payment rates for community residential providers by the rate of inflation.  Fiscal Note
SB 5292 Implementing family and medical leave insurance.  Fiscal Note
SB 5333 Providing mental health first-aid training to teachers and educational staff.  Fiscal Note
SB 5346 Restoring funding to in-home care services.  Fiscal Note
SB 5393 Extending apprenticeship utilization requirements. 
SB 5397 Establishing outcome measures for the community mental health service delivery system. 
SB 5478 Prohibiting possession of firearms for persons participating in mental health court. 
SB 5479 Establishing a process for voluntary temporary safekeeping of firearms with law enforcement agencies. 
SB 5480 Accelerating changes to mental health involuntary commitment laws.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Accelerating changes to mental health involuntary commitment laws. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning mental health involuntary commitment laws. )  Fiscal Note
SB 5481 Developing and enforcing standards for the department of social and health services' supported living program. 
SB 5482 Concerning the federal basic health option of the affordable care act.  Fiscal Note
SB 5516 Establishing the criminal justice training commission firing range maintenance account.  Fiscal Note
SB 5525 Providing statutory support for medical specialty technicians in Washington state. 
SB 5537 Improving the quality and value of health care with greater transparency of price and quality data.  Fiscal Note
SB 5538 Addressing transparency, accountability, and affordability in the provision of essential health care services.  Fiscal Note
SB 5542 Addressing public employee benefits.  Fiscal Note
SB 5650 Allowing certain separated plan 2 members of the retirement systems to participate in insurance plans and contracts.  Fiscal Note
SB 5731 Allowing beer and/or wine specialty shop licensees to sell craft distillery products.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Allowing beer and/or wine specialty shop licensees to sell products made by distillers that produce sixty thousand gallons or less of spirits per year.  Fiscal Note
SB 5768 Concerning outpatient commitment. 
SB 5815 Prohibiting a person from selling or giving a vapor product designed solely for smoking or ingesting tobacco or shisha to a minor. 
SB 5855 Providing a business and occupation tax exemption for amounts received by hotel management companies for covered employee costs. 
SB 5884 Concerning dispensing contraceptive drugs for medicaid enrollees. 
SCR 8401 Creating a joint select committee on health care oversight. 

Secondary Sponsored Bills


Bill NumberBrief Description
SB 5009 Concerning health plan coverage for the voluntary termination of a pregnancy. 
SB 5029 Creating the Washington investment trust.  Fiscal Note
SB 5038 Enhancing the basic education allocation formula for principals, assistant principals, and other certificated building-level administrators to support the teacher evaluation program requirements of RCW 28A.405.100. 
SB 5046 Modifying the mandatory retirement provision for district judges.  Fiscal Note
SB 5056 Allowing a person to apply for a work permit for the employment of minors without completing a new master application under certain circumstances.  Fiscal Note
SB 5072 Concerning a sales and use tax exemption for disabled veterans and members of the armed forces for certain equipment and services that assist physically challenged persons to safely operate a motor vehicle.  Fiscal Note
SB 5073 Concerning the disclosure of foods produced through genetic engineering.  Fiscal Note
SB 5076 Requiring information on home energy efficiency to be included in residential home inspection reports.  Fiscal Note
SB 5077 Making technical corrections to certain gender-based terms. 
SB 5081 Regarding unlawful trade in shark fins. 
SB 5089 Allowing certain health care coverage deductions from the calculation of disposable income for the purpose of qualifying for senior property tax programs.  Fiscal Note
SB 5130 Concerning insurance coverage of treatment of eosinophilia gastrointestinal associated disorders.  Fiscal Note
SB 5141 Allowing motorcycles to stop and proceed through traffic control signals under certain conditions.  Fiscal Note
SB 5142 Incorporating motorcycles into certain transportation planning. 
SB 5150 Creating a task force to examine reform of the mental health system.  Fiscal Note
SB 5151 Authorizing criminal defendants to plead "guilty and mentally ill."  Fiscal Note
SB 5174 Concerning taxpayer accountability by requiring a net benefit to the state in order to claim the benefit of a tax expenditure.  Fiscal Note
SB 5175 Concerning sexual assault protection orders. 
SB 5179 Removing the one-year waiting period for veterans or active members of the military for purposes of eligibility for resident tuition.  Fiscal Note
SB 5180 Improving access to higher education for students with disabilities.  Fiscal Note
SB 5181 Concerning flame retardants.  Fiscal Note
SB 5201 Accelerating cleanup of hazardous waste sites.  Fiscal Note
SB 5202 Creating the companion animal safety, population control, and spay/neuter assistance program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5204 Preventing animal cruelty. 
SB 5205 Removing the expiration for the additional surcharge imposed on registered nurses and licensed practical nurses.  Fiscal Note
SB 5206 Authorizing occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, dieticians, and nutritionists to participate in online access to the University of Washington health sciences library. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Increasing the health professions participating in online access to the University of Washington health sciences library. )  Fiscal Note
SB 5207 Addressing the consumer loan act.  Fiscal Note
SB 5211 Concerning social networking accounts and profiles.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning social networking accounts and profiles. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Concerning personal social networking accounts. ) 
SB 5216 Addressing long-term care insurance.  Fiscal Note
SB 5223 Adding children victims of trafficking to the definition of abuse and neglect. 
SB 5224 Concerning the Washington health security trust.  Fiscal Note
SB 5228 Concerning public notification of local health conditions. 
SB 5230 Prohibiting smoking in vehicles containing children. 
SB 5234 Improving behavioral health services provided to adults in Washington state.  Fiscal Note
SB 5240 Requiring cities and counties to provide security for their courts. 
SB 5260 Authorizing regular meetings of county legislative authorities to be held at alternate locations within the county. 
SB 5261 Prohibiting certain liquor self-checkout machines. 
SB 5265 Regarding transparency in patient billing.  Fiscal Note
SB 5267 Concerning prior authorization for health care services.
Revised for 2nd Substitute: Developing standardized prior authorization for medical and pharmacy management. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Establishing a work group to develop standardized prior authorization for medical and pharmacy management. )  Fiscal Note
SB 5282 Creating a statewide database of mental health commitment information.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Creating a statewide database of mental health commitment information. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Creating a work group for consolidation of statewide involuntary commitment information. )  Fiscal Note
SB 5283 Concerning a business and occupation tax exemption for the Washington health benefit exchange established under chapter 43.71 RCW.  Fiscal Note
SB 5293 Extending the expiration dates of the local infrastructure financing tool program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5301 Regarding student suspension and expulsion.  Fiscal Note
SB 5304 Providing cities and towns with the local options to permit digital outdoor advertising signs.  Fiscal Note
SB 5308 Establishing the commercially sexually exploited children statewide coordinating committee. 
SB 5310 Creating a senior center license.  Fiscal Note
SB 5312 Authorizing small consumer installment loans.  Fiscal Note
SB 5339 Addressing wellness programs under the insurance code.  Fiscal Note
SB 5340 Limiting maximum capital and reserves accumulations by health care service contractors and health maintenance organizations. 
SB 5349 Revising alternative public works contracting procedures. 
SB 5350 Modifying collective bargaining law related to providing additional compensation for academic employees at community and technical colleges. 
SB 5355 Implementing the unemployment insurance integrity provisions of the federal trade adjustment assistance extension act of 2011.  Fiscal Note
SB 5358 Concerning people with disabilities who receive no paid services from the department of social and health services' division of developmental disabilities.  Fiscal Note
SB 5360 Addressing the collection of unpaid wages.  Fiscal Note
SB 5361 Modifying payment methods on certain claimants' benefits.  Fiscal Note
SB 5362 Addressing the recommendations of the vocational rehabilitation subcommittee for workers' compensation.  Fiscal Note
SB 5363 Addressing industrial insurance for horse racing employment.  Fiscal Note
SB 5370 Implementing the recommendation of the developmental disabilities service system task force relating to community living safeguards.  Fiscal Note
SB 5371 Implementing the recommendations of the developmental disability service system task force. 
SB 5372 Reducing criminal justice expenses by eliminating the death penalty in favor of life incarceration.  Fiscal Note
SB 5374 Concerning photographs, microphotographs, and electronic images from traffic safety cameras and toll systems. 
SB 5375 Modifying assault in the third degree provisions. 
SB 5376 Concerning juvenile firearms and weapons crimes.  Fiscal Note
SB 5384 Making the board of denturists the disciplining authority for licensed denturists. 
SB 5385 Concerning the practice of denturism. 
SB 5388 Reducing the financial loss to emergency medical care and transportation services by ensuring direct payment for emergency transportation services. 
SB 5394 Requiring use of resident workers on public works.  Fiscal Note
SB 5395 Extending the application of prevailing wage requirements. 
SB 5413 Expanding metal theft provisions.  Fiscal Note
SB 5414 Regarding the requirements of allopathic physician licensure.  Fiscal Note
SB 5415 Updating and aligning with federal requirements hospital health care-associated infection rate reporting.  Fiscal Note
SB 5416 Concerning prescription information.  Fiscal Note
SB 5423 Concerning the scope and costs of the diabetes epidemic in Washington.  Fiscal Note
SB 5428 Creating initiatives in high schools to save lives in the event of cardiac arrest. 
SB 5429 Increasing accountability for the tax preferences for manufacturing machinery and equipment by requiring a net benefit to the state and deferring sales and use tax.  Fiscal Note
SB 5433 Concerning mid-level dental professionals. 
SB 5434 Addressing the filing and public disclosure of health care provider compensation.  Fiscal Note
SB 5443 Creating greater efficiency in the offices of county assessors by allowing notification via electronic means. 
SB 5444 Creating greater efficiency in the offices of county assessor by eliminating the requirement to annually appraise tax-exempt government properties.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning the administration of taxes regarding publicly owned property.  Fiscal Note
SB 5449 Addressing the Washington state health insurance pool.  Fiscal Note
SB 5451 Supporting music education for young children in public schools.  Fiscal Note
SB 5456 Concerning detentions under the involuntary treatment act.  Fiscal Note
SB 5459 Requiring ninety-day supply limits on certain drugs dispensed by a pharmacist.  Fiscal Note
SB 5464 Allowing dental hygienists and dental assistants to provide certain services under the supervision of a dentist. 
SB 5465 Concerning exemptions from licensure as a physical therapist.  Fiscal Note
SB 5468 Modifying the definition of tourist for the purposes of the lodging tax.  Fiscal Note
SB 5469 Concerning the prescription of biological products and interchangeable biosimilar products. 
SB 5471 Addressing insurance, generally.  Fiscal Note
SB 5473 Enacting the Washington voting rights act of 2013.  Fiscal Note
SB 5474 Promoting state employee wellness and productivity.  Fiscal Note
SB 5476 Clarifying the employment status of independent contractors in the news business. 
SB 5485 Concerning unauthorized access to firearms. 
SB 5488 Establishing an enhanced penalty for the use of an internet advertisement to facilitate the commission of a sex-trafficking crime.  Fiscal Note
SB 5502 Requiring Columbia river crossing project tolling agreements to contain certain provisions. 
SB 5506 Concerning funding for the safe routes to school program. 
SB 5507 Increasing transparency of donors to candidates and ballot measures. 
SB 5509 Concerning electronic timekeeping for in-home personal care or respite services.  Fiscal Note
SB 5510 Concerning the abuse of vulnerable adults.  Fiscal Note
SB 5519 Concerning planning measures to provide long-term care services and supports needs of the aging population.  Fiscal Note
SB 5521 Protecting children under the age of eighteen from the harmful effects of exposure to ultraviolet radiation associated with tanning devices.  Fiscal Note
SB 5524 Authorizing Washington pharmacies to fill prescriptions written by physician assistants in other states.  Fiscal Note
SB 5526 Ensuring fairness to employers by protecting employees.  Fiscal Note
SB 5528 Concerning the medical use of cannabis. 
SB 5530 Requiring physicians and physician assistants to provide requested demographic information at the time of license renewal. 
SB 5531 Measuring performance of the child welfare system.  Fiscal Note
SB 5532 Requiring crisis intervention training for peace officers. 
SB 5539 Concerning the provision of prescription drugs by direct practice providers. 
SB 5540 Expanding opportunities to purchase health care coverage from out-of-state carriers.  Fiscal Note
SB 5548 Limiting differential tuition.  Fiscal Note
SB 5549 Concerning the education of surgical technologists. 
SB 5552 Improving child support collections by requiring reporting of compensation and establishing an intercept program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5553 Requiring the department of health to study the potential to divert ambulances to urgent care facilities. 
SB 5554 Requiring a study of the prescription monitoring program and its role in increasing coordination of care.  Fiscal Note
SB 5558 Creating loan-making authority for down payment assistance for single-family homeownership.  Fiscal Note
SB 5562 Concerning providers and facilities' participation in the provision of medical care or in the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in accordance with a form developed by the department of health. 
SB 5563 Regarding training for school employees in the prevention of sexual abuse.  Fiscal Note
SB 5565 Concerning background checks for individuals seeking a license under chapter 74.13 RCW or unsupervised access to children.  Fiscal Note
SB 5567 Changing requirements for membership on community and technical college boards of trustees. 
SB 5568 Concerning the disclosure of certain information when screening tenants. 
SB 5569 Establishing a requirement and system for reporting incidents of student restraint and isolation in public schools. 
SB 5570 Concerning school funding. 
SB 5571 Increasing public awareness of mental illness and its consequences.  Fiscal Note
SB 5573 Implementing the first biennium spending plan recommendations of the joint task force on education funding. 
SB 5576 Concerning health plan coverage for the voluntary termination of a pregnancy.  Fiscal Note
SB 5586 Requiring the certificate of need review to include a determination of whether hospitals are able to provide a full range of legal medical services. 
SB 5589 Providing for a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds. 
SB 5594 Establishing minimum standards for sick and safe leave from employment.  Fiscal Note
SB 5602 Creating a silver alert system. 
SB 5613 Providing that certain cover charges for the opportunity to dance are not considered retail sales.  Fiscal Note
SB 5615 Concerning the health professional loan repayment and scholarship program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5621 Concerning certified payroll records on public works projects.  Fiscal Note
SB 5626 Concerning the practice of midwifery. 
SB 5630 Implementing recommendations of the adult family home quality assurance panel.  Fiscal Note
SB 5635 Granting courts discretion to deny restoration of firearm rights to a person who has been involuntarily committed for mental health treatment when it appears the person is likely to engage in violent or unsafe behaviors. 
SB 5638 Addressing the fiscal impacts of bills and budgets.  Fiscal Note
SB 5647 Requiring the department of revenue to publish their determinations.  Fiscal Note
SB 5651 Concerning postretirement employment. 
SB 5652 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. 
SB 5654 Allowing certain retirees to participate in the insurance programs under chapter 41.05 RCW. 
SB 5655 Expanding existing higher education financial aid programs to state residents.  Fiscal Note
SB 5670 Extending state need grant eligibility under certain circumstances.  Fiscal Note
SB 5671 Concerning accountability in providing opportunities for certain students to participate in transition services. 
SB 5674 Allowing wine and beer sampling at farmers markets.  Fiscal Note
SB 5681 Facilitating treatment for persons with co-occurring disorders by requiring development of an integrated rule.  Fiscal Note
SB 5695 Addressing wellness programs offered by a health carrier.  Fiscal Note
SB 5698 Providing access to health insurance for certain law enforcement officers' and firefighters' plan 2 members catastrophically disabled in the line of duty.  Fiscal Note
SB 5700 Concerning pharmacy benefit manager audit procedures. 
SB 5706 Concerning accountability in providing opportunities for certain students to participate in transition services.  Fiscal Note
SB 5707 Regarding net metering of electricity. 
SB 5708 Providing a minimum term sentence for certain persistent offenders. 
SB 5710 Concerning reckless endangerment resulting from unsafe storage of firearms. 
SB 5711 Requiring universal background checks for firearms transfers. 
SB 5712 Encouraging community colleges to use, and inform students of the use of, multiple measures to determine the need for precollege courses.  Fiscal Note
SB 5714 Establishing a task force on improving public health and safety regarding firearms. 
SB 5719 Concerning stand-alone dental coverage. 
SB 5725 Concerning social worker licensing. 
SB 5732 Concerning the adult behavioral health system in Washington state. 
SB 5742 Addressing drayage truck operators at certain ports. 
SB 5756 Concerning community reinvestment of oil windfall profits.  Fiscal Note
SB 5772 Providing access to the prescription drug monitoring database for clinical laboratories. 
SB 5774 Authorizing applications for a special permit to allow alcohol tasting by persons nineteen and twenty years of age under certain circumstances.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Authorizing applications for a special permit to allow alcohol tasting by persons at least eighteen years of age under certain circumstances.  Fiscal Note
SB 5778 Allowing certain county legislative authorities to impose a sales and use tax by ordinance. 
SB 5779 Requiring the department of licensing to adopt rules regarding online learning for training in cosmetology, manicuring, barbering, esthetics, and instruction.  Fiscal Note
SB 5782 Establishing standards for the use of public unmanned aircraft systems. 
SB 5783 Modifying the Washington customized employment training program to include industry cluster associations.  Fiscal Note
SB 5784 Concerning the joint center for aerospace technology innovation.  Fiscal Note
SB 5791 Supporting youth programs through agricultural fairs and the horse racing industry.  Fiscal Note
SB 5792 Concerning health care services for inmates in city, county, and regional jails.  Fiscal Note
SB 5798 Concerning health plan coverage for the voluntary termination of a pregnancy. 
SB 5825 Allowing nurses and physicians to satisfy a portion of their continuing education credits through providing services to medicaid enrollees or the uninsured. 
SB 5833 Regulating interpreter services. 
SB 5838 Restoring some of the nursing facility payment methodology changes made during 2011.  Fiscal Note
SB 5839 Creating a cause of action for the protection of employees acting in furtherance of public policy. 
SB 5849 Concerning electric vehicle charging stations.  Fiscal Note
SB 5853 Authorizing membership in the Washington public safety employees' retirement system for employees at public utility districts who are qualified trades people who maintain electrical transmission lines.  Fiscal Note
SB 5864 Authorizing bonds for the financing of the Columbia river crossing project. 
SB 5899 Concerning communications services reform to fund working connections child care.  Fiscal Note
SB 5900 Strengthening the tax structure, tax equity, and essential governmental services by a voter-approved tax.  Fiscal Note
SB 5906 Maintaining access to state recreational lands managed by the department of natural resources. 
SB 5908 Concerning property tax refunds. 
SB 5925 Extending contribution limits to candidates for public hospital district boards of commissioners. 
SB 5931 Clarifying the requirements for health plans offered outside of the exchange. 
SJR 8208 Amending the Constitution to allow a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds. 
SR 8604 Honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 
SR 8609 Celebrating outdoor recreation in Washington state. 
SR 8610 Honoring the career of Senator Bob Morton. 
SR 8611 Reaffirming Washington's commitment to a strong relationship with Taiwan. 
SR 8615 Honoring Washington girls and women in sports. 
SR 8616 Honoring the legacy of women legislators. 
SR 8619 Honoring civic education. 
SR 8622 Recognizing Gifted Education Day and Week. 
SR 8623 Offering best wishes for a fulfilling retirement to Consul General Gao Zhansheng. 
SR 8627 Regarding the 2013 Blessing of the Fleet. 
SR 8628 Honoring the life and legislative career of Senator Wojahn. 
SR 8629 Honoring the Seattle Raging Grannies. 
SR 8630 Celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the Department of Agriculture. 
SR 8631 Honoring the legacy of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 
SR 8634 Commemorating the career of U.S. Representative Norm Dicks. 
SR 8635 Honoring individuals with autism. 
SR 8636 Honoring Peace Corps volunteers and recognizing the 2013 Top Peace Corps Volunteer-Producing Colleges. 
SR 8638 Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright. 
SR 8641 Recognizing and expressing appreciation for Sea Service personnel. 
SR 8643 Proclaiming Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day. 
SR 8645 Celebrating Morningside's fiftieth anniversary. 
SR 8647 Honoring the work of Seattle Children's Hospital. 
SR 8648 Honoring Consul General Kiyokazu Ota of Japan. 
SR 8651 Honoring Doris M. Brougham for her lifelong achievements. 
SR 8654 Recognizing the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. 
SR 8655 Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1963 American Mt. Everest Expedition. 
SR 8656 Recognizing the Owen family and honoring Tim and Cheryl Owen. 
SR 8659 Celebrating Red Hat Day.