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Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles

Biennium:

Prime Sponsored Bills


Bill NumberBrief Description
SB 5077 Making technical corrections to certain gender-based terms. 
SB 5153 Concerning transfers of clients between regional support networks.  Fiscal Note
SB 5203 Preventing animal cruelty. 
SB 5204 Preventing animal cruelty. 
SB 5221 Requiring notification of release of a person following dismissal of charges based on incompetence to stand trial.  Fiscal Note
SB 5222 Concerning industrial hemp.  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 5308 Establishing the commercially sexually exploited children statewide coordinating committee. 
SB 5350 Modifying collective bargaining law related to providing additional compensation for academic employees at community and technical colleges. 
SB 5420 Creating a two-year freeze on tuition rates at four-year institutions of higher education. 
SB 5421 Changing enrollment forecasts and budgeting for institutions of higher education.  Fiscal Note
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 5528 Concerning the medical use of cannabis. 
SB 5563 Regarding training for school employees in the prevention of sexual abuse.  Fiscal Note
SB 5645 Addressing service animals. 
SB 5646 Concerning high school equivalency certificates.  Fiscal Note
SB 5673 Creating a two-year freeze on tuition rates at community and technical colleges. 
SB 5674 Allowing wine and beer sampling at farmers markets.  Fiscal Note
SB 5710 Concerning reckless endangerment resulting from unsafe storage of firearms. 
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 5713 Concerning self-supporting, fee-based programs at four-year institutions of higher education.  Fiscal Note
SB 5714 Establishing a task force on improving public health and safety regarding firearms. 
SB 5734 Continuing the use of the legislature's sunset review process. 
SB 5778 Allowing certain county legislative authorities to impose a sales and use tax by ordinance. 
SB 5908 Concerning property tax refunds. 
SJM 8000 Requesting that the Drug Enforcement Administration reclassify medical marijuana as a Schedule II drug. 
SJM 8003 Requesting Congress to amend the Communications Decency Act. 
SR 8615 Honoring Washington girls and women in sports. 
SR 8627 Regarding the 2013 Blessing of the Fleet. 
SR 8644 Commending the Independent Colleges of Washington. 
SR 8649 Celebrating the culture and heritage of Norway on May 17, 2013. 

Secondary Sponsored Bills


Bill NumberBrief Description
SB 5009 Concerning health plan coverage for the voluntary termination of a pregnancy. 
SB 5026 Creating a peer mentoring program to encourage elementary school students to attend college.  Fiscal Note
SB 5028 Changing state need grant eligibility provisions.  Fiscal Note
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 5039 Increasing revenues dedicated to basic education purposes.  Fiscal Note
SB 5040 Incorporating state tax expenditures into the state budget process.  Fiscal Note
SB 5044 Establishing the GET ready for college program. 
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 5046 Modifying the mandatory retirement provision for district judges.  Fiscal Note
SB 5052 Increasing the number of superior court judges in Whatcom county.  Fiscal Note
SB 5053 Modifying vehicle prowling provisions.  Fiscal Note
SB 5058 Concerning assault of a corrections officer, law enforcement officer, or other employee of a law enforcement agency.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning assault of a corrections officer, law enforcement officer, community corrections officer, or an employee responsible for the supervision of a sentenced offender in a detention facility.  Fiscal Note
SB 5069 Increasing the number of superior court judges in Benton and Franklin counties jointly.  Fiscal Note
SB 5102 Concerning veterinarian immunity from liability when reporting suspected animal cruelty. 
SB 5103 Concerning grants for community outdoor and indoor athletic facilities.  Fiscal Note
SB 5104 Placing epinephrine autoinjectors in schools.  Fiscal Note
SB 5111 Creating a beer and wine theater license.  Fiscal Note
SB 5117 Regarding family involvement coordinators in public schools.  Fiscal Note
SB 5129 Authorizing the establishment and use of veterans' treatment courts.  Fiscal Note
SB 5130 Concerning insurance coverage of treatment of eosinophilia gastrointestinal associated disorders.  Fiscal Note
SB 5145 Allowing fire departments to develop a community assistance referral and education services program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5146 Creating a competitive grant program for informal science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.  Fiscal Note
SB 5148 Allowing for redistribution of medications under certain conditions.  Fiscal Note
SB 5150 Creating a task force to examine reform of the mental health system.  Fiscal Note
SB 5152 Creating Seattle Sounders FC and Seattle Seahawks special license plates.  Fiscal Note
SB 5155 Regarding long-term suspension or expulsion from school.  Fiscal Note
SB 5161 Authorizing certain eligible family members of United States armed forces members who died while in service or as a result of service to apply for gold star license plates.  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 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 5202 Creating the companion animal safety, population control, and spay/neuter assistance program.  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 5230 Prohibiting smoking in vehicles containing children. 
SB 5240 Requiring cities and counties to provide security for their courts. 
SB 5261 Prohibiting certain liquor self-checkout machines. 
SB 5266 Concerning the discover pass. 
SB 5268 Extending the time period for voter registration. 
SB 5270 Allowing motor voter preregistration for sixteen and seventeen year olds.  Fiscal Note
SB 5292 Implementing family and medical leave insurance.  Fiscal Note
SB 5310 Creating a senior center license.  Fiscal Note
SB 5341 Concerning the use of nonconviction records for employment and housing opportunities. 
SB 5342 Concerning a sales and use tax exemption for restaurants in respect to certain items that impart flavor to food during the cooking process.  Fiscal Note
SB 5345 Adding persons who serve legal process to assault in the third degree provisions. 
SB 5346 Restoring funding to in-home care services.  Fiscal Note
SB 5348 Directing the department of health to review the impact of chemicals on public health. 
SB 5355 Implementing the unemployment insurance integrity provisions of the federal trade adjustment assistance extension act of 2011.  Fiscal Note
SB 5356 Changing the unemployment insurance shared work program by adopting short-time compensation provisions in the federal middle class tax relief and job creation act of 2012.  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 5365 Increasing the capacity of school districts to recognize and respond to troubled youth.  Fiscal Note
SB 5372 Reducing criminal justice expenses by eliminating the death penalty in favor of life incarceration.  Fiscal Note
SB 5375 Modifying assault in the third degree provisions. 
SB 5389 Concerning sibling visitation for children in foster care.
Revised for 2nd Substitute: Concerning sibling visitation and sibling contact for children in foster care. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Concerning limitations on visitation or contact with children in foster care. )  Fiscal Note
SB 5390 Establishing the educational achievement and tuition reduction incentive program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5393 Extending apprenticeship utilization requirements. 
SB 5394 Requiring use of resident workers on public works.  Fiscal Note
SB 5395 Extending the application of prevailing wage requirements. 
SB 5396 Concerning limited on-premise spirits sampling.  Fiscal Note
SB 5405 Concerning extended foster care services.  Fiscal Note
SB 5423 Concerning the scope and costs of the diabetes epidemic in Washington.  Fiscal Note
SB 5424 Concerning paint stewardship.  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 5440 Creating support public schools special license plates.  Fiscal Note
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 5447 Addressing the unintentional lapses of long-term care insurance policies.  Fiscal Note
SB 5451 Supporting music education for young children in public schools.  Fiscal Note
SB 5452 Modifying stalking and harassment protection order provisions.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning no-contact and protection orders for stalking and harassment.  Fiscal Note
SB 5454 Concerning the testing of infants placed in out-of-home care whose human immunodeficiency virus is unknown.  Fiscal Note
SB 5455 Protecting children under the age of eighteen from the harmful effects of exposure to ultraviolet radiation associated with tanning devices. 
SB 5457 Adopting the Washington small rechargeable battery stewardship act.  Fiscal Note
SB 5458 Concerning the labeling of certain asbestos-containing building materials.  Fiscal Note
SB 5460 Concerning the rights of parents who are incarcerated or in residential substance abuse treatment.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning the rights of parents who are incarcerated.  Fiscal Note
SB 5461 Modifying provisions regarding the representation of children in dependency matters.  Fiscal Note
SB 5466 Modifying criminal history record information compliance audit provisions.  Fiscal Note
SB 5469 Concerning the prescription of biological products and interchangeable biosimilar products. 
SB 5472 Authorizing applied doctorate level degrees in audiology at Western Washington University.  Fiscal Note
SB 5473 Enacting the Washington voting rights act of 2013.  Fiscal Note
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 5482 Concerning the federal basic health option of the affordable care act.  Fiscal Note
SB 5484 Concerning assault in the third degree occurring in areas used in connection with court proceedings.  Fiscal Note
SB 5485 Concerning unauthorized access to firearms. 
SB 5487 Providing a minimum term sentence for certain persistent offenders. 
SB 5491 Establishing statewide indicators of educational health.  Fiscal Note
SB 5496 Authorizing approval of online school programs in private schools.  Fiscal Note
SB 5497 Concerning assault in the third degree against a school employee.  Fiscal Note
SB 5506 Concerning funding for the safe routes to school program. 
SB 5507 Increasing transparency of donors to candidates and ballot measures. 
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 5526 Ensuring fairness to employers by protecting employees.  Fiscal Note
SB 5529 Creating a sales tax holiday for back-to-school clothing and supplies.  Fiscal Note
SB 5544 Requiring an online higher education transfer and student advising system.  Fiscal Note
SB 5546 Concerning floatation devices on state-owned aquatic lands and in state waters.  Fiscal Note
SB 5548 Limiting differential tuition.  Fiscal Note
SB 5552 Improving child support collections by requiring reporting of compensation and establishing an intercept program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5559 Authorizing educational specialist degrees at Central Washington University and Western Washington University.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Authorizing educational specialist degrees at Central Washington University, Western Washington University, and The Evergreen State College.  Fiscal Note
SB 5560 Modifying job skills program provisions.  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 5568 Concerning the disclosure of certain information when screening tenants. 
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 5583 Requiring an annual permit fee on studded tire use.  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 5595 Concerning child care reform.  Fiscal Note
SB 5598 Concerning the disposition of surplus property for the development of affordable housing.  Fiscal Note
SB 5600 Concerning the definition of work activity for the purposes of the WorkFirst program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5602 Creating a silver alert system. 
SB 5603 Establishing the Washington coastal marine advisory council. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Establishing the Washington coastal marine advisory council and the Washington marine resources advisory council. )  Fiscal Note
SB 5607 Concerning beer, wine, and spirits theater licenses.  Fiscal Note
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 5624 Aligning high-demand secondary STEM or career and technical education programs with applied baccalaureate programs.  Fiscal Note
SB 5625 Requiring universal background checks for firearms transfers. 
SB 5632 Concerning the performance of spinal manipulation by physical therapists. 
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 5642 Raising the minimum state funding assistance percentage for the school construction assistance program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5643 Concerning exemptions from the five-year time limit for recipients of the temporary assistance for needy families program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5653 Promoting a balanced financing system for state parks programs and services in order to facilitate resource stewardship, interpretative activities, cultural events, and works of art in state parks.  Fiscal Note
SB 5655 Expanding existing higher education financial aid programs to state residents.  Fiscal Note
SB 5660 Regarding firearms safety education programs.  Fiscal Note
SB 5669 Concerning trafficking.  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 5693 Making ample provisions to support higher education.  Fiscal Note
SB 5694 Improving protections for incapacitated adults. 
SB 5703 Concerning the distribution of state liquor revenues to cities and counties. 
SB 5706 Concerning accountability in providing opportunities for certain students to participate in transition services.  Fiscal Note
SB 5708 Providing a minimum term sentence for certain persistent offenders. 
SB 5711 Requiring universal background checks for firearms transfers. 
SB 5730 Funding higher education child care grants. 
SB 5736 Concerning higher education operating efficiencies. 
SB 5737 Banning the sale of assault weapons. 
SB 5738 Providing a funding source to improve education.  Fiscal Note
SB 5739 Promoting public safety by expanding local authority to enact ordinances restricting firearms in parks and recreational facilities. 
SB 5741 Allowing the use of lodging taxes for financing workforce housing and tourism promotion activities or facilities.  Fiscal Note
SB 5742 Addressing drayage truck operators at certain ports. 
SB 5754 Concerning integrated career learning opportunities and employment training for at-risk youth.  Fiscal Note
SB 5755 Establishing a comprehensive initiative to increase learning opportunities and improve educational outcomes in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics through multiple strategies and statewide partnerships.  Fiscal Note
SB 5756 Concerning community reinvestment of oil windfall profits.  Fiscal Note
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 5780 Creating efficiencies for institutions of higher education. 
SB 5782 Establishing standards for the use of public unmanned aircraft systems. 
SB 5787 Adding the chair of the student achievement council to the Washington higher education facilities authority. 
SB 5791 Supporting youth programs through agricultural fairs and the horse racing industry.  Fiscal Note
SB 5798 Concerning health plan coverage for the voluntary termination of a pregnancy. 
SB 5799 Establishing a tourism stakeholder task force for the purpose of increasing trade and economic development in Washington state.  Fiscal Note
SB 5802 Developing recommendations to achieve the state's greenhouse gas emissions limits.
Revised for 2nd Substitute: Developing recommendations to achieve the state's greenhouse gas emissions targets.  Fiscal Note
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 5826 Addressing the shared leave pool. 
SB 5833 Regulating interpreter services. 
SB 5839 Creating a cause of action for the protection of employees acting in furtherance of public policy. 
SB 5843 Strengthening the review of the legislature's goals for tax preferences by requiring that every new tax preference provide an expiration date and statement of legislative intent. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Strengthening the review of the legislature's goals for tax preferences by requiring that every new tax preference provide a statement of legislative intent and include an expiration date where applicable. )  Fiscal Note
SB 5861 Concerning local transportation revenue.  Fiscal Note
SB 5864 Authorizing bonds for the financing of the Columbia river crossing project. 
SB 5884 Concerning dispensing contraceptive drugs for medicaid enrollees. 
SB 5889 Modifying snowmobile parking permit and license fees.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Modifying snowmobile license fees.  Fiscal Note
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 5909 Expanding STEM education to include the arts. 
SB 5933 Concerning flame retardants. 
SJM 8002 Requesting an amendment to the United States Constitution to return the authority to regulate election campaign contributions to congress and state legislatures. 
SJM 8006 Promoting the use of the Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program in preschools, early learning programs, and schools. 
SJM 8007 Requesting Congress pass legislation imposing a fee on United States bound cargo when it crosses the Canadian border.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Requesting that congress pass legislation reforming the harbor maintenance tax. 
SJM 8008 Requesting that congress pass and the president sign legislation implementing certain visa reforms. 
SJR 8208 Amending the Constitution to allow a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds. 
SJR 8209 Amending the Constitution to make higher education the state's second highest priority.  Fiscal Note
SR 8603 Recognizing the hard work and contributions made by the people and organizations that make Project Homeless Connect a continued success. 
SR 8604 Honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 
SR 8610 Honoring the career of Senator Bob Morton. 
SR 8611 Reaffirming Washington's commitment to a strong relationship with Taiwan. 
SR 8612 Honoring Senator Jerome Delvin. 
SR 8613 Honoring the National Guard. 
SR 8616 Honoring the legacy of women legislators. 
SR 8617 Celebrating the presence of Filipino-Americans. 
SR 8618 Acknowledging the seventy-first anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066, and recognizing Japanese-American internees and World War II veterans. 
SR 8619 Honoring civic education. 
SR 8620 Honoring students of Tahoma High School. 
SR 8621 Recognizing the Washington state wing of the Civil Air Patrol. 
SR 8622 Recognizing Gifted Education Day and Week. 
SR 8623 Offering best wishes for a fulfilling retirement to Consul General Gao Zhansheng. 
SR 8624 Congratulating the Seattle Seahawks. 
SR 8625 Celebrating the 100th birthday of Washington State Parks. 
SR 8626 Honoring athletes who participated in the 2013 Special Olympics. 
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 8642 Celebrating the National Day of the Cowboy. 
SR 8643 Proclaiming Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day. 
SR 8648 Honoring Consul General Kiyokazu Ota of Japan. 
SR 8650 Recognizing National Donate Life Month. 
SR 8651 Honoring Doris M. Brougham for her lifelong achievements. 
SR 8652 Recognizing religious freedom in Washington State. 
SR 8653 Celebrating the Washington State Apple Blossom Festival. 
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 8658 Honoring the life and work of Forrest Westering. 
SR 8659 Celebrating Red Hat Day. 
SR 8660 Honoring the 2013 National Teacher of the Year, Jeff Charbonneau.