Senator Pam Roach

Biennium:

Prime Sponsored Bills


Bill NumberBrief Description
SB 5025 Providing that a proclamation of a state of emergency is effective upon the governor's signature.  Fiscal Note
SB 5030 Extending the Chinook scenic byway.  Fiscal Note
SB 5079 Providing compensation for damage to livestock caused by wolves.  Fiscal Note
SB 5095 Providing proof of financial responsibility for motor vehicle operation.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Providing proof of financial responsibility for motor vehicle operation. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning proof of required documents for motor vehicle operation. )
  Fiscal Note
SB 5162 Prohibiting a child custody award to a suspect in an active murder investigation. 
SB 5163 Requiring that child protective service workers be licensed as social workers and bonded.  Fiscal Note
SB 5164 Concerning farm vehicles that are exempt from vehicle registration.  Fiscal Note
SB 5169 Implementing the recommendations of the sunshine committee. 
SB 5170 Implementing a recommendation of the sunshine committee. 
SB 5171 Implementing the recommendations of the sunshine committee. 
SB 5185 Concerning the powers of water-sewer districts. 
SB 5186 Concerning contractor's bond. 
SB 5257 Modifying time frames applicable to certain public disclosure commission requirements.  Fiscal Note
SB 5291 Concerning the signing and receipt of ballots. 
SB 5309 Authorizing certain water-sewer districts to use the job order contracting procedure. 
SB 5323 Authorizing assessments for nuisance abatement in cities and towns. 
SB 5332 Modifying the percentage of votes required to approve benefit charges for fire protection districts.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Modifying the percentage of votes required to continue benefit charges for fire protection districts.
 
SB 5336 Concerning the standard of evidence for appeals of valuation of property for purposes of taxation.  Fiscal Note
SB 5353 Providing information to assist in unemployment insurance overpayment recovery.  Fiscal Note
SB 5426 Concerning unlawful detainer. 
SB 5443 Creating greater efficiency in the offices of county assessors by allowing notification via electronic means. 
SB 5477 Delineating standard diplomas and applied diplomas. 
SB 5490 Concerning veterans' assistance levies.  Fiscal Note
SB 5503 Concerning payment of delinquent property taxes. 
SB 5504 Requiring state employees to be truthful when providing employment-related information. 
SB 5505 Encouraging valid voter signatures on petitions count and timely validation of signatures. 
SB 5514 Concerning utility rates and charges for vacant mobile home lots in manufactured housing communities.  Fiscal Note
SB 5518 Making nonsubstantive changes to election laws.  Fiscal Note
SB 5580 Modifying ballot processing provisions. 
SB 5606 Concerning fire suppression water facilities and services provided by municipal and other water purveyors. 
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 5661 Addressing property assessments and the appeal of those assessments.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning property assessments and the appeal of those assessments.
 
SB 5662 Concerning code enforcement of storage facilities. 
SB 5746 Providing a method for dissolution of a public hospital district. 
SB 5747 Concerning the election of public hospital district boards of commissioners. 
SB 5748 Extending contribution limits to candidates for public hospital district boards of commissioners. 
SB 5762 Concerning relatives in dependency proceedings. 
SB 5763 Concerning the placement of children with relatives. 
SB 5764 Concerning the right to jury trial in termination actions. 
SB 5834 Concerning veteran-owned businesses.  Fiscal Note
SB 5865 Exempting from use tax certain purchases from nonprofit organizations or libraries sold as a fund-raising activity.  Fiscal Note
SB 5885 Concerning instruction in Spanish and Chinese languages. 
SB 5906 Maintaining access to state recreational lands managed by the department of natural resources. 
SB 5907 Ensuring no net loss of public access to state recreational lands.  Fiscal Note
SB 5925 Extending contribution limits to candidates for public hospital district boards of commissioners. 
SB 5932 Concerning blood and breath alcohol content limits. 
SJM 8004 Requesting Congress and the Postmaster General to establish a special accommodation for official election mail. 
SJR 8204 Amending the Constitution to require a two-thirds majority vote of the legislature to raise taxes. 
SJR 8205 Amending the Constitution to require a two-thirds majority vote of the legislature to raise taxes.  Fiscal Note
SR 8633 Celebrating the city of Enumclaw's 100th anniversary. 
SR 8635 Honoring individuals with autism. 

Secondary Sponsored Bills


Bill NumberBrief Description
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 5059 Concerning the crime of rendering criminal assistance.  Fiscal Note
SB 5061 Addressing a veteran's preference for the purpose of public employment. 
SB 5062 Providing measures to deal with squatters on foreclosed properties. 
SB 5071 Concerning the relinquishment of a water right.  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 5084 Concerning discounted discovery passes for disabled veterans.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning discounted discover passes for disabled veterans.
  Fiscal Note
SB 5085 Concerning voter approval of a high capacity transportation system plan and financing plan. 
SB 5086 Establishing a joint safety rest area demonstration project.  Fiscal Note
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 5091 Creating the taxpayer savings account. 
SB 5092 Providing an exemption from continuing competency requirements for registered nurses who seek advanced nursing degrees.  Fiscal Note
SB 5093 Concerning a transportation benefit district vehicle fee. 
SB 5094 Requiring notification of sex offenders attending schools.  Fiscal Note
SB 5097 Allowing spouses to combine volunteer hours for purposes of receiving a complimentary discover pass.  Fiscal Note
SB 5108 Concerning property tax exemptions for service-connected disabled veterans and senior citizens.  Fiscal Note
SB 5113 Concerning the enforcement of speed limits on roads within condominium associations.  Fiscal Note
SB 5114 Regarding access to K-12 campuses for occupational or educational information. 
SB 5118 Addressing access to original birth certificates after adoption finalization.  Fiscal Note
SB 5119 Creating a sentence enhancement for body armor.  Fiscal Note
SB 5121 Concerning the effect of zoning ordinances on hobby vehicle restoration. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning the restoration of collector vehicles. ) 
SB 5122 Concerning patient and staff safety at state hospitals.  Fiscal Note
SB 5127 Amending provisions governing structured settlements by removing age barriers and clarifying legislative intent.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Amending provisions governing structured settlements by removing age barriers and clarifying legislative intent. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Amending provisions governing structured settlements by lowering age barriers and clarifying legislative intent. )
  Fiscal Note
SB 5129 Authorizing the establishment and use of veterans' treatment courts.  Fiscal Note
SB 5131 Providing tax incentives for donations of modern laboratory equipment to higher education institutions and vocational skills centers.  Fiscal Note
SB 5137 Concerning department of fish and wildlife license suspensions.  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 5143 Limiting mandatory motorcycle helmet use to persons under the age of eighteen. 
SB 5156 Requiring notification to parents or guardians in cases of abortion.  Fiscal Note
SB 5158 Creating a good faith defense for certain minimum wage and overtime compensation complaints.  Fiscal Note
SB 5160 Creating a process for administrative reassignment of public employees.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Creating a process for home assignment of public employees.
 
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 5172 Enacting the Ike act. 
SB 5178 Modifying organized retail theft provisions.  Fiscal Note
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 5184 Expanding the membership of the capital projects advisory review board. 
SB 5187 Protecting livestock against predator attacks.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Protecting domestic animals against gray wolf attacks.
  Fiscal Note
SB 5188 Addressing imminent threats to commercial livestock caused by wolves.  Fiscal Note
SB 5189 Concerning photovoltaic electrical systems.  Fiscal Note
SB 5193 Concerning large wild carnivore conflict management.
Revised for 2nd Substitute: Concerning large wild carnivore conflict management. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning gray wolf conflict management. )
  Fiscal Note
SB 5197 Requiring additional safety features in school construction and remodeling.
Revised for 2nd Substitute: Taking measures to promote safe school buildings.
  Fiscal Note
SB 5198 Exempting personal information relating to children from public inspection and copying.  Fiscal Note
SB 5207 Addressing the consumer loan act.  Fiscal Note
SB 5212 Expanding membership of the Washington state horse park authority. 
SB 5218 Revising the lien for collection of sewer charges by counties. 
SB 5223 Adding children victims of trafficking to the definition of abuse and neglect. 
SB 5227 Changing the corporate officer provisions of the employment security act.  Fiscal Note
SB 5229 Concerning the penalty schedule for alcohol and drug violators. 
SB 5258 Aggregating the cost of related ballot measure advertisements for purposes of top five sponsor identification requirements.  Fiscal Note
SB 5280 Addressing criminal activities occurring at rental properties.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Addressing unlawful activities on certain properties.
  Fiscal Note
SB 5281 Requiring an empirical study of the validity and reliability of the current child welfare safety assessment tool.  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 5290 Allowing hydroelectric energy generation on irrigation district facilities to qualify for renewable energy credit.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Designating certain hydroelectric generation from a generation facility located in irrigation pipes, irrigation canals, and wastewater pipes as an eligible renewable resource under chapter 19.285 RCW. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Designating certain hydroelectric generation from a generation facility located in irrigation pipes, irrigation canals, water pipes whose primary purpose is for conveyance of water for domestic use, and wastewater pipes as an eligible renewable resource under chapter 19.285 RCW. )
 
SB 5294 Recognizing hydroelectricity as an eligible renewable resource in the energy independence act. 
SB 5312 Authorizing small consumer installment loans.  Fiscal Note
SB 5315 Implementing the recommendations made by the Powell fatality team.  Fiscal Note
SB 5318 Removing the one-year waiting period for veterans or active members of the military for purposes of eligibility for resident tuition.  Fiscal Note
SB 5320 Requiring the county auditor to establish a minimum number of ballot drop boxes for counties and cities.  Fiscal Note
SB 5328 Creating a school-grading program that relies on the accountability index.  Fiscal Note
SB 5329 Creating the state superintendent school district.
Revised for 2nd Substitute: Assisting persistently lowest-achieving schools to become more accountable. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Transforming persistently failing schools. )
  Fiscal Note
SB 5331 Concerning voter-approved benefit charges for regional fire protection service authorities. 
SB 5343 Concerning the rights of higher education students involved in military service.  Fiscal Note
SB 5345 Adding persons who serve legal process to assault in the third degree provisions. 
SB 5347 Assuring the people's right to vote on initiatives that submit sufficient valid voter signatures. 
SB 5375 Modifying assault in the third degree provisions. 
SB 5387 Applying the public employees' collective bargaining act to department of corrections employees. 
SB 5413 Expanding metal theft provisions.  Fiscal Note
SB 5417 Concerning the annexation of unincorporated territory within a code city. 
SB 5419 Increasing the cap on small loans. 
SB 5423 Concerning the scope and costs of the diabetes epidemic in Washington.  Fiscal Note
SB 5424 Concerning paint stewardship.  Fiscal Note
SB 5425 Concerning the entering of monetary judgments against defendants under the residential and manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant acts. 
SB 5437 Regarding boating safety.  Fiscal Note
SB 5481 Developing and enforcing standards for the department of social and health services' supported living program. 
SB 5500 Providing a replacement ballot by telephone, mail, or in person to a voter who is not a voter that is overseas or in the military. 
SB 5507 Increasing transparency of donors to candidates and ballot measures. 
SB 5513 Regulating the use of off-road vehicles in certain areas.  Fiscal Note
SB 5523 Concerning the property taxation of mobile homes and park model trailers.  Fiscal Note
SB 5556 Concerning missing endangered persons.  Fiscal Note
SB 5604 Creating "National Rifle Association" special license plates.  Fiscal Note
SB 5621 Concerning certified payroll records on public works projects.  Fiscal Note
SB 5663 Regarding derelict and abandoned vessels in state waters.  Fiscal Note
SB 5664 Establishing a process for the payment of impact fees through provisions stipulated in recorded covenants.  Fiscal Note
SB 5669 Concerning trafficking.  Fiscal Note
SB 5672 Supporting youth programs through agricultural fairs and the horse racing commission. 
SB 5676 Protecting personal voter signatures. 
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 5709 Concerning a pilot program to demonstrate the feasibility of using densified biomass to heat public schools.  Fiscal Note
SB 5716 Requiring a summary of capital appropriations by legislative district to accompany each capital appropriations bill. 
SB 5720 Concerning passenger-carrying vehicles for railroad employees. 
SB 5721 Regulating the hours of service for certain railroad employees. 
SB 5828 Concerning the transition of residents of residential habilitation centers. 
SB 5831 Providing a sales and use tax exemption for clay targets purchased by nonprofit gun clubs.  Fiscal Note
SB 5844 Modifying collective bargaining law to authorize the right of state workers employed in the community and technical college system as nontenured part-time academic employees to form a collective bargaining unit for the protection of their common interests. 
SB 5883 Providing for more equitable funding of public higher education. 
SJM 8001 Requesting that Interstate 5 be named the "Purple Heart Trail."  Fiscal Note
SJM 8003 Requesting Congress to amend the Communications Decency Act. 
SJR 8200 Amending the Constitution to require a two-thirds majority vote of the legislature to raise taxes.  Fiscal Note
SJR 8201 Amending the state Constitution to require a balanced budget. 
SJR 8203 Amending the state Constitution to allow a reasonable suspicion standard in certain searches of students on school grounds. 
SJR 8206 Amending the Constitution to require emergency clauses only be allowed by amendment to a bill and approved by sixty percent of each house of the legislature. 
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 8614 Honoring President Ronald Wilson Reagan. 
SR 8615 Honoring Washington girls and women in sports. 
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 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 8624 Congratulating the Seattle Seahawks. 
SR 8626 Honoring athletes who participated in the 2013 Special Olympics. 
SR 8627 Regarding the 2013 Blessing of the Fleet. 
SR 8628 Honoring the life and legislative career of Senator Wojahn. 
SR 8634 Commemorating the career of U.S. Representative Norm Dicks. 
SR 8637 Celebrating the 2013 Daffodil Festival. 
SR 8639 Celebrating Catholic Schools Week. 
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 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 8657 Honoring the life of Margaret Thatcher. 
SR 8658 Honoring the life and work of Forrest Westering. 
SR 8663 Commending Trooper Sean M. O'Connell Jr. for his exemplary service. 
SR 8664 Remembering the life and legacy of Senator Mike Carrell.