Senator Adam Kline

Biennium:

Prime Sponsored Bills


Bill NumberBrief Description
SB 5236 Creating the uniform correction or clarification of defamation act. 
SB 5240 Requiring cities and counties to provide security for their courts. 
SB 5271 Allowing courts to assess additional costs to defendants if they are successful in setting aside a committed finding after failing to respond to an infraction or failing to appear for a hearing. 
SB 5364 Concerning court reporters, communication access real-time translation, and real-time captioning services.  Fiscal Note
SB 5369 Concerning the use of geothermal resources. 
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 5373 Concerning confidential informants. 
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 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 5486 Providing partial and total confinement options for offenders.  Fiscal Note
SB 5487 Providing a minimum term sentence for certain persistent offenders. 
SB 5625 Requiring universal background checks for firearms transfers. 
SB 5626 Concerning the practice of midwifery. 
SB 5628 Allowing multiple liquor licenses at the same physical premises.  Fiscal Note
SB 5708 Providing a minimum term sentence for certain persistent offenders. 
SB 5711 Requiring universal background checks for firearms transfers. 
SB 5839 Creating a cause of action for the protection of employees acting in furtherance of public policy. 
SB 5840 Concerning foreclosure.  Fiscal Note
SB 5915 Funding and requiring the use of distributions from the additional tax on beer and strong beer for improving impaired driving safety and enforcement.  Fiscal Note
SB 5917 Funding improved impaired driving safety and enforcement.  Fiscal Note
SB 5929 Funding improved impaired driving safety and enforcement. 
SB 5930 Funding and requiring the use of distributions from the additional tax on beer and strong beer for improving impaired driving safety and enforcement.  Fiscal Note
SJM 8002 Requesting an amendment to the United States Constitution to return the authority to regulate election campaign contributions to congress and state legislatures. 
SR 8638 Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright. 
SR 8652 Recognizing religious freedom in Washington State. 

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 5039 Increasing revenues dedicated to basic education purposes.  Fiscal Note
SB 5040 Incorporating state tax expenditures into the state budget process.  Fiscal Note
SB 5043 Narrowing the property tax exemption for intangibles.  Fiscal Note
SB 5046 Modifying the mandatory retirement provision for district judges.  Fiscal Note
SB 5064 Concerning persons sentenced for offenses committed prior to reaching eighteen years of age.  Fiscal Note
SB 5070 Establishing special license endorsements for cigar lounges and retail tobacconist shops.  Fiscal Note
SB 5073 Concerning the disclosure of foods produced through genetic engineering.  Fiscal Note
SB 5081 Regarding unlawful trade in shark fins. 
SB 5083 Concerning the display of political yard signs in homeowners' associations. 
SB 5111 Creating a beer and wine theater license.  Fiscal Note
SB 5135 Concerning judicial proceedings and forms. 
SB 5136 Concerning electronic presentment of claims against the state arising out of tortious conduct.  Fiscal Note
SB 5141 Allowing motorcycles to stop and proceed through traffic control signals under certain conditions.  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 5155 Regarding long-term suspension or expulsion from school.  Fiscal Note
SB 5166 Concerning fiscal reform.  Fiscal Note
SB 5173 Excusing work and school absences for a reason of faith or conscience. 
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 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 5183 Concerning financing statements to perfect security interests. 
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 5203 Preventing animal cruelty. 
SB 5204 Preventing animal cruelty. 
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 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 5231 Ensuring hunter safety.  Fiscal Note
SB 5248 Creating a tax on plastic shopping bags.  Fiscal Note
SB 5250 Concerning petroleum-based beverage bottles.  Fiscal Note
SB 5252 Regarding the use of certain food service products. 
SB 5253 Regarding retail store carryout bags.  Fiscal Note
SB 5261 Prohibiting certain liquor self-checkout machines. 
SB 5265 Regarding transparency in patient billing.  Fiscal Note
SB 5268 Extending the time period for voter registration. 
SB 5270 Allowing motor voter preregistration for sixteen and seventeen year olds.  Fiscal Note
SB 5272 Modifying provisions in the forms for traffic infraction notices. 
SB 5283 Concerning a business and occupation tax exemption for the Washington health benefit exchange established under chapter 43.71 RCW.  Fiscal Note
SB 5292 Implementing family and medical leave insurance.  Fiscal Note
SB 5305 Requiring hospitals to report when providing treatment for bullet wounds, gunshot wounds, and stab wounds to all patients. 
SB 5308 Establishing the commercially sexually exploited children statewide coordinating committee. 
SB 5309 Authorizing certain water-sewer districts to use the job order contracting procedure. 
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 5333 Providing mental health first-aid training to teachers and educational staff.  Fiscal Note
SB 5337 Modifying expiration dates affecting the department of natural resources' timber sale program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5340 Limiting maximum capital and reserves accumulations by health care service contractors and health maintenance organizations. 
SB 5341 Concerning the use of nonconviction records for employment and housing opportunities. 
SB 5343 Concerning the rights of higher education students involved in military service.  Fiscal Note
SB 5344 Revising state statutes concerning trusts. 
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 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 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 5365 Increasing the capacity of school districts to recognize and respond to troubled youth.  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 5398 Concerning the provision of and reimbursement for certain court interpreter services.  Fiscal Note
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 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 5437 Regarding boating safety.  Fiscal Note
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 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 5459 Requiring ninety-day supply limits on certain drugs dispensed by a pharmacist.  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 5464 Allowing dental hygienists and dental assistants to provide certain services under the supervision of a dentist. 
SB 5473 Enacting the Washington voting rights act of 2013.  Fiscal Note
SB 5474 Promoting state employee wellness and productivity.  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 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 5488 Establishing an enhanced penalty for the use of an internet advertisement to facilitate the commission of a sex-trafficking crime.  Fiscal Note
SB 5491 Establishing statewide indicators of educational health.  Fiscal Note
SB 5507 Increasing transparency of donors to candidates and ballot measures. 
SB 5511 Creating the Washington state preservation of liberty act condemning the unlawful detention of United States citizens and lawful resident aliens under the national defense authorization act. 
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 5532 Requiring crisis intervention training for peace officers. 
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 5544 Requiring an online higher education transfer and student advising system.  Fiscal Note
SB 5547 Addressing ocean acidification by taking action on the recommendations of the governor's blue ribbon panel on ocean acidification.  Fiscal Note
SB 5548 Limiting differential tuition.  Fiscal Note
SB 5550 Concerning privileging and professional conduct reviews by health care professional review bodies. 
SB 5552 Improving child support collections by requiring reporting of compensation and establishing an intercept program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5554 Requiring a study of the prescription monitoring program and its role in increasing coordination of care.  Fiscal Note
SB 5557 Encouraging educating students on the content and importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 
SB 5558 Creating loan-making authority for down payment assistance for single-family homeownership.  Fiscal Note
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 5576 Concerning health plan coverage for the voluntary termination of a pregnancy.  Fiscal Note
SB 5578 Exempting certain family day care providers who have been operating for at least five years from any requirement to have a high school diploma or equivalent education. 
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 5600 Concerning the definition of work activity for the purposes of the WorkFirst program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5602 Creating a silver alert system. 
SB 5607 Concerning beer, wine, and spirits theater licenses.  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 5634 Clarifying the department of natural resources' authority to enter into cooperative agreements.  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 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 5645 Addressing service animals. 
SB 5647 Requiring the department of revenue to publish their determinations.  Fiscal Note
SB 5655 Expanding existing higher education financial aid programs to state residents.  Fiscal Note
SB 5663 Regarding derelict and abandoned vessels in state waters.  Fiscal Note
SB 5699 Concerning electronic product recycling.  Fiscal Note
SB 5703 Concerning the distribution of state liquor revenues to cities and counties. 
SB 5707 Regarding net metering of electricity. 
SB 5710 Concerning reckless endangerment resulting from unsafe storage of firearms. 
SB 5714 Establishing a task force on improving public health and safety regarding firearms. 
SB 5723 Authorizing enhanced raffles conducted by bona fide charitable or nonprofit organizations serving individuals with intellectual disabilities.  Fiscal Note
SB 5730 Funding higher education child care grants. 
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 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 5752 Extending the expiration date of the existing business and occupation tax rate for the manufacture and wholesale of certain solar energy systems.  Fiscal Note
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 5772 Providing access to the prescription drug monitoring database for clinical laboratories. 
SB 5773 Concerning local option transportation revenue.  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 5778 Allowing certain county legislative authorities to impose a sales and use tax by ordinance. 
SB 5782 Establishing standards for the use of public unmanned aircraft systems. 
SB 5784 Concerning the joint center for aerospace technology innovation.  Fiscal Note
SB 5798 Concerning health plan coverage for the voluntary termination of a pregnancy. 
SB 5807 Encouraging qualifying utilities to invest in and own distributed solar energy systems by reducing the cost of such systems by allowing qualifying utilities to use the investment cost recovery incentive program, by improving the economic value of solar energy systems relative to utility scale wind generation under the energy independence act, and by giving electrical companies regulatory certainty with respect to their investment in cost-effective distributed solar energy systems. 
SB 5814 Concerning for hire vehicles, limousines, and taxicabs. 
SB 5823 Creating a pilot program for the collection of payroll records on public works projects. 
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 5827 Addressing service credit for certain school employee service workers.  Fiscal Note
SB 5830 Addressing alternate early retirement for certain school employee service workers.  Fiscal Note
SB 5833 Regulating interpreter services. 
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 5860 Addressing legal proceedings by the attorney general on behalf of superior court judges.  Fiscal Note
SB 5861 Concerning local transportation revenue.  Fiscal Note
SB 5864 Authorizing bonds for the financing of the Columbia river crossing project. 
SB 5892 Reducing corrections costs.  Fiscal Note
SB 5900 Strengthening the tax structure, tax equity, and essential governmental services by a voter-approved tax.  Fiscal Note
SB 5902 Relating to driving under the influence.  Fiscal Note
SB 5908 Concerning property tax refunds. 
SB 5912 Modifying provisions that address impaired driving.
Revised for 2nd Substitute: Concerning driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs.
  Fiscal Note
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. 
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 8009 Requesting that Congress enact legislation that would reinstate the separation of commercial and investment banking functions that were in effect under the Glass-Steagall act. 
SJR 8207 Amending the Constitution to allow an income tax. 
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 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 8618 Acknowledging the seventy-first anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066, and recognizing Japanese-American internees and World War II veterans. 
SR 8622 Recognizing Gifted Education Day and Week. 
SR 8623 Offering best wishes for a fulfilling retirement to Consul General Gao Zhansheng. 
SR 8625 Celebrating the 100th birthday of Washington State Parks. 
SR 8628 Honoring the life and legislative career of Senator Wojahn. 
SR 8629 Honoring the Seattle Raging Grannies. 
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 8644 Commending the Independent Colleges of Washington. 
SR 8647 Honoring the work of Seattle Children's Hospital. 
SR 8648 Honoring Consul General Kiyokazu Ota of Japan. 
SR 8649 Celebrating the culture and heritage of Norway on May 17, 2013. 
SR 8651 Honoring Doris M. Brougham for her lifelong achievements. 
SR 8655 Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1963 American Mt. Everest Expedition. 
SR 8663 Commending Trooper Sean M. O'Connell Jr. for his exemplary service. 
SR 8664 Remembering the life and legacy of Senator Mike Carrell.