Representative Sharon Nelson

Biennium:

Prime Sponsored Bills


Bill NumberBrief Description
HB 1231 Controlling saltwater algae.  Fiscal Note
HB 1289 Concerning campaign contributions to candidates for public lands commissioner. 
HB 1353 Regarding employment opportunities at institutions of higher education.  Fiscal Note
HB 1457 Limiting the authority of boundary review boards. 
HB 1490 Reducing greenhouse gas emissions through land use and transportation requirements.  Fiscal Note
HB 1708 Concerning wells on lands adjacent to the Maury Island aquatic reserve.  Fiscal Note
HB 1709 Providing fee and installment plan assistance for borrowers at risk of default on small loans.  Fiscal Note
HB 1941 Requiring that at least one member on each community college board of trustees be from labor. 
HB 1973 Creating a housing everyone financing tool program.  Fiscal Note
HB 2301 Authorizing the department of community, trade, and economic development to approve comprehensive plans and development regulations.  Fiscal Note
HB 2302 Relating to restructuring ferry districts and the property tax levied by such districts for certain countywide transit projects to also include countywide public health, safety, and welfare projects. 
HB 2303 Relating to restructuring ferry districts and the property tax levied by such districts for certain countywide transit projects. 

Secondary Sponsored Bills


Bill NumberBrief Description
HB 1231 Controlling saltwater algae.  Fiscal Note
HB 1289 Concerning campaign contributions to candidates for public lands commissioner. 
HB 1353 Regarding employment opportunities at institutions of higher education.  Fiscal Note
HB 1457 Limiting the authority of boundary review boards. 
HB 1490 Reducing greenhouse gas emissions through land use and transportation requirements.  Fiscal Note
HB 1708 Concerning wells on lands adjacent to the Maury Island aquatic reserve.  Fiscal Note
HB 1709 Providing fee and installment plan assistance for borrowers at risk of default on small loans.  Fiscal Note
HB 1941 Requiring that at least one member on each community college board of trustees be from labor. 
HB 1973 Creating a housing everyone financing tool program.  Fiscal Note
HB 2301 Authorizing the department of community, trade, and economic development to approve comprehensive plans and development regulations.  Fiscal Note
HB 2302 Relating to restructuring ferry districts and the property tax levied by such districts for certain countywide transit projects to also include countywide public health, safety, and welfare projects. 
HB 2303 Relating to restructuring ferry districts and the property tax levied by such districts for certain countywide transit projects. 
HB 1014 Concerning the duties of the department of ecology's office of waste reduction and sustainable production.  Fiscal Note
HB 1015 Prohibiting the sale or distribution of certain novelty lighters.  Fiscal Note
HB 1020 Creating an Afghanistan-Iraq war memorial. 
HB 1045 Concerning residential real property. 
HB 1048 Repealing provisions addressing the sale, lease, or conveyance of municipal property in commercial areas to private parties for free public parking facilities in cities with populations over three hundred thousand. 
HB 1051 Improving veterans' access to services.  Fiscal Note
HB 1060 Updating the weatherization statute.  Fiscal Note
HB 1069 Restricting light pollution.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Reducing light pollution.
  Fiscal Note
HB 1073 Regulating small loans. 
HB 1074 Concerning public notice requirements for vegetation management in freshwater lakes.  Fiscal Note
HB 1079 Authorizing the substitution of growth management hearings board members in the case of vacancy, disqualification, illness, or injury.  Fiscal Note
HB 1087 Improving the effectiveness of the office of minority and women's business enterprises.  Fiscal Note
HB 1095 Increasing small business access to state contracting opportunities.  Fiscal Note
HB 1100 Protecting the marine ecosystem from the potential risks of petroleum extraction. 
HB 1129 Establishing a lifelong learning account steering committee.  Fiscal Note
HB 1130 Convening a work group to develop a single, coordinated student access portal for college information.  Fiscal Note
HB 1131 Concerning the Washington state economic development commission.  Fiscal Note
HB 1135 Exempting agricultural anaerobic digesters from solid waste handling permitting.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Regarding exemptions from solid waste handling permit requirements.
  Fiscal Note
HB 1140 Addressing the manufactured/mobile home dispute resolution program.  Fiscal Note
HB 1141 Concerning a sales and use tax rebate for materials and services related to the construction of affordable housing.  Fiscal Note
HB 1148 Protecting animals from perpetrators of domestic violence. 
HB 1149 Protecting consumers from breaches of security.  Fiscal Note
HB 1161 Concerning early intervention services for children with disabilities.  Fiscal Note
HB 1162 Providing for social emotional learning in public schools.  Fiscal Note
HB 1165 Providing for the safe collection and disposal of unwanted drugs from residential sources through a producer provided and funded product stewardship program.  Fiscal Note
HB 1172 Implementing a transfer of development rights program.  Fiscal Note
HB 1177 Reclassifying possession of forty grams or less of marijuana from a misdemeanor to a class 2 civil infraction. 
HB 1178 Regarding enforcement of environmental permits.  Fiscal Note
HB 1191 Providing incentives to support renewable solar energy.  Fiscal Note
HB 1232 Defining commercial agricultural purposes to include current farming practices and activities related to the raising, harvesting, feeding, breeding, managing, selling, care, or training of a farm product.  Fiscal Note
HB 1242 Regarding waste of agricultural crops. 
HB 1256 Concerning state officer's and state employee's ethical conduct with regard to private gain. 
HB 1262 Establishing conditions for video monitoring in public schools. 
HB 1270 Permitting electronic signatures on applications for public assistance and for benefits administered by the health care authority.  Fiscal Note
HB 1271 Regarding dispensing and administration of drugs to registered or licensed veterinary personnel.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Regarding the preparing and administration of drugs by registered or licensed veterinary personnel.
 
HB 1284 Concerning property tax relief for senior citizens and persons retired because of physical disability. 
HB 1286 Prohibiting false and defamatory statements about candidates for public office.  Fiscal Note
HB 1288 Exempting the annual parental declaration of intent to home school from the public disclosure act. 
HB 1293 Modifying whistleblower protection provisions.  Fiscal Note
HB 1308 Reducing organ transplant benefit waiting periods based upon prior creditable coverage.  Fiscal Note
HB 1309 Regarding dental hygiene. 
HB 1310 Placing restrictions on check cashers' and sellers' communications when collecting delinquent small loans.  Fiscal Note
HB 1311 Regulating reverse mortgage lending practices.  Fiscal Note
HB 1326 Establishing a license limitation program for harvest and delivery of Pacific sardines into the state.  Fiscal Note
HB 1327 Creating the fish and wildlife equipment revolving account.  Fiscal Note
HB 1329 Providing collective bargaining for child care center directors and workers.  Fiscal Note
HB 1334 Concerning water resource management on the Columbia and Snake rivers.  Fiscal Note
HB 1337 Concerning developmental screenings through medicaid. 
HB 1340 Modifying collective bargaining law to authorize providing additional compensation to academic employees at community and technical colleges.  Fiscal Note
HB 1341 Motivating students through incentives to pursue postsecondary education by eliminating statewide assessments as a high school graduation requirement. 
HB 1350 Adopting the interstate agreement for the election of the president of the United States by national popular vote. 
HB 1370 Creating a new credentialing standard for registered retired counselors. 
HB 1373 Concerning children's mental health services. 
HB 1396 Concerning referral procedures for medical eye care. 
HB 1397 Concerning the delegation of authority to registered nurses. 
HB 1399 Concerning renewable energy system cost recovery.  Fiscal Note
HB 1400 Enacting the uniform emergency volunteer health practitioners act.  Fiscal Note
HB 1406 Creating the companion animal spay/neuter assistance program.  Fiscal Note
HB 1408 Establishing minimum standards for victim impact panels.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Establishing minimum standards and requiring a registry of victim impact panels.
  Fiscal Note
HB 1409 Providing an emergency response system for the Strait of Juan de Fuca.  Fiscal Note
HB 1410 Creating a comprehensive system of public education programs, finance, and accountability.  Fiscal Note
HB 1412 Concerning health benefit plan coverage of neurodevelopmental therapies.  Fiscal Note
HB 1413 Concerning water discharge fees.  Fiscal Note
HB 1414 Concerning health care assistants.  Fiscal Note
HB 1416 Feeding hungry children through school breakfast and lunch programs and summer food service programs.  Fiscal Note
HB 1418 Establishing a statewide dropout reengagement system.  Fiscal Note
HB 1423 Providing for academic employee salary increments for community and technical colleges.  Fiscal Note
HB 1424 Concerning health professions discipline. 
HB 1425 Prohibiting small loans.  Fiscal Note
HB 1448 Granting tribal authorities limited control over speed limits on nonlimited access state highways within tribal reservation boundaries. 
HB 1464 Concerning affordable housing incentive programs.  Fiscal Note
HB 1465 Concerning facilities for local governments.  Fiscal Note
HB 1469 Establishing the product stewardship recycling act for mercury-containing lights.  Fiscal Note
HB 1482 Concerning reclaimed water permitting.  Fiscal Note
HB 1491 Addressing when vehicles overtake and pass pedestrians or bicycles. 
HB 1492 Addressing the independent youth housing program.  Fiscal Note
HB 1493 Marketing prescription drugs. 
HB 1495 Providing real estate excise tax exemptions to stabilize neighborhoods.  Fiscal Note
HB 1498 Concerning provisions governing firearms possession by persons who have been involuntarily committed.  Fiscal Note
HB 1500 Concerning recording devices in motor vehicles. 
HB 1501 Addressing mitigating factors in sentencing juveniles sentenced as adults.  Fiscal Note
HB 1505 Authorizing diversion for sexually exploited juveniles.  Fiscal Note
HB 1507 Ending sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of release or parole for certain juveniles. 
HB 1508 Concerning the reclassification of property enrolled in current use property tax programs.  Fiscal Note
HB 1517 Changing requirements for the restoration of the right to vote for people convicted of felonies.  Fiscal Note
HB 1519 Requiring language access services for persons with limited English proficiency in health care and insurance matters. 
HB 1526 Removing essential government services as a condition to exempt from taxation property belonging to federally recognized Indian tribes.  Fiscal Note
HB 1528 Prohibiting certain employer communications about political or religious matters. 
HB 1552 Regarding public access at open public meetings.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Regarding public access at open public meetings. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Regarding public comment at rule-making meetings. ) (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Regarding public comment at rule-making hearings. ) (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Regarding public comment at rule-making hearings. )
 
HB 1564 Requiring the disclosure of information on flood insurance coverage.  Fiscal Note
HB 1579 Concerning a business and occupation tax exemption for nonprofit organizations that provide legal services to low-income individuals.  Fiscal Note
HB 1580 Establishing a pilot local water management program in one qualified jurisdiction.  Fiscal Note
HB 1581 Requiring a minimum of three years' notice on closures or conversions of mobile home parks and manufactured housing communities.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Requiring a minimum of two years' notice on closures or conversions of mobile home parks and manufactured housing communities.
 
HB 1582 Creating a property tax exemption for manufactured/mobile home communities. 
HB 1583 Modifying provisions relating to county auditors.  Fiscal Note
HB 1590 Requiring the appointment of an organized labor member with full voting rights and privileges to the governing bodies of public transportation entities. 
HB 1596 Protecting a woman's right to breastfeed in a place of public resort, accommodation, assemblage, or amusement.  Fiscal Note
HB 1609 Concerning family and medical leave.  Fiscal Note
HB 1614 Reducing the amount of petroleum pollution in storm water.  Fiscal Note
HB 1618 Concerning community and surplus schools.  Fiscal Note
HB 1619 Concerning the use of capital projects funds by school districts.  Fiscal Note
HB 1621 Regulating the business practices of consumer loan companies for compliance with the secure and fair enforcement for mortgage licensing act of 2008.  Fiscal Note
HB 1636 Protecting lake water quality by reducing phosphorus from lawn fertilizers. 
HB 1650 Providing a waiver of penalties for first-time paperwork violations by small businesses. 
HB 1652 Eliminating a requirement that certain ferry vessels be constructed within the boundaries of the state of Washington.  Fiscal Note
HB 1663 Creating relocation assistance rights for nontransient residents of hotels, motels, or other places of transient lodging that are shut down by government action. 
HB 1683 Modifying provisions relating to consumer protection act violations.  Fiscal Note
HB 1689 Concerning evidence-based community custody.  Fiscal Note
HB 1696 Concerning tax relief to promote employer-assisted housing.  Fiscal Note
HB 1703 Concerning child immunization exemptions. 
HB 1710 Concerning the local sales and use tax that is credited against the state sales and use tax for cities to offset municipal service costs to newly annexed areas.  Fiscal Note
HB 1718 Reducing greenhouse gases in Washington.  Fiscal Note
HB 1727 Expanding the rights and responsibilities of state registered domestic partners.  Fiscal Note
HB 1729 Concerning the enhancement of legislative web sites. 
HB 1735 Achieving economic security through income sufficient to meet basic needs. 
HB 1738 Providing public funding for supreme court campaigns.  Fiscal Note
HB 1745 Concerning civil marriages. 
HB 1747 Reducing climate pollution in the built environment.  Fiscal Note
HB 1754 Concerning continuity of child care.  Fiscal Note
HB 1763 Requiring that all classifications of students be treated equitably and consistently in the higher education admissions process. 
HB 1766 Prohibiting discrimination based on lawful source of income.  Fiscal Note
HB 1769 Concerning housing assistance in dependency matters.  Fiscal Note
HB 1772 Requiring certain consumer protections in the purchase of motor vehicles. 
HB 1773 Concerning certain notice requirements when terminating month to month or other periodic residential tenancies governed by the residential landlord-tenant act. 
HB 1775 Concerning the regulation of certain limousine carriers.  Fiscal Note
HB 1782 Concerning parent participation in dependency matters.  Fiscal Note
HB 1793 Addressing alternative student transportation. 
HB 1797 Examining rural and resource lands. 
HB 1819 Reducing greenhouse gas emissions.  Fiscal Note
HB 1820 Concerning public health financing. 
HB 1829 Establishing the financial services intermediary.  Fiscal Note
HB 1851 Requiring the disclosure to potential borrowers of alternatives to a small loan.  Fiscal Note
HB 1856 Providing certain procedures for tenants who are victims of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and stalking.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Providing certain procedures for tenants who are victims of sexual assault, unlawful harassment, and stalking.
 
HB 1880 Concerning ballot envelopes.  Fiscal Note
HB 1881 Regulating soil and wetland science professions.  Fiscal Note
HB 1890 Regarding basic education allocations for tribal schools. 
HB 1891 Incorporating human health analysis into environmental review under chapter 43.21C RCW. 
HB 1893 Creating the Washington voluntary retirement accounts program.  Fiscal Note
HB 1906 Improving economic security through unemployment compensation.  Fiscal Note
HB 1907 Concerning strict compliance with notice provisions when manufactured/mobile home communities are offered for sale. 
HB 1908 Modifying the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act. 
HB 1909 Reducing criminal justice expenses by eliminating the death penalty in favor of life incarceration. 
HB 1914 Regarding eligibility for higher education institutions' maintenance and operations funding.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Regarding community and technical colleges' maintenance and operations funding.
  Fiscal Note
HB 1915 Changing Running Start provisions.  Fiscal Note
HB 1967 Prohibiting expansions of urban growth areas into one hundred year floodplains. 
HB 1997 Regarding Puget Sound scientific research.  Fiscal Note
HB 2010 Concerning state funding for local projects.  Fiscal Note
HB 2015 Enhancing antiharassment strategies in public schools.  Fiscal Note
HB 2033 Changing the definition of "immediate family" for purpose of membership on the Washington citizens' commission on salaries for elected officials. 
HB 2044 Requiring Washington state ferries to create a comprehensive incident and accident investigation policy. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Directing the Washington state ferries to propose a comprehensive incident and accident investigation policy. )  Fiscal Note
HB 2046 Concerning medical marijuana. 
HB 2051 Removing an expiration date applicable to heritage and arts program funding.  Fiscal Note
HB 2071 Concerning education for parents of needy families.  Fiscal Note
HB 2083 Requiring consideration of impacts to tree canopies in large cities through rules implementing the state environmental policy act.  Fiscal Note
HB 2094 Limiting the use of capital levy proceeds to support direct costs associated with technology systems and support.  Fiscal Note
HB 2097 Regarding rainwater collection facilities. 
HB 2104 Concerning sales and use tax exemptions for prescribed power wheelchairs.  Fiscal Note
HB 2121 Establishing the guaranteed health benefit program act.  Fiscal Note
HB 2126 Consolidating the cemetery board and the board of funeral directors and embalmers.  Fiscal Note
HB 2165 Authorizing the department of natural resources to conduct a forest biomass energy demonstration project.  Fiscal Note
HB 2193 Modernizing the Washington state ferry system. 
HB 2218 Providing property tax relief for senior citizens and persons retired by reason of physical disability by increasing the income thresholds. 
HB 2219 Modifying the definition of "sexual orientation" for malicious harassment prosecution purposes. 
HB 2227 Enacting the evergreen jobs act.  Fiscal Note
HB 2230 Renaming the Washington state ferries the Washington state marine highway system. 
HB 2237 Improving boating programs.  Fiscal Note
HB 2260 Protecting public safety by airport trapping. 
HB 2261 Concerning the state's education system. 
HB 2271 Authorizing state forces to perform work on ferry vessels or terminals when estimated costs are less than one hundred twenty thousand dollars.  Fiscal Note
HB 2273 Requiring certain persons convicted of negligent driving to retake and successfully pass the driver licensing examination in order to keep a driver's license. 
HB 2313 Extending the length of commercial and farm vehicle permits. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Extending the length of farm vehicle permits. )  Fiscal Note
HB 2314 Concerning ferry system accountability. 
HB 2316 Placing restrictions on lobbying. 
HB 2331 Concerning the existing document recording fee for services for the homeless.  Fiscal Note
HB 2335 Addressing the authorization, administration, collection, and enforcement of tolls on the Lake Washington transportation corridor.  Fiscal Note
HB 2339 Requiring the department of licensing to collect a donation to benefit the state parks system as part of motor vehicle registration unless a vehicle owner opts not to provide a donation.  Fiscal Note
HB 2350 Concerning the taxation of intangible property to provide additional funding for public schools.  Fiscal Note
HB 2351 Funding enhanced 911 emergency communication systems.  Fiscal Note
HB 2385 Improving unemployment benefits. 
HJM 4004 Naming a certain portion of state route number 110 the "Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm Memorial Highway." 
HR 4602 Recognizing the Washington National Guard. 
HR 4603 Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream. 
HR 4604 Celebrating Children's Day. 
HR 4605 Honoring Mary Skinner. 
HR 4607 Recognizing the Mount Baker community and Mount Baker Martin Luther King, Jr. scholarship program. 
HR 4612 Honoring Arthur DeLisle. 
HR 4613 Honoring girls and women in sports. 
HR 4617 Recognizing the Japanese-American internees and WWII veterans from Washington state. 
HR 4622 Recognizing Black History Month. 
HR 4623 Recognizing youth volunteer service. 
HR 4624 Recognizing Seattle Children's Home. 
HR 4627 Honoring and supporting individuals with autism. 
HR 4647 Recognizing scholar-athletes. 
HR 4652 Honoring Kids In Action.