House Committees

Agriculture & Natural Resources* -  01/18/12  1:30 pm

1. HB 2362 - Regarding wine producer liens.
2. HB 2367 - Regarding the dairy products commission.
3. HB 2349 - Concerning the management of beavers.

1. HB 2440 - Authorizing the department of natural resources to provide wildfire protection services for public lands managed by state agencies.
2. HB 2329 - Replacing encumbered state forest lands for the benefit of multiple participating counties.

Community & Economic Development & Housing -  01/18/12  8:00 am

1. Washington's statewide economic development strategy.
2. Status of agency implementation.

Education Appropriations & Oversight* -  01/18/12  6:00 pm

General Government Appropriations & Oversight* -  01/18/12  6:00 pm

Health Care & Wellness -  01/18/12  8:00 am

1. HB 2247 - Expanding the types of medications that a public or private school employee may administer to include topical medication, eye drops, and ear drops.
2. HB 2318 - Concerning shared decision making.
3. HB 2319 - Implementing the affordable care act.

Higher Education* -  01/18/12  8:00 am

1. HB 2254 - Enacting the educational success for youth and alumni of foster care act.
2. HB 2258 - Requiring an online higher education transfer and student advising system.
3. HB 2436 - Requiring quarterly academic advising for students at institutions of higher education.
4. HB 2352 - Concerning institutions of higher education services and activities fees.
5. HB 2368 - Requiring that the board of trustees for each college district include at least one member from labor.

Judiciary* -  01/18/12  9:00 am

1. HB 2443 - Increasing accountability of persons who drive impaired.
2. HB 2176 - Extending the time to enforce civil judgments for damages caused by impaired drivers.
3. HB 2302 - Concerning being under the influence with a child in the vehicle.
4. HB 2405 - Ordering offenders convicted of vehicular homicide due to alcohol or drugs to pay child support for the victims' minor children.
5. HB 2454 - Protecting qualifying patients of medical marijuana from prosecution for impaired driving when there is no actual impairment.
6. HB 2216 - Increasing penalties for vehicular homicide and vehicular assault.

Labor & Workforce Development* -  01/18/12  1:30 pm

1. HB 2339 - Providing unemployment insurance benefit charging relief for part-time employers who continue to employ a claimant on a part-time basis and the claimant qualified for two consecutive claims with wages attributable to at least one employer who employed the claimant in both base years.
2. HB 2344 - Authorizing certain corporate officers to receive unemployment benefits.
3. HB 2412 - Increasing protections for employees under the Washington industrial safety and health act of 1973.
4. HB 2413 - Protecting workers and other community members from pesticide drift.

Local Government -  01/18/12  1:30 pm

1. HB 2282 - Eliminating the growth management hearings board.
2. HB 2305 - Changing authority for contracts with community service organizations for public improvements.

Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness -  01/18/12  1:30 pm

1. HB 1913 - Making criminal gang intimidation of a law enforcement officer a crime.
2. HB 2191 - Concerning police dogs.

State Government & Tribal Affairs* -  01/18/12  8:00 am

1. HB 2232 - Establishing a government-to-government relationship between state government and federally recognized Indian tribes.
2. HB 2233 - Creating a procedure for the state's retrocession of civil and criminal jurisdiction over Indian tribes and Indian country.

1. HB 2204 - Extending the time period for voter registration.
2. HB 2205 - Allowing eligible youth at least sixteen years of age to register to vote.
3. HB 2225 - Designating July 25th as patient safety day.

Technology, Energy & Communications* -  01/18/12  1:30 pm

1. HB 2243 - Concerning the net metering of electricity.
2. HB 2297 - Authorizing the establishment of an energy efficiency improvement loan fund.
3. HB 2475 - Protecting consumers from deceptive billing practices for electronic text messaging.
4. HJM 4014 - Regarding the rates charged for text messaging services.

Transportation* -  01/18/12  3:30 pm

1. HB 2299 - Creating "4-H" special license plates.
2. HB 2312 - Making military service award emblems available for purchase.
3. HB 2273 - Concerning the processing of vehicles impounded by law enforcement for evidentiary purposes.
4. HB 2274 - Allowing registered tow truck operators to pass the costs of tolls and ferry fares to the impounded vehicle's registered owner.
5. HB 2275 - Allowing a registered tow truck operator to reimpound a vehicle that has been redeemed from storage or purchased at auction and not removed from the operator's business premises.
6. HB 2353 - Allowing lunch breaks for registered tow truck operators while requiring reasonable availability.

1. HB 2299 - Creating "4-H" special license plates.
2. HB 2312 - Making military service award emblems available for purchase.
3. HB 2240 - Concerning public improvement contracts involving federally funded transit facility projects.
4. HB 2283 - Modifying the display requirement for certain parking placards.

Ways & Means* -  01/18/12  3:30 pm

1. HB 2149 - Concerning personal property tax assessment administration, authorizing waiver of penalties and interest under specified circumstances.
2. HB 2150 - Generating revenue from community residential service businesses.