House Committees

Capital Budget* -  02/15/13  8:00 am

1. HB 1484 - Concerning the public works board.
2. HB 1557 - Concerning publicly owned industrial wastewater treatment facilities.
3. HB 1054 - Regarding the allocation of one-half of one percent of original public school construction for equipment and technology purposes.

Early Learning & Human Services* -  02/15/13  1:30 pm

1. HB 1547 - Concerning entities that provide recreational or educational programming for school-aged children.
2. HB 1671 - Concerning child care reform.
3. HB 1723 - Concerning early learning opportunities.

1. HB 1284 - Concerning the rights of parents who are incarcerated or in residential substance abuse treatment.
2. HB 1342 - Concerning the definition of work activity for the purposes of the WorkFirst program.
3. HB 1261 - Establishing receiving care centers for emergency and crisis care for children removed from their homes.
4. HB 1524 - Providing for juvenile mental health diversion and disposition strategies.

Education* -  02/15/13  1:30 pm

1. HB 1248 - Supporting music education for young children in public schools.
2. HB 1252 - Establishing the Washington K-12 online professional development project.
3. HB 1397 - Adding a requirement to sexual health education to include elements of and consequences for conviction of sexual offenses where the victim is a minor.
4. HB 1293 - Requiring school districts to disclose information about required assessments.
5. HB 1369 - Using school days for meeting with parents and families as part of the Washington inventory of developing skills.
6. HB 1472 - Providing initiatives to improve and expand access to computer science education.
7. HB 1177 - Modifying the education accountability system to allow state criteria, resources, and strategies to be used for assistance and intervention.
8. HB 1178 - Authorizing alternative assessments of basic skills for teacher certification.
9. HB 1452 - Establishing accountability for student performance in third grade.
10. HB 1276 - Creating the dropout prevention through farm engagement pilot project.
11. HB 1656 - Establishing statewide high school graduation requirements that permit increased flexibility for students to select courses based on their interests and plans.
12. HB 1412 - Making community service a high school graduation requirement.
13. HB 1424 - Enhancing the statewide K-12 dropout prevention, intervention, and reengagement system.
14. HB 1526 - Creating a pilot project to increase enrollment of underrepresented students in the running start program.
15. HB 1450 - Regarding assessments in public schools.

1. HB 1492 - Concerning waivers from school year requirements for purposes of economy and efficiency.
2. HB 1556 - Creating initiatives in high schools to save lives in the event of cardiac arrest.
3. HB 1562 - Requiring funding for professional development for K-12 teachers.
4. HB 1688 - Establishing a requirement and system for reporting incidents of student restraint and isolation in public schools.
5. HB 1709 - Requiring a study to develop a state foreign language education interpreter training program.
6. HB 1642 - Establishing policies to support academic acceleration for high school students.

Finance* -  02/15/13  8:00 am

1. HB 1598 - Providing an exemption for certain lodging services from the convention and trade center tax.
2. HB 1634 - Including the value of solar, biomass, and geothermal facilities in the property tax levy limit calculation.
3. HB 1489 - Concerning the sales and use taxation of florists.
4. HB 1550 - Modifying the property tax exemption for nonprofit fairs.
5. SHB 1040 - Concerning real property valuation notices.
6. SHB 1217 - Strengthening the integrity, fairness, and equity in Washington's property assessment system.
7. HB 1759 - Concerning veterans' assistance levies.

1. HB 1004 - Concerning payment of property taxes.
2. HB 1068 - Concerning the television reception improvement district excise tax.
3. HB 1124 - Concerning recommendations for streamlining reporting requirements for taxes and fees on spirits.
4. HB 1170 - Modifying the income thresholds for the exemption and deferral property tax relief programs for senior citizens and persons retired because of physical disability.
5. HB 1427 - Addressing the evasion of taxes by the use of certain electronic means.
6. HB 1432 - Concerning county property tax levies.
7. HB 1568 - Concerning the business licensing service program administered by the department of revenue.
8. HB 1570 - Concerning filing requirements for property tax exemption claims for certain improvements to benefit fish and wildlife habitat, water quality, or water quantity.

Government Accountability & Oversight* -  02/15/13  1:30 pm

Health Care & Wellness* -  02/15/13  1:30 pm

1. HB 1538 - Encouraging the safe practice of public health nurses dispensing certain medications.
2. HB 1541 - Expanding the types of medications that a public or private school employee may administer to include nasal spray.
3. HB 1593 - Providing access to the prescription drug monitoring database for clinical laboratories.
4. HB 1677 - Concerning operators of multiple adult family homes.

1. HB 1271 - Concerning the practice of denturism.
2. HB 1362 - Concerning electronic timekeeping for in-home personal care or respite services.
3. HB 1441 - Addressing long-term care insurance.
4. HB 1448 - Regarding telemedicine.
5. HB 1471 - Updating and aligning with federal requirements hospital health care-associated infection rate reporting.
6. HB 1480 - Concerning the provision of prescription drugs by direct practice providers.
7. HB 1499 - Concerning the program of all-inclusive care for the elderly.
8. HB 1519 - Establishing accountability measures for service coordination organizations.
9. HB 1522 - Improving behavioral health services provided to adults in Washington state.
10. HB 1538 - Encouraging the safe practice of public health nurses dispensing certain medications.
11. HB 1541 - Expanding the types of medications that a public or private school employee may administer to include nasal spray.
12. HB 1593 - Providing access to the prescription drug monitoring database for clinical laboratories.
13. HB 1609 - Renaming the board of pharmacy.
14. HB 1629 - Concerning credentialing and continuing education requirements for long-term care workers.
15. HB 1631 - Concerning planning measures to provide long-term care services and supports needs of the aging population.
16. HB 1677 - Concerning operators of multiple adult family homes.

Local Government* -  02/15/13  1:30 pm

1. HB 1599 - Concerning shoreline master program provisions for marine aquaculture net pen facilities.
2. HB 1717 - Incentivizing up-front environmental planning, review, and infrastructure construction actions.
3. HB 1738 - Authorizing political subdivisions to purchase certain technology and services from the United States government.

1. HB 1324 - Transferring ferry and flood control zone district functions and taxing authorities to county legislative authorities in counties with a population of one million five hundred thousand or more.
2. HB 1401 - Addressing the timing of penalties under the growth management act.
3. HB 1486 - Concerning voter-approved benefit charges for regional fire protection service authorities.
4. HB 1488 - Modifying the percentage of votes required to approve benefit charges for fire protection districts.
5. HB 1575 - Creating greater efficiency in the offices of county assessor by eliminating the requirement to annually appraise tax-exempt government properties.
6. HB 1576 - Creating greater efficiency in the offices of county assessors by allowing notification via electronic means.
7. HB 1652 - Establishing a process for the payment of impact fees through provisions stipulated in recorded covenants.