Agenda for Thursday, February 07, 2013
Senate Committees
Agriculture, Water & Rural Economic Development -
02/07/13 10:00 am
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Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 3
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session: Overview of Yakima River Basin integrated plan.
Public Hearing: SB 5367 - Concerning Yakima river basin water resource management.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
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Energy, Environment & Telecommunications -
02/07/13 1:30 pm
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Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Work Session: Challenges and opportunities of wind power.
Other business.
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Financial Institutions, Housing & Insurance* -
02/07/13 1:30 pm
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Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 2
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED on 2/6/2013 at 5:00 PM
Public Hearing: - SB 5302 - Addressing credit unions' corporate governance and investments.
- SB 5306 - Creating procedures for disposing property in the leased premises of a deceased tenant.
- SB 5307 - Expanding the definition of unlawful detainer to include a provision governing at-will tenancies.
- SB 5425 - Concerning the entering of monetary judgments against defendants under the residential and manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant acts.
- SB 5426 - Concerning unlawful detainer.
Executive Session: - SB 5065 - Regulating the settling of certain insurer transactions.
- SB 5312 - Authorizing small consumer installment loans.
- SB 5101 - Concerning a sales and use tax exemption for certain financial information provided to qualifying businesses providing international investment management services.
- SB 5269 - Addressing title insurance rate filings.
- SB 5523 - Concerning the property taxation of mobile homes and park model trailers.
- SB 5439 - Concerning the administrative costs for the allocation, management, and oversight of housing trust fund investments.
Other business.
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Governmental Operations* -
02/07/13 10:00 am
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Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 2
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED on 2/6/2013 at 12:52 PM
Public Hearing: - SB 5220 - Addressing membership on city disability boards.
- SB 5217 - Eliminating the Washington state quality award program.
- SB 5381 - Concerning cellular telephone use by state employees.
- SB 5169 - Implementing the recommendations of the sunshine committee.
- SJR 8200 - Amending the Constitution to require a two-thirds majority vote of the legislature to raise taxes.
- 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.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
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Health Care -
02/07/13 10:00 am
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Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
Public Hearing: - SB 5305 - Requiring hospitals to report when providing treatment for bullet wounds, gunshot wounds, and stab wounds to all patients.
- SB 5414 - Regarding the requirements of allopathic physician licensure.
- SB 5415 - Updating and aligning with federal requirements hospital health care-associated infection rate reporting.
- SB 5416 - Concerning prescription information.
- SB 5214 - Concerning a business and occupation tax deduction for donated medical services.
Executive: - ESB 5206 - Increasing the health professions participating in online access to the University of Washington health sciences library.
- SJM 8000 - Requesting that the Drug Enforcement Administration reclassify medical marijuana as a Schedule II drug.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
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Higher Education* -
02/07/13 1:30 pm
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Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 3
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED on 2/6/2013 at 9:47 AM
Work Session: Overview of the State Need Grant Program - continued from January 17, 2013.
Public Hearing: - SB 5028 - Changing state need grant eligibility provisions.
- SB 5180 - Improving access to higher education for students with disabilities.
- SB 5195 - Allowing nonprofit institutions recognized by the state of Washington to be eligible to participate in the state need grant program.
Executive Session: - SB 5318 - Removing the one-year waiting period for veterans or active members of the military for purposes of eligibility for resident tuition.
- SB 5343 - Concerning the rights of higher education students involved in military service.
- SB 5559 - Authorizing educational specialist degrees at Central Washington University and Western Washington University.
- SB 5472 - Authorizing applied doctorate level degrees in audiology at Western Washington University.
- SB 5131 - Providing tax incentives for donations of modern laboratory equipment to higher education institutions and vocational skills centers.
Other business.
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Human Services & Corrections* -
02/07/13 10:00 am
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Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED on 2/6/2013 at 1:58 PM
Public Hearing: - SB 5376 - Concerning juvenile firearms and weapons crimes.
- SB 5316 - Adopting a model policy to require a third person to be present during interviews.
- SB 5359 - Concerning mandatory reporting of child abuse or neglect by supervised persons.
- SB 5480 - Accelerating changes to mental health involuntary commitment laws.
- SB 5486 - Providing partial and total confinement options for offenders.
Executive: - SB 5402 - Allowing residents of total confinement facilities and secure community transition facilities to engage in therapeutic occupational assignments within the confines of McNeil Island.
- SB 5122 - Concerning patient and staff safety at state hospitals.
- SB 5153 - Concerning transfers of clients between regional support networks.
- SJM 8003 - Requesting Congress to amend the Communications Decency Act.
- SB 5175 - Concerning sexual assault protection orders.
- SB 5198 - Exempting personal information relating to children from public inspection and copying.
- SB 5466 - Modifying criminal history record information compliance audit provisions.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
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Natural Resources & Parks* -
02/07/13 1:30 pm
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Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED on 2/1/2013 at 2:14 PM
Work Session: Update on integration of hydraulic project approval and forest practices applications pursuant to SB 6406 (2012).
Public Hearing: - SB 5231 - Ensuring hunter safety.
- SB 5575 - Concerning state parks funding.
Executive: - SB 5037 - Concerning the labeling of seafood.
- SB 5054 - Establishing a process for the acquisition of habitat and recreation lands by the state.
- SB 5057 - Regarding outdoor recreation on lands purchased by a private, not-for-profit organization acquired in whole or part with public funds.
- SB 5337 - Modifying expiration dates affecting the department of natural resources' timber sale program.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
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Trade & Economic Development* -
02/07/13 8:00 am
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Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 3
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED on 2/6/2013 at 1:36 PM
Work Session: Manufacturing in Washington:- Impact Washington presentation.
- Update on Lean Manufacturing and Environment Project.
- Update on Global Health Technologies Product Development Program.
- Association of Washington Business presentation.
Committee work session presentations can be found online after the hearing has begun via the Committee Meeting Documents at http://www.leg.wa.gov/Senate/Committees/TRED/Pages/default.aspx, as soon as they are available. Other business.
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Transportation* -
02/07/13 3:30 pm
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Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED on 2/6/2013 at 8:20 AM
Work Session: SR 520 update (Washington State Department of Transportation).
Public Hearing: - SB 5379 - Concerning nighttime vision acuity testing for driver's license applicants.
- SB 5182 - Addressing the disclosure of vehicle owner information (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute).
Executive: - SB 5239 - Addressing project selection by the freight mobility strategic investment board.
- SB 5335 - Modifying the boundaries of certain heavy haul corridors.
The Proposed Substitute is posted on the Committee's website at: http://www.leg.wa.gov/SENATE/COMMITTEES/TRAN/Pages/default.aspx and available from committee staff. Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
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Ways & Means* -
02/07/13 3:30 pm
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Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED on 2/7/2013 at 1:40 PM
Public Hearing: - SB 5392 - Limiting the impact of excess compensation on state retirement system contribution rates.
- SSB 5078 - Modifying the property tax exemption for nonprofit fairs.
- SSB 5222 - Concerning industrial hemp.
- SB 5442 - Protecting the state's interest in collecting deferred property taxes.
Executive Session: - 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.
- SB 5287 - Eliminating accounts and funds.
- SB 5342 - Concerning a sales and use tax exemption for restaurants in respect to certain items that impart flavor to food during the cooking process.
- SB 5283 - Concerning a business and occupation tax exemption for the Washington health benefit exchange established under chapter 43.71 RCW.
- SB 5132 - Concerning the disclosure of estimated debt service costs.
- SSB 5197 - Taking measures to promote safe school buildings.
- SB 5445 - Funding capital projects.
Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.
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