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Senator Christine Rolfes

Biennium:

Prime Sponsored Bills


Bill NumberBrief Description
SB 5006 Concerning uncontested rate modifications for utilities and transportation commission regulated water companies.  Fiscal Note
SB 5142 Incorporating motorcycles into certain transportation planning. 
SB 5195 Allowing nonprofit institutions recognized by the state of Washington to be eligible to participate in the state need grant program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5216 Addressing long-term care insurance.  Fiscal Note
SB 5301 Regarding student suspension and expulsion.  Fiscal Note
SB 5311 Removing the requirement that housing organizations apply to the Washington state quality award program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5365 Increasing the capacity of school districts to recognize and respond to troubled youth.  Fiscal Note
SB 5366 Requiring the office of the superintendent of public instruction to assist school districts in disclosing information about required assessments. 
SB 5411 Requiring the ballot proposition to reduce the terms of office of port commissioners to be submitted at the next general election. 
SB 5454 Concerning the testing of infants placed in out-of-home care whose human immunodeficiency virus is unknown.  Fiscal Note
SB 5513 Regulating the use of off-road vehicles in certain areas.  Fiscal Note
SB 5532 Requiring crisis intervention training for peace officers. 
SB 5533 Fostering economic development through revitalization of abandoned and vacant properties.  Fiscal Note
SB 5534 Assessing a penalty on certain motor vehicle-related violations to provide funding for the Washington state strategic highway safety plan.  Fiscal Note
SB 5535 Concerning the recording of real property encumbrance transfers and assignments. 
SB 5572 Regarding the sea cucumber dive fishery.  Fiscal Note
SB 5573 Implementing the first biennium spending plan recommendations of the joint task force on education funding. 
SB 5634 Clarifying the department of natural resources' authority to enter into cooperative agreements.  Fiscal Note
SB 5649 Using the collaborative schools process for required action districts that continue to struggle to improve student academic achievement.  Fiscal Note
SB 5681 Facilitating treatment for persons with co-occurring disorders by requiring development of an integrated rule.  Fiscal Note
SR 8609 Celebrating outdoor recreation 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 5037 Concerning the labeling of seafood.  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 5061 Addressing a veteran's preference for the purpose of public employment. 
SB 5062 Providing measures to deal with squatters on foreclosed properties. 
SB 5066 Authorizing certain local authorities to establish maximum speed limits on certain nonarterial highways. 
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.  Fiscal Note
SB 5073 Concerning the disclosure of foods produced through genetic engineering.  Fiscal Note
SB 5076 Requiring information on home energy efficiency to be included in residential home inspection reports.  Fiscal Note
SB 5117 Regarding family involvement coordinators in public schools.  Fiscal Note
SB 5129 Authorizing the establishment and use of veterans' treatment courts.  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 5161 Authorizing certain eligible family members of United States armed forces members who died while in service or as a result of service to apply for gold star license plates.  Fiscal Note
SB 5172 Enacting the Ike act. 
SB 5178 Modifying organized retail theft provisions.  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 5181 Concerning flame retardants.  Fiscal Note
SB 5197 Requiring additional safety features in school construction and remodeling.
Revised for 2nd Substitute: Taking measures to promote safe school buildings.  Fiscal Note
SB 5202 Creating the companion animal safety, population control, and spay/neuter assistance program.  Fiscal Note
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 5231 Ensuring hunter safety.  Fiscal Note
SB 5233 Establishing a training program for managers of manufactured housing communities.  Fiscal Note
SB 5241 Concerning nonresident vessel permits and taxation. 
SB 5260 Authorizing regular meetings of county legislative authorities to be held at alternate locations within the county. 
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 5299 Concerning the creation of a special license plate dedicated to raising revenue to fund preventative wolf management efforts at the department of fish and wildlife.  Fiscal Note
SB 5300 Enhancing wolf management efforts through the promotion of cooperative agreements. 
SB 5332 Modifying the percentage of votes required to approve benefit charges for fire protection districts.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Modifying the percentage of votes required to continue benefit charges for fire protection districts. 
SB 5333 Providing mental health first-aid training to teachers and educational staff.  Fiscal Note
SB 5346 Restoring funding to in-home care services.  Fiscal Note
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 5357 Directing state investments of existing litter tax revenues under chapter 82.19 RCW in material waste management efforts without increasing the tax rate.  Fiscal Note
SB 5389 Concerning sibling visitation for children in foster care.
Revised for 2nd Substitute: Concerning sibling visitation and sibling contact for children in foster care. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Concerning limitations on visitation or contact with children in foster care. )  Fiscal Note
SB 5420 Creating a two-year freeze on tuition rates at four-year institutions of higher education. 
SB 5428 Creating initiatives in high schools to save lives in the event of cardiac arrest. 
SB 5447 Addressing the unintentional lapses of long-term care insurance policies.  Fiscal Note
SB 5468 Modifying the definition of tourist for the purposes of the lodging tax.  Fiscal Note
SB 5473 Enacting the Washington voting rights act of 2013.  Fiscal Note
SB 5481 Developing and enforcing standards for the department of social and health services' supported living program. 
SB 5483 Regarding the financial education public-private partnership.  Fiscal Note
SB 5484 Concerning assault in the third degree occurring in areas used in connection with court proceedings.  Fiscal Note
SB 5490 Concerning veterans' assistance levies.  Fiscal Note
SB 5491 Establishing statewide indicators of educational health.  Fiscal Note
SB 5497 Concerning assault in the third degree against a school employee.  Fiscal Note
SB 5506 Concerning funding for the safe routes to school program. 
SB 5507 Increasing transparency of donors to candidates and ballot measures. 
SB 5526 Ensuring fairness to employers by protecting employees.  Fiscal Note
SB 5537 Improving the quality and value of health care with greater transparency of price and quality data.  Fiscal Note
SB 5540 Expanding opportunities to purchase health care coverage from out-of-state carriers.  Fiscal Note
SB 5548 Limiting differential tuition.  Fiscal Note
SB 5563 Regarding training for school employees in the prevention of sexual abuse.  Fiscal Note
SB 5564 Addressing when vehicles overtake and pass pedestrians or bicyclists. 
SB 5567 Changing requirements for membership on community and technical college boards of trustees. 
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 5592 Modifying the use of certain toll bridge revenue.  Fiscal Note
SB 5595 Concerning child care reform.  Fiscal Note
SB 5624 Aligning high-demand secondary STEM or career and technical education programs with applied baccalaureate programs.  Fiscal Note
SB 5638 Addressing the fiscal impacts of bills and budgets.  Fiscal Note
SB 5653 Promoting a balanced financing system for state parks programs and services in order to facilitate resource stewardship, interpretative activities, cultural events, and works of art in state parks.  Fiscal Note
SB 5657 Concerning state parks and recreation.  Fiscal Note
SB 5663 Regarding derelict and abandoned vessels in state waters.  Fiscal Note
SB 5665 Concerning geoduck diver licenses.  Fiscal Note
SB 5667 Providing for a single set of laws and procedures governing online learning. 
SB 5671 Concerning accountability in providing opportunities for certain students to participate in transition services. 
SB 5673 Creating a two-year freeze on tuition rates at community and technical colleges. 
SB 5674 Allowing wine and beer sampling at farmers markets.  Fiscal Note
SB 5691 Concerning veterans' homes.  Fiscal Note
SB 5706 Concerning accountability in providing opportunities for certain students to participate in transition services.  Fiscal Note
SB 5707 Regarding net metering of electricity. 
SB 5710 Concerning reckless endangerment resulting from unsafe storage of firearms. 
SB 5711 Requiring universal background checks for firearms transfers. 
SB 5782 Establishing standards for the use of public unmanned aircraft systems. 
SB 5785 Modifying requirements for the display and replacement of license plates.  Fiscal Note
SB 5798 Concerning health plan coverage for the voluntary termination of a pregnancy. 
SB 5800 Limiting the scope of the department of transportation's administration of the state's ferry system. 
SB 5801 Concerning the review of and recommendations for ferry fares. 
SB 5806 Repealing an obsolete provision for a credit against property taxes paid on timber on public land. 
SB 5814 Concerning for hire vehicles, limousines, and taxicabs. 
SB 5818 Supporting K-12 career education, exploration, and planning. 
SB 5826 Addressing the shared leave pool. 
SB 5865 Exempting from use tax certain purchases from nonprofit organizations or libraries sold as a fund-raising activity.  Fiscal Note
SB 5890 Concerning the titling and registration of vehicles.  Fiscal Note
SB 5909 Expanding STEM education to include the arts. 
SJM 8002 Requesting an amendment to the United States Constitution to return the authority to regulate election campaign contributions to congress and state legislatures. 
SJM 8008 Requesting that congress pass and the president sign legislation implementing certain visa reforms. 
SR 8604 Honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 
SR 8612 Honoring Senator Jerome Delvin. 
SR 8613 Honoring the National Guard. 
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 8621 Recognizing the Washington state wing of the Civil Air Patrol. 
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 8629 Honoring the Seattle Raging Grannies. 
SR 8630 Celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the Department of Agriculture. 
SR 8634 Commemorating the career of U.S. Representative Norm Dicks. 
SR 8635 Honoring individuals with autism. 
SR 8636 Honoring Peace Corps volunteers and recognizing the 2013 Top Peace Corps Volunteer-Producing Colleges. 
SR 8641 Recognizing and expressing appreciation for Sea Service personnel. 
SR 8643 Proclaiming Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day. 
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 8652 Recognizing religious freedom in Washington State. 
SR 8655 Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1963 American Mt. Everest Expedition. 
SR 8656 Recognizing the Owen family and honoring Tim and Cheryl Owen.