Senator Jim Kastama

Biennium:

Prime Sponsored Bills


Bill NumberBrief Description
SB 5341 Requiring an annual survey by claimants of the tax credit for eligible business projects in rural counties.  Fiscal Note
SB 5342 Regarding the designation of residential time in parenting plans. 
SB 5391 Regulating tattooing and body piercing.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Regulating body art, body piercing, and tattooing practitioners, shops, and businesses.
  Fiscal Note
SB 5392 Meeting financial responsibility requirements for automobiles.  Fiscal Note
SB 5393 Establishing the emergency management, preparedness, and assistance account.  Fiscal Note
SB 5426 Authorizing certain areas in cities or towns to annex to a fire protection district.  Fiscal Note
SB 5443 Concerning the reporting requirements of state and local tax programs. 
SB 5453 Defining "principal residence" for the purpose of relocation of a child. 
SB 5454 Creating the new crime of abandonment of a dependent person in the fourth degree.  Fiscal Note
SB 5473 Expediting completion of projects of statewide significance.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Expediting completion of projects of statewide significance. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Designating projects of statewide significance. )
  Fiscal Note
SB 5474 Providing tax incentives for contributions for research and technology development grants.  Fiscal Note
SB 5475 Regarding economic development planning. 
SB 5606 Creating the Washington investment in student excellence scholarship program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5713 Providing a business and occupation tax credit for participants in the Washington manufacturing innovation and modernization extension service program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5723 Providing support for small business assistance.  Fiscal Note
SB 5733 Modifying tax credits for research and development expenditures.  Fiscal Note
SB 5821 Creating a property tax exemption for manufactured/mobile home communities.  Fiscal Note
SB 5823 Concerning strict compliance with notice provisions when manufactured/mobile home communities are offered for sale. 
SB 5824 Concerning permanent parenting plans that are agreed to or entered into by default. 
SB 5829 Establishing a pilot program for family counseling. 
SB 5847 Concerning the development of clean technology within port district properties.  Fiscal Note
SB 5853 Requiring land use and transportation planning for marine container ports.  Fiscal Note
SB 5879 Concerning entrepreneurial education and training.  Fiscal Note
SB 5900 Regarding youth innovation education.  Fiscal Note
SB 5901 Modifying provisions of the local infrastructure financing tool program. 
SB 6085 Creating the Washington small business loan reserve program.  Fiscal Note
SB 6086 Concerning the use of state lottery proceeds for higher education financial aid. 
SB 6087 Regarding the duties of the economic development commission.  Fiscal Note
SB 6177 Regarding public financing of campaigns. 
SCR 8406 Resolving to adopt "The Washington Innovation Economy" as the state's economic development policy. 
SR 8646 Celebrating the 2009 Daffodil Festival. 

Secondary Sponsored Bills


Bill NumberBrief Description
SB 5341 Requiring an annual survey by claimants of the tax credit for eligible business projects in rural counties.  Fiscal Note
SB 5342 Regarding the designation of residential time in parenting plans. 
SB 5391 Regulating tattooing and body piercing.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Regulating body art, body piercing, and tattooing practitioners, shops, and businesses.
  Fiscal Note
SB 5392 Meeting financial responsibility requirements for automobiles.  Fiscal Note
SB 5393 Establishing the emergency management, preparedness, and assistance account.  Fiscal Note
SB 5426 Authorizing certain areas in cities or towns to annex to a fire protection district.  Fiscal Note
SB 5443 Concerning the reporting requirements of state and local tax programs. 
SB 5453 Defining "principal residence" for the purpose of relocation of a child. 
SB 5454 Creating the new crime of abandonment of a dependent person in the fourth degree.  Fiscal Note
SB 5473 Expediting completion of projects of statewide significance.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Expediting completion of projects of statewide significance. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Designating projects of statewide significance. )
  Fiscal Note
SB 5474 Providing tax incentives for contributions for research and technology development grants.  Fiscal Note
SB 5475 Regarding economic development planning. 
SB 5606 Creating the Washington investment in student excellence scholarship program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5713 Providing a business and occupation tax credit for participants in the Washington manufacturing innovation and modernization extension service program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5723 Providing support for small business assistance.  Fiscal Note
SB 5733 Modifying tax credits for research and development expenditures.  Fiscal Note
SB 5821 Creating a property tax exemption for manufactured/mobile home communities.  Fiscal Note
SB 5823 Concerning strict compliance with notice provisions when manufactured/mobile home communities are offered for sale. 
SB 5824 Concerning permanent parenting plans that are agreed to or entered into by default. 
SB 5829 Establishing a pilot program for family counseling. 
SB 5847 Concerning the development of clean technology within port district properties.  Fiscal Note
SB 5853 Requiring land use and transportation planning for marine container ports.  Fiscal Note
SB 5879 Concerning entrepreneurial education and training.  Fiscal Note
SB 5900 Regarding youth innovation education.  Fiscal Note
SB 5901 Modifying provisions of the local infrastructure financing tool program. 
SB 6085 Creating the Washington small business loan reserve program.  Fiscal Note
SB 6086 Concerning the use of state lottery proceeds for higher education financial aid. 
SB 6087 Regarding the duties of the economic development commission.  Fiscal Note
SB 6177 Regarding public financing of campaigns. 
SCR 8406 Resolving to adopt "The Washington Innovation Economy" as the state's economic development policy. 
SR 8646 Celebrating the 2009 Daffodil Festival. 
SB 5034 Adjusting veterans' scoring criteria. 
SB 5035 Improving veterans' access to services. 
SB 5036 Concerning veterans' relief. 
SB 5041 Increasing state contracts with veteran-owned businesses.  Fiscal Note
SB 5042 Providing a waiver of penalties for first-time paperwork violations by small businesses.  Fiscal Note
SB 5043 Convening a work group to develop a single, coordinated student access portal for college information.  Fiscal Note
SB 5044 Changing work-study provisions.  Fiscal Note
SB 5045 Promoting economic development and community revitalization.
Revised for 2nd Substitute: Regarding community revitalization financing.
 
SB 5048 Providing for coordination of workforce and economic development.  Fiscal Note
SB 5140 Requiring language access services for persons with limited English proficiency in health care and insurance matters.  Fiscal Note
SB 5159 Extending the time period for motor vehicle fuel excise tax and special fuel tax refunds.  Fiscal Note
SB 5172 Establishing a University of Washington center for human rights.  Fiscal Note
SB 5173 Authorizing the regional universities to confer honorary doctorate degrees. 
SB 5174 Providing an incentive to improve on-time graduation rates at institutions of higher education.  Fiscal Note
SB 5175 Changing the Washington college promise scholarship program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5176 Creating a bi-state partnership for teachers of children with visual impairments.  Fiscal Note
SB 5177 Creating a global Asia institute within the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. 
SB 5185 Increasing solar energy incentives.  Fiscal Note
SB 5193 Allowing a nonresident alien to possess weapons when hunting with a Washington-licensed hunter. 
SB 5203 Regarding insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders.  Fiscal Note
SB 5232 Protecting registered school students from sexual misconduct by school employees.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Protecting enrolled school students from sexual misconduct by school employees.
  Fiscal Note
SB 5237 Requiring the development of three-year baccalaureate programs. 
SB 5267 Regarding the issuance of checks by joint operating agencies and public utility districts. 
SB 5316 Changing the timeline for the state comprehensive plan for workforce training and education.  Fiscal Note
SB 5317 Clarifying terms for workforce and economic development. 
SB 5361 Feeding hungry children through school breakfast and lunch programs and summer food service programs.  Fiscal Note
SB 5371 Concerning parent taught driver training education courses.  Fiscal Note
SB 5373 Concerning early intervention services for children with disabilities.  Fiscal Note
SB 5377 Concerning funding for infrastructure that supports dense, affordable development in transit-oriented areas.  Fiscal Note
SB 5386 Requiring superior courts and courts of limited jurisdiction to use electronic recording equipment to record oral proceedings. 
SB 5390 Concerning the tax on cleaning up radioactive waste and other byproducts of weapons production and nuclear research and development.  Fiscal Note
SB 5418 Regarding electric vehicles.  Fiscal Note
SB 5436 Concerning direct patient-provider primary care practice arrangements. 
SB 5446 Prohibiting certain employer communications about political or religious matters.  Fiscal Note
SB 5448 Establishing local public works assistance funds.  Fiscal Note
SB 5477 Providing visitation rights for grandparents. 
SB 5481 Concerning veterans' burials.  Fiscal Note
SB 5506 Concerning child care providers.  Fiscal Note
SB 5515 Modifying and adding definitions related to school district employee benefits. 
SB 5544 Concerning affordable housing incentive programs. 
SB 5545 Authorizing a local sales and use tax for parks and recreation, trails, and open space allocation.  Fiscal Note
SB 5550 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 eighteen months' notice on closures or conversions of mobile home parks and manufactured housing communities.
 
SB 5551 Regarding recess periods for elementary school students. 
SB 5553 Promoting economic development through promoting innovation and the commercialization of technologies.  Fiscal Note
SB 5554 Regarding the job skills program. 
SB 5569 Concerning the administration of state and local tax programs.  Fiscal Note
SB 5576 Changing enrollment reporting for state employees receiving tuition waivers at institutions of higher education.  Fiscal Note
SB 5616 Connecting business expansion and recruitment to customized training.  Fiscal Note
SB 5628 Concerning the regulation of certain internet protocol services.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Studying the telecommunications and information industries.
  Fiscal Note
SB 5661 Exempting the annual parental declaration of intent to home school from the public disclosure act. 
SB 5736 Concerning sales and use tax preferences for electric vehicles and electric vehicle infrastructure. 
SB 5739 Revising provisions relating to renewing a concealed pistol license by members of the armed forces. 
SB 5750 Addressing the protection of consumers by providing flexibility in the repayment of certain debts.  Fiscal Note
SB 5763 Requiring the adoption of policies for the management of concussion and head injury in youth sports. 
SB 5769 Concerning the international services business and occupation tax credit.  Fiscal Note
SB 5817 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.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning current use valuation of farm and agricultural lands.
  Fiscal Note
SB 5822 Modifying the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act. 
SB 5855 Providing excise tax exemptions for water services provided by small water systems.  Fiscal Note
SB 5896 Establishing the Washington innovation grant authority.  Fiscal Note
SB 5897 Creating the technology discovery fund. 
SB 5899 Providing a business and occupation tax credit for qualified employment positions. 
SB 5912 Providing public funding for supreme court campaigns. 
SB 5917 Conducting an assessment of high-speed internet service in the state.  Fiscal Note
SB 5919 Creating the innovation discovery fund.  Fiscal Note
SB 5925 Regarding insurance for higher education students participating in study or research abroad.  Fiscal Note
SB 5941 Regarding comprehensive education data improvement systems.
Revised for 2nd Substitute: Regarding a comprehensive education data improvement system.
  Fiscal Note
SB 5944 Implementing a demonstration project to reduce phosphorus loading in Lake Whatcom.  Fiscal Note
SB 5948 Regarding water conservation appliances.  Fiscal Note
SB 5954 Creating community facilities districts. 
SB 6009 Concerning long-term care facilities. 
SB 6105 Concerning transparency in state and local taxation.  Fiscal Note
SB 6145 Authorizing the siting of a master planned location for major auctioneering activity. 
SJM 8000 Requesting the Postal Service to issue a postage stamp commemorating Nisei veterans. 
SJM 8004 Requesting congress take action to maintain and develop a highly-skilled workforce in Washington. 
SJM 8011 Requesting the United States trade representative to create a federal-state international trade policy commission. 
SJM 8012 Urging adoption of a treaty fighting discrimination against women. 
SR 8604 Honoring the National Guard. 
SR 8611 Recognizing the National Day of Human Trafficking Awareness. 
SR 8616 Celebrating the 150th birthday of the City of Olympia. 
SR 8619 Honoring Wilcox Farms. 
SR 8622 Honoring the Tri-City entities participating in "Energy Independence Day." 
SR 8624 Recognizing the 4-H youth development program. 
SR 8626 Honoring Charles H. Mitchell. 
SR 8627 Celebrating Big Brothers Big Sisters Day. 
SR 8629 Honoring individuals with autism. 
SR 8631 Recognizing Japanese-American internees and World War II veterans. 
SR 8634 Recognizing department of transportation and Washington state patrol employees for their work and efforts during the storms of 2007, 2008, and 2009. 
SR 8635 Honoring those who work with victims of traumatic brain injury. 
SR 8654 Honoring Peggy Pritchard Olson. 
SR 8655 Recognizing Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences. 
SR 8656 Honoring the University of Washington's Women's Cross Country Team. 
SR 8660 Celebrating the Apple Blossom Festival.