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Senator Pam Roach

Biennium:

Prime Sponsored Bills


Bill NumberBrief Description
SB 5652 Requiring a reduction in toll rates charged to motorcycles. 
SB 5653 Regulating public access to information about foster parents. 
SB 5654 Creating a child welfare transparency committee. 
SB 5655 Regarding height restrictions on amateur radio antennas. 
SB 5656 Splitting the department of social and health services into several smaller, more focused agencies. 
SB 5657 Concerning background information of certain guardians ad litem. 
SB 5658 Creating a pilot program of Spanish and Chinese language instruction. 
SB 5660 Encouraging each school district and community to work in partnership to promote programs that will help students develop saleable skills. 
SB 5951 Protecting the voter's signature and telephone number on envelopes provided for return of voted ballots. 
SB 6050 Exempting vehicles from the sales and use tax that are sold or used by qualifying disabled veterans or surviving spouses. 
SB 6098 Requiring public agencies, special purpose districts, and municipalities to post certain information on their web sites. 
SB 6099 Requiring ballot titles to indicate tax consequences of the ballot measure. 
SB 6100 Preventing rejection of ballots that have voter identifying marks. 
SB 6101 Updating public records provisions. 
SB 6125 Concerning secure housing for sex offenders. 
SR 8629 Honoring individuals with autism. 
SR 8648 Celebrating the 100th birthday of Wilkeson. 

Secondary Sponsored Bills


Bill NumberBrief Description
SB 5652 Requiring a reduction in toll rates charged to motorcycles. 
SB 5653 Regulating public access to information about foster parents. 
SB 5654 Creating a child welfare transparency committee. 
SB 5655 Regarding height restrictions on amateur radio antennas. 
SB 5656 Splitting the department of social and health services into several smaller, more focused agencies. 
SB 5657 Concerning background information of certain guardians ad litem. 
SB 5658 Creating a pilot program of Spanish and Chinese language instruction. 
SB 5660 Encouraging each school district and community to work in partnership to promote programs that will help students develop saleable skills. 
SB 5951 Protecting the voter's signature and telephone number on envelopes provided for return of voted ballots. 
SB 6050 Exempting vehicles from the sales and use tax that are sold or used by qualifying disabled veterans or surviving spouses. 
SB 6098 Requiring public agencies, special purpose districts, and municipalities to post certain information on their web sites. 
SB 6099 Requiring ballot titles to indicate tax consequences of the ballot measure. 
SB 6100 Preventing rejection of ballots that have voter identifying marks. 
SB 6101 Updating public records provisions. 
SB 6125 Concerning secure housing for sex offenders. 
SR 8629 Honoring individuals with autism. 
SR 8648 Celebrating the 100th birthday of Wilkeson. 
SB 5000 Limiting property taxation.  Fiscal Note
SB 5004 Creating a mobile custom farm slaughtering unit loan program.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Promoting local meat production.  Fiscal Note
SB 5007 Allowing public technical colleges to offer associate transfer degrees.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Allowing public technical colleges to offer degrees that prepare students to transfer to certain bachelor degree programs.  Fiscal Note
SB 5008 Regarding hunting licensing requirements for members of the military. 
SB 5009 Creating a military service exemption for benefits charged to the experience rating accounts of employers.  Fiscal Note
SB 5012 Directing the Washington state patrol to develop a plan to assist in the recovery of missing persons.  Fiscal Note
SB 5024 Concerning notices of dishonor. 
SB 5029 Recodifying and making technical clarifications to campaign funding and disclosure laws.  Fiscal Note
SB 5030 Concerning militia records, property, command, and administration.  Fiscal Note
SB 5034 Adjusting veterans' scoring criteria. 
SB 5035 Improving veterans' access to services. 
SB 5036 Concerning veterans' relief. 
SB 5042 Providing a waiver of penalties for first-time paperwork violations by small businesses.  Fiscal Note
SB 5053 Creating the Washington state flag account.  Fiscal Note
SB 5079 Designating the official Nordic Museum. 
SB 5114 Eliminating the partial relinquishment of water rights. 
SB 5115 Modifying the judicial conduct commission.  Fiscal Note
SB 5133 Allowing the Washington center for court research and the office of public defense to access juvenile case records.  Fiscal Note
SB 5161 Extending tax incentives for renewable resources, including tidal and wave energy.  Fiscal Note
SB 5163 Removing the requirement to purchase art for public buildings during the 2009-2011 biennium. 
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 5183 Addressing the viewing of sexually explicit depictions of minors on the internet.  Fiscal Note
SB 5184 Evaluating the need for a digital forensic crime lab.  Fiscal Note
SB 5193 Allowing a nonresident alien to possess weapons when hunting with a Washington-licensed hunter. 
SB 5194 Concerning the generation of electricity in energy parks.  Fiscal Note
SB 5203 Regarding insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders.  Fiscal Note
SB 5211 Prohibiting false and defamatory statements about candidates for public office.  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 5238 Authorizing the department of retirement systems to assist with mailing information to certain members of the state retirement systems. 
SB 5248 Enacting the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children.  Fiscal Note
SB 5259 Modifying collective bargaining law to authorize providing additional compensation to academic employees at community and technical colleges.  Fiscal Note
SB 5260 Motivating students through incentives to pursue postsecondary education by eliminating statewide assessments as a high school graduation requirement.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Requiring a collaborative review of incentive programs to motivate students to pursue postsecondary education.  Fiscal Note
SB 5302 Granting half-time service credit for half-time educational employment prior to January 1, 1987, in plans 2 and 3 of the school employees' retirement system and the public employees' retirement system.  Fiscal Note
SB 5303 Transferring public employees' retirement system plan 2 members to the school employees' retirement system plan 2.  Fiscal Note
SB 5311 Providing benefits for the survivors of certain firefighters.  Fiscal Note
SB 5314 Addressing the survivor benefits of employees who die while honorably serving in the national guard or military reserves during a period of war.  Fiscal Note
SB 5386 Requiring superior courts and courts of limited jurisdiction to use electronic recording equipment to record oral proceedings. 
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 5395 Concerning the excise taxation of bullion and rare earth metals.  Fiscal Note
SB 5400 Regulating reverse mortgage lending practices.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Regulating reverse mortgage lending practices. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Regulating reverse mortgage lending practices and debt collections. )  Fiscal Note
SB 5401 Expanding the riparian open space program to include lands that contain habitat of species that are federally listed as threatened or endangered.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Expanding the riparian open space program to include lands that contain critical habitat of threatened or endangered species.  Fiscal Note
SB 5402 Regarding the prevention of animal cruelty. 
SB 5413 Concerning the assault of a law enforcement officer or other employee of a law enforcement agency.  Fiscal Note
SB 5417 Requiring the disclosure of information on flood insurance coverage.  Fiscal Note
SB 5436 Concerning direct patient-provider primary care practice arrangements. 
SB 5440 Involving tribal governments when choosing names for state ferries.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning the naming or renaming of state ferries.  Fiscal Note
SB 5442 Providing excise tax exemptions for hog fuel used for production of electricity, steam, heat, or biofuel.  Fiscal Note
SB 5454 Creating the new crime of abandonment of a dependent person in the fourth degree.  Fiscal Note
SB 5463 Creating a good faith defense for certain minimum wage and overtime compensation complaints.  Fiscal Note
SB 5467 Concerning tax incentives for the production, distribution, sale, and use of alcohol fuel, wood biomass fuel, biodiesel fuel, and biodiesel feedstock.  Fiscal Note
SB 5470 Providing sales and use tax exemptions for senior residents of qualified low-income senior housing facilities.  Fiscal Note
SB 5481 Concerning veterans' burials.  Fiscal Note
SB 5484 Concerning developmental screening.  Fiscal Note
SB 5488 Modifying judicial election provisions. 
SB 5502 Establishing the primary care physician conditional tuition waiver program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5522 Authorizing internet voting for service voters and overseas voters.  Fiscal Note
SB 5526 Modifying disclosure requirements for private investment information received by the University of Washington consolidated endowment fund.  Fiscal Note
SB 5572 Providing collective bargaining for child care center directors and workers.  Fiscal Note
SB 5632 Permitting retired participants to resume volunteer firefighter, emergency worker, or reserve officer service.  Fiscal Note
SB 5636 Authorizing the civil air patrol to assist the state in homeland security, disaster relief, and search and rescue operations.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Creating a trust account on behalf of the Washington wing of the civil air patrol.  Fiscal Note
SB 5637 Allowing members of the armed forces to submit an application for renewal of a concealed pistol license by mail. 
SB 5661 Exempting the annual parental declaration of intent to home school from the public disclosure act. 
SB 5662 Allowing certain health care coverage deductions from the calculation of disposable income for the purpose of qualifying for senior property tax programs. 
SB 5663 Concerning property tax exemptions for service-connected disabled veterans and senior citizens. 
SB 5664 Limiting the power of eminent domain. 
SB 5681 Updating election laws regarding the top two primary election system.  Fiscal Note
SB 5704 Concerning creation of a flood district by three or more counties. 
SB 5727 Prohibiting the providing of false information to voters. 
SB 5790 Prohibiting persons convicted of animal cruelty from owning or caring for similar animals for certain periods of time. 
SB 5811 Concerning the placement of foster children.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning foster child placements. 
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 5820 Including a child fourteen or younger in the aggravated first degree murder provisions. 
SB 5829 Establishing a pilot program for family counseling. 
SB 5865 Requiring a report on early learning services for low-income families.  Fiscal Note
SB 5871 Concerning sales and use tax exemptions for prescribed power wheelchairs.  Fiscal Note
SB 5907 Limiting mandatory overtime for corrections officers and sergeants.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Limiting mandatory overtime for corrections officers and sergeants employed by a county jail. 
SB 5908 Providing interest arbitration for employees of juvenile court services administered under RCW 13.20.060.  Fiscal Note
SB 5929 Including correctional employees who have completed government-sponsored law enforcement firearms training to the lists of law enforcement personnel that are exempt from certain firearm restrictions. 
SB 5950 Concerning criminal background checks.  Fiscal Note
SB 5968 Regarding the protection of agricultural land. 
SB 5972 Regarding voter information on envelopes provided for return of the voted ballot. 
SB 5996 Reducing the business and occupation tax rate for retailers, wholesalers, and service providers of motor vehicles.  Fiscal Note
SB 6000 Modifying real estate disclosure requirements regarding homeowners' associations.  Fiscal Note
SB 6016 Regarding educator training to enhance skills of students with dyslexia.  Fiscal Note
SB 6040 Concerning the expenditure of funds for the Interstate 5/Columbia river crossing/Vancouver project. 
SB 6073 Regarding profoundly capable divergent students. 
SB 6115 Changing provisions relating to sex offenders. 
SJM 8000 Requesting the Postal Service to issue a postage stamp commemorating Nisei veterans. 
SJM 8002 Requesting that Congress audit the Federal Reserve System. 
SJM 8005 Requesting that the words "under God" remain in the Pledge of Allegiance. 
SJR 8207 Amending the Constitution to include toll revenue to be used exclusively for highway purposes. 
SJR 8210 Prohibiting the adoption of budgets that result in projected deficits. 
SJR 8214 Guaranteeing a secret ballot. 
SJR 8215 Amending the state Constitution to require toll revenue to be used exclusively for highway purposes under Article II, section 40. 
SR 8602 Recognizing Israel's interest in democracy. 
SR 8604 Honoring the National Guard. 
SR 8605 Honoring Tom Darling. 
SR 8606 Honoring home education families. 
SR 8609 Recognizing the Mount Baker Martin Luther King, Jr. scholarship. 
SR 8611 Recognizing the National Day of Human Trafficking Awareness. 
SR 8612 Honoring Miss Washington 2008. 
SR 8616 Celebrating the 150th birthday of the City of Olympia. 
SR 8619 Honoring Wilcox Farms. 
SR 8628 Commemorating the centennial of the submission of the equal suffrage amendment to the people of the state of Washington. 
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 8636 Recognizing Pat Durham, Grand Madam President of the international Ladies Auxiliary of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. 
SR 8646 Celebrating the 2009 Daffodil Festival. 
SR 8652 Honoring Washington State's teachers and the 2009 teacher of the year.  
SR 8653 Honoring Jim Ward. 
SR 8659 Commending Dennis Schatz.