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Senator Phil Rockefeller

Biennium:

Prime Sponsored Bills


Bill NumberBrief Description
SB 5054 Regarding special elections for changing the form of government of a noncharter code city. 
SB 5057 Limiting the rate of increase of property valuations. 
SB 5058 Creating a pilot vessel amnesty disposal program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5087 Concerning hospital benefit zones. 
SB 5138 Creating an integrated climate change response strategy.  Fiscal Note
SB 5170 Repealing chapter 385, Laws of 2005.  Fiscal Note
SB 5185 Increasing solar energy incentives.  Fiscal Note
SB 5396 Regarding retainage of funds on public works projects. 
SB 5397 Regarding alternative public works contracting procedures.  Fiscal Note
SB 5398 Expanding the ability to negotiate an adjustment to a bid price on public works to municipalities. 
SB 5399 Regarding payment of undisputed claims.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Requiring prompt issuance of change orders for additional work on public works projects.  Fiscal Note
SB 5438 Allowing crime victims to submit input to the department of corrections regarding an offender's placement in work release.  Fiscal Note
SB 5485 Authorizing water-sewer districts to construct, condemn and purchase, add to, maintain, and operate systems for wastewater reclamation.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Authorizing water-sewer districts to construct, condemn and purchase, add to, maintain, and operate systems for reclaimed water. 
SB 5524 Modifying vehicle impoundment notice requirements.  Fiscal Note
SB 5533 Regarding the adjudication of water rights.  Fiscal Note
SB 5565 Regarding the use of certain solid fuel burning devices.  Fiscal Note
SB 5649 Regarding energy efficiency in buildings.  Fiscal Note
SB 5735 Reducing greenhouse gas emissions.  Fiscal Note
SB 5736 Concerning sales and use tax preferences for electric vehicles and electric vehicle infrastructure. 
SB 5767 Making nonsubstantive changes clarifying outdoor burning provisions of the Washington clean air act.  Fiscal Note
SB 5888 Managing permit exempt groundwater withdrawals. 
SB 5914 Concerning student transportation funding.  Fiscal Note
SB 5921 Creating a clean energy collaborative.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Creating a clean energy leadership initiative.  Fiscal Note
SB 6077 Improving water management. 
SB 6172 Eliminating the oil spill advisory council.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Suspending the powers and duties of the oil spill advisory council for the 2009-2011 biennium. 
SJR 8201 Limiting property valuation increases. 

Secondary Sponsored Bills


Bill NumberBrief Description
SB 5054 Regarding special elections for changing the form of government of a noncharter code city. 
SB 5057 Limiting the rate of increase of property valuations. 
SB 5058 Creating a pilot vessel amnesty disposal program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5087 Concerning hospital benefit zones. 
SB 5138 Creating an integrated climate change response strategy.  Fiscal Note
SB 5170 Repealing chapter 385, Laws of 2005.  Fiscal Note
SB 5185 Increasing solar energy incentives.  Fiscal Note
SB 5396 Regarding retainage of funds on public works projects. 
SB 5397 Regarding alternative public works contracting procedures.  Fiscal Note
SB 5398 Expanding the ability to negotiate an adjustment to a bid price on public works to municipalities. 
SB 5399 Regarding payment of undisputed claims.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Requiring prompt issuance of change orders for additional work on public works projects.  Fiscal Note
SB 5438 Allowing crime victims to submit input to the department of corrections regarding an offender's placement in work release.  Fiscal Note
SB 5485 Authorizing water-sewer districts to construct, condemn and purchase, add to, maintain, and operate systems for wastewater reclamation.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Authorizing water-sewer districts to construct, condemn and purchase, add to, maintain, and operate systems for reclaimed water. 
SB 5524 Modifying vehicle impoundment notice requirements.  Fiscal Note
SB 5533 Regarding the adjudication of water rights.  Fiscal Note
SB 5565 Regarding the use of certain solid fuel burning devices.  Fiscal Note
SB 5649 Regarding energy efficiency in buildings.  Fiscal Note
SB 5735 Reducing greenhouse gas emissions.  Fiscal Note
SB 5736 Concerning sales and use tax preferences for electric vehicles and electric vehicle infrastructure. 
SB 5767 Making nonsubstantive changes clarifying outdoor burning provisions of the Washington clean air act.  Fiscal Note
SB 5888 Managing permit exempt groundwater withdrawals. 
SB 5914 Concerning student transportation funding.  Fiscal Note
SB 5921 Creating a clean energy collaborative.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Creating a clean energy leadership initiative.  Fiscal Note
SB 6077 Improving water management. 
SB 6172 Eliminating the oil spill advisory council.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Suspending the powers and duties of the oil spill advisory council for the 2009-2011 biennium. 
SJR 8201 Limiting property valuation increases. 
SB 5009 Creating a military service exemption for benefits charged to the experience rating accounts of employers.  Fiscal Note
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 5136 Regulating the use of solar energy panels by members of homeowners' associations. 
SB 5144 Regarding false claims against the government.  Fiscal Note
SB 5147 Repealing criminal libel statutes. 
SB 5149 Creating the geothermal assessment committee.  Fiscal Note
SB 5151 Authorizing the appointment of court commissioners to assist with criminal cases. 
SB 5152 Creating a legislative task force on statutory construction. 
SB 5153 Creating the uniform foreign-country money judgments recognition act.  Fiscal Note
SB 5154 Revising Article 7 of the Uniform Commercial Code, documents of title. 
SB 5155 Revising the Uniform Commercial Code. 
SB 5161 Extending tax incentives for renewable resources, including tidal and wave energy.  Fiscal Note
SB 5171 Modifying the Washington principal and income act of 2002. 
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 5194 Concerning the generation of electricity in energy parks.  Fiscal Note
SB 5199 Modifying provisions regarding the operators of public water supply systems.  Fiscal Note
SB 5203 Regarding insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders.  Fiscal Note
SB 5227 Revising the definition of "materially false statements." 
SB 5279 Providing for the safe collection and disposal of unwanted drugs from residential sources through a producer provided and funded product stewardship program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5293 Providing for in camera reviews of denials of public records requests. 
SB 5295 Implementing unanimous recommendations of the public records exemptions accountability committee. 
SB 5344 Providing an emergency response system for the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning emergency response towing vessels.  Fiscal Note
SB 5348 Removing references to mitigation banking project eligibility for moneys in the habitat conservation account and the riparian protection account.  Fiscal Note
SB 5385 Requiring a review of the embodied energy costs during the design of a public facility.  Fiscal Note
SB 5413 Concerning the assault of a law enforcement officer or other employee of a law enforcement agency.  Fiscal Note
SB 5418 Regarding electric vehicles.  Fiscal Note
SB 5421 Establishing the upper Columbia river recreational salmon and steelhead pilot stamp program.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Creating the Columbia river recreational salmon and steelhead pilot stamp program.  Fiscal Note
SB 5429 Providing incentives for solar electric power. 
SB 5430 Concerning water discharge fees.  Fiscal Note
SB 5433 Modifying provisions of local option taxes. 
SB 5444 Creating a comprehensive system of public education programs, finance, and accountability.  Fiscal Note
SB 5448 Establishing local public works assistance funds.  Fiscal Note
SB 5451 Changing the date for setting the amount of pipeline safety fees.  Fiscal Note
SB 5455 Regarding dental hygiene. 
SB 5481 Concerning veterans' burials.  Fiscal Note
SB 5504 Concerning reclaimed water permitting.  Fiscal Note
SB 5518 Reducing the amount of petroleum pollution in storm water.  Fiscal Note
SB 5543 Establishing the product stewardship recycling act for mercury-containing lights.  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 5560 Regarding state agency climate leadership.  Fiscal Note
SB 5567 Clarifying prospectively the measure of the taxes imposed on public utility districts as provided in chapter 54.28 RCW.  Fiscal Note
SB 5568 Enhancing tax collection tools for the department of revenue in order to promote fairness and administrative efficiency.  Fiscal Note
SB 5572 Providing collective bargaining for child care center directors and workers.  Fiscal Note
SB 5577 Concerning standard forms for dependency matters.  Fiscal Note
SB 5580 Concerning school impact fees.  Fiscal Note
SB 5583 Improving the effectiveness of water bank and exchange provisions.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Improving the effectiveness of water bank and exchange provisions. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Improving the effectiveness of water bank authorization and exchange provisions. )  Fiscal Note
SB 5673 Concerning certificates of need.  Fiscal Note
SB 5676 Providing for career and technical education opportunities for middle school students.  Fiscal Note
SB 5766 Modifying pollution control tax incentives and providing additional funding for compensation and retraining of displaced workers.   Fiscal Note
SB 5785 Concerning for hire vehicles and for hire vehicle operators.  Fiscal Note
SB 5840 Modifying the energy independence act. 
SB 5854 Reducing climate pollution in the built environment.  Fiscal Note
SB 5899 Providing a business and occupation tax credit for qualified employment positions. 
SB 5911 Adopting the recommendations of the citizen commission for performance measurement of tax preferences. 
SB 5916 Authorizing the department of information services to engage in high-speed internet adoption, deployment, and digital inclusion activities.
Revised for 2nd Substitute: Authorizing the department of information services to engage in high-speed internet adoption, deployment, and digital inclusion activities. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Regarding broadband adoption and deployment. )  Fiscal Note
SB 5917 Conducting an assessment of high-speed internet service in the state.  Fiscal Note
SB 5944 Implementing a demonstration project to reduce phosphorus loading in Lake Whatcom.  Fiscal Note
SB 5953 Eliminating the requirement that security amounts for certain marine vessel contracts adequately protect one hundred percent of the state's or county's exposure to loss. 
SB 6004 Consolidating certain salmon recovery activities and programs within the recreation and conservation office.  Fiscal Note
SB 6061 Modernizing the Washington state ferry system. 
SB 6109 Concerning ferries. 
SB 6165 Allowing greater use of short boards for appeals before the shorelines hearings board.  Fiscal Note
SB 6166 Concerning the sale of timber from state trust lands.  Fiscal Note
SB 6189 Providing grants to increase dental and medical services by a voter-approved sales and use tax on candy.  Fiscal Note
SJM 8008 Requesting full federal funding for the cleanup of the Hanford Reservation. 
SCR 8405 Creating a commission to evaluate the legislature. 
SR 8604 Honoring the National Guard. 
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 8629 Honoring individuals with autism. 
SR 8655 Recognizing Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences. 
SR 8656 Honoring the University of Washington's Women's Cross Country Team. 
SR 8659 Commending Dennis Schatz.