Senator Val Stevens

Biennium:

Prime Sponsored Bills


Bill NumberBrief Description
SB 5037 Providing funding for certain state route number 2 highway projects. 
SB 5186 Establishing a period of public and legislative review of appropriations legislation. 
SB 5187 Modifying voting procedures. 
SB 5188 Requiring school districts to provide remedial postsecondary education or to pay for the cost. 
SB 5431 Regarding placement of a child returning to out-of-home care. 
SB 5470 Providing sales and use tax exemptions for senior residents of qualified low-income senior housing facilities.  Fiscal Note
SB 5510 Regarding notification in dependency matters.  Fiscal Note
SB 6031 Reorganizing the provision of family and children's services. 
SJM 8002 Requesting that Congress audit the Federal Reserve System. 
SJR 8206 Placing restrictions on tax increases. 
SJR 8207 Amending the Constitution to include toll revenue to be used exclusively for highway purposes. 
SCR 8402 Limiting the business of the 2009 Legislature to budgets, matters necessary to implement budgets, and matters incident to a natural emergency. 
SR 8605 Honoring Tom Darling. 
SR 8606 Honoring home education families. 

Secondary Sponsored Bills


Bill NumberBrief Description
SB 5037 Providing funding for certain state route number 2 highway projects. 
SB 5186 Establishing a period of public and legislative review of appropriations legislation. 
SB 5187 Modifying voting procedures. 
SB 5188 Requiring school districts to provide remedial postsecondary education or to pay for the cost. 
SB 5431 Regarding placement of a child returning to out-of-home care. 
SB 5470 Providing sales and use tax exemptions for senior residents of qualified low-income senior housing facilities.  Fiscal Note
SB 5510 Regarding notification in dependency matters.  Fiscal Note
SB 6031 Reorganizing the provision of family and children's services. 
SJM 8002 Requesting that Congress audit the Federal Reserve System. 
SJR 8206 Placing restrictions on tax increases. 
SJR 8207 Amending the Constitution to include toll revenue to be used exclusively for highway purposes. 
SCR 8402 Limiting the business of the 2009 Legislature to budgets, matters necessary to implement budgets, and matters incident to a natural emergency. 
SR 8605 Honoring Tom Darling. 
SR 8606 Honoring home education families. 
SB 5008 Regarding hunting licensing requirements for members of the military. 
SB 5014 Concerning the exemption of the special commitment center under the public records act. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning exempting special commitment center and private detention facility security information from public disclosure. )  Fiscal Note
SB 5101 Concerning vendor rates for supported living providers. 
SB 5108 Concerning the documentation of eligibility to claim a tribal member exemption from retail sales tax.  Fiscal Note
SB 5109 Concerning property valuation freezes for senior citizens and persons retired due to physical disability.  Fiscal Note
SB 5113 Modifying certain sales tax sourcing provisions within the streamlined sales and use tax agreement. 
SB 5117 Establishing intensive behavior support services.  Fiscal Note
SB 5130 Regarding prisoner access to public records.  Fiscal Note
SB 5166 Modifying the child support license suspension program.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Modifying license suspension provisions for the failure to pay child support.
  Fiscal Note
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 5190 Making technical corrections to community custody provisions.  Fiscal Note
SB 5193 Allowing a nonresident alien to possess weapons when hunting with a Washington-licensed hunter. 
SB 5207 Addressing the rights of victims, survivors, and witnesses of crimes.  Fiscal Note
SB 5208 Ensuring punishment for domestic violence offenders.  Fiscal Note
SB 5209 Concerning counseling for witnesses in civil commitment proceedings under chapter 71.09 RCW.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Authorizing mental health counseling using crime victims' compensation funds for witnesses in civil commitment proceedings.
  Fiscal Note
SB 5213 Modifying voter registration provisions. 
SB 5216 Creating a sentence enhancement for body armor.  Fiscal Note
SB 5217 Concerning expenditures for works of art.  Fiscal Note
SB 5218 Controlling computer access by residents at the special commitment center and persons released to less restrictive alternatives.  Fiscal Note
SB 5219 Creating a legislative task force to address housing for individuals at a high risk of being homeless.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Establishing a focus group to examine the need to provide housing for certain populations at risk of being homeless.
 
SB 5220 Regarding the designation of "social worker."  Fiscal Note
SB 5231 Addressing parenting plans and residential schedules in dependency proceedings.  Fiscal Note
SB 5233 Addressing county elected officials keeping offices at the county seat. 
SB 5243 Addressing the adoption and review of the department of labor and industries' rules. 
SB 5246 Concerning the effect of zoning ordinances on motor vehicle collection and restoration. 
SB 5261 Creating an electronic statewide unified sex offender registry program.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Creating an electronic statewide unified sex offender notification and registration program.
  Fiscal Note
SB 5266 Regarding housing services and assistance in dependency and termination matters.  Fiscal Note
SB 5285 Revising procedures for appointment of guardians ad litem.  Fiscal Note
SB 5288 Reducing the categories of offenders supervised by the department of corrections.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Reducing the categories of offenders supervised by the department of corrections. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Changing provisions regarding supervision of offenders. )
  Fiscal Note
SB 5345 Regarding renewable energy. 
SB 5362 Establishing a set minimum hourly wage. 
SB 5382 Exempting traps for mice and rats from the restrictions on traps in RCW 77.15.192. 
SB 5383 Including a wolf-hybrid in the definition of a "potentially dangerous wild animal."
Revised for 1st Substitute: Regarding wolf-hybrids.
 
SB 5389 Concerning animal trapping. 
SB 5394 Requiring a state route number 2 route development plan.  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 5422 Limiting liability for making certain land and water areas available for recreational use under a hydroelectric license. 
SB 5462 Simplifying and adding certainty to the calculation of workers' compensation benefits. 
SB 5463 Creating a good faith defense for certain minimum wage and overtime compensation complaints.  Fiscal Note
SB 5464 Restricting the use of industrial insurance funds.  Fiscal Note
SB 5465 Establishing requirements for industrial insurance final settlement agreements. 
SB 5519 Reforming competency evaluation and restoration procedures.  Fiscal Note
SB 5525 Concerning rental vouchers to allow release from state institutions.  Fiscal Note
SB 5562 Concerning forestry operations.  Fiscal Note
SB 5611 Concerning facilities to house sexually violent predators.  Fiscal Note
SB 5612 Concerning medical support obligations.  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 5632 Permitting retired participants to resume volunteer firefighter, emergency worker, or reserve officer service.  Fiscal Note
SB 5633 Concerning amusement parks.  Fiscal Note
SB 5634 Concerning property tax exemptions on public assembly halls. 
SB 5635 Creating a pilot project to evaluate the use of electronic traffic flagging devices. 
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 5639 Expanding provisions relating to vulnerable adults.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning vulnerable adults.
  Fiscal Note
SB 5652 Requiring a reduction in toll rates charged to motorcycles. 
SB 5655 Regarding height restrictions on amateur radio antennas. 
SB 5657 Concerning background information of certain guardians ad litem. 
SB 5660 Encouraging each school district and community to work in partnership to promote programs that will help students develop saleable skills. 
SB 5661 Exempting the annual parental declaration of intent to home school from the public disclosure act. 
SB 5664 Limiting the power of eminent domain. 
SB 5700 Establishing search and arrest authority provisions of offenders by department of corrections personnel.  Fiscal Note
SB 5701 Allowing the department of corrections to rely upon jail certification in the calculation of release dates for offenders.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning jail certification from a correctional agency that calculates earned release time.
  Fiscal Note
SB 5702 Clarifying certain community custody and drug offender sentencing alternative sentencing provisions.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Modifying drug offense sentencing alternative sentencing provisions.
  Fiscal Note
SB 5703 Including domestic violence court order violations to the list of offenses eligible for notification.  Fiscal Note
SB 5704 Concerning creation of a flood district by three or more counties. 
SB 5718 Concerning the commitment of sexually violent predators.  Fiscal Note
SB 5737 Concerning compliance with sales, use, and business and occupation tax requirements.  Fiscal Note
SB 5741 Concerning dynamic fiscal notes. 
SB 5744 Concerning public utility tax for log transportation businesses.  Fiscal Note
SB 5781 Regarding open range laws on public land.  Fiscal Note
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 5829 Establishing a pilot program for family counseling. 
SB 5832 Allowing the prosecution of sex offenses against minor victims until the victim's twenty-eighth birthday if the offense is listed in RCW 9A.04.080(1) (b)(iii)(A) or (c).  Fiscal Note
SB 5871 Concerning sales and use tax exemptions for prescribed power wheelchairs.  Fiscal Note
SB 5943 Requiring performance-based contracts for the provision of child welfare services. 
SB 5956 Regarding voluntary participation in a state or national animal identification system. 
SB 6010 Concerning a state designated green source of wood fiber for state-funded construction. 
SB 6016 Regarding educator training to enhance skills of students with dyslexia.  Fiscal Note
SB 6024 Addressing applications for public assistance from persons currently ineligible to receive assistance.  Fiscal Note
SB 6030 Addressing infrastructure requirements for fully contained communities under the growth management act. 
SB 6039 Creating a sentence for treatment program for juvenile offenders. 
SB 6040 Concerning the expenditure of funds for the Interstate 5/Columbia river crossing/Vancouver project. 
SB 6050 Exempting vehicles from the sales and use tax that are sold or used by qualifying disabled veterans or surviving spouses. 
SB 6057 Concerning business and occupation tax exemptions for new businesses.  Fiscal Note
SB 6115 Changing provisions relating to sex offenders. 
SB 6153 Replacing the tax credit for the motion picture competitiveness program with a tax credit for the program for supported employment services for individuals with developmental disabilities as they transition from high school to the workforce.  Fiscal Note
SB 6154 Concerning basic health plan eligibility.  Fiscal Note
SB 6155 Modifying general assistance provisions.  Fiscal Note
SB 6156 Providing economically responsible solutions for higher education funding and access.  Fiscal Note
SJM 8005 Requesting that the words "under God" remain in the Pledge of Allegiance. 
SJM 8009 Requesting the department of homeland security and congress to examine the federal T visa program. 
SJM 8016 Regarding government spending policies. 
SJR 8209 Requiring extraordinary revenue growth to be transferred to the budget stabilization account.  Fiscal Note
SJR 8210 Prohibiting the adoption of budgets that result in projected deficits. 
SJR 8214 Guaranteeing a secret ballot. 
SR 8604 Honoring the National Guard. 
SR 8612 Honoring Miss Washington 2008. 
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 8628 Commemorating the centennial of the submission of the equal suffrage amendment to the people of the state of Washington. 
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 8645 Celebrating the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. 
SR 8654 Honoring Peggy Pritchard Olson.