SINE DIE
Monday, April 29, 2019
BILLS PASSED BOTH HOUSES - SINE DIE TILL NEXT SESSION
THE GOVERNOR IS
SIGNING BILLS, BUT THE BILL DOES NOT SHOW THIS. TRYING TO KEEP CURRENT
Signed by President
1000 Concerning diversity, equity, and inclusion. Affirmative
action Executive action taken in both houses.
Signed off in Both
Houses
5998 Establishing a graduated real
estate excise tax. Tax increase Passed senate
Delivered to the
Governor
1016 Concerning hospital notification of availability of
sexual assault evidence kit collection. Needed
1112 Reducing greenhouse
gas emissions from hydrofluorocarbons. Greenhouse 2nd substitute bill be
substituted,
1216
Concerning
nonfirearm measures to increase school safety and student well-being. Could be
good bill unless later used to restrict use of guns for safety, although
concerning language about social behavior. Needed to spot danger but can be
abused. 2nd substitute bill be substituted,
1225 Establishing
policies and requirements regarding law enforcement response to domestic
violence incidents to enhance the safety of domestic violence victims, families,
and officers. Needed but can be misused. 1st substitute bill
1257 Concerning energy efficiency.
Greenhouse
1379 Concerning
disclosure of contributions from political committees to other political
committees. Looks good, hope that it actually works rather than just makes a
rule easy to break and be sued for.
1450 Concerning restraints on persons engaging in lawful
professions, trades, or businesses. Can’t take customers with them. Majority;
1st substitute bill be substituted,
1465 Concerning requirements for pistol sales or transfers.
Requires safety training. No. Majority; do pass.
1589 Exempting
correctional employees from paying for certain background checks related to
firearms. Yes, why only them pay. Majority; do pass
1638 Promoting immunity against vaccine preventable diseases.
Heavy handed, especially the exclusion of MMR as I think this applies to
daycare. Majority; do pass The Engrossed bill is better, not good still, but
better.
1692 Protecting
information concerning agency employees who have filed a claim of harassment or
stalking. Needs protection against false claims too. Majority; 1st substitute
bill be substituted, do pass.
1696 Concerning wage and
salary information. More ways to sue and destroy small businesses. Affects
businesses with only 1 employee, how discriminate with 1.
1739 Concerning firearms
that are undetectable or untraceable. No
hearing even. NO Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
1798 Concerning
short-term rentals.Airbnb anyone. Is no one safe? 1st substitute bill
substituted
2018 Concerning
harassment and discrimination by legislators and legislative branch employees.
Ways to sue conservative members. Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted,
do pass.
5017 Concerning the uniform unsworn
declarations act. Essentially says no oaths are needed. The substitute bill
still doesn’t include either federal or state constitutions law. This
was changed before passage and seems acceptable now.
5023 Concerning an ethnic studies curriculum for public school
students. Globalism 1st substitute bill substituted
5027 Concerning extreme risk protection orders. Really broad,
could be easily misused. Juveniles get no guardian ad litem.
5082 Creating a committee to promote and expand social emotional
learning. No enforced political correctness. Majority;
2nd substitute bill be substitute
5116 Supporting Washington's clean energy economy and
transitioning to a clean, affordable, and reliable energy future. Greenhouse 2nd
substitute bill substituted
5151 Requiring the growth management hearings board to
topically index the rulings, decisions, and orders it publishes. Good property
rights bill. 1st substitute bill substituted
5166 Providing religious accommodations for postsecondary
students. Meant for Muslims, but should apply to all.
5205 Concerning provisions governing firearms possession by persons who have
been found incompetent to stand trial and who have a history of one or more
violent acts. Depends on how used, truly incompetent people should not have
guns. Don’t trust them.
5356 Establishing the
Washington state LGBTQ commission. No comment. 2nd substitute bill be
substituted,
5397 Concerning the
responsible management of plastic packaging. Control freaks, 2nd substitute
bill be substituted
5415 Creating the
Washington Indian health improvement act. Creating the Washington Indian health
improvement act. Gives them more control, good.
5425 Concerning
maternal mortality reviews. May be way to trace abortion related deaths. Majority;
do pass 1st substitute bill
5437 Expanding eligibility to the early childhood education and
assistance program. Take over of child rearing. Majority; 2nd substitute bill be
substituted, do pass
5497 Establishing a
statewide policy supporting Washington state's economy and immigrants' role in
the workplace. Makes immigration status a protected class. Sanctuary. Majority;
1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. 2nd substitute bill be
substituted,
5526 Increasing the availability of quality, affordable health
coverage in the individual market. Standardized health plans, covering what the
government thinks they should cover. Guess what that will be 1st substitute
bill be substituted,
5552 Concerning the
protection of native pollinators, including bees. Worries about habitat when
pesticides and herbicides are the problem. Majority; 1st substitute bill be
substituted, do pass
5602 Eliminating
barriers to reproductive health care for all. Eliminating barriers to
reproductive health care for all. All genders, gender expressions, immigrants,
all services. Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
5903 Concerning children's mental health.
This is so needed, but parent interventions and beginning a birth can be
indoctrination not healthcare Substitute bill
Signed by Governor
1011 Adding proximity to
working forests to the residential real estate disclosure statement. Prevents
frivolous lawsuits. Effective date 7/28/2019.
1049 Concerning
health care provider and health care facility whistleblower protections. They
need protection. 1st substitute bill
1382 Increasing access to emergency assistance for victims by
providing immunity from prosecution for prostitution offenses in some
circumstances. Protects sex trafficking victims.
1485 Concerning the
appointment of religious coordinators. No need to change the name. 1st
substitute bill substituted
1584 Restricting the
availability of state funds to regional transportation planning organizations
that do not provide a reasonable opportunity for voting membership to certain
federally recognized tribes. YES
1713 Improving law
enforcement response to missing and murdered Native American women. Majority;
2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
5079 Enacting the Native American voting rights act of
Washington. They need them. Effective date 7/28/2019.
5083 Allowing certain records, documents, proceedings, and
published laws of federally recognized Indian tribes to be admitted as evidence
in courts of Washington state. Another bill for the tribes.
5612 Concerning Holocaust education. YES Substitute bill waters
is down to almost nothing Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
5649 Adjusting the
statute of limitations for sexual assault. YES
5885 Creating an exemption to hearsay for child sex
trafficking victims. Majority;
1st substitute bill be substituted,
5909 Concerning
hospital notification of availability of sexual assault evidence kit collection. Needed
Monday, April 8, 2019
Friday, March 15, 2019
SENATE BILLS ORIGINALLY FOLLOWED
5013 Concerning the appointment of religious coordinators. Changes
terminology from chaplains.
5016 Allowing
animal control officers to carry firearms for personal protection. Needed
5017 Concerning the uniform unsworn
declarations act. Essentially says no oaths are needed. The substitute bill
still doesn’t include either federal or state constitutions law. Amended
OK
5018 Replacing the Interstate 405 express
toll lanes with a general purpose lane and a high occupancy vehicle lane.
Better plan.
5023 Concerning an ethnic studies curriculum for public school
students. Globalism
5027 Concerning extreme risk protection orders. Really broad,
could be easily misused. Juveniles get no guardian ad litem.
5061 Addressing undetectable firearms. Another bad gun bill Sub
bill worse.
5066 Concerning school district elections. No want just majority
to pass.
5077 Prohibiting single-use plastic straws. Silly greener bill.
5078 Requiring disclosure of federal income tax returns of
presidential and vice presidential candidates prior to appearing on the ballot.
Silly anti Trump bill
5079 Enacting the Native American voting rights act of
Washington. They need them.
5081 Creating the Indian fugitive extradition act. They are a
separate nation in some ways and should be able to operate as one.
5082 Creating a committee to promote and expand social emotional
learning. No enforced political correctness.
5083 Allowing certain records, documents, proceedings, and
published laws of federally recognized Indian tribes to be admitted as evidence
in courts of Washington state. Another bill for the tribes.
5084 Creating the Washington community development authority. Sets
up control by community organizers not the community itselt.
5102 Concerning department of natural resources' land
acquisitions. Protects property rights.
5116 Supporting Washington's clean energy economy and
transitioning to a clean, affordable, and reliable energy future. Greenhouse
5129 Increasing revenues for the support of state government.
Capital Gains ins an income tax
5130 Increasing transportation revenues to help fund state fish
barrier removal. Tax increase
5141 Concerning school resource officer mandatory training and
policies. Prefer local not state control,
5142 Increasing equitable gender representation on corporate
boards. Best person, not correct gender, especially as legally gender can be
changed at will.
5143 Concerning the authorized removal, safe keeping, and return
of firearms and ammunition by law enforcement during and after domestic
violence incidents.
5151 Requiring the growth management hearings board to
topically index the rulings, decisions, and orders it publishes. Good property
rights bill.
5161 Concerning creation of a certified child safety policy. Uses
a NGO, don’t trust that.
5165 Concerning discrimination based on citizenship or immigration
status. Sanctuary law. Makes immigration status a protected class.
5166 Providing religious accommodations for postsecondary
students. Meant for Muslims, but should apply to all.
5170 Concerning a collaborative school-based governance model.
Says collaboration and then teacher powered, can’t be both.
5174 Concerning concealed pistol license training
requirements. No training should be
required.
5176 Changing
rule-making requirements to require a yearly expiration. More control of rule
making.
5185 Requiring notification to parents or guardians in cases of
abortion. Need for complications
5205 Concerning provisions governing firearms possession by persons who have
been found incompetent to stand trial and who have a history of one or more
violent acts. Depends on how used, truly incompetent people should not have
guns. Don’t trust them.
5222 Creating the whole Washington health trust. Single payer NO
5226 Concerning the off-duty conduct of an employee or a
prospective employee. Avoid what is happening to Karen Pence for working at a
Christian school.
5237 Creating a work group to replace certain Marcus Whitman
statues. Removing him as too Christian?
5241 Expanding the operable intent of RCW 34.05.271 and
34.05.272 to certain activities of natural resources agencies. Should help
rural areas
5245 Clarifying what science may be used by cities and
counties to designate critical areas. Also good for rural areas and property
rights
5252 Providing for approval of school district bonds by fifty-five
percent of the voters voting. Let’s let the schools learn to use money well,
admittedly more Superintendent of Public Instruction issue, but still.
5255 Prohibiting road usage charges in rural counties. Tax on
mileage hits them hardest.
5256 Concerning the use of the term birth center. Who determines
who is low risk and other standards?
5259 Encouraging the success of agriculture on agricultural
land. Makes is easier to farm.
5269 Reorganizing school districts statewide. No local decision.
5283 Allowing persons who will turn eighteen years of age by the
general election to vote in the primary election. No voting for anything until
of age.
5293 Concerning energy efficiency. Greenhouse
5295 Concerning labor neutrality and contractor compliance for
certain contracted service providers. Only business gets punished.
5314 Assisting Washington families by improving the fairness of
the state's tax system by enacting a capital gains tax and providing property
tax relief. Income rax not fair.
5317 Concerning nonfirearm measures to increase school safety and
student well-being. Social/emotional again.
5323 Reducing pollution from plastic bags by establishing minimum
state standards for the use of bags at retail establishments. Just no we reuse
them and will have to buy them now.
5326 Concerning booth rental agreements. Changes independent
contractors NO
5336 Advancing electric
transportation. If it’s good it will advance itself.
5339 Reducing criminal
justice expenses by eliminating the death penalty and instead requiring life
imprisonment without possibility of release or parole as the sentence for
aggravated first degree murder. Needs to be retained for inmates
serving life that murder.
5340 Banning the
sale of assault weapons and large capacity magazines. Not assault normal guns
used for self defense.
5342 Providing a
nonbinary gender category in applications for certain programs. Includes voter
registration.
5356 Establishing the
Washington state LGBTQ commission. No comment.
5364 Ensuring that
offenders who are incarcerated and commit murder may be charged with the death
penalty.
5365 Concerning
vaccination and antibody titer test notification. Can prove immunity so don’t
need vaccinations.
5369 Promoting just
compensation for certain property owners who are prevented from using
permit-exempt wells. Fair.
5372 Concerning
local project review undertaken under chapter 36.70B RCW. Time limits for
government to make up their mind.
5376 Protecting consumer data. Hopefully protects.
5395 Concerning
comprehensive sexual health education. Lots of squishy words, nothing overt in
the bill, but there will be in practice Substitute bill overt.
worse
5397 Concerning the
responsible management of plastic packaging. Control freaks,
5401 Concerning health care provider and health care facility
whistleblower protections.
5412 Reducing the greenhouse
gas emissions associated with transportation fuels.
Expensive greenhouse bill.
5415 Creating the
Washington Indian health improvement act. Creating the Washington Indian health
improvement act. Gives them more control, good.
5421 Expanding access to
pharmacy services. Gives agency carte blanche Suspect reason is to require sale
of plan B.
5425 Concerning
maternal mortality reviews. May be way to trace abortion related deaths.
5426 Reducing greenhouse
gas emissions from hydrofluorocarbons. Greenhouse bill.
5434 Restricting
possession of weapons in certain locations. Makes shooter safety zones.
5437 Expanding eligibility to the early childhood education and
assistance program. Take over of child rearing.
5478 Concerning
restraints on persons engaging in lawful professions, trades, or businesses. Can’t
take customers with them.
5489 Establishing a healthy environment for all by creating a
definition of environmental justice, directing agencies to address
environmental health disparities, and creating a task force. Very greener bill.
5497 Establishing a
statewide policy supporting Washington state's economy and immigrants' role in
the workplace. Makes immigration status a protected class. Sanctuary.
5513 Concerning the
employer-employee relationship. Redefines independent contractor wrongly.
5526 Increasing the availability of quality, affordable health
coverage in the individual market. Standardized health plans, covering what the
government thinks they should cover. Guess what that will be
5528 Concerning the
procurement and use of facial recognition technology by government entities in
Washington state and privacy rights relating to facial recognition technology.
Restricts it.
5538 Concerning free
speech at institutions of higher education. Needed
5541 Creating a state
revenue reform task force. Aiming for an income tax.
5542 Protecting patient
care. Big medicine death control.
5552 Concerning the
protection of native pollinators, including bees. Worries about habitat when
pesticides and herbicides are the problem.
5561 Directing the
department of ecology to adopt a rule governing the evaluation of greenhouse
gas emissions under chapter 43.21C RCW. Nasty greenhouse bill.
5562 Modernizing the
control of certain communicable diseases. Try better to control of STD’s.
5564 Creating the
building business ecosystems act. I know some good people are on board with
this, but I see too much control, government choosing winners and losers,
taking of private property, etc.
5576 Improving climate
science education. Indoctrination on global warming.
5580 Implementing
recommendations of the southern resident killer whale task force related to
increasing habitat and forage fish abundance. Almost all game fish cannot be
fished without permission.
5594 Supporting media
literacy and digital citizenship. Only politically correct media?
5602 Eliminating
barriers to reproductive health care for all. Eliminating barriers to
reproductive health care for all. All genders, gender expressions, immigrants,
all services.
5612 Concerning Holocaust education. YES Substitute bill
waters is down to almost nothing.
5649 Adjusting the
statute of limitations for sexual assault. YES
5657 Requiring
publicly owned wastewater treatment plants that directly discharge to Puget
Sound to control pollution from opioids. Yes, harms orca.
5663 Compounding drugs.
Big pharma doesn’t like them road to end service
5665 Concerning the
creation of a youth development work group within the department of children,
youth, and families. More social engineering.
5673 Concerning parking
enforcement. Charge at park and rides.
5683 Establishing the
welcome to Washington baby act to create family supports through universal home
visiting programs and a statewide family linkage program for resources and
referrals. Visit and indoctrinate ALL new babies. Vaccines. Voluntary for now.
5685 Requiring a primary contact in schools
to recognize, screen, and respond to emotional or behavioral distress in
students. Looks good on the surface.
5690 Creating the
universal worker protections act. Section 4 subsection 8 Same old different
line of work Does exempt booth workers, need
to watch.
5691 Extending
collective bargaining rights to employees of the legislative branch of state
government. Government workers should not have “bargaining rights”. They can
lobby like everyone else, no strikes
5709 Creating the
Native American opportunity scholarship program. Program with major input from
tribes.
5721 Concerning the
regulation of abortion facilities. Very fair bill.
5740 Creating the secure
choice retirement savings program. Leave us alone.
5744 Concerning commercially sexually exploited children. Help
for trafficked individuals.
5757 Establishing a
basic education program of early learning. Voluntary how long starts at 3.
5769 Concerning minimum
urban density requirements in growth management act cities and counties. Let
the locals decide. Globalism.
5777 Building capacity within the educator workforce to improve
student mental health and well-being. Leave the social learning to mom and dad.
YIKES
5778 Restricting the
availability of state funds to regional transportation planning organizations
that do not provide a reasonable opportunity for voting membership to certain
federally recognized tribes. YES listen
5810 Providing a working
families' tax credit. Sales tax credit for low income. Way around income tax in
a way. The earned income is abused. This will be too.
5814 Concerning health
coverage for young adults. Covers illegals.
5823 Requiring witnesses
to ballot signature marks to identify themselves. Help prevent voter fraud
5834 Concerning the
immigration status of students. Includes employment. No court case guarantees
that.
5840 Requiring
maintenance of minimum essential health care coverage. State version of
requiring everyone to purchase health insurance.
5841 Modifying certain
vaccine provisions. No personal objection allowed, only medical or religious.
5855 Revising commute
trip reduction. Employers responsible for creating plan to reduce commuting.
Major employers? Counties with most pollution? GREEN BILL IN SPADES AND
MICOMANAGING
5860 Concerning kinship care. Placing kids with kin if
possible and paying the kin. Better than foster care, but suspect ultimate
unionization.
5863 Creating transient
accommodation short-term agreement standards.More against Airbnb
5870 Concerning
short-term rentals.Airbnb anyone. Is no one safe?
5876 Creating a women's
division and system of gender-responsive, risk-need-responsivity, and
trauma-informed practices within the department of corrections. My concern is
the “gender responsive” language and trans.
5885 Creating an exemption to hearsay for child sex
trafficking victims.
5897 Concerning
sexual exploitation of children. Reigns in the web.
5903 Concerning children's mental health.
This is so needed, but parent interventions and beginning a birth can be
indoctrination not healthcare
5906 Concerning the
regulation of ambulatory surgical facilities. Could be OK, but restricting the
# of inspections worries me.
5908 Providing training
for equity and cultural competency in the public school system. The bill name
pretty much says it all. Globalism and perversion.
5909 Concerning
hospital notification of availability of sexual assault evidence kit collection. Needed
5914 Concerning
faculty at institutions of higher education. diversity of ideas
5915 Creating
greater flexibility for cities and counties to plan for the future of their
citizens by minimizing costs. Only large cities have to comply.
5928 Eliminating the prohibition
on local net income taxes if certain revenue neutrality requirements are met.
No income taxes period
5935 Prohibiting
preferential treatment by the state and providing an alternative to Initiative
1000. No affirmative action.
5936 Concerning use of industrial waste through industrial
symbioses.
(2) "Industrial waste"
shall mean any liquid, gaseous, radioactive or solid waste substance or
combinations thereof resulting from any process of industry, manufacture, trade
or business, or from the development or recovery of any natural resources.
Think we should pass on this one.
5945 Creating a
pilot project to reduce youth gang involvement, crime, and violence in eastern
Washington.
5946 Concerning the
application of the state environmental policy act to temporary shelters and
transitional encampments. Why they pollute too?
5947 Establishing the sustainable farms and fields grant program.
Sustainable is a global buzzword
5949 Establishing the
Washington investment trust. No, just no. Out First National Bank was a
disaster and the Fed is no better.
5960 Concerning higher
education data and transparency. This sounds really good and could show
how private education results in better outcomes. BUT it also tracks people in
detail and is part of the overall record keeping cradle to grave of all of us.
5961 Improving the
equity and sustainability of Washington's tax structure.Capital Gains tax
5966 Establishing a
woman's right to be fully informed about abortions and the potential risks
associated with abortions. Needed.
5971 Concerning
transportation funding. Carbon tax. NOOOOO
5973 Providing a pathway
to modernize and rebalance the Washington state tax structure so that it is
equitable, adequate, stable, and transparent for the people of Washington state.
Want to add capital gains, income tax on corporations, Nooooo
5974 Providing
sustainable support for new businesses. Essentially raising the B&O tax
5978 Concerning vehicle
taxation. Send tax money to general fund
5981 Implementing a
greenhouse gas emissions cap and trade program.
5987 Applying minimum wage requirements to
independent contractors
HOUSE BILLS ORIGINALLY FOLLOWED
1010 Concerning the disposition of forfeited firearms by the
Washington state patrol. Must destroy instead of selling them.
1011 Adding proximity to
working forests to the residential real estate disclosure statement.
1016 Concerning hospital notification of availability of
sexual assault evidence kit collection. Needed
1019 Concerning
vaccination and antibody titer test notification. Shows way to avoid already
immune people.
1021 Concerning
funding the governor's security and protection while traveling outside
Washington state for campaign-related or nonstate business purposes. Reduces
his budget and increases state patrol and allows for private financing.
1022 Prohibiting the creation and maintenance of a database
concerning pistol sales or transfer. No database of gun owners.
1024 Prohibiting a
government database of law abiding owners of legal firearms. Another one
prohibiting a data base.
1029 Concerning processes and criteria for the consideration
of environmental impacts under certain environmental laws. Reigns in ecology.
1030 Concerning disciplinary action for state officials and
employees who provide false testimony to the legislature. Allows termination.
1031 Reducing
government imposed obligations associated with bulkhead maintenance or repairs.
Allows for repairs without lengthy government interference.
1032 Concerning
amendatory format requirements for text of initiatives. Makes people follow the
law and if they don’t the secretary of state can reject the petitions.
1037 Concerning the use
of chemicals to prevent the decline of aquaculture production. Not safe http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/imidagen.html
1038 Allowing public
school districts and private schools to adopt a policy authorizing permanent
employees to possess firearms on school grounds under certain conditions. Safer
schools.
1045 Prohibiting the
lethal removal of gray wolves. The wolves are out of control.
1046 Prohibiting hunting
with the aid of dogs for certain purposes. Let the people who have to deal with
the predators decide how to best control them.
1049 Concerning
health care provider and health care facility whistleblower protections. They
need protection.
1052 Concerning
agency rule-making authority. Make rules follow the passed legislation. Needed.
1063 Authorizing
seventeen year olds to participate in primary elections. No
1073 Addressing
undetectable and untraceable firearms. They don’t need to trace them.
1104 Requiring the
submission of a waiver to the federal government to create the Washington
health security trust. Requiring the submission of a waiver to the federal
government to create the Washington health security trust. Single payer
1110 Reducing the
greenhouse gas emissions associated with transportation fuels. Greenhouse
1112 Reducing greenhouse
gas emissions from hydrofluorocarbons. Greenhouse
1113 Amending state
greenhouse gas emission limits for consistency with the most recent assessment
of climate change science and with the United States' commitment under the 2015
Paris climate agreement. Our country disagrees with this agreement.
1140 Concerning creation of a certified child safety
policy. Watching, may be good, but looks like it could be abused.
1142 Requiring an
assessment of Washington's child care industry. Uses a NGO, we can assume not a
Christian one, to do the assessment. They are looking at family, government,
religious, etc. I don’t see this as a good thing.
1172 Assisting Washington families by improving the fairness of
the state's tax system by enacting a capital gains tax and providing property
tax relief. Capital Gains tax is an income tax.
1184 Concerning school
district elections. Lowers threshold to pass levies.
1188 Concerning rangeland fire protection associations.
Looks like more local control, but always watch. D bill.
1194 Preventing toxic pollution that affects public health or the
environment. Guessing gang green bill.
1202 Concerning ensuring
fairness and compliance with public works and procurement practices. Just
further encourages the use of “front men” to get benefits.
1203 Reporting lost or
stolen firearms. Way to make people criminal if they don’t find as soon as they
think they should
1204 Concerning the
responsible management of plastic packaging. Too much micromanaging.
1205 Reducing pollution
from plastic bags by establishing minimum state standards for the use of bags
at retail establishments. We reuse them will still have to then buy plastic for
that.
1211 Supporting
Washington's clean energy economy and transitioning to a clean, affordable, and
reliable energy future. Global warming bill.
1213 Granting local
governments the authority to make challenges related to growth management
planning subject to direct review in superior court. Shortens time to change
saving money
1214 Repealing
growth management planning requirements in chapter 36.70A RCW. Helps 1213
1216 Concerning nonfirearm measures to increase
school safety and student well-being. Should be good bill unless later used to
restrict use of guns for safety.
1225 Establishing
policies and requirements regarding law enforcement response to domestic
violence incidents to enhance the safety of domestic violence victims,
families, and officers. Needed but can be misused.
1228 Increasing
transportation revenues to help fund state fish barrier removal. Tax increase.
1231 Modifying the statute of limitations for certain felony
sex offenses. Removes it for some child rape. Good
1232 Recognizing
hydroelectricity as an eligible renewable resource in the energy independence
act. Yes.
1233 Concerning the
use of science pursuant to the growth management act. Attempt to reign in
Futurewise and friends
1234 Eliminating the
statute of limitations for certain felony sex offenses. Includes a lot more
offenses than 1233
1235 Creating the
crime of providing harmful material to a minor. Aimed at pedophiles who use
porn to groom.
1257 Concerning energy efficiency.
Greenhouse
1269 Concerning
seizure and forfeiture procedures and reporting. Hopefully reduce abuse.
1270 Concerning nonconsensual capture of private, personal, and familial
activities by trespassers. Allows suit for drone or other photos not condoned.
1275 Establishing a
database to monitor the adverse effects of vaccinations. Getting data to
disprove safely.
1276 Preventing
human and environmental exposure to mercury. Reduce metals in vaccines
1286 Banning the sale of
assault weapons and large capacity magazines. Lists common guns as assault
rifles.
1288 Concerning department of natural resources' land acquisitions.
Protects property rights.
1315 Concerning concealed pistol license training requirements. No requirement
needed.
1319 Expanding local government authority to regulate firearms.
Lets’ them regulate, patchwork or laws.
1332 Concerning updating and streamlining energy facility site
evaluation council operations. Making green bills less bad
1339 Enacting the Native American voting rights act of
Washington. Makes sure they can vote, needed.
1343 Increasing revenues for the support of state government.
1346 Preventing lead
exposure in young people. Supposedly from lead bullets. Really?
1351 Expanding
eligibility to the early childhood education and assistance program. Take over
of child rearing.
1352 Compounding drugs.
Big pharma doesn’t like them road to end service
1365 Creating the
Washington Indian health improvement act. Gives them more control, good.
1369 Concerning maternal mortality reviews. Need to track
maternity death from any cause. Should include abortion, might be good thing.
1374 Relating to local
government authority to regulate firearms. They don’t need any.
1379 Concerning
disclosure of contributions from political committees to other political
committees. Looks good, hope that it actually works rather than just makes a
rule easy to break and be sued for.
1382 Increasing access to emergency assistance for victims by
providing immunity from prosecution for prostitution offenses in some
circumstances. Protects sex trafficking victims.
1407 Concerning
comprehensive sexual health education. Must include ALL. Doesn’t sound good
although nothing more explicit.
1435 Making statutory
requirements and policies for cultural access programs the same in all counties
of the state. Globalism no.
1439
Requiring permission to bring a
concealed firearm into another person's residence or dwelling place. Way to
trick people into breaking the law and taking their guns.
1450 Concerning restraints on persons engaging in lawful
professions, trades, or businesses. Can’t take customers with them.
1452 Extending
collective bargaining rights to employees of the legislative branch of state
government. Government workers should not have “bargaining rights”. They can
lobby like everyone else, no strikes.
1465 Concerning requirements for pistol sales or transfers.
Requires safety training. No.
1471 Concerning
state board of health rules regarding on-site sewage systems. Guarantees same
use just fixed
1479 Building capacity
within the educator workforce to improve student mental health and well-being.
Leave the social learning to mom and dad. YIKES
1485 Concerning the
appointment of religious coordinators. No need to change the name.
1488 Reducing criminal
justice expenses by eliminating the death penalty and instead requiring life
imprisonment without possibility of release or parole as the sentence for
aggravated first degree murder. Need death for inmates already serving life who
kill corrections officers.
1496 Improving climate
science education. Indoctrination on global warming.
1511 Concerning firearm
safety training requirements applicable to the sale or transfer of
semiautomatic assault rifles Marking some as bad, but some may need to cover
the new initiative.
1515 Concerning the
employer-employee relationship. Changing the definition of independent
contractor. Definition not right.
1518 Requiring employer
participation in funding health care for employees covered by the medical
assistance program. Who says who can afford? Talk about control.
1519 Restricting
cell-cultured meat products. Talk about frankenmeat.
1523 Increasing the
availability of quality, affordable health coverage in the individual market.
Standardized health plans, covering what the government thinks they should
cover. Guess what that will be.
1525 Addressing the
use of potassium chloride or digoxin in medical procedures. Report abortions.
1526 Enacting the
Washington pain capable unborn child protection act.
1527 Providing a working
families' tax credit. Sales tax credit for low income. Way around income tax in
a way. The earned income is abused. This will be too.
1530 Restricting
possession of weapons in certain locations. Making more places vulnerable to
shooters.
1541 Prohibiting the possession and acquisition of
weapons by persons convicted of certain criminal offenses or subject to certain
no-contact orders, protection orders, or restraining orders. Way over
inclusive,
1549 Directing the
department of ecology to adopt a rule governing the evaluation of greenhouse
gas emissions under chapter 43.21C RCW. Nasty greenhouse bill.
1551 Modernizing the
control of certain communicable diseases. Try better to control of STD’s. Amended to make not
good
1560 Prohibiting
certain types of abortions. Can’t tear the baby apart. Includes pretty graphic
description
1584 Restricting the
availability of state funds to regional transportation planning organizations
that do not provide a reasonable opportunity for voting membership to certain
federally recognized tribes. YES listen
1588 Clarifying the
prohibition of the imposition of a local income tax.
Can’t do it.
1589 Exempting
correctional employees from paying for certain background checks related to
firearms. Yes, why only them pay.
1597 Incorporating
comprehensive measurements of greenhouse gas emissions from certain fossil
fuels into state environmental laws. After natural gas too.
1598 Providing code
cities of a certain size with the ability to annex unincorporated areas without
a referendum provision pursuant to a jointly approved interlocal agreement with
the county. No vote by residents, only hearing.
1601 Creating the universal worker protections act. Better bill
for cosmetologists not for commercial drivers (cabs)
1608 Protecting patient care. Big medicine death control.
1610 Concerning
compensation for lost or damaged commercial and treaty fishing gear. Includes
tribes.
1612 Eliminating
barriers to reproductive health care for all. All genders, gender expressions,
immigrants, all services.
1613 Reporting agreements between state agencies and the
federal government. Oversight
1617 Prohibiting the
use of international law to infringe on property rights. Agenda 21 NOT ALLOWED
1618 Clarifying and
protecting the Constitution's freedom of speech and guarantee of religious
liberty for public employees.
1619 Establishing
community service standards for individuals receiving unemployment benefits.
1620 Repealing the
state estate tax. Bankrupts family businesses.
1624 Concerning
Holocaust education. YES
1632 Reducing pollution
from single-use plastic food service ware. How about we worry about needles?
1633 Making
permanent the posting of fuel tax rate information at fuel pumps. YES
1638 Promoting immunity against vaccine preventable diseases.
Heavy handed, especially the exclusion
of MMR as I think this applies to daycare.
1644 Concerning the
creation of a youth development work group within the department of children,
youth, and families. More social engineering.
1654 Concerning the
procurement and use of facial recognition technology by government entities in
Washington state and privacy rights relating to facial recognition technology.
Restricts it.
1664 Advancing electric transportation. If it’s good it will
advance itself.
1665 Encouraging
economic development by identifying ways to grow Washington's manufacturing
sector through evaluating the opportunities and barriers of repurposing
domestic waste stream materials. Want to use industrial waste so they can make
money off of it. Another way to poison us.
1681 Funding the working
families tax exemption by imposing a surcharge on publicly traded companies
providing excessive executive compensation. Who determines excess, will it stop there.
1692 Protecting
information concerning agency employees who have filed a claim of harassment or
stalking. Needs protection against false claims too.
1693 Establishing a
system for setting rates for health care services. No doctors who actually help
patients spend more time and charge more per visit, but there will be fewer of
them.
1696 Concerning wage and
salary information. More ways to sue and destroy small businesses. Affects
businesses with only 1 employee, how discriminate with 1.
1697 Concerning health
coverage for young adults. Covers illegals.
1698 Requiring
disclosure of federal income tax returns of presidential candidates prior to
appearing in the primary.
1709 Ensuring that offenders who are incarcerated and commit
murder may be charged with the death penalty
1713 Improving law
enforcement response to missing and murdered Native American women.
1739 Concerning firearms
that are undetectable or untraceable. No
hearing even. NO
1741 Concerning
rabies antibody titers as proof of immunity. Yes, prevents overvaccination.
1770 Concerning
occupational board reform. Looks like government interfereance in occupations
they don’t need to interfere with.
1771 Establishing the welcome to Washington baby act to create
family supports through universal home visiting programs and a statewide family
linkage program for resources and referrals. Visit and indoctrinate ALL new
babies. Vaccines. Voluntary for now.
1774 Concerning extreme
risk protection orders. No legal help for juveniles.
1775 Concerning commercially sexually exploited children. Help
for trafficked individuals.
1778 Funding the working
families tax exemption by imposing a surcharge on publicly traded companies
providing excessive executive compensation. What is excess. Redistribute
wealth.
1779 Concerning the
immigration status of students. Includes employment. No court case guarantees
that.
1798 Concerning
short-term rentals.Airbnb anyone. Is no one safe?
1815 Establishing a
statewide policy supporting Washington state's economy and immigrants' role in
the workplace. Makes immigration status a protected class.
1833 Concerning school volunteers. Loosens reasons to refuse
access to vulnerable children.
1854 Protecting consumer data. Hopefully
protects.
1855 Addressing juvenile offenses involving unlawful possession of
a firearm. With the new law saying persons 18-21 can’t have them, this is way too
broad.
1861 Concerning ballot rejection rates. Worried too many rejected,
not if valid.
1869 Establishing the
emerging therapies work group. Way to control which therapies emerge.
1872 Protecting
minors from sexual exploitation. Can subpoena records to prove.
1876 Concerning children's mental health. This is so
needed, but parent interventions and beginning a birth can be indoctrination
not healthcare
1877 Providing a pathway
to establish a universal health care system for the residents of Washington state.
Single payer attempt.
1883 Eliminating
child marriage. No exceptions. Yes.
1886 Concerning
protections for persons experiencing voter discrimination. Can only challenge
for age. This means can’t for citizenship.
1887 Identifying and
recognizing best practices through an audit of statewide election
reconciliation reports. Worried about rate not validity.
1895 Creating a pilot project to reduce youth gang
involvement, crime, and violence in eastern Washington. Could go either way.
1902 Promoting consumer ease, administrative
simplification, and cost efficiency by requiring a single bill for health
services covered by a qualified health plan. Awareness of a change, the bill will still say what part
is for abortion coverage.
1914 Providing training
for equity and cultural competency in the public school system. The bill name
pretty much says it all. Globalism and perversion.
1925 Informing new
parents about adverse childhood experiences. ACE’s are major health priblems,
informing parents is fine, screening for them is not unless there is some
reason to. Questionnaires in the pilot program can become universal.
1964 Requiring the
written consent of a lessee before the department of natural resources may
terminate a lease for reasons other than default. Protects lease holders.
1965 Allowing whistleblowers to bring actions on behalf of the
state for violations of workplace protections. Looks good, but the wording lets
anyone who imagines him./her/itself discriminated against to sue.
1967 Requiring licensing
and background investigations for in-home service providers. I’m all for
background checks, but training on sexual and cultural awareness NO.
1976 Concerning
vaccine safety. They need to specify inert placebo, because many companies are
using substances in them to cause reactions, but a real step in the right
direction.
1978 Providing
assistance to victims of government actions originating as part of the
implementation of the growth management act by the state or local governments.
Great bill, but icebergs in hell have a better chance.
1979 Concerning the
establishment of reasonable surface water flow levels. Makes ecology behave,
1981 Providing a
business and occupation credit for manufacturers utilizing a patent. Rewards
creativity.
1985 Providing
regulatory relief from greenhouse gas emissions rules for producers of
agricultural commodities and food products Reigns in rule making not supported
by law.
1990 Restricting
genome editing of human embryos. Good.
2000 Prohibiting female genital mutilation. Of
minors, you can still choose as an adult.
2001 Creating the
Native American opportunity scholarship program.
2009 Establishing a
healthy environment for all by addressing environmental health disparities.
Mumbo Jumbo to allow them to run your life.
2018 Concerning
harassment and discrimination by legislators and legislative branch employees.
Ways to sue conservative members.
2022 Providing funding options to local governments for
addressing fish passage barrier removals. All need to be fixed or there is
still a problem.
2026 Concerning
relatives of a child placed in out-of-home care. They need to be with family if
possible.
2047 Concerning carbon sequestration on natural and working lands
as part of the state’s climate change response. Greener Bill
2056 Including
information about age of consent, capacity to consent, and child support in
sexual health education. Needs to be included.
2063 Making necessary changes allowing the department of children,
youth, and families to effectively manage a statewide system of care for
children, youth, and families. Very long bill, requested by department. Bad
feeling on this one.
2077 Concerning the use
of the term birth center. Who determines who is low risk and other standards?
2079 Concerning use of
industrial waste through industrial symbioses.
(2) "Industrial waste"
shall mean any liquid, gaseous, radioactive or solid waste substance or
combinations thereof resulting from any process of industry, manufacture, trade
or business, or from the development or recovery of any natural resources.
Think we should pass on this one.
2088 Concerning the
crime of indecent exposure. Sanity.
2091 Creating the
Washington community development authority. Legalizing community organizing to
benefit who?
2095 Establishing the
sustainable farms and fields grant program. Sustainable is a global buzzword
2101 Concerning
kinship care. Placing kids with kin if possible and paying the kin. Better than
foster care, but suspect ultimate unionization.
2103 Simplifying firearms regulations. Perfect
2111 Concerning
enhancing cybersecurity by eliminating the return of ballots by fax and email.
Not really only affect military voters, Gee how about that.
2117 Providing a pathway to modernize and rebalance the Washington
state tax structure so that it is equitable, adequate, stable, and transparent
for the people of Washington state. Want to add capital gains, income tax on
corporations, Nooooo
2120 Creating a work group to study and make recommendations
on a statue to replace the Vladimir Lenin statue. obvious
2129 Concerning the
excise taxation of personal, alcohol, residential and commercial security and
fire monitoring devices and services. Wish they would use this against some
politicians.
2146 Withdrawing
from the interstate compact to elect the president by national popular vote. Stick
to the Electoral College
2147 Ensuring that
public school students have access to foundational texts. Bible and
Constitution
Thursday, February 28, 2019
OTHER FORMS OF LEGISLATION
976 $30 Car tabs AGAIN
1000 Restores Affirmative Action
4002 Applying for a convention to propose amendments to the
United States Constitution relating to fiscal restraints on the federal
government, the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and terms of
office for federal officials and for members of Congress. yes
4006 Rescinding certain applications for a convention to amend
the United States Constitution. People on both sides favor and oppose the
conventions. It would of course depend on who is actually at the convention.
4203 Amending the Constitution to allow a simple majority of
voters voting to authorize school district bonds.
8006 Requesting that Congress establish more checks and balances
to reduce the possibility of nuclear war.
8007 Applying for a convention to propose amendments to the
United States Constitution relating to fiscal restraints on the federal
government, the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and terms of
office for federal officials and for members of Congress. yes
8201 Amending the Constitution
to allow a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds
8202 Amending the Constitution to allow at least fifty-five
percent of voters voting to authorize school district bonds.
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