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Added to Executive Session: SB 5309. Agenda has been reordered.
Ways & Means - 2/28/2022 10:00 AM

Senate Full Committee
Virtual

REVISED ON 2/26/2022 AT 6:36 PM

Executive Session:
1.   E2SHB 1688 - Protecting consumers from charges for out-of-network health care services, by aligning state law and the federal no surprises act and addressing coverage of treatment for emergency conditions.
2.   ESHB 1866 - Assisting persons receiving community support services through medical assistance programs to receive supportive housing.
3.   2SHB 1860 - Preventing homelessness among persons discharging from inpatient behavioral health settings.
4.   SHB 1616 - Concerning the charity care act.
5.   E2SHB 1181 - Establishing programs and measures to prevent suicide among veterans and military members.
6.   2SHB 2008 - Eliminating the use of intelligence quotient scores in determining eligibility for programs and services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
7.   SHB 1980 - Removing the prohibition on providing employment services and community access services concurrently.
8.   SHB 2050 - Repealing requirements for parent payment of the cost of their child's support, treatment, and confinement.
9.   2SHB 1818 - Promoting successful reentry and rehabilitation of persons convicted of criminal offenses.
10.   SHB 1901 - Updating laws concerning civil protection orders to further enhance and improve their efficacy and accessibility.
11.   E4SHB 1412 - Concerning legal financial obligations.
12.   E2SHB 1868 - Improving worker safety and patient care in health care facilities by addressing staffing needs, overtime, meal and rest breaks, and enforcement.
13.   EHB 1752 - Adding a Roth option to deferred compensation plans.
14.   ESHB 1699 - Permitting individuals retired from the public employees retirement system, the teachers retirement system, and the school employees retirement system additional opportunities to work for a school district for up to 1,040 hours per school year while in receipt of pension benefits until July 1, 2025.
15.   3SHB 1359 - Temporarily reducing liquor license fees.
16.   ESHB 1694 - Concerning logistical processes for the regulation of priority chemicals in consumer products.
17.   SHB 1508 - Concerning the sanitary control of shellfish.
18.   E2SHB 1663 - Reducing methane emissions from landfills.
19.   EHB 1931 - Sustaining hydropower license fees.
20.   E2SHB 1812 - Modernizing the energy facility site evaluation council to meet the state's clean energy goals.
21.   E2SHB 1799 - Concerning organic materials management.
22.   E2SHB 1691 - Concerning financial responsibility requirements related to oil spills.
23.   HB 1859 - Concerning quality standards for laboratories conducting cannabis analysis.
24.   SHB 1620 - Addressing the response to extreme weather events.
25.   E2SHB 1117 - Promoting salmon recovery through revisions to the state's comprehensive planning framework.
26.   HB 1700 - Concerning sustainable funding for the derelict vessel removal account using the vessel watercraft excise tax.
27.   SHB 2051 - Providing short-term disaster recovery financial assistance to agricultural producers.
28.   SHB 1800 - Increasing access to behavioral health services for minors.
29.   SHB 1773 - Concerning assisted outpatient treatment for persons with behavioral health disorders.
30.   2SHB 1890 - Concerning the children and youth behavioral health work group.
31.   E2SHB 1723 - Closing the digital equity divide by increasing the accessibility and affordability of telecommunications services, devices, and training.
32.   SHB 1747 - Supporting relative placements in child welfare proceedings.
33.   EHB 1982 - Clarifying the applicability of penalty and interest on personal property taxes.
34.   SB 5980 - Providing substantial and permanent tax relief for small businesses to mitigate structural deficiencies in Washington's business and occupation tax and lessen long-term negative economic consequences of the pandemic that have disproportionately impacted small businesses.
35.   SB 5901 - Concerning economic development tax incentives for targeted counties.
36.   ESHB 1333 - Providing an extension to the local sales and use tax for public facilities in rural counties.
37.   SSB 5755 - Authorizing certain cities to establish a limited sales and use tax incentive program to encourage redevelopment of vacant lands in urban areas.
38.   SHB 1967 - Concerning property tax exemptions for nonprofits.
39.   EHB 1687 - Enhancing the college bound scholarship program by increasing opportunities for students to attend community and technical colleges.
40.   2SHB 1835 - Creating outreach and completion initiatives to increase postsecondary enrollment.
41.   2SHB 1751 - Concerning hazing prevention and reduction at institutions of higher education.
42.   HB 1805 - Concerning the opportunity scholarship program.
43.   HB 2007 - Establishing a nurse educator loan repayment program under the Washington health corps.
44.   E2SHB 1659 - Making higher education more affordable and accessible for students by bridging the gap between cost and need to reduce barriers, improve opportunity, and advance economic security.
45.   HB 1780 - Concerning workforce education investment accountability and oversight board staffing changes.
46.   E2SHB 1736 - Establishing a state student loan program.
47.   EHB 2096 - Concerning the working families' tax exemption, also known as the working families tax credit.
48.   HB 1888 - Allowing the department of revenue to adjust the rates of remittance reductions in the working families' tax credit in order to align with federal maximum qualifying income levels.
49.   ESHB 1643 - Exempting a sale or transfer of real property for affordable housing to a nonprofit entity, housing authority, public corporation, county, or municipal corporation from the real estate excise tax.
50.   ESHB 1175 - Providing a property tax exemption for real property used as a host home associated with a host home program.
51.   SHB 1789 - Establishing a property tax exemption for adult family homes that serve people with intellectual or developmental disabilities and are owned by a nonprofit.
52.   HB 2058 - Concerning the preservation and protection of facilities owned by the state parks and recreation commission that are listed on the Washington heritage register or the national register of historic places.
53.   ESHB 1841 - Incentivizing rental of accessory dwelling units to low-income households.
54.   HB 1666 - Clarifying the method for determining the value of specified tangible personal property incorporated as part of certain public infrastructure for the purposes of use tax and business and occupation tax.
55.   HB 2097 - Changing the definition of first-time home buyer.
56.   HB 2098 - Modifying the interest rate for the low-income home rehabilitation revolving loan program.
57.   HB 1928 - Concerning equine industry support.
58.   SHB 1725 - Concerning the creation of an endangered missing person advisory designation for missing indigenous persons.
59.   SHB 1593 - Expanding the landlord mitigation program to alleviate the financial burden on victims attempting to flee domestic violence, sexual assault, unlawful harassment, or stalking.
60.   SHB 1571 - Concerning protections and services for indigenous persons who are missing, murdered, or survivors of human trafficking.
61.   SHB 1590 - Concerning enrollment stabilization funding to address enrollment declines due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
62.   E2SHB 1153 - Addressing language access in public schools.
63.   E2SHB 1760 - Expanding access to dual credit programs.
64.   2SHB 1664 - Concerning prototypical school formulas for physical, social, and emotional support in schools.
65.   2SHB 2078 - Establishing the outdoor learning grant program.
66.   HB 1183 - Creating the home sharing support grant program.
67.   2SHB 1827 - Creating the community reinvestment account and community reinvestment program.
68.   SHB 1717 - Concerning tribal participation in planning under the growth management act.
69.   E2SHB 1099 - Improving the state's climate response through updates to the state's comprehensive planning framework.
70.   ESHB 1629 - Concerning a comprehensive study of aerial imaging technology uses for state agencies, special purpose districts, and local and tribal governments.
71.   SHB 1957 - Establishing a small business disaster recovery financial assistance program.
72.   2SHB 1905 - Reducing homelessness for youth and young adults discharging from a publicly funded system of care.
73.   E2SHB 1015 - Creating the Washington equitable access to credit act.
74.   ESHB 1753 - Concerning tribal consultation regarding the use of certain funding authorized by the climate commitment act.
75.   SHB 1958 - Accelerating rural job growth and promoting economic recovery across Washington through a shovel-ready site certification program and grants.
76.   2SHB 1173 - Concerning state lands development authorities.
77.   SB 5309 - Providing a sales and use tax exemption for adult and baby diapers.


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