Puget Sound Partnership Legislative Calendar, Week 6

LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR WEEK 6
66th Legislature 
February 18 – 22, 2019

Listed below are the legislative committee activities the Partnership will be following during the week. If you plan to attend a committee meeting, be sure to check the latest committee schedule before you leave home. Committee schedules change frequently and are updated at http://leg.wa.gov/legislature/Pages/Calendar.aspx 

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18

Environment & Energy (H) - 1:30 PM  
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm B          

Public Hearing:

• HB 1578- Reducing threats to Southern Resident orca whales by improving the safety of oil transportation.
• HB 1642- Allowing the energy savings associated with on-bill repayment programs to count toward a qualifying utility's energy conservation targets under the energy independence act.
• HB 1984 - Ensuring that attempts to limit greenhouse gas emissions in Washington state do not make Washington's agricultural products and food processing businesses economically uncompetitive, thereby shifting emissions to jurisdictions without similar greenhouse gas policies.
• HB 1985 - Providing regulatory relief from greenhouse gas emissions rules for producers of agricultural commodities and food products.

Labor & Workplace Standards (H) 1:30 PM 
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm E

Possible Executive Session:

• HB 1841 - Establishing minimum crew size on certain trains.
• HB 1842 - Concerning hours of service for certain railroad employees.
• HB 1843 - Safeguarding the public safety by protecting railroad workers.

Appropriations (H) - 3:30 PM 
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm A

Public Hearing:

• SHB 1112 - Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from hydrofluorocarbons.
• SHB 1290 - Concerning reviews of voluntary cleanups.

Possible Executive Session:

• SHB 1114 - Reducing the wasting of food in order to fight hunger and reduce environmental impacts.

Ways & Means (S) - 3:30 PM J.A. Cherberg Building, Senate Hearing Rm 4

Public Hearing:

• SSB 5397 - Concerning the responsible management of plastic packaging.
• SSB 5578 - Reducing threats to Southern Resident orca whales by improving the safety of oil transportation.
• SSB 5426 - Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from hydrofluorocarbons.
• SSB 5293 - Concerning energy efficiency.

Executive Session:

• SSB 5116 - Supporting Washington's clean energy economy and transitioning to a clean, affordable, and reliable energy future.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19

Capital Budget (H) - 8:00 AM 
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm B

Work Session:

• Public Works Board

Public Hearing:

• HB 1441 - Concerning the financing of local infrastructure.
• HB 1680 - Concerning local government infrastructure funding.
• HB 1691 - Concerning funding and administering local government infrastructure by the public works board.

Finance (H) - 8:00 AM 
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm A

Public Hearing:

• HB 1921 - Addressing the regressive nature of the Washington state housing market.
• SHB 1324 - Creating the Washington rural development and opportunity zone act.

Possible Executive Session:

• HB 1070 - Concerning the tax treatment of renewable natural gas.
• SHB 1211 - Supporting Washington's clean energy economy and transitioning to a clean, affordable, and reliable energy future.
• SHB 1226 - Encouraging investment in and reducing the costs of transitioning to the clean energy future.

Rural Development, Agriculture, & Natural Resources (H) - 10:00 AM 
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm B

Public Hearing:

• HB 1964 - Requiring the written consent of a lessee before the department of natural resources may terminate a lease for reasons other than default.
• HB 1983 - Concerning natural resource management activities.

Environment, Energy & Technology (S) - 10:00 AM 
J.A. Cherberg Building, Senate Hearing Rm 1

Executive Session:

• SB 5377 - Concerning data sales and governance.
• SB 5336 - Advancing electric transportation.
• SB 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.

Public Hearing:

• SB 5561 - Directing the department of ecology to adopt a rule governing the evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions under chapter 43.21C RCW.
• SB 5816 - Clarifying the valuation and determination of used and useful property for rate making purposes.
• SB 5854 - Ensuring the long-term economic and environmental sustainability of the state's recycling system within the existing regulatory structure

Housing, Community Development & Veterans (H) - 10:00 AM 
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm E

Possible Executive Session:

• HB 1938 - Creating a local infrastructure investment program to support the development of affordable housing, workforce housing, and revitalization efforts.

Innovation, Technology & Economic Development (H) - 10:00 AM 
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm C

Possible Executive Session:

• HB 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
• HB 1766 - Concerning unmanned aircraft.

Local Government (H) - 10:00 AM 
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm D

Public Hearing:

• HB 1797 - Concerning local governments planning and zoning for accessory dwelling units.

State Government & Tribal Relations (H) - 1:30 PM 
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm E

Possible Executive Session:

• HB 1449 - Recognizing the fourth Saturday of September as public lands day.
• HB 1832 - Concerning the electrification of the Washington public vehicle fleet
• HB 2009 - Establishing a healthy environment for all by addressing environmental health disparities.

Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks (S) - 1:30 PM
 J.A. Cherberg Building, Senate Hearing Rm 3

Public Hearing:

• SB 5626 - Ensuring the safe and productive cultivation of shellfish.
• SB 5543 - Retaining productive farmland.
• SB 5873 - Concerning community forests.
• SB 5918 - Providing whale watching guidelines in the boating safety education program. 

Environment & Energy (H) - 3:30 PM 
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm B          

Public Hearing:  

• HB 1611 - Ensuring the safe and productive cultivation of shellfish.
• HB 1853 - Developing and coordinating a statewide don't drip and drive program.
• HB 1999 - Reducing emissions by making changes to the clean car standards and clean car program.

Transportation (S) - 3:30 PM
 J.A. Cherberg Building, Senate Hearing Rm 1

Public Hearing:

• SB 5847 - Facilitating transportation projects of statewide significance.
• SB 5611 - Creating a special license plate to support the maintenance and improvements of Washington state parks.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20

Civil Rights & Judiciary (H) - 8:00 AM 
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm A

Public Hearing:

• HB 1637 - Addressing airborne nuisances experienced by transitory populations.

Housing, Community Development & Veterans (H) - 8:00 AM 
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm E

Public Hearing:

• HB 1982 - Waiving groundwater fees for low-income housing.

Possible Executive Session:

• HB 1938 - Creating a local infrastructure investment program to support the development of affordable housing, workforce housing, and revitalization efforts

Innovation, Technology & Economic Development (H) - 8:00 AM 
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm C

Possible Executive Session:

• HB 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.
• HB 1766 - Concerning unmanned aircraft.

Local Government (H) - 8:00 AM 
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm D

Possible Executive Session:

• HB 1690 - Concerning short subdivisions.
• HB 1711 - Concerning new counties.
• HB 1747 - Concerning risk-based water quality standards for on-site nonpotable water systems.
• HB 1781 - Amending the land use petition act.
• HB 1796 - Concerning commercial property assessed clean energy and resilience.
• HB 1847 - Addressing aircraft noise abatement.

Rural Development, Agriculture, & Natural Resources (H) - 8:00 AM  
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm B

Public Hearing:

• HB 2022 - Providing funding options to local governments for addressing fish passage barrier removals.
• HB 2047 - Concerning carbon sequestration on natural and working lands as part of the state’s climate change response.

Possible Executive Session:

• HB 1784 - Concerning wildfire prevention.
• HB 1946 - Concerning community forests.

Appropriations (H) - 3:30 PM  
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm A

Public Hearing:

• SHB 1579 - Implementing recommendations of the southern resident killer whale task force related to increasing Chinook abundance.

Possible Executive Session:

• SHB 1112 - Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from hydrofluorocarbons.
• SHB 1290 - Concerning reviews of voluntary cleanups.

Transportation (H) - 3:30 PM
 John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm B

Public Hearing:

• HB 1994 - Facilitating transportation projects of statewide significance.

Transportation (S) - 3:30 PM
 J.A. Cherberg Building, Senate Hearing Rm 1

Public Hearing:

• SSB 5093 - Enhancing litter control along state highways.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21

Environment & Energy (H) - 8:00 AM
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm B       

Executive Session:

• HB 1480 - Streamlining the permitting process for disposing of dredged materials.
• HB 1543 - Concerning sustainable recycling.
• HB 1578 - Reducing threats to Southern Resident orca whales by improving the safety of oil transportation.
• HB 1632 - Reducing pollution from single-use plastic food service ware.
• HB 1642 - Allowing the energy savings associated with on-bill repayment programs to count toward a qualifying utility's energy conservation targets under the energy independence act.
• HB 1824 - Addressing the impacts of pinnipeds on populations of threatened southern resident orca prey.
• HB 1923 - Increasing urban residential building capacity.

Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks (S) - 1:30 PM 
J.A. Cherberg Building, Senate Hearing Rm 3

Executive Session:   

• SB 5279 - Regulating outdoor burning for the protection of life or property and for public health, safety, and welfare.
• SB 5099 - Establishing recreational target shooting areas on public lands.
• SB 5617 - Banning the use of nontribal gill nets.
• SB 5547 - Concerning the proposed department of natural resources' marbled murrelet long-term conservation strategy.
• SB 5577 - Concerning the protection of southern resident orca whales from vessels.
• SB 5552 - Concerning the protection of native pollinators, including bees.
• SB 5626 - Ensuring the safe and productive cultivation of shellfish.
• SB 5543 - Retaining productive farmland.
• SB 5597 - Creating a work group on aerial pesticide applications in forestlands.
• SB 5696 - Concerning payments in lieu of real property taxes.
• SB 5873 - Concerning community forests.
• SB 5918 - Providing whale watching guidelines in the boating safety education program. 

Capital Budget (H) - 1:30 PM 
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm B

Public Hearing:

• HB 1165 - Encouraging low-water landscaping practices as a drought alleviation tool.
• HB 1889 - Establishing the water infrastructure program.

Finance (H) - 1:30 PM 
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm A

Public Hearing:  

• HB 1807 - Extending the tax preference for investment projects in distressed counties and community empowerment zones.

Appropriations (H) - 3:30 PM  
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm A

Public Hearing:

• SHB 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.
• SHB 1273 - Analyzing state regulatory impact on small forest landowners.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22

Civil Rights & Judiciary (H) - 10:00 AM 
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm A

Possible Executive Session:

• HB 1637 - Addressing airborne nuisances experienced by transitory populations.

Housing, Community Development & Veterans (H) - 10:00 AM 
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm E

Possible Executive Session:

• HB 1938 - Creating a local infrastructure investment program to support the development of affordable housing, workforce housing, and revitalization efforts.
• HB 1982 - Waiving groundwater fees for low-income housing.

Innovation, Technology & Economic Development (H) - 10:00 AM 
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm C

Possible Executive Session:

• HB 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.
• HB 1766 - Concerning unmanned aircraft.

Local Government (H) - 10:00 AM 
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm D

Possible Executive Session:

• HB 1797 - Concerning local governments planning and zoning for accessory dwelling units.

Rural Development, Agriculture, & Natural Resources (H) - 10:00 AM  
John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm B

Possible Executive Session:

• HB 2022 - Providing funding options to local governments for addressing fish passage barrier removals.
• HB 2047 - Concerning carbon sequestration on natural and working lands as part of the state’s climate change response.