Puget Sound Partnership 2021 Legislative Calendar, Week 5

LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR WEEK 5 67th Legislature  February 8-12, 2021

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 log-on. Committee schedules change frequently and are updated at http://leg.wa.gov/legislature/Pages/Calendar.aspx  Click here to download a fact sheet about accessing the legislature remotely.

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8

House Appropriations - 3:30 PM              

Public Hearing:

1. HB 1022 - Modifying Washington state horse racing commission provisions. (Remote testimony.)
2. SHB 1028 - Concerning evaluation and recommendation of candidates for residency teacher certification. (Remote testimony.)
3. SHB 1050 - Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fluorinated gases. (Remote testimony.)
4. SHB 1075 - Reducing emissions from vehicles associated with on-demand transportation services. (Remote testimony.)
5. SHB 1083 - Concerning relocation assistance for tenants of closed or converted manufactured/mobile home parks. (Remote testimony.)
6. HB 1096 - Concerning nonmedicare plans offered through the Washington state health insurance pool. (Remote testimony.)
7. SHB 1151 - Bolstering economic recovery. (Remote testimony.)

Possible Executive Session: SHB 1091 - Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the carbon intensity of transportation fuel.

See https://app.leg.wa.gov/csiremote/house for information about viewing and providing public testimony at committee meetings. To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

 

Senate Transportation - 4:00 PM

Public Hearing:

1. SB 5381 - Addressing fish passage project permit streamlining. (Remote testimony.)
2. SGA 9173 - Kelly Fukai, Member, Transportation Commission.

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Possible other business. See https://app.leg.wa.gov/CSIRemote/Senate for testimony options. To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

 

Senate Ways & Means - 4:00 PM             

Public Hearing:

1. SSB 5062 - Concerning the management, oversight, and use of data. (Remote testimony.)
2. SB 5082 - Reestablishing the productivity board. (Remote testimony.)
3. SB 5019 - Concerning the recording standards commission. (Remote testimony.)
4. SB 5352 - Allowing new government employees the option of opting out of retirement system membership if the employee is age sixty or older when first hired, or when the employee's employer opts into retirement plan participation. (Remote testimony.)
5. SB 5367 - Directing the department of retirement systems to create rules regarding automatic refunds of retirement contributions in the retirement systems listed in RCW 41.50.030. (Remote testimony.)
6. SSB 5045 - Expanding opportunities for meat and poultry processing and inspection. (Remote testimony.)
7. SB 5063 - Concerning the expiration date of the invasive species council. (Remote testimony.)
8. SB 5158 - Concerning the utility wildland fire prevention advisory committee. (Remote testimony.)

 

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Possible other business. See https://app.leg.wa.gov/CSIRemote/Senate for testimony options. To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9

House Environment & Energy - 8:00 AM        

Possible Executive Session:

1. HB 1084 - Reducing statewide greenhouse gas emissions by achieving greater decarbonization of residential and commercial buildings.
2. HB 1114 - Encouraging utility mitigation of urban heat island effects.
3. HB 1125 - Incentivizing investment in energy conservation and efficiency measures and expanding opportunities for energy rate discounts to, among other objectives, reduce the energy burden of low-income customers and vulnerable populations.

To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

 

Senate Housing & Local Government - 8:00 AM

Public Hearing:

1. SB 5380 - Concerning the approval of building permits. (Remote testimony.)
2. SB 5390 - Increasing housing supply through the growth management act and housing density tax incentives for local governments. (Remote testimony.)
3. SB 5396 - Expanding the sales and use tax exemption for farmworker housing. (Remote testimony.)

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Possible other business. See https://app.leg.wa.gov/CSIRemote/Senate for testimony options. To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

 

House Local Government - 10:00 AM     

Possible Executive Session:

1. HB 1331 - Concerning early learning facility impact fees.
2. HB 1233 - Concerning limited areas of more intensive rural development.
3. HB 1220 - Supporting emergency shelters and housing through local planning and development regulations.

Public Hearing:

1. HB 1304 - Concerning grade-separated transportation. (Remote testimony.)
2. HB 1232 - Planning for affordable housing under the growth management act. (Remote testimony.)
3. HB 1458 - Amending the growth management act for adaptive planning, affordable housing, and tribal consultation. (Remote testimony.)

See https://app.leg.wa.gov/csiremote/housefor information about viewing and providing public testimony at committee meetings. To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

 

Senate Environment, Energy & Technology - 10:30 AM

Possible Executive Session:

1. SB 5125 - Affirming the process for disposing of dredged materials for federal navigation channel maintenance and improvement.
2. SB 5141 - Implementing the recommendations of the environmental justice task force.
3. SB 5345 - Establishing a statewide industrial waste coordination program.

Public Hearing: SB 5415 - Concerning the energy facility site evaluation council. (Remote testimony.)

Possible other business. See https://app.leg.wa.gov/CSIRemote/Senate for testimony options. To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

 

House Capital Budget - 1:30 PM

Public Hearing:

1. SHB 1173 - Concerning state lands development authorities. (Remote testimony.)
2. HB 1391 - Concerning prime contractor bidding submission requirements on public works contracts. (Remote testimony.)

Executive Session:

1. HB 1023 - Concerning predesign requirements and thresholds.
2. HB 1103 - Improving environmental and social outcomes with the production of building materials.
3. HB 1370 - Concerning grants for early learning facilities.

See https://app.leg.wa.gov/csiremote/house for information about viewing and providing public testimony at committee meetings. To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

 

Senate Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks - 1:30 PM

Public Hearing:

1. SB 5362 - Ensuring the funding of agricultural fairs. (Remote testimony.)
2. SB 5421 - Creating a salmon fisheries dispute resolution process. (Remote testimony.) (If measure is referred to committee.)
3. SB 5404 - Addressing the impacts of pinnipeds on populations of threatened southern resident orca prey. (Remote testimony.)
4. SB 5411 - Establishing a programmatic safe harbor agreement on forestlands for northern spotted owls. (Remote testimony.)

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Possible other business. See https://app.leg.wa.gov/CSIRemote/Senate for testimony options. To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

 

House Finance - 1:30 PM

Public Hearing:

1. HB 1465 - Making the estate tax more progressive by exempting small estates, reducing estate taxes on medium estates, increasing the estate tax on larger estates, and addressing equity in homeownership and homelessness. (Remote testimony.)
2. HB 1410 - Protecting taxpayers from home foreclosure. (Remote testimony.)

See https://app.leg.wa.gov/csiremote/house for information about viewing and providing public testimony at committee meetings. To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

 

House Transportation - 3:30 PM

Work Session:

1. Transportation electrification initiatives.
2. Road usage charge update.

To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

 

Senate Ways & Means - 4:00 PM             

Public Hearing:

1. SB 5054 - Concerning impaired driving. (Remote testimony.)
2. SSB 5183 - Concerning victims of nonfatal strangulation. (Remote testimony.)
3. SSB 5315 - Concerning captive insurance. (Remote testimony.)
4. SSB 5147 - Addressing learning loss by exploring alternative school calendars. (Remote testimony.)
5. SB 5151 - Concerning foster care and child care licensing by the department of children, youth, and families. (Remote testimony.)
6. SSB 5136 - Prohibiting fees for child care licenses. (Remote testimony.)
7. SSB 5294 - Concerning the creation of statewide epidemic preparedness and response guidelines for long-term care facilities. (Remote testimony.)
8. SSB 5105 - Implementing the recommendations of the office of equity task force. (Remote testimony.)

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Possible other business. See https://app.leg.wa.gov/CSIRemote/Senate for testimony options. To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10

Senate State Government & Elections - 8:00 AM              

Work Session: 2020 Census update.

Public Hearing:

1. SB 5395 - Concerning use of state resources during periods where state employees are required to work from home. (Remote testimony.)
2. SB 5403 - Concerning the interagency, multijurisdictional system improvement team. (Remote testimony.)
3. SB 5405 - Instructing the joint legislative audit and review committee to perform racial equity analyses. (Remote testimony.)

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Possible other business. See https://app.leg.wa.gov/CSIRemote/Senate for testimony options. To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

 

House Local Government - 10:00 AM

Possible Executive Session:

1. HB 1331 - Concerning early learning facility impact fees.
2. HB 1220 - Supporting emergency shelters and housing through local planning and development regulations.
3. HB 1241 - Planning under the growth management act.
4. HB 1258 - Concerning the operation, authorization, and permitting of microenterprise home kitchens.

Public Hearing: HB 1435 - Authorizing local authorities to implement bicycle tour permits. (Remote testimony.)

See https://app.leg.wa.gov/csiremote/house for information about viewing and providing public testimony at committee meetings. To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

 

House Community & Economic Development - 10:00 AM            

Work Session: Issues related to small wireless facilities.

Executive Session:

1. HB 1147 - Creating the Washington state office of resiliency.
2. HB 1340 - Concerning creation of the statewide pandemic preparation and response task force.

To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11

House Environment & Energy - 1:30 PM         

Possible Executive Session:

1. HB 1084 - Reducing statewide greenhouse gas emissions by achieving greater decarbonization of residential and commercial buildings.
2. HB 1125 - Incentivizing investment in energy conservation and efficiency measures and expanding opportunities for energy rate discounts to, among other objectives, reduce the energy burden of low-income customers and vulnerable populations.
3. HB 1393 - Delaying certain implementation dates for the photovoltaic module stewardship and takeback program.
4. HB 1423 - Concerning smoke management civil enforcement.

Public Hearing:

1. HB 1488 - Concerning the management of plastic packaging materials. (Remote testimony.) (If measure is referred to committee.)
2. HB 1490 - Maintaining residential electricity and heating service for low-income households and households with people with disabilities. (Remote testimony.) (If measure is referred to committee.)

See https://app.leg.wa.gov/csiremote/house for information about viewing and providing public testimony at committee meetings. To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

 

Senate Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks - 1:30 PM           

Executive Session:

1. SB 5145 - Concerning the prevention of seabed mining of hard minerals.
2. SB 5300 - Prohibiting the feeding of garbage to swine.
3. SB 5230 - Concerning agreements for allocation of groundwater resulting from bureau of reclamation project operations.
4. SB 5306 - Concerning local salmon habitat recovery planning in critical areas.
5. SB 5330 - Regarding commercial whale watching licenses.
6. SB 5207 - Concerning environmental permit streamlining.
7. SB 5362 - Ensuring the funding of agricultural fairs.
8. SB 5404 - Addressing the impacts of pinnipeds on populations of threatened southern resident orca prey.
9. SB 5411 - Establishing a programmatic safe harbor agreement on forestlands for northern spotted owls.
10. SB 5421 - Creating a salmon fisheries dispute resolution process. (If measure is referred to committee.)

Possible other business. See https://app.leg.wa.gov/CSIRemote/Senate for testimony options. To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

 

House Appropriations - 3:30 PM

Public Hearing:

1. SHB 1044 - Creating prison to postsecondary education pathways. (Remote testimony.)
2. SHB 1061 - Concerning youth eligible for developmental disability services who are expected to exit the child welfare system. (Remote testimony.)
3. SHB 1194 - Strengthening parent-child visitation during child welfare proceedings. (Remote testimony.)
4. SHB 1227 - Protecting the rights of families responding to allegations of abuse or neglect of a child. (Remote testimony.)

Possible Executive Session:

1. SHB 1028 - Concerning evaluation and recommendation of candidates for residency teacher certification.
2. SHB 1050 - Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fluorinated gases.
3. SHB 1126 - Limiting tolling of community custody terms.
4. SHB 1186 - Concerning juvenile rehabilitation.

See https://app.leg.wa.gov/csiremote/house for information about viewing and providing public testimony at committee meetings. To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

 

Senate Ways & Means - 4:00 PM

Public Hearing:

1. SB 5357 - Establishing and making appropriations for the capital broadband investment acceleration program. (Remote testimony.)
2. SB 5175 - Concerning the authority of the community economic revitalization board. (Remote testimony.)
3. SSB 5211 - Authorizing tax increment financing for local governments. (Remote testimony.)

Executive Session:

1. SB 5133 - Concerning the definition of confidential employee for the purposes of state collective bargaining.
2. SB 5296 - Modifying the definition of index for the Washington state patrol retirement system.
3. SB 5322 - Prohibiting dual enrollment between school employees' benefits board and public employees' benefits board programs.
4. SSB 5066 - Concerning a peace officer's duty to intervene.
5. SSB 5074 - Establishing and expanding safe station pilot programs.
6. SB 5004 - Providing a tax exemption for medical marijuana patients.
7. SB 5251 - Modifying tax and revenue laws in a manner that is not estimated to affect state or local tax collections, by easing compliance burdens for taxpayers, clarifying ambiguities, making technical corrections, and providing administrative efficiencies.

Possible other business. See https://app.leg.wa.gov/CSIRemote/Senate for testimony options. To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12

House Local Government - 8:00 AM       

Possible Executive Session:

1. HB 1157 - Increasing housing supply through the growth management act and housing density tax incentives for local governments.
2. HB 1337 - Concerning accessory dwelling units.
3. HB 1298 - Concerning regulation of accessory dwelling units located outside of urban growth areas.
4. HB 1258 - Concerning the operation, authorization, and permitting of microenterprise home kitchens.
5. HB 1241 - Planning under the growth management act.
6. HB 1180 - Concerning public testimony at public meetings, including virtual meetings.
7. HB 1329 - Concerning public meeting accessibility and participation.

To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

 

House Rural Development, Agriculture & Natural Resources - 8:00 AM 

Possible Executive Session:

1. HB 1382 - Streamlining the environmental permitting process for salmon recovery projects.
2. HB 1395 - Ensuring equity in farming.
3. HB 1437 - Concerning a vessel crewmember license.

To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

 

House Environment & Energy - 10:00 AM            

Possible Executive Session:

1. HB 1084 - Reducing statewide greenhouse gas emissions by achieving greater decarbonization of residential and commercial buildings.
2. HB 1125 - Incentivizing investment in energy conservation and efficiency measures and expanding opportunities for energy rate discounts to, among other objectives, reduce the energy burden of low-income customers and vulnerable populations.
3. HB 1393 - Delaying certain implementation dates for the photovoltaic module stewardship and takeback program.
4. HB 1423 - Concerning smoke management civil enforcement.

To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules

 

Senate State Government & Elections - 10:30 AM

Public Hearing:

1. ESHB 1056 - Concerning open public meeting notice requirements and declared emergencies. (Remote testimony.)
2. SGA 9190 - Rituja Indapure, Member, Washington State Women’s Commission.
3. SGA 9194 - Vicki L Lowe, Member, Washington State Women’s Commission.
4. SGA 9195 - Michelle Y Merriweather, Member, Washington State Women’s Commission.
5. SGA 9199 - Quinn R Dalan, Member, Washington State Women’s Commission.
6. SGA 9200 - Anna M Franklin, Member, Washington State Women’s Commission.

Executive Session:

1. SB 5291 - Concerning the report deadline for the defense community compatibility account.
2. SB 5303 - Exempting United States food and drug administration nonpublic information from disclosure under the state public disclosure act.
3. SB 5395 - Concerning use of state resources during periods where state employees are required to work from home.
4. SB 5403 - Concerning the interagency, multijurisdictional system improvement team.
5. SB 5405 - Instructing the joint legislative audit and review committee to perform racial equity analyses.
6. SGA 9190 - Rituja Indapure, Member, Washington State Women’s Commission.
7. SGA 9194 - Vicki L Lowe, Member, Washington State Women’s Commission.
8. SGA 9195 - Michelle Y Merriweather, Member, Washington State Women’s Commission.
9. SGA 9199 - Quinn R Dalan, Member, Washington State Women’s Commission.
10. SGA 9200 - Anna M Franklin, Member, Washington State Women’s Commission.

 

Possible other business. See https://app.leg.wa.gov/CSIRemote/Senate for testimony options. To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature's committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedule