Bills open for Public Hearing April 1, 9 am

Mar 31, 2023 | 2023 Olympia Bills to Watch

(reposted from the 24th GOP Legislative District Committee)

 

Public Hearing
  1. HB 1851 – Implementing the first approach skills training program. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  2. ESB 5015 – Reestablishing the productivity board. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  3. 2SSB 5048 – Eliminating college in the high school fees. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  4. SB 5084 – Creating a separate fund for the purposes of self-insured pensions and assessments. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  5. ESSB 5102 – Concerning school library information and technology programs. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  6. 2SSB 5103 – Concerning payment to acute care hospitals for difficult to discharge medicaid patients. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  7. 2SSB 5128 – Concerning jury diversity. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  8. ESB 5130 – Concerning assisted outpatient treatment. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  9. 2SSB 5134 – Concerning reentry services and supports. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  10. 2SSB 5225 – Increasing access to the working connections child care program. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  11. SSB 5238 – Expanding collective bargaining for employees who are enrolled in academic programs at public institutions of higher education. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  12. E2SSB 5243 – Concerning high school and beyond planning. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  13. 2SSB 5263 – Concerning access to psilocybin services by individuals 21 years of age and older. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  14. 2SSB 5269 – Concerning Washington state manufacturing. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  15. E2SSB 5278 – Implementing audit recommendations to reduce barriers to home care aide certification. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  16. 2SSB 5290 – Concerning consolidating local permit review processes. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  17. E2SSB 5311 – Concerning special education funding formula. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  18. E2SSB 5315 – Concerning nonpublic agencies operating special education programs for students with disabilities. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  19. SB 5316 – Concerning background check and licensing fees for programs administered by the department of children, youth, and families. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  20. SSB 5318 – Limiting estate recovery. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  21. ESB 5355 – Mandating instruction on sex trafficking prevention and identification for students in grades seven through 12. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  22. SB 5369 – Reassessing standards for polychlorinated biphenyls in consumer products. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  23. SSB 5388 – Concerning improving diversity in clinical trials. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  24. SSB 5415 – Concerning public defense services for persons committed as not guilty by reason of insanity. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  25. 2SSB 5425 – Concerning fire protection sprinkler system contractors. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  26. 2SSB 5438 – Facilitating supportive relationships with family and significant individuals within the behavioral health system. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  27. E2SSB 5440 – Providing timely competency evaluations and restoration services to persons suffering from behavioral health disorders. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  28. 2SSB 5454 – Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting registered nurses. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  29. SSB 5499 – Concerning the multistate nurse licensure compact. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  30. 2SSB 5502 – Ensuring access to substance use disorder treatment. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  31. ESSB 5515 – Protecting children from child abuse and neglect. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Protecting children from child abuse and neglect at residential facilities and residential private schools.) (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  32. 2SSB 5518 – Concerning cybersecurity. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  33. SSB 5523 – Addressing the forensic pathologist shortage. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  34. 2SSB 5532 – Providing enhanced payment to low volume, small rural hospitals. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  35. ESB 5534 – Concerning workforce education investment accountability and oversight board staffing changes. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  36. E2SSB 5536 – Concerning controlled substances, counterfeit substances, and legend drug possession and treatment. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  37. 2SSB 5555 – Creating the profession of certified peer specialists. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  38. E2SSB 5580 – Improving maternal health outcomes. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  39. E2SSB 5582 – Reducing barriers and expanding educational opportunities to increase the supply of nurses in Washington. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
  40. SB 5683 – Concerning child-specific foster care licenses for placement of Indian children. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
Possible Executive Session
  1. 2SSB 5046 – Concerning postconviction access to counsel.
  2. SB 5066 – Concerning health care benefit managers.
  3. E2SSB 5080 – Expanding and improving the social equity in cannabis program.
  4. SB 5131 – Concerning money received by the department of corrections on behalf of inmates from family or other outside sources for the purchase of commissary items.
  5. SSB 5358 – Expanding veterans’ services and programs.
  6. SSB 5386 – Reducing administrative complexity by increasing transparency of revenue flows for activities funded by document recording fees.
  7. ESB 5592 – Requiring semiautomatic external defibrillator at fitness centers.
  8. SSB 5687 – Creating and supporting postsecondary wrestling grant programs.