2024 CAAA Legislative Update - Week 3

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January 26, 2024

2024 Legislative Update Week 3

House Bill 2282, sponsored by Representative Morgan would direct the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to convene a workgroup to identify African American studies curricula and other instructional methods and materials for students in grades 7 through 12.

Currently, HB 2282 has received a hearing, but needs a vote out of committee before Wednesday, January 31. Each year, many bills may receive testimony but without a vote, die in committee.

Wednesday, January 31 is the first policy committee cutoff for the session. Bills not moving to the Rules committee by this time are considered 'dead.'

Our list is updated every week. Click on the bill number for detailed information. Communicate your concerns, opinions, support or opposition with your elected representatives. Our website or this link tells how to reach them by email, phone or via the Legislative Hotline at 1-800-562-6000.

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House Bills

Bill #	Bill Description	Sponsor
SHB 1862	Providing tax exemptions for the assistance of disabled veterans and members of the armed forces of the United States of America. Current status: Substitute in House Rules committee	Leavitt
HB 1865	Modifying enforcement of motor vehicle liability insurance and fiscal responsibilities. Current status: Needs a vote out of Community Safety, Justice, & Reentry committee	Christian
HB 1870	Promoting economic development by increasing opportunities for local communities to secure federal funding. Current status: House Appropriations committee	Barnard
HB 1873	Concerning office of public defense social service workers for parents in child welfare cases. Current status: Needs a vote out of Human Services, Youth, & Early Learning committee	Ortiz-Self
HB 1874	Protecting consumers from predatory loans. Current status: Needs to pass out of House Consumer Protection & Business committee	Walen
HB 1884	Concerning coverage of prescription drugs for advanced metastatic cancer. Current status: Needs a vote out of Health Care & Wellness committee	Harris
HB 1891	Maintaining the safety of children when a parent has a substance use disorder. Current status: Needs a vote out of Human Services, Youth, & Early Learning committee	Eslick
SHB 1892	Concerning the workforce housing accelerator program. Current status: Passed to House Capital Budget committee	Leavitt
HB 1895	Modifying the working families' tax credit by clarifying the refundable nature of the credit, the application requirements, and the eligibility verification process. Current status: Passed to House Rules committee	Thai
SHB 1905	Including protected classes in the Washington equal pay and opportunities act. Current status: Substitute in House Appropriations committee	Mena
SHB 1911	Concerning activities in which the office of public defense may engage without violating the prohibition on providing direct representation of clients. Current status: Substitute in House Rules committee	Taylor
SHB 1914	Improving the education of students with varying abilities by enhancing special education services. Current status: Substitute in House Appropriations committee	Couture
SHB 1915	Making financial education instruction a graduation prerequisite and a required component of public education. Current status: Substitute voted out of House Education committee	Rude
HB 1916	Concerning funding for the early support for infants and toddlers program. Current status: House Appropriations committee	Senn
HB 1918	Limiting the annual percentage rate for payday lending to 36 percent and making other modifications to small loans under the payday lending laws. Current status: House Consumer Protection & Business committee	Ryu
HB 1922	Establishing a grant program for the purchase and installation of vape detectors in public schools. Current status: House Education committee	Couture
HB 1930	Obtaining and sharing investigative information and aligning provisions with current operations and practices of the office of independent investigations. Current status: House Community Safety, Justice, & Reentry committee	Entenman
HB 1931	Addressing financial aid grants for incarcerated students. Current status: Community Safety, Justice, & Reentry committee	Leavitt
HB 1938	Increasing the accessibility of academic reengagement opportunities for eligible students. Current status: House Education committee	Shavers
HB 1941	Providing for health home services for medicaid-eligible children with medically complex conditions. Current status: Heard in House Health Care & Wellness committee	Couture
HB 1944	Establishing a running start for the trades grant program. Current status: House Education committee	Orwall
HB 1945	Streamlining and enhancing program access for persons eligible for food assistance. Current status: Heard in House Human Services, Youth, & Early Learning committee	Alvarado
HB 1950	Concerning the public service loan forgiveness program. Current status: Passed House to Senate	Slatter
HB 1953	Improving access to department of licensing issued documents by clarifying the application requirements for a minor, modifying the requirements for at-cost identicards, and studying the feasibility of reduced-fee identicards. Current status: Heard in House Transportation committee	Entenman
HB 1956	Addressing fentanyl and other substance use prevention education. Current status: Heard in House Education committee	Leavitt
HB 1962	Improving voter registration list accuracy by improving voter address change processes for county election offices and voters. Current status: House Rules	Low
HB 1967	Excluding any person who is convicted of a hit and run resulting in death from being eligible for a first-time offender waiver. Current status: Heard in House Community Safety, Justice, & Reentry committee	Jacobsen
HB 1969	Expanding the definition of family member for individual providers. Current status: Heard in House appropriations	Alvarado
HB 1983	Concerning the criminal justice treatment account. Current status: Heard in House Appropriations committee	Simmons
HB 1988	Establishing the customer voice council. Current status: Heard in House Human Services, Youth, & Early Learning committee	Simmons
HB 1989	Creating a graffiti abatement and reduction program. Current status: Heard in House Transportation committee	Barkis
HB 1991	Concerning paid sick leave. Current status: Heard in House Labor & Workplace Standards committee	Fosse
HB 2005	Including weighted grade point averages on high school transcripts. Current status: Heard in House Education committee	McClintock
HB 2007	Expanding time limit exemptions applicable to cash assistance programs. Current status: Passed to House Appropriations committee	Peterson
SHB 2008	Creating a task force on housing cost driver analysis. Current status: Substitute bill passed to House Appropriations committee	Klicker
HB 2010	Keeping children safe from family violence. Current status: House Civil Rights & Judiciary committee	Rule
SHB 2012	Concerning eligibility for a property tax exemption for nonprofits providing affordable rental housing built with city and county funds. Current status: Substitute passed to House Rules committee	Street
SHB 2015	Concerning incentivizing adult family homes to increase bed capacity to seven or eight beds. Current status: Substitute passed to House Rules	Senn
HB 2016	Allowing certain minors to contract for housing and utilities. Current status: Heard in House Civil Rights & Judiciary committee	McClintock
HB 2029	Concerning opioid overdose reversal medication in high schools. Current status: House Education committee	Rule
HB 2033	Creating a rent relief incentive program. Current status: Passed to House Appropriations	Cheney
HB 2047	Allowing employers to screen candidates for cannabis use when hiring for certain positions involving services to persons with substance use disorder. Current status: House Labor & Workplace Standards committee	Dent
HB 2052	Increasing the availability of baby diaper changing stations. Current status: Heard in House Local Government committee	Callan
HB 2053	Establishing the ninth grade success grant program. Current status: Heard in House Appropriations committee	Stonier
HB 2058	Increasing student access to free meals served at public schools. Current status: Passed to House Appropriations	Riccelli
HB 2064	Providing for an exemption from the real estate excise tax for transfers of property to qualifying low-income first-time homebuyers. Current status: House Finance committee	Wylie
HB 2065	Recalculating sentencing ranges for currently incarcerated individuals whose offender score was increased by juvenile convictions. Current status: Heard in House Community Safety, Justice, & Reentry committee	Stearns
SHB 2075	Concerning licensing of Indian health care providers as establishments. Current status: Substitute passed to House Rules committee	Lekanoff
HB 2076	Addressing crimes involving human trafficking or sexual exploitation. Current status: Heard in House Community Safety, Justice, & Reentry	Orwall
HB 2077	Concerning participation in the Washington guaranteed admissions program. Current status: Heard in House Postsecondary Education & Workforce committee	Reed
HB 2078	Improving school safety by extending and increasing penalties for interference by, or intimidation by threat of, force or violence at schools and school-related athletic activities. Current status: House Community Safety, Justice, & Reentry committee	Schmidt
HB 2079	Improving school safety by extending and increasing penalties for interference by, or intimidation by threat of, force or violence at schools and athletic activities. Current status: Heard House Community Safety, Justice, & Reentry committee	Schmidt
HB 2081	Regulating home equity sharing agreements under the consumer loan act. Current status: Heard in House Consumer Protection & Business committee	Hackney
HB 2083	Making modifications to small loans under payday lending laws. Current status: Heard in House Consumer Protection & Business committee	Ryu
SHB 2086	Updating processes of the office of independent investigations by changing authority to obtain and share investigative information and aligning with current operations and practices. Current status: Substitute bill passed to House Rules committee	Entenman
SHB 2097	Assisting workers in recovering wages owed. Current status: Substitute passed to House Rules	Berry
HB 2110	Reorganizing statutory requirements governing high school graduation. Current status: Heard in House Education committee	Nance
SHB 2112	Concerning opioid and fentanyl prevention education and awareness at institutions of higher education. Current status: Substitute passed to House Appropriations	Nance
HB 2121	Concerning the burden of proof for special education due process hearings. Current status: House Education committee	Taylor
HB 2133	Designating trespassing on a public school bus as a felony offense. Current status: Heard in House Community Safety, Justice, & Reentry	Klicker
HB 2145	Concerning medically necessary treatment of a mental health or substance use disorder. Current status: Heard in House Health Care & Wellness committee	Simmons
HB 2154	Modifying the definition of persistent offender to exclude convictions for offenses committed by someone under the age of 18 and providing for resentencing. Current status: Heard in House Community Safety, Justice, & Reentry committee	Reeves
HB 2196	Concerning alcohol concentration. Current status: Heard in House Community Safety, Justice, & Reentry committee	Donaghy
HB 2282	Identifying African American studies curricula for students in grades seven through 12. Current status: Heard in House Education. Needs a vote to Rules before Wednesday, January 31	Morgan

Senate Bills

SB 5782	Evaluating the provision of right to counsel services. Current status: Senate Law & Justice committee	Torres
SB 5783	Mitigating the consumer impacts of the climate commitment act by creating greater administrability of emissions exemptions and improving the transparency and business practices under the act. Current status: Senate Environment, Energy & Technology committee	Mullet
SSB 5793	Concerning paid sick leave. Current status: Substitute passed to Senate Rules	Saldaña
SSB 5804	Concerning opioid overdose reversal medication in high schools. Current status: Substitute in Senate Rules	Kuderer
SB 5805	Developing a schedule for court appointment of attorneys for children and youth in dependency and termination proceedings. Current status: Senate Rules	Frame
SB 5807	Concerning housing authorities. Current status: Senate Rules	Frame
SSB 5809	Concerning enrichment funding for charter public schools. Current status: Substitute in Senate Ways and Means committee	Mullet
SB 5830	Establishing the Washington state commission on boys and men. Current status: Senate State Government & Elections committee	Lovick
SSB 5838	Establishing an artificial intelligence task force. Current status: Substitute passed to Senate Ways & Means committee	Nguyen
SSB 5841	Requiring individuals convicted of offenses related to driving under the influence to pay financial support to minor children and dependents when the offense results in the death or disability of a parent. Current status: Substitute in Senate Rules	Lovick
SB 5850	Supporting students who are chronically absent and at risk for not graduating high school. Current status: Senate Ways and Means	Braun
SSB 5853	Extending the crisis relief center model to provide behavioral health crisis services for minors. Current status: Substitute in Senate Ways and Means	Dhingra
SB 5865	Concerning the custody of a child when a parent has a history of domestic violence. Current status: Senate Law & Justice committee	Fortunato
SB 5873	Providing adequate and predictable student transportation. Current status: Senate Ways and Means	Wellman
SSB 5882	Increasing prototypical school staffing to better meet student needs. Current status: Substitute in Senate Ways and Means	Stanford
SB 5883	Concerning the burden of proof for special education due process hearings. Current status: Senate Rules	Trudeau
SSB 5888	Concerning statewide health care coordination and communication regarding individuals housed in confinement settings. Current status: substitute in Senate Ways and Means	Wilson, C.
SB 5894	Including protected classes in the Washington equal pay and opportunities act. Current status: Heard in Senate Labor & Commerce committee	Nobles
SB 5895	Concerning collective bargaining for certain employees who are enrolled in academic programs at public institutions of higher education. Current status: Heard in Senate Labor & Commerce committee	Nobles
SB 5896	Extending the terms of eligibility for financial aid programs. Current status: Senate Higher Education & Workforce Development committee	Nobles
SB 5904	Extending the terms of eligibility for financial aid programs. Current status: Senate Ways & Means	Nobles
SB 5905	Concerning certification, background checks, and training requirements for sheriffs, police chiefs, marshals, reserve officers, and volunteers. Current status: Senate Law & Justice committee	Lovick
SSB 5912	Concerning reentry services and supports. Current status: Substitute in Senate Ways & Means committee	Wilson, C.
SB 5927	Concerning authorization of tear gas deployment by sheriffs. Current status: Senate Law & Justice committee	Padden
SB 5930	Making modifications to small loans under payday lending laws. Current status: Senate Business, Financial Services, Gaming & Trade committee	Stanford
SB 5933	Concerning funding for the early support for infants and toddlers program. Current status: Heard in Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education committee	Frame
SB 5941	Clarifying requirements for subsidized child care. Current status: Passed Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education committee	Wilson, C.
SSB 5953	Concerning financial aid grants for incarcerated students. Current status: Substitute passed Senate Human Services committee	Wilson, C.
SB 6044	Concerning Juvenile access to an attorney. Current status: Senate Human Services committee	Fortunato
SB 6045	Concerning School District Efficiencies and consolidation. Current status: Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education committee	Hunt
SB 6046	Suspending the statute of limitation for childhood sexual abuse claims against bankruptcy estates of certain organizations. Current status: Senate Law & Justice committee	Braun
SSB 6053	Improving equitable access to postsecondary education. Current status: Substitute in Senate Rules	Holy
SB 6064	Concerning moneys collected by a landlord as fees, deposit, or security for pets. Current status: Senate Housing committee	Hansen
SB 6069	Improving retirement security for Washingtonians by establishing Washington saves, an automatic enrollment individual retirement savings account program and updating the Washington retirement marketplace statute. Current status: Heard in Senate Ways & Means committee	Mullet
SB 6076	Granting local taxing authority to fund criminal justice. Current status: Senate Ways & Means committee	Keiser
SB 6082	Increasing compensation for Washington paraeducators. Current status: Heard in Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education committee	Nobles

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