We’re hearing seven bills in the Appropriations Committee today. In some cases, bills begin in policy committee and then move onto the Appropriations Committee, so you may notice some of these bills were previously listed on past posts. Substitute House Bill 1005 eliminates the Executive Ethics Board and transfers duties to the Public Disclosure Commission; requires lobbyists, lobbyist employers, and government entities to file lobbying reports over the Internet; and assesses a yearly fee to political committees, lobbyists, lobbyist employers, government entities, and elected officials that receive a salary and file personal financial disclosure statements.
Substitute House Bill 1114 requires most inpatient evaluations for involuntary treatment after criminal charges have been dismissed to occur at state hospitals; modifies procedures and standards for involuntary treatment of persons who have been deemed incompetent to stand trial for violent felonies; and provides additional notification and review requirements for release of certain involuntarily detained people.
House Bill 1152 requires that meal and rest periods for certain hospital employees be uninterrupted; permits rest periods to be taken at any point in the work period; and requires hospitals to record when certain employees take or miss a meal or rest period.
House Bill 1368 deletes requirements obligating the State Treasurer to make quarterly transfers of $2.5 million from the Liquor Excise Tax Fund to the State General Fund, thus resulting in additional moneys being transferred to counties, cities, and towns and establishes a new distribution formula for moneys in the Liquor Revolving Fund.
Substitute House Bill 1477 modifies truancy petitions and other requirements that apply to schools and school districts in responding to students who have unexcused absences.
House Bill 1560 directs the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to adopt a definition of professional learning and make recommendations for how it may be used to guide policy and investments in educator professional development; directs each Educational Service District to retain professional development coordinators in mathematics, science, and English Language Arts, if funds are provided; allows Learning Assistance Program funds to be used to support students in science; directs the OSPI to adopt consistent procedures for school districts to identify and select students for purposes of the Highly Capable Program; requires student performance data from the Transitional Bilingual Instructional Program to be reported online through the Washington State Report Card; requires a fairness and bias review to be conducted before implementation of revisions to state learning standards; renames a staffing category in the prototypical school funding formula; and allows qualified graduates of the Recruiting Washington Teachers Program to participate in an alternative route teacher preparation scholarship program.
House Bill 1868 expands eligibility for reimbursement of medical insurance premium costs for members of the Law Enforcement Officers' and Fire Fighters' Retirement System Plan 2 totally disabled in the line of duty and includes reimbursement for any medical insurance premiums up to the amounts authorized by the federal Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985.
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