In the Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government Committee meeting today we’re hearing 13 bills and may take Executive Action on 18 bills. Here are the first six …
Substitute House Bill 1552 creates a licensing scheme for scrap metal businesses; expands criminal penalties for metal theft and malicious mischief; allows for civil forfeiture for any property used in the commission of a crime involving the Theft, Trafficking, or Unlawful Possession of Commercial Metal Property; creates a database by which scrap metal businesses may determine if a potential client has a criminal conviction which makes him or her ineligible to sell property to a licensed business; and creates the Washington Metal Theft Prevention Authority.
Substitute House Bill 1822 requires persons or entities engaged in the business of purchasing delinquent debt for collection purposes to be licensed as collection agencies under the Collection Agency Act (CAA) and to comply with all other requirements of the CAA and amends the list of prohibited practices in the CAA to prohibit the "unauthorized" practice of law, rather than the practice of law in general.
Substitute House Bill 1828 creates a local government fiscal health commission (commission) to identify and respond to financial problems encountered by local government and establishes the commission's authority, powers, responsibilities, and liability with respect to identifying and responding to financial stress in local governments.
House Bill 1924 allows additional, match-free, local watershed planning grants of up to
$50,000 for lead entities or plan implementation groups that commit to conducting a review every five years to ensure that the highest priority issues are being addressed and gives priority to funding watershed planning grant applications that would result in the dissolution of a planning unit if not for receiving the grant.
Substitute House Bill 1375 allows a Group A or Group B water system that could provide adequate potable water for new development if not for the water system's lack of sufficient water rights to consolidate the water system's existing withdrawals with the necessary allowed permit exempt well withdrawals.
Substitute House Bill 1438 creates a new, temporary process for certain water users located in the Nooksack watershed who have transitioned to a more efficient irrigation technology to change their place of water use with the Department of Ecology.
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