Committee Meetings for Week of February 22
Monday, February 22
9:00am – House Appropriations
Executive Session:
- HB 1117 – Promoting salmon recovery through revisions to the state’s comprehensive planning framework.
- HB 1443 – Concerning social equity within the cannabis industry.
9:30am – Senate Ways & Means
Executive Session
- SB 5220 – Concern the taxation of salmon recovery grants.
- SB 5362 – Ensuring the funding of agricultural fairs.
- SB 5392 – Authorizing a public utility district to provide retail telecommunications services in unserved areas under certain conditions.
- SB 5105 – Implementing the recommendations of the office of equity task force.
- SB 5155 – Concerning prejudgment interest.
Thursday, February 25
8:00am – Senate Environment, Energy, and Technology
Executive Session:
- SB 5126 – Concerning the Washington climate commitment act.
The House and Senate will be conducting “floor action” through March 9th, voting on bills in their respective chamber.
Legislative Bills of Interest – Week 7
House Bills
- HB 1056 – Concerning open public meeting notice requirements and declared emergencies.
- HB 1091 – Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the carbon intensity of transportation fuel.
- HB 1117 – Promoting salmon recovery through revisions to the state’s comprehensive planning framework.
- HB 1143 – Authorizing the placement of water rights banked pursuant to RCW 90.92.070 into the trust water rights program.
- HB 1168 – Concerning long-term forest health and the reduction of wildfire dangers.
- HB 1216 – Concerning urban and community forestry.
- HB 1280 – Concerning greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the design of public facilities.
- HB 1329 – Relating to public meeting accessibility and participation.
- HB 1336 – Creating and expanding unrestricted authority for public entities to provide telecommunications services to end users.
- HB 1382 – Streamlining the environmental permitting process for salmon recovery projects.
- HB 1395 – Ensuring equity in farming.
- HB 1443 – Concerning social equity within the cannabis industry.
- HB 1466 – Promoting access to outdoor education.
- HB 1478 – Concerning fish habitat enhancement projects authorized pursuant to RCW 77.55.181.
- HB 1513 – Improving environmental health by reducing carbon emissions through increasing climate resilience and…
- HB 1544 – Concerning agriculture, food, and natural resource education.
- HJR 4205 Adding a new section to the Washington state Constitution regarding the conservation and protection of the state’s natural resources.
Senate Bills
- SB 5045 – Establishing a state meat and poultry inspection program.
- SB 5105 – Implementing the recommendations of the office of equity task force.
- SB 5126 – Concerning the Washington climate commitment act.
- SB 5141 – Implementing the recommendations of the environmental justice task force.
- SB 5155 – Concerning prejudgment interest.
- SB 5172/HB 1217 – Concerning the retroactivity of overtime claims in exceptional cases.
- SB 5159 – Concerning payments in lieu of real property taxes by the department of the fish and wildlife.
- SB 5220 – Concern the taxation of salmon recovery grants.
- SB 5253 – Implementing the recommendations of the pollinator health task force.
- SB 5273 – Concerning the replacement of shoreline armoring.
- SB 5342 – Concerning irrigation district elections.
- SB 5362 – Ensuring the funding of agricultural fairs.
- SB 5392 – Authorizing a public utility district to provide retail telecommunications services in unserved areas under certain conditions.
- SB 5404 – Addressing the impacts of pinnipeds on populations of threatened southern resident orca prey.
- SB 5411 – Establishing a programmatic safe harbor agreement on forestlands for northern spotted owls.
- SB 5461 – Funding forest health activities and related community resiliency projects for the protection of people, homes, and the environment through issuance of state bonds.