Committee Meetings for Week of February 8
Monday, February 8
4:00pm – Senate Ways & Means
Public Hearing:
- SSB 5045 – Expanding opportunities for meat and poultry processing and inspection. (Remote testimony.)
Tuesday, February 9
10:00am – House Comm Rural Development, Agriculture & Natural Resources
Public Hearing:
- HB 1478 – Concerning fish habitat enhancement projects
1:30pm – Senate Committee on Ag, Water, Natural Resources, & Parks
Public Hearing:
- SB 5454 – Addressing the impacts of pinnipeds on populations of threatened southern resident orca prey.
Wednesday, February 10
10:00am – House Comm Rural Development, Agriculture & Natural Resources
Executive Session:
- HB 1478 – Concerning fish habitat enhancement projects
Public Hearing:
- HB 1508 – Concerning the sanitary control of shellfish.
10:30am – Senate Housing & Local Government
Executive Session:
- SB 5342 – Concerning irrigation district elections.
Thursday, February 11
1:30pm – Senate Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks
Executive Session:
- SB 5230 – Concerning agreements for allocation of groundwater resulting from bureau of reclamation project operations.
- SB 5306 – Concerning local salmon habitat recovery planning in critical areas.
- SB 5454 – Addressing the impacts of pinnipeds on populations of threatened southern resident orca prey.
Friday, February 12
8:00am – House Local Government
Possible Executive Session:
- HB 1180 – Concerning public testimony at public meetings, including virtual meetings.
- HB 1443 – Concerning social equity within the cannabis industry.
H Rural Development, Agriculture & Natural Resources
Possible Executive Session:
- HB 1382 – Streamlining the environmental permitting process for salmon recovery projects.
- HB 1395 – Ensuring equity in farming.
- HB 1508 – Concerning the sanitary control of shellfish.
10:30am Senate State Government
Public Hearing:
ESHB 1056 – Concerning open public meeting notice requirements and declared emergencies.
Legislative Bills of Interest – Week 5
House Bills
- HB 1056 – Concerning open public meeting notice requirements and declared emergencies.
- HB 1132 – Concerning the protection of water supply for farming and rural economic development.
- HB 1117 – Promoting salmon recovery through revisions to the state’s comprehensive planning framework.
- HB 1132 – Concerning the protection of water supply for farming and rural economic development.
- 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 1180 – Concerning public testimony at public meetings, including virtual meetings.
- HB 1211 – Concerning salmon-safe communities.
- HB 1216 – Concerning urban and community forestry.
- 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 1385 – Limiting transfers of water rights out of their original water resource inventory area.
- HB 1395 – Ensuring equity in farming.
- HB 1443/SB 5388 – 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.
Senate Bills
- SB 5060 – Concerning the preservation of water rights for farmland and economic development.
- SB 5126 – Concerning the Washington Climate Commitment Act
- 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 5206 – Eliminating expedited processing of an alternative energy resource facility fueled by solar energy on certain designated lands before the energy facility site evaluation council.
- 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 5306 – Concerning local salmon habitat recovery planning in critical areas.
- SB 5342 – Concerning irrigation district elections.
- SB 5373 – Concerning carbon pollution.
- 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