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 Home > Legislative Information (last update 6/5/09) > State - 2008 Legislative Session Information - Last Update 10/9/08
Last Update: October 9, 2008

Laws of 2008 and 2008 legislative session bills of possible interest to local governments.  Click on the chapter or bill number for additional information for that chapter or bill.

The regular session adjourned "sine die" on Thursday, March 13, 2008.

DOR Property Tax Special Notice - August 2008 (posted 10/9/08)
Bills signed into Law - 2008 Bill Action - Complete list.
Bills signed into Law - Legislative Information Center Report

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Supplemental Budgets:
Chapter 329, Laws of 2008 (ESHB 2687) - Making 2008 operating supplemental appropriations.
Partial Veto Message
Effective: 4/1/08
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Chapter 328, Laws of 2008 (ESHB 2765) - Making 2008 supplemental capital appropriations.
Partial Veto Message
Effective: 4/1/08
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Chapter 121, Laws of 2008 (ESHB 2878) - Making 2008 transportation supplemental appropriations.
Partial Veto - Message
Effective: 3/25/08
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Chapter 1, Laws of 2008 (Initiative 960) - Tax and fee increases imposed by state government.
I-960 Bill Analysis - Statistics for the 2008 legislative session.
Senate Ways & Means Committee January 16, 2008
Chapter 2, Laws of 2008 (SB 6335) - Concerning the homeless families services fund.
Effective: 2/6/08
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Chapter 3, Laws of 2008 (SB 6272) - Expanding financial literacy through education and counseling to promote greater homeownership security.
Effective: 2/11/08
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Chapter 5, Laws of 2008 (HB 2437) - Authorizing public works board projects.
Effective: 3/7/08
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Chapter 9, Laws of 2008 (SB 6183) - Providing a process for the dissolution of first-class school directors' districts.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 13, Laws of 2008 (SB 6464) - Addressing judicial district population estimates.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 15, Laws of 2008 (2SSB 6626) - Creating a sales and use tax deferral program for eligible investment projects in community empowerment zones.
Effective: 7/1/09
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Chapter 17, Laws of 2008 (HB 1149) - Eliminating advance property tax payments for binding site plans.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 28, Laws of 2008 (SHB 3206) - Concerning the information required to be reported in the annual economic impact report on lodging tax revenues.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 29, Laws of 2008 (E2SSB 5278) - Concerning use of public funds to finance campaigns for local office.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 31, Laws of 2008 (SB 6271) - Concerning the compensation of special purpose district commissioners.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 37, Laws of 2008 (SB 6504) - Exempting certain minor new construction associated with construction storm water general permits from SEPA.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 39, Laws of 2008 (SB 6685) - Regarding the ethical use of e-mail for legislative updates.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 42, Laws of 2008 (HB 1493) - Clarifying the definition of development activity in respect to construction by a regional transit authority.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 45, Laws of 2008 (HB 2730) - Addressing the provision of ferry service by port districts.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 48, Laws of 2008 (HB 3151) - Extending the commencement-of-construction date for a sales and use tax for public facilities districts in national disaster counties.
Effective: 7/1/08
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Chapter 50, Laws of 2008 (HB 1391) - Clarifying that councilmembers are eligible to be appointed to the office of mayor.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 53, Laws of 2008 (SSB 6224) - Modifying the interest accrual methodology for vendor overpayments.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 57, Laws of 2008 (EHB 2459) - Creating the uniform real property electronic recording act.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 63, Laws of 2008 (HB 2762) - Increasing the number of district court judges in Cowlitz county.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 73, Laws of 2008 (HB 2448) - Changing the time frame covered by the twenty-one day preelection campaign finance report.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 77, Laws of 2008 (SB 6275) - Granting authority for drainage district commissioners to implement drainage maintenance plans.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 82, Laws of 2008 (E2SSB 6874) - Regarding Columbia river water delivery.
Effective: 7/1/08
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Chapter 84, Laws of 2008 (SSB 6389) - Exempting certain military housing from property and leasehold excise taxes.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 86, Laws of 2008 (ESB 6663) - Improving tax program administration by correcting, clarifying, eliminating, repealing, and decodifying statutes related to the department of revenue.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 95, Laws of 2008 (2SHB 3129) - Regarding online learning programs for high school students to earn college credit.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 96, Laws of 2008 (HB 3200) - Establishing a cemetery district in a county.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 99, Laws of 2008 (ESSB 6573) - Providing additional revenues for public safety.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 101, Laws of 2008 (HB 3024) - Purchasing service credit in plan 2 and plan 3 of the teachers' retirement system for public education experience performed as a teacher in a public school in another state or with the federal government.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 107, Laws of 2008 (SB 6740) - Regarding the provision of teacher certification services.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 111, Laws of 2008 (SB 6332) - Increasing the debt limit of the housing finance commission.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 112, Laws of 2008 (EHB 3142) - Creating the affordable housing and community facilities rapid response loan program.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 116, Laws of 2008 (E2SHB 1621) - Preserving manufactured/mobile home communities.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 118, Laws of 2008 (SHB 2279) - Prohibiting discrimination against affordable housing developments.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 122, Laws of 2008 (E2SHB 1773) - Concerning the imposition of tolls.
Effective: 3/25/08
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Chapter 123, Laws of 2008 (ESHB 2480) - Concerning public transportation fares.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 126,  Laws of 2008 (SHB 2746) - Concerning the purchasing of fuel by certain state and local agencies.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 129, Laws of 2008 (SHB 3126) - Clarifying the interaction of the streamlined sales and use tax legislation and the power of local governments to license and tax.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 130, Laws of 2008 (2SHB 3274) - Addressing public contracting by public port districts.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 131, Laws of 2008 (SSB 6195) - Modifying the definition of rural county for economic development purposes.
Effective: 7/1/09
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Chapter 132, Laws of 2008 (ESSB 6532) - Authorizing certain cities to enter into lease agreements to use state-owned aquatic lands to operate a publicly owned marina.)
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 142, Laws of 2008 (HB 2510) - Allowing medicare only health insurance benefits for certain employees of political subdivisions under a divided referendum process.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 155, Laws of 2008 (SSB 6710) - Modifying the fire protection standards for hospitals.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 157, Laws of 2008 (SSB 6791) - Clarifying permitted uses of moneys currently collected under the county legislative authority sales and use tax for chemical dependency or mental health treatment programs and services or therapeutic courts.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 159, Laws of 2008 (2SHB 2635) - Regarding school district boundaries and organization.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 163, Laws of 2008 (ESHB 3166) - Concerning the design of the state assessment system and the WASL.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 164, Laws of 2008 (2SHB 3168) - Regarding the creation of the Washington head start program.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 167, Laws of 2008 (SB 6313) - Recognizing disability history in the public education system.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 168, Laws of 2008 (SSB 6328) - Enhancing campus security.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 171, Laws of 2008 (SB 6398) - Regarding fines collected in truancy court actions.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 174, Laws of 2008 (SB 6588) - Authorizing the transfer of accumulated leave between the common school and higher education systems.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 175, Laws of 2008 (SB 6657) - Including salary bonuses for individuals certified by the national board for professional teaching standards as earnable compensation.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 177, Laws of 2008 (SSB 6879) - Regarding the joint task force on basic education finance.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 178, Laws of 2008 (SB 6941) - Regarding a waste reduction and recycling awards program in K-12 schools.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 179, Laws of 2008 (SHB 3374) - Regarding general obligation bonds for flood hazard mitigation projects and school facilities.
Effective: 3/27/08
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Chapter 180, Laws of 2008 (HB 3375) - Appropriating funds for catastrophic flood relief.
Effective: 3/27/08
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Chapter 181, Laws of 2008 (SB 6950) - Providing a limited waiver or suspension of statutory obligations during officially declared emergencies.
Effective: 6/12/08 except section 602, which becomes effective on 7/1/08.
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Chapter 182, Laws of 2008 (SSB 5256) - Providing for the exclusion of veterans benefits from the income calculation for the retired person property tax relief program.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 184, Laws of 2008 (SHB 3283) - Relieving active duty military personnel of interest and penalties on delinquent excise taxes.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 186, Laws of 2008 (SHB 2580) - Concerning paydates for employees participating in state active military duty.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 192, Laws of 2008 (HB 2137) - Allowing school employees' children with disabilities to enroll in special services programs in the district where the employee is assigned.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 196, Laws of 2008 (SHB 2482) - Addressing the signature validation process for petitions that seek annexation.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 197, Laws of 2008 (E2SHB 2533) - Concerning attachments to utility poles of locally regulated utilities.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 204, Laws of 2008 (HB 3019) - Addressing service credit for members working a partial year in plans 2 and 3 of the teachers' retirement system and the school employees' retirement system.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 205, Laws of 2008 (ESHB 3329) - Prioritizing four-year higher education institutions' capital project requests.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 209, Laws of 2008 (SB 6196) - Modifying definitions applicable to local infrastructure financing tool program demonstration projects.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 214, Laws of 2008 (SSB 6340) - Providing for a water system acquisition and rehabilitation program.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 216, Laws of 2008 (ESSB 6560) - Regarding public utility district contracts.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 218, Laws of 2008 (SB 6717) - Increasing public utility district commissioner salaries.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 224, Laws of 2008 (EHB 2476) - Authorizing tribal police officers to act as general authority Washington state peace officers.
Effective: 7/1/08
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Chapter 227, Laws of 2008 (2SHB 2557) - Improving the operation of the trial courts.
Effective: 7/1/08
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Chapter 228, Laws of 2008 (HB 2650) - Authorizing a cigarette tax agreement between the state of Washington and the Yakama Nation.
Effective: 3/28/08
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Chapter 229, Laws of 2008 (HB 2652) - Transferring the dependent care assistance program to the health care authority by coordinating benefit plans that allow state and public employees to pay on a pretax basis.
Effective: 1/1/09
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Chapter 234, Laws of 2008 (HB 3011) - Safeguarding securities owned by insurers.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 240, Laws of 2008 (SSB 5651) - Changing the criteria for investigating and assessing performance in meeting community credit needs.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 241, Laws of 2008 (SB 6216) - Authorizing of the governor to enter into a cigarette tax contract with the Shoalwater Bay Tribe.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 257, Laws of 2008 (SSB 6277) - Providing for the accommodation of certain private transit providers at park and ride lots.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 261, Laws of 2008 (SSB 6404) - Modifying the process for designating regional support networks.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 262, Laws of 2008 (E2SSB 6438) - Regarding high-speed internet services and community technology opportunities.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 264, Laws of 2008 (SB 6638) - Reallocating existing lodging taxes for heritage and arts programs in a county with a population of one million or more.
Effective: 7/1/08
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Chapter 270, Laws of 2008 (ESHB 3096) - Financing the state route number 520 bridge replacement project.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 272, Laws of 2008 (SHB 2525) - Mitigating flood damage.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 278, Laws of 2008 (HB 2791) - Concerning distressed home conveyances.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 279, Laws of 2008 (2SHB 2822) - Concerning the family and juvenile court improvement program.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 285, Laws of 2008 (EHB 3381) - Relating to fees to implement programs that protect and improve Washington's health, safety, education, employees, and consumers.
Effective: 03/31/08 - Except section 2 which becomes effective 07/01/08; and sections 15 through 26 which becomes effective 01/01/09.
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Chapter 286, Laws of 2008 (SHB 2602) - Regarding employment leave for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
Effective: 4/1/08
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Chapter 289, Laws of 2008 (ESSB 6580) - Addressing the impacts of climate change through the growth management act.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 300, Laws of 2008 (HB 2887) - Authorizing the purchase of an increased benefit multiplier for past judicial service for judges in the public employees' retirement system.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 301, Laws of 2008 (E2SHB 3186) - Authorizing the creation of beach management districts.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 303, Laws of 2008 (ESSB 5261) - Granting the insurance commissioner the authority to review individual health benefit plan rates.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 308, Laws of 2008 (SSB 6181) - Providing an employee of the county legislative authority may be appointed to the county canvassing board.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 309, Laws of 2008 (SSB 6297) - Changing elected prosecuting attorney salaries.
Effective: 7/1/08
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Chapter 319, Laws of 2008 (ESB 6641) - Providing that voter-approved increases in property tax levy limitations for a multiyear period of up to six years do not permanently increase a taxing district's levy base, unless otherwise provided in the ballot proposition.
Effective: 4/1/08
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Chapter 324, Laws of 2008 (SB 6799) - Concerning the sourcing, for sales and use tax purposes, of sales of tangible personal property by florists.
Effective: 7/1/08
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Chapter 326, Laws of 2008 (SB 6818) - Promoting transparency in state expenditures.
Effective: 6/12/08
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Chapter 327, Laws of 2008 (2SSB 6855) - Regarding state economic development programs.
Effective: 06/12/08 - Except section 3, which becomes effective 04/01/08; and sections 1, 2, 4 through 11, and 17,which become effective 07/01/09.
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HB 1102 - Modifying property tax exemption provisions for veterans of the armed forces.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 1115 - Creating programs to end homelessness.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 1127 - Extending military leaves for public employees.  Introduced but not enacted.
EHB 1129 - Providing excise tax relief for zoos.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 1139 - Modifying the provisions of the local sales and use tax that is credited against the state sales and use tax.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Modifying the local sales and use tax for annexation service costs.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 1332 - Addressing affordable housing development.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 1534 - Modifying provisions affecting candidates for elective office.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 1545 - Providing industrial insurance benefits for life for the surviving spouses of law enforcement officers.  Introduced but not enacted.
EHB 1551 - Allowing public funding of local office campaigns. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning the public funding of political campaigns for certain offices.)  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 1561 - Granting authority of a watershed management partnership to exercise powers of its forming governments.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 1605 - Regarding the extension of sewer services in aquatic rehabilitation zone one.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 1727 - Planning to ensure sufficient land and densities available to accommodate growth.  Introduced but not enacted.
2EHB 1743 - Requiring the appointment of county noxious weed control boards.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 1930 - Increasing the term of nonvoter approved rural library district general obligation bonds.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2016 - Changing provisions pertaining to eminent domain.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2110 - Allowing all fire protection facilities to use impact fees.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2134 - Authorizing port district fire fighter membership in the law enforcement officers' and fire fighters' retirement system plan 2.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2170 - Protecting employees, contract staff, and volunteers of a law enforcement agency.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2210 - Increasing state contracts with veteran-owned businesses.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2216 - Requiring the appointment of nonvoting labor members to public transportation governing bodies.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2225 - Regarding a statewide enhanced 911 emergency radio network to improve public notification during an ongoing emergency.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Reviewing the delivery of emergency information to the general public during an ongoing emergency.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2331 - Funding qualifying projects through the urban corridor program of the transportation improvement board.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2332 - Concerning the levies by school districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2337 - Regarding services provided by television reception improvement districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
2EHB 2373 - Enhancing school bus driver safety.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2380 - Providing relief for businesses for streamlined sales and use tax agreement compliance costs.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2418 - Requiring voter approval to use banked property tax levy capacity.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2419 - Providing a state property tax rebate.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2421 - Providing incentives to support renewable solar energy.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2423 - Concerning the composting and recycling of certain food service packaging.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2429 - Establishing a work group to study the roadside application of pesticides.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2435 - Regarding postelection audits.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2439 - Requiring the governing authorities of facilities where convicted sex offenders are confined to determine the offender's immigration status and to release offenders subject to deportation into the custody of federal authorities or at a federal facility used to house persons awaiting deportation.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2441 - Requiring law enforcement agencies to enter into assistance compacts with the federal department of homeland security to help enforce immigration laws as they pertain to certain sex offenders who have been classified as risk level III, have been convicted of a sex offense against a minor victim, or have a prior conviction for failure to register as a sex offender.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2442 - Improving sex offender community notification by disclosing to the public at large information regarding level I and II sex offenders who have a conviction for failure to register as a sex offender and adding information regarding level I sex offenders who have a prior failure to register conviction to the statewide kidnapping and sex offender web site.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2443 - Authorizing community corrections officers to perform random, unannounced inspections of sex offenders who have been classified as risk level III, have been convicted of a sex offense against a minor victim, or have a prior conviction for failure to register as a sex offender.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2447 - Clarifying agency facilities in the context of political campaigns.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2451 - Creating a Washington state ferries commission.  Introduced but not enacted.

HB 2453 - Addressing the use of Washington state ferries' fare media by multiple drivers for multiple discounted trips.  Introduced but not enacted.

HB 2454 - Providing for the reduction of ferry fares.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2458 - Regarding the basic education funding allocation for certificated instructional staff.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2461 - Expanding the list of crimes requiring school employees' dismissal or certification revocation.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2465 - Giving county clerks authority to withhold and deliver funds from criminal defendants who owe legal financial obligations.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2466 - Modifying duties of county clerks.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2469 - Eliminating references to pierhead lines and regarding authorizing structures within waterways.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2473 - Eliminating the requirement that auditors send a ballot or an application to receive a ballot to inactive voters.  Introduced but not enacted.

HB 2477 - Providing for groundwater monitoring and assessments.  Introduced but not enacted.

HB 2483 - Modifying assessed valuation requirements for the direct petition method of annexation.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2484 - Concerning ad hoc review board processes for annexation proposals.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2488 - Providing eligibility for state registered domestic partners under the senior citizen property tax exemption program.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2492 - Modifying the date for establishing school district boundaries for excess property tax levies.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2495 - Repealing provisions addressing the sale, lease, or conveyance of municipal property in commercial areas to private parties for free public parking facilities in cities with populations over three hundred thousand.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2500 - Providing for arts education funding.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2504 - Requiring schools and school districts to coordinate safe school plans with local emergency management agencies.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2505 - Providing funding for a patrol vessel for public protection and emergencies.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2516 - Eliminating requirements for scoliosis screening in schools.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2517 - Regarding the release of student directory information.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2519 - Prohibiting smoking in vehicles containing children.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2521 - Mapping internet and computer resources in the state.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2522 - Regarding civil penalty provisions for on-site sewage disposal systems administered by local health jurisdictions.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2526 - Providing for the election of library trustees.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2527 - Modifying the definitions of rural county for certain economic development programs.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2534 - Restricting light pollution.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2535 - Allowing local governments to adopt moratoria and other interim official controls under the shoreline management act.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2548 - Authorizing a branch campus of the University of Washington at Everett.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2554 - Requiring lid lift ballot propositions to expressly indicate a permanent increase to the levy base.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2559 - Creating a statewide high-speed internet deployment and adoption initiative.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2567 - Increasing the civil penalty for violating the open public meetings act.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2569 - Providing funding to local government for purposes of registered sex and kidnapping offender address verification and community notification.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2576 - Promoting the availability of affordable housing through the comprehensive plan requirements of the growth management act.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2577 - Exempting regional growth centers from concurrency requirements.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2584 - Regarding rainwater collection facilities.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2586 - Limiting the nonagricultural work week of minors sixteen and seventeen years old.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2595 - Including national guard members in county veterans' assistance programs.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2603 - Divesting state funds invested in companies doing business in Iran.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2604 - Exempting low-income housing and development activities with broad public purposes from impact fees.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2605 - Financing regional centers in counties with a population of less than two hundred thousand persons that are acquired, constructed, financed, or owned by an existing city public facilities district with a population of at least forty-five thousand persons.  Introduced but not enacted.
EHB 2608 - Clarifying terms for workforce and economic development.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2609 - Concerning the use of digital image technology in property revaluation plans.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2610 - Concerning the valuation of exempt property for property tax assessment purposes.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2611 - Requiring annual revaluations of property for property tax purposes.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2612 - Modifying property tax valuation and notice requirements for county assessors.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2618 - Repealing provisions related to a city's assumption of jurisdiction over water-sewer districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2623 - Exempting owners of farmland from certain storm water charges.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2625 - Providing tax relief to promote employer-assisted housing.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2627 - Providing that voter-approved property tax increases do not permanently increase a taxing district's levy base, unless expressly stated in the ballot proposition.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2630 - Changing the definition of meetings in the open public meetings act.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2633 - Addressing the payment of traffic fines.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2642 - Regarding school district salary allocations.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2643 - Providing exemptions from state business and occupation tax and state and local property tax for certain nonprofit student loan organizations.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2649 - Authorizing state general obligation bonds for the state's share of the Centralia-Chehalis flood control project.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2651 - Modifying requirements for participation in public employees' benefits board programs by K-12 school districts and educational service districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2655 - Concerning the imposition of delinquency tax rates for qualified employers.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2662 - Lowering the voting age to sixteen.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2663 - Allowing seventeen year olds to vote provided they will be eighteen years old at the next general election.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2675 - Providing for a property tax exemption for the administrative offices of certain nonprofit organizations.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2683 - Creating an affordable housing for all program.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2709 - Authorizing school districts to establish a price preference to purchase locally grown food.  Revised for 2nd Substitute: Authorizing school districts to establish a price preference to purchase locally grown food. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Exempting purchases of Washington grown food from school district competitive bid procedures.)  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2718 - Addressing the desirability of reasonable fares for frequent ferry users.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2721 - Adopting model rules for public agencies under the open public meetings act.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2726 - Addressing cost recovery for fire protection and public safety services.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2736 - Creating the Puget Sound port authority.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2738 - Creating a five-member option for civil service commissions for sheriffs' offices.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2741 - Creating greater transparency in the decision-making processes of port districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2742 - Prohibiting certain port districts from using eminent domain powers.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2743 - Prohibiting port districts from using tax revenues for lobbying purposes.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2744 - Prohibiting lobbying activities by a Washington public ports association.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2745 - Creating equality among port districts participating in the Washington public ports association.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2757 - Prohibiting port districts from engaging in residential real estate development projects.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2766 - Regarding the use of bond proceeds for affordable housing programs.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2772 - Regarding school employees' dismissal or certificate revocation.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2773 - Regarding instructional support services in schools.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2775 - Regarding bonuses for instructional staff certified by the national board for professional teaching standards.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2777 - Creating a grant program to assist small communities in planning for new growth and development.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2780 - Regarding alternative public works contracting procedures.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2782 - Creating the college in the high school program.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2807 - Providing for judicial candidate information in voters' pamphlets.
Revised for 2nd Substitute: Regarding the electronic submittal and publication of voters' pamphlet information.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2809 - Regarding mathematics and science teachers.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2810 - Enhancing resources and assistance in school districts with concentrations of English language learners.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2811 - Creating the healthy student grant program.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2812 - Expanding the definition of "executive state officer" for purposes of reporting of financial affairs.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2813 - Requiring an assessment of the need for teacher preparation programs for teachers of visually impaired and blind public school students.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2814 - Providing criteria for the siting of an institution of higher education in the north Puget Sound region.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2820 - Concerning speed limits on state highways adjacent to certain cities and towns.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2830 - Promoting housing affordability through financial assistance programs.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2831 - Creating a study regarding teacher preparation in Washington state.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2832 - Recodifying the basic education act.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2833 - Adopting all mail voting.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2837 - Concerning real property.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2839 - Removing the ability of agencies to enjoin the examination of a specific public record.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2848 - Concerning a voluntary contribution program for property owners taking the multifamily property tax exemption.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2849 - Concerning affordable housing financing.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2855 - Requiring reports on county and city compliance with housing element requirements of the growth management act.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2857 - Extending the date to finance public facilities district regional centers in cities with a population between eighty thousand and one hundred fifteen thousand.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2864 - Requiring the filing of certified payroll records on public works projects.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2869 - Extending the national board for professional teaching standards bonus to certificated principals.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2874 - Addressing funding for certain transportation benefit district highway projects.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2875 - Developing a twenty-year statewide infrastructure investment strategy.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2886 - Increasing the number of school nurses.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2890 - Regarding coordinated school health.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2891 - Providing state budget appropriations in lieu of state sales and use tax credits for certain public facilities districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2892 - Concerning the administration of the property tax deferral program for households with income of fifty-seven thousand or less.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2900 - Requiring the department of social and health services to contract with counties to provide early intervention services for children with developmental disabilities.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2901 - Providing a limited property tax exemption for the use of facilities by artistic, scientific, and historical organizations.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2904 - Prohibiting county and city incumbent candidates from appearing on publicly funded television during the election.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2912 - Requiring public disclosure of public sector unions' finances.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2920 - Requiring the creation and distribution of an eminent domain information pamphlet.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2925 - Establishing a plan for improving the effectiveness of the office of minority and women's business enterprises.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2927 - Addressing port district commissioners.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2928 - Addressing public contracting by port districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2931 - Requiring development and use of the grants, contracts, and loan management system by state agencies.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2932 - Establishing the state council on fiscal management.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2938 - Clarifying annexation procedures between cities and fire districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2947 - Addressing port districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2950 - Addressing concurrency and impact fees for transportation purposes.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2951 - Authorizing law enforcement officers to issue traffic citations for motor vehicle transfer of ownership offenses.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2952 - Allowing civil forfeiture of conveyances used in prostitution-related offenses.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2953 - Concerning the sales and use tax rate for public facilities in rural counties.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2954 - Authorizing certain school districts and educational service districts to designate a district treasurer.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2961 - Authorizing the establishment of utility local improvement districts for underground facilities that transmit or distribute electricity or communications.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2964 - Concerning the effect of special fuel taxes on regional transit authorities.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2969 - Requiring local bridge owners to maintain, replace, or appropriate funds for bridges deemed to be especially deficient.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2970 - Establishing a task force on port district efficiency and collaboration.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2973 - Exempting school buses from fuel taxes.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2977 - Concerning the burden of proof for corrections to property tax valuations made by public officials.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2978 - Protecting rural communities from the harmful impacts of interwatershed water rights transfers.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2984 - Allowing counties to use existing revenues for public trails.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2985 - Establishing local public works assistance funds.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2986 - Concerning property tax collection and assessment.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2991 - Providing salary bonuses for nationally certified school speech-language pathologists and audiologists.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 2992 - Concerning the creation of a historical parks and historic reserves tax incentive program.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3000 - Providing tax incentives for employers providing physical fitness services to employees.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3005 - Transferring public employees' retirement system plan 2 members to the school employees' retirement system plan 2.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3006 - Extending the survivor annuity option for preretirement death in plan 1 of the public employees' retirement system to members who die after leaving active service.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3007 - Addressing the survivor benefits of employees who die while honorably serving in the national guard or military reserves during a period of war.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3008 - Providing interruptive military service credit for members of plans 2 and 3 who provide proof to the director that their interruptive military service was during a period of war defined in RCW 41.04.005.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3014 - Regarding biological remediation technologies for on-site sewage disposal systems.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3016 - Allowing additional local jurisdictions to allow off-road vehicles to operate on designated city and county roadways.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3020 - Providing benefits for the survivors of certain firefighters.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3022 - Providing for vesting after five years of service in the defined benefit portion of the public employees' retirement system, the school employees' retirement system, and the teachers' retirement system plan 3.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3026 - Indexing the one hundred fifty thousand dollar death benefit for public employees.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3027 - Participating in insurance plans and contracts by separated plan 2 members of certain retirement systems.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3028 - Regulating health care coverage for retired or disabled school employees or state employees.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3030 - Increasing certain bid limits on public works contracts.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3031 - Addressing the provision of sewer and water utilities to district property and other property owners by port districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3032 - Increasing certain bid limits on purchases of public works materials.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3033 - Granting authority of a watershed management partnership to exercise powers of its forming governments.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3034 - Encouraging private investment in port terminal facilities by providing tax incentives to local governments.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3035 - Regarding tourism promotion areas in large counties.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3036 - Requiring port districts to apply to the Washington state quality award.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3037 - Regarding compensation for certificated employees in the event of notice of probable cause for discharge.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3046 - Authorizing voter review of duplicate ballots.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3049 - Defining basic salary for the purpose of employer contributions to an account formed under section 457 of the United States internal revenue code for the benefit of members of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 2.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3051 - Concerning sales and use tax on transportation projects.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3058 - Permitting public transit vehicle stops at unmarked stop zones under certain circumstances.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3062 - Requiring voter approval for property tax increases above one percent for port districts with an assessed value exceeding two hundred billion dollars through the elimination of banked levy capacity.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3066 - Funding catastrophic flood relief.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3068 - Establishing high-capacity transportation corridor areas.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3069 - Regulating driver improvement schools.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3070 - Addressing postretirement employment.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3072 - Eliminating the partial relinquishment of water rights.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3077 - Transferring leave to leave pool programs.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3090 - Modifying the notice requirement for special meetings.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3098 - Addressing facilitators of refund anticipation loans.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3103 - Expanding the list of crimes that require dismissal or certificate revocation for school employees.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3111 - Exempting school construction projects from sales and use taxes.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3113 - Regarding state and local requirements for high school graduation.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3117 - Requiring a LEAP document that provides estimates of educational programs and services for each publicly proposed budget document.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3125 - Creating the building communities fund program.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3130 - Regarding the extension of city and town utility services.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3131 - Addressing school safety.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3133 - Requiring a minimum of three years' notice on closures or conversions of mobile home parks and manufactured housing communities.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3135 - Increasing public utility district bid limits.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3137 - Providing property tax relief for property damaged in the 2007 floods.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3138 - Providing tax relief for property damaged as a result of a natural disaster.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3140 - Concerning property tax statements.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3143 - Increasing the authority membership of single county public transportation benefit areas.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3150 - Making certain disclosure and ethics laws applicable to initiative and referendum sponsors.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3155 - Concerning port district levies in large counties located on Puget Sound.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3157 - Increasing estimated cost minimums required on water-sewer district contracts for materials and work.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3158 - Creating transportation improvement districts for the maintenance and operation of certain bridges.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3162 - Providing a property tax exemption for the first fifty thousand dollars of assessed value of commercial and residential real property.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3173 - Ensuring valid voter signatures on petitions count.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3174 - Providing incentives for financial institutions to encourage investment in qualified community development entities.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3175 - Providing business and occupation tax incentives to encourage investment in qualified community development entities.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3180 - Addressing housing reform policies to achieve greater efficiencies in housing investments.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3181 - Addressing the authority of the board of directors of a public facilities district.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3182 - Authorizing applications for past part-time service credit for members of the school employees' retirement system.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3183 - Exempting park maintenance equipment operated by certain local jurisdictions from vehicle license and license plate requirements.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3184 - Modifying provisions relating to the Washington state housing finance commission.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3201 - Providing for the election of a board of commissioners for regional fire protection service authorities.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3208 - Providing a state sales and use tax credit for public facilities districts located within two counties.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3213 - Addressing affordable housing incentive programs.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3214 - Clarifying the authority of local governments to use incentives for commercial and industrial development to promote production and preservation of affordable housing.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3219 - Modifying compensation for denials of public records by agencies.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3220 - Allowing counties, cities, and towns to conduct raffles under certain terms and conditions.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3222 - Requiring safety belts on school buses purchased on or after September 1, 2008.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3228 - Allowing local governments to create golf cart and snowmobile zones.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3230 - Changing the public notification and hearing requirements for permits issued under the shoreline management act.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3231 - Regarding public disclosure of records relevant to a controversy to which an agency is a party.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3236 - Increasing the penalty for failing to provide proof of motor vehicle insurance.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3243 - Allowing law enforcement agencies to request state assistance when verifying a registered sex or kidnapping offender's residential address.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3246 - Concerning the time limits of school impact fee expenditures.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3247 - Requiring recess time for public school students in grades kindergarten through six.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3249 - Administering benefits under the public employees' benefits board.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3251 - Regarding local government self-insurance programs and public records.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3252 - Addressing management recommendations that may be implemented by counties and cities to protect the functions and values of critical areas.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3257 - Providing additional choice between plans 2 and 3 for members of the public employees' retirement system, the teachers' retirement system, and the school employees' retirement system.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3258 - Providing an annual distribution to retired and terminated vested members of the public employees' retirement system plan 3, the school employees' retirement system plan 3, and the teachers' retirement system plan 3.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3259 - Addressing the financing and operation of port districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3261 - Excluding public transit communications systems from the definition of a wireless communications device.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3264 - Regarding public works projects.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3270 - Requiring property tax statistics and information on banked levy capacity.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3271 - Providing taxpayer relief for costs associated with compliance with the sourcing requirements of the streamlined sales and use tax agreement.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3272 - Addressing the liability of county and city governments for failure to enforce building codes.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3273 - Allowing valuation increases to be spread over time.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3276 - Allowing a city to own land provided for the state horse park.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3280 - Creating a uniform interest rate.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3281 - Requiring public notification of industrial development levies by port districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3284 - Limiting the interest on a small loan to thirty-six percent per annum.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3287 - Concerning the public elections of and the reorganization of regional transportation investment districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3290 - Adding a new policy goal of reducing congestion for the state transportation system.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3291 - Enacting the community schools act of 2008.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3292 - Recording executive sessions under the open public meetings act.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3299 - Regarding mathematics graduation requirements.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3300 - Examining the feasibility of other assessments for school accountability purposes.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3301 - Regarding the public works assistance account.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3302 - Regarding the public works assistance account.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3305 - Implementing the family leave insurance program, but only with respect to designating agencies to administer and enforce the program, adopting government efficiencies to improve program administration and reduce program costs, tracking and mitigating any impacts on the unemployment compensation system, addressing the manner in which leave is coordinated, and implementing other task force recommendations.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3311 - Concerning regional transportation governing authorities.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3314 - Concerning loans made by the community economic revitalization board.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3315 - Addressing the needs of an aging population within the growth management act.  Introduced but not enacted.
EHB 3317 - Regarding standards and curriculum in mathematics and science. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Regarding mathematics standards.)  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3324 - Requiring certain local jurisdictions to present and update annually unsheltered homeless housing plans.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3325 - Authorizing the establishment of qualified shopping cart recovery programs by cities and towns.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3327 - Ensuring municipal business and occupation tax fairness.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3334 - Modifying when a special election may be held.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3336 - Providing public funding for supreme court campaigns.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3340 - Requiring safety belts on new school buses purchased on or after September 1, 2008.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3352 - Providing tax exemptions for the purchase of books and other media by public libraries.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3353 - Eliminating the state property tax levy and protecting education funding.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3356 - Providing property tax relief for retired persons and persons retired by reason of disability.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3363 - Regarding residency certification for out-of-state teachers.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3364 - Regarding paraeducator professional development and compensation.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3367 - Requiring legislators to purchase health coverage through the individual market.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3370 - Exempting senior citizens from certain licensing fees for motor homes.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3372 - Addressing county elected officials keeping offices at the county seat.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3378 - Concerning the use of county sales and use taxes for emergency preparedness by voter approval.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3379 - Reducing the authority of the state board of health with regard to inspection intervals and operation and maintenance requirements of small on-site sewage systems.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3380 - Relating to financing options for housing and arts, heritage, cultural, and community development programs.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3382 - Relating to funding options for housing, community, and cultural development.  Introduced but not enacted.
HB 3383 - Regarding state general obligation bonds and related accounts.  Introduced but not enacted.
HJM 4025 - Proposing a regional presidential primary.  Introduced but not enacted.
HJM 4027 - Requesting a full investigation and trial of actions by President Bush and Vice President Cheney.  Introduced but not enacted.
HJM 4029 - Requesting that Congress fund the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative.  Introduced but not enacted.
HJM 4034 - Requesting the United States Congress to reconsider and halt the procurement of foreign-made tankers for use by the United States Air Force.  Introduced but not enacted.
HJR 4225 - Amending the Constitution to allow seventeen year olds to vote in a primary if they will be eighteen years old by the next general election.  Introduced but not enacted.
HJR 4226 - Amending the Constitution to lower the voting age to sixteen.  Introduced but not enacted.
HJR 4227 - Amending the state Constitution to prohibit substantive law changes in appropriation bills.  Introduced but not enacted.
HJR 4228 - Providing for value averaging.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 5271 - Modifying when a special election may be held.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 5319 - Regarding the issuance of checks by joint operating agencies and public utility districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 5387 - Promoting economic development through commercialization of technologies.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 5432 - Allowing fire protection districts to have additional commissioners.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 5628 - Adopting the interstate agreement for the election of the president of the United States by national popular vote.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6175 - Limiting taxing districts' regular property tax levy increases.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6176 - Addressing state transportation system policy goals.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6179 - Reinstating property tax limits adopted by the voters under prior statewide initiatives.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6180 - Regarding postelection audits.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6185 - Allowing treasurer discretion in property tax payment scheduling.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6193 - Giving county clerks authority to withhold and deliver funds from criminal defendants who owe legal financial obligations.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6198 - Authorizing the withdrawal of groundwater for fire prevention purposes.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6199 - Requiring counties to include prepaid postage on absentee ballot return forms.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6203 - Authorizing a local sales tax deducted from the state portion of the sales tax for purposes of implementing water quality projects.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Authorizing a local sales tax deducted from the state portion of the sales tax for purposes of implementing water quality and water quantity projects.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6217 - Regarding fees allowed as court costs in district courts.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6234 - Authorizing periodic property tax payments by electronic funds transfer.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6235 - Addressing public works procurement.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6238 - Modifying assessed valuation requirements for the direct petition method of annexation.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6239 - Concerning ad hoc review board processes for annexation proposals.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6247 - Concerning voter approval for use of banked levy capacity.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6248 - Eliminating banked levy capacity provisions.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6262 - Creating an economic development and diversification tuition incentive program.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6263 - Concerning property tax value changes as a result of government intervention.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6264 - Clarifying terms for workforce and economic development.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6281 - Limiting property tax levies for ports in counties with large populations.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6285 - Clarifying the authority of educational service districts to provide cooperative and informational services to local school districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6286 - Requiring school district accountability for students missing school.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6290 - Phasing out property tax levies for ports in counties with large populations.  Introduced but not enacted.

SB 6291 - Requiring voter authorization of government welfare tax payments to cities and counties.  Introduced but not enacted.

SB 6294 - Modifying compensation for denials of public records by agencies.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6304 - Allowing institutions of higher education to adopt rules regulating firearms on campus.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6314 - Providing for arts education funding.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6320 - Providing for a deduction from the combined disposable income calculation for the senior property tax exemption for repairs to property required because of acts of nature.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6323 - Improving the effectiveness of tax incentives for eligible business projects in rural counties and community empowerment zones.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6345 - Addressing the alternative bid procedure for public utility districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6347 - Exempting small counties from certain day labor project requirements.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6348 - Protecting rural communities from the harmful impacts of interwatershed water rights transfers.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6349 - Mitigating the impact of state correctional institutions on less populated counties.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6352 - Providing criteria for the siting of an institution of higher education in the north Puget Sound region.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6368 - Extending the date to finance public facilities district regional centers in cities with a population between eighty thousand and one hundred fifteen thousand.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6376 - Regarding the basic education funding allocation for certificated instructional staff.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6380 - Enhancing school library programs.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6385 - Concerning real property.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6387 - Creating a searchable budget database for state spending.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6391 - Authorizing an additional University of Washington branch campus.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6396 - Providing additional restrictions on the use of toll charges and revenue from a certain toll facility.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6401 - Regarding civil liability for the state and local governments for injuries caused by criminal offenders under community supervision.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6417 - Providing for an increase in the property tax limit for emergency medical care and services.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6427 - Concerning competitive solicitation requirements for public facilities districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6429 - Requiring the Washington institute for public policy to analyze school attendance and truancy.  Introduced but not enacted.

SB 6445 - Allowing cost recovery for fire protection and public safety services rendered on navigable waters of the state to commercial vessels by fire protection agencies.  Introduced but not enacted.

SB 6450 - Regarding reimbursement for school district and educational service district costs for performance audits.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6451 - Regarding reimbursement for school district costs for performance audits.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6460 - Authorizing state general obligation bonds for the state's share of the Centralia-Chehalis flood control project.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6462 - Regarding the use of bond proceeds for affordable housing programs.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6463 - Limiting mandatory overtime for corrections officers employed by a city or county jail.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6466 - Creating a task force to study teaching Spanish and Chinese in public schools.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Creating a task force to study teaching Spanish and Chinese in public schools. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Creating a task force to study teaching world languages in public schools.)  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6476 - Concerning the sales and use tax rate for public facilities in rural counties.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6480 - Requiring assessors to provide information on the basis of valuation when providing taxpayers notice of change in valuation of real property.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6490 - Authorizing a branch campus of the University of Washington at Lake Stevens.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6493 - Providing loans to small cities for certain appeals under the growth management act.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6497 - Financing regional centers in counties with a population of less than two hundred thousand persons that are acquired, constructed, financed, or owned by an existing city public facilities district with a population of at least forty-five thousand persons.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6507 - Allowing gifts under twenty dollars to municipal officers.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6511 - Implementing the Washington state quality award program and/or the Baldridge national quality program as the public school accountability system.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6514 - Regarding identifying real property.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6517 - Concerning the burden of proof for corrections to property tax valuations made by public officials.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6520 - Requiring additional information on property tax statements and notices of assessed value.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6529 - Providing incentives for economic development infrastructure projects.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6540 - Delaying requiring the reading and writing content areas of the WASL for high school graduation.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6543 - Creating a central Puget Sound regional tolling authority.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6552 - Repealing the statute authorizing use of banked levy capacity.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6553 - Requiring voter approval for setting regular property tax levies at increased amounts by using banked levy capacity.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6557 - Concerning property valuation freezes for senior citizens and persons retired due to physical disability.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6565 - Exempting a portion of the valuation of residential property from property taxation.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6566 - Addressing concurrency and impact fees for transportation purposes.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6569 - Permitting public transit vehicle stops at unmarked stop zones under certain circumstances.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6571 - Authorizing the purchase of an increased benefit multiplier for past judicial service for judges in the public employees' retirement system and the teachers' retirement system.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6574 - Reforming the health care system in Washington state.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6576 - Creating a pilot project to evaluate the use of electronic traffic flagging devices.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6578 - Regulating hospital district annexations.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6581 - Eliminating certification requirements for public school principals and vice principals.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6582 - Eliminating the requirement that auditors send a ballot or an application to receive a ballot to inactive voters.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6586 - Limiting property taxation.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6587 - Concerning property tax collection and assessment.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6594 - Requiring the creation and distribution of an eminent domain information pamphlet.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6598 - Authorizing a local sales and use tax for parks and recreation, trails, and open space allocation.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6599 - Regarding civil penalty provisions for on-site sewage disposal systems administered by local health jurisdictions.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6600 - Establishing procedures for civil contempt proceedings in truancy matters.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Revising provisions concerning juvenile truancy proceedings.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6610 - Extending the national board for professional teaching standards bonus to certificated principals.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6612 - Ensuring valid voter signatures on petitions count.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6613 - Developing a twenty-year statewide infrastructure investment strategy.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6615 - Granting authority of a watershed management partnership to exercise powers of its forming governments.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6616 - Encouraging private investment in port terminal facilities by providing tax incentives to local governments.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6619 - Addressing the use and storage of traffic safety camera images.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6620 - Regarding biological remediation technologies for on-site sewage disposal systems.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6634 - Regarding the taking of private property.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6635 - Defining basic salary for the purpose of employer contributions to an account formed under section 457 of the United States internal revenue code for the benefit of members of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 2.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6636 - Increasing estimated cost minimums required on water-sewer district contracts for materials and work.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6645 - Providing interruptive military service credit for members of plans 2 and 3 who provide proof to the director that their interruptive military service was during a period of war defined in RCW 41.04.005.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6646 - Addressing the survivor benefits of employees who die while honorably serving in the national guard or military reserves during a period of war.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6648 - Participating in insurance plans and contracts by separated plan 2 members of certain retirement systems.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6651 - Providing for vesting after five years of service in the defined benefit portion of the public employees' retirement system, the school employees' retirement system, and the teachers' retirement system plan 3.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6652 - Extending the survivor annuity option for preretirement death in plan 1 of the public employees' retirement system to members who die after leaving active service.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6655 - Transferring public employees' retirement system plan 2 members to the school employees' retirement system plan 2.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6662 - Increasing the number of school nurses.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6664 - Indexing the one hundred fifty thousand dollar death benefit for public employees.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6667 - Establishing high-capacity transportation corridor areas.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6668 - Addressing the annexation of territory within a code city.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6674 - Authorizing certain school districts and educational service districts to designate a district treasurer.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6687 - Addressing postretirement employment.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6697 - Addressing facilitators of refund anticipation loans.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6700 - Providing a limited property tax exemption for the use of facilities by artistic, scientific, and historical organizations.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6704 - Modifying the notice requirement for special meetings.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6705 - Adopting model rules for public agencies under the open public meetings act.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6706 - Requiring annual revaluations of property for property tax purposes.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6708 - Eliminating the partial relinquishment of water rights.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6713 - Requiring the department of social and health services to contract with counties to provide early intervention services for children with developmental disabilities.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6719 - Increasing public utility district bid limits.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6720 - Creating the school safety advisory committee.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6727 - Planning to ensure sufficient land and densities available to accommodate growth.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6738 - Increasing certain bid limits on purchases of public works materials.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6748 - Addressing funding for certain transportation benefit district highway projects.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6762 - Requiring independent community impact study if nonprofit hospital to be acquired.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6765 - Concerning the Washington state health insurance pool.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6767 - Financing regional special events centers promoting adult and youth-oriented sports activities.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6771 - Eliminating regional transportation investment districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6772 - Concerning regional transportation governance.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6774 - Promoting regional industry cluster growth.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6775 - Addressing the digital literacy and technology training needs of low-income and underserved areas through state support of community technology programs.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6778 - Allowing voter registration up to and on election day.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6779 - Revising provisions setting the compensation of jurors.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6787 - Addressing the authority of the board of directors of a public facilities district.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6788 - Assisting local governments with payment for extraordinary prisoner medical expenses.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6789 - Requiring public notification of industrial development levies by port districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6795 - Providing a state sales and use tax credit for public facilities districts located within two counties.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6797 - Concerning sales and use tax for public facilities in urban counties.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6798 - Increasing assistance to cities and counties.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6800 - Concerning the disposition of publicly owned railroad infrastructure.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6801 - Requiring a minimum of three years' notice on closures or conversions of mobile home parks and manufactured housing communities.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6808 - Requiring local bridge owners to maintain, replace, or appropriate funds for bridges deemed to be especially deficient.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6810 - Encouraging water efficiency.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6812 - Creating autism diagnostic clinics in public hospital districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6815 - Authorizing paid leaves of absence for military personnel needs.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6834 - Regarding special assessments for certain conservation districts.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6835 - Prescribing rights of employees, employers, and labor organizations, not subject to the federal labor relations act.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6840 - Authorizing county prosecutors and city attorneys to enforce certain provisions of the consumer protection act.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6848 - Financing for the renovation of university stadium facilities.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6853 - Regarding public works projects.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6856 - Supporting infrastructure and economic development funding.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6862 - Requiring proof of United States citizenship for voter registration.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6868 - Protecting sole source aquifers by providing sewer utility service to mobile home parks.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6872 - Enacting the community schools act of 2008.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6873 - Requiring a revote if the number of ballots counted and voters credited with voting cannot be reconciled.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6880 - Excluding medical expenses for property tax exemption purposes from the income eligibility requirements for senior citizens, armed forces veterans, and persons retired because of disability.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6882 - Developing a flood mitigation plan for the upper Chehalis subbasin.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6892 - Concerning the time limits of school impact fee expenditures.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6894 - Clarifying the definition of customer location for purposes of municipal business and occupation taxes.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6899 - Limiting the rate of increase of property valuations.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6904 - Providing tax relief for property damaged as a result of a natural disaster.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6911 - Studying Washington's fiscal resources, structure, and needs.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6912 - Providing property tax relief for senior citizens and persons retired by reason of physical disability by increasing the income thresholds.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6913 - Increasing the authority membership of single county public transportation benefit areas.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6920 - Requiring a study on helicopter access for emergencies in a certain local jurisdiction.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6924 - Adopting a primary system in which the two candidates with the most votes qualify for the general election.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6926 - Simplifying the process for disincorporating cities and towns.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6927 - Addressing county elected officials keeping offices at the county seat.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6929 - Restoring local control to public schools by repealing the common school code.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6930 - Regarding bonuses for nationally certified teachers who become principals or superintendents.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6935 - Reallocating existing lodging taxes for heritage and arts programs and care of the vulnerable in a county with a population of one million or more.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6938 - Concerning the application of chapter 39.12 RCW to construction projects that involve tax incentives, loans, or public land or property that is sold or leased.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6939 - Establishing the composition of a local health board in counties without a home rule charter.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6942 - Regarding paraeducator professional development and compensation.  Introduced but not enacted.
SB 6949 - Simplifying the administration of the low-income homeowner deferral program.  Introduced but not enacted.
SJM 8022 - Proposing a regional presidential primary.  Introduced but not enacted.
SJM 8031 - Requesting that federal election day be made a legal public holiday.  Introduced but not enacted.
SJM 8032 - Requesting that the federal government share in the costs of postage for returning vote-by-mail ballots.  Introduced but not enacted.
SJM 8033 - Requesting the United States Congress to reconsider and halt the procurement of foreign-made tankers for use by the United States Air Force.  Introduced but not enacted.
SJR 8222 - Setting base years for property tax valuation.  Introduced but not enacted.
SJR 8224 - Providing a constitutional amendment to limit growth of assessed valuation of real property.  Introduced but not enacted.
SJR 8225 - Requiring a sixty percent vote for emergency clauses.  Introduced but not enacted.
SJR 8227 - Amending the Constitution to provide standards of review for bills and laws passed by the people.  Introduced but not enacted.
SJR 8228 - Limiting property valuation increases.  Introduced but not enacted.
SCR 8410 - Adjourning SINE DIE.

Reducing Traffic Confestion Initiative
Assigned Number: 984
Filed: 01/04/2008   Withdrawn by sponsor on 1/14/08
Initiative Subject: Related to reducing traffic congestion

Reducing Traffic Congestion Initiative
Assigned Number: 985
Filed: 01/14/2008
Initiative Subject: Related to reducing traffic congestion
Streamlined Sales Tax Initiative
Assigned Number: (not yet assigned)
Filed: 01/07/2008
Initiative Subject: Related to repeal laws changed by SB 5089 (streamlined sales tax)

Property Tax Initiative
Assigned Number: (not yet assigned)
Filed: 01/07/2008
Initiative Subject: Related to rolling back property taxes

Car Tabs Initiative

Assigned Number: (not yet assigned)
Filed: 01/04/2008
Initiative Subject: Related to eliminating car tabs

The legislative schedule:

The 60-day session includes Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.  The regular session will adjourn "sine die" by Thursday, March 13.

WFOA

The WFOA legislative committee assignments are posted on the WFOA web-site: http://www.wfoa.org/imageuploads/Media-494.pdf.  Feel free to contact the member(s) who volunteered to cover the area of interest to you if you have questions, concerns, or would like to become involved.

AWC
Throughout session, the Association of Washington Cities (AWC) will
periodically host conference calls regarding bills of interest to cities. These call-in meetings are another forum for cities to ask questions, share information, and / or become better informed based on comments from peers about legislative bills. If you would like to be notified of future conference calls, please contact Alicia Martinelli, (360) 753-4137 or aliciam@awcnet.org, to be placed on the notification list. AWC will notify interested finance officers of the day, time, and telephone number to call, as calls are scheduled.

LGFN
The Local Government Fiscal Note (LGFN) Program, a unit within the Local Government Division of CTED, is charged with generating local government fiscal notes to assess the fiscal impact of proposed legislation on local government entities (Chapter 43.132 RCW).  A local government fiscal note is a concise analysis of the estimated fiscal impacts of a bill on local governments.  Fiscal notes ensure that the potential impact of legislation on the financial resources of local governments is identified and incorporated into legislative deliberations.  They are also used as a decision-making tool in establishing the state budget.  If you would like to provide information regarding the revenue or expenditure impacts of a bill, please contact the LGFN program, http://www.cted.wa.gov/portal/alias__cted/lang__en/tabID__368/DesktopDefault.aspx.  Data from a variety of different jurisdictions is critical to providing the best representation possible to the legislature of the types of impacts that may occur to different jurisdictions across the state.  More information about the program is located at http://www.cted.wa.gov/portal/alias__CTED/lang__en/tabID__367/DesktopDefault.aspx.