Washington Sen. Joe Fain (R)

WA - Early Learning and K-12 Education (Senate)

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vice chair

WA - Health Care (Senate)

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WA - Rules (Senate)

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WA - Ways and Means (Senate)

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WA - Financial Institutions and Insurance (Senate)

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WA - Health and Long Term Care (Senate)

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WA - SB6379 Requiring a public hearing before a local government may remove a recorded restrictive covenant from land owned by the local government. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Requiring a public hearing before a local government may remove, vacate, or extinguish certain covenants from land it owns. )

WA - SB5063 Clarifying the taxation of pet adoption fees.

WA - SB5205 Concerning the excise taxation of martial arts.

WA - SB5242 Concerning permissible activities by insurers or insurance producers with customers and potential customers.

WA - SB5375 Renaming the cancer research endowment authority to the Andy Hill cancer research endowment.

WA - SJR8208 Requiring the legislature to enact a four-year balanced budget.

WA - SB5680 Simplifying small securities offerings.

WA - SB6536 Extending a sales and use tax exemption for disabled veterans and members of the armed forces for certain equipment and services that assist physically challenged persons to safely operate a motor vehicle.

WA - SB6528 Eliminating various occupational licensure and certification requirements through creation of a state review web site.

WA - SB6189 Changing driving a motor vehicle with a suspended or revoked driver's license provisions.

WA - SR8700 Honoring Washington girls and women in sports.

WA - SB5182 Providing local governments with options to preserve affordable housing in their communities.

WA - SR8719 Honoring Suzette Cooke.

WA - SB5804 Concerning the creation of an animal abuse registry.

WA - SB6017 Concerning consumer protections for military service members on active duty.

WA - SR8670 Concerning AuburnFest and the Auburn Days Parade.

WA - SR8651 Amending Senate Rule 51.

WA - SB5469 Concerning automatic voter registration of certain licensees.

WA - SB5152 Concerning pediatric transitional care centers.

WA - SB5356 Concerning the humane treatment of dogs.

WA - SR8612 Honoring Ken Boad for his service.

WA - SB5254 Ensuring adequacy of buildable lands and zoning in urban growth areas and providing funding for low-income housing and homelessness programs.

WA - SB5865 Prohibiting contributions to candidates by entities with close financial interests in state policy.

WA - SB5858 Concerning professional certification for teachers and school administrators.

WA - SR8620 Celebrating the children of Washington State.

WA - SR8662 Recognizing Ms. El Wanda Bryant.

WA - SR8665 Honoring Rich Wagner.

WA - SB6039 Concerning the uniform unsworn declarations act.

WA - SB6590 Concerning transparency in state and local taxation.

WA - SR8672 Recognizing Joe Duffie.

WA - SB5151 Authorizing the county auditor or his or her designee to appoint committees to prepare arguments advocating voters' approval and rejection of certain measures.

WA - SB6570 Concerning health care coverage for retired or disabled school employees.

WA - SB5344 Enhancing enforcement of the equal pay act.

WA - SB5924 Exchanging charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory institutions trust lands for community and technical college forest reserve lands.

WA - SB5335 Collecting voter registration sign up information for persons seventeen years of age during the period one year prior to attaining eighteen years of age including the designation of voter registration locations and voter sign up locations.

WA - SB5204 Modifying a property tax exemption for industrial and manufacturing industries in targeted areas.

WA - SB5193 Concerning the taxing authority of public facilities districts.

WA - SB5221 Creating the interstate medical licensure compact.

WA - SR8658 Amending Permanent Senate Rules 62, 64, and 67.

WA - SB5256 Concerning sexual assault protection orders.

WA - SR8718 Celebrating the Miss Auburn Scholarship Program.

WA - SR8641 Recognizing the 100th Anniversary of the Seattle Metropolitans 1917 Stanley Cup victory.

WA - SB5313 Concerning the funding of civics education and campaign compliance.

WA - SR8707 Recognizing Estonian Independence Day.

WA - SB5154 Concerning driver's license formats for persons approaching twenty-one years of age.

WA - SR8667 Recognizing the City of Auburn 4th of July Festival.

WA - SR8668 Recognizing the Kent Black Action Commission.

WA - SB5064 Concerning freedom of expression rights of students at public schools and institutions of higher education.

WA - SB6442 Concerning benefits and exclusion within dental benefit coverage.

WA - SB5273 Implementing the electronic filing of court documents in certain courts.

WA - SB5149 Addressing paid family leave.

WA - SB5785 Modifying eligibility criteria for transportation benefit districts to establish a vehicle fee rebate program.

WA - SR8603 Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Korean-American Day.

WA - SB6460 Concerning student access to school libraries and information technology.

WA - SB5348 Concerning students who receive special education services who earn certificates of individual achievement.

WA - SCR8404 Specifying the status of bills, memorials, and resolutions for the 2017 regular and first special sessions of the Sixty-fifth Legislature.

WA - SR8611 Recognizing Philip Jones.

WA - SB5975 Relating to paid family and medical leave.

WA - SB5150 Providing a sales and use tax exemption for certain feminine hygiene products.

WA - SB5153 Requiring proof of financial responsibility before the issuance of vehicle registrations.

WA - SB5681 Concerning criminal background checks performed by community youth athletic programs.

WA - SB5836 Enhancing enforcement of the equal pay act.

WA - SB5829 Addressing paid family leave.

WA - SR8602 Adopting the permanent rules of the Senate.

WA - SR8604 Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

WA - SR8631 Celebrating Nowruz, the Persian New Year.

WA - SB5011 Concerning the business corporation act.

WA - SB5012 Concerning the distribution of a Washington trust's assets to another trust.

WA - SB5021 Concerning pro bono legal services for military service members, veterans, and their families.

WA - SB5030 Concerning human trafficking, prostitution, and commercial sexual abuse of a minor.

WA - SB5094 Preventing breed-based dog regulations.

WA - SB5107 Creating a local pathway for local governments, school districts, and nonprofit organizations to provide more high quality early learning opportunities by reducing barriers and increasing efficiency.

WA - SB5108 Concerning contributions from political committees to other political committees.

WA - SB5129 Concerning charter school students participating in interschool athletics and extracurricular activities.

WA - SB5135 Modifying the Washington main street program by increasing the total amount of tax credits allowed under the program and making administrative changes to the program.

WA - SB5138 Concerning metropolitan park districts.

WA - SB5164 Authorizing grocery store license endorsements allowing beer and wine tastings at certain grocery stores that specialize in the sale of meat, poultry, seafood, or cheese.

WA - SB5184 Modifying patronizing a prostitute provisions.

WA - SB5198 Concerning fire suppression methodologies.

WA - SB5199 Concerning fire suppression volunteers.

WA - SB5200 Allowing spouses to combine volunteer hours for purposes of receiving a complimentary discover pass.

WA - SB5210 Establishing a student loan bill of rights.

WA - SB5217 Changing explicit alternative routes to teacher certification program requirements to expectations for program outcomes.

WA - SB5236 Creating the civic learning public-private partnership.

WA - SB5246 Concerning the department of early learning's access to records and personal information for purposes of determining character and suitability of child care workers and individuals who have unsupervised access to children in child care settings.

WA - SB5247 Updating certain department of early learning advising and contracting mechanisms to reflect federal requirements, legislative mandates, and planned system improvements.

WA - SB5258 Creating the Washington academic, innovation, and mentoring (AIM) program.

WA - SB5259 Changing the designation of the state behavioral health authority from the department of social and health services to the health care authority and transferring the related powers, functions, and duties to the health care authority and the department of health.

WA - SB5281 Concerning rules for on-site sewage systems.

WA - SB5286 Prohibiting regulation of the amount of rent for commercial properties.

WA - SB5291 Creating a pilot project to provide middle and junior high school students strategic and intentional academic support beyond the traditional school day.

WA - SB5300 Authorizing specified local governments, including municipalities and federally recognized Indian tribes, that typically have limited access to economic development resources, to designate a portion of their territory as a creative district subject to certification by the Washington state arts commission.

WA - SB5308 Limiting disclosure of information about the religious affiliation of individuals.

WA - SB5312 Prohibiting certain employers from including any question on an application about an applicant's criminal record, inquiring either orally or in writing about an applicant's criminal records, or obtaining information from a criminal background check, until after the employer initially determines that the applicant is otherwise qualified.

WA - SB5330 Implementing public-private partnership best practices for nontoll transportation projects.

WA - SB5346 Creating a legislative page scholarship program.

WA - SB5357 Establishing a pilot project to license outdoor early learning and child care programs.

WA - SB5360 Reducing training requirements for developmental disability respite providers working three hundred hours or less in any calendar year.

WA - SB5361 Concerning the opportunity scholarship program.

WA - SB5363 Concerning the appointment of counsel for youth in dependency court proceedings.

WA - SB5370 Concerning federal funding programs requiring changes in state law.

WA - SB5386 Strengthening the initiative process by providing for more comprehensive review before initiatives receive ballot titles.

WA - SB5387 Concerning cremation by biochemical hydrolysis.

WA - SB5404 Permitting the possession and application of topical sunscreen products at schools.

WA - SB5443 Concerning fiscal notes.

WA - SB5448 Concerning no required psychotropic medication use for students.

WA - SB5450 Concerning the use of cross-laminated timber for building construction. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning the use of mass timber for building construction. )

WA - SB5502 Modifying Washington state's motion picture and film industries tax credit.

WA - SB5507 Concerning the use of automatic renewal provisions in business contracts.

WA - SB5522 Requiring the department of social and health services to collect and publicly report information on the safe surrender of newborn children.

WA - SB5529 Concerning dual language in early learning and K-12 education.

WA - SB5534 Providing a housing allowance for certificated and classified school staff in school districts with above average residential housing costs.

WA - SB5552 Concerning firearms sales and transfers.

WA - SB5553 Preventing suicide by permitting the voluntary waiver of firearm rights.

WA - SB5554 Addressing private health plan coverage of contraceptives.

WA - SB5585 Modifying the future teachers conditional scholarship and loan repayment program to increase the number of early elementary teachers.

WA - SB5594 Concerning transition services for people with developmental disabilities.

WA - SB5598 Granting relatives, including but not limited to grandparents, the right to seek visitation with a child through the courts.

WA - SB5607 Concerning education.

WA - SB5620 Concerning transportation network companies.

WA - SB5636 Concerning telemedicine licensure reciprocity.

WA - SB5653 Addressing the administration of the public employees' benefits program.

WA - SB5674 Addressing the final approval of subdivisions of land.

WA - SB5686 Creating a sexual assault survivor bill of rights.

WA - SB5696 Concerning breakfast after the bell programs.

WA - SB5712 Developing a bilingual educational workforce.

WA - SB5722 Restricting the practice of conversion therapy.

WA - SB5766 Preventing harassment, intimidation, and bullying in public schools.

WA - SB5783 Exempting multipurpose senior citizen centers from property taxation.

WA - SB5797 Concerning services and processes available when residential real property is abandoned or in foreclosure.

WA - SB5817 Nullifying the imposition of certain taxes within regional transit authority boundaries.

WA - SB5822 Improving workers' compensation system costs and administration and worker outcomes through modification of procedures for claims to self-insureds, clarification of recovery in third-party legal actions, clarification of occupational disease claims, and lowering age barriers for structured settlements.

WA - SB5826 Concerning eligibility for veteran or national guard tuition waivers.

WA - SB5833 Addressing the minimum retirement allowance under the teachers' retirement system, plan 1.

WA - SB5835 Promoting healthy outcomes for pregnant women and infants.

WA - SB5838 Concerning the capital construction of and bonding for addressing the facilities maintenance backlog for the state parks and recreation commission.

WA - SB5850 Modifying the lodging excise tax to remove the exemption for premises with fewer than sixty lodging units and to tax certain vacation rentals, short-term home-sharing arrangements, and other compensated use or occupancy of dwellings.

WA - SB5853 Concerning career and technical education funding.

WA - SB5893 Concerning the administration of motor vehicle excise taxes by regional transit authorities.

WA - SB5919 Concerning consumer protection of internet privacy.

WA - SB5922 Concerning the management and oversight of the state capitol campus.

WA - SB5991 Increasing transparency of contributions by creating the Washington state DISCLOSE act of 2018.

WA - SB5992 Concerning trigger modification devices. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning bump-fire stocks. )

WA - SB5998 Concerning health care provider and health care facility whistleblower protections.

WA - SB6011 Concerning governmental continuity during emergency periods.

WA - SB6018 Concerning security freeze fees charged by consumer reporting agencies.

WA - SB6028 Concerning the prescription drug monitoring program.

WA - SB6029 Establishing a student loan bill of rights.

WA - SB6037 Concerning the uniform parentage act.

WA - SB6041 Concerning civil legal aid.

WA - SB6043 Concerning transportation network companies.

WA - SB6050 Concerning restrictions on prescriptions for opiates.

WA - SB6150 Concerning opioid use disorder treatment, prevention, and related services.

WA - SB6154 Concerning the unlawful use of an elephant in a traveling animal act.

WA - SB6156 Providing the chiropractic quality assurance commission with additional authority over budget development, spending, and staffing.

WA - SB6159 Concerning the reauthorization of the underground storage tank program.

WA - SB6161 Establishing a training course for campaign treasurers.

WA - SB6163 Extending the duration of the collaborative for the advancement of telemedicine.

WA - SB6196 Allowing animal care and control agencies and nonprofit humane societies to provide additional veterinary services to low-income households.

WA - SB6209 Facilitating high school success.

WA - SB6215 Addressing the compensation and administrative expenses of the Washington state investment board.

WA - SB6224 Establishing regional school safety centers in educational service districts.

WA - SB6233 Addressing step therapy protocols for prescription drugs.

WA - SB6241 Concerning the January 1, 2020, implementation of the school employees' benefits board program.

WA - SB6246 Providing for approval of school district bonds by fifty-five percent of the voters voting.

WA - SB6249 Concerning voter registration deadlines.

WA - SB6273 Concerning state charity care law.

WA - SB6304 Continuing access to medicaid services.

WA - SB6308 Requiring hospitals to provide notice of charity care.

WA - SB6314 Extending the existing state property tax exemption for residences of senior citizens and disabled persons to local regular property taxes.

WA - SB6338 Making technical corrections to the family and medical leave program.

WA - SB6372 Allowing certain adult family homes to increase capacity to eight beds.

WA - SB6399 Concerning telemedicine payment parity.

WA - SB6404 Concerning background checks for persons providing child care services.

WA - SB6411 Concerning advanced spacecraft manufacturing.

WA - SB6420 Concerning criminal justice.

WA - SB6424 Authorizing an alternative form of regulation of electrical and natural gas companies.

WA - SB6433 Providing a business and occupation tax credit for certain processing.

WA - SB6445 Providing postsecondary education to enhance education opportunities and public safety.

WA - SB6447 Concerning the Federal Way school district regionalization factor used for compensation.

WA - SB6468 Expanding community-based behavioral health facilities through issuance of state bonds.

WA - SB6497 Concerning the use of independent contractors to address delays in providing forensic competency evaluations.

WA - SB6498 Concerning training and certification for community health workers.

WA - SB6506 Concerning improving diversity in clinical trials.

WA - SB6522 Limiting noncompetition agreements.

WA - SB6524 Concerning special education funding.

WA - SB6525 Concerning final implementation of education funding reform.

WA - SB6531 Regarding the school construction assistance program.

WA - SB6538 Concerning the designation and support of projects of statewide significance.

WA - SB6542 Lowering the ceiling of the business and occupation manufacturing tax rate to 0.2904 percent.

WA - SB6543 Reducing community and technical college tuition.

WA - SB6631 Promoting small modular reactors in Washington.

WA - SR8610 Honoring Tahoma High School's "We the People" team.

WA - SR8614 Remembering the effect of Executive Order 9066.

WA - SR8616 Recognizing the Washington State wing of the Civil Air Patrol.

WA - SR8623 Honoring Gina Grant Bull.

WA - SR8624 Honoring Amanda Rohrkemper.

WA - SR8626 Honoring the life of Kyle Lynch.

WA - SR8628 Honoring women on International Women's Day.

WA - SR8633 Honoring the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

WA - SR8635 Honoring Melanie J. Dressel.

WA - SR8639 Honoring the Washington State Dental Association and Amy Cook.

WA - SR8648 Acknowledging the seventieth anniversary of the Maury Island Incident.

WA - SR8649 Celebrating Navy Appreciation Day.

WA - SR8650 Thanking the Washington National Guard.

WA - SR8666 Honoring Mike Lowry.

WA - SR8669 Recognizing Marty Brown.

WA - SR8678 Amending the permanent rules of the Senate.

WA - SR8679 Notifying the governor that the Senate is ready to conduct business.

WA - SR8681 Honoring the life of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

WA - SR8682 Honoring Karen Fraser.

WA - SR8684 Honoring Deputy Daniel Alexander McCartney.

WA - SR8692 Recognizing the Washington National Guard.

WA - SR8696 Honoring those who provided aid during the Amtrak derailment.

WA - SR8698 Honoring the University of Washington women's rowing program.

WA - SR8701 Concerning Tahoma High School's We The People team.

WA - SR8708 Honoring Linda Evans Parlette.

WA - SR8709 Celebrating the goals of Children's Day.

WA - SR8724 Honoring Israel's seventieth anniversary.

WA - SR8732 Recognizing Representative Judy Clibborn.

WA - SJR8209 Authorizing a tax court.

WA - SJR8211 Amending the state Constitution to provide governmental continuity during emergency periods resulting from a catastrophic incident.

WA - SJR8212 Amending the Constitution to provide a homestead property tax exemption.

WA - SJR8213 Amending the Constitution to allow at least fifty-five percent of voters voting to authorize school district bonds.

WA - SCR8407 Establishing cutoff dates for the consideration of legislation during the 2018 regular session of the sixty-fifth legislature.

WA - SJM8012 Concerning the victims of the persecution in Chechnya.