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Referred Bills (163)
Concerning a feasibility study to examine whether water storage would provide noninterruptible water resources to users of permit exempt wells.
Merging the department of agriculture's fruit and vegetable inspection districts and accounts.
Concerning water banking.
Modifying the powers and duties of the Washington dairy products commission to include research and education related to the economic uses of nutrients produced by dairy farms.
Ensuring that solid waste management requirements prevent the spread of disease, plant pathogens, and pests.
Concerning reservations of water.
Transferring public water system financial assistance activities from the public works board and the department of commerce to the department of health.
Supporting agricultural production, including that of apiarists, through the preservation of forage for pollinators.
Concerning the apple commission.
Authorizing the growing of industrial hemp.
Preserving water resources for an array of water supply needs, including irrigated agriculture, fish and wildlife habitat, and municipal use, by updating water conservation standards for appliances.
Creating a preferred alternative for the placement and sale of impounded livestock.
Concerning an assessment on cattle.
Establishing a proof of water reliance application process by which any property owner who relies on legal water availability to obtain a building permit prior to the invalidation of an instream flow rule may secure proof that continued use of water at the property will not be considered to be causing impairment of minimum flows.
Concerning a notice of violation for discharges from agricultural activity on agricultural land based on information provided to the department of ecology by a third party.
Establishing a water discharge permit for concentrated animal feeding operations that is issued under the sole authority of state law.
Concerning irrigation under the federal Columbia Basin project.
Concerning pesticide exposure and notification of certain pesticide applications.
Modifying the powers and duties of the Washington dairy products commission to include research and education related to the economic uses of nutrients produced by dairy farms.
Concerning the mandatory nonbinding arbitration provisions of the Washington state seed act.
Identifying water rights for municipal water supply purposes.
Concerning the outdoor burning of organic waste derived from pruning by commercial berry growers.
Adding a definition of streams to the shoreline management act.
Establishing a Washington food policy forum.
Working within the existing in-stream flow rules adopted by the department of ecology to provide a suite of tools, applicable to property owners located in areas with limited access to legal new water withdrawals, for alternative water procurement that does not result in a net loss to area surface waters.
Concerning state drought preparedness.
Concerning conservation districts' special assessments.
Concerning pesticide application in school facilities.
Concerning the protection of groundwater.
Concerning the procurement of seeds by state agencies.
Evaluating mitigation options for impacts to base flows and minimum instream flows.
Creating a water commission.
Concerning the taxation of certain rented property owned by nonprofit fair associations.
Extending the expiration date of tax preferences for food processing.
Concerning water quality determinations made by the department of ecology.
Requiring the Washington state department of agriculture to approve the comparable recertification standards of private entities for the purposes of waiving the recertification requirements under the Washington pesticide control act.
Clarifying that irrigation district facilities are not within the definition of shorelands.
Concerning irrigation district review and conditioning authority.
Maintaining reservations of water for certain future uses.
Concerning municipal procurement of water services.
Concerning existing lots and the Skagit instream flow rule.
Concerning eligibility criteria for the community economic revitalization board programs.
Creating demonstration projects for preserving agricultural land and public infrastructure in flood plains.
Concerning the diversion of certain municipal waters.
Increasing the total amount of tax credits allowed under the Washington main street program.
Concerning native and reclamation seeds.
Restricting the conversion of agricultural land to other uses under the growth management act.
Restricting the conversion of agricultural land to other uses under the growth management act and shoreline management act.
Addressing the definition of agricultural lands under the shoreline management act.
Concerning a hazardous substance tax exemption for certain hazardous substances defined under RCW 82.21.020(1)(c) that are used as agricultural crop protection products and warehoused but not otherwise used, manufactured, packaged, or sold in this state.
Concerning the Skagit instream flow rule.
Repealing an instream flow rule and adopting a new instream flow rule.
Concerning base flows and minimum instream flows.
Concerning overriding considerations of the public interest in management of the waters of the state.
Ensuring that certain existing water uses are not subject to interruption.
Defining honey bee products and services as an agricultural product.
Concerning water quality enforcement procedure.
Concerning best practices for water banks.
Improving relationships between agricultural producers and state regulatory staff.
Authorizing the growing of industrial hemp.
Retaining water resources to assure the vitality of local economies.
Regarding the use of designated agricultural lands.
Limiting the authority of growth management hearings boards to hear petitions challenging the regulation of permit exempt wells.
Concerning underground artificial storage and recovery projects.
Creating the agricultural labor skills and safety program.
Concerning best practices for water banks.
Extending the dairy inspection program assessment expiration date.
Expanding the products considered to be potentially nonhazardous as they apply to cottage food operations.
Concerning water storage asset management services.
Requiring the Washington state department of agriculture to approve the comparable recertification standards of private entities for the purposes of waiving the recertification requirements under the Washington pesticide control act.
Authorizing a livestock movement reporting system.
Changing cottage food operation provisions.
Regarding hemp as a component of commercial animal feed.
Concerning conservation districts' rates and charges.
Creating the agricultural labor skills and safety program.
Concerning irrigation district administration.
Concerning public facilities' grants and loans.
Concerning current use valuation for land primarily used for commercial horticultural purposes.
Developing a water quality trading program in Washington.
Regarding hemp as a component of commercial animal feed.
Regarding industrial hemp.
Expanding the products considered to be potentially nonhazardous as they apply to cottage food operations.
Creating demonstration projects for preserving agricultural land and public infrastructure in flood plains.
Defining honey bee products and services as an agricultural product.
Concerning current use valuation for land primarily used for commercial horticultural purposes.
Concerning a hazardous substance tax exemption for certain hazardous substances defined under RCW 82.21.020(1)(c) that are used as agricultural crop protection products and warehoused but not otherwise used, manufactured, packaged, or sold in this state.
Extending the dairy inspection program assessment expiration date.
Setting a maximum annual gross sales amount for cottage food operations.
Concerning public facilities' grants and loans.
Concerning de facto changes in water rights for irrigation purposes that involved conversion to more efficient irrigation technologies.
Regarding irrigation district administration.
Ensuring that existing exempt water uses in the Skagit river basin are not subject to interruption.
Providing certainty for local governments on water resource decisions.
Regarding the financing of irrigation district improvements.
Improving relationships between agricultural producers and state regulatory staff.
Regarding the use of designated agricultural lands.
Retaining water resources to assure the vitality of local economies.
Concerning consolidating a new exempt withdrawal of groundwater into an existing public water system.
Concerning industrial hemp production.
Protecting water quality while maintaining and enhancing the viability of agriculture.
Creating the companion animal safety, population control, and spay/neuter assistance program.
Extending the program establishing Christmas tree grower licensure.
Concerning best practices for water banks.
Regarding industrial hemp.
Providing that sales and use taxes imposed by rural counties may be used for purchasing water rights for water banking.
Concerning current use valuation for farm and agricultural land.
Concerning the business and occupation taxation of dairy products.
Limiting the authority of growth management hearings boards to hear petitions challenging the regulation of permit exempt wells.
Concerning the taxation of honey beekeepers.
Providing limited civil immunity from liability for apiarists.
Authorizing the establishment of a water management board in the Methow watershed.
Concerning efficiencies in the department of ecology processing of water right change applications to permit the consolidation of the annual quantities of those water rights held by the applicant.
Concerning efficiencies in the department of ecology processing of water right change applications that move the point of withdrawal reducing the potential for surface water body impacts.
Concerning small farms under the current use property tax program for farm and agricultural lands.
Concerning industrial hemp.
Regarding the ability of a local legislative authority to regulate genetically modified organisms.
Concerning the relinquishment of a water right.
Concerning the disclosure of foods produced through genetic engineering.
Concerning Yakima river basin water resource management.
Concerning inspection of dairy cattle.
Modifying the property tax exemption for nonprofit fairs.
Permitting conservation districts to use electronic deposits for employee pay and compensation.
Concerning certified water right examiner bonding requirements.
Extending the program establishing Christmas tree grower licensure.
Concerning the recoverable costs of the department of agriculture under chapter 16.36 RCW.
Concerning the appointment of nonvoting advisory members to commodity boards.
Concerning milk and milk products.
Regarding irrigation and rehabilitation district administration.
Regarding livestock inspections.
Harmonizing federal exemptions for agriculture practices with state law.
Authorizing an optional system of rates and charges for conservation districts.
Promoting job creation by ensuring access to human domestic water for home construction.
Concerning labeling of foods that contain genetically engineered material.
Requiring proof of concept for water resource mitigation alternatives for human domestic needs in rural areas.
Providing consistency in water resource terminology and policy.
Concerning state capital funding of health and safety improvements at agricultural fairs.
Regarding irrigation district administration.
Reconvening a stock water working group.
Regarding bid requirements for schools purchasing Washington grown foods and other goods.
Directing the department of ecology to coordinate discussions with the province of British Columbia to study the feasibility of providing new water supplies and storage to benefit residents of western Washington.
Streamlining water right permitting and appeals.
Regarding wine producer liens.
Harmonizing certain agricultural terms to be consistent with other state laws.
Regarding disclosure of information relating to agriculture and livestock.
Regarding the dairy products commission.
Maintaining and enhancing the viability of agriculture.
Regarding water resource management on the main stem of the Columbia and Snake rivers to promote the production of biofuel crops and organic crops.
Concerning contiguous land under the current use open space property tax programs.
Extending current use valuation to the residential property of small farms that is integral to the use of classified land for agricultural purposes.
Concerning the disclosure of certain information regarding patented or trademarked fruit.
Authorizing rural conservation development demonstration projects.
Regarding the sale of milk at small dairies.
Authorizing the creation of a public speedway authority.
Prohibiting the impoundment of farm vehicles under certain conditions.
Regarding animal disease traceability.
Regarding the management of water resources.
Protecting groundwater.
Regarding the preservation and conservation of agricultural resource lands.
Concerning air emissions from anaerobic digesters.
Regarding license fees under the warehouse act.
Changing seed dealer license fees.
Concerning miscellaneous provisions regulated by the department of agriculture.
Recognizing certain biomass energy facilities as an eligible renewable resource.