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Concerning the authorization and regulation of electronic scratch ticket machines for house-banked card room establishments and providing funding for education, health and human services, and public safety.
Addressing unemployment in the construction industry.
Strengthening the department of revenue's ability to collect spirits taxes imposed under RCW 82.08.150.
Addressing family and medical leave.
Consolidating the liquor control board into the gambling commission.
Prohibiting roll your own tobacco machines.
Exempting veterans from fingerprint and background check requirements for real estate broker, managing broker, and firm licensees.
Addressing noncompetition agreements for broadcasting industry employees.
Developing educational materials for assisting employees of self-insured employers entering claim resolution structured settlement agreements.
Excepting franchisees from the definition of worker for purposes of workers' compensation.
Changing the criteria for the beer and wine tasting endorsement for grocery stores.
Concerning shared work.
Regulating plumbing contractors.
Concerning spirits sampling in former contract liquor stores.
Protecting employers who pay the prevailing wage on public works.
Regulating drayage truck operators.
Addressing the prevailing rate of wages paid on public works.
Determining the prevailing wage on public works.
Concerning certified payroll records on public works projects.
Addressing the prevailing rate of wage paid on public works.
Requiring the development of an informational document for use during negotiations for self-insured claims.
Protecting workers and other community members from pesticide drift.
Establishing a farm internship program.
Establishing a theater license to sell beer, including strong beer, or wine, or both, at retail for consumption on theater premises.
Encouraging economic development by requiring the employment assistance program to include certain job placement services with private employers.
Requiring meals and rest breaks for certain health care workers.
Providing for the operation of roll your own cigarette machines at retail establishments.
Addressing claim files and compensation under the industrial insurance laws.
Increasing the penal sum of a surety bond required to be maintained by an appraisal management company.
Making employment status discrimination an unfair labor practice.
Establishing minimum standards for sick and safe leave from employment.
Concerning the regulation of event personnel.
Concerning tanning facilities.
Establishing completion rate requirements for apprenticeship training programs in certain construction trades as part of apprenticeship utilization requirements.
Concerning the identification of wineries, breweries, and microbreweries on private labels.
Creating a senior center license.
Allowing day spas to offer or supply without charge wine or beer by the individual glass to a customer for consumption on the premises.
Concerning home appliance warranties.
Regarding prevailing wage affidavits.
Creating the farm labor account.
Requiring notice to injured workers by self-insured employers.
Regarding concurrent jurisdiction of state and federal courts over actions brought against sureties and actions to foreclose liens, including actions involving claims for delinquent contributions to benefit plans.
Concerning the misclassification of contractors as independent contractors in the construction industry.
Allowing craft distilleries to sell their own spirits at qualifying farmers markets.
Establishing a fixed minimum hourly wage.
Privatizing the sale of liquor.
Enhancing state revenues by reforming laws regulating the distribution and sale of spirits and wine.
Concerning equity and fairness through the creation and regulation of electronic scratch ticket machines for nontribal gambling establishments.
Clarifying regulatory authority over taxicab transportation services for fares.
Creating a good faith defense for certain minimum wage and overtime compensation complaints.
Adjusting the minimum wage rate based on changes in consumer prices.
Permitting private employers to exercise a voluntary veterans' preference in employment.
Addressing the employment of members of the public employees' retirement system plan 1 by labor guilds, associations, or organizations.
Concerning endorsements to the spirits, beer, and wine private club license for nonclub, member-sponsored events using club liquor.
Addressing workplace bullying by making it an unfair practice to subject an employee to an abusive work environment.
Concerning interest arbitration panel determinations related to local government.
Concerning gross revenues for raffles held by certain bona fide charitable or bona fide nonprofit organizations.
Providing that an individual may not be assessed more than one penalty for a single violation concerning electrical or telecommunications installations.
Concerning state collective bargaining and competitive contracting.
Allowing a person to apply for a minor work permit without completing a new master application under certain circumstances.
Regarding prevailing wage affidavits.
Imposing penalties for violations by certain self-insurers, third-party administrators, and claims management entities.
Concerning the sale of beer by beer and/or wine specialty shop licensees.
Allowing a microbrewery and domestic brewery to sell beer of another domestic brewery for on and off-premises consumption from its premises.
Concerning the sale of beer by grocery store licensees.
Requiring leases incident to service contracts to provide disclosures under chapter 63.10 RCW.
Requiring businesses where food for human consumption is sold or served to allow persons with disabilities to bring their service animals onto the business premises.
Regarding concurrent jurisdiction of state and federal courts over actions brought against sureties and actions to foreclose liens, including actions involving claims for delinquent contributions to benefit plans.
Allowing craft distilleries to sell their own spirits at qualifying farmers markets.
Concerning cultural access authorities.
Defining the term employ for minimum wage purposes.
Granting binding interest arbitration rights to certain uniformed personnel.
Addressing administrative efficiencies for the workers' compensation program.
Concerning long-term disability for injured workers and costs to the workers' compensation program. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Reforming workers' compensation through authorization of voluntary settlements, creation of a return to work subsidy program, and authorization of a study of occupational disease. )
Regulating tanning facilities.
Authorizing program providers to issue food and beverage service worker's permits.
Addressing the recommendations of the vocational rehabilitation subcommittee for workers' compensation.
Concerning the misclassification of contractors as independent contractors in the construction industry.
Expanding protections against workplace harassment in antiharassment protection orders.
Concerning fire protection firms.
Establishing special license endorsements for cigar lounges and retail tobacconist shops.
Concerning certain social card games in an area annexed by a city or town.
Concerning for hire vehicles and for hire vehicle operators.
Regarding the unfair competition that occurs when stolen or misappropriated information technology is used to manufacture products sold or offered for sale in this state.
Providing additional claims management authority for retrospective rating plan employers and groups.
Modifying collective bargaining law to authorize providing additional compensation to academic employees at community and technical colleges.
Regulating tobacco products.
Addressing the prevailing rate of wage for public building service maintenance contracts.
Granting binding arbitration rights to certain juvenile court services and department of corrections employees.
Protecting the right to work.
Encouraging competition for collective bargaining agreements.
Eliminating collective bargaining for state employees and certain other groups.
Adding heart attacks and strokes as presumptions of occupational disease for law enforcement officers and firefighters.
Concerning evaluating military training and experience toward meeting certain professional licensing requirements.
Requiring notice to injured workers by self-insured employers.
Requesting that unemployment insurance modernization funding be dispersed to states without requiring an expansion of state laws.
Requiring state agencies to use private collection agencies.
Concerning the issuance of liquor licenses for businesses located near schools.
Modifying liquor permit and licensing provisions.
Repealing the family and medical leave insurance act.
Concerning methods of payment for purposes of the alcohol beverage control statutes.
Defining recovery for purposes of legal actions under the industrial insurance statutes.
Authorizing voluntary settlement agreements under industrial insurance laws.
Concerning craft wine and wineries.
Concerning licensing of explosive dealers, manufacturers, sellers, and storage.
Requiring annual adjustments to workers' compensation premium rates.
Concerning wine shipments.
Regarding enforcement of family leave violations.
Adding heart attacks and strokes as presumptions of occupational disease for law enforcement officers and firefighters.
Regulating soil science and wetland science professions.
Establishing penalties for retail liquor licensees when alcohol is sold to a person under twenty-one years of age.
Concerning the waiver of restaurant corkage fees.
Concerning the registration of charitable organizations.
Creating a pilot project to allow spirits sampling in state liquor stores and contract stores.
Concerning the licensure of locksmiths.
Privatizing the sale of liquor.
Concerning body art, body piercing, and tattooing.
Regarding the streamlining of contractor appeals.
Creating the farm labor account.
Concerning beer and wine tasting at farmers markets.
Granting collective bargaining for postdoctoral researchers at certain state universities.
Concerning raffles exceeding five thousand dollars.
Addressing the statement of intent to pay prevailing wages on public works.
Exempting common interest community managers from real estate broker and managing broker licensing requirements.
Making technical corrections to gender-based terms.
Revising fingerprinting requirements for licensing of private investigators and private security guards.
Addressing the powers and duties of the gambling commission.
Concerning Washington's motion picture competitiveness.
Providing remedies for whistleblowers in the conveyance work industry.
Providing remedies for whistleblowers in the conveyance work industry.
Establishing the veterans' raffle.
Requiring training for eligibility for certain electrician certifications.
Exempting certain vehicles from the written estimate requirement for auto repair facilities.
Concerning the tax payment and reporting requirements of small wineries.
Concerning the tax payment and reporting requirements of small wineries.
Delaying the implementation of the family leave insurance program.
Authorizing a statewide raffle to benefit veterans and their families.
Establishing a preference for resident contractors on public works.
Establishing procedures for requesting the funds necessary to implement the compensation and fringe benefit provisions of bargaining agreements with the University of Washington under chapter 41.80 RCW.
Concerning airport lounges under the alcohol beverage control act.
Making technical corrections to gender-based terms.
Concerning the conforming of apprenticeship program standards to federal labor standards.
Authorizing prize-linked savings deposits.
Changing the department of labor and industries certified and registered mail requirements.
Implementing the policy recommendations resulting from the national institute of corrections review of prison safety.
Addressing information contained in rate notices under the industrial insurance laws.
Requesting that the United States Department of Labor provide Washington with unemployment tax relief equal to any benefit provided to other states. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Requesting that the United States Department of Labor provide Washington with federal unemployment tax relief for Washington employers and a financial benefit for the state's trust fund. )
Concerning the omnibus liquor act.
Addressing the abatement of violations of the Washington industrial safety and health act during an appeal.
Regarding records requests relating to prevailing wage investigations.
Regulating the handling of hazardous drugs.
Concerning members of certain nonprofit conservation corps programs.
Concerning Washington horse racing funds.
Establishing medical provider networks and expanding centers for occupational health and education in the industrial insurance system.
Responding to the current economic conditions by temporarily modifying the unemployment insurance program.
Making the governor the public employer of language access providers.
Concerning the recommendations of the joint legislative task force on the underground economy.
Modifying craft distillery provisions.
Allowing the department of social and health services to adopt rules establishing standards for the review and certification of treatment facilities under the problem and pathological gambling treatment program.
Addressing the employment status of members of the civil air patrol while acting in an emergency service operation.
Establishing a farm internship program.
Creating a beer and wine tasting endorsement to the grocery store liquor license.
Concerning human trafficking.
Regarding architects.
Establishing penalties for retail liquor licensees when alcohol is sold to a person under twenty-one years of age.
Introducing private competition in industrial insurance coverage.
Relating to unemployment benefits and taxes.
Creating a task force to study and report on the state's workers' compensation system.
Prohibiting the liquor control board from increasing the markup of any liquor product.
Addressing claims of insolvent self-insurers under industrial insurance.
Regarding the scope of collective bargaining for nontenured faculty at community and technical colleges.
Concerning the transfer of commercial real estate.
Concerning special occasion licenses.
Concerning classroom training for electrical trainees.
Addressing real property warranties.
Establishing dates for rate setting and notice under the rating system for workers' compensation insurance.
Protecting and assisting consumers and homeowners from unfair lending practices and during foreclosure proceedings.
Regulating tanning facilities.
Providing support for parks and recreation.
Addressing workers' compensation reform.
Funding and providing workforce training grants.
Limiting employer contribution rates for unemployment insurance purposes.
Adopting the international wildland urban interface code.
Regarding membership on the state building code council.
Defining individuals eligible for benefits under workers' compensation and unemployment insurance.
Authorizing issuance of subpoenas for purposes of agency investigations of underground economy activity.
Authorizing the department of labor and industries to issue subpoenas to enforce production of information related to electricians and electrical installations.
Correcting references in RCW 50.29.021(2)(c)(i), (c)(ii), and (3)(e), RCW 50.29.062(2)(b)(i)(B) and (2)(b)(iii), and RCW 50.29.063(1)(b) and (2)(a)(ii) to unemployment insurance statutes concerning employer experience rating accounts and contribution rates.
Regarding the minimum hourly wage.
Addressing unemployment insurance penalties and contribution rates for employers who are not "qualified employers."
Allowing certain individuals to seek part-time employment while maintaining eligibility for unemployment insurance in order to qualify for the unemployment insurance modernization incentive provisions of the American recovery and reinvestment act of 2009.
Improving administration of wage complaints.
Adding fire protection services to the seller disclosure form.
Requiring the home inspector advisory licensing board to provide for classroom instruction in both eastern and western Washington.
Regarding the prevailing rate of wage on public works.
Requiring the building code council to adopt rules for installing outlets to charge vehicles.
Exempting pipe tobacco from restrictions on shipping tobacco to consumers in Washington.
Extending the time in which certain experienced home inspectors can apply for licensure without meeting instruction and training requirements.
Authorizing the creation of cultural access authorities.
Concerning the taxation of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
Concerning employees of the public employment relations commission in the classification of labor relations adjudicator-mediator.
Allowing internet registration for second chance drawings of nonwinning tickets.
Modifying distributions of funds by the horse racing commission to nonprofit race meets.
Concerning franchise agreements between new motor vehicle dealers and manufacturers.
Modifying contractor licensing laws.
Concerning beer and wine tasting at farmers markets.
Addressing unemployment benefits when a person voluntarily terminates employment.
Prohibiting certain communications of collection agencies and their employees.
Privatizing the sale of liquor.
Concerning craft wine and wineries.
Using credit history, education, and income for insurance purposes.
Addressing collective bargaining for certain employees of institutions of higher education and related boards.
Concerning methods of payment for purposes of the alcohol beverage control statutes.
Concerning the tax payment and reporting requirements of small wineries.
Requiring wood framing used in residential construction be tested for maximum allowable moisture content prior to enclosing the framing.
Concerning retrospective rating plans.
Concerning the work of the joint select committee on beer and wine regulation.
Addressing actions by the department of labor and industries that affect worker benefits.
Permitting certain higher education employees to engage in collective bargaining.
Concerning asbestos-related liabilities and consumer and worker injuries.
Creating a statewide centers of occupational health and education program.
Concerning personnel practices regarding exempt employment.
Providing interest arbitration for employees of juvenile court services administered under RCW 13.20.060.
Restricting the underwriting of small loans by financial institutions holding a check cashers license and small loan endorsement by including a cap of thirty percent of the borrower's gross monthly income on the combined outstanding principal balances of all small loans.
Limiting mandatory overtime for corrections officers and sergeants.
Requesting the department of homeland security and congress to examine the federal T visa program.
Concerning the incentive in the motion picture competitiveness programs.
Requiring retailers to provide notice to their customers in the event of a product recall or safety warning.
Concerning the sale of liquor-related products in state liquor stores.
Addressing residential real property construction improvements through consumer education, warranty protections, legal remedies, municipal liability, third-party inspections, contractor registration requirements, worker certification standards, and bonding requirements.
Concerning the early termination of wireless communications device contracts.
Limiting the balance of small loans by a consumer enforced by a database.
Concerning the termination of wireless communications device services.
Creating the Washington state essential worker pilot program.
Authorizing the creation of cultural access authorities.
Addressing the collective bargaining of adult family home providers' health benefits.
Concerning for hire vehicles and for hire vehicle operators.
Exempting language service providers from the definition of employment and worker for the purposes of unemployment compensation and industrial insurance.
Addressing the protection of consumers by providing flexibility in the repayment of certain debts.
Regarding hours of labor for health care employees.
Regulating soil and wetland science professions.
Concerning alcohol sales.
Concerning craft winery development.
Concerning amusement parks.
Protecting consumers from discrimination based on lawful source of income.
Designating counties, cities, and towns as bona fide nonprofit organizations under certain terms and conditions.
Concerning family and medical leave.
Concerning home inspectors.
Requiring certain consumer protections in the purchase of motor vehicles.
Addressing the recommendations of the joint legislative task force on the underground economy in the construction industry.
Restricting contact with medical providers after appeals have been filed under industrial insurance.
Providing collective bargaining for child care center directors and workers.
Protecting consumers from breaches of security.
Regarding land surveyors.
Concerning the practice of interior design.
Repealing the 2007 family and medical leave insurance act.
Concerning the reporting requirements of small domestic wineries.
Prohibiting certain employer communications about political or religious matters.
Creating a good faith defense for certain minimum wage and overtime compensation complaints.
Simplifying and adding certainty to the calculation of workers' compensation benefits.
Protecting financial and medical information presented to the board of accountancy.
Restricting the use of industrial insurance funds.
Establishing requirements for industrial insurance final settlement agreements.
Defining unemployed as it relates to corporate officers.
Defining the term employ for minimum wage purposes.
Concerning the contractual relationships between distributors and producers of malt beverages.
Modifying licensing provisions for cigarettes and tobacco products.
Establishing a set minimum hourly wage.
Allowing dogs in designated outdoor areas of bars and coffee shops.
Providing the gambling commission with authority to determine locations where amusement games may be conducted.
Providing economic stimulus through the unemployment insurance program.
Modifying collective bargaining law to authorize providing additional compensation to academic employees at community and technical colleges.
Providing for academic employee salary increments for community and technical colleges.
Concerning the replacement of nonfunctioning wireless communications devices.
Determining good faith for qualifying for benefits when leaving work voluntarily.
Correcting statutory references.
Making technical changes to boiler and unfired pressure vessel statutes.
Qualifying for good cause for late filing of reports, contributions, penalties, or interest.
Addressing the adoption and review of the department of labor and industries' rules.
Concerning unsolicited goods and the promotional advertising of prizes.
Allowing dogs in bars.
Modifying motor vehicle warranty provisions.
Setting a maximum rate for interest or fees charged for small loans.
Providing for the sales of wine and beer at the legislative gift center.
Increasing raffle ticket prices.
Including off-premises sales for holders of a beer and wine boutique and gift delivery license.
Regulating construction and construction-related trades by the department of labor and industries.
Concerning the rights of airline passengers.
Exempting electricity generated from renewable resources from the requirements of chapter 19.28 RCW.
Creating an energy efficiency worker training program.
Permitting the placement of human trafficking informational posters in rest areas.
Making technical corrections to gender-based terms.
Placing symphony orchestras, operas, and performing arts theaters under the jurisdiction of the public employment relations commission for purposes of collective bargaining.
Creating a temporary workforce employment and training program.
Making technical corrections to gender-based terms.
Regarding unemployment insurance.
Protecting workers from human trafficking violations.
Protecting consumer data in motor vehicles.
Establishing certain consumer rebate requirements.
Regarding alcoholic beverage regulation.
Modifying provisions relating to consumer protection act violations.
Regarding the practice of landscape architecture.
Allowing spas, wedding boutiques, and art galleries to serve wine to their customers who are twenty-one years of age or older.
Modifying provisions relating to the use of manufactured wine or beer.
Clarifying and prescribing penalties for gambling under the age of eighteen.
Providing humanitarian requirements for certain dog breeding practices.
Requiring carbon monoxide alarms to be installed in dwelling units built or manufactured after December 31, 2009.
Creating a spirits, beer, and wine nightclub license and eliminating the cap on spirits, beer, and wine restaurant licenses.
Concerning internet and mail order sales of tobacco products.
Prohibiting the sale or distribution of certain novelty lighters.
Setting forth the circumstances under which a person qualifies for benefits when voluntarily leaving part-time work.
Regarding apprenticeship utilization.
Authorizing the department of labor and industries to issue stop work orders for violations of certain workers' compensation provisions.
Urging adoption of a treaty fighting discrimination against women.
Concerning privately operated manlifts.
Applying RCW 41.56.430 through 41.56.490 to employees working under a site certificate issued under chapter 80.50 RCW.
Regarding prohibited practices in accountancy.
Concerning truth in music advertising.
Concerning the Washington horse racing commission Washington bred owners' bonus fund and breeder awards account.
Regarding public works contracts for residential construction.
Defining independent contractor for purposes of prevailing wage.
Requiring motor vehicle dealers to disclose whether a new motor vehicle has sustained damage, repaired or not, in the sale of the new motor vehicle.
Creating a military service exemption for benefits charged to the experience rating accounts of employers.
Addressing the termination, cancellation, or nonrenewal of franchises between new motor vehicle dealers and manufacturers.
Regarding distressed property conveyances.