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Concerning the responsibility of certain counties to include freight rail dependent use overlay as part of the transportation element of their comprehensive plan.
Concerning residential development in commercial and mixed-use zones.
Concerning permit review processes.
Streamlining consumer-owned utility procurement requirements for clean energy generation, energy storage, transmission, and distribution projects.
Concerning county ferry district authority.
Providing for enhanced municipal permitting tools for high capacity transit projects.
Concerning local tax increment financing.
Authorizing a narrow modification to indebtedness limits for select inland port districts to ensure continued eligibility for federal funding for rail, power, and other critical public infrastructure improvements.
Revised for 1st substitute: Removing the deadline for forming a public facilities district for regional aquatics and sports facilities.
Concerning moneys available to a port district allocated for the purchase of zero and near zero emission cargo handling equipment.
Concerning the creation of building codes for kit homes.
Concerning the sale of surplus property by water-sewer districts.
Concerning the creation of building codes for kit homes.
Concerning the sale of surplus property by water-sewer districts.
Including tribal representation in certain transportation activities.
Encouraging construction of affordable housing by streamlining the permitting process.
Allowing limited exemptions to renewable energy systems requirements for certain school districts.
Concerning irrigation district director beneficial interests in contracts.
Including tribal representation in certain transportation activities.
Encouraging construction of affordable housing by streamlining the permitting process.
Allowing small business establishments in residential zones.
Concerning scissor stair regulations in the state building code.
Concerning the siting of distributed energy generation resources on agricultural lands.
Authorizing county auditors to create a voluntary property title protection program to prevent land record fraud.
Extending the deadline for a rural county collecting the sales and use tax for economic development purposes to designate industrial land banks under the growth management act.
Enabling county auditors and county treasurers to have designees appointed to firefighters' pension boards.
Concerning local government design review.
Implementing the International Wildland Urban Interface Code.
Providing for enhanced municipal permitting tools for high capacity transit projects.
Concerning fire protection districts.
Prohibiting local jurisdictions from banning cannabis production, processing, and sales.
Revised for 1st substitute: Establishing crash prevention zones.
Reducing embodied carbon emissions of buildings and building materials.
Increasing opportunities for cities to utilize county resources for road construction and maintenance.
Increasing opportunities for cities to utilize county resources for road construction and maintenance.
Concerning community access to food, medicine, and health services.
Concerning local government procurement.
Changing the deadline for forming a public facilities district for regional aquatics and sports facilities.
Concerning residential development in commercial and mixed-use zones.
Concerning building codes.
Concerning urban forest management ordinances.
Concerning moneys available to a port district allocated for the purchase of zero and near zero emission cargo handling equipment.
Requiring coroners to be appointed rather than elected.
Concerning land use development.
Increasing the short plat threshold.
Concerning siting schools outside of an urban growth area.
Fortifying agritourism.
Concerning working economic properties.
Requiring counties to develop and implement heat response plans.
Concerning publicly owned grocery stores.
Concerning performance-based building codes for low-rise residential buildings.
Granting counties authority to enter into a shared stewardship agreement.
Concerning civil service positions in city and town fire departments.
Concerning land use development when vegetation associated with shrubsteppe is present in the urban growth areas.
Authorizing certain public entities to contract for the capability of renewable or nonemitting electric generation projects.
Controlling costs imposed by the state energy code.
Concerning land ownership by conservation districts.
Standardizing city and county planning and development regulations with an urban growth area.
Concerning energy labeling of residential buildings.
Considering critical aquifer recharge areas when revising an urban growth area.
Concerning water recreation facilities.
Streamlining certain decisions pertaining to the development or extension of a trail or path from the state environmental policy act.
Addressing representation within transportation benefit districts.
Concerning reimbursement by property owners for street, road, and water or sewer projects.
Concerning performance-based building codes for middle housing.
Concerning city initiatives and referendums.
Addressing representation within the governing body of a public transportation benefit area.
Concerning local government hearing examiners.
Concerning housing development opportunity zones.
Promoting agritourism in Washington.
Concerning fire protection district civil service systems.
Concerning the creation of animal services districts.
Concerning public works contracting.
Reducing environmental and health disparities and improving the health of Washington state residents in large port districts.
Concerning the sale of surplus property by water-sewer districts.
Authorizing subdivision of land in rural areas for families.
Streamlining certain decisions pertaining to the development or extension of a trail or path from the state environmental policy act.
Concerning the administration of plats.
Assessing the state's existing water and sewer systems.
Concerning the timing of updates for comprehensive plans and development regulations.
Concerning water recreation facilities.
Concerning unincorporated villages in the growth management act.
Concerning the administration of the international fire code.
Ensuring dedicated funding for history and heritage museums and county historic preservation programs.
Modifying the fee to support family services.
Ensuring efficient approval of certain housing permit applications.
Reducing embodied carbon emissions of buildings and building materials.
Concerning reimbursement by property owners for street, road, and water or sewer projects.
Concerning minimum parking requirements.
Concerning public facilities district formation.
Concerning county local roads.
Concerning county public works reporting requirements.
Expanding urban growth area boundaries for residential development.
Extending governmental services beyond the urban growth area in specific circumstances.
Concerning county fees for administration of the real estate excise tax.
Concerning 3D-printed building construction.
Concerning the siting of child care centers.
Funding the removal of illegal and dangerous encampments.
Concerning county local roads.
Concerning energy labeling of residential buildings.
Lengthening port commissioner terms.
Concerning the siting of child care centers.
Streamlining the subdivision process inside urban growth areas.
Concerning alternate funding for libraries.
Regulating exterior cladding materials.
Clarifying tribal membership on local boards of health.
Increasing the availability of baby diaper changing stations.
Concerning extending governmental services from cities to tribal lands.
Concerning the designation of historic landmarks by cities.
Streamlining and clarifying local governments' land use permitting workloads.
Concerning minimum parking requirements.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Authorizing county commissioners to administer oaths of office to state legislators.
Concerning irrigation district elections.
Revised for 1st substitute: Concerning timelines for growth management comprehensive plan and development regulation updates.
Concerning vacancies on boards of county commissioners.
Concerning building code and development regulation reform.
Concerning the definition of project permit and project permit application.
Concerning electric security alarm systems.
Concerning the effective date of the filing of a notice of intention with a boundary review board.
Concerning county ferry maintenance and repair contracts.
Concerning fire protection district civil service systems.
Establishing a self-certification program for accessory dwelling unit project permit applications.
Ensuring that local government planning complies with the growth management act.
Concerning county hospital funding.
Concerning pollinator habitat.
Concerning residential parking configurations.
Revised for 2nd Substitute: Creating an option for impacted taxing districts to provide a portion of their new revenue to support any tax increment area proposed within their jurisdiction and clarifying that a tax increment area must be dissolved when all bond obligations are paid.Original: Creating an option for impacted taxing districts to provide a portion of their new revenue to support any tax increment area proposed within their jurisdiction.
Mitigating harm and improving equity in large port districts.
Concerning rural fire district stations.
Revised for Passed Legislature: Concerning improvements to residential structures to reduce the risk of flood damage.Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning floodproofing improvements to residential structures undertaken in accordance with the Chehalis basin strategy.Original: Concerning floodproofing improvements to residential structures undertaken in accordance with the Chehalis basin strategy.
Revised for Passed Legislature: Concerning improvements to residential structures to reduce the risk of flood damage.Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning floodproofing improvements to residential structures undertaken in accordance with the Chehalis basin strategy.Original: Concerning floodproofing improvements to residential structures undertaken in accordance with the Chehalis basin strategy.
Streamlining the state building code council operating procedures by establishing criteria for statewide amendments to the state building code.
Facilitating reconstruction of communities damaged or destroyed by wildfires.
Encouraging investments in affordable homeownership unit development.
Concerning limited areas of more intensive rural development.
Concerning the Wildland Urban Interface Code.
Allowing cities to voluntarily share certain sales and use tax revenue.
Concerning procedures for certificates of annexation submitted to the office of financial management.
Concerning fire protection district commissioner per diem compensation.
Concerning urban growth areas.
Modifying local board of health county commissioner membership.
Promoting local agriculture through greenhouses.
Concerning administration of the southwest Washington fair by the Lewis county board of county commissioners.
Concerning the use of moneys from the rural public facilities sales and use tax for affordable workforce housing infrastructure and facilities.
Concerning technical changes to allowable exemptions for tourism promotion area assessments.
Concerning local government procurement rules.
Streamlining certain decisions pertaining to the development or extension of a trail or path from the state environmental policy act.
Concerning technical changes to allowable exemptions for tourism promotion area assessments.
Concerning exemptions for housing development under the state environmental policy act.
Extending the comprehensive plan revision schedule for select local governments.
Providing a local government option for the funding of essential affordable housing programs.
Extending the comprehensive plan revision schedule for select local governments.
Allowing small business establishments in residential zones.
Adding two voting members that are transit users to the governing body of public transportation benefit areas.
Concerning housing authorities.
Providing a local government option for the funding of essential affordable housing programs.
Establishing permanent funding for community preservation and development authorities approved through RCW 43.167.060.
Concerning impact fee deferrals.
Regulating electric security alarm systems.
Streamlining the state building code council operating procedures by establishing criteria for statewide amendments to the state building code.
Addressing underground facilities and safe excavation practices.
Concerning county ferries.
Concerning the effective date of the filing of a notice of intention with a boundary review board.
Providing funding for municipalities participating in the regional 911 emergency communications system.
Modifying local board of health county commissioner membership.
Increasing the availability of baby diaper changing stations.
Concerning stormwater control facilities and county jurisdiction.
Amending reporting requirements for the project permit application processing timeline.
Concerning urban forest management ordinances.
Providing additional support and services for veterans' assistance and for persons with developmental disabilities or mental health needs.
Concerning the siting of child care facilities.
Creating a local sales and use tax to address gender-based violence.
Increasing the consistency and transparency of impact fees.
Concerning reimbursement by property owners for street, road, and water or sewer projects.
Streamlining certain decisions pertaining to the development or extension of a trail or path from the state environmental policy act.
Protecting cats and dogs by requiring kennels to meet certain fire safety standards.
Ensuring the timely and balanced use of impact fees.
Creating a local sales and use tax.
Concerning public facility district taxing authority.
Encouraging investments in affordable homeownership unit development.
Incentivizing cities and counties to attract and retain commissioned law enforcement officers.
Reducing training costs for small county offices of coroners or medical examiners.
Concerning library districts with an annexed city or town.
Concerning meetings of county legislative authorities.
Updating timelines for adopting county commissioner district boundaries following expansion from three to five commissioners.
Granting local taxing authority to fund criminal justice.
Mitigating harm and improving equity in large port districts.
Addressing local infrastructure project areas.
Prohibiting the imposition of minimum parking requirements except under certain circumstances.
Increasing permissible uses of existing local sales tax authority.
Concerning the planning and implementation of infrastructure to facilitate the transport and delivery of goods.
Concerning equity and environmental justice in the growth management act.
Imposing a local sales tax wholly credited against the state sales tax to support programs for senior citizens.
Concerning the operation, authorization, and permitting of microenterprise home kitchens.
Imposing local property tax levies wholly credited against the state property tax to provide support and services for veterans' assistance and for persons with developmental disabilities or mental health needs.
Increasing the supply of affordable housing by modifying the state and local real estate excise tax.
Providing local governments with options to increase affordable housing in their communities.
Concerning local project review.
Concerning collection of assessments for irrigation and rehabilitation districts.
Concerning allowing the use of impact fees for law enforcement.
Concerning infill for properties uniquely situated between boundaries and existing development.
Incentivizing cities and counties to increase employment of commissioned law enforcement officers.
Compelling the state building code council to expand residential building code classifications.
Adjusting urban growth boundaries to account for situations where property owners have not developed property as expected in comprehensive plans and development regulations.
Making it possible for more properties to have access to water, storm drains, and sanitary sewage systems.
Adding counties to the voluntary stewardship program.
Reforming the state building code council, its operations and procedures, and its statutory authority.
Prohibiting the imposition of minimum parking requirements except under certain circumstances.
Concerning consolidating local permit review processes.
Concerning public transportation benefit area governing bodies.
Authorizing impact fee revenue to fund improvements to bicycle and pedestrian facilities.
Concerning rural public facilities sales and use tax.
Revised for Passed Legislature: Concerning a technical advisory group to study single stairway residential buildings.Revised for 1st Substitute: Allowing for residential buildings of a certain height to be served by a single exit under certain conditions.Original: Allowing for residential buildings of a certain height to be served by a single exit under certain conditions.
Concerning vacancies of the governing body of special purpose districts.
Concerning collection of assessments for irrigation and rehabilitation districts.
Concerning payments made for property taxes or special assessments by an automated check processing service.
Reducing local governments' land use permitting workloads.
Facilitating municipal annexations.
Concerning consolidating local permit review processes.
Implementing growth management task force legislative recommendations regarding small cities.
Concerning standardizing local government procurement rules among special purpose districts, first-class and second-class cities, and public utility districts.
Waiving municipal utility connection charges for certain properties.
Concerning municipal airport commissions.
Increasing local governments' ability to contract with community service organizations.
Updating timelines for adopting county commissioner district boundaries following expansion from three to five commissioners.
Improving the state's response to climate change by updating the state's planning framework.
Concerning public facility districts created by at least two city or county legislative authorities.
Concerning the adoption of county critical area ordinances by cities.
Allowing functionally consolidated port districts to adopt a unified levy.
Concerning the voluntary stewardship program.
Modifying the sales and use tax for cultural access programs by allowing the tax to be imposed by a councilmanic or commission authority and defining timelines and priorities for action.
Authorizing impact fee revenue to fund improvements to bicycle and pedestrian facilities.
Concerning municipal officers' beneficial interest in contracts.
Concerning water systems' notice to customers of public health considerations.
Concerning county sales and use taxes for mental health and housing.
Revised for Engrossed: Concerning the main street trust fund tax credit.Original: Concerning population criteria for the main street trust fund tax credit.
Concerning meetings of county legislative authorities.
Concerning the number of inhabitants required for incorporation as a city or town.
Concerning county treasurers' duties.
Authorizing tribal investment in county investment pools.
Concerning the disposition of the remains of a county resident who dies indigent in an adjacent county outside of Washington.
Concerning salaries for county commissioners and councilmembers.
Authorizing standards for temporary emergency shelters for local adoption.
Concerning urban growth area boundaries.
Expanding the ability to build tiny houses.
Concerning tribal participation in planning under the growth management act.
Enhancing opportunity in limited areas of more intense rural development.
Planning under the growth management act.
Enhancing opportunity in limited areas of more intense rural development.
Planning under the growth management act.
Concerning public meeting accessibility and participation.
Concerning technical changes to the commercial property assessed clean energy and resiliency program.
Allowing fire districts and regional fire authorities to carry out certain treasurer functions.
Concerning the deadline for a port commission to send new district boundaries to the county auditor when expanding from three commissioners to five.
Concerning code city form of government elections and city manager appointment.
Concerning community municipal corporations.
Concerning consolidated local permit review processes.
Promoting local agriculture through greenhouses.
Increasing the frequency of county legislative meetings at alternate locations.
Concerning shoreline master program review schedules.
Concerning public health and fluoridation of drinking water.
Concerning accessory dwelling units.
Strengthening energy codes.
Increasing housing supply through the growth management act and housing density tax incentives for local governments.
Concerning installation, inspection, testing, and maintenance of smoke control systems and fire dampers, smoke dampers, and combination fire and smoke dampers.
Concerning local government planning.
Creating additional middle housing near transit and in areas traditionally dedicated to single-family detached housing.
Concerning the disposition of the remains of a county resident who dies indigent in an adjacent county outside of Washington.
Concerning fireworks prohibitions adopted by cities or counties.
Concerning open public meeting notice requirements and declared emergencies.
Concerning fire benefit charges imposed by cities and towns.
Concerning the creation of affordable and sustainable housing in the state.
Authorizing the issuance of civil infractions for violations of rules or regulations in county parks.
Concerning the location of housing and associated services that provide aid and assistance to homeless individuals and families.
Concerning contracts with community service organizations for public improvements.
Making it possible for more properties to have access to water, storm drains, and sanitary sewage systems.
Concerning failing water system receivership and rehabilitation.
Concerning impact fee deferrals.
Concerning the number of inhabitants required for incorporation as a city or town.
Concerning stormwater control facilities and county jurisdiction.
Concerning the acceleration of broadband deployment.
Concerning temporary emergency shelters.
Concerning accessory dwelling units.
Concerning accessory dwelling units.
Encouraging construction of affordable housing by eliminating redundancies and streamlining the permitting process.
Planning for affordable housing under the growth management act.
Planning for affordable housing under the growth management act.
Concerning regulation of accessory dwelling units located outside of urban growth areas.
Amending the growth management act for adaptive planning, affordable housing, and tribal consultation.
Authorizing local authorities to implement bicycle tour permits.
Concerning grade-separated transportation.
Concerning regulation of accessory dwelling units located outside of urban growth areas.
Concerning the operation, authorization, and permitting of microenterprise home kitchens.
Concerning limited areas of more intensive rural development.
Concerning public testimony at public meetings, including virtual meetings.
Concerning standing before the growth management hearings board.
Concerning state building code council membership.
Concerning fireworks prohibitions adopted by cities or counties.
Concerning housing benefit districts.
Encouraging rural economic development.
Increasing housing unit inventory by removing arbitrary limits on housing options.
Concerning local government fiscal flexibility.
Concerning review and property owner notification of recorded documents with unlawful racial restrictions.
Supporting emergency shelters and housing through local planning and development regulations.
Concerning risk-based water quality standards for on-site nonpotable water systems.
Concerning the recording standards commission.
Concerning coroners and medical examiners.
Ensuring continuity of operations in the offices of county elected officials during the current COVID-19 pandemic and future public health crises.
Concerning moneys available to a port district allocated for the purchase of zero and near zero emissions cargo handling equipment.
Concerning early learning facility impact fees.
Concerning the number of fire protection district commissioners.
Concerning fire protection districts and education.
Concerning the authority of counties to vacate a county road that abuts on a body of water if the county road is hazardous or creates a significant risk to public safety.
Concerning the authority of counties to vacate a county road that abuts on a body of water if the county road is hazardous or creates a significant risk to public safety.
Concerning library districts.
Improving openness, accountability, and transparency of special purpose districts.
Providing code cities with the ability to annex unincorporated areas pursuant to a jointly approved interlocal agreement with the county.
Concerning underground utilities and safety committee.
Concerning utility tax disclosures.
Installing, repairing, replacing, and updating mitigation equipment installed within an impacted area.
Addressing aircraft noise abatement.
Concerning fire district health clinic services.
Concerning inspection and testing of fire and smoke control systems and dampers.
Concerning water-sewer district commissioner compensation. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Concerning commissioner compensation. )
Concerning municipal conflicts of interest.
Concerning mosquito control districts.
Standardizing fire safety requirements for mobile on-demand gasoline providers.
Simplifying the process for donating low-value surplus property owned by a city-owned utility.
Concerning commercial property assessed clean energy and resilience.
Concerning mosquito control districts.
Filling vacancies in county sheriff offices.
Concerning the number of fire protection district commissioners.
Concerning the mitigation of public facilities in certain cities.
Concerning special purpose district financial reporting.
Prohibiting local governments from limiting the number of unrelated persons occupying a home.
Concerning the transparency of local taxing districts.
Combining a resolution proposing abandonment and a resolution proposing a council-manager plan of government into a single proposition.
Requiring default beverages for children's meals.
Concerning special purpose district commissioner compensation.
Concerning boarding homes.
Addressing local government infrastructure.
Concerning local parks funding options.
Concerning bond requirements for county clerks.
Concerning the transparency of local taxing districts.
Modifying dates related to the application due date for health sciences and services authorities and their sales and use tax authority.
Providing code cities of a certain size with the ability to annex unincorporated areas without a referendum provision pursuant to a jointly approved interlocal agreement with the county.
Concerning the authorization to impose special excise taxes on the sale of lodging.
Concerning library districts.
Concerning coroners.
Requiring default beverages for children's meals.
Concerning risk-based water quality standards for on-site nonpotable water systems.
Providing cities and counties flexibility with existing resources.
Combining a resolution proposing abandonment and a resolution proposing a council-manager plan of government into a single proposition.
Concerning mosquito control districts.
Concerning charitable solicitation near public roadways.
Concerning contracts with community service organizations for public improvements.
Prohibiting funds available to port districts from being allocated for the purchase of fully automated marine container cargo handling equipment.
Concerning the operation, authorization, and permitting of microenterprise home kitchens.
Concerning local government permitting and land use decisions.
Concerning underground utilities and safety committee.
Concerning the authority of counties to vacate a county road that abuts on a body of water if the county road is hazardous or creates a significant risk to public safety.
Concerning the number of fire protection district commissioners.
Concerning term lengths of fire district commissioners.
Addressing project review and approval under the state building code.
Protecting taxpayers from home foreclosure.
Concerning state building code council membership.
Increasing housing access and affordability by decreasing construction costs associated with implementing the Washington state energy code for residential buildings.
Concerning fireworks prohibitions adopted by cities or counties.
Concerning the sale of nonalcoholic beverages by a child.
Concerning uniform due process of land use code violations.
Expanding the allowable powers of fire protection districts.
Concerning bid limits for purchases and public works by fire protection districts.
Concerning the deannexation of a portion of land from a park and recreation district.
Addressing noncollection of taxes by county treasurers.
Concerning local government procurement modernization and efficiency.
Concerning public utility districts' contracts for work or materials.
Addressing insurance coverage for water-sewer district commissioners.
Clarifying the contracting procedures for cities.
Concerning short subdivisions.
Eliminating certain requirements for the annexation of an unincorporated island of territory.
Concerning commercial property assessed clean energy and resilience.
Concerning local governments planning and zoning for accessory dwelling units.
Concerning short subdivisions.
Incentivizing the development of commercial office space in cities with a population of greater than fifty thousand and located in a county with a population of less than one million five hundred thousand.
Concerning local governments planning and zoning for accessory dwelling units.
Requiring property sold in tax lien foreclosure proceedings to be sold as is.
Concerning cooperation between conservation districts.
Reimbursing volunteer first responders.
Concerning the compensation of commissioners of certain metropolitan park districts.
Concerning commercial property assessed clean energy and resilience.
Concerning cemetery district withdrawal of territory.
Concerning local governments planning and zoning for accessory dwelling units.
Amending the land use petition act.
Concerning new counties.
Concerning utility service annexation covenants.
Concerning short subdivisions.
Requiring public libraries to adopt internet safety policies to address minor access to harmful material.
Adopting new requirements for locating underground facilities, including positive response, minimum marking standards, adopting a new process for coordinating large projects, and requiring new and replacement facilities to be locatable.
Concerning municipal police districts.
Concerning local project review undertaken under chapter 36.70B RCW.
Concerning the creation of parks benefit districts.
Authorizing product certification agencies to certify building products and methods of construction, design, and systems as an alternate code compliance for modern technical methods, devices, and improvements.
Eliminating certain requirements for the annexation of an unincorporated island of territory.
Clarifying reimbursement for certain clean-up or removal actions by fire protection jurisdictions.
Standardizing fire safety codes for mobile food establishments.
Studying the constitutional and statutory obligations and tax revenue capacity of local government entities.
Concerning the administration of irrigation districts.
Concerning local government procurement modernization and efficiency.
Addressing noncollection of taxes by county treasurers.
Expanding the allowable powers of fire protection districts.
Concerning the mitigation of public facilities in certain cities.
Concerning tiny houses.
Concerning certain public facilities district's authorization to acquire, construct, own, remodel, maintain, equip, reequip, repair, finance, and operate one or more recreational facilities other than a ski area with voter approval.
Protecting taxpayers from home foreclosure.
Incentivizing the development of commercial office space in cities in a county with a population of less than one million five hundred thousand.
Removing disincentives to the creation of community facilities districts.
Providing greater certainty in association with selling city-owned property used for off-street parking.
Expanding a sales and use tax exemption for personal property sold between political subdivisions to include sales or uses of personal property as a result of a merger or sales or uses of personal property made under contractual consolidations in which the taxpayer that originally paid the sales or use tax continues to benefit from the personal property.
Concerning mobile food units.
Concerning protected lands not being assessed local fire district levies.
Concerning the compensation of commissioners of certain metropolitan park districts.
Concerning the deannexation of a portion of land from a park and recreation district or metropolitan park district.
Concerning cooperation between conservation districts.
Concerning public works contracts and interlocal agreements by second-class cities and towns. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning public works contracts and interlocal agreements. )
Addressing insurance coverage for water-sewer district commissioners.
Concerning cemetery district withdrawal of territory.
Adjusting monetary thresholds for found property.
Requiring property sold in tax lien foreclosure proceedings to be sold as is.
Authorizing county treasurers to contract with other treasurers for services.
Concerning the International Wildland Urban Interface Code.
Concerning the state building code council.
Clarifying the authority and procedures for contracting by public port districts.
Clarifying the authority of port districts to offer programs relating to air quality improvement equipment and fuel programs that provide emission reductions for engines, vehicles, and vessels.
Concerning public hospital district health and wellness promotion activities and superintendent appointment and removal.
Concerning unit priced contracting by cities.
Limiting the uses of the fire protection contractor license fund.
Concerning the use of cross-laminated timber for building construction. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning the use of mass timber for building construction. )
Allowing fire protection district annexations and mergers within a reasonable geographic proximity.
Concerning Washington's property assessment appeal procedures.
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. )
Concerning the transparency of local taxing districts.
Concerning employee recognition awards.
Concerning the authority of counties to vacate a county road that abuts on a body of water if the county road is hazardous or creates a significant risk to public safety.
Preventing fires in rental dwelling units.
Authorizing certain cities to establish a limited exemption from local property taxes to encourage redevelopment of vacant lands in urban areas.
Simplifying the process for donating low-value surplus property owned by a city-owned utility.
Addressing noncollection of taxes by county treasurers.
Clarifying the authority and procedures for unit priced contracting by public port districts.
Authorizing county treasurers to contract with other treasurers for services.
Concerning the compensation of commissioners of certain metropolitan park districts.
Simplifying the process for donating low-value surplus property owned by a city-owned utility.
Concerning the use of background checks for persons who work with children, persons with developmental disabilities, and vulnerable adults.
Concerning actions by the boundary review board.
Concerning the mitigation of public facilities in certain cities.
Concerning local government financial reports.
Preventing fires in rental dwelling units.
Deannexing from a park and recreation district.
Requiring a public hearing before a local government may remove a recorded restrictive covenant from land owned by the local government.
Clarifying the authority and procedures for contracting by public port districts.
Modifying the irrigation district election process to correspond with general election laws.
Concerning mosquito control districts.
Concerning aircraft noise abatement.
Concerning employee recognition awards.
Providing greater certainty in association with selling city-owned property used for off-street parking.
Concerning powered automatic doors in buildings accessible to the public.
Concerning powered automatic doors in buildings accessible to the public.
Incentivizing the development of commercial office space in cities in a county with a population of less than one million five hundred thousand.
Concerning the redevelopment of an area overlapping the boundary between two adjacent cities.
Concerning the size of cities that must establish a law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 1 disability board.
Eliminating certain requirements for the annexation of an unincorporated island of territory.
Concerning public facilities districts.
Incentivizing the development of commercial office space in cities with a population of greater than thirty-five thousand and located in a county with a population of less than one million five hundred thousand.
Studying the constitutional and statutory obligations and tax revenue capacity of local government entities.
Clarifying the authority and procedures for unit priced contracting by public port districts.
Concerning the creation of a countywide port district within a county containing no port districts.
Concerning park models.
Clarifying the authority of port districts to offer programs relating to air quality improvement equipment and fuel programs that provide emission reductions for engines, vehicles, and vessels.
Concerning utility service annexation covenants.
Requiring support by a majority of the people before annexation of a city, town, or unincorporated area.
Addressing noncollection of taxes by county treasurers.
Concerning vacation of roads abutting bodies of water.
Addressing insurance coverage for water-sewer district commissioners.
Concerning nationally recognized standards for modern technical methods, devices, and improvements in building codes.
Concerning municipal police districts.
Concerning accessible public on-street parking for individuals with a physical disability.
Concerning the mitigation of public facilities in certain cities.
Addressing the final approval of subdivisions of land.
Concerning business improvement districts.
Concerning county auditors.
Concerning water-sewer districts.
Concerning sanctuary from state policies, rules, and statutes.
Concerning the state building code council.
Prohibiting regulation of the amount of rent for commercial properties.
Concerning fire protection district tax levies.
Completing a study of the comparative constitutional and statutory obligations and revenue capacity of various local government entities.
Concerning clean energy financing.
Authorizing county treasurers to contract with other county treasurers for services.
Concerning administrative costs of county treasurers.
Clarifying the county treasurer's administration of payments and costs related to delinquent properties.
Addressing hospital inspections by limiting the uses of the fire protection contractor license fund and directing the department of health to engage in rule making to appropriately fund the cost of hospital inspections from hospital license fees.
Concerning the imposition of port district facility entry fees for certain ground transportation service providers.
Addressing the final approval of subdivisions of land.
Concerning business improvement districts.
Allowing fire protection district annexations and mergers within a reasonable geographic proximity and eliminating cross-county restrictions for annexations to a fire protection district.
Concerning actions by the boundary review board.
Concerning the state building code council.
Concerning metropolitan park districts.
Incentivizing the development of commercial office space in cities with a population of greater than fifty thousand and located in a county with a population of less than one million five hundred thousand.
Concerning adoption of the International Plumbing Code as an alternative recognized building code.
Concerning the maintenance and repair of private roadways impacting the public interest.
Concerning the financing of local infrastructure.
Concerning certain public facilities district's authorization to acquire, construct, own, remodel, maintain, equip, reequip, repair, finance, and operate one or more recreational facilities other than a ski area with voter approval.
Promoting the use of greywater in urban buildings.
Concerning water-sewer districts.
Concerning fire commissioner compensation.
Concerning county auditors.
Prohibiting regulation of the amount of rent for commercial properties.
Authorizing cities and counties to facilitate the maintenance and repair of private roadways impacting the public interest.
Concerning irrigation district administration.
Providing for fire protection district formation by the legislative authority of a city or town subject to voter approval.
Concerning water-sewer districts.
Allowing fire protection district annexations and mergers within a reasonable geographic proximity and eliminating cross-county restrictions for annexations to a fire protection district.
Concerning the national fire incident reporting system.
Concerning the authority of local governments to require criminal history background checks.
Concerning irrigation district authority.
Concerning metropolitan park districts.
Removing disincentives to the voluntary formation of regional fire protection service authorities by establishing parity, equalizing certain provisions with existing laws governing fire protection districts, and clarifying the formation process.
Concerning county boards of equalization.
Addressing the final approval of subdivisions of land.
Concerning county treasurer administrative efficiencies.
Concerning accessible parking spaces for people with disabilities.
Modifying the appointment process for trustees of rural county library districts in counties with one million or more residents.
Requiring a public hearing before a local government may remove a restrictive covenant from land owned by the local government.
Concerning fire protection district tax levies.
Clarifying the authority and procedures for unit priced contracting by public utility districts.
Concerning a reexamination of the classification of land in flood control districts.
Withdrawing territory from a cemetery district.
Concerning irrigation district authority.
Concerning fire commissioner compensation.
Concerning county auditors.
Granting a city or town the authority to establish and operate a traffic school without county consent, control, or supervision.
Correcting a double amendment concerning county legislative authorities.
Allowing nuisance abatement cost recovery for cities.
Concerning local government modernization.
Concerning county payroll draw days.
Addressing the qualifications for chief examiners.
Concerning the state building code council.
Revising local government treasury practices and procedures.
Preventing water-sewer districts from prohibiting multipurpose fire sprinkler systems.
Concerning health district banking.
Concerning health district banking.
Concerning county road administration and maintenance.
Concerning county payroll draw days.
Concerning water-sewer districts.
Concerning standards adopted by the national fire protection association and the state building code council.
Allowing schools to be sited as essential public facilities outside an urban growth area.
Concerning rail dependent uses for purposes of the growth management act and related development regulations.
Relating to local government financing.
Allowing assessments for nuisance abatement in cities and towns.
Increasing the dollar limitations on first-class cities using public employees to perform public works projects.
Establishing a legislative task force to review the growth management act.
Authorizing cities and counties to approve the use of alternatives to the state building code.
Concerning temporary homeless housing by religious organizations.
Addressing the overpayment of wages by a municipal corporation.
Concerning the state building code council.
Authorizing areas for shooting under the growth management act.
Concerning the economic development element of the growth management act.
Concerning allowable uses of agricultural lands.
Providing for fire protection district formation by the legislative authority of a city or town subject to voter approval.
Concerning public records act requests to local agencies.
Concerning county road administration and maintenance.
Allowing school siting outside of urban growth areas.
Concerning existing county statutes.
Concerning adoption of the International Plumbing Code as an alternative recognized building code.
Studying public access to library services in local jurisdictions across Washington.
Preventing water-sewer districts from prohibiting multipurpose fire sprinkler systems.
Concerning state-shared taxes for the purpose of designated disaster area financing.
Modifying the appointment process for trustees of rural county library districts in counties with one million or more residents.
Concerning rail dependent uses for purposes of the growth management act and related development regulations.
Authorizing cities and counties to facilitate the maintenance and repair of private roadways impacting the public interest.
Modifying the membership and appointment process of the growth management hearings board.
Concerning city or county comprehensive plans or development regulations arising from the economic development element of the growth management act in counties and cities experiencing economic deterioration.
Concerning small parcels of land used for agricultural or rural development purposes.
Prohibiting regulation of the amount of rent for commercial properties.
Establishing schools as essential public facilities within the growth management act.
Concerning county electronic public auctions.
Concerning school siting and school district aid in reducing overall school construction costs.
Removing disincentives to the voluntary formation of regional fire protection service authorities by equalizing certain provisions with existing laws governing fire protection districts and by clarifying the formation process.
Modifying certain provisions governing benefit charges of fire protection districts and regional fire protection service authorities.
Adopting the international wildland urban interface code by reference for purposes of the state building code.
Creating appeal procedures for single-family homeowners with failing septic systems required to connect to public sewer systems.
Removing disincentives to the voluntary formation of regional fire protection service authorities by equalizing certain provisions with existing laws governing fire protection districts and by clarifying the formation process.
Revising local government treasury practices and procedures.
Concerning standards adopted by the national fire protection association and the state building code council.
Modifying per diem rates for port district officers and employees.
Addressing local authority in the regulation of fireworks.
Subjecting a resolution or ordinance adopted by the legislative body of a city or town to assume a water-sewer district to a referendum.
Concerning water-sewer districts.
Providing local governments with flexibility regarding local fireworks ordinances.
Concerning irrigation district administration.
Concerning optional methods of financing long-range planning costs.
Authorizing municipalities to create assessment reimbursement areas for the construction or improvement of water or sewer facilities.
Concerning water-sewer districts.
Allowing assessments for nuisance abatement in cities and towns.
Addressing local authority in the regulation of fireworks.
Concerning irrigation district review and conditioning authority.
Concerning notice and review processes for annexations, deannexations, incorporations, disincorporations, consolidations, and boundary line adjustments under Titles 35 and 35A RCW.
Concerning projects of statewide significance for economic development and transportation.
Addressing the delivery of basic firefighter training and testing.
Granting fire protection districts and regional fire protection service authorities biennial budget authority.
Concerning municipal procurement of water services.
Concerning water-sewer districts.
Concerning standards adopted by the national fire protection association and the state building code council.
Modifying the appointment process for trustees and the selection process for librarians of rural county library districts in counties with one million or more residents.
Addressing annexation of islands of unincorporated territory in areas subject to boundary review.
Imposing fines, withholding taxes, and other measures to encourage local jurisdictions to timely file state-required reports. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Allowing the state treasurer to withhold taxes to encourage local jurisdictions to timely file financial reports. )
Relating to the petition-based annexation method for owners of property within a city or town that seek annexation to another city or town.
Creating a county property tax exemption for energy efficient construction.
Improving permit and approval efficiencies under the shoreline management act.
Adding a definition of streams to the shoreline management act.
Creating appeal procedures for single-family homeowners with failing septic systems required to connect to public sewer systems.
Revising the lien for collection of sewer charges by counties.
Concerning the maximum total dollar amount that may be awarded under a job order contract for cities with a population of more than four hundred thousand.
Requiring incentives for electric vehicle readiness in buildings.
Authorizing municipalities to create assessment reimbursement areas for the construction or improvement of water or sewer facilities.
Limiting the authority of growth management hearings boards to hear petitions challenging the regulation of permit exempt wells.
Requiring voter approval for direct petition annexations.
Promoting fire safety with long-life smoke detection devices.
Concerning optional methods of financing long-range planning costs.
Eliminating the collection of anticipated taxes and assessments.
Concerning county electronic public auctions.
Revising local government treasury practices and procedures.
Granting counties and cities greater flexibility with real estate excise tax proceeds.
Concerning irrigation district administration.
Clarifying that irrigation district facilities are not within the definition of shorelands.
Establishing a process for the payment of impact fees through provisions stipulated in recorded covenants.
Addressing local authority in the regulation of fireworks.
Concerning the imposition of a filing charge for certain property assessment appeal petitions.
Concerning Washington's property assessment appeal procedures.
Concerning Washington's property assessment appeal procedures.
Establishing regional fire protection service authorities within the boundaries of regional cities.
Modifying certain provisions governing benefit charges of fire protection districts and regional fire protection service authorities.
Prohibiting conversion of agricultural lands to wetlands or fish habitat under the growth management act and the shoreline management act.
Prohibiting conversion of agricultural lands to wetlands or fish habitat under the shoreline management act.
Concerning the administrative steps required to be satisfied by a municipality in the procurement of water services in order for RCW 35.22.625 to not apply to the selection of water service contractors.
Modifying per diem rates for port district officers and employees.
Implementing and operating state and county government investment pools.
Subjecting a resolution or ordinance adopted by the legislative body of a city or town to assume a water-sewer district to a referendum.
Concerning school siting and school district aid in reducing overall school construction costs.
Concerning standards adopted by the national fire protection association and the state building code council.
Repealing growth management planning requirements in chapter 36.70A RCW.
Removing disincentives to the voluntary formation of regional fire protection service authorities by equalizing certain provisions with existing laws governing fire protection districts and by clarifying the formation process.
Concerning conservation districts' rates and charges.
Concerning notice and review processes for annexations, deannexations, incorporations, disincorporations, consolidations, and boundary line adjustments under Titles 35 and 35A RCW.
Restricting the conversion of agricultural land to other uses under the growth management act.
Regarding hours of availability of cities, towns, and special purpose districts for inspection and copying of public records.
Modifying certain building permit fees.
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 water-sewer districts.
Authorizing counties to impose a public utility tax.
Granting local governments the authority to make challenges related to growth management planning subject to direct review in superior court.
Concerning lumber grading.
Addressing notice requirements for land use applications, approvals, and decisions.
Concerning a local government installing a public sewage system within the public right-of-way under certain circumstances.
Concerning conservation districts.
Allowing rural counties providing emergency medical services to locations with a rural amphitheater to impose an additional admissions surcharge.
Exempting certain department of transportation actions from local review or permit processes under the shoreline management act.
Exempting certain department of transportation actions from local review or permit processes under the shoreline management act.
Concerning real estate as it concerns the local government authority in the use of real estate excise tax revenues and regulating real estate transactions.
Creating appeal procedures for single-family homeowners with failing septic systems required to connect to public sewer systems.
Promoting economic recovery in the construction industry.
Concerning building code standards for certain buildings four or more stories high.
Expanding county road fund purposes for certain counties.
Concerning water storage asset management services.
Authorizing regular meetings of county legislative authorities to be held at alternate locations within the county.
Subjecting a resolution or ordinance adopted by the legislative body of a city or town to assume a water-sewer district to a referendum.
Modifying per diem compensation for flood control zone district supervisors.
Modifying provisions governing the competitive bidding process of water-sewer districts.
Increasing the flexibility for industrial development district levies for public port districts.
Concerning county electronic public auctions.
Authorizing municipalities to create assessment reimbursement areas for the construction or improvement of water or sewer facilities.
Concerning conservation districts' rates and charges.
Allowing joint meetings of county legislative authorities under certain circumstances.
Granting fire protection districts and regional fire protection service authorities biennial budget authority.
Revising the lien for collection of sewer charges by counties.
Addressing the delivery of basic firefighter training and testing.
Concerning public water systems' public participation notice provisions.
Concerning irrigation district administration.
Modifying per diem rates for port district officers and employees.
Granting port districts certain administrative powers.
Assigning counties to two climate zones for purposes of the state building code.
Extending the deadline to designate one or more industrial land banks.
Providing a process for county legislative authorities to withdraw from voluntary planning under the growth management act.
Requiring a city or town to notify light and power businesses and gas distribution businesses of annexed areas and affected properties.
Addressing duplicate signatures on petitions in cities, towns, and code cities.
Concerning lake and beach management districts.
Changing the definition of capital projects to include technology infrastructure.
Clarifying the exemption in the public records act for customer information held by public utilities.
Concerning partial fire district mergers.
Increasing the dollar amount for construction of a dock that does not qualify as a substantial development under the shoreline management act.
Providing a process for county legislative authorities to withdraw from voluntary planning under the growth management act.
Modifying water-sewer district provisions.
Concerning certain public water systems.
Concerning utility rates and charges for vacant mobile home lots in manufactured housing communities. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning utility rates and charges for vacant lots in manufactured housing communities. )
Revising local government treasury practices and procedures.
Modifying provisions governing the competitive bidding process of water-sewer districts.
Modifying provisions governing public works projects of code cities.
Revising local government treasury practices and procedures.
Providing for the creation of a less than countywide port district within a county containing no port districts.
Concerning food and yard waste collection space for qualifying new residential occupancies with more than two dwelling units.
Concerning electronic salary and wage payments by counties.
Concerning interlocal agreements for ambulance services between fire protection districts and contiguous cities.
Concerning county financial actions for a concluded fiscal year.
Providing an additional method for water-sewer districts to disburse funds.
Concerning per diem compensation for flood control zone district supervisors.
Concerning health district banking.
Establishing a regional fire protection service authority within the boundaries of a single city.
Concerning voter-approved benefit charges for regional fire protection service authorities.
Authorizing assessments for nuisance abatement in cities and towns.
Concerning equitable allocation of auditor costs.
Revising the lien for collection of sewer charges by counties.
Authorizing regular meetings of county legislative authorities to be held at alternate locations within the county.
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions through land use and transportation requirements.
Regarding irrigation district administration.
Regarding the financing of irrigation district improvements.
Concerning the operation of county budgets.
Revising business licensing systems.
Concerning carbon monoxide alarms.
Creating a six-year time frame for substantial building code amendments.
Concerning fire suppression water facilities and services provided by municipal and other water purveyors.
Expanding the membership of the state building code council.
Concerning public hospital districts insurance coverage for commissioners.
Authorizing assessments for nuisance abatement in cities and towns.
Concerning the effect of zoning ordinances on hobby vehicle restoration. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning the restoration of collector vehicles. )
Establishing a process for the payment of impact fees through provisions stipulated in recorded covenants.
Addressing vesting in urban growth areas with recently added territory.
Changing the definition of public facilities to include roadway, traffic, and way-finding signage.
Clarifying the exemption in the public records act for customer information held by public utilities.
Concerning local government selection of the appropriate sewer systems as part of growth management.
Concerning ferry districts in counties with a population of one million or more.
Extending the date by which counties participating in the voluntary stewardship program must review and, if necessary, revise development regulations that apply to critical areas in areas used for agricultural activities.
Authorizing the annexation of territory outside of, contiguous to, and that receives services from a diking district.
Addressing the powers of initiative and referendum within counties that are not home rule charter counties.
Concerning real property valuation notices.
Concerning real property valuation notices.
Including costs associated with preparing for new annexations within city sales and use tax authority.
Concerning the training of code enforcement officials.
Concerning lake and beach management districts.
Allowing legal entities to cast votes in diking district elections.
Concerning the two climate zones within the building codes.
Concerning annexations by code cities in counties with four hundred thousand or more residents.
Permitting school siting outside of urban growth areas.
Limiting the authority of growth management hearings boards to hear petitions challenging the regulation of permit exempt wells.
Addressing vesting under comprehensive plans or development regulations determined to be invalid by the growth management hearings board.
Promoting fire safety with long-life smoke detection devices.
Concerning public approval of annexations by cities and towns.
Concerning the administration and operation of flood control districts.
Modifying the selection process for librarians of rural county library districts in counties with one million or more residents.
Establishing a process for the payment of impact fees through provisions stipulated in recorded covenants.
Addressing notice requirements for land use applications and decisions.
Creating a joint legislative task force to determine the most appropriate and effective delivery of electrical code adoption, rule-making, and inspection services.
Transferring ferry and flood control zone district functions and taxing authorities to county legislative authorities in counties with a population of one million five hundred thousand or more.
Modifying water-sewer district provisions.
Addressing small public works projects for fire departments and regional fire authorities.
Regarding local government purchasing.
Concerning the annexation of property owned by the state for military purposes.
Concerning contractor's bond.
Concerning the powers of water-sewer districts.
Concerning tax collection by the county treasurer.
Creating greater efficiency in the offices of county assessor by eliminating the requirement to annually appraise tax-exempt government properties.
Designating facilities and infrastructure of water purveyors as essential public facilities under growth management planning requirements.
Addressing the timing of penalties under the growth management act.
Concerning the annexation of unincorporated territory within a code city.
Concerning carbon monoxide alarms.
Modifying the percentage of votes required to approve benefit charges for fire protection districts.
Concerning clarification of the requirements for payment of infrastructure for fully contained communities.
Concerning smoke detection devices in dwelling units.
Concerning provisions governing the use of direct deposit.
Allowing certain county legislative authorities to impose a sales and use tax by ordinance.
Allowing councilmanic approval of the public safety sales and use tax.
Permitting school siting outside of urban growth areas.
Addressing the sufficiency of signatures for petitions in cities, towns, and code cities.
Addressing the fiscal conditions of local government.
Concerning tax collection by the county treasurer.
Concerning shoreline development permits.
Concerning projects of statewide significance for economic development and transportation.
Allowing county treasurers to retain a portion of the state property tax to defray the costs of collection.
Incentivizing up-front environmental planning, review, and infrastructure construction actions of local governments.
Suspending the growth management act in counties with significant and persistent unemployment.
Expanding the membership of the state building code council.
Concerning carbon monoxide alarms.
Creating greater efficiency in the offices of county assessor by eliminating the requirement to annually appraise tax-exempt government properties.
Concerning shoreline master program provisions for marine aquaculture net pen facilities.
Concerning the annexation of unincorporated territory within a code city.
Concerning information about the county-based system of collecting legal financial obligations.
Modifying the percentage of votes required to approve benefit charges for fire protection districts.
Addressing the timing of penalties under the growth management act.
Concerning the distribution of state liquor revenues to cities and counties.
Requiring cities and counties to provide security for their courts.
Prohibiting local governments and state agencies from mandating the installation of fire sprinkler systems in agricultural structures.
Concerning transparency, accountability, and uniformity for county treasurers.
Concerning the sale of memorial markers by cemetery districts.
Concerning local government practices and procedures.
Regarding local government purchasing.
Concerning the powers of water-sewer districts.
Concerning contractor's bond.
Authorizing certain water-sewer districts to use the job order contracting procedure.
Strengthening the integrity, fairness, and equity in Washington's property assessment system.
Concerning the annexation of property owned by the state for military purposes.
Repealing growth management planning requirements in chapter 36.70A RCW.
Incentivizing up-front environmental planning and review.
Regarding local agencies' responses to public records requests.
Designating facilities and infrastructure of water purveyors as essential public facilities under growth management planning requirements.
Requiring notice to property owners when a county, city, or town modifies its zoning requirements.
Concerning the administration and operation of flood control districts.
Concerning local government selection of appropriate sewer systems in urban areas.
Concerning per diem compensation for flood control zone district supervisors.
Concerning the annexation of unincorporated territory within a code city.
Establishing a process for the payment of impact fees through provisions stipulated in recorded covenants.
Addressing the timing of penalties under the growth management act.
Incentivizing up-front environmental planning, review, and infrastructure construction actions.
Creating greater efficiency in the offices of county assessor by eliminating the requirement to annually appraise tax-exempt government properties.
Concerning mosquito control districts.
Regarding the financing of irrigation district improvements.
Concerning cemetery district formation requirements.
Permitting conservation districts to use electronic deposits for employee pay and compensation.
Authorizing political subdivisions to purchase certain technology and services from the United States government.
Creating greater efficiency in the offices of county assessors by allowing notification via electronic means.
Concerning fire suppression water facilities and services provided by municipal and other water purveyors.
Modifying the percentage of votes required to approve benefit charges for fire protection districts.
Concerning contractor's bond.
Regarding local government purchasing.
Concerning requirements governing and associated with plat approvals.
Concerning permitting for the replacement of certain elements of the state route number 520 Evergreen Point bridge.
Authorizing the creation of municipal fire districts.
Regarding irrigation and rehabilitation district administration.
Authorizing urban growth area boundary modifications for industrial land.
Concerning ferry and flood control zone district functions and taxing authorities.
Clarifying provisions establishing subzones in countywide flood control zone districts.
Incentivizing upfront environmental planning and review.
Addressing membership on city disability boards.
Streamlining the process for the vacation of roads by counties.
Improving the function of the treasurer's office in handling advance taxes and assessments.
Creating greater efficiency and productivity in the offices of county assessors.
Reducing nontax administration costs associated with the conduct of city and county operations.
Repealing provisions governing community municipal corporations.
Regulating fire hydrant services provided by local governments.
Authorizing benefit charges for the enhancement of fire protection services.
Establishing a joint select committee on junior taxing districts.
Authorizing the department of commerce to approve comprehensive plans and development regulations.
Requiring compensation for government required actions on private property.
Regarding the state building code council regulation of equipment or systems used for commercial and industrial cold storage.
Regarding the state building code council regulation of processes and equipment used for commercial and industrial processes.
Clarifying procedures for appealing the adoption of a local shoreline master program by ensuring consistency with existing procedural provisions of the growth management act, chapter 36.70A RCW, the administrative procedure act, chapter 34.05 RCW, and the state environmental policy act, chapter 43.21C RCW.
Regulating the documents used in complying with the growth management act.
Increasing the dollar amount for construction of a dock that does not qualify as a substantial development under the shoreline management act.
Concerning equitable allocation of auditor costs.
Concerning the sale of water-sewer district real property.
Concerning the population restrictions for a geographic area to qualify as a rural public hospital district.
Concerning public health district authority as it relates to gifts, grants, conveyances, bequests, and devises of real or personal property.
Regarding leases of irrigation district property.
Authorizing limited expansions of urban growth areas into one hundred year floodplains in areas adjacent to a freeway interchange or interstate in counties wholly or partially bordering salt waters with more than one hundred thousand but fewer than one hundred fifty thousand residents.
Concerning provisions for notifications and appeals timelines under the shoreline management act.
Authorizing rural conservation development demonstration projects.
Authorizing lien authority of public utility districts providing water or sewer service.
Changing provisions relating to community municipal corporations.
Limiting residential densities of certain unincorporated portions of urban growth areas.
Clarifying the authority of port districts to deliver water through a public water system.
Allowing the use of federal census data to determine the resident population of annexed territory.
Eliminating the growth management hearings board.
Concerning the creation of local improvement districts by petition in water-sewer districts.
Concerning traditional and alternative sewer systems.
Concerning the compensation of port district employees.
Addressing the use and governance of hearing examiners.
Concerning political subdivisions in the intrastate mutual aid system.
Concerning objections to liquor licenses by local governments.
Addressing appeal and permit procedures under the shoreline management act.
Authorizing industrial manufacturing sites in counties with fewer than fifty thousand persons.
Concerning port districts.
Concerning cemetery district formation requirements.
Ensuring the continuance of agricultural activities through provisions in the growth management act.
Revising the lien for collection of sewer charges by counties.
Making certain unfunded mandates optional for political subdivisions.
Regarding implementation of recommendations of the William D. Ruckelshaus Center.
Concerning making an annexation ordinance subject to referendum.
Concerning the sale of memorial markers by cemetery districts.
Changing provisions relating to community municipal corporations.
Authorizing the publishing of legal or official notices within an online database.
Addressing development regulations adopted under the growth management act to protect critical areas that apply to agricultural activities.
Addressing the annexation of unincorporated areas served by fire protection districts.
Modifying water-sewer district provisions.
Establishing a process for the payment of impact fees through provisions stipulated in recorded covenants.
Concerning provisions for notifications and appeals timelines under the shoreline management act.
Authorizing multijurisdiction flood control zones.
Authorizing rural conservation development demonstration projects.
Authorizing lien authority of public utility districts providing water or sewer service.
Concerning county and city additional real estate excise tax authority.
Suspending the growth management act in counties with significant and persistent unemployment.
Authorizing the state legislature to dissolve and reorganize counties under certain financial conditions.
Adopting the international wildland urban interface code.
Concerning landscape conservation and local infrastructure.
Creating the Puget Sound port authority.
Concerning compliance with sales, use, and business and occupation tax requirements.
Establishing a land use planning for jobs legislative task force.
Providing flexibility with respect to the foreclosure process for delinquent local improvement district assessments.
Regarding leases of irrigation district property.
Exempting irrigation and drainage ditches from the definition of critical areas.
Allowing the use of federal census data to determine the resident population of annexed territory.
Establishing a process to support local jurisdictions that have made outstanding progress in implementing the growth management act.
Concerning the population restrictions for a geographic area to qualify as a rural public hospital district.
Limiting residential densities of certain unincorporated portions of urban growth areas.
Clarifying the authority of port districts to deliver water through a public water system.
Concerning public health district authority as it relates to gifts, grants, conveyances, bequests, and devises of real or personal property.
Authorizing limited expansions of urban growth areas into one hundred year floodplains in areas adjacent to a freeway interchange or interstate in counties wholly or partially bordering salt waters with more than one hundred thousand but fewer than one hundred fifty thousand residents.
Establishing a moratorium on the imposition of impact fees.
Authorizing public safety authorities.
Addressing the growth management hearings board.
Prohibiting local governments and state agencies from mandating the installation of fire sprinkler systems in agricultural structures.
Making the office of the county auditor a nonpartisan office.
Addressing federal and state government coordination with local governments.
Providing a process for county legislative authorities to withdraw from voluntary planning under the growth management act.
Limiting the moratoria authority of counties and cities in the ordinary course of comprehensive plan and shoreline master program amendment processes.
Concerning violations of the shoreline management act and the growth management act.
Concerning the sale of water-sewer district real property.
Requiring notice to property owners when a county, city, or town modifies its zoning requirements.
Changing authority for contracts with community service organizations for public improvements.
Limiting the authority of boundary review boards.
Clarifying procedures for appealing department of ecology final action on a local shoreline master program by ensuring consistency with existing procedural provisions of the growth management act, chapter 36.70A RCW, the administrative procedure act, chapter 34.05 RCW, and the state environmental policy act, chapter 43.21C RCW.
Regarding boatyard storm water treatment systems.
Clarifying timelines associated with plats.
Authorizing an optional system of rates and charges for conservation districts.
Modifying certain definitions for the purpose of firefighting services for unprotected lands.
Addressing appeal and permit procedures under the shoreline management act.
Addressing appeal and permit procedures under the shoreline management act.
Implementing recommendations of the Ruckelshaus Center process.
Delaying or modifying certain regulatory and statutory requirements affecting cities and counties.
Concerning the installation of residential fire sprinkler systems.
Allowing the negotiated sale and conveyance of all or part of a water system by a municipal corporation to first class and code cities.
Concerning the annexation of territory by regional fire protection service authorities.
Providing for the joint provision and management of municipal water, wastewater, storm and flood water, and related utility services.
Amending the consideration of houseboats and houseboat moorages for the purposes of aquatic lands and shoreline management.
Concerning the authorization of bonds issued by Washington local governments.
Clarifying the method for calculating port commissioner compensation.
Concerning the formation, operation, and governance of regional fire protection service authorities.
Concerning requirements that cities and towns with ambulance utilities allocate funds toward the total cost necessary to regulate, operate, and maintain the ambulance utility.
Authorizing use of hearing officers for street vacation hearings. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Authorizing use of hearing examiners for street vacation hearings. )
Changing qualifications for appointees to metropolitan water pollution abatement advisory committees.
Authorizing four-year terms for planning commissioners.
Addressing public utility districts and deferred compensation and supplemental savings plans.
Authorizing public utility districts to request voluntary contributions to assist low-income customers with payment of water and sewer bills.
Using state correctional facility populations to determine population thresholds for certain local government purposes.
Regarding the disposition of unclaimed remains.