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Concerning the creation of building codes for kit homes.
Concerning the sale of surplus property by water-sewer districts.
Exempting land classified under current use that is sold or transferred to a governmental entity from additional tax in certain circumstances.
Concerning permit review processes.
Providing for enhanced municipal permitting tools for high capacity transit projects.
Concerning on-site wastewater treatment system inspections.
Allowing small business establishments in residential zones.
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 2nd substitute: Establishing crash prevention zones.
Updating terminology related to ski areas and winter sports activities.
Concerning local tax increment financing.
Regulating sewage grinder pumps for new residential buildings.
Revised for 1st substitute: Removing the deadline for forming a public facilities district for regional aquatics and sports facilities.
Concerning the responsibility of certain counties to include freight rail dependent use overlay as part of the transportation element of their comprehensive plan.
Concerning moneys available to a port district allocated for the purchase of zero and near zero emission cargo handling equipment.
Concerning street standards and frontage improvement requirements.
Creating uniformity for the process by which cities planning under the growth management act implement real estate excise taxes.
Exempting land classified under current use that is sold or transferred to a governmental entity from additional tax in certain circumstances.
Concerning fire protection districts.
Considering critical aquifer recharge areas when revising an urban growth area.
Concerning public facilities district formation.
Updating terminology related to ski areas and winter sports activities.
Concerning the subdivision of land.
Implementing the International Wildland Urban Interface Code.
Granting counties authority to enter into a shared stewardship agreement.
Concerning local government permits for replacing existing culverts.
Concerning city incorporation.
Concerning cemetery district elections.
Requiring coroners to be appointed rather than elected.
Concerning Washington's property assessment appeal procedures.
Concerning the administration of the international fire code.
Concerning local government hearing examiners.
Modifying the fee to support family services.
Concerning covenants, conditions, and restrictions of an airpark.
Concerning local government hearing examiners.
Concerning fair treatment of municipal solid waste systems.
Concerning limited areas of more intensive rural development.
Making it possible for more properties to have access to water, storm drains, and sanitary sewage systems.
Concerning approval of certain alternative on-site sewage systems.
Standardizing notification provisions relating to local tax rate changes and shared taxes administered by the department.
Concerning electric security alarm systems.
Concerning historic landmark designations.
Concerning maintenance for salmon recovery projects.
Concerning residential development in limited areas of more intensive rural development.
Allowing small business establishments in residential zones.
Concerning membership in the state building code council.
Concerning the leasing authority of the state parks and recreation commission at St. Edward State Park.
Concerning extending governmental services from cities to tribal lands.
Incentivizing cities and counties to increase employment of commissioned law enforcement officers.
Ensuring that local government planning complies with the growth management act.
Concerning the geographic composition of county weed boards.
Authorizing counties to impose a public utility tax.
Extending a program to streamline the environmental permitting process for salmon recovery projects.
Modifying small works roster requirements for cities.
Clarifying the duties of county auditors.
Concerning fire protection district civil service systems.
Concerning funding rural county coroners and medical examiners.
Concerning underinsured motorist coverage for local government employees.
Promoting agritourism in Washington.
Concerning county comprehensive plans and development regulations.
Concerning public facilities districts.
Concerning the waiver of municipal utility connection charges for certain properties.
Revised for engrossed: Concerning access to recreation sites or lands.
Lengthening port commissioner terms.
Concerning sampling or testing of biosolids for PFAS chemicals.
Increasing the availability of baby diaper changing stations.
Clarifying tribal membership on local boards of health.
Concerning extending governmental services from cities to tribal lands.
Regulating exterior cladding materials.
Streamlining the subdivision process inside urban growth areas.
Concerning the siting of child care centers.
Concerning alternate funding for libraries.
Concerning the designation of historic landmarks by cities.
Standardizing notification provisions relating to local tax rate changes and shared taxes administered by the department.
Streamlining and clarifying local governments' land use permitting workloads.
Concerning building code and development regulation reform.
Revised for 1st substitute: Concerning timelines for growth management comprehensive plan and development regulation updates.
Concerning vacancies on boards of county commissioners.
Simplifying processes and timelines related to personal property distraint.
Concerning the definition of project permit and project permit application.
Identifying accommodations allowing pets in an emergency or extreme weather event.
Concerning electric security alarm systems.
Concerning fire protection district civil service 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.
Ensuring that local government planning complies with the growth management act.
Concerning the leasing authority of the state parks and recreation commission at St. Edward State Park.
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.
Allowing the local sales and use tax for affordable housing to be imposed by a councilmanic authority.
Improving openness, accountability, and transparency of special purpose districts.
Concerning tourism authorities.
Clarifying the respective administrative powers, duties, and responsibilities of the growth management hearings board and the environmental land use and hearings office.
Concerning library districts.
Making statutory requirements and policies for cultural access programs the same in all counties of the state.
Concerning requirements for the filing of assessment rolls.
Concerning utility tax disclosures.
Installing, repairing, replacing, and updating mitigation equipment installed within an impacted area.
Clarifying that facilities that are operated by a private entity in which persons are detained in custody under process of law pending the outcome of legal proceedings are not essential public facilities under the growth management act.
Addressing aircraft noise abatement.
Concerning underground utilities and safety committee.
Limiting fire protection service agency liability for the installation of detection devices.
Addressing aircraft noise abatement.
Providing code cities with the ability to annex unincorporated areas pursuant to a jointly approved interlocal agreement with the county.
Allowing for extensions of the special valuation of historic property for certain properties.
Concerning water-sewer district commissioner compensation. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Concerning commissioner compensation. )
Concerning inspection and testing of fire and smoke control systems and dampers.
Allowing a permanent fire protection district benefit charge with voter approval.
Concerning fire district health clinic services.
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.
Filling vacancies in county sheriff offices.
Concerning municipal conflicts of interest.
Concerning mosquito control districts.
Planning for affordable housing under the growth management act.
Tackling climate change as a goal of the growth management act.
Waiving utility connection charges for certain properties.
Concerning bond requirements for county clerks.
Concerning boarding homes.
Concerning the authorization to impose special excise taxes on the sale of lodging.
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.
Combining a resolution proposing abandonment and a resolution proposing a council-manager plan of government into a single proposition.
Concerning veterans' assistance levies.
Concerning the number of fire protection district commissioners.
Concerning special purpose district financial reporting.
Concerning the mitigation of public facilities in certain cities.
Concerning special purpose district commissioner compensation.
Concerning veterans' assistance levies.
Concerning the mitigation of public facilities in certain cities.
Concerning the transparency of local taxing districts.
Addressing irrigation district elections.
Amending the schedule for updates to the comprehensive plan of Kitsap county that are required under the growth management act to match the update schedules of other central Puget Sound counties.
Concerning the voluntary stewardship program.
Concerning local government issuance of a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.
Creating more housing options in traditionally single-family zones.
Clarifying that facilities that are operated by a private entity in which persons are detained in custody under process of law pending the outcome of legal proceedings are not essential public facilities under the growth management act.
Concerning state building code council membership.
Simplifying the process for donating low-value surplus property owned by a city-owned utility.
Waiving utility connection charges for certain properties.
Authorizing and encouraging cities to notify the department of children, youth, and families of conditions at family day-care provider facilities that could cause harm to a child's health, welfare, or safety.
Installing, repairing, replacing, and updating mitigation equipment installed within an impacted area.
Allowing the local sales and use tax for affordable housing to be imposed by a councilmanic authority.
Authorizing cities planning under the growth management act to impose certain real estate excise taxes by councilmanic action.
Removing disincentives to the creation of community facilities districts.
Authorizing cities planning under the growth management act to impose certain real estate excise taxes by councilmanic action.
Eliminating certain requirements for the annexation of an unincorporated island of territory.
Concerning the authorization to impose special excise taxes on the sale of lodging.
Concerning mosquito control districts.
Concerning uniform due process of land use code violations.
Encouraging the success of agriculture on agricultural land.
Concerning the creation of parks benefit districts.
Concerning the creation of parks benefit districts.
Concerning local salmon habitat recovery planning in critical areas.
Eliminating environmental analysis and mitigation requirements on projects within the comprehensive plan.
Concerning permit timelines.
Tackling climate change as a goal of the growth management act.
Addressing climate change through growth management.
Concerning bid limits for purchases and public works by fire protection districts.
Concerning the effective date of certain actions taken under the growth management act.
Prohibiting cities and towns from citing the same statutory authority to impose multiple business taxes.
Clarifying reimbursement for certain clean-up or removal actions by fire protection jurisdictions.
Concerning tax incentives to encourage residential and mixed-use development in urban infill areas.
Creating greater flexibility for cities and counties to plan for the future of their citizens by minimizing costs.
Prohibiting funds available to port districts from being allocated for the purchase of fully automated cargo handling equipment.
Concerning minimum urban density requirements in growth management act cities and counties.
Concerning new counties.
Concerning public works bid limits.
Concerning bid limits for purchases and public works by fire protection districts.
Concerning the fairness of public works bidding.
Modifying the types of off-road vehicles subject to local government regulation.
Concerning the growth management hearings board.
Concerning the state building code council.
Concerning the composition of the growth management hearings board.
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.
Concerning cooperation between conservation districts.
Prohibiting local taxes based on employee wages, employee hours, or the number of employment positions.
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.
Concerning urban growth areas.
Concerning public utility districts' contracts for work or materials.
Concerning seismic hazard risk reduction.
Concerning agency obligations.
Requiring property sold in tax lien foreclosure proceedings to be sold as is.
Establishing minimum density standards around regional transit.
Concerning the housing element of comprehensive plans required under the growth management act.
Concerning the location of tiny house communities.
Concerning local project review undertaken under chapter 36.70B RCW.
Concerning affordable housing development on religious organization property.
Promoting redevelopment of certain areas to encourage transit supportive densities and efficient land use.
Concerning the authority and procedures for unit priced contracting by water and sewer districts.
Preventing breed-based dog regulations.
Clarifying what science may be used by cities and counties to designate critical areas.
Clarifying the contracting procedures for cities.
Concerning standing before the growth management hearings board.
Concerning the economic development of rural counties.
Concerning the salaries of county sheriffs.
Encouraging the success of agriculture on agricultural land.
Concerning the process of identifying limited areas of more intensive rural development.
Concerning the review of urban growth area boundaries.
Concerning the siting of essential public facilities under the growth management act.
Concerning short subdivisions.
Concerning the placement of planning boundaries in conjunction with parcel boundaries.
Concerning the compensation of commissioners of certain metropolitan park districts.
Concerning community preservation and development authorities.
Concerning local government procurement modernization and efficiency.
Concerning the administration of irrigation districts.
Requiring the growth management hearings board to topically index the rulings, decisions, and orders it publishes.
Addressing noncollection of taxes by county treasurers.
Concerning the mitigation of public facilities in certain cities.
Expanding the allowable powers of fire protection districts.
Protecting taxpayers from home foreclosure.
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.
Concerning county electrical traffic control signals, illumination equipment, and other electrical equipment conveying an electrical current.
Providing greater certainty in association with selling city-owned property used for off-street parking.
Removing disincentives to the creation of community facilities districts.
Increasing the maximum tax rate for the voter-approved local sales and use tax for emergency communication systems and facilities.
Concerning breed-based dog regulations.
Concerning the compensation of commissioners of certain metropolitan park districts.
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 protected lands not being assessed local fire district levies.
Entering abandoned cemeteries for authorized purposes.
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. )
Requiring property sold in tax lien foreclosure proceedings to be sold as is.
Concerning property tax refunds more than three years after the due date resulting from certain manifest errors.
Adjusting monetary thresholds for found property.
Concerning cemetery district withdrawal of territory.
Addressing insurance coverage for water-sewer district commissioners.
Authorizing county treasurers to contract with other treasurers for services.
Addressing county commissioner elections.
Regulating the minimum dimensions of habitable spaces in single-family residential areas.
Concerning public hospital district health and wellness promotion activities and superintendent appointment and removal.
Exempting impact fees for low-income housing development.
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 unit priced contracting by cities.
Extending the existing state property tax exemption for residences of senior citizens and disabled persons to local regular property taxes.
Concerning Washington's property assessment appeal procedures.
Allowing fire protection district annexations and mergers within a reasonable geographic proximity.
Concerning the use of cross-laminated timber for building construction. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning the use of mass timber for building construction. )
Providing cities and counties flexibility with existing resources.
Limiting overtime for correctional officers.
Simplifying the process for donating low-value surplus property owned by a city-owned utility.
Authorizing county treasurers to contract with other treasurers for services.
Concerning the compensation of commissioners of certain metropolitan park districts.
Requiring transportation benefit districts to hold public hearings prior to imposing fees or charges by a vote of the governing board.
Concerning the transparency of local taxing districts.
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. )
Specifying that fire protection districts and regional fire protection service authorities are taxing districts for the purpose of distributing public utility revenues.
Exempting impact fees for low-income housing development.
Regarding foreclosure and distraint sales of manufactured/mobile or park model homes.
Allowing excess local infrastructure financing revenues to be carried forward.
Addressing noncollection of taxes by county treasurers.
Requiring property sold in tax lien foreclosure proceedings to be sold as is.
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.
Simplifying the process for donating low-value surplus property owned by a city-owned utility.
Clarifying the authority and procedures for unit priced contracting by public port districts.
Concerning employee recognition awards.
Concerning the recording standards commission.
Ensuring the ongoing viability of safe, reliable, on-site sewage systems in marine counties by identifying best management practices with accountability in on-site program management plans without creating or newly authorizing a fee or other program funding source.
Providing cities and counties flexibility with existing resources.
Allowing limited storm and sanitary sewer systems for rural economic development in the growth management act.
Concerning the redevelopment of an area overlapping the boundary between two adjacent cities.
Authorizing cities planning under the growth management act to impose certain real estate excise taxes by councilmatic action.
Eliminating certain requirements for the annexation of an unincorporated island of territory.
Extending the existing state property tax exemption for residences of senior citizens and disabled persons to local regular property taxes.
Allowing fire protection district annexations and mergers within a reasonable geographic proximity.
Concerning the administration of irrigation districts.
Concerning the compensation of commissioners of certain metropolitan park districts.
Concerning public hospital district health and wellness promotion activities and superintendent appointment and removal.
Concerning mosquito control districts.
Addressing insurance coverage for water-sewer district commissioners.
Siting of institutions of higher education and accompanying facilities.
Concerning recording documents related to the inheritance exemption for the real estate excise tax.
Concerning Washington's property assessment appeal procedures.
Concerning the mitigation of public facilities in certain cities.
Concerning actions by the boundary review board.
Concerning the hosting of the homeless by religious organizations.
Removing diking districts in Snohomish county from county surface water management fees.
Concerning removal of land from the current use property tax classification due to certain natural disasters.
Preventing breed-based dog regulations.
Concerning local government financial reports.
Concerning the protection of military installations operated by the United States armed services from incompatible development.
Concerning the creation of housing opportunity zones by cities and counties.
Preserving farm and agricultural land.
Addressing county commissioner elections.
Concerning the creation of a countywide port district within a county containing no port districts.
Concerning the creation of a countywide port district within a county containing no port districts.
Defining best available science for the purposes of designating fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas.
Concerning zoning regulations relating to accessory dwelling units.
Reforming the growth management act to provide infrastructure for unplanned growth in counties.
Concerning regional funding priority for major military installations.
Concerning minimum density standards for comprehensive plans adopted by cities required to plan under chapter 36.70A RCW.
Authorizing certain cities to impose a lodging fee for public safety and public works.
Clarifying the county treasurer's administration of payments and costs related to delinquent properties.
Concerning metropolitan park 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.
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 fire commissioner compensation.
Concerning the economic development element of the growth management act.
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.
Clarifying the county treasurer's administration of payments and costs related to delinquent properties.
Amending the schedule for updates to the comprehensive plan of Kitsap county.
Concerning metropolitan park districts.
Providing public notices of public health, safety, and welfare in a language other than English.
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.
Allowing fire protection district annexations and mergers within a reasonable geographic proximity and eliminating cross-county restrictions for annexations to a fire protection district.
Replacing the one percent property tax revenue limit with a limit tied to cost drivers.
Simplifying the population growth criteria for planning required by the growth management act.
Conducting a study of the costs and funding sources for the core services and functions provided by county offices.
Concerning fire commissioner compensation.
Authorizing the development of new manufactured housing communities outside of urban growth areas under the growth management act.
Concerning the state building code council.
Concerning the state building code council.
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 treasurer administrative efficiencies.
Concerning rules for on-site sewage systems.
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.
Encouraging the annexation of unincorporated urban growth areas.
Concerning the scope of land use control ordinances for purposes of vesting.
Eliminating the collection of anticipated taxes and assessments.
Concerning fire protection district tax levies.
Extending the period for which a bond levy may be increased.
Concerning rail dependent uses for purposes of the growth management act and related development regulations.
Ensuring adequacy of buildable lands and zoning in urban growth areas and providing funding for low-income housing and homelessness programs.
Concerning rail dependent uses for purposes of the growth management act and related development regulations.
Concerning the national fire incident reporting system.
Addressing sewer service within urban growth areas.
Concerning the authority of local governments to require criminal history background checks.
Extending the period for which a bond levy may be increased.
Concerning the economic development element of the growth management act.
Providing for fire protection district formation by the legislative authority of a city or town subject to voter approval.
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 water-sewer districts.
Providing public notices of public health, safety, and welfare in a language other than English.
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 metropolitan park districts.
Modifying the appointment process for trustees of rural county library districts in counties with one million or more residents.
Concerning county treasurer administrative efficiencies.
Addressing the final approval of subdivisions of land.
Concerning county boards of equalization.
Concerning fire protection district tax levies.
Requiring a public hearing before a local government may remove a restrictive covenant from land owned by the local government.
Eliminating the collection of anticipated taxes and assessments.
Addressing the effective date of certain actions taken under the growth management act.
Preventing unfunded mandates involving on-site sewage systems from affecting local governments and property owners.
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 fire commissioner compensation.
Concerning county auditors.
Regarding irrigation district administration.
Regarding irrigation and rehabilitation district administration.
Establishing the working waterfront redevelopment jobs act.
Addressing the annexation of unincorporated areas served by fire protection districts.
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 multijurisdiction flood control zones.
Authorizing public utility districts to request voluntary contributions to assist low-income customers with payment of water and sewer bills.
Changing qualifications for appointees to metropolitan water pollution abatement advisory committees.
Addressing fire protection district commissioners.
Authorizing urban growth area boundary modifications for industrial land.
Authorizing benefit charges for the enhancement of fire protection services.
Exempting irrigation and drainage ditches from the definition of critical areas.
Concerning the authorization of bonds issued by Washington local governments.
Concerning shoreline structures in a master program adopted under the shoreline management act.
Concerning landscape conservation and local infrastructure.
Allowing the use of federal census data to determine the resident population of annexed territory.
Concerning provisions for notifications and appeals timelines under the shoreline management act.
Concerning private infrastructure development.
Concerning the population restrictions for a geographic area to qualify as a rural public hospital district.
Concerning the sale of water-sewer district real property.
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.