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MONDAY 22
Labor, Commerce & Tribal Affairs – 3/22/2021 9:30 AM
Executive Session:
1. 2SHB 1076 – Allowing whistleblowers to bring actions on behalf of the state for violations of workplace protections.
2.  HB 1289 – Concerning winery workforce development.
3. ESHB 1443 – Concerning social equity within the cannabis industry.
Law & Justice – 3/22/2021 9:30 AM
Public Hearing: SHB 1209 – Concerning immunity protection for nonmedical assistance. (Remote testimony.)
Early Learning & K-12 Education – 3/22/2021 1:30 PM
Public Hearing:
1. SHB 1085 – Promoting a safe learning environment for students with seizure disorders. (Remote testimony.)
2. E2SHB 1213 – Expanding accessible, affordable child care and early childhood development programs. (Remote testimony.)
3. SHB 1373 – Promoting student access to information about behavioral health resources. (Remote testimony.)
Executive Session:
1. ESHB 1176 – Concerning access to higher education.
2. ESHB 1214 – Providing K-12 public school safety and security services by classified staff or contractors.
3. ESHB 1426 – Specifying minimum continuing education requirements for administrator and teacher certificate renewals that focus on equity-based school and classroom practices.
4. SHB 1484 – Concerning the statewide first responder building mapping information system.
Health & Long-Term Care – 3/22/2021 1:30 PM
Public Hearing:
1. SHB 1411 – Expanding health care workforce eligibility. (Remote testimony.)
2. SHB 1323 – Concerning the long-term services and supports trust program. (Remote testimony.)
3. SHB 1218 – Improving health, safety, and quality of life for residents in long-term care facilities. (Remote testimony.)
Ways & Means – 3/22/2021 4:00 PM
Public Hearing:
1. ESHB 1370 – Concerning grants for early learning facilities. (Remote testimony.)
2. ESHB 1476 – Enrollment stabilization funding to address enrollment declines due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Remote testimony.)
3. SHB 1356 – Prohibiting the inappropriate use of Native American names, symbols, or images as public school mascots, logos, or team names. (Remote testimony.)
4. EHB 1342 – Eliminating lunch copays for students who qualify for reduced-price lunches. (Remote testimony.)
5. E2SHB 1295 – Providing public education to youth in or released from institutional education facilities. (Remote testimony.)
Executive Session:
1.  HB 1001 – Establishing a law enforcement professional development outreach grant program.
2. ESHB 1332 – Concerning property tax deferral during the COVID-19 pandemic.
3. SHB 1333 – Providing an extension to the local sales and use tax for public facilities in rural counties.
4. HB 1495 – Providing that qualified dealer cash incentives paid to auto dealers are bona fide discounts for purposes of the business and occupation tax.
5.  HB 1023 – Concerning predesign requirements and thresholds.
6. SHB 1151 – Bolstering economic recovery.
TUESDAY 23
Business, Financial Services & Trade – 3/23/2021 8:00 AM
Public Hearing:
1.  E2SHB 1015 – Creating the Washington equitable access to credit act. (Remote testimony.)
2.  SHB 1170 – Concerning building economic strength through manufacturing. (Remote testimony.)
3. SHB 1424 – Concerning consumer protection with respect to the sale of dogs and cats. (Remote testimony.)
Environment, Energy & Technology – 3/23/2021 10:30 AM
Possible Executive Session:
1. E2SHB 1050 – Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fluorinated gases.
2.  SHB 1145 – Allowing the use of non-wood renewable fiber in recycled content paper carryout bags.
3. SHB 1193 – Affirming the process for disposing of dredged materials for federal navigation channel
maintenance and improvement.
4. SHB 1423 – Concerning smoke management civil enforcement.
5. SHB 1446 – Prohibiting a utility from being assessed a penalty for not meeting its biennial acquisition target for cost-effective conservation in special circumstances outside the utility’s control.
6. E2SHB 1287 – Concerning preparedness for a zero emissions transportation future.
7. HB 1280 – Concerning greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the design of public facilities.
Law & Justice – 3/23/2021 10:30 AM
Public Hearing:
1. EHB 1192 – Making technical corrections and removing obsolete language from the Revised Code of Washington pursuant to RCW 1.08.025. (Remote testimony.)
2. ESHB 1197 – Concerning health care decisions made by a designated person. (Remote testimony.)
3.  EHB 1482 – Addressing foreclosure protections for homeowners in common interest communities. (Remote testimony.)
Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks – 3/23/2021 1:30 PM
Public Hearing:
1. 2SHB 1168 – Concerning long-term forest health and the reduction of wildfire dangers. (Hearing is on the Proposed Striking Amendment.) (Remote testimony.)
2. E2SHB 1258 – Concerning the operation, authorization, and permitting of microenterprise home kitchens. (Hearing is on the Proposed Striking Amendment.) (Remote testimony.)
Transportation – 3/23/2021 4:00 PM
Public Hearing: SB 5165 – Making transportation appropriations for the 2021-2023 fiscal biennium. (Remote testimony.)
Ways & Means – 3/23/2021 4:00 PM
Public Hearing:
1. E2SHB 1089 – Concerning compliance audits of requirements relating to peace officers and law enforcement agencies. (Remote testimony.)
2. HB 1096 – Concerning non-Medicare plans offered through the Washington state health insurance pool. (Remote testimony.)
3.  HB 1296 – Providing a business and occupation tax preference for behavioral health administrative services organizations. (Remote testimony.)
4. SHB 1330 – Providing a retail sales and use tax exemption for the purchase of electric bicycles and related cycling equipment. (Remote testimony.)
5. ESHB 1512 – Concerning lodging-related assessments under chapter 35.87A RCW. (Remote testimony.)
WEDNESDAY 24
State Government & Elections – 3/24/2021 8:00 AM
Executive Session:
1. ESHB 1041 – Concerning sunshine committee recommendations regarding juveniles.
2. HB 1122 – Concerning the retirement age for state guard members.
3.  SHB 1250 – Designating Washington a purple heart state.
4. HB 1328 – Exempting information gathered for controlling diseases from public inspecting requirements.
5. ESHB 1329 – Concerning public meeting accessibility and participation.
6.  SHB 1357 – Concerning voters’ pamphlets for overseas and service voters.
7. EHB 1453 – Concerning voters’ pamphlets.
THURSDAY 25
Business, Financial Services & Trade – 3/25/2021 8:00 AM
Work Session: Department of Commerce: Update on international trade contracts.
Law & Justice – 3/25/2021 10:30 AM
Executive Session:
1. SHB 1209 – Concerning immunity protection for nonmedical assistance.
2. EHB 1192 – Making technical corrections and removing obsolete language from the Revised Code of Washington pursuant to RCW 1.08.025.
3. ESHB 1197 – Concerning health care decisions made by a designated person.
4.  EHB 1482 – Addressing foreclosure protections for homeowners in common interest communities.
5. E2SHB 1320 – Modernizing, harmonizing, and improving the efficacy and accessibility of laws concerning civil protection orders.
Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks – 3/25/2021 1:30 PM
Executive Session:
1.  HB 1143 – Authorizing the placement of water rights banked pursuant to RCW 90.92.070 into the trust water rights program.
2. HB 1172 – Recognizing judicially affirmed and treaty-reserved fishing rights and promoting state-tribal cooperative agreements in the management of salmon, trout, and steelhead resources.
3. HB 1430 – Concerning the duration of state upland leases for lands managed by the department of natural resources.
4. 2SHB 1168 – Concerning long-term forest health and the reduction of wildfire dangers.
5. E2SHB 1258 – Concerning the operation, authorization, and permitting of microenterprise home kitchens.
Transportation – 3/25/2021 4:00 PM
Executive Session: SB 5165 – Making transportation appropriations for the 2021-2023 fiscal biennium.
Ways & Means – 3/25/2021 4:00 PM
Executive Session:
1. ESHB 1370 – Concerning grants for early learning facilities.
2. ESHB 1476 – Enrollment stabilization funding to address enrollment declines due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
3. SHB 1356 – Prohibiting the inappropriate use of Native American names, symbols, or images as public school mascots, logos, or team names.
4. EHB 1342 – Eliminating lunch copays for students who qualify for reduced-price lunches.
5. E2SHB 1295 – Providing public education to youth in or released from institutional education facilities.
6. E2SHB 1089 – Concerning compliance audits of requirements relating to peace officers and law enforcement agencies.
7.  HB 1096 – Concerning non-medicare plans offered through the Washington state health insurance pool.
8.  HB 1296 – Providing a business and occupation tax preference for behavioral health administrative services organizations.
9. SHB 1330 – Providing a retail sales and use tax exemption for the purchase of electric bicycles and related cycling equipment.
10. ESHB 1512 – Concerning lodging-related assessments under chapter 35.87A RCW.
FRIDAY 26
Behavioral Health Subcommittee to Health & Long-Term Care – 3/26/2021 10:30 AM
Executive Session:
1.  SHB 1314 – Concerning veteran diversion from involuntary commitment.
2. SHB 1276 – Providing for certain emergency medical services personnel to work in diversion centers.
3. 2SHB 1477 – Implementing the national 988 system to enhance and expand behavioral health crisis response and suicide prevention services. (If measure is referred to committee.)
Ways & Means – 3/26/2021 1:00 PM
Public Hearing: SB 5092 – Making 2021-2023 fiscal biennium operating appropriations. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.)
- SB 5092: K-12 public schools. (Remote testimony.)
- SB 5092: Higher education. (Remote testimony.)
- SB 5092: Early learning. (Remote testimony.)
- SB 5092: Employee compensation. (Remote testimony.)
- SB 5092: Health care and public health. (Remote testimony.)
- SB 5092: Mental health. (Remote testimony.)
- SB 5092: Human services. (Remote testimony.)
- SB 5092: Natural resources. (Remote testimony.)
- SB 5092: All other. (Remote testimony.)
Author: Mario Lotmore
