Today's hot list

Profiling bikers? New filing fees for lobbyists? Dueling fish protection bills? These issues and more in today's committee lineup.

8:00 HHR B Health & Human Services Appropriations
Public Hearing: HB 2197 – Abolishing the department of social and health services and creating new departments to take over its functions.

8:00 HHR C General Government Appropriations
Public Hearing:
HB 2436 - Concerning vehicle license fraud (Moeller's bill to reduce people from purchasing out-of-state licenses to evade paying state fees and taxes)
HB 2442 – Restructuring three growth management hearing boards into one board (a governor-request bill related to natural resources reform)
HB 3020 – Eliminating the public printer and transferring print functions to the department of information services.

8:00 HHR A Education Appropriations
Public Hearing: SHB 2630 - Creating the opportunity express program.

10:00 HHR E Education
Public Hearing: HJM 4002 – Requesting reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act to include health and fitness.

10:00 HHR A Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness
Public Hearing: HB 2511 - Addressing motorcycle profiling.

1:30 HHR B Agriculture & Natural Resources
Public Hearing: (Regarding regulatory program used to protect fish)
HB 2597 - Streamlining state environmental permitting through the elimination of the hydraulics project approval process. (would eliminate the program)
HB 3037 - Concerning permitting of hydraulic projects. (would keep program but shift cost from general fund to user fees)

1:30 HHR D State Government & Tribal Affairs
Public Hearing:
HB 1738 – Providing public funding for supreme court campaigns.
HB 2878 – Collecting fees to accommodate electronic filing and disclosure of campaign and lobbying reports, and personal financial affairs statements.

1:30 HHR C Finance
Public Hearing:
HB 2537 – Concerning incentives for solar energy systems
HB 3014 – Modifying the sales and use tax deferral program for investment projects in rural counties.
HB 3053 – Extending expiring tax incentives for certain clean alternative fuel vehicles, producers of certain biofuels, and federal aviation regulation part 145 certificated repair stations.