Busy day in the House

Committee action galore today, plus a pair of media events. Oh, and it's Potato Day!

Representatives Larry Seaquist and Reuven Carlyle will hold a media availability at noon in the John L. O’Brien Building, Conference Room 114 to introduce the Higher Education Opportunity Act which deals with tuition-setting authority.

Representative Jeannie Darneille and Senator Karen Fraser will have a press conference to discuss HB 1369/SB 5240 (collecting DNA at arrest to keep offenders from progressing to more violent crime and to lower investigation costs) in Room B/C, John A. Cherberg Building at 1:15 pm.


8:00 am HHR B Health Care & Wellness
Public Hearing:
1. Concerning oversight of licensed or certified long-term care settings for vulnerable adults.
2. HB 1494 - Concerning elder placement referrals.

8:00 am HHR A Education Appropriations & Oversight
Work Session:
Overview on higher education and early learning by committee staff.

10:00 am HHR A Labor & Workforce Development
Public Hearing
1. HB 1511 - Promoting efficiency in Washington State Ferry system through personnel and administration reform
2. HB 1512 - Concerning Washington State Ferry personnel and projects

10:00 am HHR D Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness
Public Hearing:
1. HB 1333 – Addressing motorcycle profiling.
2. HB 1369 – DNR upon arrest

10:00 am HHR B Technology, Energy & Communications
Public Hearing:
HB 1422 – Authorizing a forest biomass to aviation fuel demonstration. project.

1:30 pm HHR B Business & Financial Services
Public Hearing:
HB 1356 – Restricting the interest rates of credit cards.

1:30 pm HHR A Education
Public Hearing:
1. HB 1412 – Regarding mathematics end-of-course assessments.
2. HB 1410 – Regarding science end-of-course assessments.
3. HB 1330 – Adjusting high school assessments as graduation
requirements.
4. HB 1463 – eliminating the use of statewide assessments as a high school graduation requirement.

1:30 pm HHR C Environment
Public Hearing:
HB 1186 – Concerning requirements under the state’s oil spill program.

3:30 pm HHR B Transportation
Public Hearing:
1. HB 1098 – Concerning automated traffic safety cameras.
2. HB 1099 – Concerning automated traffic safety cameras.
3. HB 1279 – Concerning traffic safety at certain intersections and on certain streets.