One more committee cut-off to go.......

The House will convene on the floor at 10:00 today for the purpose of caucuses – no floor action is planned until Friday. Lots of committee activity, though, as we head toward Friday’s fiscal cut-off:

8:00 am HHR A Ways and Means
Public Hearing:
1. HB 2019 - Concerning the deposit of the additional cigarette tax.
2. ESSB 5253 - Concerning tax increment financing for landscape conservation and local infrastructure.
3. SB 5265 - Authorizing multijurisdictional flood control zones.
4. SSB 5359 - Concerning contiguous land under current use open space property tax programs.
5. SSB 5364 - Concerning public water system operating permits.
6. SB 5516 - Allowing advance payments for equipment maintenance services for institutions of higher education.
12:00 pm HHR C Labor & Workforce Development
Public Hearing:

SJM 8008 – Requesting that the United States Department of Labor provide Washington with unemployment tax relief equal to any benefit provided to other states.

12:00 pm HHR D Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness
Public Hearing:

HB 2036 - Implementing the policy recommendations resulting from the national institute of corrections review of prison safety.

1:30 HHR A Ways and Means
Public Hearing:
1. E2SSB 5073 - Concerning the medical use of cannabis.
2. SSB 5167 - Concerning tax statute clarifications and technical corrections, including for the purposes of local rental car taxes.
3. SSB 5202 - Regarding sexually violent predators.
4. SSB 5394 - Concerning primary care health homes and chronic care management.
5. 2SSB 5427 - Regarding an assessment of students in state-funded full-day kindergarten classrooms.
6. SSB 5531 - Reimbursing counties for providing judicial services involving mental health commitments.
7. SSB 5614 - Establishing procedures for requesting the funds necessary to implement the compensation and fringe benefit provisions of bargaining agreements with the University of Washington under chapter 41.80 RCW.
8. 2SSB 5636 - Concerning the University Center of North Puget Sound.
9. SSB 5691 - Streamlining the crime victims' compensation program.

1:30 pm HHR B Transportation
Public Hearing:

E2SSB 5000 – Mandating a twelve-hour impound hold on motor vehicles used by persons arrested for driving under the influence.

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