Below is a selection of bills CAPAA is tracking that may be of interest to Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. For further bill information, visit the Legislature’s website and enter in the corresponding bill number.
Budget Bills
| Bill | Title | Brief Description | Status | Original Sponsor |
Last RollCall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESSB 6032 | Supp. operating budget | Making 2018 supplemental operating appropriations. | C 299 L 18 | Rolfes | 25-24-0-0 |
| SSB 6090 | Capital budget 2017-2019 | Concerning the capital budget. | C 2 L 18 | Frockt | 95-1-0-2 |
| ESSB 6095 | Supplemental capital budget | Concerning the supplemental capital budget. | C 298 L 18 | Frockt | 49-0-0-0 |
Civil Rights & Justice
| Bill | Title | Brief Description | Status | Original Sponsor |
Last RollCall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2SHB 1298 | Job applicants/arrests, etc. | Prohibiting employers from asking about arrests or convictions before an applicant is determined otherwise qualified for a position. | C 38 L 18 | Ortiz-Self | 52-44-0-2 |
| 2SHB 1506 | Workplaces/gender pay equity | Addressing workplace practices to achieve gender pay equity. | C 116 L 18 | Senn | 70-28-0-0 |
| E2SHB 1783 | Legal financial obligations | Concerning legal financial obligations. | C 269 L 18 | Holy | 83-15-0-0 |
| E2SHB 1889 | Corrections ombuds, creating | Creating an office of the corrections ombuds. | C 270 L 18 | Pettigrew | 79-19-0-0 |
| HB 1939 | Cesar Chavez day | Recognizing the thirty-first day of March as Cesar Chavez day. | C 307 L 18 | Hudgins | 35-14-0-0 |
| SHB 2308 | Civil legal aid | Concerning civil legal aid. | C 21 L 18 | Jinkins | 48-0-0-1 |
| SHB 2514 | Discriminatory covenants | Regarding discriminatory provisions found in written instruments related to real property. | C 65 L 18 | Kilduff | 48-1-0-0 |
| ESHB 3003 | Law enforcement | Concerning law enforcement. | C 10 L 18 | Goodman | 25-24-0-0 |
| SB 6145 | Civil service qualifications | Addressing civil service qualifications. | C 32 L 18 | Saldaña | 84-14-0-0 |
| 2SSB 6245 | Spoken language interpreters | Concerning spoken language interpreter services. | C 253 L 18 | Saldaña | 32-16-1-0 |
| SB 6408 | Body worn cameras | Regulating body worn cameras. | C 285 L 18 | Padden | 95-2-0-1 |
Education
| Bill | Title | Brief Description | Status | Original Sponsor |
Last RollCall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3SHB 1169 | Student loan assistance | Enacting the student opportunity, assistance, and relief act. | C 199 L 18 | Orwall | 80-16-0-2 |
| 2SHB 1293 | College bound sch./approval | Eliminating the parent or guardian approval requirement for the college bound scholarship pledge. | C 12 L 18 | Ortiz-Self | 41-8-0-0 |
| 2SHB 1377 | Student mental health | Improving students’ mental health by enhancing nonacademic professional services. | C 200 L 18 | Ortiz-Self | 64-34-0-0 |
| 2SHB 1433 | Tuition/activities fees | Decoupling services and activities fees from tuition. | C 202 L 18 | Stambaugh | 41-8-0-0 |
| E3SHB 1488 | Higher ed opportunities | Expanding higher education opportunities for certain students. | C 204 L 18 | Hansen | 59-37-0-2 |
| 2ESHB 1508 | Student meals & nutrition | Promoting student health and readiness through meal and nutrition programs. | C 8 L 18 | Stonier | 87-8-0-3 |
| E2SHB 1600 | Career and college readiness | Increasing the career and college readiness of public school students. | C 206 L 18 | Santos | 48-0-0-1 |
| SHB 2686 | High school and beyond plans | Concerning high school and beyond plans. | C 229 L 18 | Ortiz-Self | 37-12-0-0 |
| SSB 6388 | Paraeducators | Concerning paraeducators. | C 153 L 18 | Mullet | 48-1-0-0 |
| SSB 6419 | Early childhood ed & assist | Concerning access to the Washington early childhood education and assistance program. | C 155 L 18 | Rolfes | 48-1-0-0 |
| SHB 2748 | Learning assistance program | Modifying the learning assistance program. | H Rules 3C | Santos | 48-1-0-0 |
Government
| Bill | Title | Brief Description | Status | Original Sponsor |
Last RollCall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 5020 | State diversity commissions | Concerning certain state ethnic and cultural diversity commissions. | C 143 L 18 | Hasegawa | 47-0-1-1 |
| EHB 2759 | Women’s commission | Establishing the Washington state women’s commission. | C 98 L 18 | Doglio | 50-47-0-1 |
Health and Human Services
| Bill | Title | Brief Description | Status | Original Sponsor |
Last RollCall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E3SHB 1482 | WorkFirst poverty reduction | Establishing the legislative-executive WorkFirst poverty reduction oversight task force. | C 126 L 18 | Sawyer | 41-7-0-1 |
| E2SHB 1570 | Homeless housing & assist. | Concerning access to homeless housing and assistance. | C 85 L 18 | Macri | 54-42-0-2 |
| SHB 2016 | Incarcerated women/midwifery | Concerning midwifery and doula services for incarcerated women. | C 41 L 18 | DeBolt | 48-0-1-0 |
| E2SHB 2578 | Housing options | Ensuring housing options. | C 66 L 18 | Riccelli | 67-31-0-0 |
| E2SHB 2779 | Children mental health serv. | Improving access to mental health services for children and youth. | C 175 L 18 | Senn | 88-10-0-0 |
| SSB 5683 | Pacific Islander health care | Concerning health care for Pacific Islanders residing in Washington under a compact of free association. | C 161 L 18 | Saldaña | 44-5-0-0 |
| SSB 6048 | Tobacco & vapor products/age | Concerning the age of individuals at which sale or distribution of tobacco and vapor products may be made. | S Ways & Means | Kuderer | |
| E2SHB 1054 | Tobacco & vapor products/age | Protecting youth from tobacco products and vapor products by increasing the minimum legal age of sale of tobacco and vapor products. | H Rules 3C | Harris | 63-35-0-0 |
Voting & Voter Rights
| Bill | Title | Brief Description | Status | Original Sponsor |
Last RollCall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2SHB 1513 | Youth voter reg. info. | Collecting youth voter registration sign up information. | C 109 L 18 | Bergquist | 27-22-0-0 |
| E2SHB 2595 | Automatic voter registration | Concerning procedures in order to automatically register citizens to vote. | C 110 L 18 | Hudgins | 50-48-0-0 |
| SHB 2887 | County commissioner election | Addressing county commissioner elections. | C 301 L 18 | Riccelli | 81-15-0-2 |
| ESSB 6002 | Voting rights act | Enacting the Washington voting rights act of 2018. | C 113 L 18 | Saldaña | 29-20-0-0 |
| SSB 6021 | Voter registration period | Extending the period for voter registration. | C 112 L 18 | Kuderer | 50-48-0-0 |