Thursday, February 2, 2017

WSPTA Legislative Committee Schedule Week 5 - Updated

February 6-10, 2017

Monday, February 6
1:30 p.m., House Education, HHR A
Public Hearing:
1.       HB 1313 - Improving and expanding applied learning opportunities in public schools.
2.      HB 1453 - Promoting agriculture science education in schools.
3.      HB 1600 - Increasing the career and college readiness of public school students.
4.      HB 1756 - Concerning career and technical education.
5.      HB 1509 - Concerning credit requirements for high school graduation.

1:30 p.m., Senate Early Learning &; K-12 Education, SHR 1
Public Hearing:
1.       SB 5348 - Concerning students who receive special education services who earn certificates of individual achievement.
2.      SB 5142 - Concerning educational interpreters.
3.      SB 5432 - Concerning the funding allocation for special education programs for students with disabilities.

Possible executive session on bills heard  in committee. Other business. 

3:30 p.m., House Appropriations, HHR A
Public Hearing:
1.       HB 1843 - Fulfilling the state's paramount duty for all children through equitable and
responsible investments in the state's basic education program and reductions to local
effort contributions.
2.      SSB 5607 - Concerning education. (If measure is referred to committee.)

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Other business.

Tuesday, February 7
8 a.m., House Early Learning &; Human Services, HHR C
1.       Public Hearing:
2.      HB 1777 - Concerning the financing of early learning facilities.
3.      HB 1719 - Updating certain department of early learning advising and contracting mechanisms to reflect federal requirements, legislative mandates, and planned system improvements.
4.      HB 1735 - Concerning the department of early learning's access to records and personal information for purposes of determining character and suitability of child care workers and individuals who have unsupervised access to children in child care settings.
5.      HB 1758 - Concerning the business of child care.

8 a.m., House Higher Education, HHR D
Public Hearing:
1.       HB 1379 - Implementing a comprehensive approach to suicide prevention and behavioral health in higher education.
2.      HB 1433 - Decoupling services and activities fees from tuition.
3.      HB 1499 - Creating protections and fairness for students in the student loan disbursement process.
4.      HB 1512 - Expanding college bound scholarship eligibility.
5.      HB 1651 - Supporting students' success by increasing retention and graduation rates with evidence-based programs.

1:30 p.m., House Education, HHR A – Teacher Shortage Day
Public Hearing:
1.       HB 1601 - Concerning the beginning educator support team program.
2.      HB 1341 - Concerning professional certification for teachers and school administrators.
3.      HB 1827 - Relating to expanding the current and future educator workforce supply through evidence-based strategies to improve and incentivize the recruitment and retention of highly effective educators, especially in high-need subject, grade-level, and geographic areas, and to establish a cohesive continuum of high quality professional learning from preparation programs to job embedded induction, mentoring, collaboration, and other professional development opportunities.
4.      HB 1654 - Changing explicit alternative routes to teacher certification program requirements to expectations for program outcomes.
5.      HB 1732 - Concerning the confidentiality of educator professional growth plans.
6.      HB 1734 - Authorizing reimbursement for substitute teachers participating in activities of the Washington state professional educator standards board to carry out its powers and duties.

3:30 p.m., House Capital Budget, HHR B
Public Hearing:
1.       HB 1050 - Concerning the financing of Chehalis basin flood damage reduction and habitat restoration projects.
2.      HB 1694 - Providing state funding assistance for public school construction.

Wednesday, February 8
1:30 p.m., House Higher Education, HHR D
Public Hearing:
1.       HB 1437 - Adding a faculty member to the board of regents at the research universities.
2.      HB 1697 - Addressing the cybersecurity and information technology professional shortage by requiring a study of incentive methods for attracting high-demand talent in information technology and cybersecurity to state agencies.
3.      HB 1830 - Creating the cybersecurity conditional loan program.
4.      HB 1840 - Establishing the Washington promise program.

Thursday, February 9
8 a.m., House Education, HHR A
Executive Session:
1.       HB 1115 - Concerning paraeducators.
2.      HB 1174 - Requiring the superintendent of public instruction to develop an elective firearms safety and hunter education course for high school students.
3.      HB 1208 - Concerning charter school students participating in interschool athletics and extracurricular activities.
4.      HB 1235 - Assessing physical education practices in public schools.
5.      HB 1246 - Concerning school bus safety.
6.      HB 1254 - Establishing a competitive educational grant program to promote confidence, public speaking, and leadership skills in students.
7.      HB 1279 - Concerning school safety drills.
8.      HB 1284 - Requiring creation of a statewide school emergency panic button program.
9.      HB 1303 - Concerning educational interpreters.
10.   HB 1310 - Creating a program to provide students and the community with the means to report anonymously concerning unsafe or violent activities, or the threat of these activities.
11.    HB 1319 - Concerning the frequency of evaluations for certain educators.
12.   HB 1346 - Clarifying the authority of a nurse working in a school setting.
13.   HB 1377 - Improving students' mental health by enhancing nonacademic professional services.
14.   HB 1412 - Creating a pilot project to provide middle and junior high school students strategic and intentional academic support beyond the traditional school day.
15.   HB 1444 - Facilitating on-time grade level progression and graduation for certain students.
16.   HB 1451 - Improving language access for public school students and families with limited English proficiency.
17.    HB 1508 - Promoting student health and readiness through meal and nutrition programs.
18.   HB 1542 - Concerning dropout prevention through engaging youth in farming.
19.   HB 1445 - Concerning dual language in early learning and K-12 education.

1:30 p.m., Senate Early Learning &; K-12 Education, SHR 1 – Teacher Shortage Day
Work Session: Professional Educational Standards Board regarding licensure and evaluation policies.

Public Hearing:
1.       SB 5217 - Changing explicit alternative routes to teacher certification program requirements to expectations for program outcomes.
2.      SB 5283 - Concerning the calculation of years of service for educational staff associate positions for salary allocation purposes.
3.      SB 5459 - Concerning the beginning educator support team program.
4.      SB 5486 - Eliminating the reporting requirement for innovative supplemental contracts.
5.      SB 5487 - Allowing retired teachers to be employed as mentors.

3:30 p.m., House Appropriations, HHR A
Possible Executive Session:
1.       HB 1042 - Eliminating the office of the insurance commissioner's school district or educational service district annual report.
2.      HB 1113 - Concerning gradually increasing the local government share of excess liquor revenues until the percentage-based method for distributions is restored.
3.      HB 1267 - Creating the wastewater treatment plant operator certification account.
4.      HB 1843 - Fulfilling the state's paramount duty for all children through equitable and responsible investments in the state's basic education program and reductions to local effort contributions.

Friday, February 10
10 a.m., House Higher Education, HHR D
Public Hearing: HB 1488 - Expanding higher education opportunities for certain students.

Click here for the current bill tracker, updated 2/2/17.

Prepared by 
Marie Sullivan
WSPTA Legislative Consultant

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