SB5177 — Advanced from the white sheet; described as requiring OSPI to consider marginalized and underrepresented groups in professional development.
SB6039 — Senate Bill 6039 was moved from the white sheet to the floor/second reading calendar, advancing the bill procedurally.
Curtis King — Senator King is recognized for doing the heavy lifting on the bill, then takes the floor to move Senate Bill 5874 and explain that it would allow the Employment Security Department commissioner to waive penalties for minor or insignificant reporting errors in quarterly unemployment insurance reports.
SB5874 — Senator King moves Senate Bill 5874 from the white sheet to the floor and advances it to the second reading calendar, describing it as a bill that would allow waiver of penalties for minor unemployment insurance reporting errors.
Annette Cleveland — Moves Senate Bill 5863 from the white sheet to the floor calendar.
SB5863 — Senate Bill 5863 was moved from the white sheet to the floor/second reading calendar. The bill is described as a trailer bill intended to preserve records and materials related to residents with developmental disabilities at Lakeland Village, ensuring that none of those records or items may be destroyed until 2030.
Carolyn Eslick — The transcript appears to misidentify the speaker as Senator Cleveland; the bill discussion is about Senate Bill 5863.
Steve Conway — Senator Steve Conway moved to advance Senate Bill 5972 from the white sheet to the floor calendar and explained that the bill would grant binding arbitration to certain correctional officers who do not have the right to strike.
SB5972 — Senate Bill 5972 was moved from the white sheet to the floor calendar, with an accompanying explanation that the bill grants binding arbitration to certain correctional officers who do not have the right to strike.
SB5941 — Senate Bill 5941 was moved from the white sheet to the floor calendar. The bill was described as giving small school districts flexibility through exemptions from certain parts of the energy code, and the motion to advance the bill to the calendar carried.
Rebecca Saldaña — Senator Rebecca Saldaña first moved Senate Bill 5203 from the white sheet to the floor calendar, then explained that the bill would allow the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife to develop an integrated wildlife habitat connectivity strategy.
SB5203 — Senate Bill 5203 was moved from the white sheet to the floor calendar. The bill was described as enabling the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife to develop an integrated wildlife habitat connectivity strategy to support wildlife habitat connectivity and transportation safety, while also adding reporting requirements and creating a fund and account. The motion carried.
SB6014 — Senate Bill 6014 was moved from the white sheet to the floor calendar. It was described as a trailer bill to a recent pregnancy accommodations measure, intended to protect the personal information of people making pregnancy accommodation complaints. The motion to advance the bill to the floor calendar carried.
John Lovick — Senator John Lovick moved Senate Bill 5993 from the white sheet to the floor calendar and explained that the bill would limit interest on new and unpaid medical debt to 1%.
SB5993 — Senate Bill 5993 was moved from the white sheet to the floor calendar, and the bill was described as limiting interest on new and unpaid medical debt to 1%; the motion to advance the bill carried.
Ron Muzzall — Senator Ron Muzzall moved Senate Bill 5831 from the white sheet to the floor calendar and then briefly described the bill as adopting a Uniform Mortgage Modification Act.
SB5831 — Senate Bill 5831 was moved from the white sheet to the floor calendar, and it was described as adopting a Uniform Mortgage Modification Act that clarifies mortgage priority for specified modifications.
SB5928 — Senate Bill 5928 was moved from the white sheet to the floor calendar. The bill was described as OIC-request legislation addressing wildfire risk models, disclosure, and insurer consideration of wildfire mitigation. It was also noted to still be a work in progress, with stakeholders involved and confidentiality and rulemaking provisions being worked out, but the motion to advance it from committee carried.
John Braun — Senator John Braun first moved Senate Bill 5912 from the white sheet to the floor calendar, then explained that the bill is a simple but important measure to reinstate the indigent defense task force and establish its responsibilities and reporting requirements.
SB5912 — Senate Bill 5912 was moved from the white sheet and described as reinstating the indigent defense task force with responsibilities, duties, and reporting requirements. The motion to advance the bill to the second reading calendar carried.
SB5825 — Senate Bill 5825 was moved from the white sheet to the floor calendar and described as a technical cleanup of the Washington Leadership Board statute that also allows private fundraising for gifts, grants, and endowments. The committee then moved to advance the bill, and it was advanced from the white sheet to the second reading calendar.
Jesse Salomon — Senator Peterson moves several items forward in the legislative process: first the nominations on the lavender sheet to the confirmation calendar, then the measures on the pink sheet to the consent calendar, and then Senate Bill 6002 from the white sheet to the second reading calendar. He also explains that SB 6002 would place reasonable restrictions on automated license plate readers to protect privacy and urges support for the bill.
Jesse Salomon — Senator Jesse Salomon moved Senate Bill 6014 from the white sheet to the floor calendar and explained that the bill is a trailer to a recent measure on pregnancy accommodations, addressing related privacy protections.
SB6002 — Senate Bill 6002 was moved from the white sheet to the second reading calendar, and the bill was described as establishing reasonable restrictions on automated license plate readers to protect the privacy of state residents.
SB6178 — Senate Bill 6178 was moved from the white sheet to the floor/second reading calendar, with the motion to advance it to second reading briefly stated and then confirmed.
Bob Hasegawa — Moves Senate Bill 5892 and explains it protects the voter registration database while allowing access with authorization.
SB5892 — Senate Bill 5892 was moved from the white sheet to the second reading calendar, with brief discussion emphasizing that the bill is intended to protect privacy by safeguarding the voter registration database and limiting access to voter registration information.
Shelly Short — Opposes moving the bill forward, arguing the information has traditionally been provided by state or county elections offices.
Shelly Short — Moved Senate Bill 5928 from the white sheet to the floor calendar.
SB5490 — Substitute Senate Bill 5490 was moved from the white sheet to the floor calendar, and the bill was described as establishing parameters for searches of transgender and intersex individuals confined in local jails in compliance with the Federal Prison Rape Elimination Act.