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Biennium 2009-2010

Prime Sponsored Bills

Bill Number Brief Description
HB 1356 Providing for career and technical education opportunities for middle school students
HB 1411 Providing sales and use tax exemptions for prescribed durable medical equipment used in the home and prescribed mobility enhancing equipment
HB 1583 Modifying provisions relating to county auditors
HB 1654 Establishing a period of public and legislative review of appropriations legislation
HB 1655 Requiring a balanced legislative budget
HR 4645 Honoring The Evergreen State College Men's Basketball Team

Secondary Sponsored Bills

Bill Number Brief Description
HB 1040 Clarifying and prescribing penalties for gambling under the age of eighteen
HB 1077 Regarding aquatic lands lease rates for marinas
HB 1147 Modifying provisions of local option taxes
HB 1208 Concerning property tax administration
HB 1217 Providing the gambling commission with authority to determine locations where amusement games may be conducted
HB 1219 Authorizing the department of retirement systems to assist with mailing information to certain members of the state retirement systems
HB 1243 Making 2009 supplemental operating appropriations
HB 1244 Making 2009-2011 operating appropriations.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Making operating appropriations for fiscal years 2007-2009 and 2009-2011.
HB 1363 Modifying provisions relating to candidate filing
HB 1391 Regarding land surveyors.
HB 1458 Addressing fiscal notes
HB 1461 Regarding options for determining the pay periods for county employees
HB 1523 Concerning the burden of proof for corrections to property tax valuations made by public officials
HB 1540 Making technical corrections to gender-based terms
HB 1624 Authorizing internet voting for service voters and overseas voters
HB 1640 Modifying disclosure requirements for private investment information received by the University of Washington consolidated endowment fund
HB 1656 Defining the near general fund and requiring revenue forecasts thereof
HB 1665 Assisting small forest landowners to keep their land in active working forestry
HB 1753 Regarding electronic filing of reports to the legislature and the governor
HB 1821 Concerning the department of social and health services' audit program for pharmacy payments
HB 1853 Requiring the governor's signature on significant legislative rules
HB 1880 Concerning ballot envelopes
HB 1893 Creating the Washington voluntary retirement accounts program
HB 1902 Improving budget transparency by consolidating accounts into the state general fund
HB 1927 Requiring motor vehicle dealers to disclose whether a new motor vehicle has sustained damage, repaired or not, in the sale of the new motor vehicle
HB 1940 Requiring that school district and educational service district employees' basic benefits be determined and administered by the state health care authority
HB 2043 Establishing consistent standards for agency decision making
HB 2076 Concerning moneys appropriated for the original construction of transportation-related buildings
HB 2228 Concerning sustainable operating budgets
HB 2386 Requiring a seventy-two hour budget review period prior to hearings or votes on appropriation and revenue bills
HJR 4205 Requiring a sixty percent vote for emergency clauses
HJR 4207 Amending the state Constitution to include an expenditure limit
HJR 4209 Requiring extraordinary revenue growth to be transferred to the budget stabilization account
HR 4605 Honoring Mary Skinner
HR 4609 Celebrating Catholic Schools Week
HR 4610 Celebrating the 150th birthday of the City of Olympia

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