Courtesy of the Legislative Planning Committee, Washington Library Association Library Related Legislation. The Washington Library Association (WLA) tracks state legislative activity that will potentially affect Washington Libraries. Their tracker is posted weekly on this blog.

For information on the legislative process or becoming involved, see the WLA site referenced above.

Bill	Title	Sponsor	Status	Date	Latest Cmte Mtg Info	Companion
SHB 1037	Public records cost recovery	Moeller	H Approps	2/21/2013	Feb 3 Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 3:30 PM. (Subject to change)
HB 1264	Fire district mergers	Haigh	H 2nd Reading	1/24/2014
SHB 1298	Sunshine committee	Springer	H Govt Operations	1/13/2014	Feb 5 Scheduled for executive session in the House Committee on Government Operations & Elections at 1:30 PM. (Subject to change)	SB 5169(SRules X)
HB 1486	Fire protection authorities	Fitzgibbon	H 3rd Reading	1/20/2014		SB 5331(SGovt Ops)
SHB 1654	Fire prot. service authority	Riccelli	H 3rd Reading	1/20/2014
HB 1820	Avg. salary/pension purposes	Bergquist	H Approps	2/11/2013	Feb 3 Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 3:30 PM. (Subject to change)
HB 1854	Annexations/public approval	Schmick	H Local Govt	2/12/2013	Jan 23 Public hearing in the House Committee on Local Government at 10:00 AM.
2SHB 1960	Metropolitan park districts	Seaquist	H Rules R	1/21/2014	Jan 16 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Finance at 1:30 PM.
SHB 2105	Govt agency meeting agendas	Hawkins	H 2nd Reading	1/30/2014	Jan 22 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Government Operations & Elections at 1:30 PM.
SHB 2121	Public records and meetings	Pollet	H Rules R	1/27/2014	Jan 21 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Government Operations & Elections at 10:00 AM.	SB 5964(SGovt Ops)
HB 2202	Open government data policy	Carlyle	H Exec Action	1/31/2014	Jan 31 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Government Operations & Elections at 8:00 AM.
HB 2212	Cultural access programs	Springer	H Finance	1/14/2014	Jan 23 Public hearing in the House Committee on Finance at 1:30 PM.
HB 2238	Paid vacation leave	Tarleton	H Labor/Work Dev	1/15/2014	Jan 24 Public hearing in the House Committee on Labor & Workforce Development at 1:30 PM.
HB 2298	Capital projects/tech infra.	Pike	H Local Govt	1/15/2014	Feb 3 Scheduled for executive session in the House Committee on Local Government at 1:30 PM. (Subject to change)
HB 2407	PERS/retiree return to work	Ormsby	H Rules R	1/27/2014	Jan 21 Public hearing and executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 3:30 PM.
HB 2428	Emer medical service levies	Hunt, S.	H Finance	1/17/2014	Jan 28 Public hearing in the House Committee on Finance at 8:00 AM.
HB 2522	Librarians/rural county dist	Fitzgibbon	H Local Govt	1/20/2014
HB 2560	School library info and tech	Stonier	H Education	1/21/2014		SB 6105(S2nd Reading)
HB 2681	Annexing/city sales & use tx	Fitzgibbon	H Local Govt	1/27/2014	Feb 3 Scheduled for public hearing and executive session in the House Committee on Local Government at 1:30 PM. (Subject to change)
HB 2710	Protection of workers	Jinkins	H Judiciary	1/28/2014	Feb 4 Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Judiciary at 1:30 PM. (Subject to change)
HB 2735	PERS member retirement age	Robinson	H Approps	1/29/2014
HB 2736	Deferred compensation prog.	Sullivan	H Approps	1/29/2014	Feb 3 Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 3:30 PM. (Subject to change)
SSB 5013	Annexations	Benton	S Rules 2	1/17/2014	Jan 29 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Governmental Operations at 10:00 AM.
SSB 5727	Prev wages/distressed county	Braun	S Rules 2	1/17/2014
SSB 5865	Fundraising purchases/use tx	Roach	S Rules X	1/20/2014
SB 5955	WA publicly owned trust	Hasegawa	S FI/Hous/Ins	1/13/2014	Jan 16 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Housing & Insurance at 1:30 PM.
SB 5964	Public records and meetings	Fain	S Govt Ops	1/13/2014	Jan 16 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Governmental Operations at 10:00 AM.	HB 2121(HRules R)
SB 6059	Scanning public records	Brown	S Rules 2	1/31/2014	Jan 30 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Governmental Operations at 10:00 AM.
SSB 6105	School library info and tech	McAuliffe	S 2nd Reading	1/28/2014	Jan 24 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 8:00 AM.	HB 2560(HEducation)
SB 6114	Local gov treasury practices	Benton	S Rules 2	1/29/2014	Jan 28 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Governmental Operations at 10:00 AM.
SB 6151	Cultural access authorities	Hill	S Ways & Means	1/16/2014	Jan 30 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 3:30 PM.
SB 6308	Local govt employee bonuses	Schoesler	S Govt Ops	1/20/2014