March 16 marked the last day in the state Legislature for bills either to pass their chamber of origin or be considered "dead" for the session, except for those that relate to the budget or revenue.
Legislation sponsored by Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Queen Anne, to pass before yesterday's cutoff includes:
Senate Bill 5049, which requires landlords to provide their tenants with information on the health hazards associated with indoor mold;
SB 5087, which requires the State Board of Community and Technical Colleges to review the employment and compensation packages of part-time faculty;
SB 5097, which requires apprentices approved by the State Apprenticeship Council to perform at least 15 percent of labor hours on public works projects valued at $1 million or more (already signed into law);
SB 5127, which requires the development of protocols in coordinating state and community agency assistance for victims of human trafficking, and creates a central database of available services;
SB 5148, which repeals Wash-ington's antiquated slander-of-a-woman law;
SB 5308, which broadens the list of mandatory reporters of suspected child abuse to include supervisors in nonprofit and for-profit organizations whose subordinates have unsupervised contact with children, including supervisors of members of the clergy;
SB 5309, which broadens the law against sexual misconduct with a minor to include adults such as private coaches, mentors or foster parents who use their supervisory positions to gain the trust of minors and exploit that trust by pursing inappropriate sexual relationships;
SB 5326, which allows cities that have chosen their form of government through a local charter (Aberdeen, Bellingham, Bremerton, Everett, Seattle, Spokane, Richland, Tacoma, Vancouver and Yakima) to adopt instant run-off voting;
SB 5381, which establishes a Washington State Academy of Sciences - an independent, nonprofit panel of distinguished scientists from various fields throughout Washington to advise the governor or the Legislature on matters of science, technology and medicine;
SB 5506, which requires the state's higher-education institutions to develop their own policy regarding the on-campus marketing of student credit cards;
SB 5552, which extends to applicants who've worked in out-of-state school districts the requirement that a school district employee's personnel file containing any instances of sexual misconduct be disclosed when that employee is applying for employment with another school district;
SB 5625, which allows higher-education institutions to use a three-year rolling average in determining the proportion of female and male athletic participation to the female and male enrollment for purposes of federal Title IX gender equity compliance monitoring;
SB 5802, which requires that part-time community and technical college faculty be paid at a rate equal to full-time faculty;
SB 5806, which makes childcare licensing status and related information available to parents and requires licensed home daycare providers to have liability insurance or, if not, to inform parents that they do not;
SB 5811, which encourages collaboration between research institutions and commercial industries, and helps facilitate the transfer of technology when research has a commercial component to ensure that it gets to the private sector;
SB 5899, which requires the Wash-ington State Patrol to include all convictions data when a background check is requested for non-criminal justice purposes.
Kohl-Welles' bills will now receive further consideration in the House of Representatives.
Legislation sponsored by Kohl-Welles that did not pass in the Senate because its companion legislation passed in the House first includes:
House Bill 1268, which creates a 13-member advisory committee of scientists, medical ethicists, legal scholars and citizens to develop guidelines for stem cell research in Washington. The measure expressly prohibits reproductive cloning of a human being.
The 2005 legislative session is scheduled to adjourn April 24.[[In-content Ad]]
