Official Text and Analysis.

Creates a 17-member Senate work group to review and make recommendations on Senate employment practices and policies.

Removes the performance audit addressing the needs of farmworkers.

Provides funding for distribution to counties through the Administrative Office of the Courts to help cover the cost of electronic monitoring with victim notification technology for persons seeking a protection order.

Removes duplicate appropriation for the Administrative Office of the Courts to utilize funds in the Judicial Information Systems account for completion of the case management system for courts of limited jurisdiction.

Removes funding and proviso for an analysis of the lower Snake river dams.

Requires that the Snake river dam analysis (to be completed by July 30, 2022) include options that do not increase vehicle miles traveled or greenhouse gas emissions.

Provides funding for implementation of Senate Bill No. 5463 (residential property valuation); and provides funding for placing a constitutional amendment on the next general election ballot pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution No. 8206 (homestead property tax exemption).

Provides funding to implement Senate Bill No. 5897 that would suspend the gas tax from the effective date of the bill through December 31, 2022.

Provides funding for grants to counties to stabilize newly arriving refugees from the 2022 Ukraine-Russia Conflict. Also provides funding for a variety of other supports for refugees arriving from the 2022 Ukraine-Russia Conflict including: (1) Temporary and permanent housing needs of refugees along with other necessary support services such as employment and training, case management, legal services, and emergency supports; (2) Immediate and long-term physical and mental health needs of refugees arriving in Washington state; (3) To assist children of refugee families to successfully integrate into school.

(1) Provides funding for the Department of Commerce to develop strategies for cooperation with governmental agencies of Finland, including higher education institutions and other organizations around a variety of connectivity and green infrastructure issues. (2) Provides funding and direction to the Department of Natural Resources to advance research and cooperation with governmental agencies of Finland and Finnish organizations to implement sustainable forestry practices. (3) Provides one-time funding for the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public to identify new technologies and strategies to resist strategic misinformation in collaboration with Finnish higher education institutions and organizations. (4) A report is due to the Legislature by June 30, 2023, from the Departments of Commerce and Natural Resources, and from the University of Washington.

Provides funding for the implementation of Senate Bill No. 5954 (chronic and unsheltered homelessness).

Provides funding for implementation of Senate Bill No. 5324 (eliminating sales/use tax on wheelchairs and other types of mobility enhancing equipment).

Provides funding for implementation of Senate Bill No. 5440 (eliminating the B&O tax on manufacturing).

Provides funding for implementation of Senate Bill No. 5841 (incentivizing cities and counties to increase commissioned law enforcement employment).

Provides funding for implementation of Senate Bill No. 5913 (property tax/senior, veteran).

Provides funding for implementation of House Bill No. 1535 (exempting family and household necessities from the sales and use tax).

Increases state funding for the Aging and Long-Term Support Administration of the Department of Social and Health Services to expand the availability of home-delivered meals to eligible long-term care clients.

Requires Apple Health to cover all Food and Drug Administration-approved HIV antiviral drugs without prior authorization.

Provides $90 million to the Health Care Authority for community substance use disorder treatment, prevention, and recovery services, and $10 million for enhanced state support of drug courts.

Provides additional funds for the Washington auto theft prevention authority account.

Funding is provided for medical exams for suspected victims of domestic violence.

Provides $12 million for the Department of Labor and Industries for apprenticeship education and job training for General Journey (01) Electricians to supplement related supplemental instruction costs.

Increases state funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs to expand the availability of counseling services for veterans dealing with posttraumatic stress disorder.

Provides $91,000 for the Department of Health to convene a work group relating to the root causes of rising behavioral health issues in Washington communities.

Provides $25,000 for the Department of Health to contract for temporary portable toilets accessible to individuals traveling on state route 410.

Restores graduated reentry reductions impacting prison operations taken in the 2021-23 biennial budget.

Reduces the amount and replaces the language pertaining to the Columbia river gillnet license buy-back program.

Provides funding for the Department of Fish and Wildlife to make specific grant amounts to specified tribes for hatchery related projects and upgrades.

Reduces the appropriation and replaces language pertaining to studying the number of salmon taken by birds with direction to having the area of study be the segment of the Columbia River between the confluence of the Snake River and the McNary dam.

Removes an intent statement that this is the last appropriation for the buy-back program of nontribal commercial gillnet fishing licenses on the Columbia river. Removes a requirement that the Department of Fish and Wildlife calculate the impacts of and submit recommendations related to statutory changes related to the harvest and reserves of wild salmonid escapement. Also removes the direction that the department make recommendations for transitioning Columbia river gill-netting to alternative fishing gear types.

Removes funding for the Department of Fish and Wildlife to report on implementation of the net ecological gain standard.

Clarifies the intention to begin a program of purchasing state forest land. Also clarifies that the purchased forest land shall be managed as state transferred land, a designation that has a specific management fee that has a larger share of revenue from land management activities going to the county than other designations, 75 percent versus 26.5 percent.

Provides funding to the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction for implementation of Senate Bill No. 5858 (education/parent rights), which establishes a parents' bill of rights related to children's public education and directs the Washington state school directors' association to update a model policy and procedure regarding school board of directors meeting conduct, order of business and quorum.

Changes the fiscal year split for the paraeducator training grants and allows up to four days of training in the paraeducator certificate program for the 2021-22 school year.

Changes the fiscal year split for a grant program for teaching certificates in computer science.

Adds language to include the school bus driving industry to the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges' grant proviso to promote workforce development and provide program support in the trucking and trucking-related supply chain industries.

Provides one-time funding for Washington State University to partner with a nonprofit entity that focuses on sustainable infrastructure solutions to develop recommendations for increasing the economic value and sustainability of Washington's agricultural sector through the use of industrial symbiosis principles. A report is due to the Legislature by June 30, 2023.

Removes the WSIPP study regarding farmworkers.

Includes agriculture employer associations in the WSIPP study.

Clarifies that the Washington State fair and area fairs as defined in statute are included.

Deposits funding in the disaster response account to assist persons and businesses that suffered adverse impacts from natural disasters in November 2021 and January 2022 in jurisdictions as identified in presidential or gubernatorial declarations.

Makes $97.9 million in additional appropriations for a variety of law enforcement functions..

This striking amendment replaces all provisions in ESSB 5693 (Making 2021-2023 fiscal biennium supplemental operating appropriations) with SHB 1816 as passed by the House Appropriations Committee..

Removes the requirement for the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee to conduct performance audits of the selected state agency programs related to the needs of farmworkers.

(1) Provides $250,000 General Fund - State for the Office of the State Auditor to conduct accountability audits of state agencies and local governments that review revenues and expenditures for homeless housing and homeless services for the period of FY 2016 through FY 2021. (2) Provides $1.0 million General Fund - State for the Office of the State Auditor to conduct a performance audit of the efficacy of homeless housing and service interventions supported by state and local funding sources for the period of FY 2016 through FY 2021.

(1) Provides General Fund-State for the Department of Commerce to provide grants to counties to stabilize newly arriving refugees from the 2022 Ukraine-Russia conflict.(2) Provides General Fund-State for the Department of Social and Health Services - Economic Services Administration to meet the housing needs of refugees from the 2022 Ukraine-Russia conflict arriving in Washington state, along with other necessary support services.

Increases General Fund - State for the Department of Commerce to provide support to a public-private partnership to develop and submit a competitive application for the federal Department of Energy Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs grant.

1) Reduces the General Fund - State provided for the Statewide Broadband Office in the Department of Commerce to provide assistance to defray the cost of broadband services for households receiving a benefit through the federal Affordable Connectivity Program by $2.0 million. (2) Provides $2.0 million General Fund - State for the Statewide Broadband Office to implement a program to expand internet access for low- and moderate-income households by offsetting the costs of purchasing and installing equipment to access a low-orbit satellite broadband network.

Clarifies that nonprofits may also receive assistance under the grant program to assist convention-dependent businesses. Requires businesses to have not reported annual gross receipts of more than $100 million in calendar year 2019, rather than the most recent calendar year. Removes the requirement for eligible businesses to provide financial records related to state or federal grants or loans received in 2020, 2021, and 2022.

Directs the Office of the Insurance Commissioner and the Utilities and Transportation Commission to coordinate in convening a work group of certain entities to study and report on the cost and other factors of insurance for electric utilities.

Appropriates $500,000 from the Dedicated Marijuana Account for Fiscal Year 2023 to the Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB) for the LCB, in consultation with the Office of Equity and community organizations, to select a third-party contractor to prioritize applicants for cannabis licenses in an existing cannabis social equity program. Requires the LCB to review applications based on the priority set by the third-party contractor. Requires the third-party contractor to prioritize applicants based on a scoring rubric that is developed by the LCB with input from the Social Equity in Cannabis Task Force and approved by the Office of Equity.

Directs the Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation to contract with an organization to conduct a statewide inventory of heritage organizations in Washington State.

Requires Western State Hospital and Eastern State Hospital to pay patients working in vocational rehabilitation and work readiness programs the state minimum wage.

Requires the Health Care Authority to cover all Food and Drug Administration-approved HIV antiviral drugs without prior authorization for Apple Health.

Increases General Fund-State funding for the Criminal Justice Training Commission (Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs) program by $808,000. Transfers $4,500,000 from the General Fund to the Auto Theft Prevention Authority Account. Increases appropriations from the Washington Auto Theft Prevention Authority Account-State appropriation by $3,692,000.

Replaces the expenditure of $50 Million from the State General Fund with an expenditure of the same amount from the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Account in funding for the Department of Health's (Department) ongoing statewide effort to control the spread of COVID-19 through the administration of vaccines, diagnostic testing, case investigation and contact tracing, and other necessary activities in the Department's response.

Directs the Department of Health to convene a work group to study the root causes of rising behavioral health issues in Washington communities. Requires the members of the work group to be representative of individuals with actual, practical experience dealing with the behavioral health system, and requires the membership to include individuals who have received behavioral health services, behavioral health service providers, tribal representatives, law enforcement officers, and advocates. Requires the work group to present a progress report to the Governor and the Legislature by December 15, 2022, and its findings and 31 recommendations by June 30, 2023.

Eliminates the language in the Department of Children, Youth, and Families-Juvenile Rehabilitation stating that it is the intent of the Legislature to transfer management of the Naselle Youth Camp to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to develop into an outdoor school after its closure.

Provides funding to the Department of Ecology to grant to the Spirit Lake-Toutle/Cowlitz River Collaborative for flood risk reduction, ecosystem recovery, scientific research, and other activities related to sediment management and flooding in the Spirit Lake-Toutle/Cowlitz River System.

Adds proviso language for funding at the Department of Fish and Wildlife for European Green Crab management that is assumed in the underlying budget, and specifies that $600,000 of that funding is provided solely for European Green Crab management in Willapa Bay.

Provides funding to the Department of Agriculture for local and regional markets support and agricultural infrastructure development in southwest Washington.

Provides funding for the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to research best practices for responding to sexual assault survivors in schools, conduct listen sessions across the state, update model protocols, develop a plan for training for school administrators and counselors, and review current legal reporting requirements concerning suspected sexual assault. Requires the OSPI submit a preliminary report to the Governor and the Legislature by December 1, 2022.

Provides funding for the State Board of Education to implement Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1162 (High school graduation), which establishes an additional graduation pathway option that enables students to meet graduation pathway requirements by completing a performance exhibition meeting specified criteria.

Provides a stipend of $1,587 beginning in the 2022-23 school year to all classroom teachers who annually post online their syllabi and instructional material selected and used for each quarter of instruction.

Removes the Washington State Institute for Public Policy study to assess specific needs of farmworkers within The Evergreen State College.

Adds agriculture employer organizations to a farmworker study by the Washington State Institute for Public Policy at The Evergreen State College.

Directs a $2.0 billion appropriation from General Fund-State in Special Appropriations to be placed in the Motor Vehicle Fund rather than the Multimodal Transportation Account.

Transfers $1 billion from the Washington Rescue Plan Transition account to the Budget Stabilization Account..

Conference committee report adopted. Passed final passage as recommended by conference committee .