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Representative Kretz

Portrait of Representative Kretz

Member Information

Biennium 2019-20
Chamber House
Acronym KRET
District 7
Name Joel Kretz
Party Republican
Email Joel.Kretz@leg.wa.gov
Sponsor Success Rate 22.86%
Total Bills Sponsored 70
Campaign Contributions (biennium) $118,571.72
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) $600,411.56

16 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2019-20

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details 2SHB 1784 Concerning wildfire prevention.
Details ESHB 2097 Addressing statewide wolf recovery.
Details ESHB 1023 Allowing certain adult family homes to increase capacity to eight beds.
Details EHB 1187 Revising hydraulic project eligibility standards under RCW 77.55.181 for conservation district-sponsored fish habitat enhancement projects.
Details SHB 1298 Concerning device registration, civil penalties, and service agent registration for the weights and measures program.
Details HB 1385 Exempting United States food and drug administration nonpublic information from disclosure under the state public disclosure act.
Details HB 1429 Extending the dairy milk assessment fee to June 30, 2025.
Details 2SHB 1448 Creating the veterans service officer program.
Details HB 1516 Establishing a department of fish and wildlife directed nonlethal program for the purpose of training dogs.
Details SHB 1605 Requiring traumatic brain injury screenings for children entering the foster care system.
Details ESHB 1622 Concerning drought preparedness and response.
Details EHB 2020 Exempting the disclosure of names in employment investigation records.
Details SHB 1293 Concerning the distribution of monetary penalties to local courts and state agencies paid for failure to comply with discover pass requirements.
Details HB 2624 Concerning the authority of the director of the department of agriculture with respect to certain examinations and examination fees.
Details ESHB 2660 Increasing the availability of school meals provided to public school students at no student cost.
Details HB 2926 Expanding access to critical incident stress management programs.

54 Sponsored Bills Failed for Biennium 2019-20

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SHB 1273 Analyzing state regulatory impact on small forest landowners.
Details HB 1639 Ensuring that all Washingtonians share in the benefits of an expanding wolf population.
Details HB 1940 Providing wildland fire response resources in the first forty-eight hours of a wildland fire.
Details HB 1941 Conducting a comprehensive review of the impact of catastrophic wildfires on communities as a means of improving government responses for the future.
Details HB 2122 Imposing a sales and use tax on recreational equipment and apparel to provide funding to the state wildlife account.
Details SHB 2712 Requiring retailers to indicate the country of origin on beef sold to the public.
Details SHB 2906 Concerning the use of radio collars on gray wolves by the department of fish and wildlife.
Details HB 2940 Restoring a wild Skagit river.
Details HB 1283 Ensuring the funding of agricultural fairs.
Details SHB 1334 Concerning electric utility wildland fire prevention.
Details HB 1368 Reauthorizing the business and occupation tax deduction for cooperative finance organizations.
Details SHB 1546 Concerning the proposed department of natural resources' marbled murrelet long-term conservation strategy.
Details 2SHB 1580 Concerning the protection of southern resident orca whales from vessels.
Details HB 1585 Increasing the traumatic brain injury fee.
Details HB 1586 Expanding the traumatic brain injury fee to other traffic-related offenses.
Details HB 1611 Ensuring the safe and productive cultivation of shellfish.
Details HB 1662 Concerning payments in lieu of real property taxes.
Details HB 1863 Concerning agriculture, food, and natural resource education.
Details EHB 1912 Concerning pension benefits and contributions in the volunteer firefighters' and reserve officers' relief and pension system.
Details HB 1976 Concerning vaccine safety.
Details HB 1978 Providing assistance to victims of government actions originating as part of the implementation of the growth management act by the state or local governments.
Details HB 1981 Providing a business and occupation credit for manufacturers utilizing a patent.
Details HB 1982 Waiving groundwater fees for low-income housing.
Details HB 1983 Concerning natural resource management activities.
Details HB 1984 Ensuring that attempts to limit greenhouse gas emissions in Washington state do not make Washington's agricultural products and food processing businesses economically uncompetitive, thereby shifting emissions to jurisdictions without similar greenhouse gas policies.
Details HB 1985 Providing regulatory relief from greenhouse gas emissions rules for producers of agricultural commodities and food products.
Details HB 2057 Concerning special privileges.
Details HB 2120 Creating a work group to study and make recommendations on a statue to replace the Vladimir Lenin statue.
Details HB 2121 Providing ongoing funding under the current funding model to the forest and fish support account by extending the current forest products business and occupation tax rate with the associated surcharge in RCW 82.04.261.
Details EHB 2166 Creating special license plates that support working forests.
Details HB 2182 Concerning bump-fire stock buy-back program records.
Details HB 2190 Increasing legislative transparency.
Details ESHB 2138 Requiring signage on certain lands that are closed to the public.
Details HB 2479 Reaffirming the prohibition of the imposition of a local income tax.
Details SHB 2541 Creating the Washington rural development act.
Details HB 2557 Simplifying the hunting seasons and regulations pamphlet published by the department of fish and wildlife.
Details HB 2626 Providing a limited informed consent exemption to state vaccination requirements.
Details HB 2667 Increasing housing access and affordability by decreasing construction costs associated with implementing the Washington state energy code for residential buildings.
Details HB 2671 Concerning short subdivisions.
Details HB 2672 Concerning limited areas of more intensive rural development.
Details HB 2680 Establishing tribal representation on the emergency management council.
Details SHB 2683 Creating a local wine industry association license.
Details SHB 2696 Concerning the misbranding of meat and poultry products.
Details ESHB 2713 Encouraging compost procurement and use.
Details SHB 2714 Valuing the carbon in forest riparian easements.
Details HB 2718 Protecting parental rights with regard to insurance communication confidentiality of minors.
Details HB 2729 Providing enhanced payment to low volume, small rural hospitals.
Details HB 2756 Concerning advanced metering infrastructure.
Details HB 2843 Providing premium tax relief to health carriers offering coverage in certain counties.
Details HB 2887 Prohibiting local governments from suing over statewide ballot measures.
Details HB 2928 Creating the parents' bill of rights.
Details HB 2933 Creating the education choice scholarship program.
Details HB 2946 Reducing the financial costs imposed by the state government on working Washington families.
Details HB 2968 Concerning ballot envelope secrecy flaps.

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