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Senator Van De Wege

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Member Information

Biennium 2019-20
Chamber Senate
Acronym VAND
District 24
Name Kevin Van De Wege
Party Democrat
Email Kevin.VanDeWege@leg.wa.gov
Sponsor Success Rate 25.00%
Total Bills Sponsored 240
Campaign Contributions (biennium) No Data Available
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) $411,249.78

60 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2019-20

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details 2SSB 5021 Granting interest arbitration to certain department of corrections employees.
Details SSB 5305 Concerning electric utility wildland fire prevention.
Details SSB 6392 Creating a local wine industry association license.
Details E2SSB 6515 Concerning nursing facilities.
Details ESSB 5001 Concerning human remains.
Details SSB 5010 Concerning protected lands not being assessed local fire district levies.
Details SSB 5017 Concerning the uniform unsworn declarations act.
Details ESSB 5079 Enacting the Native American voting rights act of Washington.
Details SB 5119 Including highway workers employed on a transportation project by a contractor in the tuition and fee exemption for children and surviving spouses of highway workers.
Details SSB 5135 Preventing toxic pollution that affects public health or the environment.
Details SB 5145 Concerning the use of hydraulic fracturing in the exploration for and production of oil and natural gas.
Details SSB 5175 Concerning firefighter safety.
Details SB 5199 Granting certain correctional employees binding interest arbitration.
Details E2SSB 5223 Concerning net metering.
Details E2SSB 5284 Concerning smoke detection devices.
Details SB 5300 Providing coroners with additional subpoena duces tecum authority.
Details SSB 5324 Concerning support for students experiencing homelessness.
Details ESSB 5330 Analyzing state regulatory impact on small forestland owners.
Details 2SSB 5352 Concerning the Walla Walla watershed management pilot program.
Details SSB 5355 Recovering service credit withdrawn from the public employees' retirement system for certain law enforcement officers and firefighters.
Details SB 5359 Funding investigations to protect individuals with disabilities in the supported living program.
Details ESSB 5383 Concerning tiny houses.
Details ESSB 5385 Concerning telemedicine payment parity. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Reimbursing for telemedicine services at the same rate as in person. )
Details SSB 5386 Concerning training standards in providing telemedicine services.
Details SB 5387 Concerning physician credentialing in telemedicine services.
Details SB 5398 Concerning unemployment benefit eligibility for apprentices.
Details SB 5404 Expanding the definition of fish habitat enhancement projects.
Details SB 5415 Creating the Washington Indian health improvement act.
Details E2SSB 5438 Establishing the office of agricultural and seasonal workforce services within the employment security department.
Details ESSB 5526 Increasing the availability of quality, affordable health coverage in the individual market.
Details SSB 5550 Implementing the recommendations of the pesticide application safety work group.
Details SB 5551 Concerning courthouse facility dog assistance for testifying witnesses.
Details SSB 5552 Concerning the protection of all pollinators, including honey bees.
Details ESSB 5579 Concerning the volatility of crude oil received in the state by rail.
Details SSB 5588 Authorizing the production, distribution, and sale of renewable hydrogen.
Details 2SSB 5602 Eliminating barriers to reproductive health care for all.
Details SSB 5612 Concerning Holocaust education.
Details ESSB 5829 Concerning pension benefits and contributions in the volunteer firefighters' and reserve officers' relief and pension system.
Details SB 5831 Concerning an employer's payment of indebtedness.
Details SB 5918 Providing whale watching guidelines in the boating safety education program.
Details SB 6049 Creating the insurance commissioner's fraud account.
Details SB 6119 Authorizing that money laundering forfeited proceeds and property be used for improvement of gambling-related law enforcement activities.
Details SB 6123 Allowing state employee leave for organ donation.
Details E2SSB 5481 (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning collective bargaining by fish and wildlife officers. )
Details SSB 5900 Promoting access to earned benefits and services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer veterans.
Details SSB 6058 Concerning fire district health clinic services.
Details SSB 6074 Reauthorizing and expanding the financial fraud and identity theft crimes investigation and prosecution program.
Details SSB 6152 Concerning the level of foreign national ownership and control of entities that participate in Washington state elections.
Details E2SSB 6205 Preventing harassment, abuse, and discrimination experienced by long-term care workers.
Details SB 6212 Concerning the authority of counties, cities, and towns to exceed statutory property tax limitations for the purpose of financing affordable housing for very low-income households and low-income households.
Details ESB 6239 Addressing compliance with apprenticeship utilization requirements and bidding on public works projects.
Details SSB 6259 Improving the Indian behavioral health system.
Details SSB 6267 Modifying the long-term services and supports trust program by clarifying the ability for individuals with existing long-term care insurance to opt-out of the premium assessment and making technical corrections.
Details SSB 6306 Creating the Washington soil health initiative.
Details SSB 6415 Allowing a permanent fire protection district benefit charge with voter approval.
Details SB 6417 Allowing retirees to change their survivor option election after retirement.
Details SSB 6429 Providing a designation on a driver's license or identicard that a person has a developmental disability.
Details ESSB 6473 Concerning asbestos-containing building materials.
Details SSB 6526 Reusing and donating unexpired prescription drugs.
Details SSB 6670 Encouraging access to state parks through cooperative programs with libraries.

180 Sponsored Bills Failed for Biennium 2019-20

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SB 5016 Allowing animal control officers to carry firearms for personal protection.
Details ESSB 5279 Regulating outdoor burning for the protection of life or property and for public health, safety, and welfare.
Details SSB 5443 Concerning the state board of registration for professional engineers and land surveyors.
Details SB 5447 Extending the dairy milk assessment fee to June 30, 2025.
Details SB 5468 Concerning device registration, civil penalties, and service agent registration for the weights and measures program.
Details SSB 5547 Concerning the proposed department of natural resources' marbled murrelet long-term conservation strategy.
Details SSB 5578 Reducing threats to southern resident killer whales by improving the safety of oil transportation.
Details SSB 5623 Strengthening the rights of workers through collective bargaining by addressing authorizations and revocations, certifications, and the authority to deduct and accept union dues and fees.
Details SB 5732 Concerning foundational public health services.
Details SB 5752 Concerning the practice of naturopathy.
Details SB 5833 Concerning dental assistants, expanded function dental auxiliaries, and dental hygienists.
Details SB 5836 Concerning inflation adjustments in nursing home payment rate setting.
Details SB 5863 Creating transient accommodation short-term agreement standards.
Details SB 5983 Concerning the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' plan 2 pension system.
Details SSB 5996 Funding fire prevention and suppression activities.
Details SB 6069 Concerning the use of state funds for medical transportation for the purpose of receiving substance use disorder treatment services.
Details SB 6070 Concerning public disclosures by state-funded substance use disorder treatment programs and facilities.
Details SSB 6071 Concerning increased deterrence and meaningful enforcement of fish and wildlife violations.
Details SB 6252 Concerning the authority of the parks and recreation commission to approve leases.
Details SB 6273 Creating an exemption from shorelines substantial development permit requirements for single-family residential protective marine bulkheads.
Details SB 6291 Requiring coverage for hearing instruments for children and adolescents.
Details SB 6301 Concerning public interest considerations in the transfer or change of surface water rights.
Details SB 6323 Concerning the board of engineers and land surveyors' appointment of its director and agreement with the department of licensing.
Details SSB 6355 Recognizing the contributions of the state's forest products sector as part of the state's global climate response.
Details SB 6360 Eliminating exemptions from restrictions on the use of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances in firefighting foam.
Details SB 6407 Concerning spinal manipulation endorsement requirements for physical therapists.
Details SB 6438 Applying the public records act to all courts and offices within the judicial branch.
Details SB 6573 Eliminating the reduction in state basic education funding that occurs in counties with federal and state forestlands.
Details SB 6671 Authorizing the department of revenue to collect tribal timber harvest excise tax under a timber harvest excise tax agreement authorized in chapter 43.06 RCW.
Details SB 6681 Increasing housing access and affordability by decreasing construction costs associated with implementing the Washington state energy code for residential buildings.
Details SB 5022 Granting binding interest arbitration rights to certain higher education uniformed personnel.
Details SB 5031 Protecting consumers from charges for out-of-network health care services.
Details SB 5054 Increasing the behavioral health workforce by establishing a reciprocity program to increase the portability of behavioral health licenses and certifications.
Details SB 5055 Increasing availability of peer services for persons with behavioral health disorders.
Details SB 5078 Requiring disclosure of federal income tax returns of presidential and vice presidential candidates prior to appearing on the ballot.
Details SB 5085 Providing access to broadband internet services.
Details ESSB 5139 Concerning daylight saving time in Washington state.
Details SB 5140 Concerning uniform standard time for the state of Washington.
Details SB 5158 Concerning educator evaluations and professional development.
Details SB 5159 Concerning the definition of eligible pupil for purposes of the transitional bilingual instruction program.
Details SB 5219 Concerning condominium construction warranties.
Details SSB 5259 Encouraging the success of agriculture on agricultural land.
Details SSB 5277 Ensuring the funding of agricultural fairs.
Details 2SSB 5292 Concerning prescription drug cost transparency.
Details 2SSB 5315 Increasing student support staff in the prototypical school funding model.
Details SB 5320 Establishing a nonlethal program within the department of fish and wildlife for the purpose of training dogs.
Details SSB 5321 Concerning ticket sales over the internet.
Details SSB 5338 Concerning the protection of vulnerable adults.
Details SSB 5358 Concerning affordable housing development on religious organization property.
Details SB 5364 Ensuring that offenders who are incarcerated and commit murder may be charged with the death penalty.
Details SB 5368 Requiring the department of natural resources to maintain the department's roads that are the exclusive means of accessing private property by road.
Details SB 5371 Protecting consumers and purchasers from excessive increases in insulin drug prices.
Details SSB 5382 Concerning tiny houses serving as accessory dwelling units.
Details SSB 5384 Concerning the location of tiny house communities.
Details SSB 5388 Establishing a training course for campaign treasurers.
Details E2SSB 5393 Establishing a statewide free college program by changing the state need grant to the Washington college promise scholarship.
Details SB 5411 Concerning physician assistants.
Details SB 5414 Modifying the maximum amount of leave school employees may accumulate.
Details SSB 5417 Authorizing military surplus vehicles to operate on public highways.
Details SSB 5423 Creating the Washington rural development and opportunity zone act.
Details 2SSB 5431 Concerning community facilities needed to ensure a continuum of care for behavioral health patients.
Details SB 5454 Clarifying the definition of a geriatric behavioral health worker for individuals with a bachelor's or master's degree in social work, behavioral health, or other related areas.
Details SB 5455 Exempting United States food and drug administration nonpublic information from disclosure under the state public disclosure act.
Details SB 5467 Extending the tax preferences in RCW 82.04.260(12).
Details SB 5482 Modifying funding of the medical marijuana authorization database.
Details SSB 5516 Establishing a behavioral health innovation and integration campus within the University of Washington school of medicine.
Details SB 5542 Protecting patient care.
Details SSB 5557 Concerning seismic hazard risk reduction.
Details SB 5569 Concerning the nursing facility medicaid payment system.
Details ESB 5573 Concerning domestic violence and traumatic brain injury. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning traumatic brain injuries in domestic violence cases. )
Details SB 5583 Increasing access to fruits and vegetables for individuals with limited incomes.
Details SB 5587 Authorizing product certification agencies to certify building products and methods of construction, design, and systems as an alternate code compliance for modern technical methods, devices, and improvements.
Details SSB 5590 Establishing school district depreciation subfunds for the purposes of preventative maintenance.
Details SSB 5617 Banning the use of nontribal gill nets.
Details SB 5626 Ensuring the safe and productive cultivation of shellfish.
Details SB 5644 Concerning the hosting of the homeless by religious organizations.
Details SB 5645 Concerning child-placing agencies.
Details SB 5647 Requiring health insurance payment parity for advanced registered nurse practitioners.
Details SB 5648 Concerning hospital privileges for advanced registered nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
Details SB 5655 Providing for accountability and transparency in government contracting.
Details SB 5661 Clarifying the written consent requirement for survivorship benefit options.
Details SSB 5666 Modifying the types of off-road vehicles subject to local government regulation.
Details SB 5675 Concerning drought preparedness and response.
Details SSB 5704 Establishing the Washington children's educational savings account program.
Details SSB 5705 Concerning the Washington opportunity scholarship program.
Details SSB 5709 Modifying the American Indian endowed scholarship program.
Details SB 5712 Creating a work group to study and make recommendations on a monument to honor residents who died in the global war on terror.
Details SSB 5715 Establishing a streamlined process to increase the capacity of certain mental health providers to offer substance use disorder treatment.
Details 2E2SSB 5740 Creating the secure choice retirement savings program.
Details SB 5749 Concerning faith-based exemptions regarding criminal mistreatment of children and vulnerable adults.
Details SB 5775 Requiring individual metering of households for water and sewer charges based on the actual water use of the household.
Details SB 5788 Concerning local government infrastructure funding.
Details SB 5790 Ensuring that commercial fishing revenue benefits communities most dependent on the industry.
Details SB 5798 Providing a sales and use tax exemption for construction and repair costs associated with fish barrier removal.
Details SSB 5805 Making state law consistent with selected federal consumer protections in the patient protection and affordable care act.
Details SB 5810 Providing a working families' tax credit.
Details SB 5813 Requiring eligible arena projects to fully pay the state and local sales tax within ten years of commencing construction.
Details 2SSB 5822 Providing a pathway to establish a universal health care system for the residents of Washington state.
Details SB 5841 Modifying certain vaccine provisions.
Details SB 5849 Concerning the presumption of occupational disease for purposes of workers' compensation by adding medical conditions to the presumption, extending the presumption to certain publicly employed firefighters and investigators and law enforcement, addressing the qualifying medical examination, and creating an advisory committee.
Details ESSB 5853 Regarding the school construction assistance program.
Details 2SSB 5873 Establishing a community forests pilot project.
Details SB 5877 Establishing minimum crew size on certain trains.
Details SB 5878 Concerning hours of service for certain railroad employees.
Details SB 5879 Safeguarding the public safety by protecting railroad workers.
Details SB 5924 Requiring proof of auto insurance to be shown upon vehicle registration and renewal.
Details SB 5944 Concerning the timeline for commencing basic law enforcement training.
Details SSB 5948 Creating a small business bill of rights.
Details SB 5949 Establishing the Washington investment trust.
Details SB 5956 Concerning livestock inspection.
Details ESSB 5986 Establishing a tax on vapor and heated tobacco products to fund cancer research and support local public health.
Details SB 5995 Establishing the Washington investment trust.
Details SB 6036 Providing opportunities for drought mitigation using trust water rights.
Details SB 6073 Providing menstrual hygiene products in public school bathrooms.
Details SB 6110 Importing prescription drugs from Canada.
Details SB 6115 Concerning off-road vehicle registrations.
Details 2SSB 5059 Allowing the legislative gift center to sell wine and beer.
Details SSB 5400 Providing a benefit increase to certain retirees of the public employees' retirement system plan 1 and the teachers' retirement system plan 1.
Details 2SSB 5607 Concerning dual language learning in early learning and K-12 education.
Details 2SSB 6027 Concerning floating residences.
Details SSB 6113 Creating a central insulin purchasing program.
Details SSB 6114 Concerning all-terrain vehicles.
Details E2SSB 6128 Extending coverage during the postpartum period.
Details SB 6129 Concerning student health plan coverage for pregnancy services.
Details SB 6132 Allowing the learning assistance program to support school-wide behavioral health system of supports and interventions.
Details SSB 6148 Concerning peace officer certification.
Details SB 6149 Ensuring compliance with the federal clean water act by prohibiting certain discharges into waters of the state.
Details SB 6150 Concerning the effective date of certain actions taken under the growth management act.
Details SB 6177 Prohibiting unjustified employer searches of employee personal vehicles.
Details E2SSB 6213 Concerning certain expanded polystyrene products.
Details SSB 6216 Concerning the application of the family and medical leave program in Title 50A RCW to specific classes of individuals.
Details SB 6241 Concerning independently procured insurance and applying the state insurance premium tax to such insurance for both in-state and out-of-state risk.
Details SB 6243 Providing access to recreational fishing regulations.
Details SB 6250 Concerning nursing facilities.
Details 2SSB 6255 Supporting access to child care for parents who are attending high school or working toward completion of a high school equivalency certificate.
Details SB 6258 Addressing the suicide and addiction crisis among American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Details SSB 6262 Teaching Washington's tribal history, culture, and government.
Details SB 6271 Extending the closure notice period for manufactured/mobile home communities.
Details ESSB 6278 Concerning water withdrawals for commercial bottled water production.
Details SB 6279 Expanding school-based health centers.
Details 2SSB 6281 Concerning the management and oversight of personal data.
Details SB 6292 Concerning water rights sales.
Details SB 6365 Concerning payments in lieu of real property taxes by the department of fish and wildlife.
Details SSB 6371 Expanding school library information and technology programs.
Details SB 6375 Concerning private detention facilities.
Details SSB 6393 Concerning cannabis industry workplace standards.
Details SSB 6394 Authorizing sports wagering subject to the terms of tribal-state gaming compacts.
Details 2SSB 6400 Mitigating inequity in the health insurance market caused by health plans that exclude certain mandated benefits.
Details SB 6403 Concerning allowable uses for the multiuse roadway safety account.
Details SSB 6408 Concerning agency responsibilities to regulated businesses and professions.
Details SB 6418 Concerning the definition of period of war for pensions.
Details SB 6425 Establishing the American Indian cultural study grant.
Details ESSB 6432 Concerning offshore oil extraction.
Details SB 6439 Addressing sexual misconduct at postsecondary educational institutions.
Details SB 6449 Requiring contact information for suicide prevention and crisis intervention organizations on student and staff identification cards.
Details SB 6451 Concerning funding for individuals who are not eligible for federal insurance subsidies and for foundational public health services.
Details SSB 6455 Requiring default beverages for children's meals.
Details SB 6456 Concerning interest arbitration for department of corrections employees.
Details SSB 6464 Concerning state building code council membership.
Details SB 6467 Providing integrated services between the paid family and medical leave program and a statewide family resource, referral, and linkage system.
Details SSB 6488 Concerning aerial herbicides in forestlands.
Details SSB 6494 Concerning trust water rights.
Details SSB 6505 Expanding access to dual credit opportunities by eliminating direct costs to students and families.
Details SB 6509 Increasing the abundance of salmonids in Washington waters.
Details E2SSB 6518 Reducing prenatal exposure and harm to children by limiting environmental exposure to certain pesticides.
Details SSB 6527 Collecting information regarding police use of deadly force.
Details 2SSB 6528 Concerning the prevention of derelict vessels.
Details SB 6533 Concerning school district levies.
Details SSB 6553 Facilitating treatment for gun violence victims.
Details SSB 6560 Studying the feasibility of postsecondary student housing within retirement facilities.
Details SB 6562 Creating Seattle NHL hockey special license plates.
Details SSB 6578 Designating pumped storage projects located in a county bordering the Columbia river utilizing statutorily authorized water rights to be projects of statewide significance.
Details SB 6614 Establishing the rural college promise program.
Details SB 6616 Concerning retirement benefits for certain employees that provided emergency medical services prior to July 27, 2003.
Details SSB 6622 Investigating changes to the comprehensive, statewide photovoltaic module recovery, reuse, recycling, and end-of-life program.
Details SB 6624 Submitting reports to the legislature.
Details SB 6665 Changing the expiration date for the sales and use tax exemption of hog fuel to coincide with the 2045 deadline for fossil fuel-free electrical generation in Washington state and to protect jobs with health care and retirement benefits in economically distressed communities.
Details SSB 6676 Concerning reimbursement for primary care services for medicaid beneficiaries.
Details SB 6691 Replacing legislative chamber skylights.
Details SB 6699 Concerning economic acts and practices during a time of disaster.

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