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Senator Hobbs

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Member Information

Biennium 2019-20
Chamber Senate
Acronym HOBB
District 44
Name Steve Hobbs
Party Democrat
Email Steve.Hobbs@leg.wa.gov
Sponsor Success Rate 21.19%
Total Bills Sponsored 118
Campaign Contributions (biennium) $452,930.34
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) $1,248,730.75

25 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2019-20

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SB 5197 Concerning the Washington national guard postsecondary education grant program.
Details SB 5505 Addressing the use of local stormwater charges paid by the department of transportation.
Details SB 5506 Concerning parking at rest areas.
Details ESSB 5825 Addressing the tolling of Interstate 405, state route number 167, and state route number 509.
Details SB 5923 Establishing an emergency loan program to be administered by the county road administration board.
Details SSB 5012 Concerning governmental continuity during emergency periods.
Details 2SSB 5021 Granting interest arbitration to certain department of corrections employees.
Details SB 5260 Concerning powers to waive statutory obligations or limitations during a state of emergency in order to cope with the emergency.
Details SSB 5362 Creating a deferred finding program for nonpayment of license fees and taxes for vehicle, vessel, and aircraft registrations.
Details SB 5490 Transferring duties of the life sciences discovery fund.
Details SB 5508 Clarifying background check requirements for an application for a concealed pistol license.
Details ESSB 5526 Increasing the availability of quality, affordable health coverage in the individual market.
Details SSB 5588 Authorizing the production, distribution, and sale of renewable hydrogen.
Details SSB 5652 Clarifying personal belongings disposal for impounded vehicles.
Details SSB 5670 Expanding the allowable powers of fire protection districts.
Details SB 5881 Addressing the installation of safety glazing or film sunscreening materials.
Details SSB 5883 Authorizing vehicles or combinations of vehicles carrying farm products to exceed total gross weight limits.
Details SB 5918 Providing whale watching guidelines in the boating safety education program.
Details SB 6025 Concerning bump-fire stock buy-back program records.
Details ESB 6032 Creating a Washington apples special license plate.
Details SSB 5628 Concerning heavy equipment rental property taxation.
Details SSB 6084 Concerning circular intersections.
Details SB 6131 Repealing the debenture company laws from the securities act of Washington.
Details SB 6493 Concerning the Cooper Jones active transportation safety council.
Details ESB 6626 Creating the position of military spouse liaison.

93 Sponsored Bills Failed for Biennium 2019-20

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SSB 5020 Establishing a soju endorsement to certain restaurant licenses.
Details SSB 5065 Concerning consumer competitive group insurance.
Details SB 5180 Concerning the armed forces exceptions for giving notice of termination of a tenancy.
Details SB 5196 Concerning national guard pay in state active service for wildland fire response duty.
Details SB 5213 Making 2017-2019 supplemental transportation appropriations.
Details SSB 5214 Making transportation appropriations for the 2019-2021 fiscal biennium.
Details SSB 5419 Providing an adjustment of vehicle service fees.
Details SSB 5458 Expanding access to construction and building trades apprenticeships.
Details SB 5563 Concerning mandatory rest periods for pilots.
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 SB 5725 Concerning abstracts of driving records.
Details SSB 5858 Concerning funding and uses of the military department active state service account.
Details SB 5864 Financing local public works through the creation of the Washington state infrastructure bank.
Details SB 5893 Concerning the private vehicle rental act.
Details SB 5926 Concerning transportation network companies.
Details SB 5970 Authorizing bonds for transportation funding.
Details SSB 5971 Concerning transportation funding.
Details SSB 5972 Concerning additive transportation funding and appropriations.
Details 2SSB 5544 Increasing the types of commercial driver waivers allowed for military veterans.
Details SSB 6497 Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2019-2021 fiscal biennium.
Details SB 6582 Concerning the number of fire protection district commissioners.
Details SB 6644 Creating a pilot project to provide grants to low-income families to receive financial support for acquiring legal services to assist with the guardianship appointment process.
Details SB 5022 Granting binding interest arbitration rights to certain higher education uniformed personnel.
Details SSB 5247 Addressing catastrophic incidents that are natural or human-caused emergencies.
Details SB 5281 Calculating the benchmark rate for certain community residential services.
Details SB 5306 Creating the capacity for the state treasurer's office to provide separately managed investment portfolios to eligible governmental entities.
Details SB 5307 Adding the treasurer to the public works board.
Details SB 5335 Paying state retirement benefits until the end of the month in which the retiree or beneficiary dies.
Details SSB 5343 Facilitating high school success.
Details SSB 5344 Concerning staffing committees and limiting the total number of hours nurses can work across all health care settings to sixty hours in a week.
Details SSB 5358 Concerning affordable housing development on religious organization property.
Details SB 5360 Addressing plan membership default provisions in the public employees' retirement system, the teachers' retirement system, and the school employees' retirement system.
Details SSB 5378 Creating a work group to provide recommendations on a regulatory framework for automated personal delivery devices.
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 SB 5467 Extending the tax preferences in RCW 82.04.260(12).
Details SB 5476 Concerning the protection of composting from nuisance lawsuits.
Details SB 5529 Authorizing the use of automated license plate recognition systems.
Details SB 5561 Directing the department of ecology to adopt a rule governing the evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions under chapter 43.21C RCW.
Details SSB 5564 Creating the building business ecosystems act.
Details SSB 5574 Concerning K-12 computer science education data.
Details SB 5584 Concerning joint self-insurance programs for property and liability risks.
Details SB 5589 Prohibiting local taxes based on employee wages, employee hours, or the number of employment positions.
Details SSB 5590 Establishing school district depreciation subfunds for the purposes of preventative maintenance.
Details SSB 5603 Concerning enrollment and course registration access for children of military families.
Details SB 5626 Ensuring the safe and productive cultivation of shellfish.
Details SB 5653 Establishing permissible methods of parking a motorcycle.
Details E2SSB 5662 Concerning cloud computing solutions.
Details SB 5671 Concerning bid limits for purchases and public works by fire protection districts.
Details SB 5698 Ensuring for a skilled and trained workforce in high hazard facilities.
Details SB 5702 Concerning the fairness of public works bidding.
Details SSB 5709 Modifying the American Indian endowed scholarship program.
Details 2E2SSB 5740 Creating the secure choice retirement savings program.
Details ESB 5755 Concerning veteran and national guard tuition waivers.
Details ESB 5765 Creating a new exclusion from mandatory industrial insurance coverage for persons transporting freight. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Clarifying responsibilities for mandatory industrial insurance coverage for persons transporting freight. )
Details SB 5778 Restricting the availability of state funds to regional transportation planning organizations that do not provide a reasonable opportunity for voting membership to certain federally recognized tribes.
Details SB 5783 Concerning gold star license plates.
Details SSB 5805 Making state law consistent with selected federal consumer protections in the patient protection and affordable care act.
Details SB 5808 Establishing the opportunities for employment in hospitality grant.
Details SB 5813 Requiring eligible arena projects to fully pay the state and local sales tax within ten years of commencing construction.
Details SB 5830 Concerning vehicle combinations that may be operated on public highways.
Details SB 5832 Changing the county in which the vehicle registration filing fee is distributed.
Details SB 5836 Concerning inflation adjustments in nursing home payment rate setting.
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 SB 5854 Ensuring the long-term economic and environmental sustainability of the state's recycling system within the existing regulatory structure.
Details SB 5855 Revising commute trip reduction.
Details SB 5860 Concerning kinship care.
Details SB 5882 Prohibiting the location of homeless encampments near schools and early learning facilities.
Details SSB 5896 Concerning shared employer shuttles.
Details SB 5927 Modifying the definition of retail car rental for the purposes of chapter 82.08 RCW in order to create tax equity.
Details SSB 5992 Concerning state ferry funding.
Details SB 6083 Concerning travel trailers.
Details SB 6115 Concerning off-road vehicle registrations.
Details 2SSB 5601 Regulating health care benefit managers.
Details SSB 6114 Concerning all-terrain vehicles.
Details SB 6146 Regulating legal service contractors.
Details SB 6177 Prohibiting unjustified employer searches of employee personal vehicles.
Details SB 6283 Requiring the department of ecology to develop a waste discharge general permit to reduce pollution resulting from the unauthorized use of public streets by owners or occupants of recreational vehicles or campers.
Details SB 6301 Concerning public interest considerations in the transfer or change of surface water rights.
Details SB 6338 Concerning veterans' scoring criteria status in examinations.
Details SB 6347 Extending the expiration date for a concealed pistol license.
Details SSB 6394 Authorizing sports wagering subject to the terms of tribal-state gaming compacts.
Details SB 6479 Concerning optional benefits offered by school districts.
Details SB 6550 Concerning local effort assistance for charter schools.
Details SSB 6586 Implementing a per mile charge on electric and hybrid vehicles.
Details SSB 6606 Concerning regional transit authorities.
Details SSB 6622 Investigating changes to the comprehensive, statewide photovoltaic module recovery, reuse, recycling, and end-of-life program.
Details SB 6678 Providing a sales and use tax exemption for materials and labor purchased by veterans' organizations in the construction of memorials.
Details SB 6684 Concerning electric vehicle readiness.
Details SB 6691 Replacing legislative chamber skylights.
Details SB 6693 Restoring revenue from the real estate excise tax to the public works assistance account.
Details SB 6700 Implementing a coordinated strategy of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and making needed investments in transportation infrastructure.

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