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Representative Tharinger

Portrait of Representative Tharinger

Member Information

Biennium 2019-20
Chamber House
Acronym THAR
District 24
Name Steve Tharinger
Party Democrat
Email Steve.Tharinger@leg.wa.gov
Sponsor Success Rate 33.59%
Total Bills Sponsored 262
Campaign Contributions (biennium) $133,852.41
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) $904,110.38

88 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2019-20

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SHB 1101 Concerning state general obligation bonds and related accounts.
Details SHB 1295 Concerning public works contracting procedures.
Details HB 1318 Making the public art capital budget language permanent for efficiency.
Details SHB 1856 Prohibiting scleral tattooing.
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 2380 Changing the home care agency vendor rate and repealing electronic timekeeping.
Details HB 2601 Concerning the authority of the parks and recreation commission to approve leases.
Details ESHB 1023 Allowing certain adult family homes to increase capacity to eight beds.
Details SHB 1049 Concerning health care provider and health care facility whistleblower protections.
Details SHB 1064 Concerning law enforcement.
Details 2SHB 1065 Protecting consumers from charges for out-of-network health care services.
Details HB 1070 Concerning the tax treatment of renewable natural gas.
Details EHB 1074 Protecting youth from tobacco products and vapor products by increasing the minimum legal age of sale of tobacco and vapor products.
Details 2SHB 1087 Concerning long-term services and supports.
Details ESHB 1099 Providing notice about network adequacy to consumers.
Details E2SHB 1112 Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from hydrofluorocarbons.
Details E2SHB 1114 Reducing the wasting of food in order to fight hunger and reduce environmental impacts.
Details SHB 1196 Allowing for the year round observation of daylight saving time.
Details SHB 1199 Concerning health care for working individuals with disabilities.
Details SHB 1210 Allowing nonresident children from military families to enroll in Washington's public schools prior to arrival in the state.
Details E2SHB 1224 Concerning prescription drug cost transparency.
Details SHB 1225 Establishing policies and requirements regarding law enforcement response to domestic violence incidents to enhance the safety of domestic violence victims, families, and officers.
Details HB 1252 Concerning crime committed by business entities.
Details SHB 1254 Clarifying the authority of unregistered vehicles shipped as marine cargo through public ports to operate on public roadways.
Details E3SHB 1257 Concerning energy efficiency.
Details 2SHB 1303 Improving access and completion for students at institutions of higher education, especially at community and technical colleges, by removing restrictions on subsidized child care.
Details ESHB 1329 Concerning methods of services provided by the office of public guardianship.
Details SHB 1377 Concerning affordable housing development on religious organization property.
Details EHB 1390 Providing a benefit increase to certain retirees of the public employees' retirement system plan 1 and the teachers' retirement system plan 1.
Details 2SHB 1394 Concerning community facilities needed to ensure a continuum of care for behavioral health patients.
Details SHB 1399 Concerning paid family and medical leave.
Details SHB 1406 Encouraging investments in affordable and supportive housing.
Details 2SHB 1424 Concerning access to state career and technical course equivalencies.
Details HB 1432 Concerning hospital privileges for advanced registered nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
Details 2SHB 1448 Creating the veterans service officer program.
Details HB 1449 Recognizing the fourth Saturday of September as public lands day.
Details SHB 1512 Concerning the electrification of transportation.
Details E2SHB 1543 Concerning sustainable recycling.
Details HB 1561 Ensuring participation on the oversight board for children, youth, and families by current or former foster youth, individuals with current or previous experience in the juvenile justice system, a physician with experience working with children or youth, and individuals residing east of the Cascade mountain range.
Details EHB 1564 Concerning the nursing facility medicaid payment system.
Details SHB 1575 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 ESHB 1578 Reducing threats to southern resident killer whales by improving the safety of oil transportation.
Details ESHB 1582 Addressing manufactured/mobile home tenant protections.
Details SHB 1587 Increasing access to fruits and vegetables for individuals with limited incomes.
Details HB 1589 Concerning requirements for the correctional personnel and community corrections officer exemption from restrictions on carrying firearms.
Details E2SHB 1599 Promoting career and college readiness through modified high school graduation requirements.
Details 2SHB 1603 Revising economic assistance programs by updating standards of need, revising outcome measures and data collected, and reducing barriers to participation.
Details ESHB 1608 Protecting patient care.
Details SHB 1652 Concerning paint stewardship.
Details 2SHB 1668 Creating the Washington health corps to support health care professionals who provide service in underserved communities.
Details ESHB 1692 Protecting information concerning agency employees who have filed a claim of harassment or stalking.
Details HB 1743 Addressing the methodology for establishing the prevailing rate of wages for the construction of affordable housing, homeless and domestic violence shelters, and low-income weatherization and home rehabilitation public works.
Details 2SHB 1767 Establishing a law enforcement grant program to expand alternatives to arrest and jail processes.
Details ESHB 1768 Concerning substance use disorder professional practice.
Details HB 1852 Concerning property tax refunds more than three years after the due date resulting from certain manifest errors.
Details SHB 1865 Regulating the practice of acupuncture and Eastern medicine.
Details SHB 1870 Making state law consistent with selected federal consumer protections in the patient protection and affordable care act.
Details ESHB 1879 Regulating and reporting of utilization management in prescription drug benefits.
Details HB 1913 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 ESHB 2018 Concerning harassment and discrimination by legislators and legislative branch employees.
Details E2SHB 2042 Advancing green transportation adoption.
Details E2SHB 2158 Creating a workforce education investment to train Washington students for Washington jobs.
Details HB 2189 Including specified competency restoration workers at department of social and health services institutional and residential sites in the public safety employees retirement system.
Details SHB 2250 Concerning coastal crab derelict gear recovery.
Details SHB 2308 Requiring employers to periodically report standard occupational classifications or job titles of workers.
Details E2SHB 2311 Amending state greenhouse gas emission limits for consistency with the most recent assessment of climate change science.
Details ESHB 2342 Aligning the timing of comprehensive plan updates required by the growth management act with the timing of shoreline master program updates required by the shoreline management act.
Details SHB 2343 Concerning urban housing supply.
Details SHB 2426 Protecting patient safety in psychiatric hospitals and other health care facilities.
Details SHB 2456 Concerning working connections child care eligibility.
Details 2SHB 2457 Establishing the health care cost transparency board.
Details HB 2497 Adding development of permanently affordable housing to the allowable uses of community revitalization financing, the local infrastructure financing tool, and local revitalization financing.
Details E2SHB 2528 Recognizing the contributions of the state's forest products sector as part of the state's global climate response.
Details SHB 2554 Mitigating inequity in the health insurance market caused by health plans that exclude certain mandated benefits.
Details SHB 2556 Providing regulatory relief for early learning providers.
Details SHB 2614 Concerning paid family and medical leave.
Details ESHB 2638 Authorizing sports wagering subject to the terms of tribal-state gaming compacts.
Details HB 2641 Authorizing cities to provide passenger-only ferry service.
Details ESHB 2642 Removing health coverage barriers to accessing substance use disorder treatment services.
Details ESHB 2660 Increasing the availability of school meals provided to public school students at no student cost.
Details E2SHB 2662 Reducing the total cost of insulin.
Details HB 2669 Creating Seattle NHL hockey special license plates. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Concerning certain sports-related special license plates. )
Details SHB 2673 Concerning exemptions for infill development under the state environmental policy act.
Details HB 2677 Sharing health insurance information to improve the coordination of benefits between health insurers and the health care authority.
Details HB 2763 Concerning interest arbitration for department of corrections employees.
Details SHB 2787 Completing the transfer of the early support for infants and toddlers program from the office of the superintendent of public instruction to the department of children, youth, and families.
Details SHB 2803 Authorizing the governor to enter into compacts with Indian tribes addressing certain state retail sales tax, certain state use tax, and certain state business and occupation tax revenues, as specified in a memorandum of understanding entered into by the state, Tulalip tribes, and Snohomish county, in January 2020, and including other terms necessary for the department of revenue to administer any such compact.
Details EHB 2965 Concerning the state's response to the novel coronavirus.

174 Sponsored Bills Failed for Biennium 2019-20

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SHB 1102 Concerning the capital budget.
Details HB 1365 Creating the Washington Indian health improvement act.
Details HB 1423 Concerning safe egress from adult family homes.
Details HB 1441 Concerning the financing of local infrastructure.
Details HB 1675 Concerning the establishment of a training network for adult family homes.
Details HB 2177 Relating to the capital budget.
Details HB 2178 Relating to state general obligation bonds and related accounts.
Details SHB 2324 Concerning the capital budget.
Details HB 2351 Establishing continuing education requirements for medical assistants-certified.
Details HB 2352 Concerning the building for the arts program.
Details HB 2451 Concerning the medicaid home health reimbursement rate for medical assistance clients.
Details HB 2598 Requiring medicaid managed care organizations to provide reimbursement of health care services provided by substitute providers.
Details HB 2726 Regarding marijuana-infused edible products.
Details HB 2791 Eliminating the reduction in state basic education funding that occurs in counties with federal and state forestlands.
Details HB 2846 Creating an ambulance transport quality assurance fee.
Details ESHB 2849 Concerning housing programs administered by the department of commerce.
Details HB 2931 Providing a sales and use tax exemption for labor and services rendered related to and tangible personal property incorporated in a qualified community multipurpose arts and events facility.
Details E2SHB 1033 Concerning relocation assistance for manufactured/mobile home park tenants.
Details SHB 1042 Granting interest arbitration to department of corrections employees.
Details HB 1043 Granting binding interest arbitration rights to certain uniformed personnel.
Details HB 1086 Increasing appropriated funding for public defense services.
Details E2SHB 1110 Reducing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with transportation fuels.
Details SHB 1113 Amending state greenhouse gas emission limits for consistency with the most recent assessment of climate change science and with the United States' commitment under the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
Details SHB 1181 Providing property tax relief for senior citizens and qualifying veterans.
Details HB 1186 Continuing access to medicaid services.
Details HB 1209 Providing prepaid postage for all election ballots.
Details 2SHB 1211 Supporting Washington's clean energy economy and transitioning to a clean, affordable, and reliable energy future.
Details HB 1217 Establishing a coalition of commissioned officers, detectives, and sergeants of the department of fish and wildlife for the purposes of collective bargaining, including interest arbitration.
Details EHB 1219 Providing cities and counties authority to use real estate excise taxes to support affordable housing and homelessness projects.
Details HB 1220 Adding a nonvoting representative from the office of the insurance commissioner to the public employees' benefits board.
Details SHB 1246 Including referred and diverted youth in establishing community juvenile accountability program guidelines.
Details HB 1249 Reducing the business and occupation tax for certain manufacturers and extending an expiration date for current business and occupation tax treatment for the timber industry.
Details HB 1258 Improving guardianship monitoring.
Details HB 1259 Concerning the uniform guardianship, conservatorship, and other protective arrangements act.
Details SHB 1263 Concerning support for students experiencing homelessness.
Details HB 1268 Updating standards of need, revising outcome measures and data collected, reducing sanctions, and expanding reasons for time limit extensions in the temporary assistance for needy families and WorkFirst programs.
Details SHB 1273 Analyzing state regulatory impact on small forest landowners.
Details HB 1281 Investing in educational mentor programs.
Details HB 1285 Adding the treasurer to the public works board.
Details E2SHB 1296 Concerning continuing care retirement communities.
Details SHB 1299 Extending collective bargaining rights to assistant attorneys general.
Details HB 1306 Concerning the Washington uniform common interest ownership act.
Details HB 1309 Phasing out the use of studded tires.
Details SHB 1317 Establishing the profession of dental therapist.
Details E3SHB 1324 Creating the Washington rural development and opportunity zone act.
Details HB 1330 Concerning the management of services provided by the office of public guardianship.
Details 2SHB 1331 Concerning opioid use disorder treatment, prevention, and related services.
Details 2ESHB 1332 Concerning updating and streamlining energy facility site evaluation council operations.
Details SHB 1348 Helping Washington businesses succeed by modifying certain business and occupation tax provisions.
Details SHB 1359 Concerning local government procurement modernization and efficiency.
Details HB 1387 Concerning the distribution of shared game lottery proceeds to the Washington opportunity pathways account.
Details SHB 1393 Concerning fully implementing behavioral health integration for January 1, 2020, by removing behavioral health organizations from law; clarifying the roles and responsibilities among the health care authority, department of social and health services, and department of health, and the roles and responsibilities of behavioral health administrative services organizations and medicaid managed care organizations; and making technical corrections related to the behavioral health system.
Details HB 1397 Encouraging the use of electric or hybrid-electric aircraft for regional air travel.
Details HB 1402 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 HB 1418 Expanding access to building trades apprenticeships.
Details HB 1421 Funding investigations to protect individuals with disabilities in the supported living program.
Details ESHB 1422 Concerning the protection of vulnerable adults.
Details HB 1435 Making statutory requirements and policies for cultural access programs the same in all counties of the state.
Details HB 1443 Extending the tax preferences in RCW 82.04.260(12).
Details HB 1447 Concerning mental health parity.
Details 3SHB 1498 Expanding affordable, resilient broadband service to enable economic development, public safety, health care, and education in Washington's communities.
Details 2SHB 1513 Providing timely competency evaluations and restoration services to persons suffering from behavioral health disorders within the framework of the forensic mental health care system consistent with the requirements agreed to in the Trueblood settlement agreement.
Details 2SHB 1514 Establishing wage liens.
Details SHB 1515 Concerning the employer-employee relationship.
Details E2SHB 1523 Increasing the availability of quality, affordable health coverage in the individual market.
Details HB 1527 Providing a working families' tax credit.
Details HB 1539 Enacting the uniform faithful presidential electors act.
Details SHB 1546 Concerning the proposed department of natural resources' marbled murrelet long-term conservation strategy.
Details HB 1562 Concerning health care benefit management.
Details 2ESHB 1565 Concerning certain providers sharing background checks.
Details 2SHB 1579 Implementing recommendations of the southern resident killer whale task force related to increasing chinook abundance.
Details HB 1596 Concerning flexibility schools and zones.
Details HB 1612 Eliminating barriers to reproductive health care for all.
Details SHB 1630 Concerning the practice of naturopathy.
Details HB 1662 Concerning payments in lieu of real property taxes.
Details HB 1693 Establishing a system for setting rates for health care services.
Details HB 1703 Increasing tax exemption transparency and accountability.
Details HB 1718 Providing cities and counties flexibility with existing resources.
Details SHB 1745 Providing local governments with options to preserve affordable housing in their communities.
Details E2SHB 1783 Creating the Washington state office of equity.
Details HB 1795 Ensuring the long-term economic and environmental sustainability of the state's recycling system within the existing regulatory structure.
Details HB 1810 Concerning rural health payment changes by the health care authority.
Details HB 1833 Concerning school volunteers.
Details HB 1877 Providing a pathway to establish a universal health care system for the residents of Washington state.
Details HB 1890 Improving the effectiveness and adequacy of state tax laws by clarifying and simplifying nexus provisions, by decreasing compliance and administrative burdens for taxpayers and the department of revenue, by facilitating the collection of new tax revenue resulting from the United States supreme court's decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., by providing more consistent tax obligations for both domestic and foreign sellers, and by simplifying the expiration of sales tax sourcing mitigation payments to local governments on September 30, 2019.
Details HB 1892 Eliminating lunch copays for students who qualify for reduced-price lunches.
Details SHB 1896 Promoting fair and proportional sentencing by modifying scoring provisions in the sentencing reform act.
Details HB 1911 Concerning pharmacy benefit managers.
Details HB 1920 Assessing patient anxiety.
Details SHB 1924 Concerning the voting rights of persons convicted of a felony offense.
Details HB 1951 Establishing an emergency loan program to be administered by the county road administration board.
Details HB 1975 Authorizing sports wagering subject to the terms of tribal-state gaming compacts.
Details SHB 2001 Creating the Native American opportunity scholarship program.
Details HB 2003 Increasing opportunities for the use of remote technology in eye exams.
Details 2SHB 2047 Concerning carbon sequestration on natural and working lands as part of the state's climate change response.
Details HB 2054 Establishing an agency to operate state behavioral health facilities.
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 SHB 2156 Investing in quality prekindergarten, K-12, and postsecondary opportunities throughout Washington with excise taxes on sales and extraordinary profits of high valued assets.
Details 2SHB 2157 Updating the Washington tax structure to address the needs of Washingtonians.
Details HB 2203 Concerning acupuncture and Eastern medicine.
Details HB 2209 Concerning insurance guaranty fund.
Details HB 2241 Concerning assault weapons and large capacity magazines.
Details HB 2260 Concerning the publication of notice for dependency proceedings.
Details HB 2262 Expanding access to nutritious food.
Details SHB 1898 Regulating health carriers offering dental only coverage.
Details 2SHB 1974 Establishing the Washington cannabis commission.
Details SHB 2155 Designating the Suciasaurus rex as the official dinosaur of the state of Washington.
Details SHB 2240 Concerning high capacity magazines.
Details ESHB 2248 Expanding equitable access to the benefits of renewable energy through community solar projects.
Details HB 2284 Supporting the cost-effective professional development of early learning providers.
Details SHB 2299 Creating prison to postsecondary education pathways.
Details SHB 2326 Reporting end-of-life care policies.
Details HB 2328 Concerning nursing facilities.
Details HB 2345 Concerning continuing care retirement communities.
Details HB 2385 Concerning antifouling paints on recreational water vessels.
Details 2SHB 2386 Creating the state office of the behavioral health ombuds.
Details HB 2408 Adopting the psychology interjurisdictional compact.
Details HB 2423 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 ESHB 2427 Tackling climate change as a goal of the growth management act.
Details SHB 2437 Concerning voting accessibility and security.
Details HB 2466 Providing for public disclosure of public records of the legislature and legislators.
Details HB 2468 Improving the effectiveness and adequacy of the workforce education investment surcharge by decreasing compliance and administrative burdens for taxpayers and the department of revenue.
Details SHB 2469 Concerning small works rosters.
Details HB 2489 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 HB 2496 Providing for responsible environmental management of batteries.
Details HB 2500 Concerning administration of the senior property tax exemption program.
Details HB 2505 Extending the business and occupation tax exemption for amounts received as credits against contracts with or funds provided by the Bonneville power administration and used for low-income ratepayer assistance and weatherization.
Details SHB 2516 Creating the secure choice retirement savings program.
Details HB 2519 Concerning reasonable public safety measures to prevent dangerous individuals from acquiring ammunition.
Details HB 2536 Updating rural character under the growth management act.
Details SHB 2541 Creating the Washington rural development act.
Details HB 2552 Creating a joint legislative salmon committee.
Details HB 2561 Protecting pregnancy and miscarriage-related patient care.
Details HB 2562 Providing telehealth services to schools.
Details HB 2568 Adopting prior authorization and appropriate use criteria in patient care.
Details 2SHB 2570 Managing growth by planning and zoning for accessory dwelling units.
Details 2SHB 2577 Concerning agency responsibilities to regulated businesses and professions.
Details HB 2593 Promoting economic development through enhancing state agency permitting.
Details HB 2597 Increasing patient access rights to timely and appropriate postacute care.
Details SHB 2603 Concerning trust water rights.
Details EHB 2610 Concerning the sale or lease of manufactured/mobile home communities and the property on which they sit.
Details HB 2615 Establishing the primary care collaborative.
Details HB 2616 Concerning nonparticipating providers.
Details HB 2619 Increasing early learning access through licensing, eligibility, and rate improvements.
Details SHB 2621 Creating regulation exemptions for rural health clinics providing services in a designated home health shortage area.
Details SHB 2634 Exempting a sale or transfer of real property for affordable housing to a nonprofit entity, housing authority, or public corporation from the real estate excise tax.
Details HB 2651 Addressing food waste by standardizing labels communicating the freshness or expiration of food.
Details SHB 2661 Expanding accessible, affordable child care and early childhood development programs.
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 2678 Allowing retirees to change their survivor option election after retirement.
Details SHB 2679 Concerning funding for individuals who are not eligible for federal insurance subsidies and for foundational public health services.
Details HB 2680 Establishing tribal representation on the emergency management council.
Details 2SHB 2681 Preventing harassment, abuse, and discrimination experienced by long-term care workers.
Details SHB 2683 Creating a local wine industry association license.
Details HB 2708 Establishing a work group on school-based health centers.
Details HB 2710 Modifying the uses, disclosure, and requirement dates of prescription drug price transparency data.
Details SHB 2712 Requiring retailers to indicate the country of origin on beef sold to the public.
Details SHB 2714 Valuing the carbon in forest riparian easements.
Details HB 2716 Concerning the confidentiality of retirement system files and records relating to health information.
Details HB 2717 Allowing the learning assistance program to support school-wide behavioral health system of supports and interventions.
Details HB 2719 Concerning the use of K-3 class size funding for student supports.
Details HB 2740 Concerning the employment of individuals who lawfully consume marijuana.
Details HB 2743 Modifying the excise tax for medical marijuana patients with recognition cards for products identified as beneficial for medical use.
Details HB 2746 Concerning affordable housing incentives.
Details HB 2750 Improving the Indian behavioral health system.
Details HB 2751 Concerning tribal-state relations.
Details HB 2754 Addressing the suicide and addiction crisis among American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Details SHB 2769 Concerning the prevention of derelict vessels.
Details HB 2838 Improving cardiac and stroke outcomes.
Details HB 2848 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 HB 2903 Providing that qualified dealer cash incentives paid to auto dealers are bona fide discounts for purposes of the business and occupation tax.
Details ESHB 2919 Adjusting the amount and use of county fees on the real estate excise tax.
Details HB 2943 Providing a business and occupation tax preference for behavioral health administrative services organizations.
Details HB 2944 Reviewing state-funded services procured from certain contracted service providers.

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