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Senator Braun

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Member Information

Biennium 2019-20
Chamber Senate
Acronym BRAU
District 20
Name John Braun
Party Republican
Email John.Braun@leg.wa.gov
Sponsor Success Rate 16.00%
Total Bills Sponsored 125
Campaign Contributions (biennium) No Data Available
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) $360,069.19

20 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2019-20

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SSB 5175 Concerning firefighter safety.
Details SB 5177 Concerning cemetery district withdrawal of territory.
Details ESSB 5330 Analyzing state regulatory impact on small forestland owners.
Details SB 5566 Concerning setting fees for administration of the prevailing wage program.
Details SSB 5894 Clarifying that the firefighters' pension levy may continue to be levied to fund benefits under the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system.
Details ESSB 6040 Concerning the budgeting process for certain state waiver services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Details SSB 6190 Preserving the developmental disabilities community trust.
Details SSB 6191 Assessing the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences in middle and high school students to inform decision making and improve services.
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 5519 Concerning mosquito control districts.
Details E2SSB 5549 Modernizing resident distillery marketing and sales restrictions.
Details SSB 5581 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 SSB 5588 Authorizing the production, distribution, and sale of renewable hydrogen.
Details SB 6025 Concerning bump-fire stock buy-back program records.
Details SSB 6072 Dividing the state wildlife account into the fish, wildlife, and conservation account and the limited fish and wildlife account.
Details SB 6305 Concerning library districts.
Details ESSB 6419 Concerning implementation of the recommendations of the December 2019 report from the William D. Ruckelshaus center regarding residential habilitation center clients.
Details SSB 6660 Improving fiscal responsibility and budget discipline by replacing the spending limit with additional four-year balanced budget requirements.

105 Sponsored Bills Failed for Biennium 2019-20

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SB 5098 Increasing appropriated funding for public defense services.
Details SB 5176 Changing rule-making requirements to require a yearly expiration.
Details E2SSB 5483 Improving services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Details ESSB 5523 Improving managed care organization performance in caring for medicaid clients.
Details SSB 5532 Concerning special education.
Details SB 5534 Studying outcomes for children in the early childhood education and assistance program.
Details SB 5535 Analyzing child care costs and affordability.
Details ESSB 5536 Concerning intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disability.
Details SSB 5537 Expanding community-based behavioral health facilities through issuance of state bonds.
Details SSB 5538 Concerning free speech at institutions of higher education.
Details SB 5539 Concerning family and medical leave program coverage.
Details SB 5540 Concerning the designation and support of projects of statewide significance.
Details SB 5791 Exempting a portion of the valuation of residential property from property taxation.
Details SB 5845 Concerning sexual harassment policies, training, and reporting requirements throughout state government.
Details SSB 5951 Concerning tax incentives to encourage residential and mixed-use development in urban infill areas.
Details ESSB 5986 Establishing a tax on vapor and heated tobacco products to fund cancer research and support local public health.
Details SB 5999 Making expenditures from the budget stabilization account for public employer unfunded actuarially accrued liabilities.
Details SB 6021 Concerning K-12 education funding.
Details SB 6041 Dedicating the state sales tax on motor vehicles to transportation improvements.
Details 4SSB 5533 Certifying parental improvement.
Details SB 6172 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 SB 6192 Addressing inadequate, deficient, or dangerous conditions at facilities and institutions operated or overseen by state agencies.
Details SB 6193 Encouraging cost-efficiency and environmental protection by state employees using motor vehicles on official business.
Details SB 6194 Prohibiting cities and towns from citing the same statutory authority to impose multiple business taxes.
Details SB 6195 Funding forest health activities for the protection of people, homes, and the environment through issuance of state bonds.
Details SB 6196 Creating a homelessness impact grant program to address security and sanitation impacts of homeless populations.
Details SB 6197 Providing for the election of members of the house of representatives from house districts within each legislative district.
Details SB 6198 Adding the workforce education investment account to the definition of related funds in the state four-year balanced budget requirement.
Details SB 6199 Adjusting by inflation the qualifying income thresholds for purposes of the senior citizen and service-connected disabled veterans property tax exemption program.
Details SB 6200 Concerning crime victims' compensation.
Details SB 6201 Reducing the real estate excise tax rate for multiple-unit housing.
Details SSB 6215 Establishing a collaborative process to alleviate the burden on local courts to determine indigency through proof of receipt of public assistance.
Details SB 6246 Concerning state employee collective bargaining reforms.
Details SB 6498 Valuing the carbon in forest riparian easements.
Details SSB 6531 Concerning the performance of personal services by a craft distillery, distiller, or spirits certificate of approval holder.
Details SB 6548 Allowing employee choice and flexibility in the executive, administrative, and professional exception to the minimum wage act.
Details SSB 6564 Providing incentives to employers to hire certain hard-to-place job seekers.
Details SB 6612 Concerning audit requirements for charitable organizations that provide services to homeless persons.
Details SB 6658 Prioritizing services and financial relief for the disabled and elderly populations.
Details SB 6702 Banning a state or local income tax.
Details SB 5007 Concerning motorcycle helmet use.
Details SSB 5128 Reducing the electric motorcycle registration renewal fee.
Details SB 5136 Establishing the water infrastructure program.
Details SB 5153 Making 2019-2021 biennium operating appropriations.
Details SB 5154 Making 2017-2019 biennium second supplemental operating appropriations.
Details SB 5215 Encouraging economic growth by providing a state business tax credit for new employment positions.
Details SB 5219 Concerning condominium construction warranties.
Details 2SSB 5236 Encouraging apprenticeships.
Details SB 5240 Authorizing the state investment board to invest the assets of the first-class cities' retirement systems.
Details SSB 5277 Ensuring the funding of agricultural fairs.
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 SSB 5325 Exempting certain standard financial information purchased by investment management companies from sales and use tax in order to improve industry competitiveness.
Details SB 5407 Providing that scan-down allowances on food and beverages intended for human and pet consumption are bona fide discounts for purposes of the business and occupation tax.
Details SSB 5516 Establishing a behavioral health innovation and integration campus within the University of Washington school of medicine.
Details SSB 5547 Concerning the proposed department of natural resources' marbled murrelet long-term conservation strategy.
Details SSB 5617 Banning the use of nontribal gill nets.
Details SB 5632 Creating a tax court for the state of Washington.
Details E2SSB 5662 Concerning cloud computing solutions.
Details SSB 5682 Allowing certain beer and wine license holders to sell small amounts of spirits.
Details SSB 5687 Allowing new government employees the option of opting out of retirement system membership if the employee is age sixty or older when first hired, or when the employee's employer opts into retirement plan participation.
Details SB 5732 Concerning foundational public health services.
Details SB 5767 Concerning public accounting services.
Details SB 5804 Concerning agriculture, food, and natural resource education.
Details SB 5809 Concerning state government processes to verify hours worked on computers for certain government contracts.
Details ESSB 5853 Regarding the school construction assistance program.
Details SB 5864 Financing local public works through the creation of the Washington state infrastructure bank.
Details SB 5866 Concerning the appointment of public disclosure commission members.
Details SB 5886 Relating to promoting the economic growth of the video game industry.
Details SB 5921 Concerning community respite services for people with developmental disabilities.
Details SB 5922 Concerning community engagement and community guide services for people with developmental disabilities.
Details SSB 5948 Creating a small business bill of rights.
Details SSB 6009 Making expenditures from the budget stabilization account for declared catastrophic events.
Details SB 6011 Concerning health care benefits for public school employees.
Details SB 6020 Concerning health care benefits for public school employees.
Details SB 6042 Prohibiting the use of title-only bills.
Details SB 6055 Exempting health care and veterinary services from the business and occupation surcharge.
Details SB 6059 Exempting health care-related services from the business and occupation surcharge.
Details SB 6082 Concerning manufacturers of electric vehicles.
Details SB 6093 Concerning free public access to state parks and lands.
Details SB 6107 Exempting services essential to affordable housing from the business and occupations surcharge.
Details SB 6108 Nullifying certain taxes approved by regional transit authority voters.
Details SSB 6081 Concerning the calculation of compensation of an employee of a medical school and an affiliated faculty group practice for purposes of a noncompetition agreement.
Details ESSB 6168 Making 2019-2021 fiscal biennium supplemental operating appropriations.
Details SB 6245 Limiting state and local taxes, fees, and other charges relating to vehicles.
Details ESSB 6278 Concerning water withdrawals for commercial bottled water production.
Details SB 6350 Limiting state and local taxes, fees, and other charges relating to vehicles.
Details SB 6372 Concerning structured settlements.
Details SB 6373 Allowing self-insurers to accept certain industrial insurance claims.
Details SB 6384 Establishing a statewide tracking system for difficult to discharge patients.
Details SSB 6406 Concerning firearm theft.
Details SSB 6408 Concerning agency responsibilities to regulated businesses and professions.
Details 2SSB 6411 Expanding the property tax exemption for new and rehabilitated multiple-unit dwellings in urban growth areas.
Details SB 6462 Reaffirming the prohibition of the imposition of a local income tax.
Details SSB 6505 Expanding access to dual credit opportunities by eliminating direct costs to students and families.
Details SB 6538 Prohibiting survey data in nursing licensure.
Details SB 6550 Concerning local effort assistance for charter schools.
Details SB 6568 Concerning the application of gambling loss recovery laws to certain online games of chance.
Details SB 6573 Eliminating the reduction in state basic education funding that occurs in counties with federal and state forestlands.
Details SB 6621 Increasing tax exemption transparency and accountability.
Details SSB 6649 Establishing a local sales and use tax option to fund emergency homeless shelters.
Details SSB 6676 Concerning reimbursement for primary care services for medicaid beneficiaries.
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 6691 Replacing legislative chamber skylights.
Details SB 6696 Making expenditures from the budget stabilization account for declared catastrophic events.

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