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Representative Dent

Portrait of Representative Dent

Member Information

Biennium 2019-20
Chamber House
Acronym DENT
District 13
Name Tom Dent
Party Republican
Email Tom.Dent@leg.wa.gov
Sponsor Success Rate 18.40%
Total Bills Sponsored 163
Campaign Contributions (biennium) $93,410.00
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) $280,286.28

30 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2019-20

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details EHB 1187 Revising hydraulic project eligibility standards under RCW 77.55.181 for conservation district-sponsored fish habitat enhancement projects.
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 SHB 1605 Requiring traumatic brain injury screenings for children entering the foster care system.
Details SHB 2556 Providing regulatory relief for early learning providers.
Details HB 1165 Encouraging low-water landscaping practices as a drought alleviation tool.
Details 2SHB 1166 Supporting sexual assault survivors.
Details HB 1429 Extending the dairy milk assessment fee to June 30, 2025.
Details SHB 1512 Concerning the electrification of transportation.
Details HB 1516 Establishing a department of fish and wildlife directed nonlethal program for the purpose of training dogs.
Details EHB 1563 Concerning liquor-related privileges of students enrolled in certain degree programs.
Details HB 1568 Concerning port district worker development and occupational training programs.
Details SHB 1577 Concerning K-12 computer science education data.
Details ESHB 1622 Concerning drought preparedness and response.
Details HB 1657 Concerning services provided by the office of homeless youth prevention and protection programs.
Details HB 1755 Allowing regional universities to offer doctorate level degrees in education.
Details EHB 1789 Making adjustments to the service and filing fees for vehicle subagents and county auditors.
Details HB 1900 Maximizing federal funding for prevention and family services and programs.
Details SHB 1917 Concerning the use of certain animal traps by airport operators.
Details HB 2051 Concerning firefighters and law enforcement officers pension and disability boards.
Details ESHB 2097 Addressing statewide wolf recovery.
Details HB 2217 Concerning cottage food product labeling requirements.
Details 2SHB 1651 Identifying rights of persons receiving state developmental disability services.
Details HB 2524 Expanding the scope of agricultural products subject to requirements in chapter 15.83 RCW related to negotiation concerning production or marketing.
Details SHB 2525 Establishing the family connections program.
Details HB 2624 Concerning the authority of the director of the department of agriculture with respect to certain examinations and examination fees.
Details 2SHB 2737 Updating the children's mental health work group.
Details SHB 2758 Recognizing posttraumatic stress disorders of 911 emergency dispatch personnel.
Details HB 2763 Concerning interest arbitration for department of corrections employees.
Details EHB 2819 Designating pumped storage projects located in a county bordering the Columbia river utilizing statutorily authorized water rights to be projects of statewide significance.
Details HB 2926 Expanding access to critical incident stress management programs.

133 Sponsored Bills Failed for Biennium 2019-20

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SHB 1188 Concerning rangeland fire protection associations.
Details HB 1283 Ensuring the funding of agricultural fairs.
Details SHB 1392 Establishing the cost of child care regulations work group.
Details SHB 1455 Concerning the aeronautics industry.
Details SHB 1456 Concerning a community aviation revitalization loan program.
Details SHB 1457 Concerning the distribution of aircraft fuel tax revenue.
Details HB 1662 Concerning payments in lieu of real property taxes.
Details 2SHB 1725 Implementing the recommendations of the pesticide application safety work group.
Details HB 1773 Creating a retail sales and use tax exemption for equipment purchased by fire districts in rural counties.
Details HB 1816 Making permanent the tax preferences for aircraft owned by nonprofit organizations to provide emergency medical transportation services.
Details HB 1866 Concerning professional development requirements for child day care centers.
Details HB 1867 Concerning professional development requirements for child day care centers.
Details EHB 1894 Concerning additional temporary duties for the wildland fire advisory committee.
Details HB 1895 Creating a pilot project to reduce youth gang involvement, crime, and violence in eastern Washington.
Details HB 1944 Expanding a use tax exemption for new Washington residents and nonresident members of the armed forces.
Details HB 2055 Expanding the elk management pilot project.
Details HB 2422 Repealing certain provisions related to civil immigration enforcement.
Details SHB 2696 Concerning the misbranding of meat and poultry products.
Details SHB 2697 Concerning noxious weeds.
Details HB 2790 Concerning license compliance agreements.
Details ESHB 2880 Concerning sales and use tax exemptions for aircraft fuel used for research and development purposes.
Details SHB 1013 Concerning the Walla Walla watershed management pilot program.
Details HB 1024 Prohibiting a government database of law abiding owners of legal firearms.
Details HB 1140 Concerning creation of a certified child safety policy.
Details HB 1167 Concerning the protection of composting from nuisance lawsuits.
Details HB 1193 Calculating the benchmark rate for certain community residential services.
Details SHB 1231 Modifying the statute of limitations for certain felony sex offenses.
Details HB 1232 Recognizing hydroelectricity as an eligible renewable resource in the energy independence act.
Details HB 1233 Concerning the use of science pursuant to the growth management act.
Details HB 1234 Eliminating the statute of limitations for certain felony sex offenses.
Details HB 1235 Creating the crime of providing harmful material to a minor.
Details SHB 1240 Concerning suicide review teams.
Details HB 1248 Changing the time fireworks may be sold or purchased in December.
Details SHB 1263 Concerning support for students experiencing homelessness.
Details HB 1363 Concerning state agency employee access to peer-reviewed journals.
Details HB 1367 Concerning child-placing agencies.
Details HB 1368 Reauthorizing the business and occupation tax deduction for cooperative finance organizations.
Details HB 1373 Modifying provisions of the universal communications services program.
Details HB 1378 Concerning education equivalencies for licensed child care providers.
Details E2SHB 1391 Implementing improvements to the early achievers program as reviewed and recommended by the joint select committee on the early achievers program.
Details HB 1397 Encouraging the use of electric or hybrid-electric aircraft for regional air travel.
Details HB 1464 Clarifying background check requirements for an application for a concealed pistol license.
Details HB 1524 Addressing the registration of street rod vehicles and custom vehicles.
Details HB 1600 Siting tenant-owned mobile home parks for senior citizens.
Details HB 1639 Ensuring that all Washingtonians share in the benefits of an expanding wolf population.
Details SHB 1683 Creating a state commercial aviation coordinating commission.
Details HB 1705 Charging an owner or placing a lien against the owner's property for utility services provided and billed to a tenant.
Details HB 1712 Authorizing vehicles or combinations of vehicles carrying farm products to exceed total gross weight limits by two thousand pounds.
Details HB 1731 Continuing the work of the Washington food policy forum.
Details SHB 1736 Concerning tax relief for veterans and service members with disabilities to purchase adaptive agricultural equipment.
Details SHB 1769 Concerning a vessel crewmember license.
Details HB 1841 Establishing minimum crew size on certain trains.
Details HB 1842 Concerning hours of service for certain railroad employees.
Details HB 1843 Safeguarding the public safety by protecting railroad workers.
Details HB 1863 Concerning agriculture, food, and natural resource education.
Details HB 1872 Protecting minors from sexual exploitation.
Details SHB 1875 Concerning wildlife damage to agricultural crops.
Details HB 1881 Making the custom farming and hauling farm products tax exemptions permanent.
Details HB 1958 Concerning the establishment of a premobilization aviation assistance program to assist local fire suppression entities on the initial attack of a wildland fire.
Details HB 1959 Concerning the distribution of marijuana excise taxes to local jurisdictions.
Details HB 1979 Concerning the establishment of reasonable surface water flow levels.
Details HB 2003 Increasing opportunities for the use of remote technology in eye exams.
Details HB 2016 Providing a sales tax exemption on the sale of abandoned vehicles by a registered tow truck driver.
Details HB 2025 Creating a task force to improve employers' industrial insurance options through choice and competition.
Details HB 2026 Concerning relatives of a child placed in out-of-home care.
Details HB 2027 Including foster parents and other caregivers in the definition of another suitable person.
Details HB 2028 Concerning bonding and best interest assessments for children in foster care.
Details HB 2033 Concerning mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect.
Details HB 2034 Concerning extended foster care for eighteen year olds.
Details HB 2070 Clarifying the required color of certain lamps on vehicles.
Details HB 2093 Creating a small business bill of rights.
Details HB 2094 Concerning required qualifications for early learning providers.
Details HB 2103 Simplifying firearms regulations.
Details HB 2142 Publishing digitally altered photographs.
Details HB 2182 Concerning bump-fire stock buy-back program records.
Details HB 2199 Concerning marijuana use in guest rooms of hotels, motels, and inns in violation of the owner or operator's rules.
Details HB 2202 Exempting law enforcement from firearm safety training requirements for semiautomatic assault rifle purchases or transfers.
Details EHB 2216 (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Increasing the maximum bet in sports boards. )
Details HB 2218 Increasing the cap on gross sales for cottage food operations.
Details HB 2222 Reducing the property tax.
Details HB 2227 Limiting state and local taxes, fees, and other charges relating to vehicles.
Details EHB 2228 Permitting early deployment of state fire service resources.
Details HB 2236 Concerning sales and use tax exemptions for large private airplanes.
Details HB 2247 Aligning marijuana licensing decisions by the liquor and cannabis board with local zoning ordinances.
Details HB 2257 Concerning establishment of a regulatory reduction pilot program.
Details HB 2282 Creating a grant program for converting unused public buildings to housing for homeless persons.
Details 2SHB 1659 Modifying dates related to the application due date for health sciences and services authorities and their sales and use tax authority.
Details 2SHB 1733 Retaining productive farmland.
Details 2SHB 2069 Concerning a property owner's or tenant's liability for delinquent and unpaid utility service charges.
Details ESHB 2138 Requiring signage on certain lands that are closed to the public.
Details HB 2284 Supporting the cost-effective professional development of early learning providers.
Details HB 2330 Concerning agency fairness and accountability in regulatory actions and compliance enforcement.
Details SHB 2353 Providing for fire trailer vehicle registration and license plates.
Details HB 2370 Concerning standing before the growth management hearings board.
Details SHB 2498 Providing compensation to department of natural resources lessees whose leases are terminated for reasons other than default.
Details HB 2536 Updating rural character under the growth management act.
Details HB 2537 Establishing the law enforcement training standards and education board for the purpose of improving the basic law enforcement education academy and other programs and curriculum hosted or designed by the criminal justice training commission.
Details HB 2538 Concerning a pilot project for providing basic law enforcement training in eastern Washington.
Details HB 2539 Concerning the establishment of a law enforcement professional development outreach grant program.
Details SHB 2541 Creating the Washington rural development act.
Details HB 2559 Concerning payments in lieu of real property taxes by the department of fish and wildlife.
Details HB 2560 Concerning basic law enforcement training.
Details SHB 2572 Concerning implementation of the recommendations of the December 2019 report from the William D. Ruckelshaus center regarding residential habilitation center clients.
Details 2SHB 2577 Concerning agency responsibilities to regulated businesses and professions.
Details HB 2580 Reporting on independent living services.
Details SHB 2583 Ensuring student transportation for students in out-of-home placements.
Details HB 2591 Concerning youth eligible for developmental disability services who are expected to exit the foster care system.
Details SHB 2595 Concerning smoke detection devices.
Details HB 2626 Providing a limited informed consent exemption to state vaccination requirements.
Details HB 2666 Establishing the warm water fishing advisory group.
Details HB 2700 Concerning insurance coverage of prosthetics and orthotics.
Details HB 2705 Concerning special antlerless deer hunting seasons.
Details HB 2709 Trafficking food benefits.
Details SHB 2712 Requiring retailers to indicate the country of origin on beef sold to the public.
Details HB 2738 Concerning the budgeting process for services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Details HB 2752 Directing the department of fish and wildlife to review certain wildlife management plans.
Details HB 2757 Concerning official state designations.
Details HB 2766 Establishing an air operations branch.
Details HB 2813 Making the early achievers quality rating and improvement system voluntary.
Details HB 2818 Recognizing the eighteenth day of December as blood donor day.
Details ESHB 2825 Promoting oil-free hydroelectric turbine technology.
Details HB 2828 Prohibiting funds available to port districts from being allocated for the purchase of fully automated marine container cargo handling equipment.
Details HB 2830 Updating restrictions on electronic benefit cards.
Details SHB 2865 Informing families of kindergarten readiness standards.
Details HB 2866 Prohibiting transfers of water rights out of their original water resource inventory area.
Details HB 2869 Concerning property tax exemptions for certain mobile homes and manufactured homes.
Details SHB 2906 Concerning the use of radio collars on gray wolves by the department of fish and wildlife.
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 2952 Removing the automatic adjustment of the per barrel hazardous substances tax rate on petroleum products.
Details HB 2953 Delaying the business and occupation tax increase on health care services.
Details HB 2954 Reducing the state property tax rate for calendar years 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Details HB 2968 Concerning ballot envelope secrecy flaps.

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