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Representative Walsh

Portrait of Representative Walsh

Member Information

Biennium 2019-20
Chamber House
Acronym WALJ
District 19
Name Jim Walsh
Party Republican
Email Jim.Walsh@leg.wa.gov
Sponsor Success Rate 10.19%
Total Bills Sponsored 206
Campaign Contributions (biennium) $267,105.94
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) $676,533.69

21 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2019-20

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details HB 1062 Expanding access to commercial fishing opportunities.
Details ESHB 1094 Establishing compassionate care renewals for medical marijuana qualifying patients.
Details SHB 1095 Concerning the administration of marijuana to students for medical purposes.
Details HB 1385 Exempting United States food and drug administration nonpublic information from disclosure under the state public disclosure act.
Details HB 1426 Concerning cooperation between conservation districts.
Details HB 1462 Providing notice of plans to demolish, substantially rehabilitate, or change use of residential premises.
Details HB 1516 Establishing a department of fish and wildlife directed nonlethal program for the purpose of training dogs.
Details SHB 1532 Concerning traumatic brain injuries in domestic violence cases.
Details HB 1533 Making information about domestic violence resources available in the workplace.
Details HB 1568 Concerning port district worker development and occupational training programs.
Details ESHB 1643 Concerning property ownership for participants in the address confidentiality program.
Details ESHB 1667 Concerning public records request administration.
Details HB 1726 Concerning services provided by health care professional students.
Details EHB 1789 Making adjustments to the service and filing fees for vehicle subagents and county auditors.
Details EHB 1846 Making a technical correction for the disposition of off-road vehicle moneys.
Details HB 1908 Repealing the electronic authentication act.
Details ESHB 2015 Providing funding for the Washington state library-archives building and operations of library and archives facilities.
Details HB 2217 Concerning cottage food product labeling requirements.
Details HB 2230 Subjecting federally recognized Indian tribes to the same conditions as state and local governments for property owned exclusively by the tribe.
Details ESHB 2638 Authorizing sports wagering subject to the terms of tribal-state gaming compacts.
Details SHB 2868 Allowing for extensions of the special valuation of historic property for certain properties.

185 Sponsored Bills Failed for Biennium 2019-20

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details HB 1021 Concerning funding the governor's security and protection while traveling outside Washington state for campaign-related or nonstate business purposes.
Details HB 1022 Prohibiting the creation and maintenance of a database concerning pistol sales or transfers.
Details HB 1024 Prohibiting a government database of law abiding owners of legal firearms.
Details HB 1029 Concerning processes and criteria for the consideration of environmental impacts under certain environmental laws.
Details HB 1030 Concerning disciplinary action for state officials and employees who provide false testimony to the legislature.
Details SHB 1031 Reducing government imposed obligations associated with bulkhead maintenance or repairs.
Details HB 1032 Concerning amendatory format requirements for text of initiatives.
Details HB 1035 Concerning school resource officers in schools.
Details HB 1036 Concerning increased fish hatchery production.
Details HB 1037 Concerning the use of chemicals to prevent the decline of aquaculture production.
Details HB 1038 Allowing public school districts and private schools to adopt a policy authorizing permanent employees to possess firearms on school grounds under certain conditions.
Details HB 1050 Concerning parenting plans.
Details HB 1051 Focusing growth management act requirements on larger counties experiencing population growth.
Details HB 1052 Concerning agency rule-making authority.
Details HB 1097 Revising requirements governing release of confidential health care information for purposes of firearm background checks.
Details HB 1098 Revising requirements and penalties relating to the unsafe storage of firearms.
Details SHB 1174 Clarifying the contracting procedures for cities.
Details HB 1262 Concerning the presidential primary.
Details HB 1291 Concerning state reimbursement of election costs.
Details SHB 1292 Concerning deadlines for receipt of voter registrations by election officials.
Details HB 1494 Aligning statutory redistricting deadlines to the Constitution.
Details SHB 1507 Promoting physical safety and security of school buildings, grounds, and surroundings through environmental design principles.
Details HB 1566 Encouraging economic growth by providing a state business tax credit for new employment positions.
Details HB 1711 Concerning new counties.
Details HB 1770 Concerning occupational board reform.
Details HB 1838 Exempting certain licensed distillery information from public disclosure.
Details HB 1951 Establishing an emergency loan program to be administered by the county road administration board.
Details HB 2082 Enhancing ecosystem services through riparian-oriented agroforestry.
Details HB 2095 Establishing the sustainable farms and fields grant program.
Details HB 2115 Concerning the disclosure of public records by the legislative branch.
Details HB 2190 Increasing legislative transparency.
Details HB 2194 Restricting executive discretion in adjusting transportation budgets.
Details HB 2195 Concerning nursing home payment rate setting.
Details HB 2196 Concerning standards for issuance and enforcement of extreme risk protection orders.
Details HB 2222 Reducing the property tax.
Details HB 2223 Concerning the liability of an individual or entity that prohibits the possession of firearms on property owned by, or under the control of, the individual or entity.
Details HB 2224 Concerning fiscal impact statements on state ballot measures.
Details HB 2225 Concerning the creation of the legislative budget office to provide fiscal notes on proposed legislation.
Details HB 2226 Concerning federal immigration enforcement.
Details HB 2267 Respecting the will of the people following the rejection of a statewide ballot measure.
Details HB 2268 Increasing criminal penalties for election violations.
Details HB 2282 Creating a grant program for converting unused public buildings to housing for homeless persons.
Details SHB 2504 Creating the southwest Washington salmon restoration act.
Details HB 2506 Increasing transparency in the marbled murrelet advisory committee process by requiring advance public notice of all committee meetings.
Details HB 2627 Establishing a special allegation and sentencing enhancement for wearing a mask or other disguise during or immediately following the commission of any felony offense.
Details HB 2628 Concerning responsibilities of the three branches of government for administrative rules and procedure.
Details HB 2647 Concerning election security.
Details HB 2671 Concerning short subdivisions.
Details HB 2698 Increasing participation in the presidential primary.
Details HB 2718 Protecting parental rights with regard to insurance communication confidentiality of minors.
Details SHB 2772 Concerning the administration of election campaign activities and reporting statements of financial affairs.
Details HB 2784 Creating sales and use tax exemptions for firearms.
Details HB 2807 Treating patients with chronic pain.
Details HB 2808 Ensuring the right of Washington residents to possess legal firearms.
Details HB 2810 Adjusting regionalization requirements.
Details HB 2813 Making the early achievers quality rating and improvement system voluntary.
Details HB 2822 Requiring that witnesses to voter signature marks on ballot declarations be verified registered voters.
Details HB 2930 Narrowing the applicability of restraint and isolation provisions to students with an individualized education program or section 504 plan.
Details HB 2938 Reducing the property tax.
Details HB 2939 Concerning the valuation of property for purposes of state property tax levies.
Details HB 2963 Concerning voting rights in public utility district elections.
Details EHB 1058 Establishing permissible methods of parking a motorcycle.
Details HB 1061 Designating the Pacific razor clam as the state clam.
Details HB 1086 Increasing appropriated funding for public defense services.
Details HB 1096 Ensuring that commercial fishing revenue benefits communities most dependent on the industry.
Details HB 1122 Directing sales and use tax revenues from the acquisition of motor vehicles to the motor vehicle account.
Details HB 1125 Concerning motorcycle helmet use.
Details HB 1131 Allowing residential marijuana agriculture.
Details SHB 1195 Concerning the efficient administration of campaign finance and public disclosure reporting and enforcement.
Details HB 1230 Broadening the eligibility for a reduced recreational hunting and fishing license rate for resident disabled hunters and fishers.
Details HB 1242 Concerning the authorization to impose special excise taxes on the sale of lodging.
Details HB 1373 Modifying provisions of the universal communications services program.
Details HB 1378 Concerning education equivalencies for licensed child care providers.
Details E2SHB 1401 Concerning hemp production.
Details SHB 1427 Concerning county electrical traffic control signals, illumination equipment, and other electrical equipment conveying an electrical current.
Details HB 1460 Concerning notice requirements for rent increases.
Details HB 1461 Concerning notices for termination of a residential tenancy.
Details HB 1463 Changing notice requirements with respect to tenancies in order to enhance stability for tenants.
Details SHB 1471 Concerning state board of health rules regarding on-site sewage systems.
Details HB 1472 Assisting persons with special transportation needs by providing tax incentives to businesses.
Details HB 1473 Providing a right of first repurchase for surplus transportation property.
Details HB 1475 Establishing an educational grant program to promote confidence, public speaking, and leadership skills in students.
Details HB 1478 Requiring state officials to complete high school assessments required for graduation from a public school.
Details HB 1481 Concerning state reimbursement of election costs and payment of prepaid postage return costs.
Details HB 1482 Requiring the secretary of state to print and distribute a voters' pamphlet for the primary in each even-numbered year and for the general election every year.
Details ESHB 1510 Governing the use of narrow track vehicles.
Details HB 1524 Addressing the registration of street rod vehicles and custom vehicles.
Details SHB 1546 Concerning the proposed department of natural resources' marbled murrelet long-term conservation strategy.
Details SHB 1610 Concerning compensation for lost or damaged commercial and treaty fishing gear.
Details HB 1611 Ensuring the safe and productive cultivation of shellfish.
Details HB 1613 Reporting agreements between state agencies and the federal government.
Details HB 1616 Authorizing drivers to use personal electronic devices while a motor vehicle is temporarily stationary.
Details HB 1617 Prohibiting the use of international law to infringe on property rights.
Details HB 1618 Clarifying and protecting the Constitution's freedom of speech and guarantee of religious liberty for public employees.
Details HB 1619 Establishing community service standards for individuals receiving unemployment benefits.
Details HB 1716 Concerning veterans' mental health services at institutions of higher education.
Details SHB 1736 Concerning tax relief for veterans and service members with disabilities to purchase adaptive agricultural equipment.
Details HB 1737 Concerning utility service annexation covenants.
Details HB 1758 Exempting school districts from the state portion of sales and use taxes on school construction.
Details HB 1759 Concerning veteran diversion from involuntary commitment.
Details HB 1761 Homeschooling foster youth.
Details HB 1800 Allowing a local sales and use tax as a credit against the state sales tax for rural high-speed internet infrastructure without increasing the total sales and use tax rate.
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 1868 Nullifying the imposition of certain taxes within regional transit authority boundaries.
Details HB 1897 Concerning vehicle combinations that may be operated on public highways.
Details HB 1926 Providing that usury laws apply to interest, penalties, and costs imposed on certain delinquent property taxes.
Details HB 1944 Expanding a use tax exemption for new Washington residents and nonresident members of the armed forces.
Details HB 1962 Modifying the deadline for the return of ballots.
Details HB 1975 Authorizing sports wagering subject to the terms of tribal-state gaming compacts.
Details HB 1978 Providing assistance to victims of government actions originating as part of the implementation of the growth management act by the state or local governments.
Details HB 1979 Concerning the establishment of reasonable surface water flow levels.
Details HB 1981 Providing a business and occupation credit for manufacturers utilizing a patent.
Details HB 1982 Waiving groundwater fees for low-income housing.
Details HB 1983 Concerning natural resource management activities.
Details HB 1984 Ensuring that attempts to limit greenhouse gas emissions in Washington state do not make Washington's agricultural products and food processing businesses economically uncompetitive, thereby shifting emissions to jurisdictions without similar greenhouse gas policies.
Details HB 1985 Providing regulatory relief from greenhouse gas emissions rules for producers of agricultural commodities and food products.
Details HB 1993 Authorizing military surplus vehicles to operate on public highways.
Details HB 2010 Evaluating options for increasing involvement of for-profit housing developers in the nine percent low-income housing tax credit program.
Details HB 2011 Concerning accountability in affordable housing policy and investments.
Details SHB 2022 Providing funding options to local governments for addressing fish passage barrier removals.
Details HB 2039 Concerning transportation network companies.
Details HB 2060 Concerning state preemption of nonuniform voting practices and procedures.
Details HB 2087 Exempting land removed from open space or farm and agricultural land classification from interest and other penalties if the land is owned in whole or in part by a retired farmer.
Details HB 2090 Addressing the relationship between the four-year balanced budget and vetoes of fiscal legislation.
Details HB 2093 Creating a small business bill of rights.
Details HB 2102 Expediting professional licenses for new Washington residents.
Details HB 2103 Simplifying firearms regulations.
Details HB 2107 Prohibiting employer searches of vehicles of employees.
Details HB 2112 Prohibiting safe injection sites.
Details HB 2118 Concerning misconduct for purposes of unemployment insurance.
Details HB 2120 Creating a work group to study and make recommendations on a statue to replace the Vladimir Lenin statue.
Details HB 2135 Using existing revenue sources for transportation purposes.
Details HB 2182 Concerning bump-fire stock buy-back program records.
Details HB 2218 Increasing the cap on gross sales for cottage food operations.
Details HB 2227 Limiting state and local taxes, fees, and other charges relating to vehicles.
Details HB 2237 Concerning local effort assistance.
Details 2SHB 1738 Relieving burdens on small businesses by updating the tax return filing thresholds to reflect inflation.
Details 2SHB 1974 Establishing the Washington cannabis commission.
Details 2SHB 2069 Concerning a property owner's or tenant's liability for delinquent and unpaid utility service charges.
Details SHB 2239 Prohibiting unjustified employer searches of employee personal vehicles.
Details HB 2323 Dedicating the state sales tax on motor vehicles for transportation.
Details HB 2346 Increasing the word count for voters' pamphlet statements submitted by state representative candidates.
Details HB 2403 Concerning legislative direction to manage escalating costs by modifying management responsibilities and operational considerations of state transportation public employees funded biennially by the transportation budget.
Details HB 2422 Repealing certain provisions related to civil immigration enforcement.
Details SHB 2463 Providing a designation on a driver's license or identicard that a person has a developmental disability.
Details HB 2479 Reaffirming the prohibition of the imposition of a local income tax.
Details SHB 2498 Providing compensation to department of natural resources lessees whose leases are terminated for reasons other than default.
Details HB 2503 Addressing the removal of fish passage barriers.
Details HB 2507 Addressing illicit discharges of wastewater pollution.
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 2539 Concerning the establishment of a law enforcement professional development outreach grant program.
Details SHB 2541 Creating the Washington rural development act.
Details HB 2560 Concerning basic law enforcement training.
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 2659 Limiting state and local taxes, fees, and other charges relating to vehicles.
Details HB 2680 Establishing tribal representation on the emergency management council.
Details HB 2692 Concerning vehicle combinations that may be operated on public highways.
Details SHB 2712 Requiring retailers to indicate the country of origin on beef sold to the public.
Details HB 2716 Concerning the confidentiality of retirement system files and records relating to health information.
Details HB 2791 Eliminating the reduction in state basic education funding that occurs in counties with federal and state forestlands.
Details HB 2812 Concerning uniform due process of land use code violations.
Details HB 2843 Providing premium tax relief to health carriers offering coverage in certain counties.
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 2854 Prohibiting the tracking of the movement of individuals or vehicles for the purposes of determining taxes or fees to be assessed.
Details HB 2855 Limiting the manner in which a road usage charge may be implemented.
Details HB 2877 Honoring our disabled veterans by providing financial relief.
Details HB 2887 Prohibiting local governments from suing over statewide ballot measures.
Details SHB 2906 Concerning the use of radio collars on gray wolves by the department of fish and wildlife.
Details HB 2923 Concerning railroad grade crossings.
Details HB 2928 Creating the parents' bill of rights.
Details HB 2933 Creating the education choice scholarship program.
Details HB 2934 Concerning recreational target shooting.
Details HB 2941 Protecting the right to keep and bear arms.
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 2956 Providing funding for the unfunded liabilities in the teachers' retirement system and the public employees' retirement system plans 1.
Details HB 2958 Preventing the curtailment of employment opportunities by allowing employers to pay a training wage for a specified period of time.
Details HB 2960 Eliminating the state property tax levies over four years.
Details HB 2968 Concerning ballot envelope secrecy flaps.

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