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Representative Sells

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Biennium 2019-20
Chamber House
Acronym SELL
District 38
Name Mike Sells
Party Democrat
Email Mike.Sells@leg.wa.gov
Sponsor Success Rate 28.67%
Total Bills Sponsored 143
Campaign Contributions (biennium) $94,534.00
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) $279,930.53

41 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2019-20

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details ESHB 1817 Ensuring for a skilled and trained workforce in high hazard facilities.
Details HB 2474 Concerning sales commissions.
Details SHB 2613 Granting relief of unemployment benefit charges when discharge is required by law and removing outdated statutory language.
Details HB 1014 Concerning financial responsibility of motorcycle operators.
Details SHB 1064 Concerning law enforcement.
Details ESHB 1138 Concerning the armed forces exceptions for giving notice of termination of a tenancy.
Details SHB 1155 Concerning meal and rest breaks and mandatory overtime for certain health care employees.
Details SHB 1197 Concerning gold star license plates.
Details 2SHB 1216 Concerning nonfirearm measures to increase school safety and student well-being.
Details E2SHB 1311 Concerning college bound scholarship eligible students.
Details 2SHB 1344 Concerning child care access.
Details ESHB 1355 Concerning staffing standards and ratios for counselors in community and technical colleges.
Details SHB 1356 Concerning privileged communication with peer support group counselors.
Details SHB 1399 Concerning paid family and medical leave.
Details 2SHB 1448 Creating the veterans service officer program.
Details ESHB 1450 Concerning restraints on persons engaging in lawful professions, trades, or businesses.
Details HB 1490 Amending the application of the occupational disease presumption for cancer for Hanford site workers.
Details E2SHB 1521 Providing for accountability and transparency in government contracting.
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 HB 1589 Concerning requirements for the correctional personnel and community corrections officer exemption from restrictions on carrying firearms.
Details SHB 1652 Concerning paint stewardship.
Details EHB 1706 Eliminating subminimum wage certificates for persons with disabilities.
Details 2SHB 1713 Improving law enforcement response to missing and murdered Native American women.
Details SHB 1742 Concerning juvenile offenses that involve depictions of minors.
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 EHB 1756 Concerning the safety and security of adult entertainers.
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 SHB 1931 Concerning workplace violence in health care settings.
Details 2SHB 1973 Establishing the Washington dual enrollment scholarship pilot program.
Details HB 2062 Creating Seattle Storm special license plates to fund youth leadership and sports programs.
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 HB 2266 Concerning reasonable accommodation for the expression of breast milk without requiring written certification from a health care professional.
Details SHB 2409 Concerning industrial insurance employer penalties, duties, and the licensing of third-party administrators.
Details HB 2458 Concerning optional benefits offered by school districts.
Details SHB 2614 Concerning paid family and medical leave.
Details HB 2617 Concerning the lease or rental of surplus property of school districts.
Details ESHB 2638 Authorizing sports wagering subject to the terms of tribal-state gaming compacts.
Details EHB 2792 Concerning missing and unidentified persons.
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 HB 2926 Expanding access to critical incident stress management programs.

102 Sponsored Bills Failed for Biennium 2019-20

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SHB 1072 Enhancing the prevailing wage laws to ensure contractor and owner accountability and worker protection.
Details HB 1376 Concerning faith-based exemptions regarding criminal mistreatment of children and vulnerable adults.
Details HB 1400 Concerning confidentiality of employment security department records and data.
Details HB 1418 Expanding access to building trades apprenticeships.
Details HB 1467 Revising academic supports associated with high school graduation requirements.
Details HB 1492 Concerning industrial insurance wage loss.
Details SHB 1682 Communicating claim closures by self-insured employers.
Details HB 2023 Concerning bond authorization training for school district boards of directors.
Details SHB 2037 Providing sergeants of the department of fish and wildlife interest arbitration under certain circumstances.
Details SHB 2654 Requiring uniform reporting of certain fiscal details by community and technical colleges.
Details HB 2891 Establishing the American Indian cultural study grant.
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 2EHB 1056 Creating a task force to identify the role of the workplace in helping curb domestic violence.
Details HB 1078 Notifying purchasers of hearing instruments about uses and benefits of telecoil and bluetooth technology.
Details HB 1144 Establishing the military families' access to child care and early learning supports program.
Details HB 1178 Concerning veteran and national guard tuition waivers.
Details SHB 1181 Providing property tax relief for senior citizens and qualifying veterans.
Details HB 1184 Concerning school district elections.
Details HB 1193 Calculating the benchmark rate for certain community residential services.
Details 2SHB 1211 Supporting Washington's clean energy economy and transitioning to a clean, affordable, and reliable energy future.
Details HB 1215 Prohibiting balance billing by health care providers.
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 HB 1221 Improving crisis planning in schools to prevent youth suicide.
Details ESHB 1264 Concerning secondary traumatic stress in public school staff.
Details SHB 1265 Increasing student access to school counselors.
Details HB 1278 Concerning room and board for college bound scholarship students.
Details SHB 1299 Extending collective bargaining rights to assistant attorneys general.
Details HB 1300 Creating the reinvesting in our colleges program.
Details E2SHB 1304 Concerning career and technical education in alternative learning experience programs.
Details SHB 1336 Expanding career connected learning opportunities.
Details HB 1339 Enacting the Native American voting rights act of Washington.
Details SHB 1340 Establishing a statewide free college program by changing the state need grant to the Washington college promise scholarship.
Details SHB 1345 Limiting overtime for correctional officers.
Details SHB 1395 Concerning direct contractor liability for payment of wages and benefits.
Details HB 1398 Concerning the H-2A temporary agricultural program.
Details HB 1407 Concerning comprehensive sexual health education.
Details HB 1445 Making unemployment benefits accessible to persons with family responsibilities and other availability issues and making clarifying changes.
Details SHB 1452 Extending collective bargaining rights to employees of the legislative branch of state government.
Details SHB 1455 Concerning the aeronautics industry.
Details HB 1470 Providing incentives for the use of open source instructional materials in higher education.
Details HB 1478 Requiring state officials to complete high school assessments required for graduation from a public school.
Details SHB 1515 Concerning the employer-employee relationship.
Details HB 1527 Providing a working families' tax credit.
Details HB 1541 Prohibiting the possession and acquisition of weapons by persons convicted of certain criminal offenses or subject to certain no-contact orders, protection orders, or restraining orders.
Details HB 1556 Establishing the opportunities for employment in hospitality grant.
Details HB 1570 Requiring the use of American or recycled steel products on certain public works.
Details HB 1571 Naming of subcontractors by prime contract bidders on public works contracts.
Details HB 1572 Concerning homeless college students.
Details HB 1601 Creating the universal worker protections act.
Details HB 1612 Eliminating barriers to reproductive health care for all.
Details HB 1671 Disposing of confiscated firearms.
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 1716 Concerning veterans' mental health services at institutions of higher education.
Details HB 1722 Concerning local options for tabulating votes in an election.
Details HB 1728 Preventing the sexual harassment and sexual assault of certain isolated workers.
Details HB 1735 Concerning higher education programs.
Details HB 1752 Increasing contractor bonding requirements.
Details HB 1766 Concerning unmanned aircraft.
Details E2SHB 1783 Creating the Washington state office of equity.
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 1851 Creating the care worker research and resource center.
Details HB 1910 Enhancing special education funding.
Details HB 1921 Addressing the regressive nature of the Washington state housing market.
Details SHB 1927 Concerning the Washington opportunity scholarship program.
Details HB 1943 Providing a full-time educational staff associate for every school.
Details SHB 1991 Allowing the use of digital license plates.
Details SHB 2001 Creating the Native American opportunity scholarship program.
Details HB 2012 Providing equitable bonuses to K-12 instructional staff who attain national certification through professional organizations.
Details HB 2070 Clarifying the required color of certain lamps on vehicles.
Details SHB 1255 Creating Patches pal special license plates.
Details SHB 1256 Increasing monetary penalties for the unlawful use of a personal electronic device while driving a motor vehicle in a school, playground, or crosswalk speed zone.
Details 2SHB 2171 Concerning vested vacation or paid time off upon an employee's termination.
Details SHB 2187 Creating Washington state women veterans special license plates.
Details SHB 2212 Providing department of fish and wildlife officers interest arbitration under certain circumstances.
Details HB 2289 Increasing tuition transparency at postsecondary educational institutions.
Details SHB 2299 Creating prison to postsecondary education pathways.
Details SHB 2304 Concerning shared leave and industrial insurance benefits.
Details HB 2312 Making Juneteenth a legal holiday.
Details SHB 2320 Requiring training on human trafficking.
Details SHB 2335 Increasing access to medications for people with opioid use disorder.
Details 2SHB 2386 Creating the state office of the behavioral health ombuds.
Details HB 2406 Creating Washington law enforcement officer health and wellness special license plates.
Details SHB 2446 Limiting the disclosure of personal information held by the department of licensing.
Details HB 2466 Providing for public disclosure of public records of the legislature and legislators.
Details SHB 2511 Providing labor protections for domestic workers.
Details HB 2646 Reducing work-related musculoskeletal disorders in the health care sector.
Details HB 2653 Determining cultural bias in kindergarten assessments.
Details SHB 2661 Expanding accessible, affordable child care and early childhood development programs.
Details 2SHB 2681 Preventing harassment, abuse, and discrimination experienced by long-term care workers.
Details HB 2689 Concerning industrial insurance medical examinations.
Details HB 2700 Concerning insurance coverage of prosthetics and orthotics.
Details SHB 2715 Concerning minimum labor standards for certain employees working at an airport or air navigation facility.
Details HB 2734 Creating pathways to recovery from addiction by eliminating a tax preference for the warehousing of opioids and other drugs.
Details HB 2801 Creating the undocumented student support loan program.
Details HB 2814 Developing best practices for the child care industry as recommended by the child care workforce commission.
Details HB 2828 Prohibiting funds available to port districts from being allocated for the purchase of fully automated marine container cargo handling equipment.
Details SHB 2836 Establishing an unpiloted aircraft system state coordinator.
Details HB 2852 Providing a loan repayment option for juvenile rheumatologists.