UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
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Benefits, eligibility for, good cause reasons for voluntarily leaving work:
HB 1486, SB 5064, SSB 5064 |
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Benefits, expanding eligibility for health care employees during pandemic, when:
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ESSB 5190 (2021) |
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Benefits, extended, benefit and eligibility periods and job search requirements:
HB 1492, SHB 1492, SB 5425,
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SSB 5425, CH 107 (2021) |
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Benefits, for volunteer firefighters, deduction of payments for services from benefit payments, prohibiting:
HB 1448 |
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Benefits, forgiven, for certain employers, reimbursement by newly created unemployment insurance relief account:
HB 1568, SB 5478,
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ESSB 5478 (2021) |
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Benefits, paid, not charging to employer account or employer during emergency, when:
HB 1098, HB 1343, SB 5061,
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ESSB 5061, CH 2 (2021) |
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Benefits, paid, reimbursing from COVID-19 unemployment account, when:
HB 1021 |
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Benefits, presumptive, expanding eligibility for health care employees during pandemic:
SB 5190 |
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Claim adjudicators, for unemployment insurance claims, training program for:
HB 1487, SHB 1487, SB 5193,
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ESSB 5193 (2021) |
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Claims, demand thresholds, emergency drills, phone lines for certain claimants, and online data dashboard:
HB 1487, SHB 1487,
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ESSB 5193 (2021) |
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Claims, effective/equitable processing, adjudicators reserve force, performance metrics reports, and planning:
HB 1487, SHB 1487,
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ESSB 5193 (2021) |
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Claims, unemployment insurance legislative work group, establishing:
SHB 1487,
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ESSB 5193 (2021) |
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Contributions by employers, maximum wages subject to tax, modifying calculation of:
SB 5197 |
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Employers, contribution rate of, solvency surcharge included with, repealing:
SB 5113 |
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Employers, unemployment insurance contribution relief for:
SB 5171 |
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Employers, violations by, failing to register or failing to report employee or wages, audits and penalties for:
HB 1474, SHB 1474 |
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Federal pandemic benefits, excluding from working connections child care eligibility determinations:
SB 5023 |
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Job searches by claimants, monitoring of, demonstrated contacts and documented search activities:
HB 1493,
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SHB 1493, CH 82 (2021), SB 5427, SSB 5427 |
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Public health emergency, unemployment benefits for health care employees during, when:
SB 5190,
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ESSB 5190 (2021) |
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Public health emergency, unemployment benefits, forgiven, for certain employers, reimbursement of, when:
HB 1568, SB 5478,
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ESSB 5478 (2021) |
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Public health emergency, unemployment insurance revisions to aid employees and employers during:
HB 1098, HB 1343, SB 5061,
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ESSB 5061, CH 2 (2021) |
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Social security numbers, used in correspondence as personal identifiers, replacing, when:
HB 1455,
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SHB 1455, CH 80 (2021) |
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UTILITIES
(See also ENERGY FACILITY SITE EVALUATION COUNCIL; TAX PREFERENCES - EXEMPTIONS, CREDITS, DEDUCTIONS, DEFERRALS, ETC.; UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION) |
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Bill assistance programs for low-income gas and electrical utility customers, requirements:
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ESSB 5295, CH 188 (2021) |
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Blackouts, rolling/inadequacy events, risk of, utilities/stakeholders meetings to address:
HB 1527 |
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Bonneville power administration, utility conservation credits from, B&O tax exemption:
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SB 5008 (2021) |
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Broadband service, providing to unserved areas via infrastructure, tax credits against capital costs:
SB 5110 |
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Broadband service, telecommunications for end users in unserved areas provided by PUDs, authority/process for:
SB 5383, SSB 5383 |
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Broadband service, telecommunications for end users in unserved areas provided by PUDs/port districts:
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2SSB 5383 (2021) |
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Broadband service, telecommunications to end users provided by PUDs, authority via public broadband act:
HB 1336,
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ESHB 1336 (2021) |
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City/town utilities, services for tenant, collection of delinquent charges after governor's proclamation expires:
SHB 1421 |
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City/town utilities, services for tenant, collection of delinquent charges, when:
HB 1421, SHB 1421 |
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City/town utilities, services for tenant, prohibiting collection of delinquent charges from owner, when:
HB 1421, SHB 1421 |
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Cool roof/tree planting programs, conserving energy/mitigating urban heat island effects via, role of utilities:
HB 1114,
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SHB 1114, CH 11 (2021) |
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Customer support via payment plans/partial arrearages forgiveness, and utility public utility tax credit in connection with:
SB 5472 |
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Easements, on state lands, for local public utility line owned by nongovernmental entity:
SB 5110 |
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Electric light/space heating service, residential, termination due to unpaid charges, prohibitions, when/for whom:
HB 1490 |
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Electric, beneficial electrification plans and programs:
HB 1084, SHB 1084, SB 5093 |
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Electric, clean fuels program, low carbon fuel infrastructure under, credits for:
HB 1036, HB 1091, SHB 1091, 2SHB 1091,
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E3SHB 1091 (2021), SB 5231 |
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Electric, cost-effective conservation acquisition targets, when events beyond control prevent meeting of:
HB 1446,
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SHB 1446, CH 79 (2021) |
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Electric, COVID impacts on, compliance burden reduction/customer assistance:
SB 5007 |
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Electric, customer billing statements, renewable energy requirements impact on bill total, disclosing:
HB 1327, SB 5363 |
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Electric, electricity from community solar projects, purchases by utilities of:
HB 1046 |
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Electric, multiyear rate plans and performance-based rate making, requirements:
HB 1498, SB 5295,
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ESSB 5295, CH 188 (2021) |
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Electric, projects, renewable resources analysis and advisory opinion:
SB 5168 |
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Electric, rental housing conservation/energy efficiency opportunities to reduce tenant's energy burden:
HB 1125, HB 1498, SB 5295 |
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Electric, resource plans, electric vehicles/zero emissions vehicle use/electrification of transportation plans:
HB 1287, SHB 1287,
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E2SHB 1287 (2021) |
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Electric, retail utility bill costs, limiting by state to achieve cost reduction and grid reliability targets:
HB 1130 |
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Electric, role in Washington climate commitment act:
SB 5126, SSB 5126,
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E2SSB 5126 (2021) |
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Electric, utility wildland fire prevention advisory committee, renaming task force as:
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ESB 5158, CH 183 (2021) |
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Electric, utility wildland fire prevention task force, recommendations of, implementing:
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ESB 5158, CH 183 (2021) |
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Electrification, building/transportation system, resource adequacy for, utilities/stakeholders meetings to address:
HB 1527 |
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Energy conservation and renewable resources targets, provisions:
SB 5007,
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SB 5008 (2021) |
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Greenhouse gas emissions, mitigation strategies for utilities:
HB 1084, SHB 1084, SB 5093 |
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Greenhouse gas emissions, zero emissions transportation future, state transition to, supporting, utility role:
HB 1287, SHB 1287,
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E2SHB 1287 (2021) |
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Heat standard, clean, statewide, establishing:
HB 1084, SB 5093 |
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Liens, against customer premises, imposing after governor-declared emergency expires:
HB 1069, SHB 1069,
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E2SHB 1069 (2021) |
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Low-income customers, assistance programs for, gas and electrical companies to propose:
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ESSB 5295, CH 188 (2021) |
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Natural gas, multiyear rate plans and performance-based rate making, requirements:
HB 1498, SB 5295,
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ESSB 5295, CH 188 (2021) |
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Natural gas, rental housing conservation/energy efficiency opportunities to reduce tenant's energy burden:
HB 1125, HB 1498, SB 5295 |
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Natural gas, retail utility bill costs, limiting by state to achieve cost reduction and grid reliability targets:
HB 1130 |
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Natural gas, role in Washington climate commitment act:
SB 5126, SSB 5126,
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E2SSB 5126 (2021) |
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Natural gas, transition implementation plans and integrated resource plans:
HB 1084, SHB 1084, SB 5093 |
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Natural gas, uniform climate protection surcharge, establishing:
HB 1084, SB 5093 |
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Public service companies, contractor/subcontractor liability for loss/damages/injury to rescuers, when:
HB 1341 |
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Public utility districts, beneficial electrification plans and programs:
HB 1084, SHB 1084, SB 5093 |
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Public utility districts, cool roof programs with tree plantings for energy conservation:
HB 1114,
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SHB 1114, CH 11 (2021) |
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Public utility districts, electric light/space heating, residential, termination for unpaid charges, prohibitions:
HB 1490 |
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Public utility districts, green electrolytic hydrogen production and sales by, authority and related tax exemptions:
HB 1569 |
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Public utility districts, greenhouse gas emissions reduction programs:
HB 1084, SHB 1084, SB 5093 |
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Public utility districts, telecommunications to end users provided by, authority via public broadband act:
HB 1336,
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ESHB 1336 (2021) |
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Public utility districts, telecommunications/broadband for end users in unserved areas provided by, when:
SB 5383, SSB 5383,
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2SSB 5383 (2021) |
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Public, COVID-19 impacts, grants addressing, public utility tax exemption:
HB 1002 |
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Ratepayer assistance and weatherization, low-income, using B&O tax savings for:
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SB 5008 (2021) |
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Renewable energy resources, compliance burden reduction/customer assistance:
SB 5007 |
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Rescuers, public service company contractor/subcontractor liability for loss/damages/injury to, when:
HB 1341 |
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Solar energy facilities, sited on certain agricultural lands, not eligible for expedited processing by EFSEC:
SB 5206 |
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Solar energy systems, community projects, utility electricity purchases from:
HB 1046 |
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Solar energy systems, photovoltaic module stewardship/takeback program, delaying certain implementation dates:
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HB 1393, CH 45 (2021) |
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Vulnerable populations and highly impacted communities, energy burden of, reducing in various ways:
HB 1125, HB 1498, SB 5295,
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ESSB 5295, CH 188 (2021) |
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Wind turbine blades, stewardship and takeback program, developing:
SB 5174, SSB 5174 |
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UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION
(See also ENERGY FACILITY SITE EVALUATION COUNCIL; UTILITIES) |
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Low-income persons, energy burden of, electrical or natural gas company assistance for reducing, UTC role:
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ESSB 5295, CH 188 (2021) |
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Meetings of utilities/stakeholders, rolling blackouts/electrification resource adequacy, addressing, UTC role:
HB 1527 |
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Rail fixed guideway systems, state safety oversight agency, UTC to replace DOT as:
HB 1418 |
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Rail fixed guideway systems, state safety oversight, UTC role:
ESHB 1418 |
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Railroads, rail safety, UTC role and authority, expanding:
HB 1418, ESHB 1418 |
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Rule making, significant agency rules, requirements to include UTC:
SB 5276 |
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Solar energy, community projects, utility electricity purchases from, UTC role:
HB 1046 |
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Surcharge, uniform climate protection, natural gas companies to pay:
HB 1084, SB 5093 |
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Washington lifeline program, establishing:
HB 1460 |
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