BUSINESSES
   (See also ACCOUNTANTS AND ACCOUNTING; ADVERTISING; AGRICULTURE; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; ATTORNEYS; BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS; CHILD CARE; CONSUMER PROTECTION; CONTRACTORS; CORPORATIONS; DISCRIMINATION; DRUGS; EMPLOYMENT AND EMPLOYEES; FARMS AND FARMING; FIREARMS; FOOD AND FOOD PRODUCTS; INSURANCE; LABOR; LODGING; MANUFACTURING AND TECHNOLOGY; MOTOR VEHICLES; NEWS MEDIA; PROFESSIONS; REAL ESTATE AND REAL PROPERTY; TAXES - BUSINESS AND OCCUPATION; TITLE ONLY BILLS; TRANSPORTATION; WATER; WORKERS' COMPENSATION) |
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Adult entertainment establishments, entertainer safety and advisory committee:
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EHB 1756, CH 304 (2019), SB 5724 |
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Adult entertainment establishments, entertainers not employed by, requirements:
SB 6517 |
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Adult entertainment venues, endangering persons with dwarfism, prohibiting:
SB 5486, SSB 5486 |
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Auction companies, registration with department of revenue:
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HB 1176, CH 442 (2019), SB 5125 |
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Auction dealers, wholesale motor vehicle, possessory lien on stored vehicle:
HB 2650, SB 6410 |
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Bags, retail carryout, standards and pass-through charge:
HB 1205, SHB 1205, 2SHB 1205, SB 5323,
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ESSB 5323, CH 138 (2020) |
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Barber shops, inapplicability of "employment" for certain barbers:
SB 5326 |
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Bots, using online to mislead in commercial transaction, prohibiting:
HB 2396 |
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Building business ecosystems act, building business ecosystems area financing:
SB 5564, SSB 5564 |
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Business improvement areas, protections for, homelessness impact grant program:
SB 6196 |
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Call centers, relocation to other country:
HB 1960, SB 5058 |
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Chamber of commerce, protections for, homelessness impact grant program:
SB 6196 |
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Collection agencies, bona fide errors by, agency not liable in certain actions:
HB 2636 |
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Collection agencies, credit card payment, definition of and transaction fee for:
HB 2635, SB 6118 |
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Collection agencies, hospital/health system connections with, notice of:
ESHB 2036 |
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Collection agencies, serving debtor with summons and complaint:
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HB 1066, CH 201 (2019), SB 5034 |
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Collection entities, contracts with hospitals for debt collection:
HB 2036 |
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Commercial properties, small, in designated district, property tax exemption:
HB 2881 |
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Commercial real property, relief for, expanding property tax exemption to, constitutional amendment:
HJR 4211, SJR 8218 |
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Computing businesses, large advanced, workforce education investment surcharge:
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ESSB 6492, CH 2 (2020) |
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Concrete pumping services, as "constructing"/related activities, excise taxation:
HB 2894, SB 6317 |
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Consumer data, consumer data bill of rights:
HB 2759 |
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Consumer data, Washington privacy act protections:
HB 1854, SHB 1854, 2SHB 1854, SB 5376, SSB 5376, 2SSB 5376 |
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Contracts, services/equipment leasing with automatic renewal, requirements:
SB 6437 |
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Cottage food operations, maximum sales limit for permit:
HB 2218 |
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Cottage food operations, product labeling information requirements:
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HB 2217, CH 171 (2020) |
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Data brokers, consumer personal information, Washington privacy act:
HB 1854, 2SHB 1854, SB 5376, SSB 5376, 2SSB 5376 |
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Data brokers, registration and additional requirements:
E2SHB 1503 |
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Data brokers, registration and information security program requirements:
HB 1503, SHB 1503 |
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Data controllers/processors, Washington privacy act:
HB 2742, SHB 2742, SB 6281, SSB 6281, 2SSB 6281 |
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Data of users, products that transmit, sticker for:
HB 2365, SHB 2365 |
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Data processors, Washington consumer data bill of rights:
HB 2759 |
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Data processors, Washington consumer data transparency act:
HB 2046 |
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Data, protection by businesses, state charter of personal data rights:
HB 2364 |
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Debt buyers, actions against debtors, prohibitions:
HB 2476,
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SHB 2476, CH 30 (2020) |
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Delivery devices, automated electrically powered ground-based, regulatory framework work group:
SSB 5378 |
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Delivery devices, personal, regulating:
HB 1325,
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ESHB 1325, CH 214 (2019), SB 5378 |
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Diaper services, sales and use tax exemptions:
HB 2480, HB 2946 |
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Electronic records, distributed ledger technology and blockchain, definitions:
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ESSB 6028, CH 57 (2020) |
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Electronic records, distributed ledger technology, repealing certain statutes:
SB 6028,
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ESSB 6028, CH 57 (2020) |
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Electronic records, distributed ledger technology, use of:
HB 2604, SB 5638,
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SSB 5638, CH 153 (2019) |
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Electronic records/signatures, repealing certain statutes:
SB 6028,
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ESSB 6028, CH 57 (2020) |
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Electronic records/signatures, uniform electronic transactions act, adoption:
SB 6028,
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ESSB 6028, CH 57 (2020) |
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Employment agencies or directories, regulating:
SB 5171 |
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Employment agencies, temporary, payroll expense tax to include, when/where:
HB 2948, SB 6692 |
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Employment positions, creation of, B&O tax credits:
HB 1566, SB 5215 |
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Engineering, entities practicing, registration with department of revenue:
SB 5125 |
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Farmers markets, alcoholic beverage sales at, various:
HB 1947 |
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Fees from businesses, in nonappropriated accounts, prohibiting transfers of:
HB 2369 |
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Fitness centers, safety and sanitation:
SB 5553, SSB 5553 |
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Food processing facilities, greenhouse gas emission limits exemption for:
HB 1984 |
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Food products producers, greenhouse gas limits regulatory relief:
HB 1985 |
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Food service businesses, plastic food service products, prohibitions:
HB 1632, HB 2656, SHB 2656, SB 6627 |
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Food service businesses, plastic food service products, reducing waste from:
SHB 1632, HB 2656, SHB 2656, SB 6627 |
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Food service businesses, plastic straws, restrictions:
ESSB 5077 |
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Food service businesses, worker schedule requirements:
HB 1491, SHB 1491, SB 5717, SSB 5717 |
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Franchises, franchisor/franchisee relationship:
HB 1757 |
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Gas stations, motor fuel pumps, fuel tax sticker for display on:
HB 1633, SHB 1633, 2SHB 1633 |
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Genetic testing companies, direct-to-consumer, genetic data safeguards:
HB 2485 |
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Gift cards and certificates, provisions:
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HB 1727, CH 376 (2019) |
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Grocery stores, prepared food sold by, sales and use tax exemptions:
HB 2946 |
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Heavy equipment rental property dealers, property tax exemption for:
HB 1502, SHB 1502, SB 5628,
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SSB 5628, CH 301 (2020) |
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Heavy equipment rental tax, imposing:
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SSB 5628, CH 301 (2020) |
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Highway sweeping program, statewide volunteer, for businesses, establishing:
SB 6650 |
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Hospitality businesses, worker schedule requirements:
HB 1491, SHB 1491, SB 5717, SSB 5717 |
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Hospitality industry in Washington, recognizing:
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SR 8607 (2019) |
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Hospitality industry, opportunities for employment in hospitality grant:
HB 1556, SB 5808 |
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Internet/mobile application, marketing/advertising to minors via, prohibitions:
HB 2442 |
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Investment management companies, international, tax preferences:
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ESB 6016, CH 426 (2019) |
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Investment management services, international, sales/use tax exemptions:
HB 1266, SHB 1266, SB 5325, SSB 5325 |
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Kitchens, microenterprise home operations, permits for and regulation of:
HB 2777, SB 6434 |
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Kitchens, microenterprise home operations, permits/regulation/pilot program:
SHB 2777 |
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Land surveying, entities practicing, registration with department of revenue:
SB 5125 |
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Licenses, delinquent renewal fee, waiving, when:
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ESB 5402, CH 139 (2020) PV |
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Licensing service, application handling fees, increasing:
HB 2840, SHB 2840, SB 6632,
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SSB 6632, CH 164 (2020) |
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Licensing service, city option to opt out, when:
HB 2749,
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ESB 5402, CH 139 (2020) PV |
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Licensing service, small city option to opt out, when:
HB 2100 |
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Licensing, fees, for active duty military spouses:
HB 1812, SHB 1812 |
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Lodging, employee training regarding human trafficking:
HB 2320, SHB 2320, SB 6356 |
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Lodging, furnishing of lodging by business, additional charge for:
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ESSB 6592, CH 215 (2020) |
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Lodging, furnishing of lodging by business, charge for, increasing:
SB 6592 |
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Lodging, furnishing of lodging by business, charges for, petitioning to remove:
SB 6592,
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ESSB 6592, CH 215 (2020) |
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Lodging, hospitality industry in Washington, recognizing:
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SR 8607 (2019) |
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Lodging, hotel, motel, or inn guest rooms, unlawful marijuana use in:
HB 2199 |
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Lodging, short-term agreements, standards for:
SB 5863 |
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Lodging, short-term rental operators and platforms, requirements:
HB 1798,
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SHB 1798, CH 346 (2019), SB 5870 |
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Lodging, short-term rental operators, special alcohol permit for:
HB 2192 |
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Marketplace facilitators, nexus threshold and retail sales tax collection:
HB 1890, SB 5581,
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SSB 5581, CH 8 (2019) |
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Markets, international, engagement with, to aid WA companies/regions:
SB 6656, SSB 6656, 2SSB 6656 |
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New businesses, B&O tax credit:
SB 5619 |
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New businesses, B&O tax exemption and additional mitigation tax:
SB 5974 |
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Noncompetition covenants, enforceable or unenforceable, when:
HB 1450,
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ESHB 1450, CH 299 (2019), SB 5478, ESSB 5478 |
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Office space, commercial, development tax incentives:
HB 1746,
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SHB 1746, CH 273 (2019), SB 5051, ESSB 5051 |
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Pawnbrokers, new-property and gift card/credit purchases by:
HB 2309 |
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Pawnbrokers, persons selling property to, licensing of, when:
HB 2309 |
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Payroll expense tax, on businesses in King county, imposing, when:
HB 2907, SHB 2907, SB 6669 |
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Payroll expense tax, on employers doing business in King county, imposing:
HB 2948, SB 6692 |
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Permanent cosmetics businesses, licensing and regulation:
HB 1158, SHB 1158 |
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Permits, agency decisions, time required for, reporting progress:
HB 2593 |
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Personal data, businesses controlling/processing, WA privacy act:
HB 2742, SHB 2742, SB 6281, SSB 6281, 2SSB 6281 |
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Personal data, chief privacy officer as statewide elected official:
HB 2366, SHB 2366 |
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Personal data, processors of, Washington consumer data transparency act:
HB 2046 |
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Personal data, Washington consumer data bill of rights:
HB 2759 |
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Personal data, Washington state charter of personal data rights:
HB 2364 |
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Personal information, controllers and processors of, provisions:
2SHB 1854 |
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Personal information, possessed by businesses, security breaches:
HB 1071,
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SHB 1071, CH 241 (2019), SB 5064, SSB 5064, 2SSB 5064 |
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Pet stores, selling dog or cat in, prohibition and alternatives:
HB 2344, SB 6221 |
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Pet stores, selling dog or cat in, requirements and alternatives:
HB 1640, SB 5209 |
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Product certification agencies, for alternate building code compliance:
HB 1402, SB 5587 |
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Public accommodation, places of, closed captioning on televisions in:
SB 6182, SSB 6182 |
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Public accommodation/etc., places of, artificial intelligence profiling, prohibiting:
HB 2644 |
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Public accommodation/etc., places of, facial recognition technology in, prohibiting:
HB 2856, SHB 2856 |
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Registration, with DOR, annual gross receipts threshold for:
HB 1738, SHB 1738, 2SHB 1738 |
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Regulatory agencies, business audits, inspections, and examinations by:
HB 2577, SHB 2577, 2SHB 2577, SB 6408, SSB 6408 |
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Restaurants, children's meals at, default beverage options for:
HB 2383, SHB 2383, SB 6455, SSB 6455 |
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Restaurants, diaper-changing stations:
HB 1223, SHB 1223, SB 5156 |
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Restaurants, hospitality industry in Washington, recognizing:
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SR 8607 (2019) |
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Restaurants, liquor licenses, soju endorsement:
HB 1034,
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SHB 1034, CH 61 (2019), SB 5020, SSB 5020 |
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Restaurants, paying new employee training period wages, certificate for:
SB 6377 |
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Retail establishments, worker schedule requirements:
HB 1491, SHB 1491, SB 5717, SSB 5717 |
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Rewards cards, unclaimed property act exemption:
HB 1313, SHB 1313, SB 5654, SSB 5654 |
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Sales of goods and services during time of disaster, limiting price increases for:
SB 6699 |
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Sales representatives, payment of earned commissions to:
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HB 2474, CH 84 (2020) |
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Salon/shop licenseholders, booth renters at premises of, prohibitions:
SB 5326 |
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Secondhand dealers, new-property and gift card/credit purchases by:
HB 2309 |
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Secondhand dealers, persons selling property to, licensing of, when:
HB 2309 |
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Security and fire alarm monitoring services, tax exemptions:
HB 2130 |
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Security companies, guard use of force with firearm discharge, reporting:
SB 5916 |
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Security companies, private, licensing and license renewals:
SB 6605, SSB 6605 |
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Self-storage businesses, personal property in storage units, protections:
SB 5957 |
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Signatures/messages, electronic, distributed ledger technology, use of:
SB 5638,
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SSB 5638, CH 153 (2019) |
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Signatures/messages, electronic, repealing electronic authentication act:
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HB 1908, CH 132 (2019), SB 5501 |
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Signatures/records, electronic, repealing certain statutes:
SB 6028,
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ESSB 6028, CH 57 (2020) |
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Signatures/records, electronic, uniform electronic transactions act, adoption:
SB 6028,
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ESSB 6028, CH 57 (2020) |
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Small business enterprise enforceable goals program, for ferry vessel procurement:
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ESHB 2161, CH 431 (2019) |
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Small, bill of rights for small businesses, regulatory agencies to create and post:
HB 2093, SB 5948, SSB 5948 |
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Small, fairer system for, single low flat B&O tax rate for all businesses:
SB 5994 |
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Small, public utility tax gross receipts threshold exemption for, when:
HB 1738, SHB 1738, 2SHB 1738 |
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Small, small business tax credit, increasing:
SB 6492 |
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Staffing agencies, temporary employee assignment, agency to visit worksite:
SB 6122, ESSB 6122 |
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Staffing agencies, temporary employee-related industrial insurance claims:
SB 6122, ESSB 6122 |
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Staffing agencies, temporary, payroll expense tax to include, when/where:
HB 2948, SB 6692 |
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Taxes, multiple business, city/town imposition citing same statutory authority, prohibiting:
SB 6194 |
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Theaters, liquor licenses for, requirements:
HB 1004, HB 1904, HB 1905, SB 5643, SSB 5643 |
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Ticket resellers, licensing and regulation:
SB 5321, SSB 5321 |
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Ticket sellers, web sites of, selling software to interfere with, prohibition:
HB 1762 |
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Time zone and daylight saving time, impact on commerce, reviewing:
SB 5139, SB 5140 |
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Travel agents and tour operators, preferential B&O tax rate, eliminating:
HB 2141, SB 5997 |
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Travel agents and tour operators, preferential B&O tax rate, increasing:
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ESSB 6004, CH 425 (2019) |
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Travel agents, preferential B&O tax rate, eliminating:
HB 2157 |
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Travel agents, preferential B&O tax rate, modifying:
SHB 2157, 2SHB 2157 |
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Usury laws, application to certain delinquent property taxes:
HB 1926 |
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Veteran-owned, awarding public works and procurement contracts to:
SB 5762 |
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Wilderness therapy programs, for troubled youth, licensing:
SB 6637 |
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Women-/minority-/veteran-owned businesses, loans to, B&O tax credit:
HB 2605 |
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