Gov. Gregoire signs multiple bills

For Immediate Release: March 20, 2008

OLYMPIA � Gov. Gregoire today signed 27 bills into law.

Gregoire signed the following bills:

• HB 2774- Relating to making a false or misleading material statement that results in an Amber alert.



• ESHB 2847- Relating to the sales and use tax exemption of materials and services used in the weatherization assistance program.



• SHB 2902 - Relating to the collection of the arbitration fee on the sales or leases of new motor vehicles.



• SHB 2959- Relating to craft distilleries.



• SSHB 3129- Relating to support for online learning for high school students to earn college credit.



• HB 3200- Relating to establishing a cemetery district in a county.



• SSB 6343- Relating to establishing a pilot program to examine the impacts of small scale mineral prospecting on costal areas.



• SSB 6389- Relating to exempting certain military housing property and leasehold excise taxes.



• SSB 6423- Relating to strengthening the tax credit and modifying the governing board of a Washington motion picture competiveness program.



• ESB 6663- Relating to improving the administration of department of revenue tax programs by correcting and clarifying statutes.



• SSB 6828- Relating to the excise taxation of the aerospace industry.



• SB 6837- Relating to the prescription drug assistance foundation.



• SB 6839- Relating to workers compensation coverage for work performed outside the state of Washington.



• SSB 6857- Relating to heavy haul industrial corridors.



• ESSB 6874- Relating to Columbia River water delivery.



• SSB 6933- Relating to admissibility of evidence in sex offense cases.



• HB 2594- Relating to distributing the insurance commissioner�s examination reports.



• HB 2786- Relating to including level I offenders who fail to maintain registration as required by RCW 9A.44.130 to the statewide notification website.



• HB 3024- Relating to purchasing service credit in plan 2 and plan 3 of the teacher�s retirement system for public education experience performed as a teacher in a public school in another state or with the federal government.



• ESHB 3122- Relating to consolidating, aligning and clarifying exception tests for determination of independent contractor status under unemployment compensation and workers compensation laws.



• SSB 5254- Relating to industry skill panels.



• SSB 6400- Relating to moral guidance of incarcerated persons.



• ESSB 6437- Relating to bail bond agents and bail bond recovery agents.



• ESSB 6573- relating to providing additional revenues for public safety, including law enforcement officers and firefighters plan 2 pension plan benefits.



• SB 6722- Relating to the credit and use of the cleanup settlement account.



• SB 6740- Relating to the provision of teacher certification services.



• SSHB 2713- Relating to DNA identification of convicted sex offenders and other persons.