BILL · 2015–16 SESSION

SB 6540: Safe playgrounds & turf

Ensuring safe playgrounds and turf fields.

Summary

Requires the department of ecology to: (1) Create a playfield turf advisory group to provide advice to the department on the design and scope of the study of the health impacts of exposure to toxic chemicals in synthetic turf; and (2) In consultation with the department of health, provide to the governor and the appropriate legislative committees a study analyzing the potential adverse health impacts of synthetic…

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to ensuring safe playgrounds and turf fields;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Mar 10, 2016By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
Jan 25, 2016First reading, referred to Energy, Environment & Telecommunications.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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SB 6540 (2017–18) Medicaid waiver · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 6540 (2013–14) Flame retardants · Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
SB 6540 (2011–12) Manufacturing/hiring, B&O · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 6540 (2009–10) Combined fund drive · Enacted · Chapter 101, Laws of 2010
SB 6540 (2007–08) WASL reading/writing content · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 6540 (2005–06) Processing liquor licenses · Enacted · Chapter 359, Laws of 2006
SB 6540 (2003–04) Transportation debt limit · Did not pass · died in committee