House Bill Analysis — HB 1728, Statewide Resiliency Program (Office of Program Research, 2/8/23)

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House Bill Analysis of HB 1728, prepared by the Washington State House of Representatives Office of Program Research for the Innovation, Community & Economic Development, & Veterans Committee, with a hearing date of 2/8/23. The brief description is creating a statewide resiliency program, and the sponsors are Representatives Donaghy, Rule, Reeves, Morgan, Ramel, Reed and Leavitt. The analysis states that the bill requires the Military Department to develop and administer a statewide resiliency program through the Emergency Management Division. It lists the program elements, including coordination of state and local resiliency efforts and a coordinated long-term resiliency strategy for all hazards. It states Appropriation: None, and that a fiscal note was requested on February 2, 2023.

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Washington State                  BILL
House of Representatives
Office of Program Research   ANALYSIS
Innovation, Community & Economic
Development, & Veterans Committee
                                        HB 1728
Brief Description: Creating a statewide resiliency program.

Sponsors: Representatives Donaghy, Rule, Reeves, Morgan, Ramel, Reed and Leavitt.


                                     Brief Summary of Bill
          • Requires the Military Department to develop and administer a statewide
            resiliency program.


Hearing Date: 2/8/23

Staff: Cassie Jones (786-7303).

Background:

The Military Department, under the direction of the Adjutant General, administers the state's
comprehensive program of emergency management. The Adjutant General is responsible for
developing a comprehensive, all-hazard emergency plan for the state, known as the
Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan, that includes an analysis of natural,
technological, or human-caused hazards and procedures to coordinate state and local resources in
responding to such hazards.

Summary of Bill:

The Emergency Management Division within the Military Department must develop and
administer a statewide resiliency program. The program should include:
   • methods for ensuring ongoing coordination of state and local resiliency and response
     activities, including:



     This analysis was prepared by non-partisan legislative staff for the use of legislative
     members in their deliberations. This analysis is not part of the legislation nor does it
     constitute a statement of legislative intent.

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          • developing, administering, tracking, and communicating progress of overall
             resiliency efforts;
          • coordinating funding to maximize federal, state, local, and private investments;
          • serving as a public and private resiliency resource center; and
          • enhancing interagency collaboration, education, and outreach programs;
    • a coordinated long-term resiliency strategy for addressing the impacts of all hazards, both
      natural and human-caused, including:
          • developing, coordinating, and communicating resiliency initiatives and projects
             across state agencies and local governments, including initiatives and projects
             supporting climate resiliency;
          • conducting policy research and recommendations related to enhancing resiliency;
          • coordinating research, data collection, and analysis;
          • researching economic tools to address resiliency; and
          • recommending investments to mitigate risks from all hazards; and
    • support functions to agencies, departments, tribes, and other stakeholders to develop
      solutions that improve the resiliency of the state's waters, forests, and other vital
      ecosystems to the impacts of climate change, and increase their carbon pollution reduction
      capacity through sequestration, storage, and overall ecosystem integrity.

"Resiliency" means the ability to prepare, mitigate, plan for, withstand, recover from, and more
successfully adapt to adverse events and changing conditions, and reorganize in an equitable
manner that results in a new and better condition.

Appropriation: None.

Fiscal Note: Requested on February 2, 2023.

Effective Date: The bill takes effect 90 days after adjournment of the session in which the bill is
passed.




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