About 440 new measures officially became law Sunday. Here are a few:
# Cutting into the ferry line will bring a $101 fine.
# Schools that teach sex education are barred from using an abstinence-only curriculum.
# Foster children, who previously lost government support when they aged out of the system at 18, are eligible for Medicaid coverage until they are 21.
# The new domestic partnership registry confers some of the rights of marriage to same-sex partners and older, unmarried straight couples.
# The new state vegetable is the Walla Walla sweet onion; state amphibian is the Pacific chorus frog; the state ship, the Lady Washington.
# Porphyria patients, those with extreme sensitivity to light, now qualify for special parking privileges.