Washington Bills

Concerning the electric transmission system.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026*.

Establishing a tax on millionaires.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026*.

Concerning emissions from emissions-intensive, trade-exposed facilities under the climate commitment act.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning the regulated sports wagering industry.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning taxes administered by the department of revenue.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning statutory establishment of the governor's office of Indian affairs.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning driver privacy protections.

Last action: Effective date 3/30/2026.

Concerning the responsibility of certain counties to include freight rail dependent use overlay as part of the transportation element of their comprehensive plan.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning tribal consultation conducted by the energy facility site evaluation council.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Modifying shared leave provisions to authorize shared leave for victims of a hate crime and those whose absence is due to immigration enforcement actions against the employee or the employee's relative.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning climate commitment act compliance obligations for fuels supplied or otherwise sold into Washington.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning immigrant worker protections.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026*.

Establishing a statewide low-income energy assistance program.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Increasing transparency and consumer protection in water system rates.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning rental property disclosures of flooding history and flood risk.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Revised for 2nd substitute: Modifying certain funding and exemptions related to providing and maintaining affordable housing and related services.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning residential development in commercial and mixed-use zones.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning permit review processes.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Encouraging permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, indoor emergency housing, and indoor emergency shelters.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Establishing limitations on detached accessory dwelling units outside of urban growth areas.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Establishing an abortion savings program.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026*.

Ensuring access to voting services for military, overseas, Native American, and disabled voters.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Revised for 2nd substitute: Concerning the 340B drug pricing program.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning protection of the voter registration database.

Last action: Effective date 3/25/2026.

Adding an additional superior court judge in Skagit county and in Yakima county.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning the wrongly convicted persons act.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Revised for 1st substitute: Addressing student use of mobile devices in public schools.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Revised for 1st substitute: Concerning sexually explicit depictions of minors.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Strengthening health care market standards.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Providing local governments tax resources and fund flexibility.

Last action: Effective date 7/1/2026*.

Establishing a pilot program for posttraumatic stress disorder treatment and research.

Last action: Effective date 7/1/2026*.

Concerning climate commitment act accounts.

Last action: Effective date 7/1/2027.

Creating guidelines for voter suppression and vote dilution claims under the Washington voting rights act.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning compliance with the Washington voting rights act of 2018.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Establishing funding for community preservation and development authorities approved through RCW 43.167.060.

Last action: Effective date 3/25/2026.

Advancing transportation electrification by expanding access to electric vehicles already being sold in Washington and increasing associated funding.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026*.

Revised for engrossed: Undoing certain changes to the estate tax.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning on-site wastewater treatment system inspections.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Protecting the clinical autonomy of audiologists.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning renters' and mobile home occupants' ability to install portable cooling devices.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Enforcing plumbing contractor requirements.

Last action: Effective date 1/1/2027.

Concerning the department of labor and industries' authority to enact rules related to regulating asbestos training.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Streamlining consumer-owned utility procurement requirements for clean energy generation, energy storage, transmission, and distribution projects.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning school district transportation vehicle funds.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Adding discretion to wage enforcement actions.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning unreasonable restrictions on wildfire home hardening practices in common interest communities.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Updating provisions for consumer-owned utilities, including port districts, and affected market customers under the clean energy transformation act.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning the preservation and inspection of state historical records.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning access to medical care in workers' compensation.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026*.

Revised for 1st substitute: Concerning guardianship, conservatorship, and other protective arrangements for adults.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Ensuring access to state benefits and opportunities for veterans, uniformed service members, and military spouses.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Establishing network adequacy standards for skilled nursing facilities and rehabilitation hospitals.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Clarifying consumer protections regarding unsolicited real estate transactions for public purposes or by nonprofit land conservancies.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Ensuring that unhoused children and youths in Washington have equal access to free, appropriate public education.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning county ferry district authority.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning inmate funds.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning the sale and distribution of nitrous oxide.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Clarifying the scope of authority of the office of independent investigations to align with current operations and practices and to include public disclosure requirements and protect privacy.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Ending probates for profit.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Expanding access to albuterol in public and private schools.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning the regulation of firearm manufacturing.

Last action: Effective date 3/24/2026*.

Concerning veterinarian-client-patient relationships.

Last action: Effective date 7/1/2027.

Providing Washingtonians and their loved ones with location choices for interment of remains.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026*.

Revised for 1st substitute: Regulating artificial intelligence companion chatbots.

Last action: Effective date 1/1/2027.

Concerning medically tailored meals.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning defective license plates issued by the department of licensing.

Last action: Effective date 1/1/2027.

Concerning personnel for ambulance service interfacility specialty care transports.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Requiring public employers under chapter 41.80 RCW to provide employee information to exclusive bargaining representatives.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Amending the definition of timberland for purposes of determining the real estate excise tax for a governmental entity.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Establishing the court unification task force.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning school districts' authority to contract indebtedness for school construction.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Addressing restraint or isolation of students in public schools and educational programs.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Authorizing multiple liquor licensees to have licensed premises within a facility owned and leased out by another liquor licensee or person.

Last action: Chapter 196, 2026 Laws.

Modifying the snack bar liquor license.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning resale certificates for units in common interest communities.

Last action: Chapter 194, 2026 Laws.

Concerning the prepayment of capital gains taxes six months prior to the due date.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Using evidence-based instructional practices in reading and writing literacy for public elementary students.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Informing users when content is developed or modified by artificial intelligence.

Last action: Effective date 2/1/2027.

Allowing collective bargaining over contributions for certain supplemental retirement benefits.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Providing for enhanced municipal permitting tools for high capacity transit projects.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026*.

Modernizing the definition of motor fuel in the motor fuel quality act.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Addressing travel insurance.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026*.

Extending an existing hazardous substance tax exemption for certain agricultural crop protection products that are temporarily warehoused but not otherwise used, manufactured, packaged, or sold in the state of Washington.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning property tax reform.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Promoting transparency in certain industrial insurance rate increases.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning notice to striking workers applying for unemployment insurance benefits of potential overpayment assessment upon receipt of retroactive wages.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Addressing electric-assisted bicycles and electric motorcycles.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026*.

Revised for 2nd substitute: Reducing duplication between high school and beyond plans and individualized education program transition plans.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning the foreclosure prevention fee.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Modernizing and clarifying timely payment requirements for health carriers.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026*.

Concerning the definition of a "qualifying discharge" for the Washington state veterans' preference program for civil service.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Making improvements to transparency and accountability in the prior authorization determination process.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026*.

Improving school safety by extending penalties for interference by, or intimidation by threat of, force or violence at schools and extracurricular activities and requiring schools to notify the public of such penalties.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Revised for 1st substitute: Establishing a pilot program that creates a pathway to physician licensure for international medical graduates.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning elevator standards in smaller apartment buildings.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Modifying requirements for service of unlawful detainer notices and other notices served in the same manner.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Reducing certain reporting obligations under environmental or energy laws.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning the community reinvestment program.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026*.

Concerning language accessible public programs, activities, and services conducted, operated, or administered by state agencies.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning collective bargaining for employees not covered by the national labor relations act.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning local tax increment financing.

Last action: Effective date 6/2/2026.

Concerning the medicaid access program.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Increasing regulatory oversight of continuing care retirement communities.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026*.

Revised for 1st substitute: Concerning the regulation of nursing. (CORRECTED COPY)

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026*.

Adjusting the price of a cash transaction to eliminate the need for pennies.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Expanding the use of distributed energy resources.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Modifying the Washington commercial electronic mail act.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for workers separated from employment as a result of employer-initiated layoffs or workforce reductions.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning the professional engineers' registration act.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Updating the role of the Washington traffic safety commission in identifying the risk factors that lead to roadway fatalities.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Revised for engrossed: Concerning membership in the public employees' retirement system for port workers who participate in a federal railroad retirement plan.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026*.

Concerning court rules and procedures.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning the threshold for payment of a lump sum retirement allowance in lieu of a monthly benefit.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Supporting wildfire mitigation by modifying RCW 82.04.29005, concerning taxes on loan interest.

Last action: Effective date 7/1/2026.

Providing school districts and public schools with assistance to coordinate comprehensive behavioral health supports for students.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning inquiries into association governance or operations by unit owners in common interest communities.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning utility connection charge waivers.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Protecting patients involved in motor vehicle accidents from delayed ambulance bills.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Prohibiting noncompetition agreements and clarifying nonsolicitation agreements.

Last action: Effective date 6/30/2027.

Establishing a child care workforce standards board.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Revised for engrossed: Allowing payments to be made for services provided by any rural hospital that is located on a federally recognized Indian reservation.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Adjusting monetary limits regarding contracting rules for state highway construction work and procurement.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Authorizing a narrow modification to indebtedness limits for select inland port districts to ensure continued eligibility for federal funding for rail, power, and other critical public infrastructure improvements.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Revised for 2nd substitute: Establishing crash prevention zones.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning the completion of postsecondary financial aid applications.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Establishing the heritage orchard program.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Modifying requirements for service of rent increase notices.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Updating timber sale process efficiencies and adopting consistent language for the department's land sales.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning aviation assurance funding in response to wildland fires.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning targeted urban area tax preferences.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning the use of face coverings by law enforcement officers.

Last action: Effective date 3/19/2026.

Concerning false identification as a peace officer.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning misclassification in the finishing trades on public works projects.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Making payments for services provided by a rural emergency hospital subject to appropriation.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning the authority of court of appeals bailiffs to assess threats to court of appeals judicial officers and staff members.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Providing consumer access to safe cookware and interstate and international trade certainty in the regulation of lead in cookware.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning language access providers' collective bargaining.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning toxicology testing by certified or accredited laboratories.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026*.

Enacting the uniform consumer debt default judgments act.

Last action: Effective date 1/1/2027.

Revised for 2nd substitute: Concerning actions of the department of transportation to notify utility owners of projects and seek federal funding for utility relocation costs.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning paid family and medical leave rates.

Last action: Effective date 1/1/2028.

Concerning agencies, firefighters, prosecutors, and general or limited authority law enforcement, extending eligibility for employment to all United States citizens or persons legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law.

Last action: Effective date 3/18/2026.

Ensuring nonprofit housing providers qualify for a property tax exemption when the property is temporarily used for certain community purposes other than affordable housing.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026*.

Transferring ownership of a vehicle to an insurer under certain circumstances.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Concerning firearms background check.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026*.

Exempting certain former foster care providers from adult family home licensure.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Addressing the removal of vehicles by certain cities when obstructing the operation of streetcar vehicles or jeopardizing public safety.

Last action: Effective date 3/18/2026.

Supporting children and youth behavioral health.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Improving efficiency in appeals to the pollution control hearings board.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.

Increasing small works roster contract limits.

Last action: Effective date 6/11/2026.