Final
Summary of Legislation
Passed by the
Washington State Legislature
2024 Regular Legislative Session
Prepared by:
Office of Program Research
Washington State House of Representatives
Office of Program Research
Nonpartisan Member and Committee Services
John L. O'Brien Building, 2nd Floor, P.O. Box 40600, Olympia, WA 98504-0600
April 4
, 2024
Members of the House of Representatives:
I am pleased to send you the final end-of-session report prepared by the House of
Representatives’ Office of Program Research.
This "Summary of Legislation Passed by the Washington State Legislature" summarizes all of the
bills that passed the Legislature during the 2024 Regular Session. This version includes information
regarding any bills that were partially vetoed by the Governor.
The "Legislative Budget Notes" for 2024 will be available online at
https://fiscal.wa.gov/statebudgets/LBNs when complete. This publication will contain summary
and detail information about enacted operating, transportation, and capital budgets.
If you have any questions about bills or budgets, please feel free to contact committee staff. For
your convenience, a committee phone list is included in the report.
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Standing Committees
Agriculture & Natural Resources ........................................................................................ (360) 786-7339
Appropriations .................................................................................................................... (360) 786-7154
Capital Budget ..................................................................................................................... (360) 786-7116
Civil Rights & Judiciary ........................................................................................................ (360) 786-7180
Community Safety, Justice, & Reentry ................................................................................ (360) 786-7388
Consumer Protection & Business ........................................................................................ (360) 786-7304
Education ............................................................................................................................ (360) 786-7386
Environment & Energy ........................................................................................................ (360) 786-7114
Finance ................................................................................................................................ (360) 786-7152
Health Care & Wellness ...................................................................................................... (360) 786-7120
Housing ............................................................................................................................... (360) 786-7150
Human Services, Youth, & Early Learning ........................................................................... (360) 786-7146
Innovation, Community & Economic Development, & Veterans ...................................... (360) 786-7067
Labor & Workplace Standards ............................................................................................ (360) 786-7384
Local Government ............................................................................................................... (360) 786-7134
Postsecondary Education & Workforce ............................................................................. (360) 786-7068
Regulated Substances & Gaming ........................................................................................ (360) 786-7127
State Government & Tribal Relations ................................................................................. (360) 786-7124
Transportation .................................................................................................................... (360) 786-7145
Table of Contents
Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee ............................................................................................... 3
Appropriations Committee ........................................................................................................................... 7
Capital Budget Committee .......................................................................................................................... 12
Civil Rights & Judiciary Committee ............................................................................................................. 13
Community Safety, Justice, & Reentry Committee ..................................................................................... 20
Consumer Protection & Business Committee............................................................................................. 26
Education Committee ................................................................................................................................. 30
Environment & Energy Committee ............................................................................................................. 35
Finance Committee ..................................................................................................................................... 40
Health Care & Wellness Committee ........................................................................................................... 43
Housing Committee .................................................................................................................................... 52
Human Services, Youth, & Early Learning Committee ................................................................................ 55
Innovation, Community & Economic Development, & Veterans Committee ............................................ 59
Labor & Workplace Standards Committee ................................................................................................. 61
Local Government Committee .................................................................................................................... 68
Postsecondary Education & Workforce Committee ................................................................................... 72
Regulated Substances & Gaming Committee ............................................................................................. 75
State Government & Tribal Relations Committee ...................................................................................... 77
Transportation Committee ......................................................................................................................... 83
Numerical Index ......................................................................................................................................... 87
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Key to Status
Status indicates the final status of the bill.
Abbreviations include
C 2 L 24
Chapter 2, Laws of 2024. This is where the bill will be found in
the Session Laws of the State of Washington, which is compiled
annually.
Partial Veto
Partially vetoed by the Governor.
S Filed Sec/St
Filed with the Secretary of State.
This report includes all House and Senate bills that passed the Legislature. The bills are listed according
to the House Committee to which they were initially referred. If a bill was not referred to a House
Committee, the bill is included in the list for the committee to which the bill likely would have been
referred. A numerical index of bills is located at the end of the report.
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AGRICULTURE & NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE
(360) 786-7339
HB 1153
Octopus Farming
Sponsors: Peterson, Fitzgibbon, Berry
Final Status: C 45 L 24
Prohibits octopus farming.
HB 1226
Smelt, Crawfish, & Carp
Sponsors: Chapman, Fitzgibbon
Final Status: C 77 L 24
Provides that a recreational fishing or shellfish license is required to fish for carp, smelt, and
crawfish, with certain exceptions.
HB 1752
Water/Consumptive Quality
Sponsors: Dye, Dent, Graham
Final Status: C 108 L 24
Authorizes, upon application and approval, a change in the number of acres that may be
irrigated with water rights held by the United States Bureau of Reclamation for water use within
the boundaries of the Columbia Basin Project, so long as certain criteria are met.
SHB 1919
Private Moorage/Abandonment
Sponsors: Bronoske, Corry, Leavitt
Final Status: C 110 L 24
Removes the obligation to publish notice in a newspaper before a private moorage operator may
sell an abandoned vessel for failure to pay moorage fees. Reduces, from 90 days to 45 days, the
amount of notice that a private moorage operator must provide to a vessel owner before a
vessel may be sold for failure to pay moorage fees. Changes the statute of limitations, from 60
days to 40 days, to challenge the impoundment of a vessel by a private moorage facility.
SHB 2045
Adopt A Fish Barrier Program
Sponsors: Waters, Chapman, Timmons
Final Status: C 227 L 24
Authorizes the Department of Transportation (DOT) and local governments to enact "Adopt a
Fish Passage" programs. Requires the DOT and local governments to coordinate with the
Recreation and Conservation Office on several aspects of Adopt a Fish Passage programs.
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SHB 2147
Agriculture Pests & Diseases
Sponsors: Dent, Chapman, Schmick
Final Status: C 228 L 24
Creates the Agricultural Pest and Disease Response Account. Modifies the procedure for
appointing emergency advisory committee members. Requires the Director of the Department
of Agriculture to evaluate emergency measures taken at least once every 60
days instead of once
every 10 days.
SHB 2165
Recreational Use Fees
Sponsors: Kloba, Waters, Reeves
Final Status: C 18 L 24
Provides that any fees for permits or licenses issued by the Department of Natural Resources for
an organized event or commercial use is not considered a fee for the purposes of the
recreational immunity statute.
SHB 2293
Avian Predation/Salmon
Sponsors: Wilcox, Chapman, Kretz
Final Status: C 72 L 24
Creates an Avian Salmon Predation Work Group.
SHB 2424
State-Tribe Cooperative/Wildlife
Sponsors: Kretz, Lekanoff, Springer
Final Status: C 260 L 24
Requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife to engage in consultation with the Confederated
Tribes of the Colville Reservation to update wildlife management strategies in the region of
North Central Washington that was formerly the north half of the Colville Reservation.
2ESSB 5150
Beef Commission
Sponsors: Shewmake
Final Status: C 155 L 24
Increases, incrementally, the Beef Commission's (Commission) levied assessment on Washington
cattle until 2026, with certain exceptions. Allows cattle producers and owners to request a
refund of a certain portion of the assessment. Authorizes the Commission to fund, conduct, or
otherwise participate in scientific research related to beef.
SSB 5306
WDFW Disease Interdiction
Sponsors: Short, Van De Wege, Nobles
Final Status: C 318 L 24
Authorizes the Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish voluntary disease interdiction and
control check stations.
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SSB 5667
Forestry Riparian Easements
Sponsors: Muzzall, Van De Wege, Short
Final Status: C 158 L 24
Reduces the duration of easements under the Forestry Riparian Easement Program from 50
years to 40 years. Increases the dollar amount the Small Forest Landowner Office must offer a
small forest landowner from 50 percent to 90 percent of the value of qualifying
timber. Increases the cap on payments for qualifying timber on potentially unstable slopes or
landforms from $50,000 to $150,000.
2SSB 5784
Deer & Elk Crop Damage
Sponsors: Van De Wege, Muzzall, Mullet
Final Status: C 264 L 24 Partial Veto
Increases the total annual compensation limit for deer or elk-caused commercial crop damage
claims paid from the State General Fund. Increases the compensation limit for an individual
damage claim. Establishes a limit for an appeal of a decision of the Department of Fish and
Wildlife (WDFW) on an individual damage claim. Creates a three-year pilot program at the
WDFW to collar and monitor elk in South Central Washington. Requires the WDFW to review
damage compensation programs in other states and submit recommendations to the Legislature
by December 1, 2024.
Partial Veto Summary:
Vetoes the section creating the pilot program to collar and monitor elk. (See veto message).
SSB 5785
WDFW/Volunteer Organizations
Sponsors: Warnick, Shewmake, Liias
Final Status: C 160 L 24
Authorizes the Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) to enter into cooperative agreements
with nonprofit and volunteer organizations to carry out activities benefitting WDFW-managed
lands.
SB 5799
Sale of Halal Foods
Sponsors: Wilson, C., Trudeau, Dhingra
Final Status: C 245 L 24
Prohibits a person from knowingly misrepresenting a food product for sale as halal and makes
such action a violation of the Consumer Protection Act.
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SSB 5972
Neonicotinoid Pesticides
Sponsors: Liias, Van De Wege, Billig
Final Status: C 338 L 24
Prohibits a person from using neonicotinoid insecticides on nonproduction outdoor ornamental
plants, trees, and turf, beginning January 1, 2026, with exceptions. Allows the Director of the
Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) to authorize the use of neonicotinoid
insecticides upon identification of an urgent pest threat. Requires the WSDA to review and
update rules related to neonicotinoid insecticides by June 30, 2025, and every four years
thereafter.
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APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE
(360) 786-7154
ESHB 1248
Student Transportation - Employee Benefits
Sponsors: Stonier, Harris, Senn
Final Status: C 313 L 24
Directs school district contracts for student transportation services to require the contracting
employer to provide health benefits and pension contributions equivalent to those of school
district classified employees. Provides supplemental allocations to districts that demonstrate
higher costs because of the new contract requirements, subject to appropriations.
SHB 1851
First Approach Skills Training Program
Sponsors: Callan, Macri, Bergquist
Final Status: C 358 L 24
Adds the First Approach Skills Training program to the funding model for the Partnership Access
Line and Psychiatry Consultation Line programs.
HB 1983
Criminal Justice Treatment Account
Sponsors: Simmons, Goodman, Reed
Final Status: C 179 L 24
Revises the allowable uses of the Criminal Justice Treatment Account to include the provision of
services to individuals for 180 days following graduation from drug court programs.
SHB 1985
PERS & TRS 1 Benefit Increase
Sponsors: Timmons, Leavitt, Fitzgibbon
Final Status: C 255 L 24
Provides a one-time 3 percent benefit increase to retirees in the Public Employees' Retirement
System and the Teachers' Retirement System Plan 1, up to $110 per month.
SHB 2180
Special Education Funding Cap
Sponsors: Callan, Bergquist, Reed
Final Status: C 229 L 24
Increases the enrollment limit for special education excess cost funding from 15 percent to 16
percent. Requires the State Auditor to conduct a review of the prevalence of disabilities.
ESHB 2441
College in the High School Fees
Sponsors: Corry, Slatter, Stokesbary
Final Status: C 240 L 24
Establishes a pilot program for a private not-for-profit institution to offer College in the High
School courses for free to students.
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HB 2481
PEBB - Month of Death
Sponsors: Volz, Bergquist, Robertson
Final Status: C 185 L 24
Waives the requirement for a retiree to pay the monthly premium for a Public Employees'
Benefits Board health coverage program during the retiree's month of death.
ESHB 2494
School Operating Costs
Sponsors: Bergquist, Rude, Simmons
Final Status: C 262 L 24
Increases per pupil amounts for materials, supplies, and operating costs in state prototypical
school funding formulas beginning in the 2023-24 school year.
SSB 5802
Nursing Facility Rate Calculation
Sponsors: Muzzall, Hasegawa, Lovelett
Final Status: C 246 L 24
Requires, subject to appropriations, the Department of Social and Health Services to implement a
method for adjusting the case mix part of the Medicaid Skilled Nursing Facility rate based on data
from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
SB 5881
PERS - Certain Bus Drivers
Sponsors: MacEwen, Conway, Robinson
Final Status: C 247 L 24
Excludes individuals newly employed by Public Transportation Benefit Areas as part-time bus
drivers serving naval shipyards from membership in the Public Employees' Retirement
System. Limits the exclusion of part-time bus drivers to those employed on a full-time basis with
an employer of the federal government and making contributions to the Federal Employees'
Retirement System.
2SSB 5882
Prototypical School Staffing Allocations
Sponsors: Stanford, Wellman, Hunt
Final Status: C 191 L 24
Increases staff allocations for paraeducators, office support staff, and noninstructional aides in
the prototypical school funding model beginning in the 2023-24 school year. Directs the
Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop rules to require school districts to use the
additional funding to support increased staffing, prevent layoffs, or increase salaries for those
staff types in the 2024-25 school year.
ESB 5906
Drug Overdose Prevention Campaign
Sponsors: Wilson, L., Dozier, Gildon
Final Status: C 216 L 24
Requires the Department of Health to develop and maintain a drug overdose prevention
campaign.
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ESSB 5950
Operating Budget, Supplemental
Sponsors: Robinson, Nobles, Trudeau
Final Status: C 376 L 24 Partial Veto
Makes supplemental changes to operating budget appropriations for the 2023-25 biennium (see
http://leap.leg.wa.gov for additional information).
Partial Veto Summary:
Vetoes several items in the supplemental operating budget. (See veto message).
SB 6080
Statewide Tourism Marketing Account
Sponsors: Boehnke, Dozier, Mullet
Final Status: C 130 L 24
Eliminates the requirement for the Legislature to authorize deposits into the Statewide Tourism
Marketing Account in the operating budget.
ESB 6087
Fire Service Training Account
Sponsors: King, Lovick, Mullet
Final Status: C 279 L 24
Increases the percentage of fire insurance premium taxes that are deposited into the Fire Service
Training Account from 20 percent to 22 percent.
SB 6094
PEBB - Health Subsidy for Retirees
Sponsors: Robinson
Final Status: C 197 L 24
Expands uses of the retiree drug subsidy available to certain retired public employees to include
both medical and prescription drug premiums. Removes language authorizing the Health Care
Authority to establish a separate subsidy to reduce the premiums for Medicare supplements.
ESB 6098
Accounts
Sponsors: Robinson, Nguyen
Final Status: C 168 L 24
Eliminates certain inactive accounts. Makes the Department of Commerce responsible for
authorizing expenditures from the Down Payment Assistance Account. Creates the Fern Lodge
Maintenance Account, the Family Medicine Workforce Development Account, the Inflation
Reduction Elective Pay Account, the Stadium World Cup Capital Account, and the Clean Fuels
Credit Account.
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SSB 6099
Tribal Opioid Prevention and Treatment Account
Sponsors: Braun, Kauffman, Mullet
Final Status: C 210 L 24
Creates the Tribal Opioid Prevention and Treatment Account in the custody of the State Treasurer
(Treasurer) for addressing the impact of the opioid epidemic in tribal communities. Directs the
Treasurer to make annual transfers from the Opioid Abatement Settlement Account to the Tribal
Opioid Prevention and Treatment Account beginning in July 2025, subject to some
limitations. Establishes the annual transfer amount through fiscal year 2031 to be the greater of
$7.75 million or 20 percent of settlement receipts and moneys deposited into the Opioid
Abatement Settlement Account over the prior fiscal year and then 20 percent thereafter.
SSB 6100
Budget Stabilization Account - Fire Suppression Costs
Sponsors: Robinson, Nguyen
Final Status: C 198 L 24
Appropriates $21,143,000 from the Budget Stabilization Account for fire suppression costs
incurred by the Department of Natural Resources during the 2023 fire season.
SSB 6106
PSERS - DSHS Workers
Sponsors: Conway, Keiser, Robinson
Final Status: C 359 L 24
Provides membership in the Public Safety Employees' Retirement System for employees of
eligible employers at institutions or residential sites that serve civilly committed residents, or
serve patients committed under not guilty by reason of insanity findings.
SSB 6197
LEOFF Plan 2
Sponsors: Holy, Conway, Van De Wege
Final Status: C 304 L 24
Eliminates the statute of limitations for Law Enforcement Officers' and Firefighters' Retirement
System Plan 2 (LEOFF 2) special death benefit claims. Expands the definition of firefighter for
LEOFF 2 to include personnel serving in positions that necessitate experience as a firefighter to
perform the essential functions of those positions. Assigns liability for pension overpayments in
LEOFF 2 to employers if due to an employer error. Permits disabled LEOFF 2 members to reapply
for a line-of-duty disability retirement benefit for posttraumatic stress disorder that did not
qualify as an occupational disease when they became disabled. Exempts the deputy director and
research and policy analysts employed by the LEOFF 2 Retirement Board (Board) from civil
service.
SB 6263
LEOFF - Firefighter Death Benefits
Sponsors: Wilson, L., Boehnke, Cleveland
Final Status: C 169 L 24
Increases the funeral benefit for firefighters covered by a pre-Law Enforcement Officers' and Fire
Fighters' Retirement System pension from $500 to $1,000.
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CAPITAL BUDGET COMMITTEE
(360) 786-7116
2ESHB 1282
Public Buildings - Reporting on Materials and Working Conditions
Sponsors: Duerr, Hackney, Berry
Final Status: C 344 L 24
Requires firms selected by state agencies and institutions of higher education for large
construction or building renovation contracts to report Environmental Product Declarations,
Health Product Declarations, working conditions, and other data. Directs the Department of
Commerce to continue development of a public database for reported data. Establishes a
technical work group.
SHB 2195
Early Learning Facilities
Sponsors: Callan, Eslick, Senn
Final Status: C 230 L 24
Removes the grant and loan award limits in the Early Learning Facilities (ELF) program. Prioritizes
applications for ELF construction, renovation, purchase, or repair grants or loans to facilities ready
for construction.
ESSB 5949
Capital Budget, Supplemental
Sponsors: Mullet, Schoesler
Final Status: C 375 L 24
Authorizes new capital appropriations of $1.3 billion in total funds, of which $130.6 million is
financed with state general obligation bonds.
ESSB 6040
Public Works - Prompt Payments
Sponsors: Valdez, Keiser, Conway
Final Status: C 276 L 24
Requires the Capital Projects Advisory Review Board to review whether certain provisions
requiring prompt payments in public works projects are meeting the needs of small businesses,
particularly women and minority-owned businesses.
SSB 6192
Construction Change Orders
Sponsors: King, Stanford, Mullet
Final Status: C 199 L 24
Extends certain requirements pertaining to change orders in public works to subcontractors,
suppliers, and most private construction projects, including requiring change orders to be issued
within 30 days of satisfactory completion of additional work. Requires contractors and
subcontractors to issue change orders to lower-tier subcontractors within 10 days of receipt of a
change order from the project owner or upper-tier contractor.
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CIVIL RIGHTS & JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
(360) 786-7180
2SHB 1205
Service By Publication/Dependency
Sponsors: Taylor, Reed, Senn
Final Status: C 312 L 24
Provides that in a child dependency or termination of parental rights proceeding, the petitioner,
rather than the court clerk, is responsible for publishing notice in a legal newspaper when notice
by publication is required.
HB 1455
Child Marriage
Sponsors: Stonier, Berry, Farivar
Final Status: C 10 L 24
Provides that a marriage in which either person is not at least 18 years old is void. Eliminates
provisions authorizing a court to waive the age requirement on a showing of necessity.
E2SHB 1618
Childhood Sexual Abuse/Statute of Limitations
Sponsors: Farivar, Simmons, Wylie
Final Status: C 253 L 24
Eliminates the statute of limitations in civil actions for injury suffered as a result of childhood
sexual abuse that occurs on or after June 6, 2024.
ESHB 1652
Child Support Pass Through
Sponsors: Taylor, Couture, Rule
Final Status: C 174 L 24
Requires that, after January 1, 2026, the Department of Social and Health Services pass through
to a family receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families all current child support collected
each month on behalf of the family.
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2SHB 1877
Behavioral Health/Tribes
Sponsors: Lekanoff, Stearns, Ortiz-Self
Final Status: C 209 L 24
Includes Indian tribes, Indian health care providers, and tribal entities in processes under the
Involuntary Treatment Act (ITA), including: providing tribes with notice and a limited right to
intervene when a tribal member is subject to ITA proceedings; requiring designated crisis
responders (DCRs) to collaborate with tribal law enforcement; and requiring behavioral health
service providers to accept tribal court orders. Requires the Health Care Authority (HCA) to
develop guidelines for culturally appropriate evaluations of American Indians and Alaska Natives
and consult with tribal governments on DCR protocols. Allows tribes to seek reimbursement from
the HCA for judicial costs of civil commitment proceedings. Allows tribal entities and Indian
health care providers to access mental health information and records of court proceedings for
specified purposes.
SHB 1903
Lost or Stolen Firearms
Sponsors: Berry, Taylor, Stonier
Final Status: C 286 L 24
Creates a civil infraction for the failure to report the loss or theft of a firearm to law enforcement
within 24 hours and requires local licensing authorities to provide firearms dealers with signage
related to the penalties for such a failure to report and for the unsafe storage of a firearm.
SHB 1911
Office of Public Defense
Sponsors: Taylor, Cheney, Ortiz-Self
Final Status: C 294 L 24
Specifies certain activities in which the Office of Public Defense may engage without violating the
prohibition on direct representation of clients.
HB 1958
Sexually Protective Devices
Sponsors: Berry, Orwall, Ryu
Final Status: C 254 L 24
Creates a civil cause of action for the nonconsensual removal of or tampering with a sexually
protective device, or for misleading a person into believing that a sexually protective device was
used. Prescribes penalties for violations, and requires the court to award costs and attorneys'
fees to a prevailing plaintiff.
SHB 1974
Disposing of Unclaimed Human Remains
Sponsors: Abbarno, Bronoske, Doglio
Final Status: C 57 L 24
Decreases the period after which a person or entity in lawful possession of human remains may
dispose of the remains if no relative or interested person directs a disposition to 45 days.
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HB 1992
Superior Court/Whatcom
Sponsors: Timmons, Lekanoff, Ramel
Final Status: C 112 L 24
Increases the number of statutorily authorized superior court judges in Whatcom County from
four to five.
ESHB 2021
Firearm Disposition
Sponsors: Senn, Walen, Berry
Final Status: C 287 L 24
Authorizes additional methods for local governments and law enforcement agencies to dispose of
forfeited firearms, and requires local governments that are using firearm buyback programs to
adopt procedures for the disposition of any firearm obtained through the program.
HB 2034
Court Reorganization Notices
Sponsors: Cheney, Taylor, Leavitt
Final Status: C 61 L 24
Requires municipalities and counties to provide notice to the Administrative Office of the Courts
prior to the creation or termination of municipal courts or agreements for court services.
SHB 2056
Supreme Court Bailiffs
Sponsors: Goodman, Cheney, Reeves
Final Status: C 303 L 24
Authorizes bailiffs of the Washington Supreme Court to conduct threat assessments for Supreme
Court justices and to receive criminal history information, including nonconviction data, for
purposes exclusively related to investigating any person making a threat against a justice.
SHB 2072
Antitrust Penalties
Sponsors: Farivar, Taylor, Ryu
Final Status: C 256 L 24
Revises the maximum civil penalties for violations of certain antitrust provisions of the Consumer
Protection Act to allow for a penalty of up to three times the unlawful gains or loss avoided as a
result of each violation.
EHB 2088
Crisis Teams/Liability
Sponsors: Orwall, Reed, Ormsby
Final Status: C 370 L 24
Provides specified entities and personnel with immunity from civil liability for negligent acts and
omissions while providing: (1) certain crisis care services if qualifying conditions are satisfied; and
(2) transportation of patients to specified services.
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ESHB 2118
Firearms Dealers
Sponsors: Walen, Berry, Senn
Final Status: C 288 L 24
Requires most firearm dealers to meet specified employment, security, surveillance, storage,
insurance, and law enforcement response and reporting requirements. Authorizes law
enforcement agencies to investigate violations of dealer licensing conditions.
HB 2213
Defects & Omissions
Sponsors: Cheney, Taylor, Duerr
Final Status: C 232 L 24
Amends or repeals several statutes that have been identified by the Washington Supreme Court
and superior court judges as containing defects or omissions.
SSB 5427
Hate Crimes & Bias Incidents
Sponsors: Valdez, Billig, Cleveland
Final Status: C 299 L 24
Requires the Attorney General's Office to oversee a hotline to assist people who have been
targeted or affected by hate crimes and bias incidents. Establishes referral and reporting
requirements, and protections for personal identifying information.
2SSB 5444
Firearms/Certain Premises
Sponsors: Valdez, Hunt, Kuderer
Final Status: C 285 L 24
Prohibits knowing possession or control of a weapon on the premises of libraries, zoos,
aquariums, and transit stations and facilities, subject to specified exceptions.
ESSB 5589
Probate/Family Award
Sponsors: Stanford
Final Status: C 20 L 24
Modifies the family award available to a decedent's surviving spouse or domestic partner and
dependent children, and the process for increasing or decreasing the amount of the
award. Clarifies the priority of awarded property over other claims against the estate and the
exemptions from attachment, execution, and forced sale that apply after a decedent's death.
2SSB 5660
Mental Health Advance Directives
Sponsors: Boehnke, Dhingra, Saldaña
Final Status: C 374 L 24
Directs the Health Care Authority to convene a work group to make recommendations for
effective implementation of mental health advance directives.
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2SSB 5780
Public Defense & Prosecution
Sponsors: Torres, Dhingra, Padden
Final Status: C 293 L 24
Requires the Office of Public Defense (OPD) to administer a law student rural defense program
and the Criminal Justice Training Commission (CJTC) to administer a law student rural prosecution
program. Requires the OPD to expand the capacity of the Criminal Defense Training Academy
program to train practitioners new to public defense, and the CJTC to provide trial skills training
for practitioners new to prosecution.
SSB 5786
Business Corporations
Sponsors: Pedersen, Padden, Mullet
Final Status: C 22 L 24
Replaces the chapter on mergers and share exchanges in the Washington Business Corporation
Act (WBCA) with a new chapter that substantially mirrors provisions in the current version of the
Model Business Corporation Act (MBCA). Makes various changes to conform the WBCA with the
MBCA.
SSB 5787
Electronic Estate Planning
Sponsors: Pedersen, Padden, Mullet
Final Status: C 188 L 24
Adopts the Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act to establish guidelines for the
optional use of electronic nontestamentary estate planning documents and electronic signatures
on such documents.
ESSB 5788
Service Animal Training
Sponsors: Pedersen, Wagoner, Kuderer
Final Status: C 161 L 24
Prohibits places of public accommodation from denying a service animal trainer the right to be
accompanied by a service animal trainee in any area open to the public or business
invitees. Establishes rights and requirements for places of public accommodation regarding
service animals and service animal trainees. Prohibits misrepresentation of an animal as a service
animal trainee.
SB 5805
Dependency/Attorney Appointment
Sponsors: Frame, Boehnke, Kuderer
Final Status: C 25 L 24
Extends by one year the schedule for full statewide implementation of the right to appointed
counsel for children and youth in dependency proceedings. Limits the number of additional
dependent children for whom representation will be made available to no more than 1,250 per
calendar year.
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2SSB 5825
Guardianship
Sponsors: Pedersen, Padden
Final Status: C 267 L 24
Requires the Office of Public Guardianship (OPG) to contract with public and private entities to
provide decision-making assistance services, prioritizing certain adults who are receiving care in a
hospital. Requires the OPG to submit annual reports to the Legislature. Makes various revisions
throughout the Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act.
ESSB 5828
Water Adjudication Commissioners & Referees
Sponsors: Shewmake, Lovelett, Dhingra
Final Status: C 268 L 24
Authorizes superior courts to appoint commissioners for water rights adjudications and specifies
the powers of water commissioners. Authorizes the appointment of water adjudication referees
without consent of the parties.
SB 5836
Clark County Superior Court
Sponsors: Wilson, L., Cleveland, Dhingra
Final Status: C 125 L 24
Increases the number of statutorily authorized superior court judges in Clark County from 11 to
12.
SB 5842
Child Support/SSN Use
Sponsors: Kuderer, Frame, Dhingra
Final Status: C 126 L 24
Requires the Division of Child Support to minimize the use of an insurance claimant's social
security number when determining whether the claimant owes past-due child support.
ESSB 5985
Firearms Background Checks
Sponsors: Hansen, Dhingra, Frame
Final Status: C 289 L 24
Updates references related to firearms background checks to refer to the Washington State Patrol
Firearms Background Check Program.
E2SSB 6068
Dependency Outcome Reporting
Sponsors: Boehnke, Wilson, C.
Final Status: C 326 L 24
Requires the Administrative Office of the Courts to identify measures of relational permanency
and child well-being and report specified information to the Legislature by July 1, 2025.
SB 6222
District Court Judges
Sponsors: Wagoner, Dhingra, Lovick
Final Status: C 103 L 24
Authorizes a county legislative authority, rather than the Legislature, to increase the number of
district court judges in the county.
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SSB 6227
Protection Order/Insanity
Sponsors: Dhingra, Cleveland, Hasegawa
Final Status: C 137 L 24
Authorizes a court to issue a separate no-contact order to protect a victim when a person who is
found not guilty by reason of insanity is committed for a period of inpatient treatment or placed
on conditional release. Establishes criminal penalties for violation of a no-contact order, and
requires clerks to forward no-contact orders to law enforcement for entry in the state database
used for listing outstanding warrants.
ESB 6246
Firearm Information/Mental Health
Sponsors: Dhingra, Kuderer, Nobles
Final Status: C 290 L 24
Prohibits a person from possessing firearms if felony charges against the person are dismissed
based on incompetency to stand trial, and establishes a criminal penalty for a violation. Requires
a court to send information relating to a person who is prohibited from possessing firearms based
on a civil or forensic commitment or detention to the county prosecutor's office. Provides that a
court may not restore a petitioner's right to possess firearms lost based on a civil or forensic
commitment or detention if the petitioner is subject to an extreme risk protection order or an
order to surrender and prohibit weapons. Revises provisions governing disclosure of information
by mental health service agencies.
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COMMUNITY SAFETY, JUSTICE, & REENTRY COMMITTEE
(360) 786-7388
SHB 1241
Harassment of Election Workers
Sponsors: Leavitt, Reeves, Reed
Final Status: C 292 L 24
Makes harassment of an election worker a class C felony and allows election workers who are
harassed to apply for the address confidentiality program.
ESHB 1300
Assisted Reproduction Fraud
Sponsors: Orwall, Mosbrucker, Graham
Final Status: C 220 L 24
Expands the offense of Assault in the third degree to include when a licensed health care provider
implants their own gametes or reproductive material into a patient during an assisted
reproduction procedure. Expands the list of unprofessional conduct under the Uniform
Disciplinary Act to include when a licensee implants their own gametes or reproductive material
into a patient.
ESHB 1493
Impaired Driving
Sponsors: Goodman
Final Status: C 306 L 24
Creates a new Drug Offender Sentencing Alternative for individuals convicted of felony impaired
driving offenses, and specifies eligibility, monitoring, and other requirements for the sentencing
alternative. Authorizes a person who participates in a deferred prosecution for a gross
misdemeanor driving under the influence (DUI) or actual physical control of a vehicle under the
influence (PC) charge to participate in a second deferred prosecution in specified circumstances
and provides that a second deferred prosecution for a DUI or PC offense counts as one point on a
defendant's offender score. Modifies requirements for participation in a deferred prosecution
depending on the nature of the petitioner's underlying problem. Modifies provisions relating to
ignition interlock licenses addressing probation violations and ignition interlock device restrictions
addressing physical disability waivers, self-employed drivers, and prior offenses. Extends the
period for reviewing prior convictions of impaired driving for determining whether the current
offense of impaired driving is a felony. Establishes requirements for the use of oral fluid roadside
tests and instruments used to enforce driving under the influence laws. Includes certain negligent
driving and reckless endangerment offenses in the definition of "serious traffic offense" and limits
the definition to circumstances involving a personal driver's license.
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HB 1530
Law Enforcement & Prosecuting Attorney Employment Eligibility
Sponsors: Cortes, Mena, Simmons
Final Status: C 11 L 24
Allows law enforcement agencies to consider applications of United States citizens or lawful
permanent residents for offices, places, positions, or employment. Specifies that deputy
prosecutors do not need to be qualified electors in the county in which they serve, but must be
United States citizens or lawful permanent residents.
HB 1635
Police Dogs
Sponsors: Mosbrucker, Walsh, Eslick
Final Status: C 305 L 24
Requires the Criminal Justice Training Commission to develop model standards for the training
and certification of canine teams to detect fentanyl by July 1, 2025. Provides that a state or local
government or law enforcement agency is not strictly liable for damages resulting from the lawful
application of a police dog.
HB 1961
Animal Cruelty
Sponsors: Low, Walen, Leavitt
Final Status: C 55 L 24
Classifies Animal Cruelty in the first degree as a seriousness level III offense regardless of how it is
committed.
SHB 1999
Fabricated Intimate Images
Sponsors: Orwall, Leavitt, Ryu
Final Status: C 88 L 24
Expands certain criminal offenses to prohibit specific conduct involving sexually explicit fabricated
depictions of identifiable minors. Establishes the offense of Disclosing Fabricated Intimate
Images. Establishes a civil cause of action under the Uniform Civil Remedies for the Unauthorized
Disclosure of Intimate Images Act for the nonconsensual, intentional disclosure or threatened
disclosure of a fabricated intimate image.
SHB 2048
Domestic Violence & Supervision
Sponsors: Mosbrucker, Goodman, Graham
Final Status: C 63 L 24
Removes the requirement under the Sentencing Reform Act that domestic violence was "pleaded
and proven" in provisions regarding supervision of individuals convicted of specified domestic
violence offenses. Requires the Department of Corrections to conduct an audit of its supervisory
obligations for specified domestic violence offenses.
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2SHB 2084
Construction Training for Incarcerated Persons
Sponsors: Fosse, Low, Berry
Final Status: C 355 L 24
Requires the Office of the Corrections Ombuds to convene an oversight committee on
construction-related training programs in state correctional facilities. Requires the Department of
Corrections (DOC) to collect data on the employment outcomes of participants in such
programs. Requires the oversight committee and the DOC to submit certain reports to the
Legislature regarding the work of the oversight committee, and related data, findings, and
recommendations.
SHB 2086
Office of Independent Investigations
Sponsors: Entenman, Goodman, Fitzgibbon
Final Status: C 64 L 24
Modifies the Office of Independent Investigations' authority to obtain and share specified
information and adjusts certain reporting dates and deadlines.
HI 2113
Police Vehicular Pursuits
Sponsors: People of the State of Washington
Final Status: C 6 L 24
Modifies the evidentiary standard for vehicular pursuits by allowing a peace officer to conduct a
pursuit where there is reasonable suspicion a person has violated the law. Modifies the risk
assessment for vehicular pursuits by providing that an officer may not engage in a pursuit unless
the subject poses a threat to the safety of others.
ESHB 2303
Community Custody Conditions
Sponsors: Goodman, Simmons, Peterson
Final Status: C 118 L 24
Provides that the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board may modify or impose additional
conditions of community custody based on the person's crime of conviction, risk of reoffense, or
risk to community safety. Authorizes the court, on the motion of a person on community
custody, to amend the substantive conditions of community custody imposed by the court if
there has been a substantial change in circumstances such that the condition is no longer
necessary for community safety.
E2SHB 2311
First Responder Wellness
Sponsors: Davis, Maycumber, Paul
Final Status: C 295 L 24
Requires the Criminal Justice Training Commission to convene a task force on first responder
wellness, contract with certain entities to develop related trainings and resources, and establish a
grant program to provide funding for first responder peer support services. Modifies certain
statutory provisions regulating peer support services and the testimonial privilege for related
communications.
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ESSB 5424
Flexible Work for Peace Officers
Sponsors: Lovick, Holy, Dhingra
Final Status: C 319 L 24
Allows general and limited authority Washington law enforcement agencies to adopt flexible
work policies. Removes the requirement that an officer be employed full-time to be a general or
limited authority Washington peace officer. Modifies the definition of "law enforcement officer"
in the statutes relating to the Law Enforcement Officers' and Fire Fighters' Retirement System to
include officers employed less than full-time. Aligns the definitions of "reserve officer" and
"specially commissioned Washington peace officer" in the Washington Mutual Aid Peace Officers
Powers Act and the state law governing the Criminal Justice Training Commission.
SSB 5588
Mental Health Sentencing Alternative
Sponsors: Nobles, Wagoner, Dhingra
Final Status: C 373 L 24
Provides that, when a Mental Health Sentencing Alternative (MHSA) has been imposed, the court
or correctional facility may delay the defendant's release from total confinement to facilitate
adherence to the defendant's treatment plan. Permits the court to waive the requirement that
the Department of Corrections (DOC) and the treatment provider submit reports, prior to any
progress hearing for an MHSA, informing the parties of the defendant's progress and compliance
with treatment. Requires the Health Care Authority to reimburse for specified services provided
for individuals as part of the MHSA.
ESSB 5891
School Bus Trespass
Sponsors: Boehnke, Lovick, Keiser
Final Status: C 302 L 24
Creates the gross misdemeanor criminal offense of Trespass on a School Bus.
2SSB 5893
Resources for Incarcerated Persons
Sponsors: Wilson, C., Kuderer, Frame
Final Status: C 32 L 24
Requires the superintendents of state correctional facilities to supply incarcerated persons with
specified clothing, gate money, and transportation upon certain transfers from total confinement
to partial confinement or community custody. Requires the Department of Corrections to supply
furloughed prisoners with specified clothing, gate money, and transportation.
SSB 5917
Bias-Motivated Defacement
Sponsors: Billig, Dhingra, Pedersen
Final Status: C 34 L 24
Modifies the elements of a Hate Crime.
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E2SSB 5937
Crime Victims & Witnesses
Sponsors: Dhingra, Braun, Hasegawa
Final Status: C 297 L 24
Modifies the eligibility for benefits, reimbursement for travel, and state payment of forensic
examinations under the Crime Victims' Compensation Program. Expands the rights of victims,
survivors of victims, and witnesses of crimes. Expands the offense of Rape in the first degree and
removes the statute of limitations for Rape committed by first responders who use their position
to facilitate the commission of the offense. Provides for the confidentiality of a depiction of a
victim or a victim's genitals that results from a sexual assault medical forensic
examination. Establishes the Statewide Forensic Nurse Coordination Program. Grants minors age
13 or older the right to consent to forensic examinations related to sexual assault.
SB 5938
Community Parenting Alternative
Sponsors: Wilson, C., Lovelett, Frame
Final Status: C 193 L 24
Allows an incarcerated person participating in the Residential Parenting Program at the
Department of Corrections to serve up to the final 18 months of the person's term of
confinement in partial confinement through the Community Parenting Alternative.
SSB 5998
Nonfelony Conviction Vacation
Sponsors: Hansen, Billig, Dhingra
Final Status: C 296 L 24
Requires a person to satisfy all financial obligations before a court may vacate the person's
conviction for a qualifying misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor. Removes the requirement that a
person complete financial obligations before the specified waiting period that determines the
person's eligibility to vacate an applicable misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor may commence.
2SSB 6006
Victims of Human Trafficking & Sexual Abuse
Sponsors: Dhingra, Wagoner, Braun
Final Status: C 298 L 24
Modifies agency procedures relating to assessing, providing services, and reporting abuse or
neglect. Allows individuals to seek sexual assault protection orders where commercial sexual
exploitation is alleged. Modifies criminal and civil statutes of limitations relating to trafficking and
commercial sexual abuse of minor offenses. Modifies court procedures and disclosure
requirements for minor victims of specified crimes and permits certain victims access to benefits
under the Crime Victims Compensation Act. Modifies the crimes of Trafficking in the first and
second degrees and requires the State Auditor to conduct an audit of Trafficking fines
collected. Reestablishes the Commercially Sexually Exploited Children Statewide Coordinating
Committee.
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ESSB 6009
Hog-Tying
Sponsors: Trudeau, Lovick, Frame
Final Status: C 291 L 24
Prohibits peace officers from hog-tying a person or assisting in putting a person into a hog-
tie. Provides that hog-tying constitutes the use of excessive force for certain purposes.
SSB 6146
Tribal Warrants
Sponsors: Dhingra, Kauffman, Robinson
Final Status: C 207 L 24
Creates definitions for certified tribes and noncertified tribes and establishes different processes
for recognizing the arrest warrants of certified and noncertified tribes and transferring individuals
to tribal custody.
SSB 6186
Disclosures for Missing Person Investigations
Sponsors: Kauffman, Dhingra, Hasegawa
Final Status: C 208 L 24
Requires the Department of Social and Health Services or the Health Care Authority to disclose
whether a public assistance recipient who is reported missing has accessed their benefits, subject
to certain conditions.
SSB 6301
CJTC Donations
Sponsors: Lovick, Dhingra, Boehnke
Final Status: C 335 L 24
Authorizes the Criminal Justice Training Commission to accept any money or property donated,
devised, or bequeathed to it for the purpose of carrying out its statutory duties.
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CONSUMER PROTECTION & BUSINESS COMMITTEE
(360) 786-7304
ESHB 1097
Cosmetics Tested on Animals
Sponsors: Walen, Goodman, Leavitt
Final Status: C 107 L 24
Prohibits manufacturers from selling a cosmetic developed or manufactured using cosmetic
animal testing that was conducted or contracted for by the manufacturer or its supplier, subject
to exceptions. Establishes fines of up to $5,000 per violation.
SHB 1880
Architecture Licensing Exams
Sponsors: McClintock, Duerr, Ryu
Final Status: C 49 L 24
Eliminates the five-year rolling timeline for when architecture applicants must successfully pass
each section of their examination for registration.
SHB 1889
Professionals/Immigration
Sponsors: Walen, Taylor, Leavitt
Final Status: C 50 L 24
Provides eligibility for certain professional and commercial credentials for persons not lawfully
present in the United States, and permits credential applicants to provide an Individual Taxpayer
Identification Number in lieu of a Social Security Number.
HB 1920
Public Accountancy Act
Sponsors: Robertson, Reeves, Ryu
Final Status: C 13 L 24
Modifies licensing requirements for Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Firms and individual CPAs
including adding causes for which the Accountancy Board may revoke or non-renew a license.
SHB 1996
RV Manufacturers & Dealers
Sponsors: Robertson, Chapman, Graham
Final Status: C 87 L 24
Requires a dealer and a manufacturer or distributor to have a manufacturer/dealer agreement in
place before selling new recreational vehicle's (RVs) in Washington. Establishes provisions that
must be included in the manufacturer/dealer agreement. Establishes obligations for warrantors
of RVs and RV parts and accessories. Provides for civil dispute resolutions, mediation, and relief
for manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and warrantors injured by another party's violations.
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ESHB 2153
Catalytic Converter Theft
Sponsors: Ryu, Ormsby, Cheney
Final Status: C 301 L 24
Modifies the requirements for catalytic converter transactions to require a scrap processor or
vehicle wrecker license instead of a scrap metal license. Establishes new felony and gross
misdemeanor crimes for trafficking in, possessing, selling, or offering to sell catalytic converters,
or intentionally altering or obliterating the vehicle identification number on a detached catalytic
converter.
SHB 2156
Solar Consumer Protections
Sponsors: Reeves, Doglio, Pollet
Final Status: C 349 L 24
Requires a person to be a licensed electrical contractor to carry out certain business activities for
solar energy systems that cost more than $1,000. Requires a person who designs solar energy
systems that cost more than $1,000 to either be a licensed electrical contractor, architect, or
engineer. Requires all solar energy installation contracts to include various provisions, notices,
and disclosures. Provides for enforcement under the Consumer Protection Act.
SHB 2329
Insurance Market Study
Sponsors: Macri, Peterson, Alvarado
Final Status: C 74 L 24
Directs the Office of the Insurance Commissioner to study the property and liability coverages
available to specified housing providers.
SSB 5798
Insurance Notices
Sponsors: Kuderer, Shewmake, Hasegawa
Final Status: C 244 L 24
Extends the time period for providing written notice of cancellation or nonrenewal of insurance
policies, other than medical malpractice, private passenger automobile, and certain fire policies,
from 45 days to 60 days.
ESSB 5801
Special Deposits
Sponsors: Dozier, Pedersen, Hunt
Final Status: C 23 L 24
Establishes requirements and protections for special deposits. Establishes certain restrictions for
how special deposits are handled during a creditor process. Prohibits a bank from seeking a right
of recoupment or set off against a special deposit, except for specific exceptions.
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SSB 5806
Confidentiality of Insurance Information
Sponsors: Kuderer, Hunt, Dhingra
Final Status: C 123 L 24
Excludes from disclosure under the Public Records Act information provided to the Office of the
Insurance Commissioner (OIC) regarding emergencies and hazard mitigation, and data requested
by the OIC from regulated property and casualty entities for studying insurance market
conditions. Allows state agencies to receive confidential and privileged information from the OIC
if confidentiality is maintained.
E2SSB 5838
Artificial Intelligence Task Force
Sponsors: Nguyen, Conway, Dhingra
Final Status: C 163 L 24
Establishes a task force administered by the Office of the Attorney General to assess artificial
intelligence uses and trends, and make recommendations regarding the use and regulation of
artificial intelligence systems.
SSB 6025
Predatory Loans
Sponsors: Stanford, Dhingra, Frame
Final Status: C 249 L 24
Makes any attempt to evade the Consumer Loan Act (Act) a violation of the Act. Voids
nonresidential mortgage loans made by an unlicensed person who is subject to the Act.
SB 6027
Insurance Holding Companies
Sponsors: Stanford, Kuderer, Nobles
Final Status: C 42 L 24
Adopts the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' revisions to insurance holding
company model acts to require solvency calculations and tests at registration. Establishes
regulations protecting the confidentiality of solvency calculations and tests. Permits the
Insurance Commissioner to receive and share confidential and privileged documents and
information with third-party consultants if certain conditions are met.
ESSB 6069
Retirement Savings
Sponsors: Mullet, Valdez, Hunt
Final Status: C 327 L 24
Establishes Washington Saves, a state-facilitated automatic enrollment individual retirement
savings account program. Establishes a governing board to design, implement, and administer
Washington Saves. Permits an investment manager to invest the program funds, and establishes
regulations and procedures for confidentiality, complaints, appeals, violations, and civil penalties.
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EDUCATION COMMITTEE
(360) 786-7386
HB 1146
Dual Credit Program Notice
Sponsors: Paul, Steele, Ramel
Final Status: C 44 L 24
Requires public high schools to notify students and their parents about available dual credit
programs and any financial assistance available to reduce the cost of these programs.
3SHB 1228
Dual & Tribal Language Education
Sponsors: Ortiz-Self, Ybarra, Thai
Final Status: C 202 L 24
Establishes, subject to appropriation, grant programs for establishing or expanding dual language
education programs and tribal language education programs. Requires provision of literacy
supports in service of American Indian and Alaska Native students. Makes changes to
requirements related to the seal of biliteracy and the Transitional Bilingual Instruction
Program. Requires reports from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the
Professional Educator Standards Board, and the Paraeducator Board on specified topics.
E4SHB 1239
Education System Complaints, Educator Ethics & Educator Conduct
Sponsors: Santos, Kloba, Morgan
Final Status: C 219 L 24
Directs the Office of the Education Ombuds to create a simple and uniform access point for the
receipt of complaints involving the elementary and secondary education system. Requires public
schools and educational service districts to post a link to the complaint access point on their
websites. Requires the Professional Educator Standards Board and the Paraeducator Board to
report to the Legislature on a code of educator ethics. Changes the defense for use of force on
children with respect to teachers and other educators.
ESHB 1277
Paraeducator Course of Study
Sponsors: Donaghy, Harris, Slatter
Final Status: C 173 L 24
Directs the Paraeducator Board to update rules and publish guidance related to the fundamental
course of study. Requires a school district to provide to each paraeducator two days of the four-
day course in person by specified deadlines, unless the school district is granted an exemption.
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2ESHB 1377
Continuing Education Providers
Sponsors: Santos, Reed, Ortiz-Self
Final Status: C 221 L 24
Modifies and establishes requirements for providers of administrator and teacher continuing
education regarding equity-based school practices and the National Professional Standards for
Education Leaders. Requires education agencies to publicly post a list of approved experts on
government-to-government relationships with federally recognized tribes. Requires a report to
the Legislature on continuing education provider audits and the clock hour system.
ESHB 1608
Anaphylaxis Medications/Schools
Sponsors: Bronoske, Simmons, Duerr
Final Status: C 81 L 24
Requires the Secretary of Health or the Secretary's designee to issue a statewide standing order
prescribing epinephrine and epinephrine autoinjectors to any school district or school for use by a
school nurse or other designated trained school personnel. Includes additional provisions related
to permitting the use of epinephrine and epinephrine autoinjectors in schools and sanctioned
excursions.
HB 1879
Tribal Curriculum/John McCoy
Sponsors: Lekanoff, Santos, Ryu
Final Status: C 200 L 24
Names the curriculum used to teach public school students about tribal history, culture, and
government as the John McCoy (lulilaš) Since Time Immemorial curriculum.
E2SHB 1956
Substance Use Prevention and Awareness
Sponsors: Leavitt, Griffey, Ryu
Final Status: C 201 L 24
Directs the Department of Health to implement a statewide drug overdose prevention and
awareness campaign to address the drug overdose epidemic and report annually to the
Legislature about the campaign. Requires the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
(OSPI) to make available substance use prevention and awareness materials. Directs the OSPI to
refer to opioids in the state health and physical education learning standards for middle and high
school students.
HI 2081
Parental Rights/Schools
Sponsors: People of the State of Washington
Final Status: C 4 L 24
Declares 15 rights that parents and guardians of public school children have, including rights to
receive or be notified of academic, medical, safety, and law enforcement matters, rights to
examine certain materials and records, and rights to opt their children out of certain activities.
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HB 2110
High School Graduation/Nonsubstantive Revisions
Sponsors: Nance, Simmons, Callan
Final Status: C 66 L 24
Makes nonsubstantive revisions to provisions governing graduation requirements without
modifying the requirements or related school district and state agency duties and authorizations.
ESHB 2236
Career & Technical Education
Sponsors: Shavers, Santos, Reed
Final Status: C 234 L 24
Directs the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in collaboration with specified
entities, to develop an Allied Health Professions Career and Technical Education Program (Allied
Health Program).
Requires curriculum and instructional materials for the Allied Health Program to
be available for use beginning in the 2027-28 school year. Establishes a temporary Statewide
Career and Technical Education Task Force charged with recommendation and reporting duties.
ESHB 2331
Public School Materials
Sponsors: Stonier, Macri, Davis
Final Status: C 316 L 24
Establishes new requirements for school district boards of directors regarding educational
materials pertaining to individuals or groups that are part of a protected class. Requires
instructional materials committees to have at least one parent member and make
recommendations for culturally and experientially representative materials. Establishes new
requirements for written complaints about instructional materials and requested reviews of
supplemental instructional materials. Directs the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop
rules and guidelines related to instructional materials and to develop supplemental instructional
materials.
SHB 2335
State-Tribal Education Compacts
Sponsors: Santos, Lekanoff, Nance
Final Status: C 206 L 24
Allows exemptions to basic education requirements and certain compulsory coursework and
activities to be included in state-tribal education compacts. Requires the Superintendent of
Public Instruction to consult with the State Board of Education on certain provisions within new or
revised state-tribal education compacts.
SHB 2381
School Calendar Waivers
Sponsors: McEntire, Shavers, Chapman
Final Status: C 238 L 24
Increases the number of waivers that the Superintendent of Public Instruction may grant to
school districts for reducing the minimum number of school days required in a school year and
makes additional school districts eligible for the waivers.
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SB 5180
Out-Of-State Teachers
Sponsors: Hunt, Hawkins, Mullet
Final Status: C 317 L 24
Adopts the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact.
ESB 5462
Inclusive Learning Standards & Educational Materials
Sponsors: Liias, Wilson, C., Kuderer
Final Status: C 157 L 24
Establishes new requirements related to state learning standards for the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, including ensuring that the concepts of diversity, inclusion, and equity are
incorporated into new or revised standards, and posting information about revision schedules.
Requires the Washington State School Directors' Association to have a model policy and
procedure that obligates school districts and certain public schools to adopt inclusive curricula
and select instructional materials that meet specified requirements. Directs the Office of the
Superintendent of Public Instruction to create an open collection of educational resources for
inclusive curricula.
SB 5647
School Safety/Temporary Employees
Sponsors: Torres, Conway, King
Final Status: C 21 L 24
Requires school district safe school plans to include how substitute teachers and other temporary
employees will receive necessary information about safe school plans. Requires model safety
policies and other materials of the School Safety Center to include how substitute teachers and
other temporary employees will receive necessary information about school safety policies and
procedures.
E2SSB 5670
Running Start Eligibility
Sponsors: Hawkins, Randall, Holy
Final Status: C 159 L 24
Allows students who have completed the tenth grade to enroll in Running Start courses during
the summer before their eleventh grade year.
ESB 5790
Medical Equipment In Schools
Sponsors: Dhingra, Wellman, Kuderer
Final Status: C 365 L 24
Requires school districts, charter schools, and state-tribal education compact schools, beginning
in the 2026-27 school year, to have bleeding control equipment on each school campus.
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SSB 5804
Opioid Overdose Reversal Medication
Sponsors: Kuderer, Wellman, Dhingra
Final Status: C 214 L 24
Expands requirements to maintain opioid overdose reversal medication in each school, and to
adopt a related policy applicable to all school districts, charter schools, and state-tribal education
compact schools. Directs the Washington State School Directors' Association to update a model
policy on this topic. Makes available to all public schools a grant program for purchasing opioid
overdose reversal medication and training personnel to administer the medication.
SB 5852
Special Education Safety Net
Sponsors: Braun, Mullet, Short
Final Status: C 127 L 24
Modifies safety net award eligibility and award adjustment provisions. Requires that a simplified,
standardized safety net application be developed using feedback from small school districts.
SB 5883
Special Education Due Process Hearings
Sponsors: Trudeau, Braun, Dhingra
Final Status: C 29 L 24
Establishes burden of proof requirements for special education due process hearings.
SJM 8007
Federal Special Education Funding
Sponsors: Kauffman, Hasegawa, Hunt
Final Status: SFiled Sec/St
Requests the United States Congress and the President of the United States sign federal
legislation to fully fund 40 percent of the costs of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
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ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY COMMITTEE
(360) 786-7114
E2SHB 1185
Lighting Products
Sponsors: Hackney, Duerr, Berry
Final Status: C 339 L 24
Prohibits the sale of most mercury-containing lights beginning January 1, 2029. Extends the
existing product stewardship program for mercury-containing lights beyond its scheduled 2025
sunset until 2035 or an earlier date determined by the Department of Ecology. Provides for the
environmental handling charge applied to sales of mercury-containing lights through calendar
year 2028 to be set at an amount sufficient to fund stewardship program operations through
calendar year 2029, and requires legacy producers of mercury-containing light to directly fund the
stewardship organization after 2029. Makes other changes to the logistical and implementation
requirements for the mercury-containing light stewardship program, including changes to
convenience standards and the number of mercury-containing lights that a person may deliver to
collection sites each day.
E2SHB 1368
Zero Emission School Buses
Sponsors: Senn, Fey, Berry
Final Status: C 345 L 24
Requires the Department of Ecology to administer a Zero-Emission School Bus Grant Program,
and prioritize grants based on specified criteria.
Provides for new school buses acquired by school
districts or used in pupil transportation contracts to be zero emission after the total cost of
ownership is determined to be below the total cost of ownership of diesel buses, with
exceptions. Requires the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to survey school
districts regarding the adoption of zero-emission school buses.
2SHB 1551
Lead In Cookware
Sponsors: Pollet, Doglio, Fitzgibbon
Final Status: C 340 L 24
Restricts the manufacture, distribution, and sale of cookware containing lead at a level exceeding
5 parts per million (ppm). Authorizes the Department of Ecology (Ecology), in consultation with
the Department of Health, to lower the 5 ppm lead limit after 2034. Authorizes Ecology to adopt
rules and prescribes penalties for violations.
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ESHB 1589
Clean Energy
Sponsors: Doglio, Fitzgibbon, Berry
Final Status: C 351 L 24
Requires the Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) to adopt a consolidated planning
process for large combination utilities that combines existing gas and electric utility planning
processes. Requires large combination utilities to file an integrated system plan that meets
specified requirements. Requires the UTC to adopt a cost test for large combination utility
emissions reduction measures. Authorizes a large combination utility to seek a certificate of
necessity to make investments in electrical power generation and acquisition. Authorizes a large
combination utility to recover financing costs prior to the assets being considered used and useful
in certain situations. Requires the UTC to approve the depreciation of the gas plants of a large
combination utility by January 1, 2050. Authorizes the UTC to approve the merger of the electric
and gas rate bases of a large combination utility under certain circumstances. Requires that the
large combination utility certify that any work associated with a project costing more than $10
million will be constructed to include specified workforce-related requirements.
SHB 1924
Fusion Technology Policies
Sponsors: Shavers, Ryu, Barnard
Final Status: C 346 L 24
Directs the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council and the Department of Health to convene a
workgroup of state agencies to report on permitting, siting, licensing, and registration pathways
for producing fusion energy, with a report due December 1, 2024. Includes facilities that produce
electricity with fusion energy as clean energy projects that are eligible to apply to the Department
of Commerce for designation as a clean energy project of statewide significance. Requires the
state to support technologies like fusion energy in the context of the State Energy Strategy.
HB 1948
Electric Load Calculation
Sponsors: Ybarra, Fitzgibbon, Reed
Final Status: C 278 L 24
Specifies that voluntary renewable energy purchases by retail electric customers of electric
utilities do not count toward the overall calculation of that utility's load, for purposes of
determining the utility's renewable targets under the Energy Independence Act.
HB 1955
Greenhouse Gas Disclosures
Sponsors: Barnard, Doglio, Ramos
Final Status: C 83 L 24
Repeals the Clean Energy Transformation Act greenhouse gas content calculation and reporting
requirement for electric utilities.
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HB 1976
Incentives/Energy Upgrades
Sponsors: Fosse, Doglio, Fitzgibbon
Final Status: C 85 L 24
Permits the Department of Commerce to provide incentive payments greater than the base
incentive payment under the Early Adoption Incentive Program to owners of buildings that
comply with the State Energy Performance Standard.
ESHB 2039
Environmental & Land Use Appeals
Sponsors: Fitzgibbon, Ramel, Reed
Final Status: C 347 L 24
Modifies the process for direct review by the Court of Appeals for decisions issued by the
Pollution Control Hearings Board (PCHB) and the Shoreline Hearings Board (SHB) that relate to
clean energy projects. Makes permanent the current process for direct review by the Court of
Appeals for certain decisions issued by the PCHB, the SHB, and the Growth Management Hearings
Board. Establishes a process for consolidating multiple appeals arising out of the same project for
proceedings before the PCHB and the SHB. Modifies the jurisdiction of the PCHB to hear appeals
arising pursuant to specified additional environmental laws. Amends the procedures for service
of process in actions under the Land Use Petition Act.
ESHB 2131
Thermal Energy Networks
Sponsors: Ramel, Slatter, Simmons
Final Status: C 348 L 24
Authorizes gas and most electric utilities to own and operate thermal energy networks
(TENs). Establishes a TEN pilot project program with priority for gas companies in which the
Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) reviews projects and the Department of
Commerce may award grants. Amends a gas company's obligation to serve gas to customers that
have access to a TEN by providing thermal energy instead of gas, with specifications. Authorizes
gas and combination utilities to combine gas operations and TENs into a single rate base with
approval from the UTC. Requires the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee to evaluate
and report on the TEN pilot project program after three years.
ESHB 2207
Solid Waste Dumping
Sponsors: Ramos, Low, Chapman
Final Status: C 231 L 24
Revises, for unlawful waste dumping, the measurement criteria for violations, the costs of
penalties, and the assessment and distribution of restitution payments. Allows misdemeanor
violations to be punished as natural resource infractions. Authorizes the enforcement of natural
resource infractions by designated authorities.
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E2SHB 2301
Waste Material Management
Sponsors: Doglio, Fitzgibbon, Duerr
Final Status: C 341 L 24
Establishes new grant programs related to food waste reduction and organic material
management policy implementation. Amends organic material collection service requirements
for local governments, residents, and businesses. Amends labeling requirements related to the
degradability of plastic or nonplastic products. Amends compost procurement programs and
requirements. Establishes a work group to study food donation by businesses.
SB 5884
Restitution/Environmental Crimes
Sponsors: Trudeau, Pedersen, Dhingra
Final Status: C 342 L 24
Authorizes the imposition of court-ordered restitution for violations of environmental criminal
statutes.
SSB 5919
Biogenic Carbon Dioxide
Sponsors: King
Final Status: C 271 L 24
Authorizes public utility districts to sell biogenic carbon dioxide and other coproducts from the
processing of biogas.
SSB 5931
Motorized Vehicle Tires/6PPD
Sponsors: Salomon, Kauffman, Billig
Final Status: C 343 L 24
Designates the chemical 6PPD as a priority chemical and 6PPD in motor vehicle tires as a priority
consumer product under the Safer Products for Washington program implemented by the
Department of Ecology (Ecology). Directs Ecology to determine regulatory actions for motor
vehicle tires that contain 6PPD and adopt rules to implement those regulatory determinations.
ESSB 6039
Geothermal Energy Resources
Sponsors: Lovelett, Shewmake, Dhingra
Final Status: C 350 L 24
Directs the Washington Geological Survey to compile and maintain a publicly available
comprehensive database of state subsurface geologic information. Directs the Department of
Natural Resources to update its geothermal resources lease rates. Directs the Department of
Commerce to establish a competitive geothermal exploration cost-share grant program to
incentivize and offset direct costs associated with deep exploratory drilling to identify locations
suitable for the development of geothermal energy. Directs the Department of Ecology, in
consultation with other specified state agencies, to engage in a collaborative process to identify
opportunities and risks associated with the development of geothermal resources.
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E2SSB 6058
Carbon Market Linkage
Sponsors: Nguyen, Hunt, Kuderer
Final Status: C 352 L 24
Amends provisions of the Climate Commitment Act (CCA), including provisions governing: (1) the
length of compliance periods under the CCA; (2) the compliance obligations for greenhouse gas
emissions associated with certain types of electricity; (3) the treatment of biofuels under the CCA;
and (4) the allowance purchase and holding limits for CCA program participants. Establishes a
process under the CCA for a federal power marketing entity to voluntarily register as an opt-in
entity with Ecology and assume the CCA compliance obligation for the power it markets. Amends
GHG emission reporting requirements under the Clean Air Act.
SSB 6121
Agricultural & Forestry Biomass
Sponsors: Van De Wege, Nobles, Randall
Final Status: C 280 L 24
Includes the combustion of natural vegetation in portable flame cap kilns as an activity for which
certain agencies may permit agricultural or silvicultural burning, subject to certain
limitations. Defines flame cap kiln in the Washington Clean Air Act as an outdoor container used
for the combustion of natural vegetation from silvicultural or agricultural activities meeting
certain structural and size requirements.
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FINANCE COMMITTEE
(360) 786-7152
2EHB 1757
Farmers/Sales Tax Remittance
Sponsors: Corry, Springer, Chapman
Final Status: C 222 L 24
Provides a sales and use tax exemption in the form of a remittance of up to $10,000 to eligible
farmers who paid business and occupation tax on activities that would have been exempt if the
custom farming and farm management services exemption had not lapsed.
SHB 1818
Forestland/Compensating Tax
Sponsors: Tharinger, Chapman
Final Status: C 109 L 24
Exempts the sale or transfer of designated forestland or timberland to a governmental entity
from additional and compensating tax.
ESHB 1862
Disabled Veteran Assistance/Tax
Sponsors: Leavitt, Barnard, Tharinger
Final Status: C 141 L 24
Exempts from the business and occupation tax sales made on a military reservation by a nonprofit
that operates an adaptive recreational and rehabilitation facility that serves disabled veterans and
members of the armed forces. Exempts from retail sales and use tax sales made by such
nonprofit to a disabled veteran or member of the armed forces.
HB 1867
Estate Tax Filing/Residences
Sponsors: Walen, Chapman, Santos
Final Status: C 82 L 24
Exempts certain estates with a qualifying familial residence from the estate tax return filing
requirement.
HB 1895
Working Families' Tax Credit
Sponsors: Thai, Connors, Corry
Final Status: C 3 L 24
Makes administrative clarifications to the Working Families Tax Credit.
ESHB 2003
Housing/Public Lands Leases
Sponsors: Connors, Leavitt, Klicker
Final Status: C 59 L 24
Creates a leasehold excise tax exemption for public lands used for affordable housing.
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SHB 2012
Rental Housing/Nonprofits
Sponsors: Street, Alvarado, Ryu
Final Status: C 113 L 24
Expands the qualifying funding sources for the nonprofit housing property tax exemption.
HB 2044
Voter-Approved Property Tax
Sponsors: Duerr, Senn, Fitzgibbon
Final Status: C 114 L 24
Removes the restriction on levy lid lift funds supplanting existing funds.
HI 2111
Taxes On Personal Income
Sponsors: People of the State of Washington
Final Status: C 5 L 24
Prohibits the state and local jurisdictions from imposing taxes on a person's gross
income. Specifies that "income" has the same meaning as "gross income" under the federal tax
code.
EHB 2199
CCA Tax Exemptions
Sponsors: Orcutt, Fitzgibbon, Reed
Final Status: C 115 L 24
Authorizes a business and occupation tax and a public utility tax exemption for covered entities,
opt-in entities, and entities that received no cost allowances for amounts received from the
receipt, generation, purchase, sale, or transfer of allowances, offset credits, or price ceiling units
under the 2021 Climate Commitment Act.
ESHB 2306
Main Street Tax Credits
Sponsors: Steele, Callan
Final Status: C 93 L 24
Allows a Main Street program to use remaining Main Street tax credits up to an additional
$90,000 per program beginning October 1 of each calendar year.
HB 2375
Senior Property Tax Exemption/Accessory Dwelling Units
Sponsors: Goehner, Bateman, Orcutt
Final Status: C 119 L 24
Extends the senior citizen and disabled persons property tax exemption and qualification for
deferral programs to one detached accessory dwelling unit.
HB 2454
Agricultural Crop Products/Tax Exemption
Sponsors: Ybarra, Chapman
Final Status: C 241 L 24
Extends the hazardous substance tax exemption for agricultural crop protection products until
January 1, 2036.
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ESHB 2482
Semiconductor Tax Incentives
Sponsors: Harris, Santos, Stonier
Final Status: C 261 L 24
Extends two tax preferences for semiconductor manufacturing until January 1, 2034. Reinstates
six expired tax preferences, contingent on new industry investment until January 1, 2034.
SB 5897
Business Licensing Service
Sponsors: Mullet, Wilson, L.
Final Status: C 270 L 24
Makes changes to business licensing fees.
SB 6013
Homeownership Development Tax Exemption
Sponsors: Shewmake, Dhingra, Kuderer
Final Status: C 273 L 24
Expands the property tax exemption for nonprofit low-income housing development by including
real property owned by a nonprofit that builds a residence through a self-help housing program.
SB 6215
Tax & Revenue Laws
Sponsors: Schoesler, Robinson, Mullet
Final Status: C 252 L 24
Makes several administrative and technical changes to state tax and licensing codes.
SB 6238
Property Tax/Veteran Widows
Sponsors: Dozier, Conway, Fortunato
Final Status: C 334 L 24
Increases grant amounts for the property tax assistance program for widows and widowers of
veterans. Aligns income thresholds in the assistance program with the Senior Citizen Property Tax
Exemption program.
SSJM 8009
Harbor Maintenance Tax
Sponsors: Hasegawa, Wagoner, Dozier
Final Status: SFiled Sec/St
Requests that the federal government reform the Harbor Maintenance Tax.
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HEALTH CARE & WELLNESS COMMITTEE
(360) 786-7120
2ESHB 1508
Health Care Cost Board
Sponsors: Macri, Riccelli, Simmons
Final Status: C 80 L 24
Directs the Health Care Cost Transparency Board (Transparency Board) to conduct an annual
survey of underinsurance among Washington residents and a survey of insurance trends among
employers and employees. Requires the Transparency Board to hold a public hearing each year
to discuss the growth in total health care expenditures in relation to the health care cost growth
benchmark and identify payers or health care providers whose health care cost growth exceeded
the health care cost growth benchmark.
2SHB 1929
Post-Inpatient Housing
Sponsors: Cortes, Eslick, Ortiz-Self
Final Status: C 175 L 24
Establishes the Post-Inpatient Housing Program for Young Adults (Program) to provide supportive
transitional housing with behavioral health supports for persons ages 18 to 24, who are exiting
inpatient behavioral health treatment. Directs the Health Care Authority to administer the
Program by providing funding to community-based organizations to operate at least two resident
programs with six to 10 beds each to serve Program participants for up to 90 days.
2SHB 1941
Health Home Services for Children
Sponsors: Couture, Schmidt, Reed
Final Status: C 177 L 24
Requires the Health Care Authority to submit a state plan amendment to allow Medicaid-eligible
children with medically complex conditions to voluntarily enroll in a health home.
HB 1954
Health Care/Certain Services
Sponsors: Riccelli, Bateman, Ramel
Final Status: C 14 L 24
Establishes that participation in reproductive health care services or gender-affirming treatment
by health care providers, consistent with the standard of care in Washington, may not serve as
the basis for professional discipline under the Uniform Disciplinary Act.
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ESHB 1957
Preventive Service Coverage
Sponsors: Riccelli, Macri, Ryu
Final Status: C 314 L 24
Modifies the requirement for health carriers to cover federally required preventive health
services without cost sharing. Authorizes the Insurance Commissioner to adopt rules related to
any future preventive services recommendations or guidelines from the United States (US)
Preventive Services Task Force, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and the US
Health Resources and Services Administration or related rules or guidance.
HB 1972
Physicians Health Program Fees
Sponsors: Simmons, Harris, Reed
Final Status: C 15 L 24
Increases the licensing surcharge for the Washington Physician Health Program.
SHB 1979
Inhalers & Epinephrine Cost
Sponsors: Paul, Leavitt, Duerr
Final Status: C 226 L 24
Requires health plans, including health plans offered to public and school employees, to cap the
total out-of-pocket cost for a 30-day supply of at least one inhaled corticosteroid and one inhaled
corticosteroid combination product and at least one epinephrine autoinjector product containing
at least two autoinjectors at $35.
SHB 2015
Adult Family Homes Capacity
Sponsors: Senn, Schmick, Ryu
Final Status: C 147 L 24 Partial Veto
Establishes expedited inspection timeframes for adult family homes seeking to increase bed
capacity to seven or eight beds prior to January 1, 2026, so that the first inspection may be
completed upon application and the second inspection may be completed if at least six months
have passed since the first inspection.
Partial Veto Summary:
Vetoes the section containing an emergency clause. (See veto message).
ESHB 2041
Physician Assistant Practice
Sponsors: Riccelli, Schmick, Simmons
Final Status: C 62 L 24
Changes requirements relating to the regulation of physician assistants. Permits a collaboration
relationship between physician assistants and the physicians with whom they work.
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SHB 2075
Indian Health Care Providers
Sponsors: Lekanoff, Stearns, Reed
Final Status: C 204 L 24
Requires the Department of Health to issue a license to operate an establishment to Indian health
care providers who attest to meeting the state's minimum standards for licensure and pay a
processing fee.
SHB 2102
PFML Benefits/Health Information
Sponsors: Berry, Reed, Ormsby
Final Status: C 150 L 24
Requires health care providers to provide a certification of a serious health condition required for
benefits eligibility under the Paid Family and Medical Leave Program within seven calendar days
of receiving patient authorization. Prohibits health care providers and health care facilities from
charging a fee for such certification.
ESHB 2115
Prescription Labels/Abortion
Sponsors: Thai, Slatter, Senn
Final Status: C 257 L 24
Allows prescribers to request that the label for a prescription for abortion medication include the
prescribing and dispensing health care facility name, instead of the practitioner's name.
E2SHB 2247
Behavioral Health Providers
Sponsors: Bateman, Bronoske, Simmons
Final Status: C 371 L 24
Changes licensing requirements, practice settings, and reimbursement requirements for various
behavioral health professions.
SHB 2295
Hospital At-Home Services
Sponsors: Bateman, Hutchins, Riccelli
Final Status: C 259 L 24 Partial Veto
Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules to add hospital at-home services to the services
that a licensed acute care hospital may provide and establish standards for the operation of a
hospital at-home program.
Partial Veto Summary:
Vetoes the section containing an emergency clause. (See veto message).
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SHB 2347
Adult Family Home Information
Sponsors: Reeves, Harris, Chambers
Final Status: C 235 L 24
Requires the Department of Social and Health Services website regarding adult family homes to
include only certain documents regarding inspections and investigations, instead of all inspection
and investigation reports.
SHB 2355
MRI Technologists
Sponsors: Nance, Ybarra, Reed
Final Status: C 94 L 24
Adds magnetic resonance imaging technologists to those who may be certified as a radiologic
technologist.
SHB 2396
Synthetic Opioids
Sponsors: Mosbrucker, Davis, Couture
Final Status: C 309 L 24
Imposes minimum standards on public outreach campaigns on the dangers of fentanyl and other
synthetic opioids. Requires the Department of Health to compile resources on decontaminating
motor vehicles. Requires jails to provide individuals with information on substance use disorder
treatment programs upon release.
HB 2416
ARNP Legal Title
Sponsors: Graham, Riccelli
Final Status: C 239 L 24
Changes the title for advanced registered nurse practitioners to advanced practice registered
nurses.
SHB 2467
LTSS Trust Access
Sponsors: Macri, Chopp, Thai
Final Status: C 120 L 24
Allows persons who have left Washington to elect to continue participation in the Long-Term
Services and Supports Trust Program (Trust Program) if they have been assessed the premium for
at least three years in which they worked the minimum number of qualifying hours in
Washington. Prohibits discrimination against persons based upon race, gender, age, or
preexisting condition under the Trust Program.
SB 5184
Anesthesiologist Assistants
Sponsors: Rivers, Cleveland, Braun
Final Status: C 362 L 24
Establishes anesthesiologist assistants as a new health profession licensed by the Washington
Medical Commission that may assist with the development and implementation of anesthesia
care plans for patients under the supervision of an anesthesiologist.
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E2SSB 5213
Health Care Benefit Managers
Sponsors: Kuderer, Short, Cleveland
Final Status: C 242 L 24
Changes requirements relating to health care benefit managers. Changes requirements relating
to pharmacy benefit managers. Allows federally regulated self-funded group plans to opt into
state regulations on pharmacy benefit managers.
ESSB 5271
DOH Facilities/Enforcement
Sponsors: Cleveland, Robinson, Kuderer
Final Status: C 121 L 24
Establishes a uniform enforcement framework for health care facilities regulated by the
Department of Health and for pharmacies and other licensees regulated by the Pharmacy Quality
Assurance Commission.
ESSB 5481
Uniform Telehealth Act
Sponsors: Cleveland, Pedersen
Final Status: C 212 L 24
Specifies the circumstances in which telehealth services may be provided to patients in
Washington. Allows a provider-patient relationship to be established through telehealth.
Renames and extends the Collaborative for the Advancement of Telemedicine (Collaborative) and
directs the Collaborative to review a proposal to allow out-of-state providers to register to
provide telehealth services to patients in Washington.
2E2SSB 5580
Maternal Health Outcomes
Sponsors: Muzzall, Cleveland, Braun
Final Status: C 213 L 24
Increases the federal poverty level (FPL) threshold for pregnant and postpartum persons eligible
for Medicaid from equal to or below 193 percent to 210 percent of the FPL. Directs the Health
Care Authority (HCA) to create a postdelivery and transitional care program for people with
substance use disorder at the time of delivery allowing for extended postdelivery hospital care by
January 1, 2026. Requires the HCA to update the current Maternity Support Services Program by
January 1, 2026, to address perinatal outcomes and increase equity and healthier birth outcomes.
ESB 5592
Defibrillators/Fitness
Sponsors: Hunt, Cleveland, Conway
Final Status: C 186 L 24
Requires fitness centers to maintain at least one semiautomatic external defibrillator.
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SB 5811
Individual Providers/Family
Sponsors: Kauffman, Wilson, C., Cleveland
Final Status: C 322 L 24
Broadens exemptions from home care aide certification requirements for long-term care workers
caring for their child or parent by specifying that the relationship may exist through marriage or
domestic partnership. Expands long-term care worker training requirements for individual
providers caring for parents or children by specifying that the relationship may exist through
marriage or domestic partnership. Expands the exemption from continuing education
requirements for extended family members to apply to children and caring for parents until
January 1, 2027. Allows exempted long-term care workers to voluntarily complete continuing
education and be paid for up to 12 hours of continuing education annually. Establishes a work
group to recommend course topics that are relevant to individual providers caring for family
members and directs the contracted training entity to develop new continuing education courses
that address those topics.
SB 5821
Audio-only Telemedicine
Sponsors: Muzzall, Randall, Kuderer
Final Status: C 215 L 24
Applies the definition of "established relationship" for behavioral health services delivered via
audio-only telemedicine to all covered services delivered via audio-only telemedicine.
SSB 5829
Congenital Cytomegalovirus
Sponsors: Frame, Rivers, Shewmake
Final Status: C 96 L 24
Directs the Washington State Board of Health to consider adding congenital cytomegalovirus
screening to the mandatory newborn screening panel. Requires the Department of Health to
develop educational materials on cytomegalovirus.
SSB 5920
Psychiatric/Certificate of Need
Sponsors: Padden, Fortunato, Keiser
Final Status: C 165 L 24
Reinstates certain temporary certificate of need exemptions for increasing psychiatric bed
capacity.
SSB 5936
Palliative Care Work Group
Sponsors: Conway, Dozier, Frame
Final Status: C 166 L 24
Establishes a work group to design the parameters of a palliative care benefit for fully insured
health plans and a payment model for that benefit.
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SSB 5940
Medical Assistant-EMT Certification
Sponsors: Van De Wege, Hasegawa, Keiser
Final Status: C 217 L 24
Creates a medical assistant-emergency medical technician certification.
SB 5982
Vaccine Definition
Sponsors: Cleveland, Robinson, Keiser
Final Status: C 41 L 24
Changes the definition of "vaccine" for purposes of the Washington Vaccine Association.
ESSB 5983
Syphilis Treatment
Sponsors: Liias, Rivers, Dhingra
Final Status: C 248 L 24
Authorizes the practice of expedited partner therapy, which allows a health care provider who
diagnoses a sexually transmitted infection to provide prescription drugs to a patient's sexual
partner, if certain requirements are met. Allows certain types of medical assistants to administer
intramuscular injections for syphilis treatment under telehealth supervision.
SSB 5986
Out-of-Network Health Costs
Sponsors: Cleveland, Muzzall, Hasegawa
Final Status: C 218 L 24
Establishes balance billing protections for certain ground ambulance services and the allowed
amount paid to a nonparticipating ground ambulance services organization for covered ground
ambulance services. Requires health carriers to provide coverage for ground ambulance
transport services to behavioral health emergency services providers for enrollees who are
experiencing an emergency medical condition. Requires the Office of the Insurance
Commissioner to review the reasonableness of the percentage of the Medicare rate and any
trends in changes to ground ambulance service rates and billed charges. Requires the
Washington State Institute for Public Policy to conduct a study on the extent to which other states
fund or have considered funding emergency medical services (EMS) substantially or entirely
through governmental funding and the current landscape of EMS.
ESB 6095
Secretary of Health Orders
Sponsors: Robinson, Valdez
Final Status: C 100 L 24
Authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Health to issue a prescription or standing order to
control and prevent the spread of, mitigate, or treat any disease or threat to public health.
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ESSB 6127
HIV Prophylaxis
Sponsors: Liias, Rivers, Muzzall
Final Status: C 251 L 24
Requires hospitals to adopt policies for dispensing post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) HIV drugs that
ensure patients meeting certain criteria are provided a 28-day supply. Prohibits health plans from
imposing cost-sharing and health plans, the Health Care Authority, and Medicaid from imposing
prior authorization requirements for at least one of each required PEP drug.
ESB 6151
Ultrasound
Sponsors: Randall, Wilson, C., Nobles
Final Status: C 329 L 24
Prohibits an individual other than a licensed health care provider, or a person working under a
health care provider's supervision, from providing an ultrasound.
SB 6178
Midwives/Prescriptive Authorization
Sponsors: Randall, Torres, Nobles
Final Status: C 102 L 24
Adds licensed midwives to the list of practitioners who may prescribe legend drugs.
2SSB 6228
Substance Use Treatment
Sponsors: Dhingra, Hasegawa, Kuderer
Final Status: C 366 L 24
Directs behavioral health agencies to submit policies to the Department of Health (Department)
related to the transfer or discharge of a person without the person's consent and requires the
Department to adopt a model policy based on the policies that it receives. Requires certain
behavioral health agencies to provide patients seeking treatment for opioid use disorder or
alcohol use disorder with education related to clinically appropriate pharmacological treatment
options. Requires the length of an initial authorization for inpatient or residential substance use
disorder treatment approved by health carriers or Medicaid managed care organizations to be no
less than 14 days from the date of admission. Requires health carriers and Medicaid managed
care organizations to reimburse hospitals and psychiatric hospitals that bill on an outpatient
basis for opioid overdose reversal medications dispensed or distributed to a patient and for the
administration of long-acting injectable buprenorphine.
SB 6234
Newborn Screening for BCKDK
Sponsors: Wilson, L., Hasegawa, Lovick
Final Status: C 105 L 24
Requires the State Board of Health to consider whether to add branched-chain ketoacid
dehydrogenase kinase deficiency to the mandatory newborn screening panel.
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E2SSB 6251
Behavioral Health Crisis Coordination
Sponsors: Dhingra, Keiser, Kuderer
Final Status: C 368 L 24
Authorizes behavioral health administrative service organizations (BHASOs) to develop protocols
for optimizing crisis response in the BHASO's regional service area. Authorizes BHASOs to
recommend 988 contact hubs and requires the Department of Health to seek recommendations
from BHASOs to determine which 988 contact hubs best meet regional needs. Requires 988
contact hubs to enter data-sharing agreements with regional crisis lines that include real-time
information sharing. Requires 988 crisis lifeline subnetworks dedicated to the needs of American
Indian and Alaska Native persons to offer services by text, chat, and other similar methods of
communication subject to certain conditions.
ESSB 6286
Nurse Anesthetist Workforce
Sponsors: Rivers, Cleveland, Dhingra
Final Status: C 363 L 24
Establishes a grant program to incentivize certified registered nurse anesthetists to precept nurse
anesthesia residents. Directs the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University of
Washington to study the workforce shortages in anesthesia care in each facility providing
anesthesia services.
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HOUSING COMMITTEE
(360) 786-7150
HB 1054
Occupancy Limits
Sponsors: Walen, Simmons, Ryu
Final Status: C 139 L 24
Prohibits an association of unit owners in a common interest community from regulating or
limiting the number of unrelated persons that may occupy a unit, except in the event that such a
restriction is for the purpose of compliance with building codes or local ordinances.
SHB 1892
Workforce Housing Program
Sponsors: Leavitt, Alvarado, Bateman
Final Status: C 142 L 24
Creates the Workforce Housing Accelerator Revolving Loan Fund Program within the Department
of Commerce to administer loans to eligible organizations to assist with the development of
housing for low-income households.
ESHB 1998
Co-Living Housing
Sponsors: Gregerson, Barkis, Leavitt
Final Status: C 180 L 24
Requires certain cities and counties to allow co-living housing on any lot located within an urban
growth area that allows at least six multifamily residential units. Prohibits a city or county from
imposing certain regulations on co-living housing.
2SHB 2071
Residential Housing
Sponsors: Duerr, Bateman, Fitzgibbon
Final Status: C 183 L 24
Directs the State Building Code Council to convene two advisory groups: one to recommend
changes needed to apply the residential code to multiplex housing and another to recommend
changes needed to allow smaller dwelling units under the building code. Requires the Office of
Regulatory and Innovation Assistance to contract for the development of an optional standard
energy code plan set that meets or exceeds all energy code regulations for residential housing.
ESHB 2321
Middle Housing Requirements
Sponsors: Bateman, Barkis, Duerr
Final Status: C 152 L 24
Modifies provisions for middle housing and minimum residential density requirements, including
the definition of major transit stop, the number of types of middle housing certain cities must
allow, and exemptions from density requirements for critical areas, lots created through a lot
split, and areas on island designated as sole source aquifers.
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SB 5792
Multiunit Residential Buildings
Sponsors: Padden, Pedersen, Billig
Final Status: C 122 L 24
Excludes a multifamily residential building with 12 or fewer units that is no more than three
stories and has one story devoted to retail or parking from certain enclosure design and
inspection requirements.
ESSB 5796
Common Interest Communities
Sponsors: Pedersen, Rivers, Kuderer
Final Status: C 321 L 24
Allows the board of an association of homeowners or any unit owner to amend their governing
documents to remove an unlawful restriction based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, or
other personal characteristics. Updates the Washington Uniform Common Interest Ownership
Act to include many of the most recent amendments to the Uniform Common Interest Ownership
Act. Repeals the Horizontal Property Regimes Act, the Washington Condominium Act, the
Homeowners' Association Act, and the Land Development Act, effective January 1, 2028.
SSB 5840
Leases
Sponsors: Padden, Pedersen, Kuderer
Final Status: C 27 L 24
Provides that a lease does not require acknowledgment, witness, or seal, unless the lease is
recorded. Clarifies the general real estate statute of frauds is consistent with the Residential
Landlord-Tenant statute of frauds.
ESSB 5973
Heat Pumps/CICs
Sponsors: Liias, Nguyen, Kuderer
Final Status: C 128 L 24
Allows an apartment, condominium unit, or homeowner (Owner) to install or remove a heat
pump, subject to certain costs and restrictions. Specifies requirements for governing associations
regarding heat pump installation. Requires a governing association to compensate an Owner for
willful violation of heat pump requirements.
SSB 6059
Manufactured Housing Community Sales
Sponsors: Frame, McCune, Keiser
Final Status: C 325 L 24
Revises requirements for notices of opportunity to compete to purchase a manufactured housing
community requirements. Allows tenants who receive relocation assistance from an outside
source to receive the maximum amount of assistance under the Mobile Home Relocation
Assistance Program.
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HUMAN SERVICES, YOUTH, & EARLY LEARNING COMMITTEE
(360) 786-7146
SHB 1916
Early Support for Infants & Toddlers Program
Sponsors: Senn, Couture, Leavitt
Final Status: C 284 L 24
Provides that for purposes of funding, a child is considered to have received Early Support for
Infants and Toddlers (ESIT) services if the child received services within the same month as the
monthly count day, rather than the month prior. Requires the monthly count day for ESIT
enrollment to fall on the last business day of the month.
SHB 1945
Early Learning & Child Care Program Eligibility
Sponsors: Alvarado, Gregerson, Ryu
Final Status: C 225 L 24
Provides that children meeting age criteria for the Early Childhood Education and Assistance
Program (ECEAP) and Birth to Three ECEAP are eligible for those programs if they are eligible for
or receiving federal or state Basic Food benefits. Provides that the income eligibility requirements
for the Working Connections Child Care (WCCC) program are satisfied if the WCCC applicant or
consumer is eligible for or receiving federal or state Basic Food benefits.
SHB 1970
Communication Between the DCYF & Caregivers
Sponsors: McClintock, Couture, Waters
Final Status: C 145 L 24
Requires the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) to establish a specific position to
improve communication with caregivers of children receiving child welfare services. Requires the
DCYF to submit a report describing how an automated notification system for caregivers could be
implemented and with recommendations on improving communications between the DCYF and
caregivers.
SHB 2007
Cash Assistance Time Limits
Sponsors: Peterson, Gregerson, Alvarado
Final Status: C 181 L 24
Expands the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families time limit extension to include parents or
legal guardians with a child under the age of two in the same household and that qualify for an
infant, toddler, or postpartum exemption from WorkFirst activities.
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HB 2111
Subsidized Child Care
Sponsors: Nance, Senn, Simmons
Final Status: C 67 L 24
Reorganizes and makes technical updates to existing statutory language pertaining to the
Working Connections Child Care (WCCC) program, and references WCCC eligibility requirements
established in Department of Children, Youth, and Families rules. Removes obsolete deadlines
and outdated references, and makes other minor wording changes.
2SHB 2124
Child Care & Early Learning Programs
Sponsors: Eslick, Senn, Leavitt
Final Status: C 282 L 24
Exempts families participating in the Birth to Three Early Childhood Education Assistant Program
(ECEAP) or Early Head Start from the work requirement for purposes of eligibility for the Working
Connections Child Care (WCCC) program. Includes additional providers in the expanded WCCC
eligibility provisions currently applicable to licensed child care providers. Requires inflationary
adjustments to the dual language designation subsidy rate enhancements, rather than allowing
those adjustments to be subject to appropriations.
SHB 2217
Juvenile Criminal Offenses
Sponsors: Cortes, Senn, Santos
Final Status: C 117 L 24
Expands the juvenile court's jurisdiction over certain cases pertaining to non-minors accused or
adjudicated of offenses committed under the age of 18. Modifies the age criteria for
discretionary decline hearings to pertain to the age at the time of the offense. Makes changes to
jurisdiction and disposition provisions pertaining to juveniles accused or adjudicated of certain
Murder or Rape offenses.
SHB 2230
Economic Security for All Grants
Sponsors: Peterson, Eslick, Gregerson
Final Status: C 92 L 24
Codifies and makes permanent the Economic Security For All (EcSA) grant program, administered
by the Employment Security Department (ESD). Requires the ESD to identify federal reforms that
would benefit persons served by EcSA grants, and authorizes the ESD to apply for associated
federal waivers and propose federal law changes. Requires the Department of Social and Health
Services to develop and apply measures of progress toward poverty reduction, reducing income
inequality, and achieving an equitable and inclusive economy.
ESHB 2256
Children & Youth Behavioral Health Work Group
Sponsors: Callan, Eslick, Senn
Final Status: C 372 L 24
Modifies membership and requirements for the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Work
Group (Work Group). Delays the expiration of the Work Group from December 30, 2026, to
December 30, 2029.
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SHB 2368
Refugee & Immigrant Assistance
Sponsors: Gregerson, Eslick, Thai
Final Status: C 153 L 24
Requires the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) to coordinate statewide efforts to
support the economic and social integration and basic needs of immigrants and refugees arriving
and resettling in Washington. Authorizes the DSHS to administer services to immigrants who are
ineligible for federally funded services.
HB 2415
Diversion Cash Assistance
Sponsors: Cortes, Ramel, Pollet
Final Status: C 154 L 24
Increases the maximum amount of Diversion Cash Assistance that eligible individuals can receive
from $1,500 to $2,000.
SB 5419
WSIPP Outcome Evaluation
Sponsors: Gildon, Billig, Liias
Final Status: C 156 L 24
Eliminates the requirement that the Washington State Institute for Public Policy prepare an
outcome evaluation of short-term support services provided to foster parents.
SSB 5774
Fingerprint Background Checks
Sponsors: Billig, Hawkins, Wilson, C.
Final Status: C 300 L 24
Requires, subject to appropriated funding, that the Department of Children, Youth, and Families
maintain the capacity to roll, print, or scan fingerprints in at least seven of its early learning and
child welfare offices for background checks of specified categories of persons.
E2SSB 5853
Behavioral Crisis Services for Minors
Sponsors: Dhingra, Wagoner, Frame
Final Status: C 367 L 24
Authorizes 23-hour crisis relief centers to serve nonadult clients, and establishes guidelines for
centers serving this population. Aligns the definition of "mental health professional" for purposes
of provisions governing treatment of minors with the definition applicable to the treatment of
adults, and makes other conforming changes.
E2SSB 5908
Extended Foster Care
Sponsors: Wilson, C., Frame, Billig
Final Status: C 192 L 24
Removes the eligibility criteria for participation in extended foster care. Requires that dependent
youth age 15 and older are informed of the extended foster care program, and expands access to
voluntary placement agreements. Includes an incentive payment as part of extended foster care
services when the participant engages in certain education or employment-related activities.
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ESSB 5974
Unenforceable Juvenile Legal Financial Obligations
Sponsors: Frame, Saldaña, Dhingra
Final Status: C 38 L 24
Renders previous judgments against a juvenile for legal financial obligations other than restitution
null and void, and considered paid in full by July 1, 2027, according to a schedule. Allows for an
administrative judicial process to waive outstanding debt for uncollectable juvenile legal financial
obligations other than restitution.
ESSB 6038
Child Care Tax Preference
Sponsors: Wilson, C., Lovelett, Keiser
Final Status: C 195 L 24
Temporarily expands the business and occupation tax exemption that currently applies to child
care services for children under the age of 8 to instead apply to services for care of children under
the age of 13 or under the age of 19 with a verified special need or who are under court
supervision.
SB 6079
Juvenile Detention/Health Records
Sponsors: Boehnke, Wilson, C.
Final Status: C 99 L 24
Allows the records of a person confined in a juvenile detention facility to be made available to
managed care organizations and behavioral health administrative services organizations for the
purpose of care coordination activities.
E2SSB 6109
Child Welfare & High-Potency Synthetic Opioids
Sponsors: Wilson, C., Boehnke, Braun
Final Status: C 328 L 24
Requires courts to give great weight to the lethality of, and public heath guidance from the
Department of Health (DOH) regarding, high-potency synthetic opioids during certain stages of
child welfare proceedings when considering removal from a parent. Expands certain home
visiting and child care slots, prenatal substance exposure services, in-home parenting services,
and training for professionals involved with the child welfare court process. Requires the DOH to
develop information regarding the risks of fentanyl exposure to children, the Department of
Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) make available high-
potency synthetic opioid testing strips to
staff and families, and the funding of promotoras. Adds legal liaison positions within the DCFY.
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INNOVATION, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, &
VETERANS COMMITTEE
(360) 786-7067
SHB 1012
Extreme Weather Events
Sponsors: Leavitt, Robertson, Ryu
Final Status: C 172 L 24
Requires the Military Department to implement an Extreme Weather Response Grant Program to
assist with the costs of responding to community needs during periods of extreme weather.
ESHB 1835
Frontier Counties
Sponsors: Kretz, Chapman, Maycumber
Final Status: C 47 L 24
Adds a definition of "frontier county" to statutes related to economic development, excise taxes,
and the Department of Commerce. Creates two categories of frontier counties based on
population density.
SHB 1870
Grant Applications for Federal Funding
Sponsors: Barnard, Ryu, Leavitt
Final Status: C 223 L 24
Requires the Department of Commerce to provide technical assistance with federal grant
applications, prioritize applications for federal funds in a grant program, and create a resource
guide for federal grant applicants.
HB 1978
Intrastate Mutual Aid System
Sponsors: Rule, Volz, Ryu
Final Status: C 16 L 24
Includes special purpose districts and junior taxing districts in the member jurisdictions of the
Intrastate Mutual Aid System.
HB 1982
Broadband Loans & Grants
Sponsors: Waters, Shavers, Ryu
Final Status: C 86 L 24
Codifies the Community Economic Revitalization Board Rural Broadband Program.
2SHB 2014
Definition of Veteran
Sponsors: Volz, Donaghy, Leavitt
Final Status: C 146 L 24
Expands eligibility for various benefit programs by extending benefits to veterans with a
"qualifying discharge."
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SHB 2020
Public Infrastructure Assistance Program
Sponsors: Timmons, Abbarno, Leavitt
Final Status: C 60 L 24
Authorizes the Military Department to administer an emergency assistance program for county
governments and federally recognized tribes that experience disaster-
related public infrastructure
damage.
HB 2135
Emergency Worker Program/Tribes
Sponsors: Stearns, Lekanoff, Reed
Final Status: C 205 L 24
Expands the Military Department's Emergency Worker Program to include members of federally
recognized tribes.
SSB 5803
National Guard Recruitment
Sponsors: Conway, Boehnke, Dozier
Final Status: C 24 L 24
Provides a bonus to a National Guard member for identifying a recruitment prospect who enlists
in the National Guard.
SSB 6164
Communication Regarding Hazardous Material Spill or Release
Sponsors: Wagoner
Final Status: C 331 L 24
Requires communication plans in local organizations' local comprehensive emergency plans to
expeditiously notify certain citizens of certain hazardous material spills or releases. Requires the
Department of Ecology to provide at least one public meeting about the hazardous material spill
or release, and identifies requirements for the meeting.
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LABOR & WORKPLACE STANDARDS COMMITTEE
(360) 786-7384
HB 1898
Unemployment Insurance - Benefit Charging
Sponsors: Schmidt, Fosse, Connors
Final Status: C 51 L 24
Modifies provisions affecting the calculation of an employer's experience rating for
unemployment insurance payroll taxes when the employer is exempt or otherwise relieved from
directly paying for a former employee's benefits. Prohibits the Employment Security Department
(ESD) from requiring an employer to file a written request for relief from benefit charges in
certain instances where the employer is categorically exempt from paying for those
charges. Allows the ESD to waive the 30-day deadline for requesting relief from benefit charges
based on good cause.
HB 1901
Unemployment Insurance - Voluntary Contribution Program
Sponsors: Springer, Schmidt, Berry
Final Status: C 52 L 24
Makes the expansion of eligibility for the Unemployment Insurance Voluntary Contribution
Program permanent, rather than allowing those provisions to sunset on May 31, 2026.
SHB 1905
Employment Discrimination - Equal Pay & Opportunities Act
Sponsors: Mena, Senn, Berry
Final Status: C 353 L 24
Amends the Equal Pay and Opportunities Act to prohibit an employer from discriminating in
compensation and career advancement opportunities against similarly employed employees
based on the employee's age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, national
origin, citizenship or immigration status, honorably discharged veteran or military status, or the
presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability or the use of a trained dog guide or service
animal by a person with a disability.
HB 1927
Workers' Compensation - Time-Loss Benefits
Sponsors: Bronoske, Berry, Ortiz-Self
Final Status: C 144 L 24
Reduces the number of days, from 14 to 7, that a temporary total disability must continue in
order for the worker to receive workers' compensation time-loss benefits for the first three days
following the injury.
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SHB 1942
Wage & Hour - Long-Term Care Providers
Sponsors: Fosse, Schmidt, Reed
Final Status: C 224 L 24
Provides that, for purposes of the state's publicly funded long-term in-home care program, the
hours worked by an individual provider in excess of the number of hours authorized in the client's
plan of care are not compensable if: (1) the individual provider is the client's family or household
member; and (2) the client's plan of care is reasonable.
HB 1975
Unemployment Insurance - Overpayments
Sponsors: Ortiz-Self, Ryu, Berry
Final Status: C 8 L 24
Provides that overpayment assessments for unemployment insurance benefits paid during certain
weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic will not be charged interest until January 1, 2025, unless the
overpayments were the result of fraud.
2SHB 2022
Safety & Health - Construction Tower Cranes
Sponsors: Reed, Berry, Ryu
Final Status: C 311 L 24
Requires the Department of Labor and Industries to adopt rules for a permit for the performance
of any work involving the operation, assembly, disassembly, or reconfiguration of a tower
crane. Establishes procedures and requirements for a valid permit, including requirements for
safety conferences, inspections, and notifications. Creates criminal penalties for certain
violations. Requires tower crane manufacturers and distributors to make certain information
available regarding their tower cranes located in the state. Imposes certain requirements on local
governments when a tower crane is located within its jurisdiction.
SHB 2061
Wage & Hour - Overtime for Health Employees
Sponsors: Bronoske, Ramel, Berry
Final Status: C 354 L 24
Amends the definition of "employee," for purposes of the mandatory overtime prohibition, to
mean any employee of a health care facility who is involved in direct patient care or clinical
services and receives an hourly wage or is covered under a collective bargaining agreement.
SHB 2097
Wage & Hour - Wage Recovery Work Group
Sponsors: Berry, Ortiz-Self, Reed
Final Status: C 149 L 24
Requires the Department of Labor and Industries to convene a work group to develop and
recommend strategies to help employees recover wages owed.
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SHB 2127
Workers' Compensation - Return to Work Incentives
Sponsors: Schmidt, Berry, Leavitt
Final Status: C 90 L 24
Modifies certain return-to-work policies and reimbursement amounts under the workers'
compensation program. Increases the maximum amounts of reimbursements paid to employers
participating in the Stay at Work Program and Preferred Worker Program by the Department of
Labor and Industries (L&I). Increases the maximum amount paid to qualifying employers for job
modification costs by L&I. Allows L&I to authorize payments for basic skills development for
qualifying injured workers.
SHB 2136
Wage & Hour - Prevailing Wage Sanctions
Sponsors: Ormsby, Schmidt, Doglio
Final Status: C 7 L 24
Subjects a contractor to the same sanctions or debarment from bidding on public works projects
if it has substantially identical operations, corporate, or management structure to another entity
that has been sanctioned or debarred under state prevailing wage laws.
SHB 2226
Wage & Hour - H-2A Worker Data and Wage Surveys
Sponsors: Ortiz-Self, Berry, Gregerson
Final Status: C 233 L 24
Requires the Employment Security Department (ESD) to collect certain data pertaining to H-2A
workers when conducting field checks and field visits. Requires the ESD to conduct annual wage
surveys of workers hand harvesting apples, cherries, pears, and blueberries.
HB 2246
Wage & Hour - State Employee Vacation Leave Accrual
Sponsors: Bateman, Low, Gregerson
Final Status: C 151 L 24
Increases the annual cap on the accrual of unused vacation leave for state employees from 240
hours to 280 hours.
EHB 2266
Safety & Health - Construction/Sanitary Conditions
Sponsors: Stonier, Berry, Leavitt
Final Status: C 258 L 24
Requires the Department of Labor and Industries to adopt rules to require employers in the
construction industry to provide certain accommodations to employees performing construction
activities who menstruate or express milk.
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SHB 2382 Worker's Compensation - Transportation Network Companies - Driver
Death Benefits
Sponsors: Berry, Lekanoff, Reed
Final Status: C 184 L 24
Requires death benefits under the workers' compensation system to be provided to a
transportation network company (TNC) driver if the driver's death results from an injury while the
driver was logged onto the TNC's digital network as available for work and other conditions are
met.
ESB 5632
Labor Relations - Health Care Benefits During Labor Disputes
Sponsors: Keiser, Cleveland, Conway
Final Status: C 263 L 24
Requires the Washington Health Benefit Exchange to administer a health care plan access
program to help enroll employees who have lost employer-provided health care coverage as a
result of a strike, lockout, or other labor dispute.
ESSB 5778
Employment - Employer Political and Religious Speech
Sponsors: Keiser, Lovick, Conway
Final Status: C 357 L 24
Prohibits an employer from taking adverse action against an employee for refusal to attend or
participate in an employer-sponsored meeting or refusal to listen to speech, the primary purpose
of which is to communicate the employer's opinion concerning religious or political matters.
ESSB 5793
Leave - Use of Paid Sick Leave
Sponsors: Saldaña, Keiser, Kuderer
Final Status: C 356 L 24
Modifies the State Paid Sick Leave Law to allow an employee or transportation network company
driver to use paid sick leave or sick time in additional circumstances, including: (1) when the
employee's or driver's child's school or place of care has been closed after the federal, state, or
local government has declared a public emergency; or (2) when necessary to care for an individual
who depends on the employee or driver for care or who regularly resides in the employee's or
driver's home, so long as the relationship creates an expectation of care.
SSB 5808
Collective Bargaining - Interest Arbitration for Safety Telecommunicators
Sponsors: Van De Wege, Lovick, Conway
Final Status: C 124 L 24
Provides interest arbitration for public safety telecommunicators employed by certain public
employers.
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SB 5886
Workers' Compensation - Firefighter Safety Funding
Sponsors: Braun, Keiser, Nobles
Final Status: C 31 L 24
Allows the Department of Labor and Industries to grant funds to employers of firefighters
participating in the Firefighter Injury and Illness Reduction Grant Program, to be used for safety
training and assessments.
SSB 5935
Employment - Noncompetition Covenants
Sponsors: Stanford, Keiser, Conway
Final Status: C 36 L 24
Amends the definition of "noncompetition covenant" to: (1) include agreements that directly or
indirectly prohibit the acceptance or transaction of business with a customer; and (2) exclude
covenants where the person signing the covenant purchases, sells, acquires, or disposes of an
interest representing 1 percent or more of the business. Makes changes related to: (1)
circumstances under which noncompetition covenants are void and unenforceable; (2) causes of
action by aggrieved persons; (3) displacement of other laws; and (4) statutory construction.
SB 5952
Safety & Health - Boiler Inspector Credentials
Sponsors: Schoesler, Keiser, Dozier
Final Status: C 167 L 24
Modifies the minimum qualifications for deputy boiler and pressure vessel inspectors appointed
by the Department of Labor and Industries.
SB 5979
Leave - Paid Sick Leave Cash-Outs for Construction Workers
Sponsors: Keiser, Conway, Saldaña
Final Status: C 39 L 24
Modifies the State Paid Sick Leave Law by limiting the requirement for a construction industry
employer to pay separating workers for unused sick leave to only those separating workers who
perform service, maintenance, or construction work on a jobsite, in the field, or in a fabrication
shop using the tools of a trade or craft.
SSB 5980
Safety & Health - Notification of Hazards
Sponsors: Keiser, Conway, Liias
Final Status: C 40 L 24
Requires the Department of Labor and Industries, until June 30, 2026, to make a good faith effort
to notify an employer or owner within 10 working days if an inspection identifies a hazard at a
residential construction worksite.
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ESB 5997
Building & Construction - Plumber Trainees
Sponsors: King, Keiser, Frame
Final Status: C 97 L 24
Removes the penalty and the requirement that the Department of Labor and Industries not
renew a plumber trainee's certificate for failure to report hours worked. Removes a provision
requiring plumber trainees to be on the same jobsite as the supervising plumber and allows
trainees performing residential service plumbing to be at separate jobsites while working under
one supervising plumber. Extends the expiration date for the trainee-to-supervisor ratios to
December 31, 2028.
ESSB 6007
Labor Relations - Grocery Workers
Sponsors: Conway, Keiser, Hasegawa
Final Status: C 129 L 24
Requires a successor grocery employer to retain the incumbent grocery employer's employees for
a 180-day transitional period, with certain exceptions. Requires certain successors to provide an
allowance to the incumbent's grocery workers who are not retained for 180 days and who have
not quit or been discharged for cause. Exempts grocery employers of a certain size and certain
grocery employers located in food deserts. Allows for a private cause of action if the employer
has not cured the violation. Prohibits retaliation against employees enforcing the provisions.
SSB 6060
Collective Bargaining - Electronic Signatures for Organizing Petitions
Sponsors: Nguyen, Hasegawa, Keiser
Final Status: C 98 L 24
Requires the Public Employment Relations Commission to accept electronic signatures for new
organization petitions to form a new bargaining unit of unrepresented workers or to add
unrepresented workers to an existing bargaining unit.
SB 6088
Wage & Hour - Baseball Players with Collective Bargaining Agreements
Sponsors: Conway, King, Lovick
Final Status: C 132 L 24
Specifies that "employee," as defined under minimum wage requirements and labor standards,
does not include an individual who is contracted to play minor league baseball and who is
compensated pursuant to the terms of a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) that expressly
provides for wages and working conditions. Allows CBAs covering minor league baseball players
to supersede the Department of Labor and Industries' meal and rest break rules.
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ESB 6089
Building & Construction - Electrical Inspectors
Sponsors: King, Keiser, Mullet
Final Status: C 196 L 24
Removes, for the purposes of the minimum requirements for electrical inspectors, a provision
allowing an electrical inspector to have two years of electrical training in a college of electrical
engineering and four years of practical electrical experience in installation work, or four years of
electrical training in a college and two years of practical electrical experience. Requires the
Department of Labor and Industries and the Association of Washington Cities to work together to
identify appropriate pathways to qualify as an electrical inspector.
ESSB 6105
Safety & Health - Adult Entertainment Workers
Sponsors: Saldaña, Trudeau, Nguyen
Final Status: C 250 L 24
Requires adult entertainment establishments to provide mandatory training to employees on first
aid, conflict de-escalation, and identifying and preventing human trafficking, sexual harassment,
discrimination, and assault. Requires adult entertainment establishments to provide dedicated
security personnel during operating hours. Establishes restrictions on leasing fees charged to
entertainers by adult entertainment establishments. Directs the Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB)
to repeal its agency rule that restricts the exposure of certain body parts and prohibits sexually
oriented conduct, and preempts the LCB from adopting or enforcing any similar rule in the future.
SSB 6108
Building & Construction - Contract Retainage
Sponsors: King, Stanford, Mullet
Final Status: C 101 L 24
Extends the limits on retainage in private construction contracts to suppliers.
E2SSB 6194
Collective Bargaining - Legislative Employees
Sponsors: Stanford, Saldaña, Cleveland
Final Status: C 333 L 24
Establishes the scope of which employees are eligible for collective bargaining at the Legislature,
and establishes mandatory and prohibited subjects of bargaining. Makes changes to provisions
related to: (1) the Public Employment Relations Commission's jurisdiction over legislative
collective bargaining; (2) unfair labor practices; (3) deductions for dues; (4) strikes; (5) mediation;
and (6) other procedures and limitations related to collective bargaining at the
Legislature. Exempts certain employee bargaining representation activities from the Ethics in
Public Service Act. Creates a temporary, three-member Legislative Commission.
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
(360) 786-7134
HB 1890
Housing Authorities
Sponsors: Alvarado, Klicker, Peterson
Final Status: C 12 L 24
Allows cities that have created housing authorities to form a joint housing authority without
county authorization.
E2SHB 1899
Wildfire Reconstruction
Sponsors: Volz, Schmidt, Chapman
Final Status: C 143 L 24
Establishes a disaster relief payment program, administered by the Department of Commerce, to
provide payments to qualifying property owners and local governments that had certain buildings
damaged or destroyed by wildfire between August 1, 2023, and October 1, 2023, in Spokane
County for the purpose of assisting reconstructed buildings in meeting energy efficiency
standards, providing electric vehicle charging capacity, or installing solar panels.
HB 1987
Public Facilities Tax Use
Sponsors: Low, Ramel, Ryu
Final Status: C 58 L 24
Allows local sales and use tax revenue for public facilities in rural counties to be used for the
construction of affordable workforce housing infrastructure or facilities.
HB 2137
Tourism Promotion Exemptions
Sponsors: Berg, Orcutt, Sandlin
Final Status: C 68 L 24
Allows local governments to exempt lodging businesses, units, or guests from lodging charges
imposed in a tourism promotion area.
SHB 2296
Comprehensive Plan Revisions
Sponsors: Griffey, Wylie, Couture
Final Status: C 17 L 24
Extends the next deadline for Clallam, Clark, Island, Jefferson, Lewis, Mason, San Juan, Skagit,
Thurston, and Whatcom Counties, and the cities within those counties, to review and revise their
comprehensive plans from June 30, 2025, to December 31, 2025.
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SHB 2348
County Hospital Funding
Sponsors: Street, Chopp, Taylor
Final Status: C 361 L 24
Authorizes counties that establish a hospital to use county money for capital expenses related to
the hospital and its outpatient clinics. Allows those counties to impose a regular property tax
outside of the county general levy.
E2SHB 2354
Tax Increment Areas
Sponsors: Street, Orcutt, Bronoske
Final Status: C 236 L 24
Requires the project analysis for a proposed a tax increment financing area (TIF) to assess impacts
on all affected junior taxing districts. Requires mitigation agreements between local governments
establishing TIFs and affected public hospital districts and local fire and emergency services.
SHB 2428
Sales & Use Tax Sharing
Sponsors: Klicker, Rude, Springer
Final Status: C 95 L 24
Allows cities and towns to enter into interlocal agreements to share a portion of general purpose
local government sales and use tax revenue.
HB 2433
Southwest WA Fair Administration
Sponsors: Orcutt
Final Status: C 75 L 24
Allows Lewis County to use the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds for fair and county purposes.
SB 5508
Greenhouses
Sponsors: Short, Shewmake, Warnick
Final Status: C 19 L 24
Exempts temporary growing structures used solely for the production of horticultural plants from
the State Building Code.
SSB 5649
Floodproofing Improvements
Sponsors: Braun
Final Status: C 187 L 24
Allows the Department of Ecology, with a local government's concurrence, to waive the general
prohibition on the construction, repair, or replacement of a residential structure within a
designated floodway for a proposed project that substantially improves the residential structure
for the primary purpose of reducing the risk of flood damage.
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SSB 5834
Urban Growth Areas
Sponsors: Short, Lovelett, Billig
Final Status: C 26 L 24
Allows a county to revise an urban growth area during an annual comprehensive plan update, if
certain conditions are met. Requires the county to consult with any Indian tribe that could be
affected by the revision.
SSB 5869
Rural Fire District Stations
Sponsors: Short, Lovelett, Dozier
Final Status: C 190 L 24
Exempts land tracts used for the construction and operation of a rural fire district station from
state subdivision laws if certain requirements are met.
SB 5885
Certificates of Annexation
Sponsors: Torres
Final Status: C 30 L 24
Allows a city or town conducting an annexation to file a single certificate related to the
annexation with the Office of Financial Management (OFM). Requires the OFM to post a copy of
the certificate online, and to notify the Department of Transportation and the annexing city or
town when the certificate has been approved.
SSB 5925
Fire Commissioner Compensation
Sponsors: Torres, Lovelett, Short
Final Status: C 35 L 24
Allows commissioners of fire protection districts with an operating budget of $10 million or more
to receive up to 144 per diem payments per year at a rate determined by the Office of Financial
Management.
SSB 5934
Pollinator Habitat
Sponsors: Padden, Van De Wege, Dhingra
Final Status: C 337 L 24
Allows cities and counties to encourage permit applicants to include pollinator friendly plants in
landscaped areas and prohibits cities, counties, and homeowners' associations from banning
beehives and pollinator habitats.
E2SSB 5955
Large Port Districts
Sponsors: Keiser, Hasegawa, Kauffman
Final Status: C 194 L 24
Establishes a grant program, through July 1, 2029, for port districts that undertake noise
mitigation programs for expenses related to remediating noise mitigation equipment that is not
working as intended, or to address damage to property that occurred due to previously installed
equipment.
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SB 5970
Local Boards of Health
Sponsors: Hunt
Final Status: C 37 L 24
Allows a board of five county commissioners in a noncharter county to reduce the number of
county commissioners that serve on a local board of health, to a minimum of one.
SSB 6015
Residential Parking
Sponsors: Shewmake, Kuderer, Liias
Final Status: C 274 L 24
Requires cities and counties planning under the Growth Management Act to follow specified
requirements when enforcing land use regulations regarding parking, with exceptions.
ESB 6120
Wildland Urban Interface
Sponsors: Van De Wege, Braun, Short
Final Status: C 133 L 24
Requires the Department of Natural Resources to complete a statewide wildfire hazard map and a
base level wildfire risk map for each county and specifies which portions of the International
Wildland Urban Interface Code the State Building Code Council may adopt.
SSB 6140
Intensive Rural Development
Sponsors: Short, Lovelett, Braun
Final Status: C 135 L 24
Allows a new or redeveloped retail or food service use in a mixed-use limited area of more
intensive rural development (LAMIRD) to have retail space of up to the greater of 10,000 square
feet or the size of the previously occupied space, if the retail space is for an essential rural retail
service and the LAMIRD is at least 10 miles from an urban growth area.
SB 6173
Housing Sales Tax/Use
Sponsors: Nobles, Trudeau, Kuderer
Final Status: C 136 L 24
Allows revenue from the affordable and supportive housing sales and use tax to be used for
housing and services for persons at or below 80 percent, rather than 60 percent, of the median
income of the jurisdiction imposing the tax when the revenue is supporting the development of
affordable housing intended for owner occupancy.
ESSB 6291
State Building Code Council
Sponsors: Wilson, L., Lovick, Dozier
Final Status: C 170 L 24
Makes various changes to the operation of the State Building Code Council, including new
provisions that the state building and energy codes are adopted on a three-year cycle and that
substantive amendments can generally be made only once during the cycle. Provides that the
state energy code is the minimum energy code for renovated nonresidential buildings.
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POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION & WORKFORCE COMMITTEE
(360) 786-7068
HB 1917
Physician Assistant Compact
Sponsors: Leavitt, Ybarra, Ryu
Final Status: C 53 L 24
Enacts the Physician Assistant Compact and exempts certain information from the Public Records
Act.
SHB 1939
Social Work Compact
Sponsors: Orwall, Rule, Leavitt
Final Status: C 176 L 24
Enacts the Social Work Licensure Compact.
HB 1943
National Guard Education Grants
Sponsors: Leavitt, Jacobsen, Ryu
Final Status: C 178 L 24
Allows the spouse and dependents of a Washington National Guard member to receive the
Washington National Guard Postsecondary Education Grant for a maximum combined grant
award of six full-time years or the credit or clock-hour equivalent.
HB 1946
Behavioral Health Scholarship
Sponsors: Eslick, Leavitt, Ryu
Final Status: C 369 L 24
Enacts the Behavioral Health Scholarship Program under the Washington Health Corps.
HB 1950
PSLF Notifications & Certification
Sponsors: Slatter, Ybarra, Reed
Final Status: C 2 L 24
Modifies Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) notification requirements for state agency
employees and PSLF full-time employment certification calculation adjustments for part-time
academic employees.
HB 2004
Military Student Early Registration
Sponsors: McEntire, Leavitt, Couture
Final Status: C 89 L 24
Requires institutions of higher education to allow early course registration for eligible veteran and
military students and their dependents.
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ESHB 2019
Native American Apprentices
Sponsors: Stearns, Fosse, Berry
Final Status: C 203 L 24
Establishes the Native American Apprentice Assistance Program.
SHB 2025
State Work-Study Program
Sponsors: Reed, Paul, Pollet
Final Status: C 182 L 24
Grants the Office of Student Financial Assistance broader authority to implement State Work-
Study, including modification of certain employer reimbursement rates.
2SHB 2112
Higher Education Opioid Prevention
Sponsors: Nance, Leavitt, Simmons
Final Status: C 211 L 24
Requires institutions of higher education to provide opioid and fentanyl prevention education and
awareness to students, to make naloxone and fentanyl strips available, and to provide training on
administering naloxone to specified staff.
2SHB 2214
College Grant/Public Assistance
Sponsors: Slatter, Bergquist, Chopp
Final Status: C 116 L 24
Allows Basic Food Program or Food Assistance Program recipients in the tenth, eleventh, and
twelfth grades to automatically qualify as income-eligible for the Washington College Grant.
SB 5904
Financial Aid Terms
Sponsors: Nobles, Hansen, Dhingra
Final Status: C 323 L 24
Extends eligibility for awards under the Washington College Grant, College Bound Scholarship,
and Passport to Careers Program to six years or 150 percent of the published length of the
student's program, or the credit or clock-hour equivalent.
SSB 5953
Incarcerated Student Grants
Sponsors: Wilson, C., Frame, Hasegawa
Final Status: C 272 L 24
Allows incarcerated individuals to apply for and utilize federal and state financial aid grants for
postsecondary education programs at the Department of Corrections.
SSB 6053
Education Data Sharing
Sponsors: Holy, Lovick, Mullet
Final Status: C 324 L 24
Requires the Washington Student Achievement Council to enter into data-sharing agreements
with the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to facilitate the transfer of high school
student directory information to inform high school students of postsecondary financial aid and
educational opportunities available in the state.
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REGULATED SUBSTANCES & GAMING COMMITTEE
(360) 786-7127
SHB 1249
Retail Cannabis Products
Sponsors: Corry, Reeves
Final Status: C 9 L 24
Authorizes cannabis retailers to sell additional amounts of certain cannabis-infused product in
liquid form to a retail customer in a single transaction. Authorizes persons 21 years of age or
older to possess and, subject to requirements in current law, to transfer additional amounts of
certain cannabis-infused product in liquid form to another person or persons 21 years of age or
older.
SHB 1453
Medical Cannabis/Tax
Sponsors: Wylie, Chapman, Kloba
Final Status: C 79 L 24
Provides a tax exemption from the 37 percent cannabis excise tax for qualifying patients and
designated providers with a recognition card on purchases of certain cannabis products, through
June 2029. Requires a review of the tax preference by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review
Committee, with a report in 2028.
2SHB 2151
Cannabis Testing Laboratory Accreditation
Sponsors: Reeves, Chapman, Kloba
Final Status: C 69 L 24
Reassigns agency authority for accreditation of cannabis testing laboratories to the Department of
Agriculture (WSDA). Authorizes the WSDA to use expedited rulemaking; modifies authorization
related to the fee that may be imposed for the administration of the cannabis testing laboratory
accreditation program; and modifies a provision requiring destruction of cannabis if a sample
does not meet applicable quality assurance and product standards.
HB 2204
Emergency Liquor Permits
Sponsors: Waters, Wylie
Final Status: C 91 L 24
Creates a temporary liquor permit for a licensed manufacturer to authorize the sale, service,
storage, and consumption of liquor on the premises of another liquor licensee with retail sales
privileges when an emergency has made the manufacturer's premises inaccessible.
HB 2260
Alcohol Sale to Minors/Civil
Sponsors: Waters, Reeves, Leavitt
Final Status: C 71 L 24
Authorizes the Liquor and Cannabis Board to impose a civil penalty for the sale, gift, or supply of
liquor to any person under the age of 21 under certain circumstances.
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2SHB 2320
High THC Cannabis Products
Sponsors: Davis, Eslick, Bergquist
Final Status: C 360 L 24
Requires the Department of Health (DOH) to develop optional training for cannabis retail staff
and a notice cannabis retailers must post related to possible health risks and impacts of high-
tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) cannabis and available resources. Specifies requirements for public
health messages and social marketing campaigns related to high-THC cannabis, intended to be
funded through DOH contracts. Requires the Health Care Authority to contract with an entity to
develop and implement guidance and health interventions for health care providers, certain
patients, and for other uses, with reports in 2025, 2027, and 2028. Requires the Liquor and
Cannabis Board to collect data on cannabis product sales, including about THC concentration,
with a report in 2025.
SSB 5376
Cannabis Waste
Sponsors: Stanford, Rivers, Keiser
Final Status: C 243 L 24
Permits a licensed cannabis producer or licensed cannabis processor to sell solid waste generated
during cannabis production or processing under certain conditions.
ESB 5816
Alcohol Server Permits
Sponsors: Van De Wege, Trudeau, Mullet
Final Status: C 265 L 24
Modifies the authority of the Liquor and Cannabis Board to suspend or revoke an alcohol server
permit of an applicant or permittee for specified felony convictions, rather than any felony.
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STATE GOVERNMENT & TRIBAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE
(360) 786-7124
SHB 1105
Public Comment Notice
Sponsors: Kloba, Abbarno, Thai
Final Status: C 171 L 24
Mandates public agencies that are required to solicit public comment for a statutorily specified
period of time and publish notice of the comment period to include the first and last date of the
comment submission period. Subjects an agency to civil penalties for failure to include this
information in a notice of public comment.
E2SHB 1272
Voters' Pamphlets
Sponsors: Bergquist, Volz, Reeves
Final Status: C 78 L 24
Requires that individuals appointed by the legislative authority of a jurisdiction to write
arguments for and against ballot measures in local voters' pamphlets must reside within the
jurisdictional boundaries. Increases the maximum fine for publishing or distributing campaign
material that is deceptively similar to a voters' pamphlet to $5 per copy or $10,000, whichever is
greater.
HB 1471
State Procurement Procedures
Sponsors: Stearns, Ramos, Gregerson
Final Status: C 140 L 24
Reinstates the authority of the Department of Enterprise Services (DES) to fine or debar a
contractor for failure to comply with certain provisions requiring equality among workers.
Modifies provisions relating to sole source contracts, convenience contracts, and emergency
contracts including increasing the minimum number of days that a sole source contract must be
filed and made public to 15 business days, modifying the definition of convenience contract and
who qualifies as a sole source contractor, and increasing the number of days an agency has to
submit an emergency contract to the DES after making an emergency purchase to 10 business
days.
2E2SHB 1541
Statutory Entities - Members With Lived Experience
Sponsors: Farivar, Couture, Mena
Final Status: C 283 L 24
Requires the inclusion of people with direct lived experience as members on statutory entities,
defined as entities that are temporary, established by statute after January 1, 2025, established
for the specific purpose of examining a particular issue that directly and tangibly affects a
particular underrepresented population, and required to report to the Legislature on that
issue. Requires the inclusion of the membership requirements under the act in the Bill Drafting
Guide.
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HB 1726
Fire Service Training
Sponsors: Bronoske, Robertson, Griffey
Final Status: C 46 L 24
Removes the method for calculating reimbursement rates for Firefighter 1 training expenses of
public fire agencies that do not use the training services of the Fire Training Academy, and instead
specifies that such reimbursement is provided in accordance with rules established by the
Director of Fire Protection.
HB 1876
Confidential Fisheries Information
Sponsors: Springer, McEntire, Reeves
Final Status: C 48 L 24
Exempts from public disclosure certain confidential fishery-related information collected by other
states.
SHB 1947
Technology Governance
Sponsors: Street, Couture, Ryu
Final Status: C 54 L 24
Renames the Consolidated Technology Services Agency as Washington Technology Solutions.
Eliminates the Office of the State Chief Information Officer (OCIO) and reassigns the OCIO's
responsibilities to Washington Technology Solutions. Directs Washington Technology Solutions to
establish additional standards and policies for technology and requires state agencies to annually
certify their compliance with the standards and policies. Exempts certain Washington Technology
Solutions staff from the State Civil Service Law.
HB 1962
Voter Address Changes
Sponsors: Low, Cheney, Ryu
Final Status: C 56 L 24
Applies the methods of transferring a voter registration address that are currently only available
to persons moving within a county to all registered voters. Removes the requirement that a voter
must reregister to vote when moving from one county to another within Washington. Modifies
voter registration and notification procedures related to voter address changes for county
auditors.
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E2SHB 2000
International Leadership
Sponsors: Mena, Berry, Ramel
Final Status: C 336 L 24 Partial Veto
Requires the Office of International Relations and Protocol (OIRP) to create a strategic plan,
updated at regular intervals, to guide the state's international engagement and economic
development. Modifies the duties of the OIRP, especially with respect to establishing
government-to-government relationships, coordinating protocol for receiving foreign dignitaries,
and creating an intergovernmental exchange with British Columbia. Creates an
interparliamentary exchange between the legislatures of Washington and British Columbia.
Increases membership of the Legislative Committee on Economic Development and International
Relations (LCEDIR) from 12 to 16 legislators. Transfers primary responsibility for designating
foreign jurisdictions of strategic importance to Washington to the OIRP and the LCEDIR, jointly.
Partial Veto Summary:
Vetoes the section amending intent language related to the purposes for having established the
OIRP. (See veto message).
HB 2032
Yard Sign Disclosures/Size
Sponsors: Cheney, Low, Ramos
Final Status: C 148 L 24
Removes the exemption from displaying the sponsor's name and address for political
advertisement yard signs that are 8 feet by 4 feet or smaller.
SHB 2091
Fallen Firefighter Memorial
Sponsors: Bronoske, Griffey, Leavitt
Final Status: C 65 L 24
Establishes a fallen firefighter memorial on the Capitol Campus in Olympia. Creates a
nonappropriated account to support the establishment and maintenance of the memorial.
E2SHB 2099
State Custody/ID Cards
Sponsors: Farivar, Cortes, Pollet
Final Status: C 315 L 24
Requires state hospitals, the Special Commitment Center, secure community transition facilities,
certain residential treatment facilities, and the Department of Corrections to issue facility
identification documents for individuals in the custody or care of the facility and to ensure that
certain individuals possess valid state identification prior to release or discharge. Requires the
Department of Licensing to develop a model policy for the Department of Licensing and the
governing units of city, county, and multijurisdictional jails to assist individuals in custody with
obtaining a state identification.
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HB 2209
Lunar New Year
Sponsors: Thai, Ryu, Gregerson
Final Status: C 76 L 24
Designates the Lunar New Year as a legislatively recognized day. Encourages governmental
entities and educational and cultural organizations to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Requires the
State Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs to create programming and resources for
entities to use in their celebrations.
SHB 2216
State Employee Degree Requirements
Sponsors: Cheney, Leavitt, Walen
Final Status: C 70 L 24
Specifies that the classification plan for classified service employees may not require a two-year
or four-year college degree as the only way to demonstrate qualifications for a role unless that
degree is required by law.
ESB 5824
Dissolution Of Libraries & Library Districts
Sponsors: Hunt, Keiser, Kuderer
Final Status: C 266 L 24
Changes the number of signatures required to file a petition to dissolve a library created by a
county, city, or town from 100 taxpayers to 25 percent of qualified electors of that county, city, or
town. Increases the percentage of voters required to file a petition to dissolve a library district,
and consequently a library created by that district to 25 percent of all eligible voters residing in
the library district including those residing within incorporated cities or towns in the library
district.
SB 5843
Election Security Breaches
Sponsors: Nguyen, Boehnke, Hasegawa
Final Status: C 28 L 24
Requires every county to install and maintain an intrusion detection system to monitor its
election related network and to disclose certain malicious activity or breaches of security of
information technology systems. Authorizes the Secretary of State to certify the results of an
election if a county canvassing board refuses to certify the results of the election without
cause. Establishes violations and penalties related to election interference.
SSB 5857
Reorganization of Campaign Disclosure Statutes
Sponsors: Hunt, Nobles
Final Status: C 164 L 24
Recodifies campaign finance and disclosure statutes into a new title (Title 29B) of the Revised
Code of Washington.
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ESSB 5890
Ballot Rejection
Sponsors: Valdez, Hunt, Dhingra
Final Status: C 269 L 24
Requires county auditors to use additional methods of communication to cure ballots that are
unsigned or have a signature that does not match the one on file. Directs the Secretary of State
to adopt statewide standards and related tools for signature verification and ballot curing.
Creates a work group to approve a uniform ballot envelope design. Requires that canvassing
board meetings are held at times and locations that are accessible to the public. Requires county
auditors to develop a community outreach plan to educate voters about signature verification
requirements.
SB 5913
Student Athlete NIL/Ethics
Sponsors: Valdez, MacEwen, Hunt
Final Status: C 33 L 24
Provides that the Ethics in Public Service Act does not prohibit an employee of a state institution
of higher education from using public resources to benefit a student athlete in advising,
facilitation, acknowledgment, or education related to a matter involving name, image, and
likeness.
SSB 6047
OPMA Executive Sessions/CCA
Sponsors: Warnick, Boehnke, Short
Final Status: C 277 L 24
Permits governing bodies of public agencies subject to the Open Public Meetings Act to enter
executive session to consider greenhouse gas allowance auction bidding information.
SSB 6125
Lakeland Village Records
Sponsors: Kauffman, Frame, Wellman
Final Status: C 134 L 24
Directs the Division of Archives and Records Management to create a preservation plan to
organize, catalogue, and store historical documents and artifacts identified at Lakeland Village.
SSB 6157
Civil Service
Sponsors: Lovick, Hasegawa, Hunt
Final Status: C 330 L 24
Grants the agency head in public employment hiring agencies the discretion to add points to the
passing mark of a competitive examination for applicants with specific qualifications including
language fluency, education, and experience. Permits individuals with Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrival (DACA) status to apply for positions with sheriff offices and city firefighter, city
police, and fish and wildlife officer positions. Provides that law enforcement agencies that
employ a lawful permanent resident or an individual with DACA status must have a written
firearms policy in place that authorizes the possession and carry of firearms by those officers.
Specifies that the classified service classification plans must recognize that persons legally
authorized to work under federal law are eligible for employment unless prohibited by other state
or federal law.
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SSB 6269
Alternative Voter Verification
Sponsors: Valdez, Hunt, Kuderer
Final Status: C 138 L 24
Requires the Secretary of State to establish an alternative verification options pilot project for the
purpose of the development and testing of supplemental methods, other than signature
verification, to verify that a ballot was filled out and returned by the intended voter.
SCR 8414
Civic Health Committee
Sponsors: Lovick, Torres, Billig
Final Status: SFiled Sec/St
Establishes the Joint Select Committee on Civic Health to build upon the work of the Project for
Civic Health.
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TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE
(360) 786-7145
HB 1963
License Plate Covers
Sponsors: Ramos, Fitzgibbon, Ryu
Final Status: C 84 L 24
Makes it unlawful to use a license plate cover. Requires that, until January 1, 2025, the penalty
for the violation of using a license plate cover must be a written warning.
EHB 1964
Prorate & Fuel Tax Collections
Sponsors: Ramos, Robertson, Reeves
Final Status: C 1 L 24
Grants the Department of Licensing (DOL) broad authority to enforce fuel tax
requirements. Requires the DOL to establish a prorate and fuel tax discovery team to detect and
investigate fuel tax and proportional registration violations and assess alleged civil
violations. Makes a person other than a licensee who is engaged in the business of selling,
purchasing, distributing, storing, transporting, or delivering fuel, and who fails to submit required
tax reports to the DOL, subject to civil and criminal penalties. Exempts fuel tax reports submitted
to the DOL from public inspection and copying, subject to certain specified exceptions.
SHB 1989
Graffiti Abatement Pilot
Sponsors: Barkis, Low, Jacobsen
Final Status: C 111 L 24
Requires the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) to establish a Graffiti
Abatement and Reduction Pilot Program that includes field testing spray drone technology and
testing of improvements to systems capable of identifying individuals who damage property with
graffiti, subject to appropriations. Directs the WSDOT to report to the appropriate committees of
the Legislature on the pilot program by December 1, 2024.
ESHB 2134
Transportation Budget, Supplemental
Sponsors: Fey, Timmons, Paul
Final Status: C 310 L 24 Partial Veto
Makes supplemental transportation appropriations totaling $14.6 billion for the 2023-25 fiscal
biennium.
Partial Veto Summary:
Vetoes multiple items in the supplemental transportation budget. (See veto message).
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HB 2318
State Route Number 501
Sponsors: Orcutt, Wylie, Cheney
Final Status: C 73 L 24
Removes the 3-mile split northern section of State Route 501 within the city of Ridgefield in Clark
County from the state highway system.
SHB 2357
State Patrol Longevity Bonus
Sponsors: Fey, Barkis, Hutchins
Final Status: C 237 L 24
Requires an annual longevity bonus of $15,000 to be paid to Washington State Patrol employees
achieving 26 or more years of service until June 30, 2029. Specifies that the bonus will be paid in
four equal quarterly payments.
ESHB 2384
Traffic Safety Cameras
Sponsors: Donaghy, Fitzgibbon, Walen
Final Status: C 307 L 24
Authorizes automated traffic safety cameras (traffic cameras) to be used to detect speed
violations on state routes within city limits that are classified as city streets and in work
zones. Makes permanent the pilot program in cities with populations above 500,000 permitting
traffic cameras to be used at certain locations for public transportation-related
infractions. Authorizes traffic cameras to be used to detect public transportation-only lane
violations in cities with a bus rapid transit corridor or route. Authorizes traffic cameras to be used
as part of a public transportation vehicle-mounted system by a transit authority within a county
with a population of more than 1.5 million residents to detect bus stop zone
violations. Authorizes civilian employees who work for a law enforcement agency or local public
works or transportation department to review and issue notices of infraction for traffic camera-
enforced infractions. Restricts the use of revenue generated by traffic cameras to certain traffic
safety purposes and requires that 25 percent of this revenue be deposited in the Cooper Jones
Active Transportation Safety Account, subject to certain exceptions for existing traffic camera
programs.
SSB 5652
Tow Truck Operator Compensation
Sponsors: Lovick, Dozier, Hawkins
Final Status: C 320 L 24
Specifies that a person who operates a vehicle on a public highway in an illegal or negligent
manner is liable for the charges of a registered tow truck operator (RTTO) dispatched by law
enforcement or other governmental agency. Authorizes an RTTO to bring a civil action to recover
amounts up to certain fee schedules.
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SB 5800
Department of Licensing Documents
Sponsors: Wilson, C., Torres, Billig
Final Status: C 162 L 24
Adds the term "responsible adult" to the types of adults who can sign the application for a driver's
license or motorcycle endorsement for a person under 18 years of age. Modifies eligibility criteria
for at-cost identicards for applicants receiving public assistance grants. Directs the Department of
Licensing to conduct a study on the feasibility of offering reduced-fee identicards.
SSB 5812
Electric Vehicle Fires
Sponsors: Wilson, J., Nguyen, Lovick
Final Status: C 189 L 24
Directs the Washington State Patrol to conduct a study of electric vehicle fires with a reporting
date of January 1, 2025.
SB 6017
Border Area Fuel Tax Use
Sponsors: Shewmake, King, Liias
Final Status: C 275 L 24
Expands the permitted uses of border area fuel tax proceeds from certain areas to include
projects contained in the transportation plan of the state, a regional transportation planning
organization, city, county, or transportation benefit district.
SB 6084
Collector Vehicles/Trailers
Sponsors: Wagoner, Lovick
Final Status: C 131 L 24
Specifies that a collector vehicle that is a motor vehicle is authorized to tow a trailer if the trailer
is being used for participation in club activities, exhibitions, tours, and parades.
SSB 6115
Speed Safety Cameras
Sponsors: King, Liias, Lovick
Final Status: C 308 L 24
Sets the penalty for speed safety camera (safety camera) violations to $0 for a first violation and
$248 for subsequent violations. Requires that a final order be entered that finds a person
committed an infraction captured by a safety camera if the person fails to respond to a notice of
infraction. Authorizes the Office of Administrative Hearings to grant a payment plan if it
determines that a person is not able to pay the monetary obligation for a safety camera-enforced
infraction. Permits courts and government agencies with jurisdiction over safety camera-
enforced infractions to forward outstanding violations to the Department of Licensing for vehicle
registration holds.
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SB 6229
Green Transportation Grants/Match
Sponsors: Shewmake, Cleveland, King
Final Status: C 104 L 24
Allows the Washington State Department of Transportation to determine the required match for
the Green Transportation Capital Grant Program.
SB 6283
Connecting Communities Program
Sponsors: Nobles, Billig, Shewmake
Final Status: C 106 L 24
Eliminates the July 1, 2027, expiration date of the Sandy Williams Connecting Communities
Program.
SSB 6316
State Route 520 Corridor
Sponsors: Pedersen, King
Final Status: C 281 L 24
Authorizes the Washington State Department of Transportation to apply for a state and local
sales and use tax deferral related to the construction of the SR 520 Corridor Improvements—West
End Project.
SJM 8008
Justin R. Schaffer Highway
Sponsors: Wilson, J.
Final Status: SFiled Sec/St
Requests the Washington State Transportation Commission to commence proceedings to
designate a section of State Route 6 in Lewis County as the "Washington State Patrol Trooper
Justin R. Schaffer Memorial Highway."
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Numerical Index
SHB 1012 .......................................................... 59
HB 1054 ............................................................ 52
ESHB 1097 ........................................................ 26
SHB 1105 .......................................................... 77
HB 1146 ............................................................ 30
HB 1153 .............................................................. 3
E2SHB 1185 ...................................................... 35
2SHB 1205 ........................................................ 13
HB 1226 .............................................................. 3
3SHB 1228 ........................................................ 30
E4SHB 1239 ...................................................... 30
SHB 1241 .......................................................... 20
ESHB 1248 .......................................................... 7
SHB 1249 .......................................................... 75
E2SHB 1272 ...................................................... 77
ESHB 1277 ........................................................ 30
2ESHB 1282 ...................................................... 12
ESHB 1300 ........................................................ 20
E2SHB 1368 ...................................................... 35
2ESHB 1377 ...................................................... 31
SHB 1453 .......................................................... 75
HB 1455 ............................................................ 13
HB 1471 ............................................................ 77
ESHB 1493 ........................................................ 20
2ESHB 1508 ...................................................... 43
HB 1530 ............................................................ 21
2E2SHB 1541 .................................................... 77
2SHB 1551 ........................................................ 35
ESHB 1589 ........................................................ 36
ESHB 1608 ........................................................ 31
E2SHB 1618 ...................................................... 13
HB 1635 ............................................................ 21
ESHB 1652 ........................................................ 13
HB 1726 ............................................................ 78
HB 1752 .............................................................. 3
2EHB 1757 ........................................................ 40
SHB 1818 .......................................................... 40
ESHB 1835 ........................................................ 59
SHB 1851 ............................................................ 7
ESHB 1862 ........................................................ 40
HB 1867 ............................................................ 40
SHB 1870 .......................................................... 59
HB 1876 ............................................................ 78
2SHB 1877 ........................................................ 14
HB 1879 ............................................................
31
SHB 1880 .......................................................... 26
SHB 1889 .......................................................... 26
HB 1890 ........................................................... 68
SHB 1892 .......................................................... 52
HB 1895 ........................................................... 40
HB 1898 ........................................................... 61
E2SHB 1899 ...................................................... 68
HB 1901 ........................................................... 61
SHB 1903 .......................................................... 14
SHB 1905 .......................................................... 61
SHB 1911 .......................................................... 14
SHB 1916 .......................................................... 55
HB 1917 ........................................................... 72
SHB 1919 ............................................................ 3
HB 1920 ........................................................... 26
SHB 1924 .......................................................... 36
HB 1927 ........................................................... 61
2SHB 1929 ........................................................ 43
SHB 1939 .......................................................... 72
2SHB 1941 ........................................................ 43
SHB 1942 .......................................................... 62
HB 1943 ........................................................... 72
SHB 1945 .......................................................... 55
HB 1946 ........................................................... 72
SHB 1947 .......................................................... 78
HB 1948 ........................................................... 36
HB 1950 ........................................................... 72
HB 1954 ........................................................... 43
HB 1955 ........................................................... 36
E2SHB 1956 ...................................................... 31
ESHB 1957 ........................................................ 44
HB 1958 ........................................................... 14
HB 1961 ........................................................... 21
HB 1962 ........................................................... 78
HB 1963 ........................................................... 83
EHB 1964 .......................................................... 83
SHB 1970 .......................................................... 55
HB 1972 ........................................................... 44
SHB 1974 .......................................................... 14
HB 1975 ........................................................... 62
HB 1976 ........................................................... 37
HB 1978 ........................................................... 59
SHB 1979 .......................................................... 44
HB 1982 ........................................................... 59
HB 1983 .............................................................
7
SHB 1985 ............................................................ 7
HB 1987 ........................................................... 68
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SHB 1989 .......................................................... 83
HB 1992 ............................................................ 15
SHB 1996 .......................................................... 26
ESHB 1998 ........................................................ 52
SHB 1999 .......................................................... 21
E2SHB 2000 ...................................................... 79
ESHB 2003 ........................................................ 40
HB 2004 ............................................................ 72
SHB 2007 .......................................................... 55
SHB 2012 .......................................................... 41
2SHB 2014 ........................................................ 59
SHB 2015 .......................................................... 44
ESHB 2019 ........................................................ 73
SHB 2020 .......................................................... 60
ESHB 2021 ........................................................ 15
2SHB 2022 ........................................................ 62
SHB 2025 .......................................................... 73
HB 2032 ............................................................ 79
HB 2034 ............................................................ 15
ESHB 2039 ........................................................ 37
ESHB 2041 ........................................................ 44
HB 2044 ............................................................ 41
SHB 2045 ............................................................ 3
SHB 2048 .......................................................... 21
SHB 2056 .......................................................... 15
SHB 2061 .......................................................... 62
2SHB 2071 ........................................................ 52
SHB 2072 .......................................................... 15
SHB 2075 .......................................................... 45
HI 2081 ............................................................. 31
2SHB 2084 ........................................................ 22
SHB 2086 .......................................................... 22
EHB 2088 .......................................................... 15
SHB 2091 .......................................................... 79
SHB 2097 .......................................................... 62
E2SHB 2099 ...................................................... 79
SHB 2102 .......................................................... 45
HB 2110 ............................................................ 32
HI 2111 ............................................................. 41
HB 2111 ............................................................ 56
2SHB 2112 ........................................................ 73
HI 2113 ............................................................. 22
ESHB 2115 ........................................................ 45
ESHB 2118 ........................................................ 16
2SHB 2124 ........................................................ 56
SHB 2127 ..........................................................
63
ESHB 2131 ........................................................ 37
ESHB 2134 ........................................................ 83
HB 2135 ........................................................... 60
SHB 2136 .......................................................... 63
HB 2137 ........................................................... 68
SHB 2147 ............................................................ 4
2SHB 2151 ........................................................ 75
ESHB 2153 ........................................................ 27
SHB 2156 .......................................................... 27
SHB 2165 ............................................................ 4
SHB 2180 ............................................................ 7
SHB 2195 .......................................................... 12
EHB 2199 .......................................................... 41
HB 2204 ........................................................... 75
ESHB 2207 ........................................................ 37
HB 2209 ........................................................... 80
HB 2213 ........................................................... 16
2SHB 2214 ........................................................ 73
SHB 2216 .......................................................... 80
SHB 2217 .......................................................... 56
SHB 2226 .......................................................... 63
SHB 2230 .......................................................... 56
ESHB 2236 ........................................................ 32
HB 2246 ........................................................... 63
E2SHB 2247 ...................................................... 45
ESHB 2256 ........................................................ 56
HB 2260 ........................................................... 75
EHB 2266 .......................................................... 63
SHB 2293 ............................................................ 4
SHB 2295 .......................................................... 45
SHB 2296 .......................................................... 68
E2SHB 2301 ...................................................... 38
ESHB 2303 ........................................................ 22
ESHB 2306 ........................................................ 41
E2SHB 2311 ...................................................... 22
HB 2318 ........................................................... 84
2SHB 2320 ........................................................ 76
ESHB 2321 ........................................................ 52
SHB 2329 .......................................................... 27
ESHB 2331 ........................................................ 32
SHB 2335 .......................................................... 32
SHB 2347 .......................................................... 46
SHB 2348 .......................................................... 69
E2SHB 2354 ...................................................... 69
SHB 2355 ..........................................................
46
SHB 2357 .......................................................... 84
SHB 2368 .......................................................... 57
HB 2375 ........................................................... 41
SHB 2381 .......................................................... 32
SHB 2382 .......................................................... 64
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ESHB 2384 ........................................................ 84
SHB 2396 .......................................................... 46
HB 2415 ............................................................ 57
HB 2416 ............................................................ 46
SHB 2424 ............................................................ 4
SHB 2428 .......................................................... 69
HB 2433 ............................................................ 69
ESHB 2441 .......................................................... 7
HB 2454 ............................................................ 41
SHB 2467 .......................................................... 46
HB 2481 .............................................................. 8
ESHB 2482 ........................................................ 42
ESHB 2494 .......................................................... 8
2ESSB 5150 ......................................................... 4
SB 5180 ............................................................ 33
SB 5184 ............................................................ 46
E2SSB 5213 ....................................................... 47
ESSB 5271 ......................................................... 47
SSB 5306 ............................................................. 4
SSB 5376 ........................................................... 76
SB 5419 ............................................................ 57
ESSB 5424 ......................................................... 23
SSB 5427 ........................................................... 16
2SSB 5444 ......................................................... 16
ESB 5462........................................................... 33
ESSB 5481 ......................................................... 47
SB 5508 ............................................................ 69
2E2SSB 5580 ..................................................... 47
SSB 5588 ........................................................... 23
ESSB 5589 ......................................................... 16
ESB 5592........................................................... 47
ESB 5632........................................................... 64
SB 5647 ............................................................ 33
SSB 5649 ........................................................... 69
SSB 5652 ........................................................... 84
2SSB 5660 ......................................................... 16
SSB 5667 ............................................................. 5
E2SSB 5670 ....................................................... 33
SSB 5774 ........................................................... 57
ESSB 5778 ......................................................... 64
2SSB 5780 ......................................................... 17
2SSB 5784 ........................................................... 5
SSB 5785 ............................................................. 5
SSB 5786 ........................................................... 17
SSB 5787 ........................................................... 17
ESSB 5788 .........................................................
17
ESB 5790........................................................... 33
SB 5792 ............................................................ 53
ESSB 5793 ........................................................ 64
ESSB 5796 ........................................................ 53
SSB 5798 .......................................................... 27
SB 5799 .............................................................. 5
SB 5800 ............................................................ 85
ESSB 5801 ........................................................ 27
SSB 5802 ............................................................ 8
SSB 5803 .......................................................... 60
SSB 5804 .......................................................... 34
SB 5805 ............................................................ 17
SSB 5806 .......................................................... 28
SSB 5808 .......................................................... 64
SB 5811 ............................................................ 48
SSB 5812 .......................................................... 85
ESB 5816 .......................................................... 76
SB 5821 ............................................................ 48
ESB 5824 .......................................................... 80
2SSB 5825 ........................................................ 18
ESSB 5828 ........................................................ 18
SSB 5829 .......................................................... 48
SSB 5834 .......................................................... 70
SB 5836 ............................................................ 18
E2SSB 5838 ...................................................... 28
SSB 5840 .......................................................... 53
SB 5842 ............................................................ 18
SB 5843 ............................................................ 80
SB 5852 ............................................................ 34
E2SSB 5853 ...................................................... 57
SSB 5857 .......................................................... 80
SSB 5869 .......................................................... 70
SB 5881 .............................................................. 8
2SSB 5882 .......................................................... 8
SB 5883 ............................................................ 34
SB 5884 ............................................................ 38
SB 5885 ............................................................ 70
SB 5886 ............................................................ 65
ESSB 5890 ........................................................ 81
ESSB 5891 ........................................................ 23
2SSB 5893 ........................................................ 23
SB 5897 ............................................................ 42
SB 5904 ............................................................ 73
ESB 5906 ............................................................ 8
E2SSB 5908 ......................................................
57
SB 5913 ............................................................ 81
SSB 5917 .......................................................... 23
SSB 5919 .......................................................... 38
SSB 5920 .......................................................... 48
SSB 5925 .......................................................... 70
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SSB 5931 ........................................................... 38
SSB 5934 ........................................................... 70
SSB 5935 ........................................................... 65
SSB 5936 ........................................................... 48
E2SSB 5937 ....................................................... 24
SB 5938 ............................................................ 24
SSB 5940 ........................................................... 49
ESSB 5949 ......................................................... 12
ESSB 5950 ........................................................... 9
SB 5952 ............................................................ 65
SSB 5953 ........................................................... 73
E2SSB 5955 ....................................................... 70
SB 5970 ............................................................ 71
SSB 5972 ............................................................. 6
ESSB 5973 ......................................................... 53
ESSB 5974 ......................................................... 58
SB 5979 ............................................................ 65
SSB 5980 ........................................................... 65
SB 5982 ............................................................ 49
ESSB 5983 ......................................................... 49
ESSB 5985 ......................................................... 18
SSB 5986 ........................................................... 49
ESB 5997........................................................... 66
SSB 5998 ........................................................... 24
2SSB 6006 ......................................................... 24
ESSB 6007 ......................................................... 66
ESSB 6009 ......................................................... 25
SB 6013 ............................................................ 42
SSB 6015 ........................................................... 71
SB 6017 ............................................................ 85
SSB 6025 ........................................................... 28
SB 6027 ............................................................ 28
ESSB 6038 ......................................................... 58
ESSB 6039 ......................................................... 38
ESSB 6040 ......................................................... 12
SSB 6047 ........................................................... 81
SSB 6053 ........................................................... 73
E2SSB 6058 ....................................................... 39
SSB 6059 ........................................................... 53
SSB 6060 ........................................................... 66
E2SSB 6068 ....................................................... 18
ESSB 6069 ......................................................... 28
SB 6079 ............................................................ 58
SB 6080 .............................................................. 9
SB 6084 ............................................................ 85
ESB 6087............................................................. 9
SB
6088 ............................................................ 66
ESB 6089........................................................... 67
SB 6094 .............................................................. 9
ESB 6095 .......................................................... 49
ESB 6098 ............................................................ 9
SSB 6099 .......................................................... 10
SSB 6100 .......................................................... 10
ESSB 6105 ........................................................ 67
SSB 6106 .......................................................... 10
SSB 6108 .......................................................... 67
E2SSB 6109 ...................................................... 58
SSB 6115 .......................................................... 85
ESB 6120 .......................................................... 71
SSB 6121 .......................................................... 39
SSB 6125 .......................................................... 81
ESSB 6127 ........................................................ 50
SSB 6140 .......................................................... 71
SSB 6146 .......................................................... 25
ESB 6151 .......................................................... 50
SSB 6157 .......................................................... 81
SSB 6164 .......................................................... 60
SB 6173 ............................................................ 71
E2SSB 6175 ...................................................... 54
SB 6178 ............................................................ 50
SSB 6186 .......................................................... 25
SSB 6192 .......................................................... 12
E2SSB 6194 ...................................................... 67
SSB 6197 .......................................................... 10
SB 6215 ............................................................ 42
SB 6222 ............................................................ 18
SSB 6227 .......................................................... 19
2SSB 6228 ........................................................ 50
SB 6229 ............................................................ 86
SB 6234 ............................................................ 50
SB 6238 ............................................................ 42
ESB 6246 .......................................................... 19
E2SSB 6251 ...................................................... 51
SB 6263 ............................................................ 10
SSB 6269 .......................................................... 82
SB 6283 ............................................................ 86
ESSB 6286 ........................................................ 51
ESSB 6291 ........................................................ 71
ESB 6296 .......................................................... 74
SSB 6301 .......................................................... 25
SB 6308 ............................................................
11
SSB 6316 .......................................................... 86
ESJM 8005 ........................................................ 29
SJM 8007 .......................................................... 34
SJM 8008 .......................................................... 86
SSJM 8009 ........................................................ 42
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