Washington House Bills

Concerning appropriate response to assaults by individuals in behavioral health crisis.

Concerning persons referred for competency evaluation and restoration services.

Implementing certain recommendations from the sex offender policy board concerning the criminal offense of failure to register.

Increasing transparency in artificial intelligence.

Adding an additional superior court judge in Skagit county.

Providing judicial discretion to modify sentences in the interest of justice.

Concerning accountability and access to services for individuals charged with a misdemeanor.

Vacating convictions for driving under the influence.

Concerning the health technology assessment program.

Extending the commute trip reduction tax credit.

Adding labor trustees to college boards.

Concerning the conduct of limited audits of counted ballots during the election certification period.

Concerning energy labeling of residential buildings.

Adjourning SINE DIE.

Concerning sentencing of felony offenses.

Creating several new special license plates.

Concerning compliance with siting requirements for transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, indoor emergency shelters, and indoor emergency housing.

Concerning the administration of the board of tax appeals.

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

Concerning methods of communication used by the technology platform designed for the behavioral health crisis response and suicide prevention system.

Providing for the responsible management of refrigerant gases with a higher global warming potential than carbon dioxide that are used in appliances or other infrastructure.

Addressing service of notice by mail in cases involving forcible entry and forcible and unlawful detainer.

Transferring public property to Washington state federally recognized tribes for facilities to provide alcohol and substance use disorder prevention, treatment, and aftercare programs and services, and for behavioral health and related programs and services.

Clarifying the rules surrounding the removal of political advertising.

Phasing in the requirement that only standardized health plans may be offered on the health benefit exchange.

Concerning speed safety camera systems.

Addressing wildfire protection and mitigation.

Concerning membership in the public employees' retirement system for certain part-time bus drivers employed full-time by the federal government.

Extending the pesticide application safety committee.

Creating an advisory board to the office of the corrections ombuds.

Allowing state employees living in an emergency or disaster area to receive shared leave.

Promoting access to information regarding the long-term services and supports trust program.

Creating a Washington state department of housing.

Supporting back country search and rescue organizations and volunteers through the creation of the back country search and rescue grant program.

Concerning inversion and diversion of cannabis.

Implementing recommendations of the 2023 child support schedule work group.

Allowing small business establishments in residential zones.

Establishing co-response services and training as an essential component of the crisis care continuum.

Supporting student well-being through instruction in social-emotional skills.

Incorporating a risks, strengths, and needs assessment tool in the risk assessment process when investigating alleged child abuse and neglect referrals.

Establishing a wild horse holding and training program at a state corrections center.

Adding two voting members that are transit users to the governing body of public transportation benefit areas.

Creating a data dashboard to track use of regulated substances.

Increasing access to portable orders for life-sustaining treatment.

Providing postsecondary education consumer protections.

Promoting community and transit-oriented housing development.

Modernizing the certificate of need program.

Concerning tax preferences for clean energy manufacturers.

Improving housing stability for tenants subject to the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act by limiting rent and fee increases, requiring notice of rent and fee increases, limiting fees and deposits, establishing a landlord resource center and associated services, authorizing tenant lease termination, creating parity between lease types, and providing for attorney general enforcement.

Improving school safety by extending and increasing penalties for interference by, or intimidation by threat of, force or violence at schools and athletic activities.

Limiting the application of certain civil penalties to protect landowners from incurring penalties based on the actions of the landowner's lessee.

Concerning the sale of biogenic carbon dioxide and other coproducts of biogas processing.

Recalculating sentencing ranges for currently incarcerated individuals whose offender score was increased by juvenile convictions.

Concerning exemption of certain personnel of the department of social and health services from civil service.

Concerning the sale of halal foods.

Concerning Holocaust and genocide education in public schools.

Recognizing posttraumatic stress disorder as an occupational disease for county coroners, examiners, and investigative personnel.

Improving meaningful access to elections by increasing language assistance.

Facilitating the use of dental records in missing person investigations.

Providing judicial discretion to modify sentences in the interests of justice.