Washington Senate Bills

Defining Washington state residency requirements for purposes of hospital charity care.

Concerning assisted living facilities that are owned or operated by affordable housing providers.

Increasing funding for the learning assistance program.

Providing information related to the human rights records of nations that export crude oil to Washington.

Making financial education instruction a graduation prerequisite and a required component of public education.

Mandating instruction on agricultural literacy for students in grades seven through 12.

Concerning a constitutional amendment providing for a residential real property exemption from property taxes levied for state purposes.

Reconvening the redistricting commission to adopt revised legislative district maps for the Yakima Valley region.

Increasing the working families' tax credit to reflect the economic burden of property taxes incorporated into rental amounts charged to residential tenants.

Modifying the capital gains tax under chapter 82.87 RCW and related statutes by closing loopholes, repealing and replacing the business and occupation tax credit with a capital gains tax credit, clarifying ambiguities and making technical corrections in a manner that is not estimated to affect state or local tax collections, treating spouses and domestic partners more consistently, modifying and adding definitions, creating a good faith penalty waiver, and modifying the publication schedule for inflation adjustments.

Enacting the pain parity act.

Concerning gift certificates as unclaimed property.

Protecting consumers by requiring summaries for certain agreements and policies presented in an electronic format.

Concerning taxation of military housing.

Creating a dilapidated recreational vehicle disposal program.

Modifying the working families' tax credit by clarifying the refundable nature of the credit, the application requirements, and the eligibility verification process.

Requiring state agencies to share information to encourage economic development.

Concerning coverage of prescription drugs for advanced metastatic cancer.

Implementing year-round Pacific standard time.

Modifying the responsible bidder criteria for public works projects.

Amending the Constitution to allow a majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds.

Strengthening pay transparency requirements.

Concerning advanced placement, international baccalaureate, and Cambridge international exams.

Concerning the city and county criminal justice assistance accounts.

Concerning substantive amendments to the state energy code for nonresidential buildings.

Concerning siting wind energy facilities to avoid interference with military installations.

Concerning newborn safe transfer.

Deterring robberies from retail establishments.

Concerning animal cruelty in the first degree.

Modifying provisions on joint legislative audit and review committee studies.

Concerning interruptive military service credit for members of the state retirement systems.

Modifying the department of fish and wildlife's habitat recovery pilot program.

Concerning diseased elk.

Concerning school district elections.

Concerning prejudgment interest.

Updating processes of the office of independent investigations by changing authority to obtain and share investigative information and aligning with current operations and practices.

Concerning the school districts' authority to establish their curriculum.

Concerning penalties related to eluding police vehicles and resisting arrest.

Requiring housing authorities to use notification methods designed to provide evidence of delivery.

Concerning a rangeland fire protection association pilot project.

Concerning the environmental impacts of fashion.

Concerning deepfake artificial intelligence-generated pornographic material involving minors.

Concerning requirements for fund-raising events of bona fide charitable or nonprofit organizations.

Establishing requirements for the disclosure of health care information for qualifying persons to receive paid family and medical leave benefits.

Addressing payments received due to a state enforcement action.

Concerning birth doulas.

Concerning legislative oversight of moneys received from enforcement actions.

Increasing the potential pool of law enforcement hires by allowing active and retired law enforcement and military personnel to import certain firearms for personal use.

Concerning wellness programs for certain health care professionals.

Concerning penalties for unlawfully obstructing traffic.

Adding the superintendent's designee to task forces and boards.

Increasing representation and voter participation in local elections.

Establishing a statewide policy on camping on public property.

Concerning peace officer hiring and certification.

Promoting community and transit-oriented housing development.

Concerning construction crane safety.

Concerning cost-sharing requirements for prescription epinephrine autoinjectors.

Designating kimchi day.

Concerning continued health benefits during paid family and medical leave for firefighters of small fire districts.

Concerning prosecution and public defense funding.