Washington Senate Bills

Discouraging violent protests at postsecondary institutions by amending a court's ability to waive restitution owed to postsecondary institutions.

Exempting utility service vehicles from certain motor vehicle emission standards.

Incentivizing grid-connected residential battery energy storage systems.

Concerning senate confirmation of gubernatorial appointments to fill vacancies on the supreme court.

Requesting Congress to amend the marine mammal protection act and the migratory bird act to allow the lethal removal of pinnipeds and predatory birds in Puget Sound in a manner similar to the recent changes authorized in the Columbia river to protect endangered salmon populations.

Concerning alternative routes to social worker licensure.

Creating the Washington state board of governors for licensed social workers.

Using concurrent medicaid enrollment savings to fund opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

Concerning firearms background check.

Concerning the professional engineers' registration act.

Recognizing Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Hanukkah.

Concerning the manner and method for receiving promotional entries.

Reducing barriers to state employment by eliminating postgraduate degree requirements that are unnecessary.

Changing the Washington code of military justice so that it includes certain protections for victims of an offense while serving within the organized militia of Washington.

Protecting children from imminent risk of harm.

Improving juvenile rehabilitation.

Reducing introduction of contraband into Green Hill school.

Changing the official name of the department of children, youth, and families oversight board.

Exempting schools from retail sales tax imposed on certain services.

Concerning gatherings of a majority of members of a governing body and action taken by a governing body during a state or federally declared emergency in response to a natural disaster.

Expanding revenue generation and economic opportunities from natural climate solutions and ecosystem services.

Allowing self-insurers to accept certain industrial insurance claims

Concerning commercial shellfish fees.

Concerning the use of carbon capture and utilization, mineralization, or sequestration technologies under the Washington clean energy transformation act.

Providing a property tax exemption for qualifying housing used as a residency by tenants meeting certain disability criteria.

Exempting live presentations from retail sales and use tax.

Establishing an independent living ombuds to support seniors living in independent living facilities and the independent living portion of continuing care retirement communities.

Concerning residency requirements for charity care.

Creating an additional regional training option for the basic law enforcement academy.

Concerning the medicaid deprivatization act.

Establishing a medical loss ratio of at least 90 percent for health plans.

Establishing deadlines for the universal health care commission.

Expanding the income eligibility for the medical assistance program.

Creating the Washington is simply unaffordable fund.

Updating the office of homeless youth program provisions.

Exempting assignments or substitutions of previously recorded deeds of trust from the document recording fee and the covenant homeownership program assessment.

Expanding the public records exemption for personal information of family home child care providers to all licensed or certified child care providers.

Providing protections for school districts against burdensome public records requests.

Concerning public defense services.

Clarifying public defense caseload standards for local jurisdictions.

Concerning school district communications to the general public.

Concerning public participation requirements for department of fish and wildlife actions.

Permitting the medical use of cannabis by qualifying patients in specified health care facilities.

Ensuring the supply of pulse oximeters in public schools.

Modifying the standards for determining water quality pollution.

Restoring the 1985 tax exemptions for the sale of precious metals and bullion.

Preserving records and artifacts regarding the historical treatment of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities at Northern state hospital.

Limiting supplemental benefits for public employee leave while on paid family medical leave.

Protecting charitable organizations and ensuring the timely and secure transfer of property designated to them.

Providing enhanced medicaid payments to providers and hospitals.

Offering plant-based food options in schools.

Concerning false identification as a peace officer.

Concerning school district liability for violation of the Washington law against discrimination.

Establishing civil liability for suicide linked to the use of artificial intelligence systems.

Partnering with a mobile pregnancy application to improve maternal and infant health.

Increasing frontline staffing within the department of children, youth, and families.

Exempting emissions associated with lubricants from coverage under the cap and invest program.

Modifying procedures for releasing sexually violent predators to less restrictive alternative placements.

Providing for donations to the sea lion predation control account at the time of vessel registration for the purpose of salmon level preservation.

Establishing protections for citizens participating in the initiative and referendum process.