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State bill data last updated Oct 17, 2026, 4:06 PM.

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• HB 1296 Became law
  Promoting a safe and supportive public education system.
  May 20, 2025: Effective date 5/20/2025*.
• HB 1163 Became law
  Enhancing requirements relating to the purchase, transfer, and possession of firearms.
  May 20, 2025: Effective date 5/1/2027*.
• HB 2049 Became law
  Investing in the state's paramount duty to fund K-12 education and build strong and safe communities.
  May 20, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1392 Became law
  Creating the medicaid access program.
  May 19, 2025: Effective date 5/19/2025*.
• HB 1483 Became law
  Supporting the servicing and right to repair of certain products with digital electronics in a secure and reliable manner.
  May 19, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1837 Became law
  Establishing intercity passenger rail improvement priorities.
  May 19, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1811 Became law
  Enhancing crisis response services through co-response integration and support.
  May 19, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 2015 Became law
  Improving public safety funding by providing resources to local governments and state and local criminal justice agencies, and authorizing a local option tax.
  May 19, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1096 Became law
  Increasing housing options through lot splitting.
  May 17, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1774 Became law
  Modifying allowable terms for the lease of unused highway land.
  May 17, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1462 Became law
  Reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with hydrofluorocarbons.
  May 17, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1670 Became law
  Increasing transparency regarding sewage-containing spills.
  May 17, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1878 Became law
  Improving young driver safety.
  May 17, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025*.
• HB 1573 Became law
  Revising the period in which the oath of office must be taken for elective offices of counties, cities, towns, and special purpose districts.
  May 17, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1409 Became law
  Concerning the clean fuels program.
  May 17, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1990 Became law
  Authorizing utility companies to securitize certain costs related to disasters or emergencies to lower costs to customers.
  May 17, 2025: Effective date 5/17/2025.
• HB 1154 Became law
  Ensuring environmental and public health protection from solid waste handling facility operations.
  May 17, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1213 Became law
  Expanding protections for workers in the state paid family and medical leave program.
  May 17, 2025: Effective date 1/1/2026.
• HB 1934 Became law
  Concerning the disclosure of information pertaining to complainants, accusers, and witnesses in an employment investigation.
  May 15, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1253 Became law
  Expanding the ability of consumer-owned utilities to enter into joint use agreements.
  May 15, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1562 Became law
  Increasing the availability of baby diaper changing stations.
  May 13, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1351 Became law
  Adjusting age requirements for accessing the early childhood education and assistance program.
  May 13, 2025: Effective date 7/1/2025*.
• HB 1491 Became law
  Promoting transit-oriented housing development.
  May 13, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1587 Became law
  Encouraging local government partner promise scholarship programs within the opportunity scholarship program.
  May 13, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1514 Became law
  Encouraging the deployment of low carbon thermal energy networks.
  May 13, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1308 Became law
  Concerning access to personnel records.
  May 13, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1329 Became law
  Concerning wholesale power purchases by electric utilities under the Washington clean energy transformation act.
  May 12, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1023 Became law
  Adopting the cosmetology licensure compact.
  May 12, 2025: Effective date 6/1/2028.
• HB 1813 Became law
  Concerning the reprocurement of medical assistance services, including the realignment of behavioral health crisis services for medicaid enrollees.
  May 12, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1332 Became law
  Concerning transportation network companies.
  May 12, 2025: Effective date 9/1/2025*.
• HB 1418 Became law
  Adding two voting members that are transit users to the governing body of public transportation benefit areas.
  May 12, 2025: Effective date 1/1/2026.
• HB 1395 Became law
  Streamlining the home care worker background check process.
  May 12, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1186 Became law
  Expanding the situations in which medications can be dispensed or delivered from hospitals and health care entities.
  May 12, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1130 Became law
  Concerning utilization of developmental disabilities waivers.
  May 12, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1403 Became law
  Simplifying condominium construction statutes.
  May 7, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025*.
• HB 1217 Became law
  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.
  May 7, 2025: Effective date 5/7/2025.
• HB 1874 Became law
  Requiring training for cosmetologists, barbers, estheticians, and hair designers on the care, styling, and treatment of textured hair.
  May 2, 2025: Effective date 3/1/2026.
• HB 1012 Became law
  Authorizing the women's commission to solicit gifts, grants, and endowments from public or private sources.
  Apr 29, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HR 4650 Adopted
  Honoring Representative Bruce Q. Chandler.
  Apr 26, 2025: Adopted.
• HB 1971 Became law
  Increasing access to prescription hormone therapy.
  Apr 25, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1875 Became law
  Allowing the use of paid sick leave to prepare for or participate in certain immigration proceedings.
  Apr 25, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HR 4664 Introduced
  Honoring Speaker Frank Chopp.
  Apr 24, 2025: Introduced.
• HB 1141 Became law
  Concerning collective bargaining for agricultural cannabis workers.
  Apr 22, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1696 Became law
  Modifying the covenant homeownership program.
  Apr 22, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1183 Became law
  Concerning building code and development regulation reform.
  Apr 22, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1391 Became law
  Improving developmentally appropriate alternatives for youth outside the formal court process.
  Apr 22, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1484 Became law
  Concerning exceptional sentences for offenses which result in the pregnancy of a victim of rape.
  Apr 21, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1321 Became law
  Concerning the governor's authority to limit outside militia activities within the state.
  Apr 21, 2025: Effective date 4/21/2025.
• HB 1279 Became law
  Providing postsecondary education consumer protections.
  Apr 21, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1858 Became law
  Eliminating the exemption for assignments or substitutions of previously recorded deeds of trust from the document recording fee and the covenant homeownership program assessment.
  Apr 21, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.