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State bill data last updated Oct 16, 2026, 4:38 PM.

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• 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 1936 Became law
  Extending the expiration of certain school employee postretirement employment restrictions.
  May 15, 2025: Effective date 5/15/2025.
• HB 1946 Became law
  Clarifying tribal membership on local boards of health.
  May 13, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1829 Became law
  Concerning tribal warrants.
  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 1308 Became law
  Concerning access to personnel records.
  May 13, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• 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 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 1460 Became law
  Concerning protection order hope cards.
  May 12, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1432 Became law
  Improving access to appropriate mental health and substance use disorder services.
  May 12, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025*.
• HB 1149 Became law
  Preventing cruelty to animals.
  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 1052 Became law
  Clarifying a hate crime offense.
  May 12, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1173 Became law
  Concerning wages for journeypersons in high-hazard facilities.
  May 9, 2025: Effective date 1/1/2026.
• HB 1516 Became law
  Conducting a study of insurance coverage options for permanently affordable homeownership units.
  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 1372 Became law
  Modifying provisions on joint legislative audit and review committee studies.
  May 2, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• 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 1046 Became law
  Protecting the vulnerable by providing immunity from civil liability for damage to a motor vehicle arising from the rescue of vulnerable persons or domestic animals.
  Apr 30, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• 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.
• HB 1788 Became law
  Concerning workers' compensation benefits.
  Apr 25, 2025: Effective date 7/1/2026.
• HR 4664 Introduced
  Honoring Speaker Frank Chopp.
  Apr 24, 2025: Introduced.
• HB 1696 Became law
  Modifying the covenant homeownership program.
  Apr 22, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1355 Became law
  Modifying retail taxes compacts between the state of Washington and federally recognized tribes located in Washington state by increasing the revenue-sharing percentages when a compacting tribe has completed a qualified capital investment.
  Apr 22, 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 1747 Became law
  Expanding protections for applicants and employees under the Washington fair chance act.
  Apr 21, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1393 Became law
  Providing public school students with opportunities for cultural expression at commencement ceremonies.
  Apr 21, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1540 Became law
  Expanding eligibility for the students experiencing homelessness and foster youth program to an accredited tribal college.
  Apr 21, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1821 Became law
  Expanding the definition of "interested party" for the purposes of prevailing wage laws.
  Apr 21, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025*.
• HB 1486 Became law
  Adding a student member to the state board for community and technical colleges.
  Apr 21, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1105 Became law
  Exempting exclusive bargaining representatives for department of corrections employees from certain provisions related to coalition bargaining.
  Apr 21, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1531 Became law
  Preserving the ability of public officials to address communicable diseases.
  Apr 21, 2025: Effective date 4/21/2025.
• HB 1879 Became law
  Concerning meal and rest breaks for hospital workers.
  Apr 21, 2025: Effective date 1/1/2026.
• HB 1273 Became law
  Improving student access to dual credit programs.
  Apr 21, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1275 Became law
  Establishing department authority to ensure payment is received from the self-insured employer after a self-insured group or municipal employer has their self-insurer certification withdrawn.
  Apr 16, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1524 Became law
  Concerning workplace standards and requirements applicable to employers of isolated employees.
  Apr 16, 2025: Effective date 1/1/2026.
• HB 1205 Became law
  Prohibiting the knowing distribution of a forged digital likeness.
  Apr 16, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1064 Became law
  Eliminating the expiration of the interagency, multijurisdictional system improvement team.
  Apr 16, 2025: Effective date 6/30/2025.
• HB 1549 Became law
  Modifying the responsible bidder criteria for public works projects.
  Apr 16, 2025: Effective date 7/1/2026.
• HB 1556 Became law
  Expanding tuition waivers for high school completers at community and technical colleges.
  Apr 11, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HR 4661 Adopted
  Honoring Aysenur Ezgi Eygi.
  Apr 8, 2025: Adopted.
• HR 4659 Adopted
  Reaffirming the longstanding relationship between Washington and Canada.
  Apr 8, 2025: Adopted.
• HB 1209 Became law
  Protecting public health and safety by regulating the transfer of sodium nitrite.
  Apr 7, 2025: Effective date 4/7/2025.