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State bill data last updated Oct 21, 2026, 8:30 AM.

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• HB 2050 Became law
  Implementing K-12 savings and efficiencies.
  May 20, 2025: Effective date 1/1/2026.
• HB 2081 Became law
  Modifying business and occupation tax surcharges, rates, and the advanced computing surcharge cap, clarifying the business and occupation tax deduction for certain investments, and creating a temporary business and occupation tax surcharge on large companies.
  May 20, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025*.
• 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 1498 Became law
  Concerning domestic violence co-responder programs.
  May 19, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• 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 2051 Became law
  Concerning payment to acute care hospitals for difficult to discharge medicaid patients.
  May 19, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1515 Became law
  Modernizing the regulation of alcohol service in public spaces.
  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 2047 Became law
  Eliminating the Washington employee ownership program.
  May 19, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1162 Became law
  Concerning workplace violence in health care settings.
  May 17, 2025: Effective date 1/1/2026.
• HB 1382 Became law
  Modernizing the all payers claim database.
  May 17, 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 1264 Became law
  Concerning the salaries of ferry system collective bargaining units.
  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 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 1946 Became law
  Clarifying tribal membership on local boards of health.
  May 13, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1491 Became law
  Promoting transit-oriented housing development.
  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 1422 Became law
  Modifying the drug take-back program.
  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 1232 Became law
  Concerning private detention facilities.
  May 12, 2025: Effective date 5/12/2025.
• HB 1395 Became law
  Streamlining the home care worker background check process.
  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 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 1052 Became law
  Clarifying a hate crime offense.
  May 12, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• 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 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.
• HB 1644 Became law
  Concerning the safety and health of working minors.
  Apr 28, 2025: Effective date 7/1/2026.
• HR 4650 Adopted
  Honoring Representative Bruce Q. Chandler.
  Apr 26, 2025: Adopted.
• HB 1272 Became law
  Extending the program to address complex cases of children in crisis.
  Apr 25, 2025: Effective date 4/25/2025.
• HB 1177 Became law
  Concerning the child welfare housing assistance program.
  Apr 25, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1270 Became law
  Concerning automatic deferred compensation enrollment for county, municipal, and other political subdivision employees.
  Apr 24, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HR 4664 Introduced
  Honoring Speaker Frank Chopp.
  Apr 24, 2025: Introduced.
• HB 1899 Became law
  Concerning the homelessness point-in-time count.
  Apr 24, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1141 Became law
  Concerning collective bargaining for agricultural cannabis workers.
  Apr 22, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1755 Became law
  Exempting elective percutaneous coronary intervention performed in certain hospitals owned or operated by a state entity from certificate of need requirements.
  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 1686 Became law
  Creating a health care entity registry.
  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 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.
• HB 1201 Became law
  Identifying accommodations allowing pets in an emergency or extreme weather event.
  Apr 21, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• HB 1287 Became law
  Addressing the disclosure of health information for care coordination.
  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*.