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Washington legislators · Data: Open States

State bill data last updated Oct 16, 2026, 8:06 PM.

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• SB 5222 In committee
  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.
  Jan 12, 2026: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
• SB 5935 In committee
  Updating the office of homeless youth program provisions.
  Jan 12, 2026: First reading, referred to Human Services.
• SB 5344 In committee
  Establishing the essential worker health care program.
  Jan 12, 2026: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
• SB 5266 In committee
  Concerning the indeterminate sentence review board.
  Jan 12, 2026: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
• SB 5620 In committee
  Codifying the rights of children and youth in foster care.
  Jan 12, 2026: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
• SB 5318 In committee
  Concerning fingerprint-based background checks.
  Jan 12, 2026: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
• SB 5593 In committee
  Adjusting enrichment levies and local effort assistance.
  Jan 12, 2026: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
• SB 5779 In committee
  Establishing African diaspora heritage week.
  Jan 12, 2026: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
• SB 5497 In committee
  Concerning compliance with siting, development permit processes and standards, and requirements for permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, indoor emergency housing, or indoor emergency shelters.
  Jan 12, 2026: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
• SB 5269 In committee
  Providing judicial discretion to modify sentences in the interest of justice.
  Jan 12, 2026: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
• SB 5567 In committee
  Expanding secondary training for careers in natural resources and conservation.
  Jan 12, 2026: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
• SB 5767 In committee
  Providing hiring preferences for state employment to certain federal employees.
  Jan 12, 2026: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
• SB 5373 In committee
  Shifting general elections for local governments to even-numbered years to increase voter participation.
  Jan 12, 2026: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
• SB 5704 In committee
  Concerning material changes to the operations and governance structure of participants in the health care marketplace.
  Jan 12, 2026: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
• SB 5771 In committee
  Increasing the working families' tax credit to reflect the economic impact of property taxes incorporated into rental amounts charged to residential tenants.
  Jan 12, 2026: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
• SB 5526 In committee
  Concerning the regulation of tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, and vapor products.
  Jan 12, 2026: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
• SB 5854 In committee
  Modifying procedures for releasing sexually violent predators to less restrictive alternative placements.
  Jan 12, 2026: First reading, referred to Human Services.
• SB 5468 In committee
  Concerning collective bargaining for agricultural cannabis workers.
  Jan 12, 2026: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
• SB 5396 In committee
  Supporting the continued employment of pilots applying for federal aviation administration medical certificates.
  Jan 12, 2026: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
• SB 5101 Became law
  Expanding access to leave and safety accommodations to include workers who are victims of hate crimes or bias incidents.
  May 20, 2025: Effective date 1/1/2026.
• SB 5217 Became law
  Expanding pregnancy-related accommodations.
  May 20, 2025: Effective date 1/1/2027.
• SB 5093 Became law
  Concerning dignity in pregnancy loss.
  May 20, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025*.
• SB 5393 Became law
  Closing the Yakima Valley school and Rainier school.
  May 20, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5388 Became law
  Concerning department of corrections behavioral health certification.
  May 20, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5814 Became law
  Modernizing the excise taxes on select services and nicotine products and requiring certain large businesses to make a one-time prepayment of state sales tax collection.
  May 20, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025*.
• SB 5291 Became law
  Implementing the recommendations of the long-term services and supports trust commission.
  May 20, 2025: Effective date 1/1/2026*.
• SB 5444 Became law
  Creating several new special license plates.
  May 20, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025*.
• SB 5263 Became law
  Concerning special education funding.
  May 19, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025*.
• SB 5041 Became law
  Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for striking or lockout workers.
  May 19, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025*.
• SB 5192 Became law
  Concerning school district materials, supplies, and operating costs.
  May 17, 2025: Effective date 9/1/2025.
• SB 5769 Became law
  Addressing transition to kindergarten programs.
  May 17, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5284 Became law
  Improving Washington's solid waste management outcomes.
  May 17, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5463 Became law
  Concerning the duties of industrial insurance self-insured employers and third-party administrators.
  May 17, 2025: Effective date 1/1/2026.
• SB 5556 Became law
  Modernizing the adopt-a-highway program to improve its ability to meet its original purpose within existing fiscal limitations.
  May 16, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025*.
• SB 5543 Became law
  Providing equity in eligibility for the college bound scholarship.
  May 15, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5509 Became law
  Concerning the siting of child care centers.
  May 13, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5253 Became law
  Extending special education services to students with disabilities until the end of the school year in which the student turns 22.
  May 13, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5506 Became law
  Extending the effective date of licensing living accommodations for residential private schools.
  May 13, 2025: Effective date 5/13/2025.
• SB 5025 Became law
  Concerning educational interpreters.
  May 13, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5189 Became law
  Supporting the implementation of competency-based education.
  May 13, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5104 Became law
  Protecting employees from coercion in the workplace based on immigration status.
  May 12, 2025: Effective date 7/1/2025.
• SB 5714 Became law
  Declaring civil immigration enforcement as unprofessional conduct of bail bond recovery agents.
  May 12, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5298 Became law
  Concerning the notice of sale or lease of manufactured/mobile home communities.
  May 7, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5375 Became law
  Concerning the duty of clergy to report child abuse and neglect.
  May 2, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5492 Became law
  Concerning sustainable state tourism promotion.
  Apr 30, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5557 Became law
  Codifying emergency rules to protect the right of a pregnant person to access treatment for emergency medical conditions in hospital emergency departments.
  Apr 29, 2025: Effective date 4/29/2025.
• SR 8659 Adopted
  Honoring Senator Bill Ramos.
  Apr 27, 2025: Adopted.
• SR 8656 Adopted
  Honoring Speaker Frank Chopp.
  Apr 24, 2025: Adopted.
• SR 8657 Adopted
  Calling for improving support for people experiencing menopause.
  Apr 23, 2025: Adopted.
• SB 5355 Became law
  Improving safety at institutions of higher education while supporting student survivors of sexual assault.
  Apr 22, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.