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State bill data last updated Oct 16, 2026, 4:04 AM.

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• SB 5195 Became law
  Concerning the capital budget.
  May 20, 2025: Effective date 5/20/2025.
• SB 5194 Became law
  Concerning state general obligation bonds and related accounts.
  May 20, 2025: Effective date 5/20/2025.
• 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 5319 Became law
  Establishing surface mine reclamation permit fees.
  May 17, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5212 Became law
  Concerning filing of adjudication claims for precode uses of groundwater and surface water in the water resource inventory area 1 water rights adjudication.
  May 17, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5033 Became law
  Concerning sampling or testing of biosolids for PFAS chemicals.
  May 17, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5370 Became law
  Lengthening port commissioner terms.
  May 17, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5014 Became law
  Concerning election security.
  May 17, 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 5334 Became law
  Adding the department of natural resources' civil enforcement decisions under RCW 76.04.205 to appeals that may be heard by the pollution control hearings board.
  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 5323 Became law
  Concerning the penalties for theft and possession of stolen property from first responders.
  May 15, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5303 Became law
  Extending the water supply milestone for the Yakima river basin integrated plan to 2035.
  May 15, 2025: Effective date 6/30/2025.
• SB 5485 Became law
  Concerning livestock identification.
  May 15, 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 5351 Became law
  Ensuring patient choice and access to care by prohibiting unfair and deceptive dental insurance practices.
  May 12, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5317 Became law
  Exempting local governments providing certain services for projects under the jurisdiction of the energy facility siting evaluation council from certain appeals.
  May 12, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5716 Became law
  Expanding the locations where a person can be guilty of unlawful transit conduct to include the Washington state ferries.
  May 12, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5142 Became law
  Providing owners of real estate taken through eminent domain by school districts, or sold under threat of eminent domain, the opportunity to purchase the real estate back when it is not put to intended public use.
  May 12, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5343 Became law
  Concerning the northeast Washington wolf-livestock management account.
  May 12, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5036 Became law
  Strengthening Washington's leadership and accountability on climate policy by transitioning to annual reporting of statewide emissions data.
  May 2, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5165 Became law
  Concerning compensation in frontier counties for deer and elk damage.
  Apr 30, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5473 Became law
  Concerning law enforcement personnel grievance arbitration procedures.
  Apr 30, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5492 Became law
  Concerning sustainable state tourism promotion.
  Apr 30, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5110 Became law
  Providing tuition waivers for tribal elders at Washington’s community and technical colleges.
  Apr 29, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5191 Became law
  Concerning paid family leave premium collection for dockworkers.
  Apr 29, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SR 8659 Adopted
  Honoring Senator Bill Ramos.
  Apr 27, 2025: Adopted.
• SR 8656 Adopted
  Honoring Speaker Frank Chopp.
  Apr 24, 2025: Adopted.
• SB 5480 Became law
  Protecting consumers by removing barriers created by medical debt.
  Apr 22, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5265 Became law
  Expanding minimum requirements for electrical inspectors to include certain out-of-state experience.
  Apr 22, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5157 Became law
  Concerning the direct sale of valuable materials for habitat restoration projects.
  Apr 22, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5214 Became law
  Concerning mobile market programs.
  Apr 22, 2025: Effective date 3/1/2026.
• SB 5074 Became law
  Concerning the payment of turfgrass seed contracts.
  Apr 22, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5076 Became law
  Establishing a Puget Sound nonspot shrimp pot fishery license.
  Apr 22, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5358 Became law
  Concerning career and technical education in sixth grade.
  Apr 22, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SR 8640 Adopted
  Honoring Karen Keiser.
  Apr 17, 2025: Adopted.
• SR 8648 Adopted
  Honoring the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women.
  Apr 14, 2025: Adopted.
• SR 8641 Adopted
  Reaffirming our relationship with Canada.
  Apr 11, 2025: Adopted.
• SB 5106 Became law
  Establishing Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as state holidays.
  Apr 8, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5457 Became law
  Concerning broadcasters.
  Apr 4, 2025: Effective date 7/27/2025.
• SB 5462 Became law
  Addressing the current backlog of vehicle inspections.
  Apr 4, 2025: Effective date 7/1/2026.
• SR 8642 Adopted
  Honoring Transgender Day of Visibility.
  Mar 31, 2025: Adopted.
• SR 8634 Adopted
  Recognizing the 90th Annual Junior Livestock Show.
  Mar 18, 2025: Adopted.
• SCR 8403 Adopted
  Honoring former members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Washington who have passed from this life.
  Mar 18, 2025: Filed with Secretary of State.
• SR 8630 Adopted
  Honoring the contributions of Sikhs in Washington state.
  Mar 14, 2025: Adopted.
• SR 8629 Adopted
  Honoring Ichiro Suzuki.
  Mar 10, 2025: Adopted.
• SR 8626 Adopted
  Honoring the students of the Legislative Youth Advisory Council and the Washington State Leadership Board.
  Mar 6, 2025: Adopted.
• SR 8621 Adopted
  Recognizing Women in Cloud and Inspiring Girls Now in Technology Evolution Worldwide.
  Mar 5, 2025: Adopted.