Washington State Legislature bills — 2023-24 session (page 1 of 7)

Every bill introduced in the 2023-24 Washington State Legislature that has moved past its first committee — 1373 in all, 749 House bills and 624 Senate bills. Each one links to its sponsor, current status, floor votes and the Legislature’s own nonpartisan staff analysis. Bill numbers beginning with 1 are House bills; those beginning with 5 are Senate bills.

• HB 1001 — Concerning the audiology and speech-language pathology interstate compact.
  HouseLeavitt· C 53 L 23
• HB 1002 — Increasing the penalty for hazing.
  HouseLeavitt· C 196 L 23
• HB 1004 — Installing signs on or near bridges to provide information to deter jumping.
  HouseAbbarno· C 54 L 23
• HB 1005 — Concerning employer tax incentives for the support of veterans and military families.
  HouseAbbarno· H Rules C
• HB 1006 — Expanding access to drug testing equipment.
  HouseOrwall· H Rules X
• SHB 1007 — Concerning interruptive military service credit for members of the state retirement systems.
  HousePaul· C 18 L 23
• HB 1008 — Concerning participating in insurance plans and contracts by separated plan 2 members of certain retirement systems.
  HouseBronoske· C 164 L 23
• 2SHB 1009 — Concerning military spouse employment.
  HouseLeavitt· C 165 L 23
• 2SHB 1010 — Concerning the sanitary control of shellfish.
  HouseChapman· H Rules X
• SHB 1012 — Addressing the response to extreme weather events.
  HouseLeavitt· C 172 L 24
• 2SHB 1013 — Establishing regional apprenticeship programs.
  HouseMaycumber· C 128 L 23
• SHB 1015 — Concerning minimum employment requirements for paraeducators.
  HouseSantos· C 19 L 23
• HB 1017 — Expediting licensure for cosmetologists, hair designers, barbers, manicurists, and estheticians.
  HouseRyu· C 55 L 23
• HB 1018 — Changing the expiration date for the sales and use tax exemption of hog fuel to comply with the 2045 deadline for fossil fuel-free electrical generation in Washington state and to protect jobs with health care and retirement benefits in economically distressed communities.
  HouseTharinger· C 341 L 23
• ESHB 1019 — Creating the pesticide advisory board.
  HouseDent· C 378 L 23
• HB 1020 — Designating the Suciasaurus rex as the official dinosaur of the state of Washington.
  HouseMorgan· C 330 L 23
• HB 1021 — Aligning social worker licensing requirements.
  HouseThai· H Rules X
• HB 1022 — Providing additional support and services for veterans' assistance and for persons with developmental disabilities or mental health needs.
  HouseChapman· H Rules X
• HB 1023 — Eliminating wire tap authorization reporting to the administrative office of the courts.
  HouseWalen· C 129 L 23
• SHB 1024 — Concerning labor and income of incarcerated persons.
  HouseSimmons· H Rules X
• HB 1027 — Concerning telemedicine.
  HouseRiccelli· H Rules X
• 2SHB 1028 — Supporting crime victims and witnesses by promoting victim-centered, trauma-informed responses in the legal system.
  HouseOrwall· C 197 L 23
• HB 1030 — Concerning applied doctorate degree-granting authority.
  HouseLeavitt· C 130 L 23
• HB 1031 — Modifying medal of valor award presentation requirements.
  HouseLow· C 131 L 23
• 2SHB 1032 — Mitigating the risk of wildfires through electric utility planning and identification of best management practices appropriate to each electric utility's circumstances.
  HouseDent· C 132 L 23
• ESHB 1033 — Evaluating compostable product usage in Washington.
  HouseWalen· C 236 L 23
• ESHB 1037 — Concerning family burial grounds.
  HouseWalsh· H Rules 3C
• 2SHB 1039 — Concerning physical therapists performing intramuscular needling.
  HouseMacri· C 198 L 23
• ESHB 1042 — Concerning the use of existing buildings for residential purposes.
  HouseWalen· C 285 L 23
• SHB 1043 — Concerning association records in common interest communities.
  HouseMcEntire· C 409 L 23
• SHB 1044 — Providing capital financial assistance to small school districts with demonstrated funding challenges.
  HouseMcEntire· H Rules 3C
• HB 1046 — Expanding housing supply by supporting the ability of public housing authorities to finance affordable housing developments by rebenchmarking area median income limits.
  HouseWalen· C 133 L 23
• SHB 1047 — Concerning the use of toxic chemicals in cosmetic products.
  HouseMena· C 455 L 23
• ESHB 1048 — Enhancing the Washington voting rights act.
  HouseMena· C 56 L 23
• HB 1049 — Updating timelines for adopting county commissioner district boundaries following expansion from three to five commissioners.
  HouseDoglio· C 237 L 23
• ESHB 1050 — Expanding apprenticeship utilization requirements.
  HouseRiccelli· C 342 L 23
• ESHB 1051 — Concerning robocalling and telephone scams.
  HouseLeavitt· C 103 L 23
• HB 1052 — Providing a property tax exemption for qualified real and personal property owned or used by a nonprofit entity in providing qualified housing funded in whole or part through a local real estate excise tax.
  HouseRamel· H Rules 3C
• HB 1054 — Addressing the authority of owners' associations in common interest communities to regulate or limit occupancy by unrelated persons.
  HouseWalen· C 139 L 24
• HB 1055 — Concerning public safety employees' retirement plan membership for public safety telecommunicators.
  HouseStokesbary· C 199 L 23
• SHB 1056 — Repealing some postretirement employment restrictions.
  HouseStokesbary· C 410 L 23
• ESHB 1057 — Providing a benefit increase to certain retirees of the public employees' retirement system plan 1 and the teachers' retirement system plan 1.
  HouseStokesbary· H Rules X
• HB 1058 — Streamlining the licensing process for a commercial driver's license by allowing the department to waive requirements for applicants that previously surrendered the license, allowing the license to be renewed online, and modifying the license test fees.
  HousePaul· C 57 L 23
• SHB 1059 — Protecting minors from sexual exploitation.
  HouseWalen· H Rules X
• SHB 1060 — Concerning reorganization of domestic mutual insurers.
  HouseCorry· C 20 L 23
• HB 1061 — Eliminating prelicensing education requirements for licensed insurance producers.
  HouseRyu· C 21 L 23
• 2SHB 1062 — Concerning deception by law enforcement officers during custodial interrogations.
  HousePeterson· H Rules X
• HB 1066 — Making technical corrections and removing obsolete language from the Revised Code of Washington pursuant to RCW 1.08.025.
  HouseGoodman· C 470 L 23
• SHB 1067 — Concerning wages for journeypersons in high-hazard facilities.
  HouseBronoske· H Rules X
• SHB 1068 — Concerning injured workers' rights during compelled medical examinations.
  HouseBronoske· C 166 L 23
• SHB 1069 — Adopting the mental health counselor compact.
  HouseLeavitt· C 58 L 23
• SHB 1070 — Exempting the sale and leaseback of property by a seller from the residential landlord-tenant act when the seller agrees to a written lease at closing.
  HouseConnors· C 22 L 23
• ESHB 1073 — Concerning medical assistants.
  HouseHarris· C 134 L 23
• SHB 1074 — Addressing documentation and processes governing landlords' claims for damage to residential premises.
  HouseThai· C 331 L 23
• SHB 1077 — Concerning courthouse facility dogs.
  HouseThai· C 59 L 23
• 2SHB 1078 — Concerning urban forest management ordinances.
  HouseDuerr· H Rules X
• SHB 1079 — Concerning rapid whole genome sequencing.
  HouseThai· H Rules X
• SHB 1080 — Concerning body worn cameras.
  HouseTaylor· H Rules X
• HB 1082 — Expanding opportunities for physical therapy and occupational therapy professionals to form professional service corporations.
  HouseSimmons· C 60 L 23
• SHB 1084 — Concerning freight mobility prioritization.
  HouseFey· C 167 L 23
• SHB 1085 — Reducing plastic pollution.
  HouseMena· C 135 L 23
• EHB 1086 — Increasing local governments' ability to contract with community service organizations.
  HouseShavers· C 238 L 23
• SHB 1088 — Concerning the uniform family law arbitration act.
  HouseWalen· C 61 L 23
• ESHB 1097 — Concerning the sale of cosmetics tested on animals.
  HouseWalen· C 107 L 24
• HB 1100 — Concerning the disposition of the remains of a county resident who dies indigent in an adjacent county outside of Washington.
  HouseSchmick· C 62 L 23
• SHB 1101 — Providing for tenant screening in common interest communities.
  HouseTaylor· C 23 L 23
• HB 1102 — Concerning judge pro tempore compensation.
  HouseTaylor· C 24 L 23
• SHB 1103 — Avoiding interest arbitrage charges on bond proceeds in the capital vessel replacement account.
  HouseFey· C 2 L 23
• SHB 1104 — Concerning eligibility and requirements for deferred prosecutions.
  HouseGoodman· H Rules 3C
• SHB 1105 — Requiring public agencies to provide notice for public comment that includes the last date by which such public comment must be submitted.
  HouseKloba· C 171 L 24
• ESHB 1106 — Concerning qualifications for unemployment insurance when an individual voluntarily leaves work.
  HouseFosse· C 240 L 23
• HB 1107 — Concerning removing the terms "master" and "servant" from Titles 50 and 50A.
  HouseFosse· C 25 L 23
• SHB 1109 — Providing funding for school districts for special education.
  HouseSenn· H Rules X
• E2SHB 1110 — Increasing middle housing in areas traditionally dedicated to single-family detached housing.
  HouseBateman· C 332 L 23
• HB 1112 — Imposing criminal penalties for negligent driving involving the death of a vulnerable user victim.
  HouseHarris· C 471 L 23
• ESHB 1113 — Reviewing reprimands for professional educators.
  HouseHarris· H Rules 3C
• HB 1114 — Concerning the membership of the sentencing guidelines commission.
  HouseMosbrucker· C 241 L 23
• SHB 1117 — Addressing the extent to which Washington residents are at risk of rolling blackouts and power supply inadequacy events.
  HouseMosbrucker· C 200 L 23
• HB 1120 — Concerning the best interest standard for annuity transactions.
  HouseReeves· C 64 L 23
• SHB 1121 — Concerning the uniform child abduction prevention act.
  HouseGoodman· H Rules 3C
• 2SHB 1122 — Granting Washington management service employees the right to collectively bargain.
  HouseDoglio· C 136 L 23
• SHB 1124 — Protecting tenants from excessive rent and related fees by providing at least six months' notice for rent increases over a certain amount, allowing tenants the right to terminate a tenancy without penalty, and limiting late fees.
  HousePeterson· H Rules X
• ESHB 1125 — Making transportation appropriations for the 2021-2023 fiscal biennium and the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Making transportation appropriations for the 2021-2023 and 2023-2025 fiscal biennia.)
  HouseFey· C 472 L 23
• HB 1128 — Raising the residential personal needs allowance.
  HouseBateman· C 201 L 23
• SHB 1129 — Concerning the sale or lease of manufactured/mobile home communities and the property on which they sit.
  HouseGregerson· H Rules X
• 2SHB 1131 — Improving Washington's solid waste management outcomes.
  HouseBerry· H Rules X
• SHB 1132 — Concerning oversight and training requirements for limited authority Washington peace officers and agencies.
  HouseGoodman· C 168 L 23
• E2SHB 1134 — Implementing the 988 behavioral health crisis response and suicide prevention system.
  HouseOrwall· C 454 L 23
• HB 1135 — Authorizing impact fee revenue to fund improvements to bicycle and pedestrian facilities.
  HouseSlatter· H Rules X
• SHB 1136 — Requiring employers to reimburse employees for necessary expenditures and losses.
  HouseReeves· H Rules X
• SHB 1138 — Concerning drought preparedness.
  HouseChapman· C 287 L 23
• SHB 1140 — Making 2023-2025 fiscal biennium operating appropriations and 2021-2023 fiscal biennium second supplemental operating appropriations.
  HouseOrmsby· H Rules X
• E2SHB 1143 — Concerning requirements for the purchase or transfer of firearms.
  HouseBerry· C 161 L 23
• HB 1146 — Notifying high school students and their families about available dual credit programs and any available financial assistance.
  HousePaul· C 44 L 24
• SHB 1147 — Concerning the capital budget.
  HouseTharinger· H Rules X
• ESHB 1148 — Concerning state general obligation bonds and related accounts.
  HouseTharinger· C 473 L 23
• 2SHB 1151 — Mandating coverage for fertility services.
  HouseStonier· H Rules X
• HB 1153 — Prohibiting octopus farming.
  HousePeterson· C 45 L 24
• ESHB 1155 — Addressing the collection, sharing, and selling of consumer health data.
  HouseSlatter· C 191 L 23
• SHB 1159 — Allowing interstate cannabis agreements.
  HouseWylie· H Rules X
• SHB 1163 — Exempting certain leasehold interests in arenas with a seating capacity of more than 2,000 from the leasehold excise tax.
  HouseFey· C 343 L 23
• SHB 1165 — Concerning civil remedies for unauthorized disclosure of intimate images.
  HouseOrwall· C 65 L 23
• 2SHB 1168 — Providing prevention services, diagnoses, treatment, and support for prenatal substance exposure.
  HouseSimmons· C 288 L 23
• ESHB 1169 — Concerning legal financial obligations.
  HouseSimmons· C 449 L 23
• E2SHB 1170 — Improving climate resilience through updates to the state's integrated climate response strategy.
  HouseStreet· C 169 L 23
• SHB 1171 — Modifying the motorcycle safety education advisory board.
  HouseMosbrucker· C 137 L 23
• ESHB 1173 — Reducing light pollution associated with certain energy infrastructure.
  HouseConnors· C 344 L 23
• ESHB 1175 — Creating a state financial assurance program for petroleum underground storage tanks.
  HouseDoglio· C 170 L 23
• 2SHB 1176 — Developing opportunities for service and workforce programs to support climate-ready communities.
  HouseSlatter· C 231 L 23
• SHB 1177 — Creating a missing and murdered indigenous women and people cold case investigations unit.
  HouseLekanoff· C 104 L 23
• HB 1179 — Authorizing the state auditor to receive nonconviction data.
  HouseRamos· C 26 L 23
• E2SHB 1181 — Improving the state's response to climate change by updating the state's planning framework.
  HouseDuerr· C 228 L 23
• E2SHB 1185 — Reducing environmental impacts associated with lighting products.
  HouseHackney· C 339 L 24
• 2SHB 1186 — Making permanent and expanding the child welfare housing assistance program.
  HouseRule· H Rules X
• ESHB 1187 — Concerning privileged communication between employees and the unions that represent them.
  HouseHackney· C 202 L 23
• E2SHB 1188 — Concerning individuals with developmental disabilities that have also received child welfare services.
  HouseSenn· C 345 L 23
• HB 1191 — Reauthorizing the business and occupation tax deduction for cooperative finance organizations.
  HouseSpringer· H Rules X
• SHB 1192 — Concerning electric power system transmission planning.
  HouseDuerr· H Rules X
• HB 1197 — Defining attending provider and clarifying other provider functions for workers' compensation claims, and adding psychologists as attending providers for mental health only claims.
  HouseBronoske· C 171 L 23
• HB 1199 — Addressing licensed child care in common interest communities.
  HouseSenn· C 203 L 23
• SHB 1200 — Requiring public employers to provide employee information to exclusive bargaining representatives.
  HouseAlvarado· C 204 L 23
• HB 1201 — Concerning actuarial funding of state retirement systems.
  HouseOrmsby· H Rules X
• HB 1202 — Eliminating accounts.
  HouseOrmsby· H Rules X
• ESHB 1203 — Improving the fiscal process by updating accounts administered by the office of financial management, creating new accounts including one for the opioid litigation settlement and one for the receipt of federal funds, and reenacting accounts created in the supplemental budget bill.
  HouseOrmsby· H Rules X
• 2SHB 1204 — Implementing the family connections program.
  HouseCallan· C 138 L 23
• 2SHB 1205 — Responsibility for providing service by publication of a summons or notice in dependency and termination of parental rights cases.
  HouseTaylor· C 312 L 24
• SHB 1207 — Preventing and responding to harassment, intimidation, bullying, and discrimination in schools.
  HouseSenn· C 242 L 23
• HB 1208 — Concerning pet insurance.
  HouseWalen· H Rules X
• EHB 1209 — Restricting the possession, purchase, delivery, and sale of certain equipment used to illegally process controlled substances.
  HouseLeavitt· C 66 L 23
• EHB 1210 — Concerning the recording of school board meetings.
  HouseRude· C 67 L 23
• SHB 1213 — Concerning compliance with labeling requirements for wipes.
  HouseYbarra· C 172 L 23
• E2SHB 1216 — Concerning clean energy siting.
  HouseFitzgibbon· C 230 L 23
• SHB 1217 — Concerning wage complaints.
  HouseOrtiz-Self· C 243 L 23
• HB 1218 — Adding a new caseload for the official caseload forecast for the number of people eligible for the working families' tax credit under RCW 82.08.0206.
  HouseBergquist· C 244 L 23
• HB 1221 — Concerning the privacy of lottery players.
  HouseStearns· C 346 L 23
• ESHB 1222 — Requiring coverage for hearing instruments.
  HouseOrwall· C 245 L 23
• HB 1226 — Providing for recreational licensing of smelt, crawfish, and carp.
  HouseChapman· C 77 L 24
• 3SHB 1228 — Building a multilingual, multiliterate Washington through dual and tribal language education.
  HouseOrtiz-Self· C 202 L 24
• 2SHB 1229 — Updating processes related to voter registration.
  HouseSimmons· H Rules X
• HB 1230 — Requiring school districts and other public education entities to make information from the department of health available.
  HouseCallan· C 173 L 23
• SHB 1231 — Accelerating rural job growth and promoting economic recovery across Washington through site readiness grants.
  HouseBerg· H Rules X
• HB 1232 — Enhancing the college bound scholarship program.
  HouseBergquist· C 174 L 23
• SHB 1234 — Concerning the civil forfeiture of animals seized for abuse or neglect.
  HouseGoodman· C 246 L 23
• ESHB 1235 — Modifying miscellaneous provisions impacting department of fish and wildlife licensing requirements.
  HouseChapman· H Rules X
• SHB 1236 — Enhancing access to clean fuel for agencies providing public transportation.
  HouseHackney· C 234 L 23
• HB 1237 — Redistributing the vehicle identification number inspection fee.
  HouseRobertson· C 139 L 23
• E2SHB 1238 — Providing free school meals for all.
  HouseRiccelli· C 379 L 23
• E4SHB 1239 — Establishing a simple and uniform system for complaints related to, and instituting a code of educator ethics for, conduct within or involving public elementary and secondary schools.
  HouseSantos· C 219 L 24
• SHB 1240 — Establishing firearms-related safety measures to increase public safety.
  HousePeterson· C 162 L 23
• SHB 1241 — Addressing harassment.
  HouseLeavitt· C 292 L 24
• HB 1243 — Concerning municipal airport commissions.
  HouseDent· C 247 L 23
• HB 1244 — Increasing the maximum per pupil limit for enrichment levy authority.
  HouseRamel· H Rules X
• ESHB 1245 — Increasing housing options through lot splitting.
  HouseBarkis· H Rules 3C
• SHB 1247 — Licensing music therapists.
  HouseReed· C 175 L 23
• ESHB 1248 — Concerning pupil transportation.
  HouseStonier· C 313 L 24
• SHB 1249 — Regarding limits on the sale and possession of retail cannabis products.
  HouseCorry· C 9 L 24
• SHB 1250 — Modifying the low-income home rehabilitation program.
  HouseSteele· C 380 L 23
• ESHB 1251 — Concerning water systems' notice to customers of public health considerations.
  HouseStonier· C 140 L 23
• SHB 1254 — Clarifying ambiguities in statutory provisions administered by the department of revenue relating to periodic adjustments.
  HouseStreet· C 68 L 23
• SHB 1255 — Reducing stigma and incentivizing health care professionals to participate in a substance use disorder monitoring and treatment program.
  HouseSimmons· C 141 L 23
• HB 1257 — Concerning the authority of cargo and passenger ports.
  HouseHackney· C 347 L 23
• SHB 1258 — Increasing tourism to Washington state through enhancement of the statewide tourism marketing account and changing necessary match requirements.
  HouseRyu· C 348 L 23
• HB 1259 — Updating the executive team of the office of the secretary of state by adding signing authority to the chief of staff position.
  HouseAbbarno· C 142 L 23
• ESHB 1260 — Accelerating stability for people with a work-limiting disability or incapacity.
  HouseAlvarado· C 289 L 23
• SHB 1261 — Concerning cost sharing for diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations.
  HouseWalen· H Rules X
• HB 1262 — Establishing a lump sum reporting system.
  HouseWalen· C 248 L 23
• HB 1265 — Establishing a property tax exemption for adult family homes that serve people with intellectual or developmental disabilities and are owned by a nonprofit.
  HouseRamos· C 69 L 23
• SHB 1266 — Concerning email communication by the office of the insurance commissioner.
  HouseSantos· C 27 L 23
• SHB 1267 — Concerning rural public facilities sales and use tax.
  HouseTharinger· C 411 L 23
• SHB 1268 — Concerning sentencing enhancements.
  HouseGoodman· H Rules X
• SHB 1271 — Concerning organ transport vehicles.
  HouseLow· C 290 L 23
• E2SHB 1272 — Concerning publishing, formatting, and distribution of the state and local voters' pamphlets.
  HouseBergquist· C 78 L 24
• EHB 1274 — Creating a child malnutrition field guide for the department of children, youth, and families.
  HouseCouture· C 70 L 23
• SHB 1275 — Concerning athletic trainers.
  HouseThai· C 143 L 23
• ESHB 1277 — Improving the consistency and quality of the implementation of the fundamental course of study for paraeducators.
  HouseDonaghy· C 173 L 24
• 2SHB 1278 — Supporting guardianships and voluntary placement with nonrelative kin.
  HouseOrtiz-Self· H Rules X
• SHB 1281 — Increasing access to the provisions of the Washington death with dignity act.
  HouseRude· H Rules X
• 2ESHB 1282 — Requiring environmental and labor reporting for public building construction and renovation material.
  HouseDuerr· C 344 L 24
• SHB 1284 — Reforming the real estate agency law.
  HouseCorry· H Rules X
• SHB 1285 — Modifying the scope of locations to which a water right established as a family farm permit may be transferred.
  HouseGoehner· H Rules X
• HB 1287 — Concerning dental hygienists.
  HouseThai· C 71 L 23
• SHB 1288 — Concerning the department of veterans affairs.
  HouseReeves· H Rules X
• SHB 1289 — Concerning program administration for the Washington state opportunity scholarship program.
  HouseReed· C 176 L 23
• HB 1290 — Concerning training for tribal police officers and employees.
  HouseLekanoff· C 72 L 23
• SHB 1291 — Expanding collective bargaining for employees who are enrolled in academic programs at public institutions of higher education.
  HouseFosse· H Rules X
• SHB 1292 — Making modifications necessary to comply with federal regulations regarding dissemination of federal bureau of investigation criminal history record information.
  HouseGoodman· H Rules X
• ESHB 1293 — Streamlining development regulations.
  HouseKlicker· C 333 L 23
• 2SHB 1299 — Concerning workforce development in the beverage alcohol industry.
  HouseChambers· H Rules X
• ESHB 1300 — Concerning fraud in assisted reproduction.
  HouseOrwall· C 220 L 24
• HB 1301 — Creating license review and reporting requirements.
  HouseMcClintock· C 412 L 23
• SHB 1302 — Concerning the vehicle report of sale.
  HouseTimmons· H Rules X
• HB 1303 — Concerning the administration of property taxes.
  HouseStreet· C 28 L 23
• ESHB 1304 — Regulating electric security alarm systems.
  HouseHackney· H Rules 3C
• 2SHB 1305 — Improving access to and provision of a free appropriate public education for students with disabilities.
  HousePollet· H Rules X
• SHB 1306 — Addressing equity and efficiencies in public works procurement including modifying small works roster requirements.
  HouseTharinger· H Rules X
• HB 1308 — Concerning high school graduation pathway options.
  HouseStonier· C 349 L 23
• HB 1309 — Adding references to contractor registration and licensing laws in workers' compensation, public works, and prevailing wage statutes.
  HouseFosse· H Rules X
• ESHB 1311 — Addressing credit repair services performed by a credit services organization.
  HouseReeves· C 144 L 23
• HB 1312 — Concerning jury service.
  HouseRude· C 205 L 23
• 2SHB 1316 — Expanding access to dual credit programs.
  HousePaul· C 350 L 23

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