New Washington laws from 2024
Washington enacted 376 new laws in 2024. The most common effective date is June 6, 2024, shared by 308 of them.
Laws with a public bill page link to it, with the sponsor, the floor votes and the staff analysis when there is one. When the Legislature says a law has more than one effective date, it says so next to the law, and the final bill report has the details.
Effective March 13, 2024 · 3 laws
- Chapter 39SB 5979: Concerning accrued leave for construction workers.
- Chapter 41SB 5982: Updating the definition of "vaccine" in RCW 70.290.010 to include all federal food and drug administration-approved immunizations recommended by the centers for disease control and prevention.
- Chapter 692SHB 2151: Reassigning the accreditation of private cannabis testing laboratories from the department of ecology to the department of agriculture.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Effective March 15, 2024 · 2 laws
Effective March 18, 2024 · 2 laws
Effective March 19, 2024 · 2 laws
Effective March 25, 2024 · 1 law
Effective March 26, 2024 · 5 laws
- Chapter 276ESSB 6040: Concerning prompt payment in public works.
- Chapter 281SSB 6316: Concerning the state route number 520 corridor.
- Chapter 289ESSB 5985: Concerning firearms background check program.
- Chapter 292SHB 1241: Addressing harassment.
- Chapter 300SSB 5774: Increasing the capacity to conduct timely fingerprint-based background checks for prospective child care employees and other programs.
Effective March 28, 2024 · 2 laws
Effective March 29, 2024 · 2 laws
- Chapter 375ESSB 5949: Concerning the capital budget.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 376ESSB 5950: Making 2023-2025 fiscal biennium supplemental operating appropriations.Partially vetoed.
Effective April 1, 2024 · 1 law
Effective May 1, 2024 · 1 law
Effective June 1, 2024 · 1 law
- Chapter 168ESB 6098: Concerning accounts.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Effective June 6, 2024 · 308 laws
- Chapter 2HB 1950: Concerning the public service loan forgiveness program.
- Chapter 3HB 1895: Modifying the working families' tax credit by clarifying the refundable nature of the credit, the application requirements, and the eligibility verification process.
- Chapter 4SI 2081: Concerning parental rights relating to their children's public school education.
- Chapter 5SI 2111: Concerning taxes on personal income.
- Chapter 6SI 2113: Concerning vehicular pursuits by peace officers.
- Chapter 8HB 1975: Relieving individuals from paying interest on certain unemployment insurance overpayment assessments.
- Chapter 9SHB 1249: Regarding limits on the sale and possession of retail cannabis products.
- Chapter 10HB 1455: Eliminating child marriage.
- Chapter 11HB 1530: Expanding eligibility for employment of certain law enforcement and prosecutor office positions.
- Chapter 12HB 1890: Concerning housing authorities.
- Chapter 13HB 1920: Modifying the public accountancy act.
- Chapter 14HB 1954: Harmonizing language relating to reproductive health care services and gender-affirming treatment.
- Chapter 15HB 1972: Increasing the licensure fees that support the Washington physicians health program.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 16HB 1978: Adding special purpose and junior taxing districts to the intrastate mutual aid system.
- Chapter 17SHB 2296: Extending the comprehensive plan revision schedule for select local governments.
- Chapter 18SHB 2165: Concerning the authority of the department of natural resources to determine recreational use fees for activities on agency-managed public lands.
- Chapter 19SB 5508: Promoting local agriculture through greenhouses.
- Chapter 21SB 5647: Providing temporary employees necessary information about school safety policies and procedures.
- Chapter 22SSB 5786: Making updates to the Washington business corporation act.
- Chapter 24SSB 5803: Concerning the recruitment and retention of Washington national guard members.
- Chapter 25SB 5805: Developing a schedule for court appointment of attorneys for children and youth in dependency and termination proceedings.
- Chapter 26SSB 5834: Concerning urban growth areas.
- Chapter 27SSB 5840: Concerning leases.
- Chapter 28SB 5843: Concerning security breaches of election systems and election-related systems.
- Chapter 29SB 5883: Concerning the burden of proof for special education due process hearings.
- Chapter 30SB 5885: Concerning procedures for certificates of annexation submitted to the office of financial management.
- Chapter 31SB 5886: Adding purposes for the use of existing firefighter safety funding.
- Chapter 322SSB 5893: Providing gate money to incarcerated individuals at the department of corrections.
- Chapter 33SB 5913: Concerning communication between employees of state institutions of higher education and student athletes regarding name, image, and likeness use.
- Chapter 34SSB 5917: Concerning criminal penalties for bias-motivated defacement of private or public property.
- Chapter 35SSB 5925: Concerning fire protection district commissioner per diem compensation.
- Chapter 36SSB 5935: Concerning noncompetition covenants.
- Chapter 37SB 5970: Modifying local board of health county commissioner membership.
- Chapter 38ESSB 5974: Concerning the disposition of unenforceable legal financial obligations other than restitution imposed by a court or an agent of the court against a juvenile prior to July 1, 2023.
- Chapter 40SSB 5980: Concerning the timeline for issuing a citation for a violation of the Washington industrial safety and health act.
- Chapter 42SB 6027: Concerning the insurance holding company act.
- Chapter 43ESB 6296: Establishing a retail industry work group.
- Chapter 44HB 1146: Notifying high school students and their families about available dual credit programs and any available financial assistance.
- Chapter 45HB 1153: Prohibiting octopus farming.
- Chapter 46HB 1726: Concerning the director of fire protection's administration and reimbursement of fire service-related training programs.
- Chapter 47ESHB 1835: Defining frontier counties.
- Chapter 48HB 1876: Concerning confidential fisheries information collected by other states and maintaining that confidentiality under the public records act.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 51HB 1898: Concerning unemployment insurance benefit charging.
- Chapter 52HB 1901: Removing the sunset on changes to the unemployment insurance voluntary contribution program.
- Chapter 53HB 1917: Adopting the physician assistant compact.
- Chapter 54SHB 1947: Concerning the governance of technology services in state government, including eliminating the office of the chief information officer and renaming the consolidated technology services agency.
- Chapter 55HB 1961: Concerning animal cruelty in the first degree.
- Chapter 57SHB 1974: Disposing of human remains.
- Chapter 58HB 1987: Concerning the use of moneys from the rural public facilities sales and use tax for affordable workforce housing infrastructure and facilities.
- Chapter 59ESHB 2003: Concerning an exemption to the leasehold excise tax for leases on public lands.
- Chapter 60SHB 2020: Creating a state administered public infrastructure assistance program within the emergency management division.
- Chapter 61HB 2034: Requiring counties and cities to provide the administrative office of the courts with notice of court reorganizations.
- Chapter 63SHB 2048: Concerning supervision of domestic violence in criminal sentencing.
- Chapter 64SHB 2086: Updating processes of the office of independent investigations by changing authority to obtain and share investigative information and aligning with current operations and practices.
- Chapter 65SHB 2091: Establishing a fallen firefighter memorial.
- Chapter 66HB 2110: Reorganizing statutory requirements governing high school graduation.
- Chapter 67HB 2111: Clarifying requirements for subsidized child care.
- Chapter 68HB 2137: Concerning technical changes to allowable exemptions for tourism promotion area assessments.
- Chapter 70SHB 2216: Reducing barriers to state employment by eliminating two-year and four-year degree requirements that are unnecessary.
- Chapter 71HB 2260: Establishing civil penalties for the unlawful sale or supply of alcohol to minors.
- Chapter 72SHB 2293: Studying the effects of avian predation of salmon.
- Chapter 73HB 2318: Concerning state route number 501.
- Chapter 74SHB 2329: Conducting a study of the insurance market for housing providers receiving housing trust fund resources.
- Chapter 75HB 2433: Concerning administration of the southwest Washington fair by the Lewis county board of county commissioners.
- Chapter 76HB 2209: Celebrating lunar new year.
- Chapter 77HB 1226: Providing for recreational licensing of smelt, crawfish, and carp.
- Chapter 79SHB 1453: Providing a tax exemption for medical cannabis patients.
- Chapter 802ESHB 1508: Improving consumer affordability through the health care cost transparency board.
- Chapter 81ESHB 1608: Expanding access to anaphylaxis medications in schools.
- Chapter 82HB 1867: Eliminating the estate tax filing requirement for certain estates involving a qualifying familial residence.
- Chapter 83HB 1955: Repealing the greenhouse gas content disclosure provision.
- Chapter 84HB 1963: Prohibiting license plate covers.
- Chapter 85HB 1976: Changing the incentive structure for tier 1 and tier 2 buildings.
- Chapter 86HB 1982: Concerning the authority of the community economic revitalization board with respect to loans and grants to political subdivisions and federally recognized Indian tribes for broadband.
- Chapter 87SHB 1996: Establishing the Washington recreational vehicle manufacturer and dealer law.
- Chapter 88SHB 1999: Concerning fabricated intimate or sexually explicit images and depictions.
- Chapter 89HB 2004: Providing early registration at institutions of higher education for military students.
- Chapter 91HB 2204: Creating a special liquor permit.
- Chapter 92SHB 2230: Promoting economic inclusion by creating the economic security for all grant program.
- Chapter 93ESHB 2306: Allowing main street programs to use remaining main street tax credits after a certain date.
- Chapter 94SHB 2355: Establishing a primary certification process for magnetic resonance imaging technologists.
- Chapter 95SHB 2428: Allowing cities to voluntarily share certain sales and use tax revenue.
- Chapter 96SSB 5829: Screening newborn infants for congenital cytomegalovirus.
- Chapter 97ESB 5997: Making technical corrections to plumbing supervision and trainee hours reporting.
- Chapter 98SSB 6060: Concerning the acceptance of electronic signatures by the public employment relations commission for new organizing petitions.
- Chapter 99SB 6079: Making juvenile detention records available to managed health care systems.
- Chapter 100ESB 6095: Establishing clear authority for the secretary of health to issue standing orders.
- Chapter 101SSB 6108: Addressing retainage on private construction projects.
- Chapter 102SB 6178: Aligning the legend drug act to reflect the prescriptive authority for licensed midwives.
- Chapter 103SB 6222: Concerning the number of district court judges.
- Chapter 104SB 6229: Modifying match requirements for the green transportation capital grant program.
- Chapter 105SB 6234: Screening newborn infants for branched-chain ketoacid dehydrogenase kinase deficiency.
- Chapter 106SB 6283: Eliminating the expiration date for the Sandy Williams connecting communities program.
- Chapter 108HB 1752: Modifying the application of the annual consumptive quantity calculation to change applications related to certain water rights held by the United States bureau of reclamation.
- Chapter 109SHB 1818: Concerning the exclusion of compensating tax when land is sold to a governmental entity intending to manage the land similarly to designated forestland or timberland.
- Chapter 110SHB 1919: Modifying the process by which a private moorage facility may sell an abandoned vessel for failure to pay moorage fees.
- Chapter 111SHB 1989: Concerning a graffiti abatement and reduction pilot program.
- Chapter 112HB 1992: Adding an additional superior court judge in Whatcom county.
- Chapter 113SHB 2012: Concerning eligibility for a property tax exemption for nonprofits providing affordable rental housing built with city and county funds.
- Chapter 114HB 2044: Standardizing limitations on voter-approved property tax levies.
- Chapter 1162SHB 2214: Permitting beneficiaries of public assistance programs to automatically qualify as income-eligible for the purpose of receiving the Washington college grant.
- Chapter 117SHB 2217: Concerning authority over individuals found guilty of or accused of criminal offenses that occurred when the individual was under age 18.
- Chapter 119HB 2375: Including an accessory dwelling unit under property that qualifies for the senior citizens property tax exemption.
- Chapter 121ESSB 5271: Protecting patients in facilities regulated by the department of health by establishing uniform enforcement tools.
- Chapter 122SB 5792: Concerning the definition of multiunit residential buildings.
- Chapter 123SSB 5806: Concerning the confidentiality of insurance company data.
- Chapter 124SSB 5808: Granting interest arbitration to certain public safety telecommunicators.
- Chapter 125SB 5836: Adding an additional superior court judge in Clark county.
- Chapter 126SB 5842: Restricting the use of social security numbers by insurance companies for the purpose of determining child support debt.
- Chapter 127SB 5852: Concerning special education safety net awards.
- Chapter 128ESSB 5973: Concerning heat pumps in common interest communities.
- Chapter 129ESSB 6007: Concerning employment standards for grocery workers.
- Chapter 131SB 6084: Providing collector vehicles the ability to tow trailers.
- Chapter 132SB 6088: Concerning minor league baseball players subject to the terms of a collective bargaining agreement regarding employment status.
- Chapter 134SSB 6125: Preserving records and artifacts regarding the historical treatment of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Washington state.
- Chapter 135SSB 6140: Concerning limited areas of more intensive rural development.
- Chapter 136SB 6173: Encouraging investments in affordable homeownership unit development.
- Chapter 137SSB 6227: Allowing entry of a civil protection order to protect victims when a person is found not guilty by reason of insanity.
- Chapter 138SSB 6269: Establishing an alternative voter verification options pilot project.
- Chapter 139HB 1054: Addressing the authority of owners' associations in common interest communities to regulate or limit occupancy by unrelated persons.
- Chapter 140HB 1471: Modifying state procurement procedures for competitive, sole source, convenience, and emergency goods and services contracts.
- Chapter 142SHB 1892: Concerning the workforce housing accelerator program.
- Chapter 144HB 1927: Reducing the number of days that a worker's temporary total disability must continue to receive industrial insurance compensation for the day of an injury and the three-day period following the injury.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 145SHB 1970: Improving communication between the department of children, youth, and families and caregivers.
- Chapter 1462SHB 2014: Concerning the definition of veteran and restoring honor to veterans.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 147SHB 2015: Concerning incentivizing adult family homes to increase bed capacity to seven or eight beds.Partially vetoed.
- Chapter 148HB 2032: Reducing the size of yard signs that are exempt from certain political advertising disclosure requirements.
- Chapter 149SHB 2097: Assisting workers in recovering wages owed.
- Chapter 150SHB 2102: Establishing requirements for the disclosure of health care information for qualifying persons to receive paid family and medical leave benefits.
- Chapter 151HB 2246: Concerning vacation leave accrual for state employees.
- Chapter 152ESHB 2321: Modifying middle housing requirements and the definitions of transit stop.
- Chapter 153SHB 2368: Assisting refugees and immigrants.
- Chapter 1552ESSB 5150: Concerning the beef commission's levied assessment. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning the beef commission.)
- Chapter 156SB 5419: Removing a Washington state institute of public policy outcome evaluation requirement.
- Chapter 157ESB 5462: Promoting inclusive learning standards and instructional materials in public schools.
- Chapter 158SSB 5667: Concerning eligibility, enrollment, and compensation of small forestland owners volunteering for participation in the forestry riparian easement program.
- Chapter 159E2SSB 5670: Permitting 10th grade students to participate in running start in online settings. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Providing summer running start for rising juniors.)
- Chapter 160SSB 5785: Concerning department of fish and wildlife authority with regard to certain nonprofit and volunteer organizations.
- Chapter 161ESSB 5788: Concerning service animal training.
- Chapter 165SSB 5920: Lifting certificate of need requirements for psychiatric hospitals and beds.
- Chapter 166SSB 5936: Convening a palliative care benefit work group.
- Chapter 167SB 5952: Aligning deputy inspector credentials with national standards.
- Chapter 169SB 6263: Concerning death benefits provided by the 1955 act for firefighters' relief and pensions.
- Chapter 170ESSB 6291: Streamlining the state building code council operating procedures by establishing criteria for statewide amendments to the state building code.
- Chapter 171SHB 1105: Requiring public agencies to provide notice for public comment that includes the last date by which such public comment must be submitted.
- Chapter 172SHB 1012: Addressing the response to extreme weather events.
- Chapter 173ESHB 1277: Improving the consistency and quality of the implementation of the fundamental course of study for paraeducators.
- Chapter 1752SHB 1929: Supporting young adults following inpatient behavioral health treatment.
- Chapter 176SHB 1939: Adopting the social work licensure compact.
- Chapter 1772SHB 1941: Providing for health home services for medicaid-eligible children with medically complex conditions.
- Chapter 178HB 1943: Modifying the Washington national guard postsecondary education grant program.
- Chapter 179HB 1983: Concerning the criminal justice treatment account.
- Chapter 180ESHB 1998: Concerning co-living housing.
- Chapter 182SHB 2025: Modifying placement and salary matching requirements for the state work-study program.
- Chapter 1832SHB 2071: Concerning residential housing regulations.
- Chapter 184SHB 2382: Concerning death benefits applicable to drivers of transportation network companies.
- Chapter 185HB 2481: Waiving health benefit premiums in the public employees' benefits board.
- Chapter 186ESB 5592: Requiring semiautomatic external defibrillator at fitness centers.
- Chapter 187SSB 5649: Concerning floodproofing improvements to residential structures undertaken in accordance with the Chehalis basin strategy. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Concerning improvements to residential structures to reduce the risk of flood damage.)
- Chapter 188SSB 5787: Enacting the uniform electronic estate planning documents act.
- Chapter 189SSB 5812: Concerning the response to electric vehicle fires.
- Chapter 190SSB 5869: Concerning rural fire district stations.
- Chapter 1912SSB 5882: Increasing prototypical school staffing to better meet student needs.
- Chapter 192E2SSB 5908: Providing extended foster care services to youth ages 18 to 21.
- Chapter 193SB 5938: Modifying the community parenting alternative for eligible participants in the residential parenting program at the department of corrections.
- Chapter 194E2SSB 5955: Mitigating harm and improving equity in large port districts.
- Chapter 196ESB 6089: Eliminating certain minimum requirement equivalencies for electrical inspectors.
- Chapter 197SB 6094: Aligning statutory language concerning the retired state employee and retired or disabled school employee health insurance subsidy with the historical interpretation and implementation of the relevant subsidy language in the operating budget.
- Chapter 199SSB 6192: Addressing additional work and change orders on public and private construction projects.
- Chapter 200HB 1879: Naming the curriculum used to inform students about tribal history, culture, and government after John McCoy (lulilaš).
- Chapter 2023SHB 1228: Building a multilingual, multiliterate Washington through dual and tribal language education.
- Chapter 203ESHB 2019: Establishing a Native American apprentice assistance program.
- Chapter 204SHB 2075: Concerning licensing of Indian health care providers as establishments.
- Chapter 205HB 2135: Including federally recognized tribes as part of the Washington emergency management division emergency worker program.
- Chapter 206SHB 2335: Concerning state-tribal education compacts.
- Chapter 208SSB 6186: Concerning disclosure of certain recipient information to the Washington state patrol.
- Chapter 2112SHB 2112: Concerning opioid and fentanyl prevention education and awareness at institutions of higher education.
- Chapter 212ESSB 5481: Concerning the uniform law commission's uniform telehealth act.
- Chapter 2132E2SSB 5580: Improving maternal health outcomes.
- Chapter 214SSB 5804: Concerning opioid overdose reversal medication in public schools.
- Chapter 215SB 5821: Establishing a uniform standard for creating an established relationship for the purposes of coverage of audio-only telemedicine services.
- Chapter 216ESB 5906: Implementing a statewide drug overdose prevention and education campaign.
- Chapter 217SSB 5940: Creating a medical assistant-EMT certification.
- Chapter 218SSB 5986: Protecting consumers from out-of-network health care services charges.
- Chapter 219E4SHB 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.
- Chapter 220ESHB 1300: Concerning fraud in assisted reproduction.
- Chapter 2212ESHB 1377: Posting of approved courses and providers of continuing education.
- Chapter 223SHB 1870: Promoting economic development by increasing opportunities for local communities to secure federal funding.
- Chapter 224SHB 1942: Clarifying employment standards for long-term care individual providers.
- Chapter 225SHB 1945: Streamlining and enhancing program access for persons eligible for food assistance.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 226SHB 1979: Reducing the cost of inhalers and epinephrine autoinjectors.
- Chapter 227SHB 2045: Creating an adopt a fish barrier program.
- Chapter 228SHB 2147: Concerning agriculture pest and disease response.
- Chapter 229SHB 2180: Increasing the special education enrollment funding cap.
- Chapter 230SHB 2195: Strengthening the early learning facilities grant and loan program by revising criteria and providing resources to the Ruth LeCocq Kagi early learning facilities development account.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 231ESHB 2207: Providing tools designed to reduce the impacts of unlawful solid waste dumping.
- Chapter 232HB 2213: Concerning defects and omissions in the laws that have been identified by the justices of the supreme court or judges of the superior courts pursuant to Article IV, section 25 of the state Constitution.
- Chapter 233SHB 2226: Concerning collecting data on the H-2A worker program and from certain hand harvesters.
- Chapter 234ESHB 2236: Expanding and strengthening career and technical education core plus programs.
- Chapter 235SHB 2347: Concerning adult family home information.
- Chapter 236E2SHB 2354: Creating an option for impacted taxing districts to provide a portion of their new revenue to support any tax increment area proposed within their jurisdiction and clarifying that a tax increment area must be dissolved when all bond obligations are paid.
- Chapter 237SHB 2357: Establishing a state patrol longevity bonus.
- Chapter 238SHB 2381: Increasing eligibility for economy and efficiency flexible school calendar waivers.
- Chapter 240ESHB 2441: Establishing a pilot program eliminating college in the high school fees for private not-for-profit four-year institutions.
- Chapter 241HB 2454: Extending an existing hazardous substance tax exemption for certain agricultural crop protection products that are temporarily warehoused but not otherwise used, manufactured, packaged, or sold in the state of Washington.
- Chapter 242E2SSB 5213: Concerning pharmacy benefit managers. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning health care benefit managers.)Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 243SSB 5376: Allowing the sale of cannabis waste.
- Chapter 245SB 5799: Concerning the sale of halal foods.
- Chapter 246SSB 5802: Providing flexibility in calculation of nursing rates.
- Chapter 247SB 5881: Concerning membership in the public employees' retirement system for certain part-time bus drivers employed full-time by the federal government.
- Chapter 249SSB 6025: Protecting consumers from predatory loans.
- Chapter 250ESSB 6105: Creating safer working conditions in adult entertainment establishments.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 252SB 6215: Improving tax and revenue laws.
- Chapter 253E2SHB 1618: Concerning the statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse.
- Chapter 255SHB 1985: Providing a benefit increase to certain retirees of the public employees' retirement system plan 1 and the teachers' retirement system plan 1.
- Chapter 256SHB 2072: Concerning penalties relating to antitrust actions.
- Chapter 257ESHB 2115: Concerning prescription labels for medications used for abortion.
- Chapter 258EHB 2266: Concerning sanitary conditions for construction workers who menstruate or express milk.
- Chapter 259SHB 2295: Concerning hospital at-home services.Partially vetoed.
- Chapter 260SHB 2424: Updating cooperative agreements between the state and federally recognized tribes for the successful collaborative management of Washington's wildlife resources.
- Chapter 262ESHB 2494: Increasing state funding for operating costs in schools.
- Chapter 263ESB 5632: Protecting the health care of workers participating in a labor dispute.
- Chapter 2642SSB 5784: Concerning deer and elk damage to commercial crops.Partially vetoed.
- Chapter 265ESB 5816: Concerning alcohol server permits.
- Chapter 266ESB 5824: Concerning the dissolution of libraries and library districts.
- Chapter 2672SSB 5825: Concerning guardianship and conservatorship.
- Chapter 268ESSB 5828: Concerning water rights adjudication commissioners and referees.
- Chapter 269ESSB 5890: Reducing ballot rejection rates through updates to ballot curing, canvassing, reporting, and outreach processes.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 270SB 5897: Modifying provisions of the business licensing service program.
- Chapter 271SSB 5919: Concerning the sale of biogenic carbon dioxide and other coproducts of biogas processing.
- Chapter 272SSB 5953: Concerning financial aid grants for incarcerated students.
- Chapter 273SB 6013: Expanding the homeownership development property tax exemption to include real property sold to low-income households for building residences using mutual self-help housing construction.
- Chapter 274SSB 6015: Concerning residential parking configurations.
- Chapter 275SB 6017: Expanding the use of the border area fuel tax.
- Chapter 277SSB 6047: Concerning executive sessions under the open public meetings act in order to comply with the climate commitment act.
- Chapter 278HB 1948: Ensuring that methods for calculating the electric load of utilities under the energy independence act do not have the effect of discouraging voluntary investments in renewable power.
- Chapter 279ESB 6087: Concerning the fire service training account.
- Chapter 280SSB 6121: Concerning agricultural and forestry biomass.
- Chapter 2832E2SHB 1541: Establishing the nothing about us without us act.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 284SHB 1916: Concerning funding for the early support for infants and toddlers program.
- Chapter 2852SSB 5444: Restricting the possession of weapons, excluding carrying a pistol by a person licensed to carry a concealed pistol, on the premises of libraries, zoos, aquariums, and transit facilities.
- Chapter 286SHB 1903: Reporting lost or stolen firearms.
- Chapter 287ESHB 2021: Concerning the disposition of privately owned firearms in the custody of state or local government entities or law enforcement agencies.
- Chapter 290ESB 6246: Concerning transmission of information relating to firearm prohibitions for persons committed for mental health treatment.
- Chapter 291ESSB 6009: Prohibiting the use of hog-tying.
- Chapter 2932SSB 5780: Encouraging participation in public defense and prosecution professions.
- Chapter 294SHB 1911: Concerning activities in which the office of public defense may engage without violating the prohibition on providing direct representation of clients.
- Chapter 295E2SHB 2311: Supporting first responder wellness and peer support.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 296SSB 5998: Timing of eligibility for vacation of nonfelony convictions.
- Chapter 302ESSB 5891: Designating trespassing on a school bus as a felony offense. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Protecting the safety and security of students and maintaining order within school buses by designating trespassing on a school bus as a criminal offense.)
- Chapter 303SHB 2056: Concerning information sharing and limited investigative authority of supreme court bailiffs.
- Chapter 304SSB 6197: Concerning the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 2.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 305HB 1635: Limiting liability arising from the use of trained police dogs.
- Chapter 307ESHB 2384: Concerning automated traffic safety cameras.
- Chapter 308SSB 6115: Concerning speed safety camera systems.
- Chapter 309SHB 2396: Concerning fentanyl and other synthetic opioids.
- Chapter 313ESHB 1248: Concerning pupil transportation.
- Chapter 314ESHB 1957: Preserving coverage of preventive services without cost sharing.
- Chapter 316ESHB 2331: Modifying requirements for public school instructional and supplemental instructional materials.
- Chapter 317SB 5180: Adopting the interstate teacher mobility compact. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Concerning the licensure and employment of out-of-state teachers.)
- Chapter 318SSB 5306: Authorizing the department of fish and wildlife to establish disease interdiction and control check stations.
- Chapter 319ESSB 5424: Concerning flexible work for general and limited authority Washington peace officers.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 320SSB 5652: Providing compensation for tow truck operators for keeping the public roadways clear.
- Chapter 321ESSB 5796: Concerning common interest communities.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 322SB 5811: Expanding the definition of family member for individual providers.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 323SB 5904: Extending the terms of eligibility for financial aid programs.
- Chapter 324SSB 6053: Improving equitable access to postsecondary education.
- Chapter 325SSB 6059: Concerning the sale or lease of manufactured/mobile home communities and the property on which they sit.
- Chapter 326E2SSB 6068: Reporting on dependency outcomes.
- Chapter 327ESSB 6069: Improving retirement security for Washingtonians by establishing Washington saves, an automatic enrollment individual retirement savings account program, and updating the Washington retirement marketplace statute. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Improving private Washington workforce retirement security standards by establishing Washington saves, an automatic enrollment individual retirement savings account program, and updating the Washington retirement marketplace statute.)Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 328E2SSB 6109: Supporting children and families.
- Chapter 329ESB 6151: Concerning the provision of an ultrasound.
- Chapter 330SSB 6157: Reforming civil service to permit deferred action for childhood arrivals recipients to apply for civil service and incorporate civil service advantage for bilingual and multilingual applicants, applicants with higher education, and applicants with prior work experience in social services.
- Chapter 331SSB 6164: Concerning county emergency management plans.
- Chapter 332E2SSB 6175: Providing a sales and use tax incentive for existing structures. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning housing affordability tax incentives for existing structures.)
- Chapter 334SB 6238: Updating thresholds for the property tax exemption for widows and widowers of honorably discharged veterans.
- Chapter 335SSB 6301: Concerning basic law enforcement academy.
- Chapter 336E2SHB 2000: Renewing Washington's international leadership.Partially vetoed.
- Chapter 337SSB 5934: Concerning pollinator habitat.
- Chapter 338SSB 5972: Concerning the use of neonicotinoid pesticides.
- Chapter 339E2SHB 1185: Reducing environmental impacts associated with lighting products.
- Chapter 3402SHB 1551: Reducing lead in cookware.
- Chapter 341E2SHB 2301: Improving the outcomes associated with waste material management systems, including products affecting organic material management systems.
- Chapter 342SB 5884: Concerning court-ordered restitution in environmental criminal cases.
- Chapter 343SSB 5931: Addressing 6PPD in motorized vehicle tires through safer products for Washington.
- Chapter 3442ESHB 1282: Requiring environmental and labor reporting for public building construction and renovation material.
- Chapter 345E2SHB 1368: Requiring and funding the purchase of zero emission school buses.
- Chapter 346SHB 1924: Promoting the integration of fusion technology within state clean energy policies.
- Chapter 347ESHB 2039: Modifying the appeals process for environmental and land use matters.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 348ESHB 2131: Promoting the establishment of thermal energy networks.
- Chapter 349SHB 2156: Providing solar consumer protections.
- Chapter 350ESSB 6039: Promoting the development of geothermal energy resources.
- Chapter 3552SHB 2084: Establishing an oversight committee to improve construction-related training and pathways to state registered apprenticeships in state correctional facilities.
- Chapter 357ESSB 5778: Protecting the rights of workers to refrain from attending meetings or listening to their employer's speech on political or religious matters.
- Chapter 358SHB 1851: Implementing the first approach skills training program.
- Chapter 3602SHB 2320: Concerning high THC cannabis products.
- Chapter 361SHB 2348: Concerning county hospital funding.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 362SB 5184: Concerning licensure of anesthesiologist assistants.
- Chapter 363ESSB 6286: Addressing the anesthesia workforce shortage by reducing barriers and expanding educational opportunities to increase the supply of certified registered nurse anesthetists in Washington.
- Chapter 364SB 6308: Extending timelines for implementation of the 988 system.
- Chapter 365ESB 5790: Concerning bleeding control equipment in schools. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning medical equipment in schools. )
- Chapter 3662SSB 6228: Concerning treatment of substance use disorders.
- Chapter 368E2SSB 6251: Coordinating regional behavioral crisis response services.
- Chapter 369HB 1946: Creating the Washington health corps behavioral health scholarship program.
- Chapter 370EHB 2088: Extending liability protections for responders dispatched from mobile rapid response crisis teams and community-based crisis teams.
- Chapter 372ESHB 2256: Addressing the children and youth behavioral health work group.
- Chapter 373SSB 5588: Concerning the mental health sentencing alternative.
- Chapter 3742SSB 5660: Establishing a mental health advance directive effective implementation work group.
Effective July 1, 2024 · 9 laws
- Chapter 1EHB 1964: Enhancing prorate and fuel tax collections by improving taxpayer compliance, providing additional enforcement mechanisms, and protecting confidential taxpayer information.
- Chapter 23ESSB 5801: Concerning special deposits.
- Chapter 49SHB 1880: Concerning architecture licensing examinations.
- Chapter 50SHB 1889: Allowing persons to receive professional licenses and certifications regardless of immigration or citizenship status.
- Chapter 181SHB 2007: Expanding time limit exemptions applicable to cash assistance programs.
- Chapter 210SSB 6099: Creating the tribal opioid prevention and treatment account.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 2222EHB 1757: Providing a sales and use tax remittance to qualified farmers.
- Chapter 254HB 1958: Concerning nonconsensual removal of or tampering with a sexually protective device.
- Chapter 297E2SSB 5937: Supporting crime victims and witnesses by promoting victim-centered, trauma-informed responses.
Effective August 1, 2024 · 1 law
- Chapter 20ESSB 5589: Concerning probate.
Effective October 1, 2024 · 2 laws
Effective November 1, 2024 · 1 law
Effective January 1, 2025 · 11 laws
- Chapter 78E2SHB 1272: Concerning publishing, formatting, and distribution of the state and local voters' pamphlets.
- Chapter 90SHB 2127: Concerning workers' compensation incentives to return to work.
- Chapter 107ESHB 1097: Concerning the sale of cosmetics tested on animals.
- Chapter 154HB 2415: Expanding economic assistance for individuals who are eligible for temporary assistance for needy families.
- Chapter 162SB 5800: Improving access to department of licensing issued documents by clarifying the application requirements for a minor, modifying the requirements for at-cost identicards, and studying the feasibility of reduced-fee identicards.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 251ESSB 6127: Increasing access to human immunodeficiency virus postexposure prophylaxis drugs or therapies.
- Chapter 299SSB 5427: Supporting people who have been targeted or affected by hate crimes and bias incidents by establishing a reporting hotline and tracking hate crimes and bias incidents.
- Chapter 3112SHB 2022: Concerning construction crane safety.
- Chapter 315E2SHB 2099: Concerning state identification cards for persons in state custody or care.
- Chapter 354SHB 2061: Defining an employee of a health care facility for purposes of mandatory overtime provisions.
- Chapter 356ESSB 5793: Concerning paid sick leave.
Effective April 1, 2025 · 1 law
Effective June 1, 2025 · 2 laws
- Chapter 56HB 1962: Improving voter registration list accuracy by improving voter address change processes for county election offices and voters.
- Chapter 359SSB 6106: Including in the public safety employees' retirement system specified workers at department of social and health services institutional and residential sites that serve civilly committed residents or serve patients under not guilty by reason of insanity findings.
Effective July 1, 2025 · 7 laws
- Chapter 120SHB 2467: Increasing access to the long-term services and supports trust.
- Chapter 130SB 6080: Simplifying the funding provisions of the statewide tourism marketing account.
- Chapter 207SSB 6146: Concerning tribal warrants.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 244SSB 5798: Extending certain insurance notice requirements.
- Chapter 288ESHB 2118: Protecting the public from gun violence by establishing additional requirements for the business operations of licensed firearms dealers.
- Chapter 2982SSB 6006: Supporting victims of human trafficking and sexual abuse.
- Chapter 353SHB 1905: Including protected classes in the Washington equal pay and opportunities act.
Effective January 1, 2026 · 4 laws
Effective January 31, 2026 · 1 law
Effective June 30, 2027 · 1 law
- Chapter 239HB 2416: Changing the legal title for advanced practice nurses.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Effective date as the Legislature lists it · 6 laws
- Chapter 62ESHB 2041: Concerning physician assistant collaborative practice.The Legislature’s record: Effective date 1/1/2025***.
- Chapter 2092SHB 1877: Improving the Washington state behavioral health system for better coordination and recognition with the Indian behavioral health system.The Legislature’s record: Effective date 6/6/2024***.
- Chapter 261ESHB 2482: Reinstating semiconductor tax incentives.The Legislature’s record: Effective date 3/26/2024**.
- Chapter 352E2SSB 6058: Facilitating linkage of Washington's carbon market with the California-Quebec carbon market.The Legislature’s record: Effective date Contingent**.
- Chapter 367E2SSB 5853: Extending the crisis relief center model to provide behavioral health crisis services for minors.The Legislature’s record: Effective date 6/6/2024**.
- Chapter 371E2SHB 2247: Addressing behavioral health provider shortages.The Legislature’s record: Effective date 10/1/2025***.
Other years: 2026 · 2025 · 2023
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