New Washington laws from 2025
Washington enacted 422 new laws in 2025. The most common effective date is July 27, 2025, shared by 333 of them.
Each one links to its bill, 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 April 7, 2025 · 1 law
Effective April 16, 2025 · 1 law
Effective April 21, 2025 · 3 laws
Effective April 25, 2025 · 3 laws
Effective April 29, 2025 · 1 law
Effective May 7, 2025 · 1 law
Effective May 12, 2025 · 3 laws
- Chapter 226E2SSB 5745: Concerning legal representation under the involuntary treatment act.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 231HB 1970: Concerning state highway construction project alternative contracting procedures.
- Chapter 235E2SHB 1232: Concerning private detention facilities.
Effective May 13, 2025 · 2 laws
Effective May 15, 2025 · 2 laws
Effective May 17, 2025 · 3 laws
- Chapter 3102SHB 1990: Authorizing utility companies to securitize certain costs related to disasters or emergencies to lower costs to customers.
- Chapter 325SHB 1473: Making expenditures from the budget stabilization account for declared catastrophic events.
- Chapter 341SB 5672: Delaying the home care aide certification requirements.
Effective May 19, 2025 · 1 law
- Chapter 359SHB 1392: Creating the medicaid access program.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Effective May 20, 2025 · 7 laws
- Chapter 369ESHB 1296: Promoting a safe and supportive public education system.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 414SSB 5195: Concerning the capital budget.Partially vetoed.
- Chapter 415SSB 5194: Concerning state general obligation bonds and related accounts.
- Chapter 416ESSB 5161: Addressing transportation fiscal matters.Some sections take effect on other dates.Partially vetoed.
- Chapter 419SHB 2077: Establishing a tax on certain business activities related to surpluses generated under the zero-emission vehicle program.
- Chapter 421ESSB 5813: Increasing funding to the education legacy trust account by creating a more progressive rate structure for the capital gains tax and estate tax.
- Chapter 424ESSB 5167: Making 2025-2027 fiscal biennium operating appropriations and 2023-2025 fiscal biennium second supplemental operating appropriations.Some sections take effect on other dates.Partially vetoed.
Effective June 30, 2025 · 4 laws
- Chapter 41HB 1553: Extending the dairy inspection program until June 30, 2031.
- Chapter 54HB 1064: Eliminating the expiration of the interagency, multijurisdictional system improvement team.
- Chapter 126E2SSB 5175: Concerning the photovoltaic module stewardship and takeback program.
- Chapter 285ESSB 5303: Extending the water supply milestone for the Yakima river basin integrated plan to 2035.
Effective July 1, 2025 · 10 laws
- Chapter 84SHB 1294: Extending the pesticide application safety committee.
- Chapter 236SSB 5104: Protecting employees from coercion in the workplace based on immigration status.
- Chapter 253SHB 1351: Adjusting age requirements for accessing the early childhood education and assistance program.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 331SB 5079: Addressing the burden of unintentional overpayments on older adults and adults with disabilities served by the department of social and health services.
- Chapter 344SSB 5790: Concerning cost-of-living adjustments for community and technical college employees.
- Chapter 381ESSB 5357: Concerning actuarial funding of pension systems.
- Chapter 391E2SSB 5651: Concerning exemptions from garnishment.
- Chapter 395SSB 5785: Amending the Washington college grant and college bound scholarship.
- Chapter 399ESHB 1468: Concerning accounts.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 412ESSB 5752: Modifying child care and early childhood development programs.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Effective July 27, 2025 · 333 laws
- Chapter 3SSB 5118: Updating the requirements for the clinical experience license for international medical graduates.
- Chapter 4SB 5006: Making updates to Washington's corporation acts.
- Chapter 6SB 5084: Concerning health carrier reporting.
- Chapter 7SB 5122: Enacting the uniform antitrust premerger notification act.
- Chapter 8SB 5244: Providing an exemption for women, infants, and children program staff to perform hematological screening tests.
- Chapter 9SB 5457: Concerning broadcasters.
- Chapter 11SB 5577: Concerning medicaid coverage for HIV antiviral drugs.Partially vetoed.
- Chapter 12ESSB 5128: Concerning medical services for individuals in juvenile detention facilities.
- Chapter 142SHB 1024: Concerning the leasing authority of the state parks and recreation commission at St. Edward State Park.
- Chapter 15HB 1060: Concerning newspapers and eligible digital content.
- Chapter 16HB 1094: Providing a property tax exemption for property owned by a qualifying nonprofit organization and loaned, leased, or rented to and used by any government entity to provide character-building, benevolent, protective, or rehabilitative social services.
- Chapter 17ESHB 1135: Ensuring that local government planning complies with the growth management act.
- Chapter 18SHB 1142: Standardizing basic training and certification requirements for long-term care workers who provide in-home care for their family members, including spouses or domestic partners.
- Chapter 19HB 1190: Allowing additional health professions to access the University of Washington health sciences library.
- Chapter 20HB 1234: Concerning the mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and social workers advisory committee.
- Chapter 21HB 1314: Concerning the early learning facilities grant and loan program.
- Chapter 22SHB 1353: Establishing a self-certification program for accessory dwelling unit project permit applications.
- Chapter 24HB 1511: Concerning Washington state ferries captains.
- Chapter 25SHB 1706: Aligning the implementation of application programming interfaces for prior authorization with federal guidelines.
- Chapter 26SHB 1720: Expanding the types of medication assistance that may be provided to residents of community-based care settings.
- Chapter 27SB 5141: Requiring that experience-rated group disability income insurers include all applicable rating factors and credibility formulas in rate manual filings with the insurance commissioner.
- Chapter 28SB 5209: Explicitly listing the department of labor and industries in the definition of limited authority Washington law enforcement agency while not granting new enforcement authority.
- Chapter 29SSB 5316: Modifying provisions of the revised uniform unclaimed property act.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 30SSB 5106: Celebrating Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
- Chapter 31HB 1075: Expanding housing supply by supporting the ability of public housing authorities to finance affordable housing developments.
- Chapter 33HB 1457: Requiring electronic monitoring of sexually violent predators granted conditional release.
- Chapter 34HB 1007: Concerning requisites of notice in small claims actions.
- Chapter 35HB 1054: Concerning county ferry maintenance and repair contracts.
- Chapter 36HB 1112: Removing the city residency requirement for judges pro tempore in municipalities with a population of more than 400,000 inhabitants.
- Chapter 37HB 1157: Authorizing access to certifications of birth and death to additional family members.
- Chapter 38HB 1172: Concerning fire protection district civil service systems.
- Chapter 39HB 1304: Concerning the effective date of the filing of a notice of intention with a boundary review board.
- Chapter 40HB 1361: Updating process service requirements.
- Chapter 42HB 1556: Expanding tuition waivers for high school completers at community and technical colleges.
- Chapter 43HB 1947: Reducing satellite management agency requirements for simple group B public water systems.
- Chapter 44HB 1003: Addressing service of notice by mail in cases involving forcible entry and forcible and unlawful detainer.
- Chapter 45HB 1631: Establishing the state marine forest.
- Chapter 46SHB 1490: Concerning fingerprint-based background checks.
- Chapter 48SHB 1133: Concerning sexually violent predators.
- Chapter 49HB 1114: Concerning the respiratory care interstate compact.
- Chapter 50HB 1006: Regulating service contracts and protection product guarantees.
- Chapter 51SHB 1205: Prohibiting the knowing distribution of a forged digital likeness.
- Chapter 52HB 1156: Concerning volunteer firefighter participation in the state deferred compensation program.
- Chapter 53HB 1842: Allowing public utility districts to form, own, or use captive insurers.
- Chapter 55E2SHB 1174: Concerning court interpreters.
- Chapter 56HB 1215: Removing references to pregnancy from the model directive form under the natural death act.
- Chapter 57HB 1275: Establishing department authority to ensure payment is received from the self-insured employer after a self-insured group or municipal employer has their self-insurer certification withdrawn.
- Chapter 58SHB 1281: Making technical corrections and removing obsolete language from the Revised Code of Washington pursuant to RCW 1.08.025.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 59HB 1341: Concerning the medical cannabis authorization database.
- Chapter 60ESHB 1385: Concerning fingerprint background check on applicants.
- Chapter 61ESHB 1414: Improving access to career opportunities for students.
- Chapter 62EHB 1461: Concerning contracts for materials or work required by joint operating agencies.
- Chapter 64SHB 1606: Concerning state employee access to peer-reviewed journals.
- Chapter 66HB 1640: Placing licenses issued in chapters 18.71B and 18.71C RCW under the authority of the uniform disciplinary act.
- Chapter 67ESHB 1688: Concerning electric security alarm systems.
- Chapter 68HB 1760: Removing barriers for organizations selling manufactured homes to low-income households.
- Chapter 69SHB 1824: Concerning inspections for accredited birthing centers.
- Chapter 70SHB 1827: Concerning the effective delivery and administration of basic education services to justice-involved students.
- Chapter 71EHB 1747: Expanding protections for applicants and employees under the Washington fair chance act.
- Chapter 73HB 1013: Concerning exemption of certain personnel of the department of social and health services from civil service.
- Chapter 74SHB 1260: Concerning administrative costs associated with the document recording fee.
- Chapter 75HB 1028: Addressing child exposure to violence.
- Chapter 76SHB 1325: Expanding enforcement options for certain fish and wildlife violations.
- Chapter 77SHB 1081: Establishing consumer protections for owners of solicited real estate.
- Chapter 78SHB 1105: Exempting exclusive bargaining representatives for department of corrections employees from certain provisions related to coalition bargaining.
- Chapter 80ESHB 1201: Identifying accommodations allowing pets in an emergency or extreme weather event.
- Chapter 81HB 1222: Concerning public inspection and copying of proprietary financial and security information submitted to or obtained by the gambling commission.
- Chapter 82EHB 1279: Providing postsecondary education consumer protections.
- Chapter 83HB 1287: Addressing the disclosure of health information for care coordination.
- Chapter 85SHB 1650: Concerning the addition of airport capital projects as an allowable use of local real estate excise tax revenues.
- Chapter 86EHB 1705: Convening a work group to study and recommend strategies to recruit, train, and retain large animal veterinarians.
- Chapter 87SHB 1309: Addressing the impacts of burrowing shrimp on bottom culture shellfish farming through integrated pest management research.
- Chapter 88EHB 1393: Providing public school students with opportunities for cultural expression at commencement ceremonies.
- Chapter 89HB 1327: Concerning horse racing.
- Chapter 90HB 1484: Concerning exceptional sentences for offenses which result in the pregnancy of a victim of rape.
- Chapter 91SHB 1486: Adding a student member to the state board for community and technical colleges.
- Chapter 92HB 1540: Expanding eligibility for the students experiencing homelessness and foster youth program to an accredited tribal college.
- Chapter 94EHB 1609: Promoting efficient administration of state education agencies.
- Chapter 95HB 1636: Eliminating the per transaction limit for wine and spirit sales.
- Chapter 96SHB 1669: Concerning coverage requirements for prosthetic limbs and custom orthotic braces.
- Chapter 97ESHB 1718: Concerning well-being programs for certain health care professionals.
- Chapter 98HB 1722: Reviewing state restrictions affecting students participating in secondary career and technical education programs and other state-approved career pathways.
- Chapter 99SHB 1821: Expanding the definition of "interested party" for the purposes of prevailing wage laws.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 100HB 1858: Eliminating the exemption for assignments or substitutions of previously recorded deeds of trust from the document recording fee and the covenant homeownership program assessment.
- Chapter 102SHB 1935: Concerning the definition of project permit and project permit application.
- Chapter 103SHB 1967: Modifying bonding requirements in the design portion of design-build public works projects.
- Chapter 1042SHB 1273: Improving student access to dual credit programs.
- Chapter 106ESHB 1141: Concerning collective bargaining for agricultural cannabis workers.
- Chapter 107SB 5021: Concerning retention of court exhibits.
- Chapter 108ESSB 5200: Concerning veterans' medical foster homes.
- Chapter 109SSB 5030: Improving access to educational services by reducing barriers to obtaining vital records and allowing alternative forms of documentation.
- Chapter 110SSB 5049: Concerning the public records exemptions accountability committee.
- Chapter 111SB 5037: Enacting the uniform custodial trust act.
- Chapter 112SB 5306: Concerning the purchase of pension service credit for authorized leaves of absence.
- Chapter 113SSB 5040: Expanding the definition of uniformed personnel to all law enforcement officers employed by a city, town, county, or governing body of a municipal airport operating under the provisions of chapter 14.08 RCW.
- Chapter 114ESSB 5459: Concerning call center retention.
- Chapter 115SSB 5501: Concerning employer requirements for driving.
- Chapter 116ESB 5065: Prohibiting the use of certain animals in traveling animal acts.
- Chapter 117SSB 5074: Concerning payment of seed contracts.
- Chapter 118SSB 5076: Establishing a Puget Sound nonspot shrimp pot fishery license.
- Chapter 119ESSB 5129: Concerning common interest communities.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 120SSB 5149: Expanding the early childhood court program.
- Chapter 121SSB 5157: Concerning the direct sale of valuable materials for habitat restoration projects.
- Chapter 122ESSB 5202: Ensuring the efficacy of judicial orders as harm reduction tools that increase the safety of survivors of abuse and support law enforcement in their efforts to enforce the law.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 123SSB 5163: Modernizing the child fatality statute.
- Chapter 124E2SSB 5355: Improving safety at institutions of higher education while supporting student survivors of sexual assault.
- Chapter 128SB 5391: Concerning the sustainable farms and fields grant program.
- Chapter 129SSB 5182: Concerning programs and services for incarcerated parents at the department of corrections.
- Chapter 130SSB 5221: Simplifying processes and timelines related to personal property distraint.
- Chapter 131SSB 5239: Concerning the retention of hospital medical records.
- Chapter 132SSB 5265: Expanding minimum requirements for electrical inspectors to include certain out-of-state experience.
- Chapter 133SB 5288: Concerning vacancies on boards of county commissioners.
- Chapter 1342SSB 5358: Concerning career and technical education in sixth grade.
- Chapter 135SB 5414: Requiring social equity impact analysis in performance audits and legislative public hearings thereon.
- Chapter 136HB 1355: Modifying retail taxes compacts between the state of Washington and federally recognized tribes located in Washington state by increasing the revenue-sharing percentages when a compacting tribe has completed a qualified capital investment.
- Chapter 137SHB 1061: Providing additional parking flexibility in residential neighborhoods.
- Chapter 138SHB 1261: Providing tax relief for certain incidental uses on open space land.
- Chapter 1392SHB 1183: Concerning building code and development regulation reform.
- Chapter 1402SHB 1391: Improving developmentally appropriate alternatives for youth outside the formal court process.
- Chapter 141EHB 1602: Addressing food service options for liquor licensees.
- Chapter 142E2SHB 1686: Creating a health care entity registry.
- Chapter 1432SHB 1696: Modifying the covenant homeownership program.
- Chapter 144HB 1755: Exempting elective percutaneous coronary intervention performed in certain hospitals owned or operated by a state entity from certificate of need requirements.
- Chapter 145ESSB 5480: Protecting consumers by removing barriers created by medical debt.
- Chapter 146SSB 5493: Concerning hospital price transparency.
- Chapter 148SSB 5558: Concerning timelines for growth management comprehensive plan and development regulation updates.
- Chapter 149SB 5641: Encouraging public school instruction in awareness of blood donation.
- Chapter 150SSB 5655: Concerning child care centers operated in existing buildings.
- Chapter 151SB 5656: Modifying the definition of inflation rate for aquatic leases.
- Chapter 152SB 5696: Concerning the sales and use tax supporting chemical dependency and mental health treatment programs.
- Chapter 153SB 5764: Repealing the expiration date for the ambulance transport fund.
- Chapter 154HB 1270: Concerning automatic deferred compensation enrollment for county, municipal, and other political subdivision employees.
- Chapter 155HB 1389: Extending the expiration date for reporting requirements on timber purchases.
- Chapter 156ESHB 1522: Concerning approval of electric utility wildfire mitigation plans.
- Chapter 157ESHB 1572: Modifying higher education accreditation standards.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 1582SHB 1715: Regarding the costs of compliance with the state energy performance standard.
- Chapter 159SHB 1791: Increasing the flexibility of existing funding sources to fund public safety and other facilities by modifying the local real estate excise tax.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 160SHB 1899: Concerning the homelessness point-in-time count.
- Chapter 162HB 1068: Removing the exclusion from interest arbitration of Washington management service employees at the department of corrections.
- Chapter 163SHB 1177: Concerning the child welfare housing assistance program.
- Chapter 164HB 1494: Concerning the property tax exemptions for new and rehabilitated multiple-unit dwellings in urban centers.
- Chapter 165SHB 1509: Concerning family reconciliation services.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 166ESHB 1620: Concerning limitations in parenting plans.
- Chapter 167HB 1698: Updating liquor permit and licensing provisions.
- Chapter 170ESHB 1875: Allowing the use of paid sick leave to prepare for or participate in certain immigration proceedings.
- Chapter 171ESHB 1971: Increasing access to prescription hormone therapy.
- Chapter 174HB 1012: Authorizing the women's commission to solicit gifts, grants, and endowments from public or private sources.
- Chapter 176SB 5102: Establishing a public records exemption for the proprietary information of public risk pools.
- Chapter 177SB 5110: Providing tuition waivers for tribal elders at Washington’s community and technical colleges.
- Chapter 178SSB 5191: Concerning paid family and medical leave premium collection for dockworkers.
- Chapter 179SB 5199: Providing compensation to members of the department of children, youth, and families oversight board with direct lived experience.
- Chapter 180SSB 5494: Protecting Washington communities from lead-based paint.
- Chapter 181SSB 5545: Modifying provisions regarding family home providers overseen and certified by a federal military service.
- Chapter 183HB 1046: Protecting the vulnerable by providing immunity from civil liability for damage to a motor vehicle arising from the rescue of vulnerable persons or domestic animals.
- Chapter 184EHB 1185: Concerning membership on the correctional industries advisory committee.
- Chapter 185SSB 5165: Concerning compensation in frontier one counties for deer and elk damage.
- Chapter 186SSB 5245: Authorizing county commissioners to administer oaths of office to state legislators.
- Chapter 187E2SSB 5337: Creating a certification for memory care services.
- Chapter 188SB 5473: Concerning law enforcement personnel grievance arbitration procedures.
- Chapter 189SSB 5492: Concerning sustainable state tourism promotion.
- Chapter 190SB 5616: Concerning the Washington saves administrative trust account.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 191SB 5669: Concerning irrigation district elections.
- Chapter 192SHB 1171: Exempting attorney higher education employees from certain mandated reporting of child abuse and neglect.
- Chapter 193EHB 1628: Creating the fire service policy board.
- Chapter 195SB 5036: Strengthening Washington's leadership and accountability on climate policy by transitioning to annual reporting of statewide emissions data.
- Chapter 196SSB 5139: Concerning reentry council.
- Chapter 197SB 5375: Concerning the duty of clergy to report child abuse and neglect.
- Chapter 198HB 1372: Modifying provisions on joint legislative audit and review committee studies.
- Chapter 199SB 5455: Concerning the administration of the Andy Hill cancer research endowment.
- Chapter 200EHB 1106: Recognizing the tremendous sacrifices made by our military veterans by phasing down the disability rating requirements to ensure more disabled veterans are eligible for property tax relief.
- Chapter 201EHB 1403: Simplifying condominium construction statutes.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 2022SHB 1516: Conducting a study of insurance coverage options for permanently affordable homeownership units.
- Chapter 203HB 1757: Modifying regulations for existing buildings used for residential purposes.
- Chapter 204ESSB 5184: Concerning minimum parking requirements.
- Chapter 205SSB 5298: Concerning the notice of sale or lease of manufactured/mobile home communities.
- Chapter 206ESB 5313: Adding to the list of provisions prohibited from rental agreements.
- Chapter 207ESB 5529: Amending the county population threshold for counties that may exempt from taxation the value of accessory dwelling units to incentivize rental to low-income households.
- Chapter 208ESSB 5611: Streamlining and clarifying local governments' land use permitting workloads.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 211HB 1009: Adjusting the membership of the pharmacy quality assurance commission.
- Chapter 212HB 1130: Concerning utilization of developmental disabilities waivers.
- Chapter 213SHB 1186: Expanding the situations in which medications can be dispensed or delivered from hospitals and health care entities.
- Chapter 214ESHB 1395: Streamlining the home care worker background check process.
- Chapter 215E2SHB 1422: Modifying the drug take-back program.
- Chapter 216E2SHB 1813: Concerning the reprocurement of medical assistance services, including the realignment of behavioral health crisis services for medicaid enrollees.
- Chapter 218SSB 5691: Adopting the department of social and health services report recommendations addressing a regulatory oversight plan for continuing care retirement communities.
- Chapter 219SSB 5351: Ensuring patient choice and access to care by prohibiting unfair and deceptive dental insurance practices.Partially vetoed.
- Chapter 220ESHB 1149: Preventing cruelty to animals.
- Chapter 221EHB 1329: Concerning wholesale power purchases by electric utilities under the Washington clean energy transformation act.
- Chapter 222SHB 1460: Concerning protection order hope cards.
- Chapter 223ESSB 5029: Concerning the transportation of individuals released or discharged from the custody of the department of corrections.
- Chapter 224ESSB 5142: 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.
- Chapter 225SSB 5419: Modifying reports of fire losses.
- Chapter 227E2SHB 1432: Improving access to appropriate mental health and substance use disorder services.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 234SB 5716: Expanding the locations where a person can be guilty of unlawful transit conduct to include the Washington state ferries.
- Chapter 237SSB 5714: Declaring civil immigration enforcement as unprofessional conduct of bail bond recovery agents.
- Chapter 239SHB 1271: Permitting early deployment of state fire service resources.
- Chapter 241SHB 1576: Concerning the designation of historic landmarks by cities.
- Chapter 242HB 1731: Regarding unclaimed property held by a museum or historical society.
- Chapter 243SSB 5262: Correcting obsolete or erroneous references in statutes administered by the insurance commissioner.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 245SB 5315: Standardizing notification provisions relating to local tax rate changes and shared taxes administered by the department.
- Chapter 246SB 5317: Exempting local governments providing certain services for projects under the jurisdiction of the energy facility siting evaluation council from certain appeals.
- Chapter 247SB 5343: Concerning the northeast Washington wolf-livestock management account.
- Chapter 248SB 5632: Protecting the confidentiality of records and information that may be relevant to another state's enforcement of its laws.
- Chapter 249EHB 1052: Clarifying a hate crime offense.
- Chapter 251SHB 1079: Supporting remote testing options for students enrolled in online school programs.
- Chapter 252HB 1167: Directing the statewide career and technical education task force to consider educational opportunities for careers in maritime professions.
- Chapter 2542SHB 1587: Encouraging local government partner promise scholarship programs within the opportunity scholarship program.
- Chapter 255SSB 5025: Concerning educational interpreters.
- Chapter 256SSB 5253: Extending special education services to students with disabilities until the end of the school year in which the student turns 22.
- Chapter 258HB 1039: Concerning extending governmental services from cities to tribal lands.
- Chapter 259ESHB 1829: Concerning tribal warrants.
- Chapter 260ESHB 1946: Clarifying tribal membership on local boards of health.
- Chapter 261HB 1018: Adding fusion energy to facilities that may obtain site certification for the purposes of chapter 80.50 RCW.
- Chapter 262SHB 1488: Concerning conservation district revenue limitations.
- Chapter 2632SHB 1514: Encouraging the deployment of low carbon thermal energy networks.
- Chapter 264SHB 1543: Increasing compliance pathways for the clean buildings performance standard.
- Chapter 265ESSB 5445: Encouraging utility investment in local energy resilience. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Encouraging the development of distributed energy resources.)
- Chapter 266ESSB 5628: Concerning lead in cookware.
- Chapter 2673SHB 1491: Promoting transit-oriented housing development.
- Chapter 269E2SSB 5148: Ensuring compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act.
- Chapter 270SB 5571: Regulating exterior cladding materials.
- Chapter 271ESB 5559: Streamlining the subdivision process inside urban growth areas.
- Chapter 272EHB 1014: Implementing recommendations of the 2023 child support schedule work group.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 273SHB 1308: Concerning access to personnel records.
- Chapter 274ESHB 1562: Increasing the availability of baby diaper changing stations.
- Chapter 275SSB 5365: Concerning alternate funding for libraries.
- Chapter 276ESSB 5509: Concerning the siting of child care centers.
- Chapter 277ESSB 5525: Concerning employment loss due to businesses closing or mass layoffs.
- Chapter 278SB 5189: Supporting the implementation of competency-based education.
- Chapter 279SHB 1253: Expanding the ability of consumer-owned utilities to enter into joint use agreements.
- Chapter 280ESHB 1258: Providing funding for municipalities participating in the regional 911 emergency communications system.
- Chapter 281E2SHB 1648: Modifying child care provider qualifications.
- Chapter 283HB 1934: Concerning the disclosure of information pertaining to complainants, accusers, and witnesses in an employment investigation.
- Chapter 286SSB 5323: Concerning the penalties for theft and possession of stolen property from first responders.
- Chapter 287SB 5485: Concerning livestock identification.
- Chapter 288SB 5543: Providing equity in eligibility for the college bound scholarship.
- Chapter 289SB 5682: Concerning the Washington customized employment training program.
- Chapter 290SB 5435: Reorganizing and adding subchapter headings to public employees' collective bargaining statutes.
- Chapter 291SSB 5556: Modernizing the adopt-a-highway program to improve its ability to meet its original purpose within existing fiscal limitations.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 292ESSB 5627: Improving safe excavation practices and preventing damage to underground utilities.
- Chapter 296SHB 1264: Concerning the salaries of ferry system collective bargaining units.
- Chapter 297SHB 1733: Increasing the reimbursement cap for moving and relocation expenses incurred by persons affected by agency displacements.
- Chapter 298SHB 1774: Modifying allowable terms for the lease of unused highway land.
- Chapter 299ESHB 1878: Improving young driver safety.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 300ESB 5595: Establishing shared streets.
- Chapter 301E2SHB 1096: Increasing housing options through lot splitting.
- Chapter 302HB 1109: Concerning public facilities districts.
- Chapter 305EHB 1382: Modernizing the all payers claim database.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 307HB 1573: Revising the period in which the oath of office must be taken for elective offices of counties, cities, towns, and special purpose districts.
- Chapter 308HB 1633: Concerning prime contractor bidding submission requirements on public works contracts.
- Chapter 309ESHB 1651: Concerning teacher residency and apprenticeship programs.
- Chapter 3112SHB 1154: Ensuring environmental and public health protection from solid waste handling facility operations.
- Chapter 312ESHB 1293: Concerning litter.
- Chapter 3132SHB 1462: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with hydrofluorocarbons.
- Chapter 3142SHB 1497: Improving outcomes associated with waste material management systems.
- Chapter 315SHB 1670: Increasing transparency regarding sewage-containing spills.
- Chapter 316E2SSB 5284: Improving Washington's solid waste management outcomes.
- Chapter 317SSB 5033: Concerning sampling or testing of biosolids for PFAS chemicals.
- Chapter 318SSB 5212: Concerning filing of adjudication claims for precode uses of groundwater and surface water in the water resource inventory area 1 water rights adjudication.
- Chapter 3192SHB 1409: Concerning the clean fuels program.
- Chapter 3202SHB 1975: Amending the climate commitment act by adjusting auction price containment mechanisms and ceiling prices, addressing the department of ecology's authority to amend rules to facilitate linkage with other jurisdictions, and providing for market dynamic analysis.
- Chapter 322SB 5653: Concerning collective bargaining by fish and wildlife officers.
- Chapter 324SHB 1539: Addressing wildfire protection and mitigation.
- Chapter 326SB 5319: Establishing surface mine reclamation permit fees.
- Chapter 327SB 5334: 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.
- Chapter 328SSB 5583: Concerning recreational fishing and hunting licenses.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 329ESSB 5014: Concerning election security.
- Chapter 330SB 5077: Concerning expansion of voter registration services by government agencies.
- Chapter 333SSB 5168: Concerning the appointment, removal, and salary of the state actuary.
- Chapter 335SB 5361: Delaying the use of the ASAM 4 criteria, treatment criteria for addictive, substance related, and co-occurring conditions.
- Chapter 336SSB 5370: Lengthening port commissioner terms.
- Chapter 337SSB 5394: Reducing the developmental disabilities administration's no-paid services caseload services.
- Chapter 339SB 5478: Concerning benefits authorized to be offered by the public employees' benefits board.
- Chapter 340SSB 5516: Modifying the property tax exemption for community centers.
- Chapter 342ESB 5769: Addressing transition to kindergarten programs.
- Chapter 3432SSB 5786: Increasing license, permit, and endorsement fees.
- Chapter 345SHB 1498: Concerning domestic violence co-responder programs.
- Chapter 346SHB 1811: Enhancing crisis response services through co-response integration and support.
- Chapter 347ESSB 5004: Updating emergency response systems in public schools including panic or alert buttons.
- Chapter 348SB 5032: Expanding the duties of the office of the family and children's ombuds to include juvenile rehabilitation facilities operated by the department of children, youth, and families.
- Chapter 349SB 5224: Concerning officer certification definitions, processes, and commissioning.
- Chapter 350ESHB 2015: Improving public safety funding by providing resources to local governments and state and local criminal justice agencies, and authorizing a local option tax.
- Chapter 351ESB 5662: Concerning the waiver of municipal utility connection charges for certain properties.
- Chapter 352ESSB 5041: Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for striking or lockout workers.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 353ESHB 1483: Supporting the servicing and right to repair of certain products with digital electronics in a secure and reliable manner to increase access and affordability for Washingtonians.
- Chapter 354SB 5680: Establishing a right to repair for mobility equipment for persons with physical disabilities.
- Chapter 356SHB 1709: Addressing the care of students with adrenal insufficiency by parent-designated adults.
- Chapter 3572SHB 1207: Concerning superior court clerk fees.
- Chapter 3582SHB 1359: Reviewing laws related to criminal insanity and competency to stand trial.
- Chapter 3602SHB 1427: Concerning certified peer support specialists.
- Chapter 3612SHB 1515: Modernizing the regulation of alcohol service in public spaces.
- Chapter 362HB 1552: Extending the fee on real estate broker licenses to fund the Washington center for real estate research and adjusting the fee to account for inflation.
- Chapter 363ESHB 1837: Establishing intercity passenger rail improvement priorities.
- Chapter 364SHB 1848: Concerning services and supports for individuals with traumatic brain injuries.
- Chapter 365ESHB 1902: Convening a work group regarding the streamlining of permitting for transportation projects.
- Chapter 366SHB 2047: Eliminating the Washington employee ownership program.
- Chapter 367SHB 2051: Concerning payment to acute care hospitals for difficult to discharge medicaid patients.
- Chapter 368E2SSB 5263: Concerning special education funding.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 371E2SHB 1131: Concerning clemency and pardons.Some sections take effect on other dates.Partially vetoed.
- Chapter 372ESSB 5009: Accommodating multiple vehicle types for transporting students.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 373E2SSB 5083: Ensuring access to primary care, behavioral health, and affordable hospital services.
- Chapter 374SSB 5093: Concerning dignity in pregnancy loss.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 376SB 5138: Concerning public facilities districts.
- Chapter 377ESSB 5143: Concerning the ethics in public service act.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 382SSB 5388: Concerning department of corrections behavioral health certification.
- Chapter 383SSB 5408: Allowing for corrections to wage and salary disclosures.
- Chapter 384SSB 5412: Providing temporary interfund loans for school districts.
- Chapter 385SSB 5444: Concerning special license plates and personalized license plates.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 386ESB 5471: Authorizing middle housing in unincorporated growth areas and unincorporated urban growth areas, certain limited areas of more intensive rural development, and fully contained communities.
- Chapter 387SSB 5503: Concerning public employee collective bargaining processes.
- Chapter 388SSB 5568: Updating and modernizing the Washington state health plan.
- Chapter 389SSB 5579: Prohibiting health carriers, facilities, and providers from making any public statements of any potential or planned contract terminations unless it satisfies a legal obligation.
- Chapter 390SSB 5587: Concerning affordable housing development in counties not closing the gap between estimated existing housing units within the county and existing housing needs.
- Chapter 392ESSB 5677: Concerning associate development organizations.
- Chapter 393E2SSB 5686: Expanding and funding the foreclosure mediation program.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 394ESB 5721: Enhancing consumer protections for automobile insurance coverage.
- Chapter 396SB 5807: Concerning wellness incentives for public and school employee health benefit plans.
- Chapter 397ESHB 1119: Concerning supervision compliance credit.
- Chapter 398EHB 1219: Concerning the interbranch advisory committee.
- Chapter 400SHB 1958: Concerning the interstate bridge replacement toll bond authority.
- Chapter 402HB 2039: Concerning child support pass through.
- Chapter 403HB 2040: Concerning the recovery of the aged, blind, or disabled assistance program.
- Chapter 404ESHB 2049: Investing in the state's paramount duty to fund K-12 education and build strong and safe communities.
- Chapter 407ESSB 5219: Concerning partial confinement eligibility and alignment.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 408ESSB 5232: Supporting economic security by updating provisions related to the home security fund and the essential needs and housing support program.Partially vetoed.
- Chapter 409SSB 5314: Modifying the capital gains tax.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 410SSB 5393: Closing the Rainier school by June 30, 2027.
- Chapter 411SSB 5431: Modifying tax and revenue laws in a manner that is not estimated to affect state or local tax collections.
- Chapter 413SB 5761: Developing a schedule for court appointment of attorneys for children and youth in dependency and termination proceedings.
- Chapter 417ESSB 5801: Concerning transportation resources.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 4182SSB 5802: Rebalancing statutory fund transfers and revenue dedications for transportation.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 420ESHB 2081: 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.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 422ESSB 5814: Modifying the application and administration of certain excise taxes.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Effective September 1, 2025 · 3 laws
- Chapter 229ESHB 1332: Concerning transportation network companies.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 244ESSB 5281: Changing the vessel length requirement in obtaining nonresident vessel permits.
- Chapter 334ESSB 5192: Concerning school district materials, supplies, and operating costs.
Effective October 1, 2025 · 3 laws
- Chapter 23ESHB 1439: Modifying motor vehicle and driver licensing laws to align with federal definitions, making technical corrections, and streamlining requirements.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 295SHB 1371: Concerning parking privileges for veterans.
- Chapter 323ESSB 5390: Concerning the discover pass and distributions. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning access to recreation sites or lands.)Partially vetoed.
Effective October 15, 2025 · 1 law
Effective January 1, 2026 · 24 laws
- Chapter 472SHB 1524: Concerning workplace standards and requirements applicable to employers of isolated employees.
- Chapter 101SHB 1879: Concerning meal and rest breaks for hospital workers.
- Chapter 147SB 5498: Concerning contraceptive coverage.
- Chapter 210EHB 1173: Concerning wages for journeypersons in high-hazard facilities.
- Chapter 217ESB 5689: Adding blood type information to drivers' licenses and identicards.
- Chapter 230SHB 1418: Adding two voting members that are transit users to the governing body of public transportation benefit areas.
- Chapter 232ESSB 5294: Transferring dedicated accounts for certain professional licenses to the business and professions account.
- Chapter 233SSB 5528: Concerning the installation of transportation electrification infrastructure.
- Chapter 240ESHB 1533: Allowing a specialty electrician to continue working under a valid specialty certificate of competency while enrolled in a journey level apprenticeship program.
- Chapter 250ESSB 5403: Supporting a sustainable cannabis industry. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Limiting financial interest agreements for licensed cannabis retailers.)
- Chapter 293SB 5702: Streamlining the toll rate setting process at the transportation commission.
- Chapter 3032SHB 1162: Concerning workplace violence in health care settings.
- Chapter 304E2SHB 1213: Expanding protections for workers in the state paid family and medical leave program.
- Chapter 306E2SHB 1440: Concerning seizure and forfeiture procedures and reporting.
- Chapter 321HB 2003: Concerning the Columbia river recreational salmon and steelhead endorsement program.
- Chapter 338SB 5463: Concerning the duties of industrial insurance self-insured employers and third-party administrators.
- Chapter 355ESSB 5486: Concerning open motion picture captioning in motion picture theaters.
- Chapter 375SSB 5101: Expanding access to leave and safety accommodations to include workers who are victims of hate crimes or bias incidents.
- Chapter 378ESB 5206: Concerning cannabis retailer advertising.
- Chapter 380ESSB 5291: Implementing the recommendations of the long-term services and supports trust commission.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 401SHB 2020: Creating a business and occupation tax deduction and increasing the rate for persons conducting payment card processing activities.
- Chapter 405HB 2050: Implementing K-12 savings and efficiencies.
- Chapter 406ESHB 2061: Regarding concession fees by duty-free sales enterprises.
- Chapter 423ESSB 5794: Adopting recommendations from the tax preference performance review process, eliminating obsolete tax preferences, clarifying legislative intent, and addressing changes in constitutional law.Some sections take effect on other dates.Partially vetoed.
Effective January 15, 2026 · 1 law
Effective March 1, 2026 · 2 laws
Effective April 1, 2026 · 1 law
Effective July 1, 2026 · 7 laws
- Chapter 5SB 5051: Consolidating regulatory authority for nursing assistants.Some sections take effect on other dates.
- Chapter 10SB 5462: Addressing the current backlog of vehicle inspections.
- Chapter 63E2SHB 1549: Modifying the responsible bidder criteria for public works projects.
- Chapter 79SHB 1121: Concerning restrictions on the working conditions and hours of sixteen- and seventeen-year olds.
- Chapter 1252SSB 5356: Concerning training provided by the criminal justice training commission.
- Chapter 1682SHB 1788: Concerning workers' compensation benefits.
- Chapter 173ESHB 1644: Concerning the safety and health of working minors.
Effective January 1, 2027 · 1 law
Effective May 1, 2027 · 1 law
- Chapter 370E2SHB 1163: Enhancing requirements relating to the purchase, transfer, and possession of firearms.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Effective June 1, 2028 · 1 law
Effective July 1, 2028 · 1 law
Effective January 1, 2029 · 1 law
Other years: 2026 · 2024 · 2023
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