Washington bills by topic
Legislative staff file every bill under one or more subjects. These are the subjects, each with the number of bills filed under it.
2025-26 session (2025 and 2026)
- Aeronautics · 13
- Agriculture · 37
- Agriculture, Department of · 12
- Alcoholic Beverages · 26
- Animals · 29
- Attorney General · 17
- Attorneys · 5
- Auditor, State · 5
- Banks and Banking · 8
- Behavioral Health · 45
- Boats and Boating · 5
- Bonds · 9
- Budgets · 35
- Building Codes and Permits · 23
- Businesses · 146
- Cannabis · 42
- Child Care · 39
- Children · 39
- Children, Youth, and Families, Department · 34
- Cities · 5
- Civil Actions and Procedure · 16
- Colleges and Universities · 85
- Commerce, Department of · 83
- Community and Technical Colleges · 71
- Concurrent Resolutions · 20
- Consumer Protection · 8
- Correctional Facilities and Jails · 59
- Corrections, Department of · 14
- Counties · 18
- Courts · 51
- Crimes · 85
- Criminal Justice Training Commission · 13
- Dentists and Dentistry · 5
- Developmental Disabilities, Individuals with · 11
- Disabilities, Persons with · 24
- Domestic Relations · 29
- Drugs · 29
- Ecology, Department of · 37
- Elections · 57
- Emergency Management · 14
- Employment Security Department · 13
- Energy · 42
- Environmental Health and Safety · 90
- Estates, Trusts, and Probate · 7
- Ethics in Government · 5
- Farms and Farming · 18
- Ferries · 11
- Financial Management, Office · 10
- Firearms · 32
- Firefighters · 8
- Fire Protection · 27
- Fish and Fishing · 24
- Fish and Wildlife, Department of · 18
- Food and Food Products · 9
- Foreign Governments · 13
- Forests and Forest Products · 24
- Foster Care · 8
- Gambling · 9
- Gender and Gender Identity · 9
- Governor · 10
- Growth Management · 68
- Hazardous Materials · 8
- Health and Safety, Public · 79
- Health Care · 23
- Health Care Authority · 20
- Health Care Facilities · 24
- Health Care Practioners and Providers · 83
- Health, Department of · 45
- Health Insurance · 82
- Holidays and Observances · 16
- Homeless Persons · 17
- House Resolutions · 116
- Housing and Homes · 81
- Human Remains · 9
- Immigration · 20
- Initiative and Referendum · 13
- Insurance · 26
- Insurance Commissioner · 21
- Joint Memorials · 36
- Joint Resolutions · 24
- Judges · 6
- Juveniles and Juvenile Court · 39
- Labor · 67
- Labor and Industries, Department of · 19
- Landlord and Tenant · 25
- Law Enforcement · 81
- Legislative Audit and Review Committee, Joint (JLARC) · 19
- Legislature · 43
- Licensing, Department of · 23
- Lieutenant Governor · 5
- Liquor and Cannabis Board · 17
- Local Government · 93
- Lodging · 8
- Low-Income Persons · 34
- Military · 19
- Minorities · 16
- Motor Vehicles · 108
- Named Acts · 145
- Natural Resources, Department of · 17
- Nonprofit Organizations · 15
- Parking · 7
- Parks and Recreation Commission · 7
- Port Districts · 6
- Professional Educator Standards Board (PESB) · 9
- Property, Personal · 9
- Public Assistance · 77
- Public Defense, Office of · 11
- Public Employment and Employees · 51
- Public Employment Relations Commission · 5
- Public Funds and Accounts · 193
- Public Lands · 11
- Public Policy, Institute for · 8
- Public Works · 32
- Railroads · 6
- Real Estate and Real Property · 33
- Records · 56
- Religion and Religious Organizations · 9
- Retirement and Pensions · 37
- Revenue, Department of · 8
- Rivers and Bridges · 10
- Roads and Highways · 47
- School Directors' Association, Washington State · 8
- Schools and School Districts · 218
- Secretary of State · 10
- Senate Resolutions · 89
- Sentencing · 53
- Sex Offenses and Offenders · 27
- Social and Health Services, Department of · 17
- Solid Waste · 18
- Sports and Recreation · 36
- State Agencies and Departments · 56
- State Designations, Official · 15
- Student Achievement Council · 13
- Studies · 25
- Superintendent of Public Instruction, Office of (OSPI) · 59
- Taxes - Estate · 11
- Taxes - Excise · 167
- Taxes, Generally · 15
- Taxes - Property · 31
- Tax Preferences - Exemptions, Credits, Deductions, Deferrals, Etc. · 162
- Telecommunications · 13
- Tourism · 7
- Towing and Tow Trucks · 6
- Transportation · 27
- Transportation, Department of · 10
- Tribes and Tribal Members · 39
- Unemployment Compensation · 10
- Utilities · 51
- Utilities and Transportation Commission · 5
- Veterans · 12
- Victims of Crimes · 10
- Wages and Salaries · 16
- Water and Water Rights · 23
- Workers' Compensation · 24
Source: the Washington State Legislature’s Topical Index. OlympiaTrack is an independent bill-tracking service and is not affiliated with the Legislature.