Animals: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 29 measures from the 2025-26 session under Animals. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and measures with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1149 · Necessary care, expanding definitions
- HB 1201 · Local comprehensive emergency management plans, requiring shelters accommodating companion animals
- HB 1311 · Gray wolf, changing from endangered to sensitive status
- HB 1325 · Hunting, expanding enforcement for various violations
- HB 1442 · Gray wolf, establishing conditions for treating as removed from endangered status
- HB 1608 · Octopus, barred commerce in when product of aquaculture
- HB 1705 · Large animal veterinarians, WSU to convene work group to study and recommend ways to increase
- HB 1716 · Dogs, amending restrictions on ownership of large numbers of
- HB 1735 · Birds, prohibiting force-feeding
- HB 1775 · Fur farming, prohibiting
- HB 1825 · Grizzly bears, repealing management and protection provisions
- HB 1904 · Cats, prohibiting declawing
- HB 1976 · Pet stores, requiring provision of informational pamphlet prepared by the Washington invasive species council
- HB 1985 · Animal services districts, establishing via ballot proposition
- HB 2221 · Ungulate population management, counts, and at-risk designation
- HB 2247 · Veterinarian-client-patient relationships and telemedicine
- HB 2258 · Household excise tax, local, for operation, maintenance, and capital needs of animal control and shelter systems
- HB 2542 · Alternatives to animal testing for drugs required when available
- SB 5065 · Performance, prohibiting use of certain animals in travelling animal acts
- SB 5354 · Gray wolf, establishing conditions for treating as removed from endangered status
- SB 5376 · Necessary care, expanding definitions
- SB 5590 · Wolf predation, pilot program for taking wolves returning to spots of livestock predation
- SB 5833 · Circumstance for leaving pets in unattended vehicles
- SB 5960 · Ungulate population management, counts, and at-risk designation
- SB 6072 · Veterinarian-client-patient relationships and telemedicine
- SB 6233 · Sale of covered animals criminal wildlife penalty assessment increased with funding for UW
- SB 6272 · Lights out for birds months recognized
- SB 6306 · Children and pet removal by law enforcement and joint safety plans
- SJM 8013 · Allowing lethal removal of pinnipeds and predatory birds
All topics · All 2025-26 Washington State bills
Source: the Washington State Legislature’s Topical Index. OlympiaTrack is an independent bill-tracking service and is not affiliated with the Legislature.