Behavioral Health: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 45 bills from the 2025-26 session under Behavioral Health. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1124 · Psychologists, establishing certification of prescribing psychologist
- HB 1234 · Mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and social worker advisory committee, modifying membership
- HB 1259 · Education, requiring standards to satisfy supervision requirements for professionals serving in schools
- HB 1287 · Counselors, allowable disclosure of information
- HB 1397 · Property tax, local, deducted from state tax for certain services
- HB 1469 · Treatment, delaying use of ASAM 4 criteria
- HB 1502 · Behavioral health teaching clinics, designating
- HB 1547 · Regional school-based mental and behavioral health student assistance program, establishing
- HB 1581 · 988 behavioral health crisis response and suicide prevention line tax, increasing
- HB 1590 · Youth suicide prevention activities, implementing
- HB 1787 · Involuntary commitment, modifying standards for substance use disorder
- HB 1809 · Co-response education training academy, establishing
- HB 1813 · Crisis hotline, modifying
- HB 1897 · Community-based public safety programs, liability protections
- HB 1905 · Involuntary treatment, right to counsel
- HB 1996 · Sales/use tax, local, funding behavioral health diversion
- HB 2072 · Opioid manufacturers, imposing impact fee to fund behavioral health services
- HB 2200 · Developmental disability services safety and stability review and data availability
- HB 2254 · Partnership access line assessment to cover third-party administrative costs
- HB 2370 · Transitional or permanent supportive housing grant requirements including substance abuse assessment
- HB 2383 · Involuntary detention periods
- HB 2429 · Advisory group established to draft strategic plan to evaluate services for youth and children
- HB 2437 · DOH accreditation authority for opioid treatment programs
- HB 2453 · Board-certified psychiatric pharmacist roles
- HB 2558 · Mental health sentencing alternative restrictions
- HB 2658 · Carriers required to submit carrier-level coverage and access data for behavioral health issues
- HB 2696 · Ownership and operation of less restrictive alternative placement
- HB 2720 · Health insurance annual covered lives assessment to fund behavioral health crisis services
- SB 5112 · Psychologists, establishing certification of prescribing psychologist
- SB 5126 · Regional school-based mental and behavioral health student assistance program, establishing
- SB 5229 · Civil commitment, including persons needing revival by opioid overdose reversal medication as gravely disabled
- SB 5286 · Community partnership program, establishing for eastern and western state hospital
- SB 5361 · Treatment, delaying use of ASAM 4 criteria
- SB 5449 · Mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and social worker advisory committee, modifying membership
- SB 5481 · Medicaid, requiring reimbursement for behavioral health services delivered in schools
- SB 5696 · Sales/use tax, local, authorizing to fund chemical dependency or mental health treatment programs
- SB 5745 · Involuntary commitment, representation and appointed counsel
- SB 5762 · 988 contact hubs, regional crisis lines, and behavioral health administrative services requirements
- SB 5809 · Substance use recovery services advisory committee, repealing along with certain report requirements
- SB 5988 · DOH accreditation authority for opioid treatment programs
- SB 6224 · Advisory group established to draft strategic plan to evaluate services for youth and children
- SB 6232 · Board of licensed mental health counselors established for licensing
- SB 6296 · Involuntary treatment, assisted outpatient treatment standards changed
- SB 6305 · Carriers required to submit carrier-level coverage and access data for behavioral health issues
- SB 6339 · Ownership and operation of less restrictive alternative placement
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.