Businesses: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 146 bills from the 2025-26 session under Businesses. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1023 · Cosmetology, adopting cosmetology licensure compact
- HB 1041 · Tires, prohibiting standards for manufacture, sale, or use more strict than federal standards
- HB 1063 · Earned wage access services, new chapter for licensing advances on unpaid income
- HB 1107 · Fashion producers, new chapter requiring environmental impact disclosures
- HB 1115 · Escrow services, prohibiting taxation of document recording surcharges remitted to county
- HB 1155 · Noncompetition covenants, prohibiting and clarifying nonsolicitation agreements
- HB 1168 · Generative artificial intelligence, new chapter requiring system or service transparency
- HB 1170 · Generative artificial intelligence, new chapter requiring provenance data and disclosure
- HB 1175 · Neighborhood cafes and stores, requiring permitting for residential zones
- HB 1181 · Transportation network companies, applying certain labor standards
- HB 1184 · Wages, reducing income threshold for overtime exemption for small businesses
- HB 1268 · Virtual currency, restrictions and requirements for kiosk licensees
- HB 1269 · Pawnbrokers, increasing maximum fees and rates
- HB 1284 · B & O tax, eliminating investment income deduction
- HB 1313 · Employers, requirements including written notice for mass layoffs
- HB 1332 · Transportation network companies, requiring transparency for drivers
- HB 1420 · Apparel and textile producers, requiring assessment of needs, recycling, waste, et al.
- HB 1453 · Scrap metal, penalties for businesses dealing with stolen copper
- HB 1483 · Digital electronic products, right to repair, new chapter including requirements for manufacturers
- HB 1530 · Credit card payments, allowing regulated businesses to charge transaction fees
- HB 1533 · Electricians, allowing certain specialty electrician work by journeymen
- HB 1558 · Radio and television broadcasting, modifying B & O taxes on certain revenues
- HB 1599 · Resolution services and debt adjusters, licensing and requirements
- HB 1607 · Covered beverage producers, new chapter for recycling refund program
- HB 1613 · Ticket sellers and resellers, licensing requirements and software restrictions
- HB 1623 · Payment card networks, restrictions on gratuity charges
- HB 1635 · Cooperative associations and consumer cooperatives, modifying board composition
- HB 1671 · Data privacy, restrictions and consumer rights
- HB 1681 · HVAC/refrigeration specialty, allowing certain electrical work
- HB 1732 · Single-family residential property, restricting ownership by business and investment entities
- HB 1739 · Self-service checkout stations, restrictions for grocery establishments
- HB 1764 · Transportation network companies, specifying compensation, leave, and rights requirements
- HB 1826 · Right to repair, requirements for personal mobility equipment
- HB 1833 · Spark act grant program, authorizing establishment to promote innovative uses of artificial intelligence
- HB 1834 · Addictive feeds, restricting businesses that provide online services or products likely to be accessed by minors
- HB 1850 · Glucose monitoring equipment, requiring quick replacement
- HB 1874 · Hair, requiring training for cosmetologists, barbers, estheticians, and hair designers with textured hair
- HB 1881 · Health care entities, prohibiting certain material change transactions
- HB 1882 · Lodging, additional excise tax for temporary period
- HB 1887 · Data broker, requiring registration and reporting and creating severance tax
- HB 1901 · Mattresses, new chapter requiring producer responsibility organizations
- HB 1924 · Manufacturing and green manufacturing, sales/use tax exemption for facility construction
- HB 1951 · Transportation network companies, restricting behavior for large events
- HB 1965 · Metal bullion, repealing B & O tax exemption
- HB 2020 · Credit card/payment card processors, imposing B & O tax
- HB 2045 · B & O tax, increasing for certain large or financial institutions
- HB 2059 · Public grants, transparency requirements for entities receiving public money
- HB 2060 · State officials, prohibiting officials and spouses from employment or benefit by entities receiving public funding
- HB 2061 · Duty-free sales, establishing concession fee
- HB 2088 · Dietician licensure compact, adopting
- HB 2098 · Select advanced computing businesses B & O tax surcharge limit, removing
- HB 2112 · Age verification and warning notices for harmful internet content, new chapter
- HB 2157 · High-risk artificial intelligence restrictions for developers and deployers
- HB 2184 · Intramuscular needling endorsement for occupational therapists
- HB 2213 · Metal property transaction restrictions and reporting
- HB 2225 · AI companion and chatbot restrictions and notification requirements
- HB 2229 · Professional engineer and land surveyor registration and board changes
- HB 2233 · Retail carryout bag charges, third party platforms, and benefits exemption
- HB 2240 · Self-service storage facility rental agreements
- HB 2248 · Corporate filings processing
- HB 2255 · Litigation finance agreement disclosure and third-party litigation funder restrictions
- HB 2256 · Uniform commercial code, termination of unauthorized financing statement
- HB 2274 · Commercial electronic mail and misleading information
- HB 2286 · Social worker licensure alternative to examination
- HB 2291 · Kratom product labeling and certification, licensure for retailers and processors
- HB 2297 · Grocery stores incentivized in underserved communities
- HB 2301 · Paint stewardship organizations to implement updated paint product stewardship program plans
- HB 2321 · 3D printers required to be equipped with blocking technologies for firearms
- HB 2334 · Cash transactions rounded to eliminate pennies
- HB 2363 · Music therapy licensure exemptions for supervised applicants
- HB 2378 · HVAC/refrigeration specialty electrician certification modified
- HB 2380 · Disclosure and consumer opt-outs for financial services applications
- HB 2400 · Social media services and advertisers to provide protection for minors including trust accounts and deletion
- HB 2422 · Private security companies to pay licensure fees
- HB 2427 · Tattoo artists required to complete human trafficking training for licensure
- HB 2439 · Tobacco and vapor product discounts prohibited
- HB 2454 · Disturbed area limit in surface mine definition changed
- HB 2481 · Price posting and shelf label requirements for retail establishments
- HB 2483 · Data broker registration requirement
- HB 2503 · AI training data disclosure requirements
- HB 2513 · Plumbers and plumbing contractor suspension of licensure
- HB 2524 · State security guards industry standards board established
- HB 2540 · Emergency medical technician recertification requirement
- HB 2599 · Restrictions of therapeutic use of AI
- HB 2629 · Scrap metal business restrictions including prohibiting sale of certain transaction records
- HB 2633 · Mattress producer responsibility organizations and required plans
- HB 2640 · Uniform commercial code filing procedure and wrongful filings
- HB 2667 · High-risk artificial intelligence system risk management plans and notification requirements
- HB 2721 · Commercial interior design licensing
- SB 5006 · Corporation acts, Washington, modifying and updating
- SB 5070 · Interchange fees, prohibiting payment card interchange fees on gratuities and taxes collected for the state
- SB 5099 · Firearms, implementing new restrictions on dealers
- SB 5111 · Escrow services, prohibiting taxation of document recording surcharges remitted to county
- SB 5122 · Mergers, premerger notification requirements including Hart-Scott-Rudino form
- SB 5207 · Electronic media services, requiring refunds for canceled subscriptions
- SB 5280 · Virtual currency, restrictions and requirements for kiosk licensees
- SB 5328 · Earned wage access services, new chapter for licensing advances on unpaid income
- SB 5337 · Memory care facilities, requiring certification
- SB 5363 · Credit card payments, allowing regulated businesses to charge transaction fees
- SB 5421 · Neighborhood cafes and stores, requiring permitting for residential zones
- SB 5423 · Digital electronic products, right to repair, new chapter including requirements for manufacturers
- SB 5437 · Noncompetition covenants, prohibiting and clarifying nonsolicitation agreements
- SB 5457 · Radio and television broadcasting, modifying B & O taxes on certain revenues
- SB 5459 · Call centers, notification requirement and sanctions for moving out of the country
- SB 5469 · Landlords, restricting activities with service providers including prohibiting coordination
- SB 5486 · Movie theaters, requiring provision of captioning
- SB 5496 · Single-family residential property, restricting ownership by business and investment entities
- SB 5502 · Covered beverage producers, new chapter for recycling refund program
- SB 5578 · Transportation network companies, specifying compensation, leave, and rights requirements
- SB 5600 · Transportation network companies, restricting behavior for large events
- SB 5605 · Microenterprise home kitchens, establishing regulations
- SB 5622 · Minors, restricting sale of over-the-counter diet pill or dietary supplement for weight loss or muscle building to
- SB 5673 · Manufacturing and green manufacturing, sales/use tax exemption for facility construction
- SB 5674 · Manufacturing, property tax exemption for facilities for limited period varying by facility type
- SB 5675 · Manufacturing, B & O tax exemption
- SB 5676 · Electronic admission tickets, requiring immediate delivery
- SB 5680 · Right to repair, requirements for personal mobility equipment
- SB 5704 · Health care entities, prohibiting certain material change transactions
- SB 5708 · Addictive feeds, restricting businesses that provide online services or products likely to be accessed by minors
- SB 5714 · Bail bondsmen, making civil immigration enforcement unprofessional conduct
- SB 5777 · Credit card/payment card processors, imposing B & O tax
- SB 5844 · Self-service storage facility rental agreements
- SB 5870 · AI companion chatbot restrictions and suicidal ideation protocol
- SB 5877 · Certified anesthesiologist assistant surcharges
- SB 5899 · Chiropractor's license for diagnosis and adjustments on nonhuman animals and convening joint task force
- SB 5965 · Retail carryout bag charges, third party platforms, and benefits exemption
- SB 5976 · Commercial electronic mail and misleading information
- SB 5984 · AI companion and chatbot restrictions and notification requirements
- SB 6048 · Professional engineer and land surveyor registration and board changes
- SB 6060 · Social worker licensure alternative to examination
- SB 6111 · Digital service providers requirement for age verification and limits for minors
- SB 6112 · HVAC/refrigeration specialty electrician certification modified
- SB 6120 · High-risk artificial intelligence restrictions for developers and deployers
- SB 6147 · Notice requirements for closure of certain grocery stores in food deserts or low-income areas
- SB 6174 · Textile producer responsibility organizations required with plans for covered products
- SB 6175 · Ticket transferability and ticket reseller restrictions
- SB 6190 · Scrap metal business restrictions including prohibiting sale of certain transaction records
- SB 6197 · Plumbers and plumbing contractor suspension of licensure
- SB 6232 · Board of licensed mental health counselors established for licensing
- SB 6257 · Illness exception for real estate appraiser training timelines
- SB 6271 · Mattress producer responsibility organizations and required plans
- SB 6284 · High-risk artificial intelligence system risk management plans and notification requirements
- SB 6287 · Kratom distribution and sale restrictions
- SB 6312 · Price posting and shelf label requirements for retail establishments
- SB 6329 · Internet service providers requirements
- SB 6358 · Corporate powers restructured including barring election activity
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.