Child Care: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 39 bills from the 2025-26 session under Child Care. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1082 · Providers, allowing experienced-based competency as alternative for licensing compliance
- HB 1128 · Child care workforce standards board act, new chapter establishing
- HB 1212 · Child care centers, requiring allowance as permitted use all zones except industrial zones
- HB 1282 · Centers, transparency and liability requirements
- HB 1307 · Sales/use tax exemption, products for young children
- HB 1318 · Sales/use tax exemption, diapers
- HB 1350 · Reimbursement rates, modifying
- HB 1351 · Early childhood education and assistance program, eligibility
- HB 1363 · Early learning/child care providers, requirements for licensing standards
- HB 1489 · Early childhood education and assistance program, extending implementation deadline
- HB 1564 · Employers, B & O and public utility tax credits for child care assistance for employees
- HB 1582 · Centers, modifying occupancy load in buildings with other purposes
- HB 1648 · Providers, delaying certain certification and training requirements
- HB 1865 · Working connections child care, including small business employees and extending dates
- HB 1873 · Working connections child care, access for students in graduate and professional programs
- HB 1919 · Working connections child care, modifying access and extending certain dates
- HB 1993 · Child care providers, B & O tax exemption
- HB 2187 · B & O and public utility tax credit pilot program for child care payments by employers
- HB 2219 · Child care centers' staff-to-child ratios and mixed-ratio time
- HB 2253 · Probationary licenses for children to be placed in Washington state through interstate compact
- HB 2317 · Early childhood education and assistance programs on school premises not considered agencies
- HB 2607 · Review and rebase the child care rate regions to reflect regional adjustments
- SB 5062 · Child care workforce standards board act, new chapter establishing
- SB 5130 · Licensing, eliminating fees
- SB 5279 · Providers, allowing experienced-based competency as alternative for licensing compliance
- SB 5310 · Subsidy rates, increasing
- SB 5341 · Sales/use tax exemption, products for young children
- SB 5416 · Child care providers, eliminating certain restrictions
- SB 5500 · Reimbursement rates, modifying
- SB 5509 · Child care centers, permitted use all zones except certain industrial zones, light industrial zones, open space zones
- SB 5545 · Licensing, exempting family home providers overseen by federal military service
- SB 5655 · Centers, modifying occupancy load in buildings with other purposes
- SB 5752 · Child care and early childhood development programs, modifying
- SB 5788 · Funding, modifying subsidized child care
- SB 5926 · Disclosure exemptions for certain child care provider records
- SB 6078 · Prelicensing support for child care providers
- SB 6179 · Subsidy rates in Franklin county to equal Benton and Walla Walla counties
- SB 6206 · Pilot project to incentivize care for children of first responders
- SB 6353 · State subsidized care modified
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.