Children: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 39 bills from the 2025-26 session under Children. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1014 · Child support, modifications including limits, tables, and abatement
- HB 1033 · Child care, authorizing county licensing of child care centers and family home providers
- HB 1092 · Removal, rebuttable presumption of necessity where child is at risk of exposure to certain drugs
- HB 1211 · Abuse, requiring members of the clergy to report abuse or neglect
- HB 1272 · Rapid care team, extending expiration
- HB 1659 · Early childhood court program, expanding including raising age limit to 6
- HB 1803 · Abuse, requiring coach training and prohibited conduct policy for youth sports
- HB 1805 · Local sales/use tax, allowing to provide various services for children and families
- HB 1817 · Youth advisory council, requiring discussion of mandatory reporting for child abuse or neglect
- HB 1820 · Personality rights, earnings for minor children featured on for-profit vlog
- HB 1834 · Addictive feeds, restricting businesses that provide an online services or products likely to be accessed by minors
- HB 2159 · PreK promise account established to support early childhood education and assistance program
- HB 2171 · Foster youth survivor and advocacy oversight board created in office of the family and children's ombuds
- HB 2180 · Youth sports mandatory reporting and hiring restrictions
- HB 2497 · Supports for families with past child welfare issues
- HB 2511 · Definition of "imminent physical harm"
- HB 2560 · Services provided by residential pediatric recovery centers to substance exposed infants
- HB 2688 · Early support for infants and toddlers program funding multiplier changed
- SB 5030 · Birth certificates, expanding acceptable documentation for educational services and eliminating certain fees
- SB 5149 · Early childhood court program, expanding including raising age limit to 6
- SB 5169 · Abuse, authorizing court testimony in certain circumstances
- SB 5375 · Abuse, requiring members of the clergy to report abuse or neglect
- SB 5386 · Youth advisory council, requiring discussion of mandatory reporting for child abuse or neglect
- SB 5427 · Rapid care team, extending expiration
- SB 5532 · Child abuse, court considerations
- SB 5620 · Foster care, rights of children
- SB 5643 · Fatality and near-fatality reviews, expanding including ombuds access
- SB 5665 · Child abuse, reporting requirements for clergy
- SB 5708 · Addictive feeds, restricting businesses that provide an online services or products likely to be accessed by minors
- SB 5736 · Chronic child neglect, creating chronic neglect response team to improve outcomes
- SB 5822 · Missing person alert systems
- SB 5837 · Guardianship procedures and legal representation
- SB 5872 · PreK promise account established to support early childhood education and assistance program
- SB 6087 · Donors of baby items not subject to tort liability
- SB 6094 · Residential pediatric recovery center pilot project for substance exposed infants continued
- SB 6111 · Digital service providers requirement for age verification and limits for minors
- SB 6185 · Supports for families with past child welfare issues
- SB 6236 · Removal, rebuttable presumption of necessity where child is at risk of exposure to certain drugs
- SB 6319 · Abuse or neglect investigations remaining open beyond 90 days
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.