Children, Youth, and Families, Department: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 34 bills from the 2025-26 session under Children, Youth, and Families, Department. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1082 · Staff qualifications, convening stakeholder group
- HB 1391 · Juvenile justice, office of, establishing grant program to support community-based programs that divert youth
- HB 1450 · Early achievers program, implementing quality rating and improvement system
- HB 1544 · Child abuse and neglect referrals, improving assessment tool for investigations
- HB 1648 · Early learning and school-age staff requirements, convening stakeholder group to improve
- HB 1649 · Child care providers, replacing provider access to a community equivalent pathway to increase accessibility
- HB 1711 · Persons in care, handling of funds and barring certain funding from being used for reimbursement
- HB 1797 · Law enforcement, requiring cooperation with
- HB 1917 · Corrections, department of, restrictions on transfers to
- HB 2108 · Transfer of juvenile justice functions from DCYF to department of corrections
- HB 2169 · Funds and payments for persons in care
- HB 2171 · Endangered foster youth alert system, creating
- HB 2280 · Access to facilities for legislators by request
- HB 2318 · Early achievers quality improvement awards eligibility
- HB 2371 · Imagination library of Washington program transferred to OSPI
- HB 2455 · Transition planning process for youth enrolled in extended foster
- HB 2529 · Department of children, youth, and families accountability board created in OFM
- HB 2607 · Review and rebase the child care rate regions to reflect regional adjustments
- HB 2689 · Working connections child care program caseload limits
- SB 5199 · Oversight board, providing compensation for members with direct lived experience
- SB 5274 · Officers, wearing of body cameras
- SB 5279 · Staff qualifications, convening stakeholder group
- SB 5426 · Juvenile justice, office of, establishing grant program to support community-based programs that divert youth
- SB 5488 · Persons in care, handling of funds and barring certain funding from being used for reimbursement
- SB 5620 · Child welfare services, rights of children
- SB 5643 · Fatality and near-fatality reviews, expanding including ombuds access
- SB 5866 · Staffing adjustment to increase direct services
- SB 5911 · Funds and payments for persons in care
- SB 5940 · Transition planning process for youth enrolled in extended foster
- SB 5942 · Department of children, youth, and families accountability board created and oversight board dissolved
- SB 5961 · Imagination library of Washington program transferred to OSPI
- SB 6007 · Assessment of the DCYF use of screening tools and risk assessment processes by IPP
- SB 6020 · DCYF oversight board renamed DCYF social club
- SB 6344 · Fraud and accountability, office of, established within department
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.