Civil Actions and Procedure: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026

Legislative staff filed 16 bills from the 2025-26 session under Civil Actions and Procedure. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.

• HB 1361 · Service, updating requirements
• HB 1440 · Civil forfeiture, new chapter governing
• HB 1527 · Health care providers, limits on litigation prior to mediation
• HB 1743 · Community-based health care providers, reimbursement for judgements and settlements in certain cases
• HB 1880 · Appropriations, prohibiting remedies that infringe on legislative authority
• HB 1890 · Prosecutors, establishing liability for certain cases
• HB 1891 · Defense counsel, establishing liability for certain cases
• HB 1892 · Legislators, establishing liability for certain criminal cases
• HB 1893 · Judges, establishing liability for certain criminal cases
• HB 2571 · Admissibility of medical expenses paid rather than billed for injury actions against local governments
• HB 2585 · Procedures for false claim actions
• HB 2700 · All tort claims against the state subject to civil arbitration
• SB 5520 · Wrongfully convicted persons, compensation
• SB 5720 · Uniform consumer debt default judgments act, establishing
• SB 5993 · Medical debt interest restrictions
• SB 6239 · All tort claims against the state subject to civil arbitration

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.