Correctional Facilities and Jails: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 59 bills from the 2025-26 session under Correctional Facilities and Jails. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1027 · Incarcerated persons, prohibition on housing based on sex and certain sex offenses
- HB 1056 · Accountability, authorizing attorney general investigations and actions for law enforcement and correctional agencies
- HB 1070 · Employees, presumption of posttraumatic stress disorder as an occupational disease
- HB 1119 · Incarcerated persons, modifying supervision compliance credit
- HB 1125 · Incarcerated persons, allowing petitions for modifications of sentence under certain circumstances
- HB 1137 · Incarcerated persons, temporary removal from general population via administrative segregation
- HB 1146 · Incarcerated persons, new chapter eliminating difficulties in voting
- HB 1147 · Incarcerated persons, promoting civic engagement
- HB 1166 · Facilities, installing and maintaining broadband infrastructure
- HB 1232 · Private detention facilities, health department inspections and authority
- HB 1233 · Work programs, linking with privileges
- HB 1239 · Incarcerated persons, facilitating reentry and recalculations of earned release time
- HB 1247 · Incarcerated persons, transferring certain persons to the department of children, youth and families
- HB 1301 · Incarcerated persons, providing voice communication services without charge
- HB 1317 · Early release, petitions for persons committing certain crimes before age 21
- HB 1333 · Incarcerated persons, requiring report on miscarriage, stillbirth, and perinatal loss
- HB 1424 · Jail oversight board, new chapter creating with data reporting requirements
- HB 1604 · Cross-gender searches, restrictions and training
- HB 1629 · Incarcerated persons, restricting assignment of certain inmates based on biological sex
- HB 1743 · Community-based health care providers, reimbursement for judgements and settlements in certain cases
- HB 1799 · Early release time, prohibiting for certain firearm offenses
- HB 1917 · Juvenile facilities, safe operational capacity and monitoring
- HB 2014 · Partial confinement, modifying including increasing maximum time limit
- HB 2036 · Early release, restriction for violent crimes committed with firearms
- HB 2182 · Abortion medication availability
- HB 2241 · Radiation screening systems exempted from certain DOH standards
- HB 2393 · Institutional liability and substance use by inmates
- HB 2464 · Private detention facilities reporting requirements for certain outcomes
- HB 2490 · Extraordinary medical placement for incarcerated individuals
- HB 2539 · Indigent inmate definition
- HB 2547 · Confining persons in federal custody by contract and prohibition for individuals transported across state lines
- HB 2622 · Wage comparisons for worker arbitration
- HB 2713 · B & O tax surcharge on operating certain private detention facilities
- SB 5005 · Jail council, new chapter creating
- SB 5029 · Incarcerated persons, coordinating timing of release with organizations supporting reentry
- SB 5031 · Council of health care coordination for youth and adults in facilities of confinement, creating
- SB 5043 · Employees, presumption of posttraumatic stress disorder as an occupational disease
- SB 5066 · Accountability, authorizing attorney general investigations and actions for law enforcement and correctional agencies
- SB 5093 · Incarcerated persons, requiring report on miscarriage, stillbirth, and perinatal loss
- SB 5131 · Incarcerated persons, accommodating religious celebration meals
- SB 5182 · Incarcerated persons, modifying midwifery, birth doula services
- SB 5219 · Partial confinement, modifying including increasing maximum time limit
- SB 5231 · Incarcerated persons, providing voice communication services without charge
- SB 5260 · Incarcerated persons, allowing request of transfer from DCYF facilities at age 18
- SB 5267 · Incarcerated persons, allowing for death penalty for cases of aggravated first degree murder committed by
- SB 5269 · Incarcerated persons, allowing petitions for modifications of sentence under certain circumstances
- SB 5388 · Incarcerated persons, standards and monitoring of behavioral health services
- SB 5409 · Pilot program, establishing to improve communications between staff, officers, and incarcerated individuals
- SB 5490 · Cross-gender searches, restrictions and training
- SB 5499 · Comprehensive body scanner program, establishing to codify body scanner use
- SB 5760 · Washington capitol reentry center, creating on capitol campus
- SB 5873 · Family clarification for leaves of absence for incarcerated individuals
- SB 5895 · Extraordinary medical placement for incarcerated individuals
- SB 5917 · Abortion medication availability
- SB 6080 · Confining persons in federal custody by contract
- SB 6085 · Feedback mechanism for benefits for incarcerated individuals
- SB 6145 · Disciplinary measures for staff possession of contraband
- SB 6286 · Fines for private facilities preventing DoH entry
- SB 6307 · Institutional liability and substance use by inmates
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.