Counties: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026

Legislative staff filed 18 bills from the 2025-26 session under Counties. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.

• HB 1145 · Records, requirements for public works activity undertaken
• HB 1373 · Rural counties, sales/use tax for senior citizens programs
• HB 1465 · Defendants, cost sharing with department of corrections in certain cases
• HB 1592 · Rural counties, allowing request for office of public defense to assume public defense responsibilities
• HB 1702 · Public utilities, allowing county excise tax
• HB 2094 · Coroners appointed instead of elected
• HB 2097 · Business and occupation taxes, new chapter
• HB 2143 · Public transportation benefit area governing body representation
• HB 2226 · Public transportation benefit area board representation
• HB 2520 · Emergency exemption for public meeting requirements
• HB 2543 · County clerk fees modified
• HB 2566 · Minimum threshold for advertisement and competitive bidding requirements for procurement
• HB 2653 · Shared stewardship agreements with federal agencies authorized
• SB 5154 · Auditors, modifying duties and separating clerk of board of county commissioners
• SB 5288 · County commissioners, repealing statues concerning board vacancies
• SB 5929 · Assignments or substitutions of previously recorded deeds of trust exempted from certain auditor fees
• SB 6101 · Coroners appointed rather than elected
• SB 6242 · Shared stewardship agreements with federal agencies authorized

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.