Courts: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 51 measures from the 2025-26 session under Courts. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and measures with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1007 · Small claims, notice requirements
- HB 1089 · Landlord-tenant act, appointing court commissioners
- HB 1112 · Judges pro tempore, removing residency requirement
- HB 1174 · Language access, allowing noncredentialled interpreters and requiring publicly available language access plans
- HB 1207 · Superior court, surcharge on clerk fees
- HB 1218 · Competency, referring level B and C felonies and misdemeanors to forensic navigators
- HB 1219 · Interbranch advisory committee, meeting schedule, subjects, and membership
- HB 1252 · Pretrial release, conditions
- HB 1359 · Criminal insanity and competency, recodification and task force to review laws
- HB 1362 · Gambling treatment diversion court pilot program, creating
- HB 1499 · Legal financial obligations, modifying including retroactive reduction
- HB 1592 · Public defense, sharing of costs between local governments and state
- HB 1621 · Housing court commissioners, allowing appointment for unlawful detainer cases
- HB 1659 · Early childhood court program, expanding including raising age limit to 6
- HB 1752 · Juvenile cases, authorizing concurrent jurisdiction for courts of limited jurisdiction
- 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 1909 · Court unification task force, establishing to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the current court system
- HB 1918 · Supreme court, creating judicial districts
- HB 1928 · Supreme court, senate confirmation of gubernatorial appointments to vacancies
- HB 1929 · Court of appeals, requiring senate confirmation of gubernatorial appointments to vacancies
- HB 2102 · Legal financial obligations
- HB 2163 · Public defender local caseload standards
- HB 2164 · Postconviction DNA testing standards changed
- HB 2178 · Civil infraction notifications and other procedure updates including payment plans
- HB 2396 · Conditions for direct review of agency decisions
- HJR 4211 · Interbranch commission on court rules, creating
- SB 5021 · Superior court, reducing retention of exhibits
- SB 5132 · Small claims, notice requirements
- SB 5147 · Competency, creating task force to review criminal insanity/competency laws and requiring recodification
- SB 5149 · Early childhood court program, expanding including raising age limit to 6
- SB 5169 · Children, authorizing testimony in certain circumstances including abuse
- SB 5202 · Protection orders, provisions for confidentiality and renewal
- SB 5217 · Jury service, accommodations for persons with infants under 12 months old
- SB 5223 · Fingerprinting, permitting judge to ensure fingerprinting and form transmission
- SB 5290 · Dismissal, granting for certain drug charges after assessment and treatment programs
- SB 5404 · Public defense, sharing of costs between local governments and state
- SB 5532 · Child abuse, court considerations
- SB 5569 · Defendants, transfer to inpatient or residential substance use disorder treatment
- SB 5740 · Landlord-tenant act, appointing court commissioners
- SB 5741 · Housing court commissioners, allowing appointment for unlawful detainer cases
- SB 5913 · Public defender local caseload standards
- SB 5934 · Postconviction DNA testing standards changed
- SB 6009 · Court of appeals reviews of administrative decisions
- SB 6011 · Court of appeals bailiffs authorized to do threat assessments and access certain data
- SB 6017 · Questioning for pro se defendants
- SB 6083 · Waiver of restitution limited for post-secondary educations
- SB 6086 · Information security and threat assessments for certain officers and court personnel
- SB 6362 · Process changes including interpreter credentialling, protection order proceedings, and review of rulings
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.