Emergency Management: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026

Legislative staff filed 14 bills from the 2025-26 session under Emergency Management. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.

• HB 1201 · Local comprehensive emergency management plans, requiring shelters accommodating companion animals
• HB 1258 · 911 emergency communications system, redirecting certain tax revenues for certain counties
• HB 1802 · Obstruction, including obstruction of first responders as gross misdemeanor
• HB 1809 · Behavioral health, training and endorsement for first responders
• HB 1810 · Seismic risk, requiring inventory and categorization of unreinforced mason buildings
• HB 1811 · Co-response, developing peer support
• HB 1816 · Crisis response teams, authorizing civilian staffing for certain cities
• HB 1864 · Emergency medical services, ambulance transportation to nonemergency facilities
• HB 1969 · Law enforcement aviation support grant program, developing
• HB 2216 · Designation of emergency operation zones
• HB 2351 · Cooperation with federal efforts to target emergency responders for certain reasons prohibited
• HB 2357 · Washington civil air patrol created with volunteer members of federally chartered civil air patrol
• SB 5853 · Statewide emergency public official notification system for targeted threats
• SB 6046 · Washington civil air patrol created with volunteer members of federally chartered civil air patrol

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.