Forests and Forest Products: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 24 measures from the 2025-26 session under Forests and Forest Products. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and measures with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1048 · Fire protection, requiring rangeland fire protection association pilot project
- HB 1153 · Tree banks, establishing optional model urban forestry ordinances
- HB 1288 · Climate change adaptation, investments
- HB 1372 · Sustainable harvest study, removing litigation barrier
- HB 1389 · Timber, purchase reporting requirements
- HB 1563 · Prescribed fire claims fund pilot program, for coverage for losses from prescribed fires and cultural burning
- HB 1593 · Children's social equity land trust, acquisition by DNR of land to fund
- HB 1641 · Real estate sales tax, defining timberland
- HB 1726 · Lumber, prioritization of sourcing for public works
- HB 1969 · Firefighting aviation, including sheriff's offices with fire departments
- HB 1983 · Real estate sales tax, redefining timberland
- HB 2062 · Maple syrup processing operations, permitting
- HB 2275 · Wildfire prevention and protection council established
- HB 2620 · Standard for economic viability of the timber industry
- HB 2682 · Covered agencies expanded and required to comply with environmental justice requirements
- SB 5385 · Real estate sales tax, defining timberland
- SB 5472 · Land, prohibition on ownership by certain foreign entities
- SB 5491 · Prescribed fire claims fund pilot program, for coverage for losses from prescribed fires and cultural burning
- SB 5598 · Sustainable harvest study, removing litigation barrier
- SB 5763 · Firefighting aviation, including sheriff's offices with fire departments
- SB 5778 · Maple syrup processing operations, permitting
- SB 6157 · Wildfire prevention and protection council established
- SB 6187 · Forest practices board to repeal certain riparian management rules
- SR 8633 · Forest products businesses workforce, honoring
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.