Governor: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026

Legislative staff filed 10 bills from the 2025-26 session under Governor. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.

• HB 1221 · State of emergency, limiting without legislative involvement
• HB 1396 · Corrections ombuds, office of, convening an advisory council to support
• HB 1412 · Middle Eastern and North African Americans, establishing commission on in office of
• HB 1424 · Jail oversight board, new chapter creating in office of
• HB 1569 · Tax exemption transparency and accountability act, discretionary tax expenditure requirements
• SB 5005 · Jail oversight board, new chapter creating in office of
• SB 5032 · Family and children's ombuds, office of, expanding duties to include youth in juvenile rehabilitation facilities
• SB 5434 · Emergency, states of, modifying termination
• SB 5584 · Independent prosecutors, authorizing appointment for use of deadly force cases
• SB 5942 · Department of children, youth, and families accountability board created

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.