Health and Safety, Public: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 79 measures from the 2025-26 session under Health and Safety, Public. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and measures with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1176 · Health technology assessment program, clinical committee prioritization and authority process requirements
- HB 1203 · Tobacco, new chapter prohibiting sale of all flavored tobacco and nicotine products
- HB 1238 · Rare diseases, establishing advisory council on within UW school of medicine
- HB 1251 · Vital statistics, improving the accuracy and timeliness of reports of death
- HB 1262 · Governor's council for health justice and equity, revising of interagency coordinating council on health disparities
- HB 1388 · Mobile market program, establishing to assist participants of woman, infant, children, and senior farmers program
- HB 1433 · Psychedelic substances act, new chapter establishing including client bill of rights
- HB 1444 · Medicaid, coverage of whole genome sequencing up to age 1 in certain circumstances
- HB 1445 · Washington health trust, establishing to provide universal essential benefits with new title, chapter, and sections
- HB 1478 · Death certificates, modifying in cases of controlled substance homicide
- HB 1482 · Apple health expansion program, establishing for certain immigration status
- HB 1496 · Records, restrictions and fees for sharing medical records
- HB 1531 · Communicable diseases, barring local governments from impeding certain measures to control
- HB 1534 · Vapor products containing nicotine, restrictions on manufacturing and sale
- HB 1545 · Heart attack and stroke treatment, new chapter requiring plan to improve statewide care
- HB 1574 · Drug-related overdoses, protecting persons seeking assistance in good faith from certain consequences
- HB 1625 · Back country search and rescue grant program, establishing
- HB 1664 · Long-term care ombuds, adequately funding
- HB 1667 · Cancer education, delivering age-appropriate comprehensive programs to students
- HB 1675 · Corporate medicine, restricting care decisions and control by persons without license to practice
- HB 1684 · Water recreation facilities, modifying
- HB 1686 · Health care entity registry, developing recommendations
- HB 1697 · Newborn screening, requiring and allowing fees
- HB 1724 · Portable orders for life-sustaining treatment, creating statewide preference for futile emergency medical treatment
- HB 1870 · Public health clinics, funded by new county property taxes
- HB 1897 · Community-based public safety programs, liability protections
- HB 1933 · Overdose mapping, creating interface for law enforcement and EMS
- HB 1946 · Boards of health, clarifying membership
- HB 2008 · Testing, requiring for certain personal hygiene products
- HB 2068 · Tobacco, new chapter prohibiting sale of flavored tobacco and nicotine products and entertainment vapor products
- HB 2122 · Influenza immunizations required to be offered to certain patients
- HB 2168 · Opioid overdose information to be submitted to overdose detection mapping application program
- HB 2177 · Redefinition of fetal death
- HB 2232 · Time-sensitive emergencies data repository and care improvement plan
- HB 2242 · Preventive health services, immunization recommendations, and required coverage
- HB 2250 · Charity care eligibility limited to Washington state residents
- HB 2439 · Age verification required for sale of vapor products
- HB 2505 · Adult family home license exceptions for certain former foster care providers
- HB 2545 · Certificate of need for elective percutaneous coronary interventions at ambulatory surgical facilities
- HB 2560 · Services provided by residential pediatric recovery centers to substance exposed infants
- HB 2599 · Restrictions of therapeutic use of AI
- HB 2657 · Abortion savings program with health carrier assessment to provide grants to support equitable access
- HB 2674 · Public health campaign to consider information about dementia risk reduction
- SB 5064 · Rare diseases, establishing advisory council on within UW school of medicine
- SB 5183 · Tobacco, new chapter prohibiting sale of all flavored tobacco and nicotine products
- SB 5201 · Psychedelic substances act, new chapter establishing including client bill of rights
- SB 5214 · Mobile market program, establishing to assist participants of woman, infant, children, and senior farmers program
- SB 5228 · Governor's council for health justice and equity, revising of interagency coordinating council on health disparities
- SB 5233 · Washington health trust, establishing to provide universal essential benefits with new title, chapter, and sections
- SB 5254 · Records, restrictions and fees for sharing medical records
- SB 5387 · Corporate medicine, restricting care decisions and control by persons without license to practice
- SB 5493 · Hospitals, reporting requirements and price transparency
- SB 5526 · Vapor products containing nicotine, restrictions on manufacturing and sale
- SB 5561 · Health care entity registry, new chapter establishing
- SB 5568 · State health plan, developing statewide health resources strategy
- SB 5597 · Water recreation facilities, modifying
- SB 5602 · Heart attack and stroke treatment, new chapter requiring plan to improve statewide care
- SB 5606 · Long-term care ombuds, adequately funding
- SB 5631 · Back country search and rescue grant program, establishing
- SB 5635 · Sewage, modifying approval of alternative on-site sewage disposal systems
- SB 5668 · Newborn screening, requiring and allowing fees
- SB 5709 · Public health clinics, funded by new county property taxes
- SB 5781 · Labeling, food and drug administration compliance
- SB 5803 · Tobacco, new chapter prohibiting sale of flavored tobacco and nicotine products and entertainment vapor products
- SB 5900 · Cannabis use for terminal patients in certain facilities
- SB 5921 · Medical use of psilocybin program created
- SB 5933 · Opioid overdose information to be submitted to overdose detection mapping application program
- SB 5959 · Charity care eligibility limited to Washington state residents
- SB 5967 · Preventive health services, immunization recommendations, and required coverage
- SB 5977 · Child near fatality review publication required
- SB 5985 · Endometriosis resources and training modules
- SB 5990 · Rural county local health officer eligibility expanded
- SB 6025 · Fetal death definition
- SB 6036 · Adult family home license exceptions for certain former foster care providers
- SB 6094 · Residential pediatric recovery center pilot project for substance exposed infants continued
- SB 6115 · Cancer education, delivering age-appropriate comprehensive programs to students
- SB 6161 · Public health campaign to consider information about dementia risk reduction
- SB 6182 · Abortion savings program with health carrier assessment to provide grants to support equitable access
- SR 8657 · Menopause, supporting efforts to provide and treatment to improve quality of life
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.