Health Care Facilities: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 24 bills from the 2025-26 session under Health Care Facilities. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1072 · Transactions, requiring transaction review for entities that provide protected health care services
- HB 1146 · Hospitalized persons, new chapter eliminating difficulties in voting
- HB 1162 · Health care settings, requiring workplace violence prevention plans and timely investigation of incidents
- HB 1186 · Drugs, establishing exceptions to the 48-hour supply limit
- HB 1277 · Hospitals, critical access, sales/use tax exemption for medical equipment and supplies
- HB 1394 · Hospitals, modifying record retention
- HB 1433 · Service centers, licensing for use of psychedelic substances
- HB 1560 · Hospital executive excess compensation tax act, establishing
- HB 1567 · Hospitals, requiring health care administrator license
- HB 1824 · Birthing centers, requirements for inspections
- HB 1868 · Hospitals, funding athletic trainers that will be available to local students
- HB 1879 · Hospitals, allowing for waiver of certain meal and rest periods for workers
- HB 2051 · Medicaid, payment for difficult to discharge patients
- HB 2434 · Emergency departments require to maintain supply of rabies medication
- HB 2577 · Unannounced inspection frequency for hospitals modified with exceptions for emergencies
- SB 5031 · Council of health care coordination for youth and adults in facilities of confinement, creating
- SB 5162 · Health care settings, requiring workplace violence prevention plans and timely investigation of incidents
- SB 5201 · Service centers, licensing for use of psychedelic substances
- SB 5239 · Hospitals, modifying record retention
- SB 5493 · Hospitals, reporting requirements and price transparency
- SB 5638 · Hospital executive excess compensation tax act, establishing
- SB 5823 · Patient advocate employment by hospitals
- SB 5923 · Critical access hospital exception for Skagit county
- SB 6296 · Department standards required for crisis responder evaluation in hospital of behavioral health issues
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.