Health Care Practioners and Providers: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 83 bills from the 2025-26 session under Health Care Practioners and Providers. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1049 · Pediatric sexual assault nurse examiners, establishing stipend program to defray training costs
- HB 1072 · Transactions, requiring transaction review for entities that provide protected health care services
- HB 1077 · Intrauterine devices, requiring patient notification of pain control options
- HB 1114 · Respiratory therapists, new chapter joining respiratory care interstate compact
- HB 1124 · Psychologists, establishing certification of prescribing psychologist
- HB 1142 · Long-term care aides, training requirements for workers providing in-home care for family members
- HB 1162 · Health care settings, requiring workplace violence prevention plans and timely investigation of incidents
- HB 1190 · UW health sciences library, adding access for psychological and mental health counselor associates
- HB 1220 · Assault, modifying treatment for assaults on health care provider
- HB 1306 · Physicians, accommodations for internationally trained applicants including hardship waivers
- HB 1385 · Background checks, expanding
- HB 1395 · Background checks, modifying requirements
- HB 1427 · Peer support services, authorizing new categories
- HB 1430 · Insurance, requiring certain profession reimbursed the same as physicians for same tasks
- HB 1433 · Facilitator, licensing for use of psychedelic substances
- HB 1445 · Washington health trust, establishing to provide universal essential benefits including advisory provider committee
- HB 1490 · Long-term care workers, requiring fingerprinting
- HB 1507 · Nondisclosure agreements, barring in certain circumstances
- HB 1523 · Essential worker health care program, establishing to provide nursing home workers with health coverage
- HB 1527 · Health care providers, limits on litigation prior to mediation
- HB 1546 · Radiologic technologists, permitting remote supervision in certain circumstances
- HB 1632 · Medical debt, barring reporting to credit rating agencies
- HB 1638 · Opioids, circumstances for prescriber liability immunity
- HB 1675 · Corporate medicine, restricting care decisions and control by persons without license to practice
- HB 1693 · Medical assistants, permitting hematological tests as part of women, infants, and children (WIC) program
- HB 1718 · Physician well-being programs, establishing with records exemption
- HB 1743 · Community-based health care providers, reimbursement for judgements and settlements in certain cases
- HB 1780 · Unprofessional conduct, requiring accurate use of titles
- HB 1784 · Medical assistants, allowing entry and approval of orders for services delegated by supervising practitioner
- HB 1792 · Nursing, board of, renaming nursing care quality assurance commission and modifying membership and authority
- HB 1828 · Medical assistants, allowing certain functions for plasma source donation centers
- HB 1881 · Keep our care act, prohibiting material change transactions reducing accessibility of care for five years
- HB 1888 · Naturopathic physicians, expanding authority for prescriptions and certain determinations
- HB 1926 · Home care aides, modifying testing and training
- HB 2106 · Notice and agreement requirements for carrier contract modification
- HB 2113 · Radiologic technologists and magnetic resonance imaging technologists supervision
- HB 2127 · Physician assistants to be titled physician associates
- HB 2155 · Nursing titles limited to humans
- HB 2261 · License holders required to wear identifiable credentials
- HB 2302 · Pharmacists authorized for prescription of drugs
- HB 2329 · Midwife delegation of certain procedures
- HB 2337 · Long-term care workers caring for family members certification changes repealed
- HB 2339 · Nursing licenses, applications, and authority
- HB 2340 · Substance use disorder monitoring program provisions to nursing assistants
- HB 2425 · Nursing delegation of tasks modified
- HB 2498 · Nursing education standards not required to exceed national accreditation standards
- HB 2548 · Hospital, hospital system, or provider organization change of ownership consequences
- HB 2618 · Audiologist practice and standards with telehealth
- HB 2626 · Insurance premium tax increased for certain providers
- HB 2748 · Health care cost transparency board to review of costs of preceptorships to train primary care physicians
- SB 5051 · Nursing, board of, renaming nursing care quality assurance commission and modifying membership and authority
- SB 5100 · Long-term care aides, training requirements for workers providing in-home care for family members
- SB 5112 · Psychologists, establishing certification of prescribing psychologist
- SB 5118 · Limited licenses, updating requirements for international medical graduates
- SB 5124 · Network adequacy standards, requiring for postacute care services
- SB 5162 · Health care settings, requiring workplace violence prevention plans and timely investigation of incidents
- SB 5185 · Clinical experience graduate pilot program established
- SB 5201 · Facilitator, licensing for use of psychedelic substances
- SB 5233 · Washington health trust, establishing to provide universal essential benefits including advisory provider committee
- SB 5242 · Behavioral health, creating interactive screening program for providers to access behavioral health resources
- SB 5244 · Medical assistants, permitting hematological tests as part of women, infants, and children (WIC) program
- SB 5299 · Intravenous contrast procedures, permitting to be done under general supervision
- SB 5318 · Long-term care workers, requiring fingerprinting
- SB 5335 · Rural nursing education program, to provide distance nursing education and improve service for rural populations
- SB 5344 · Essential worker health care program, establishing to provide nursing home workers with health coverage
- SB 5387 · Corporate medicine, restricting care decisions and control by persons without license to practice
- SB 5452 · Agency-affiliated counselors, alternate credentialling including board-certified psychiatric pharmacists
- SB 5480 · Medical debt, barring reporting to credit rating agencies
- SB 5531 · Background checks, modifying requirements
- SB 5657 · Medical assistants, allowing certain functions for plasma source donation centers
- SB 5672 · Long-term care workers, allowing extra time for certification
- SB 5704 · Keep our care act, prohibiting material change transactions reducing accessibility of care for five years
- SB 5765 · Psychiatric pharmacists, authorizing for certain medical functions
- SB 5904 · Nursing titles limited to humans
- SB 5924 · Pharmacists authorized for prescription of certain drugs
- SB 6107 · Nursing delegation of tasks modified
- SB 6138 · Dental procedures requiring deep sedation to require multiple providers
- SB 6146 · Oral preventive assistants licensed for dental services
- SB 6166 · License holders required to wear identifiable credentials
- SB 6208 · Hospital, hospital system, or provider organization change of ownership consequences
- SB 6226 · Audiologist practice and standards with telehealth
- SB 6267 · Nursing education standards not required to exceed national accreditation standards
- SB 6356 · Health care cost transparency board to review of costs of preceptorships to train primary care physicians
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.