Health, Department of: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 45 bills from the 2025-26 session under Health, Department of. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1009 · Pharmacy quality assurance commission, modifying membership
- HB 1034 · Drugs, requiring educational pamphlet for nonopioid alternatives
- HB 1049 · Sexual assault nurse examiners, establishing stipend program to defray training costs for registered nurses
- HB 1072 · Transactions, requiring transaction review for entities that provide protected health care services
- HB 1203 · Tobacco, requiring awareness campaign for flavored tobacco and nicotine products and entertainment vapor products
- HB 1232 · Private detention facilities, health department inspections and authority
- HB 1306 · Medical Commission, authorizing to create preceptorship pathways for international medical graduates
- HB 1388 · Mobile market program, establishing to assist participants of woman, infant, children, and senior farmers program
- HB 1422 · Drug take-back program, modifications and public reporting
- HB 1433 · Psychedelic substances board, created to advise on therapeutic use of psychedelic substances
- HB 1445 · Washington health trust board, creating with standing advisory committees
- HB 1545 · Heart attack and stroke treatment, new chapter requiring plan to improve statewide care
- HB 1567 · Health care administrator license, creating
- HB 1640 · Medical commission, placing certain licensing under uniform disciplinary act
- HB 1690 · Water and sewer systems, requiring comprehensive assessment
- HB 1697 · Newborn screening, requiring and allowing fees
- HB 1724 · Portable orders for life-sustaining treatment, creating statewide registry
- HB 1933 · Overdose information, creating interface for law enforcement and EMS
- HB 2068 · Tobacco, requiring awareness campaign for flavored tobacco and nicotine products and entertainment vapor products
- HB 2232 · Time-sensitive emergencies data repository and care improvement plan
- HB 2242 · Preventive health services, immunization recommendations, and required coverage
- HB 2437 · DOH accreditation authority for opioid treatment programs
- HB 2465 · User safety guide for water recreation facilities required
- HB 2652 · Medical commission, requiring pathway for relinquishing licenses
- HB 2748 · Health care cost transparency board to review of costs of preceptorships to train primary care physicians
- SB 5031 · Council of health care coordination for youth and adults in facilities of confinement, creating
- SB 5183 · Tobacco, requiring awareness campaign for flavored tobacco and nicotine products and entertainment vapor products
- SB 5185 · Medical Commission, authorizing to create preceptorship pathways for international medical graduates
- SB 5201 · Psychedelic substances board, created to advise on therapeutic use of psychedelic substances
- SB 5214 · Mobile market program, establishing to assist participants of woman, infant, children, and senior farmers program
- SB 5226 · Medical commission, establishing grant program and advisory committee for international medical graduate residencies
- SB 5233 · Washington health trust board, creating with standing advisory committees
- SB 5273 · Community violence prevention and intervention services, requiring standards for education programs
- SB 5335 · Rural nursing education program, to provide distance nursing education and improve service for rural populations
- SB 5388 · Incarcerated persons, standards and monitoring of behavioral health services
- SB 5602 · Heart attack and stroke treatment, new chapter requiring plan to improve statewide care
- SB 5668 · Newborn screening, requiring and allowing fees
- SB 5803 · Tobacco, requiring awareness campaign for flavored tobacco and nicotine products and entertainment vapor products
- SB 5921 · Medical use of psilocybin program created
- SB 5967 · Preventive health services, immunization recommendations, and required coverage
- SB 5988 · DOH accreditation authority for opioid treatment programs
- SB 6258 · Medical commission, requiring pathway for relinquishing licenses
- SB 6286 · Fines for private facilities preventing DoH entry
- SB 6356 · Health care cost transparency board to review of costs of preceptorships to train primary care physicians
- SB 6360 · Family medicine residency training grant program established
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.