Human Remains: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026

Legislative staff filed 9 bills from the 2025-26 session under Human Remains. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.

• HB 1005 · Prearrangement funeral service contacts, exempting certain merchandise and transportation protection agreements
• HB 1065 · Family burial grounds, new chapter establishing
• HB 1251 · Vital statistics, improving the accuracy and timeliness of reports of death
• HB 1333 · Jurisdiction of body, altering for cases of abortion, premature birth, or still birth
• HB 1736 · WSP missing and unidentified persons unit, assuming responsibility for requesting dental records
• HB 2239 · Family burial grounds on private property
• SB 5016 · Prearrangement funeral service contacts, exempting certain merchandise and transportation protection agreements
• SB 5093 · Jurisdiction of body, altering for cases of abortion, premature birth, or still birth
• SB 5903 · Uncontested cemetery district candidates not to appear on ballot

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.