Immigration: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 20 measures from the 2025-26 session under Immigration. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and measures with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1482 · Apple health expansion program, establishing for certain immigration status
- HB 1773 · Wage replacement program, creating for workers ineligible for unemployment insurance
- HB 1875 · Paid sick leave, requiring allowance of use for participation in immigration proceedings
- HB 2105 · I-9 audits and worker notification requirements
- HB 2351 · Cooperation with federal efforts to target emergency responders for certain reasons prohibited
- HB 2597 · Civil actions for persons injured during civil immigration enforcement
- HB 2602 · Information and security restrictions for early learning centers, schools, health care providers, et al.
- HB 2632 · Terminology change from "alien" to "noncitizen"
- HR 4642 · Refugee communities, recognizing
- SB 5002 · Federal immigration enforcement, requiring cooperation with and compliance with immigration detainers, new chapter
- SB 5068 · Applicants, eligibility for law enforcement, peace officers, prosecutor offices, and certain civil service
- SB 5103 · Criminal offenders, giving expedited legal review for subjects of deportation orders or proceedings
- SB 5104 · Workers, protecting workers from threats or coercion related to immigration status
- SB 5464 · Commercial driver's license, requiring clarification and training for immigration status and country of domicile
- SB 5626 · Wage replacement program, creating for workers ineligible for unemployment insurance
- SB 5818 · Corrections, department of, transfer of persons to federal custody for purposes of enforcement
- SB 5852 · I-9 audits and worker notification requirements
- SB 5906 · Information and security restrictions for early learning centers, schools, health care providers, et al.
- SB 6264 · Cooperation with immigration enforcement modified
- SB 6361 · Information sharing for federal immigration purposes prohibited
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.