Juveniles and Juvenile Court: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 39 bills from the 2025-26 session under Juveniles and Juvenile Court. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1246 · Sentencing, modifying juvenile sentencing including diversion agreements
- HB 1247 · Incarcerated persons, transferring certain persons to the department of children, youth and families
- HB 1248 · Diversion agreements, restrictions
- HB 1274 · Resentencing, retroactive removal of juvenile points
- HB 1322 · Community placement, requiring courts produce independent findings that confinement is needed as alternative to
- HB 1391 · Diversion, modifying services and increasing agency coordination
- HB 1509 · Family reconciliation services, expanding provision
- HB 1536 · Firearms, unlawful possession of
- HB 1752 · Juvenile cases, authorizing concurrent jurisdiction for courts of limited jurisdiction
- HB 1753 · High-potency synthetic opioid, risk creating rebuttable presumption that child removal is necessary
- HB 1815 · Prison riot offenses, adjusting sentencing
- HB 1917 · Juvenile facilities, safe operational capacity and monitoring
- HB 1920 · Questioning, modifying requirement for counsel
- HB 2011 · Dependency, extending children's legal representation program deadline
- HB 2108 · Transfer of juvenile justice functions from DCYF to department of corrections
- HB 2389 · Sentencing modifications for juveniles
- HB 2456 · Juvenile firearm early intervention alternative for unlawful possession
- SB 5128 · Medicaid, expanding to youth in detention facilities
- SB 5153 · Incarcerated persons, placement in DCYF facilities until transfer to department of corrections at age 18
- SB 5255 · Detention, expanding reasons for detention of juvenile offenders
- SB 5257 · Firearms, increasing the severity of firearms crimes
- SB 5260 · Incarcerated persons, allowing to request transfer to department of corrections facility at age 18
- SB 5277 · Community transition services, repealing and modifying juvenile sentencing
- SB 5278 · Overcrowding, methods of reducing including transfer of certain offenders to department of corrections
- SB 5282 · Missing and exploited children, establishing advisory board to advise chief of WSP
- SB 5296 · Community placement, requiring courts produce independent findings that confinement is needed as alternative to
- SB 5426 · Diversion, modifying services and increasing agency coordination
- SB 5603 · Law enforcement, restrictions on questioning and attorneys
- SB 5617 · Child in need of services petition, allowing juveniles to file
- SB 5643 · Fatality and near-fatality reviews, expanding including ombuds access
- SB 5715 · Resentencing, retroactive removal of juvenile points
- SB 5760 · Washington capitol reentry center, creating on capitol campus
- SB 5761 · Dependency, extending children's legal representation program deadline
- SB 6021 · Body scanner program established at Green Hill school
- SB 6022 · JR-25 policy repealed
- SB 6062 · Sentencing modifications for juveniles
- SB 6144 · Riot behavior response modified
- SB 6145 · Disciplinary measures for staff possession of contraband
- SB 6193 · Unlawful possession of a firearm by a juvenile in certain circumstances
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.