Law Enforcement: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 81 measures from the 2025-26 session under Law Enforcement. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and measures with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1045 · Uniformed personnel, expanding definition to include all counties, cities, and towns
- HB 1053 · Juvenile offenders, modifying acceptable questioning without an attorney
- HB 1056 · Accountability, authorizing attorney general investigations and actions for law enforcement and correctional agencies
- HB 1095 · Sales/use tax, local authorization to support law enforcement retention and criminal justice purposes
- HB 1138 · Interrogation, inadmissibility of statements gained by deception
- HB 1139 · Firearms, authorizing arrest when officer has probable cause to believe unlawful possession
- HB 1149 · Animals, authorization for abandoned or endangered animals
- HB 1163 · State patrol, establishing certification program for firearms safety training programs
- HB 1250 · Accreditation, evaluating and incentivizing for law enforcement or corrections entities
- HB 1385 · WSP, background checks and national crime prevention and privacy compact
- HB 1399 · Employment requirements, establishing certification criteria for sheriffs, chiefs, and certain other officers
- HB 1423 · Automated vehicle noise enforcement cameras, establishing pilot program
- HB 1435 · Hiring grant program, implementing to support local and tribal law enforcement
- HB 1436 · Sales/use tax, new local tax for criminal justice purposes
- HB 1440 · Civil forfeiture, new chapter governing
- HB 1449 · Training, requiring bias training on the war on drugs
- HB 1455 · WSP, increasing toxicology staff
- HB 1456 · Personnel, increasing through restrictions on liability and outreach efforts
- HB 1490 · WSP, requiring fingerprinting for long-term care workers
- HB 1512 · Motor vehicles, expanding response to moving and nonmoving violations
- HB 1605 · WSP, authorizing longevity bonus
- HB 1736 · WSP missing and unidentified persons unit, to maintain statewide missing persons public website
- HB 1740 · Independent investigations, office of, authorizing independent prosecutors for use of deadly force cases
- HB 1783 · Education, permitting gifts associated with the institution when participating in law enforcement courses
- HB 1802 · Obstruction, including obstruction of first responders as gross misdemeanor
- HB 1829 · Warrants, specifying procedures for warrants of certified and non-certified tribes
- HB 1896 · Sales/use tax, local, authorizing for additional law enforcement officers
- HB 1920 · Juvenile questioning, modifying requirement for counsel
- HB 1969 · Local law enforcement rotary wing aviation support units, funding
- HB 2000 · Law enforcement memorial, determination of names to be included
- HB 2015 · Funding, including local sales/use tax
- HB 2171 · WSP, creating endangered foster youth alert system
- HB 2173 · Facial coverings prohibited
- HB 2216 · Nondiscrimination requirement in complying with certain federal programs
- HB 2237 · WSP, deputy state fire marshal compensation
- HB 2293 · Law enforcement prohibited from training with foreign countries
- HB 2387 · Authority of elected but uncertified sheriffs
- HB 2397 · Timely reimbursement for mobilization under state fire services mobilization plan
- HB 2508 · Authority and disclosure requirements for office of independent investigations
- HB 2541 · Standard for reasonableness in use of force
- HB 2641 · Law enforcement agencies prohibited from hiring immigration and customs enforcement officers
- HB 2643 · Due process right to petition for officers placed on Brady and Giglio lists
- HB 2644 · Body worn cameras required for all officers with state preemption and policy updates required
- HB 2648 · Officers require to take certain actions during encounters with immigration and customs enforcement employees
- HB 2651 · Digital data gathering of identifying information for federal agents in response to complaints
- HR 4647 · Inka, K-9 officer
- SB 5002 · Federal immigration enforcement, requiring cooperation with and compliance with immigration detainers, new chapter
- SB 5022 · Applicants, expanding eligibility for law enforcement, peace officers, prosecutor offices, and certain civil service
- SB 5040 · Uniformed personnel, expanding definition to include all counties, cities, and towns
- SB 5052 · Juvenile offenders, clarifying acceptable questioning without an attorney
- SB 5056 · State patrol, alternative means for firearm background checks if state records are unavailable
- SB 5060 · Hiring grant program, implementing to support local and tribal law enforcement
- SB 5066 · Accountability, authorizing attorney general investigations and actions for law enforcement and correctional agencies
- SB 5068 · Applicants, eligibility for law enforcement, peace officers, prosecutor offices, and certain civil service
- SB 5099 · WSP, requiring creation of firearms dealer's license application checklist
- SB 5140 · State patrol, establishing certification program for firearms safety training programs
- SB 5150 · Juvenile offenders, modifying acceptable questioning without an attorney
- SB 5209 · Labor and Industries, department of, clarifying limited authority status
- SB 5223 · Fingerprinting, expanding authorized circumstances
- SB 5230 · Juvenile offenders, modifying acceptable questioning without an attorney
- SB 5318 · WSP, requiring fingerprinting for long-term care workers
- SB 5329 · WSP, making responsible for smoke detector enforcement
- SB 5350 · WSP, repealing firearms background check program
- SB 5364 · Employment requirements, establishing certification criteria for sheriffs, chiefs, and certain other officers
- SB 5367 · Community immersion law enforcement program, developing to place newly-hired officers in community organizations
- SB 5376 · Animals, authorization for abandoned or endangered animals
- SB 5417 · Automated vehicle noise enforcement cameras, permitting in certain zones
- SB 5473 · Grievance arbitration, modifying
- SB 5521 · Motor vehicles, expanding response to moving and nonmoving violations
- SB 5527 · WSP, authorizing longevity bonus
- SB 5566 · Assault, increasing penalties for crimes against law enforcement
- SB 5584 · Independent investigations, office of, authorizing independent prosecutors for use of deadly force cases
- SB 5585 · Warrants, specifying procedures for warrants of certified and non-certified tribes
- SB 5624 · WSP, to develop best practices for response to electric vehicle fires
- SB 5743 · Law enforcement memorial, determination of names to be included
- SB 5775 · Sales/use tax, local, special authorization for certain public safety and community purposes
- SB 5855 · Facial coverings prohibited
- SB 5974 · Requirements for office for various LEOs and restrictions on volunteers and youth cadets
- SB 6070 · Missing endangered person definition expanded and increased law enforcement authority for community caretaking
- SB 6296 · Standards for taking individuals into custody upon request of a designated crisis responder
- SR 8624 · Washington State Patrol
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.