Local Government: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 93 bills from the 2025-26 session under Local Government. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1001 · Rural counties, establishing competitive grant program for fire protection capital projects, new chapter
- HB 1008 · County roads, creating county local road program and county local road trust account, new chapter
- HB 1010 · Rural counties, authorizing accessory dwelling units
- HB 1015 · Energy efficiency, permitting cities and counties to require labels for advertised residences
- HB 1033 · Child care, authorizing county licensing of child care centers and family home providers
- HB 1037 · Public facilities districts, modifying boundaries and board of directors
- HB 1042 · County treasurers, allowing cost recovery from taxing districts
- HB 1044 · Counties, establishing county assessor administrative assistance funds
- HB 1047 · Rural counties, sales tax exemption for equipment for fire districts
- HB 1057 · Federal funding, prioritizing matching funds to help local communities acquire for economic development
- HB 1075 · Housing authorities, modifying affordable housing requirements
- HB 1088 · Landlord-tenant relationship, prohibiting regulatory changes pending task force conclusion
- HB 1095 · Sales/use tax, authorizing to support law enforcement retention and criminal justice purposes
- HB 1098 · Counties, new chapter creating county local road program
- HB 1100 · Sales/use tax, authorizing local taxation
- HB 1112 · Judges pro tempore, removing residency requirement
- HB 1126 · Sales/use tax, local retail, requiring department of revenue notification
- HB 1175 · Neighborhood cafes and stores, requiring permitting for residential zones
- HB 1188 · Energy facility site evaluation council, requiring county and tribal approval of recommendations
- HB 1212 · Child care centers, requiring allowance as permitted use all zones except industrial zones
- HB 1260 · Document recording fees, use of some revenue for homeless housing program
- HB 1299 · Parking, limiting minimum requirements
- HB 1302 · Utility connection charges, permitting waivers for industrial symbiosis
- HB 1304 · Boundary review boards, filing of notices of intention
- HB 1339 · Local elections, permitting to be held on even-numbered years
- HB 1440 · Civil forfeiture, new chapter governing
- HB 1448 · Elections, authorizing ranked choice for local elections and modifying primaries
- HB 1488 · Conservation districts, modifying revenue limit
- HB 1515 · Expanded alcohol service, allowing for host cities and fan zones
- HB 1529 · Cities, allowances for public roadway striping and paving performed by county resources
- HB 1531 · Communicable diseases, barring local governments from impeding certain measures to control
- HB 1573 · Officials, expanding window for oath of office
- HB 1576 · Historic landmarks, restricting designation
- HB 1587 · Local government partner promise scholarship programs, authorizing
- HB 1658 · Historic preservation and programs funds, requiring and using portion of document recording fee revenue
- HB 1688 · Electric security alarm systems, restricting local prohibitions
- HB 1704 · Cannabis revenue, increasing distribution
- HB 1708 · Homeless dashboard, contracting provision of for local governments
- HB 1786 · Public safety facilities, allowing use of revenue for local infrastructure financing
- HB 1818 · Plats, requiring subdivision compliance
- HB 1852 · Real property, circumstances of sale, lease, or transfer
- HB 1858 · Assignments or substitutions of previously recorded deeds of trust, exempting from certain fees and assessment
- HB 1935 · Local project review, clarifying "project permit" as not including building permits
- HB 1966 · Exigent public works, modifying including use of in-house personnel
- HB 1974 · Land bank grant program, establishing and requiring advisory boards
- HB 2027 · Real estate sales tax, local, modifying and funding various housing accounts
- HB 2195 · Initiative and referendum processes and requirements
- HB 2210 · Authorization of alternative election methods such as ranked choice voting and proportional representation
- HB 2216 · Nondiscrimination requirement in complying with certain federal programs
- HB 2263 · Local public entities prohibited from employing outside counsel
- HB 2266 · Requiring allowance of transitional housing, emergency housing, et al.
- HB 2451 · Public improvements definition modified for tax increment financing
- HB 2489 · Local governments may not prohibit life-sustaining activities on public property without alternative shelter
- HB 2499 · Conservation district elections, qualifications, and procedure
- HB 2530 · Public facilities formation deadline eliminated
- HB 2573 · Restrictions for former supermarket, full service grocery store, or pharmacy property
- SB 5002 · Sanctuary policies, prohibition of
- SB 5053 · Public facilities districts, modifying boundaries and board of directors
- SB 5088 · Taxation, authorizing counties to impose a public utility tax
- SB 5089 · Rural counties, funding coroners
- SB 5107 · Employees, providing underinsured motorist coverage
- SB 5138 · Public facilities districts, adding community-initiated equitable development as use of revenue
- SB 5184 · Parking, limiting minimum requirements
- SB 5315 · Sales/use tax, local retail, requiring department of revenue notification
- SB 5317 · Energy facility site evaluation council, exempting services supporting from certain appeals
- SB 5339 · Minimum wage, limiting further local raises
- SB 5373 · Local elections, permitting to be held on even-numbered years
- SB 5421 · Neighborhood cafes and stores, requiring permitting for residential zones
- SB 5509 · Child care centers, permitted use all zones except certain industrial zones, light industrial zones, open space zones
- SB 5510 · Conservation districts, modifying revenue limit
- SB 5544 · Counties, new chapter creating county local road program
- SB 5547 · Cannabis, increasing revenue distribution to local governments
- SB 5554 · Historic landmarks, restricting designation
- SB 5555 · Zoning, certain requirements for housing and mass timber projects
- SB 5571 · Exterior cladding, prohibiting requiring or excluding exterior cladding materials if compliant
- SB 5573 · Electric security alarm systems, restricting local prohibitions
- SB 5609 · SEPA, ordinances protecting archaeological and cultural resources
- SB 5633 · Boundaries and plats, new chapter standardizing subdivision of land
- SB 5659 · Housing shortage, new title for eliminating each county, city, and town's proportional share
- SB 5661 · Landlord and tenant, statewide preemption
- SB 5662 · Municipal utilities connection waivers, allowing for certain developer covenants
- SB 5678 · Landlord-tenant relationship, prohibiting regulatory changes pending task force conclusion
- SB 5719 · Planning, hearing examiners
- SB 5729 · Local project review, modifying permit process and excluding certain permits
- SB 5739 · Public facilities districts, modifying local sales/use tax, extending bond duration, and increasing director compensation
- SB 5748 · Sales/use tax, local, authorizing for anticipated cost of public facilities
- SB 5749 · Housing development opportunity zones, allowing designation
- SB 5770 · County assessor primary residence property tax exemption administration fund, establishing for each county
- SB 6123 · Disclosure exemption for certain personal information of government employees
- SB 6154 · Replacing existing culverts
- SB 6189 · Public facilities formation deadline postponed
- SB 6214 · Land bank authorities, authorizing
- SB 6234 · Sewage grinder pump prohibitions barred for certain residential buildings
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.