Minorities: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026

Legislative staff filed 16 measures from the 2025-26 session under Minorities. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and measures with a page of their own are linked.

• HB 1381 · Elections, language assistance
• HB 1412 · Middle Eastern and North African Americans, establishing commission on
• HB 1479 · American Indian and Alaska Native students, establishing matching grant program for
• HB 1750 · Elections, barring discrimination and increasing participation
• HB 1940 · B & O, temporary exemption for businesses formed under cannabis social equity program
• HR 4604 · Lunar new year and Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander community, celebrating
• HR 4619 · Japanese-Americans, honoring those who suffered relocation and internment
• HR 4620 · Black history month
• HR 4625 · Chinese Americans
• HR 4644 · Filipino educators
• HR 4649 · Southeast Asian refugee resettlement, celebrating 50th anniversary
• SR 8608 · Lunar new year and Asian and Pacific Islander communities, celebrating
• SR 8617 · Black history month
• SR 8631 · Sibonga, Dolores
• SR 8635 · Filipino American educators
• SR 8648 · Indigenous women, missing and murdered

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.