Public Assistance: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 77 bills from the 2025-26 session under Public Assistance. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1034 · Medicaid, prohibiting disadvantaging of nonopioid drugs
- HB 1093 · Medical assistance, covering massage therapy
- HB 1177 · Child welfare housing assistance program, allowing to continue past end of other services
- HB 1193 · Child welfare workers, assaulting as class C felony and requests for second individual present
- HB 1263 · Essential needs and housing support program, expanding, allowing cash assistance, and not requiring DSHS referral
- HB 1326 · Medicaid, providing coverage for diagnosis and treatment of chronic disease of obesity
- HB 1392 · Medicaid access program, two new chapters establishing to increase professional services rates
- HB 1425 · Medicaid, providing pharmacogenetic testing for psychotropic medications
- HB 1427 · Peer support services, expanding access
- HB 1444 · Medicaid, coverage of whole genome sequencing up to age 1 in certain circumstances
- HB 1463 · WorkFirst TANF program, modifying hardship criteria
- HB 1466 · Hospital safety net program, funding used in lieu of general fund payments
- HB 1476 · Nursing home payment rates, delaying change
- HB 1482 · Apple health expansion program, establishing for certain immigration status
- HB 1521 · Home health agencies, caregivers and complex care services
- HB 1555 · Medicaid, nursing home payment rates
- HB 1583 · Medicaid, coverage of traditional health care practices
- HB 1661 · Future fund pilot project, establishing grants for certain persons
- HB 1812 · Anesthesia services, coverage requirements
- HB 1813 · Medicaid, planning for reprocurement of services
- HB 1845 · Cash assistance, restricting payment levels
- HB 1848 · Traumatic brain injuries, mandating support funding including in-person support groups and community integration
- HB 2040 · Aged, blind, or disabled, assistance program, recovery of duplicated benefits
- HB 2041 · Medicaid, altering length of postpartum coverage
- HB 2051 · Medicaid, payment for difficult to discharge patients
- HB 2211 · Medically tailored meals sourcing prioritization
- HB 2230 · Community residential service business provider reviews streamlined
- HB 2276 · Home care agency labor rates modified
- HB 2300 · Apple health corporate assessment program to reimburse the state for certain health care costs
- HB 2331 · Pediatric primary care and behavioral health reductions prevented
- HB 2364 · Intergenerational poverty advisory committee renamed economic justice and well-being advisory council
- HB 2385 · Extending timeline for medicaid access program
- HB 2450 · Food assistance programs for certain persons
- HB 2488 · Payments for recipients eligible for medical assistance programs at rural hospitals subject to appropriation
- HB 2531 · Ambulance transport fund quality assurance add-on rate adjustments
- HB 2555 · Medicaid, coverage of traditional health care practices
- HB 2600 · Supported living cost report template updates
- HB 2623 · Rural access to emergency medical transport grant program established
- HB 2677 · Coverage for seizure detection devices as durable medical equipment for certain circumstances
- SB 5124 · Medicaid, requiring managed care organizations to meet network adequacy standards
- SB 5128 · Medicaid, expanding to youth in detention facilities
- SB 5232 · Essential needs and housing support program, expanding
- SB 5258 · Benefits, reducing overpayments by identifying recipients no longer eligible including those moved out of state
- SB 5273 · Community violence prevention and intervention services, funding programs
- SB 5311 · Benefits, permanent disqualification for repeated WorkFirst noncompliance sanctions
- SB 5353 · Medicaid, providing coverage for diagnosis and treatment of chronic disease of obesity
- SB 5372 · Medicaid access program, two new chapters establishing to increase professional services rates
- SB 5407 · Nursing home payment rates, delaying change
- SB 5481 · Medicaid, requiring reimbursement for behavioral health services delivered in schools
- SB 5504 · Home health agencies, caregivers and complex care services
- SB 5507 · Medical assistance, covering massage therapy
- SB 5508 · Child welfare housing assistance program, allowing to continue past end of other services
- SB 5541 · Future fund pilot project, establishing grants for certain persons
- SB 5577 · Medicaid, coverage for FDA approved HIV antiviral drugs without prior authorization
- SB 5642 · Maternal care, developing education and outreach materials for medicaid clients
- SB 5764 · Ambulance transport fund, repealing expiration date
- SB 5788 · Subsidized child care, modifying
- SB 5867 · Mobile pregnancy application to increase awareness of resources
- SB 5881 · Calculation and report of decreased payments due to reforms under P.L. 119-21
- SB 5923 · Critical access hospital exception for Skagit county
- SB 5946 · Income eligibility for Medicaid
- SB 5955 · State administration of medicaid services
- SB 5966 · Medically tailored meals to be provided by Washington-based nonprofit organizations
- SB 6019 · Home care agency labor rates modified
- SB 6024 · Community residential service business provider reviews streamlined
- SB 6057 · Recovery from concurrent enrollment and identifying persons moved out of state
- SB 6102 · Ambulance transport fund quality assurance add-on rate adjustments
- SB 6103 · Payments for recipients eligible for medical assistance programs at rural hospitals subject to appropriation
- SB 6173 · Apple health employer assessment imposed on apple health employers
- SB 6186 · Waiver to exclude unhealthy foods from SNAP benefits
- SB 6191 · Gender-affirming care of certain kinds limited to adults
- SB 6194 · Allowable cost payments eligibility for critical access hospitals on tribal land
- SB 6202 · Coverage for standard fertility preservation services
- SB 6212 · Families with children benefit pilot program, establishing to provide cash assistance to qualifying families
- SB 6255 · Intergenerational poverty advisory committee renamed economic justice and well-being advisory council
- SB 6319 · Community-based referral pathway for high-risk families
- SB 6342 · Coverage for seizure detection devices as durable medical equipment for 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.