Public Employment and Employees: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 51 bills from the 2025-26 session under Public Employment and Employees. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1013 · Civil service, exempting certain social and health services employees
- HB 1069 · Collective bargaining, allowing bargaining over certain supplemental retirement benefits
- HB 1105 · Collective bargaining, modifying for certain department of corrections employees
- HB 1182 · Interest arbitration, granting to certain park and recreation commission employees
- HB 1330 · Washington employees and retirees benefits board, creating by consolidating PEBB and SEBB
- HB 1354 · Legislative session employees, PEBB coverage
- HB 1398 · Adult family home providers, interest arbitration
- HB 1511 · Ferries, collective bargaining for ferry captains
- HB 1622 · Collective bargaining, requiring bargaining for use of artificial intelligence if it affects conditions of employment
- HB 2032 · Language access providers, compensation requirements for contractors
- HB 2042 · Hiring preferences, providing for certain federal employees
- HB 2053 · Employees, limiting state employment to a certain percentage of the population
- HB 2091 · Collective bargaining status of state college and universities
- HB 2137 · Correctional officers as "uniformed personnel"
- HB 2179 · PERS membership for certain port district employees
- HB 2190 · Collective bargaining modification for language access providers
- HB 2249 · Civil service status for network and security systems employees
- HB 2309 · Postgraduate degree requirements as only way to demonstrate qualification prohibited
- HB 2312 · Shared leave eligibility for immigration enforcement absences
- HB 2333 · Public officials' security and confidentiality
- HB 2408 · Outdated language updated and repealed
- HB 2411 · Shared leave authorization for hate crime victims and immigration enforcement
- HB 2568 · Insurance coverage of prosthetic limbs and custom orthotic braces
- HB 2582 · Civil service classifications for fire departments
- HB 2630 · Classification plans requiring negotiations
- SB 5002 · Immigration, authorizing judicial proceedings against public officers for failure to comply with immigration duties
- SB 5022 · Applicants, expanding eligibility for law enforcement, peace officers, prosecutor offices, and certain civil service
- SB 5044 · Collective bargaining, allowing bargaining over certain supplemental retirement benefits
- SB 5059 · Ferries, collective bargaining for ferry captains
- SB 5068 · Applicants, eligibility for law enforcement, peace officers, prosecutor offices, and certain civil service
- SB 5086 · Washington employees and retirees benefits board, creating by consolidating PEBB and SEBB
- SB 5107 · Insurance, providing underinsured motorist coverage for local government employees
- SB 5168 · State actuary, making pension funding council responsible for appointment, removal, and salary
- SB 5379 · Parks and recreation commission employees, granting interest arbitration rights to certain employees
- SB 5415 · Collective bargaining, restricting certification of financial feasibility
- SB 5422 · Collective bargaining, requiring bargaining for certain uses of artificial intelligence
- SB 5433 · Collective bargaining, modifying for certain department of corrections employees
- SB 5435 · Collective bargaining, chapter reorganization without substantive change
- SB 5503 · Collective bargaining, modifying procedures
- SB 5767 · Hiring preferences, providing for certain federal employees
- SB 5792 · Salary, temporary reductions for
- SB 5793 · Health care benefits, to be set by legislature
- SB 5807 · PEBB and SEBB, eliminating smart health program including the wellness incentive
- SB 5827 · Veteran preference and "qualifying discharge" definition
- SB 5889 · Paid leave used to supplement family and medical leave
- SB 5905 · PERS membership for certain port district employees
- SB 5944 · Collective bargaining modification for language access providers
- SB 5972 · Correctional officers as "uniformed personnel"
- SB 6038 · Postgraduate degree requirements as only way to demonstrate qualification prohibited
- SB 6095 · Public officials' security and confidentiality
- SB 6135 · Uniformed personnel interest arbitration modified
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.