Roads and Highways: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 47 measures from the 2025-26 session under Roads and Highways. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and measures with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1008 · County roads, creating county local road program and county local road trust account, new chapter
- HB 1098 · Counties, new chapter creating county local road program
- HB 1323 · Obstructing highways, creating as class C felony
- HB 1324 · Climate commitment act, using certain revenues for transportation purposes
- HB 1367 · Motorcycles, use of road shoulder
- HB 1405 · Repair and maintenance projects, removing certain restrictions
- HB 1529 · Cities, allowances for public roadway striping and paving performed by county resources
- HB 1643 · Utility facility removal, responsibility for
- HB 1772 · Shared streets, designation of by local authorities
- HB 1774 · Unused highway land, modifying considerations for leasing
- HB 1921 · Mandatory road usage charge program, new chapter establishing
- HB 1958 · I-5 bridge replacement project, issuing bonds
- HB 1970 · Highway construction, alternative public works contracting procedures
- HB 1980 · Transit-only lanes, exemption for certain permit processes
- HB 1992 · Safe system approach strategies, modifying for shared-use paths, roundabouts, complete streets, et al.
- HB 2095 · Negligent driving with a vulnerable user victim presumption
- HB 2109 · Secured loads for vehicles towed on a trailer
- HB 2134 · Greenhouse gas reduction for regional transportation plans for certain counties
- HB 2172 · Transfer of state routes to county roads
- HB 2174 · Accident risk zones created with increased penalties and required improvements
- HB 2192 · Traffic safety commission update and reviews of traffic fatalities
- HB 2467 · Fifth-wheel trailer restrictions
- HB 2627 · Bridge repair and replacement exempted from various requirements
- HB 2710 · Joint Oregon-Washington legislative action committee approval for certain I-5 bridge contracts
- SB 5067 · Impairment, lowering threshold to .05
- SB 5073 · Funding, dedicating revenues from motor vehicle sales to highway purposes
- SB 5203 · Wildlife habitat connectivity action plan, developing and implementing
- SB 5215 · Debris, requiring coverings on certain vehicles to prevent debris escaping
- SB 5374 · Tribal governments, including affected governments in growth management elements, transportation plans, et al.
- SB 5544 · Counties, new chapter creating county local road program
- SB 5550 · Climate commitment act, using certain revenues for transportation purposes
- SB 5556 · Adopt-a-highway program, requiring appropriation
- SB 5581 · Safe system approach strategies, modifying for shared-use paths, roundabouts, complete streets, et al.
- SB 5595 · Shared streets, designation of by local authorities
- SB 5664 · Impairment, lowering threshold to .05
- SB 5702 · Tolls, exempting setting by transportation committee from administrative procedures act
- SB 5726 · Mandatory road usage charge program, new chapter establishing
- SB 5734 · I-5 bridge replacement project, issuing bonds
- SB 5757 · Automated traffic safety cameras, distributing some revenue to motor vehicle fund
- SB 5824 · Fifth-wheel trailer restrictions
- SB 6032 · Secured loads for vehicles towed on a trailer
- SB 6066 · Accident risk zones created with increased penalties and required improvements
- SB 6131 · Traffic safety commission update and reviews of traffic fatalities
- SB 6311 · Maintaining pedestrian access through certain work areas
- SB 6352 · Lease for the use of the right-of-way by a clean energy facility developer, establishing process
- SJM 8003 · Washington state patrol trooper Charles Frank Noble, Jr. memorial highway, requesting designation I-82 overpass
- SJR 8202 · Highway purposes, restricting certain revenue to pay solely for
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.