Schools and School Districts: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026

Legislative staff filed 218 measures from the 2025-26 session under Schools and School Districts. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and measures with a page of their own are linked.

• HB 1011 · Safety, authorizing a school safety capital grant program
• HB 1020 · Students, modifying eligibility for dropout reengagement
• HB 1021 · Students, permitting children of military families to remain in same school after change in residence
• HB 1032 · Funding, authorizing issuance of school bonds by a majority of voters
• HB 1051 · Special education, right of parents to audio record individualized education program team meetings
• HB 1079 · Online education programs, allowing remote testing
• HB 1085 · Safety, penalties and signage for intimidation or violence at athletic events
• HB 1120 · Staff, modifying allocations for salaries
• HB 1121 · Students, permitting 16- and 17-year olds to work same hours during school year if enrolled in certain programs
• HB 1122 · Students, adopting policies to restrict mobile device use during instructional hours
• HB 1134 · Green schools program, creating to expand resource conservation practices in public schools
• HB 1136 · Staff, increasing postsecondary enrollment with outreach and enrollment efforts and specialists
• HB 1140 · EmpowerED scholarship program, establishing to assist with qualifying educational expenses for unenrolled students
• HB 1151 · Ninth grade success grant program, identifying and supporting incoming students at risk of not graduating
• HB 1189 · Volunteers, process for approving parents with criminal convictions
• HB 1231 · Later school starting times grant program, establishing for exploration and implementation
• HB 1241 · Special education, making school psychologists available to conduct evaluations
• HB 1256 · Contracting, requiring American manufacture of certain components
• HB 1257 · Special education, extending through end of year student turns 22
• HB 1267 · Special education, removing certain enrollment limits
• HB 1273 · Dual credit programs, improving access
• HB 1280 · Career and technical education, expanding courses to grade 6
• HB 1285 · Curriculum, financial education as graduation requirement
• HB 1289 · Parents/guardians, online voluntary confidential survey
• HB 1296 · Students, modifying student and parental rights
• HB 1310 · Special education, distributions of safety net awards
• HB 1338 · Funding, increasing allocations
• HB 1352 · Beginning educator support team program, requiring provision of mentor for novice school nurses
• HB 1356 · Charter schools, local effort assistance and enrichment levies
• HB 1357 · Special education, grants for pilot schools for centers of excellence for inclusionary practices
• HB 1393 · Graduation ceremonies and events, wearing item or object of cultural significance
• HB 1404 · Meals. expanding free student meals and reimbursement by OSPI
• HB 1450 · Transition to kindergarten program, establishing
• HB 1475 · National board for professional teaching standards, suspending certification bonuses
• HB 1479 · American Indian and Alaska Native students, establishing matching grant program for
• HB 1538 · Financially distressed school districts, awarding supplementary modernization and new construction grants, planning grants
• HB 1547 · Regional school-based mental and behavioral health student assistance program, establishing
• HB 1580 · Vocational alternative learning experience courses, including vocational program funding enhancements
• HB 1590 · Social-emotional learning, funding to support instruction in
• HB 1594 · School utilities impact percentage, calculating to cover increased costs
• HB 1612 · Advanced placement, Cambridge international, and International baccalaureate exams, subsidizing student fees
• HB 1618 · Private schools, extending college in the high school to
• HB 1626 · Paid family and medical leave, expanding small business grants to include certain school districts
• HB 1634 · Technical assistance and training framework, establishing to coordinate comprehensive supports for behavioral health
• HB 1637 · Safety, establishing school safety capital grant program
• HB 1651 · Teacher preparation, including teacher residencies and apprenticeship programs
• HB 1663 · Staff, facilitating in-school placement of social workers
• HB 1676 · Charter schools, reassigning contracts
• HB 1683 · School boards, electing directly from member districts
• HB 1699 · Athletics, allowing prohibition of biologically male students from competing with and against female students
• HB 1709 · Safety, allowing parent-designated adult to provide care for students with adrenal insufficiency
• HB 1722 · Career pathways, facilitating students age 16 or 17 participating in emergency medical and fire services training
• HB 1723 · School construction assistance program projects, requiring project labor agreements
• HB 1727 · School library information and technology programs, requiring access for every student
• HB 1746 · Local effort assistance, modifying
• HB 1767 · Funding, modifying school enrollment calculation
• HB 1795 · Discipline, restricting methods and requiring policies, incident follow up, and training
• HB 1796 · Funding, modifying requirements for indebtedness
• HB 1832 · Curriculum, implementing structured literacy program
• HB 1853 · Playgrounds, funding for adopting model community shared-use policy
• HB 1855 · Inclusivity, expanding prohibited bases for discrimination including homelessness, immigration status, and neurodivergence
• HB 1863 · Safety, requiring cardiac emergency response plans and automated external defibrillators
• HB 1868 · Athletic trainers, funding for hospital staff that will be available to local students
• HB 1910 · Teacher-librarians, increasing funding
• HB 1925 · Secondary training for careers in natural resources and conservation, education and curriculum standards
• HB 1943 · Curriculum, blood donation awareness graduation requirement
• HB 1963 · Curriculum, modifying civics education
• HB 2007 · Graduation pathways, including competency-based assessments
• HB 2012 · Transition to kindergarten program, funding and appropriation
• HB 2026 · Funding, altering including enrichment funding
• HB 2044 · Students, excessive absences
• HB 2050 · Funding, modifying school enrollment
• HB 2116 · School enrichment funding and local effort assistance levy rate
• HB 2126 · Funding, fuel tax exemption for school buses
• HB 2138 · Reading to ensure academic development (READ) grant program, establishing
• HB 2142 · Alternative learning renamed "remote and hybrid" learning
• HB 2147 · Funding, minimum allocations and inflation adjustments
• HB 2234 · Funding, increased allocations due to climate commitment act utility costs
• HB 2246 · Discipline, student firearm violation punishment
• HB 2262 · Curriculum, requiring instruction in producing cursive signature
• HB 2287 · Transportation safety net awards for schools with need for special passengers
• HB 2290 · Sales/use tax exemption
• HB 2328 · Safety, schools maps availability for first responder agencies
• HB 2341 · National voter registration day observed by high schools on third Tuesday of September
• HB 2360 · Safety, schools authorized to maintain supply of albuterol
• HB 2366 · Board of directors' compensation
• HB 2375 · Funding, adjustments for running start enrollment
• HB 2432 · Students, sales or grants of surplus technology equipment
• HB 2470 · Funding, school construction assistance program consideration for schools on military bases
• HB 2519 · Utilities discount for districts
• HB 2534 · Enrollment flexibility for children of military families
• HB 2549 · Cardiac emergency response plans required and integration with emergency service response protocols
• HB 2551 · Funding, requests to sell real property of the district
• HB 2557 · Students, parental access to special education reports
• HB 2562 · Local effort assistance funding increased
• HB 2570 · Statewide digital transcript file standards and data exchange
• HB 2580 · Local effort assistance funding increased
• HB 2593 · Funding, general fund minimum balances and reporting requirements
• HB 2594 · Students, homeless student enrollment, liaisons, grants, et al.
• HB 2636 · Public education performance, operations, and funding review commission established
• HB 2649 · Immediate law enforcement notification of criminal actions required
• HB 2712 · Collective bargaining to be observable by public
• HB 2717 · Funding, additional allocations to support programs for highly capable students
• HB 2732 · Students, excused absences for civic activities
• HJR 4201 · Funding, authorizing issuance of school bonds by a majority of voters
• HR 4648 · Smith, Dr. Wade
• SB 5004 · Safety, emergency response system to include panic buttons and other security measures
• SB 5007 · Students, supports and use of grant funds to reduce absenteeism
• SB 5008 · Funding, establishing temporary grant program to support use of assessment, diagnostic, and learning tools
• SB 5009 · Transportation, alternative vehicle usage
• SB 5012 · Athletics, gender identity and organization of
• SB 5025 · Staff, requiring establishment of standards for educational interpreters
• SB 5080 · Graduation requirements, adding financial education
• SB 5095 · Funding, modifying requirements for indebtedness
• SB 5097 · Athletics, requiring competitiveness rules for girls' sports
• SB 5120 · Learning assistance program, expanding allocations
• SB 5123 · Inclusivity, expanding prohibited bases for discrimination including homelessness, immigration status, and neurodivergence
• SB 5126 · Regional school-based mental and behavioral health student assistance program, establishing
• SB 5134 · Chinese Americans, requiring activities for Chinese Americans/Americans of Chinese descent history month
• SB 5135 · Curriculum, increasing school authority and repealing sex education requirement
• SB 5136 · Students, prohibiting schools from using names other than given and derivates without parental permission
• SB 5137 · Curriculum, requiring parental opt-in for sexual education
• SB 5164 · Financial aid completion and postsecondary enrollment program, requiring for each educational service district
• SB 5177 · Staff, requiring professional development resources for marginalized groups, antibullying, mental health, etc.
• SB 5179 · State law, requiring a complaint process for alleging school noncompliance and an investigation process
• SB 5180 · Gender, clarifying requirements of model policy and procedure relating to gender-inclusive schools
• SB 5181 · Parents, requiring access to educational records and materials and allowing opt-out of certain activities
• SB 5186 · Indebtedness, reducing voting threshold
• SB 5189 · Curriculum, requiring development of competency-based education
• SB 5190 · Facilities, allowing extensions for energy performance deadlines
• SB 5192 · Funding, increasing allocations for materials, supplies, and operating costs and requiring reporting
• SB 5193 · Online education programs, allowing remote testing
• SB 5210 · Ninth grade success grant program, identifying and supporting incoming students at risk of not graduating
• SB 5235 · Reorganization, recodifying and repealing various sections including nonprofit meal programs and awards
• SB 5240 · Safety, requirements for administering epinephrine
• SB 5253 · Special education, extending through end of year student turns 22
• SB 5263 · Special education, increasing and pilot programs
• SB 5270 · Beginning educator support team program, requiring provision of mentor for novice school nurses
• SB 5271 · Staff, increasing requirements for school nurses
• SB 5272 · Safety, penalties for intimidation or violence at athletic events
• SB 5307 · Special education, distributions of safety net awards
• SB 5346 · Students, adopting policies to restrict mobile device use during instructional hours
• SB 5352 · Meals. expanding free student meals and reimbursement by OSPI
• SB 5358 · Career and technical education, allowing for participation in grade 6
• SB 5369 · Staff, facilitating in-school placement of social workers
• SB 5378 · Paid family and medical leave, expanding small business grants to include certain school districts
• SB 5412 · Funding, allowing interfund loans from capital projects funds and requests to sell real property
• SB 5418 · Charter schools, contract exemptions
• SB 5481 · Behavioral health, requiring medicaid reimbursement for services delivered in schools
• SB 5483 · Curriculum, prohibiting restrictions on education concerning certain subjects
• SB 5506 · Residential private schools, extending licensing living accommodations
• SB 5517 · Staff, modifying allocations for salaries
• SB 5546 · Facilities, requiring solar systems on new buildings
• SB 5564 · Curriculum, modifying basic education goals
• SB 5567 · Secondary training for careers in natural resources and conservation, education and curriculum standards
• SB 5572 · School construction assistance program projects, requiring project labor agreements
• SB 5574 · Curriculum, Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander history learning standards
• SB 5593 · Enrichment levies, modifying maximum limit
• SB 5596 · Interstate teacher mobility compact, repealing
• SB 5637 · Curriculum, modifying civics education
• SB 5641 · Curriculum, blood donation awareness graduation requirement
• SB 5654 · Discipline, restricting methods and requiring policies, incident follow up, and training
• SB 5670 · Fuel tax assistance grant program, establishing for rural district transportation costs
• SB 5693 · Teacher preparation, including teacher residencies and apprenticeship programs
• SB 5737 · National board for professional teaching standards, suspending certification bonuses
• SB 5769 · Transition to kindergarten, capping enrollment
• SB 5772 · Local effort assistance funding, modifying student enrollment
• SB 5780 · Transportation, new vehicle reimbursement
• SB 5841 · High school and beyond plan requirements
• SB 5848 · Funding, use of school district impact fees under binding conditions or under enhanced financial oversight
• SB 5849 · Curriculum, financial education as graduation requirement
• SB 5857 · Funding, architectural and engineering fee maximum
• SB 5858 · Funding, transportation safety net awards for special passengers
• SB 5859 · Graduation pathways, including competency-based assessments
• SB 5860 · Board of directors' compensation
• SB 5861 · Board of directors and director districts
• SB 5875 · Liability restrictions for discrimination
• SB 5878 · Plant-based food options required to be available
• SB 5897 · Safety, pulse oximeter availability for asthma or anaphylaxis emergencies
• SB 5901 · Funding, school construction assistance program consideration for schools on military bases
• SB 5910 · Authority for distribution of information to the public expanded
• SB 5918 · Funding, minimum allocations and inflation adjustments
• SB 5920 · Cost schedule authorized for certain records requests
• SB 5922 · Funding, transferring unneeded transportation funds
• SB 5941 · Facilities, renewable energy generation system requirement exemptions
• SB 5943 · School impact fee use expanded to include modernization of facilities for certain purposes
• SB 5951 · Safety, schools authorized to maintain supply of albuterol
• SB 5952 · Students, requiring recognition of individual decisions to waive physical education requirements
• SB 5956 · Students, restrictions schools' use of AI, automated decision making, and biometric surveillance
• SB 5969 · Curriculum, required transition plans and high school and beyond plans
• SB 5978 · Washington school information processing cooperative requirements
• SB 5994 · Timber tax distribution calculations
• SB 6042 · Safety, schools maps availability for first responder agencies
• SB 6051 · District waivers for state laws and rules
• SB 6052 · Statewide digital transcript file standards and data exchange
• SB 6065 · Funding, temporary interfund loans from transportation vehicle fund for certain districts
• SB 6118 · Cardiac emergency response plans required and integration with emergency service response protocols
• SB 6122 · Funding, removing certain restrictions on funding allocations
• SB 6125 · Funding, stabilization funding required to compensate for revenue drop
• SB 6130 · National voter registration day observed by high schools on third Tuesday of September
• SB 6192 · Implementing structured literacy and numeracy programs, star teacher awards, and improvement strategies
• SB 6222 · Students, sales or grants of surplus technology equipment
• SB 6247 · Funding, budget oversight and supports for districts in financial distress and applicant requirements
• SB 6261 · Signed declarations of intent necessary for children to qualify for home-based instruction
• SB 6263 · Contractors, raising threshold for requiring bids
• SB 6277 · Enrollment flexibility for children of military families
• SB 6285 · Regulatory restrictions for menstrual hygiene, sexual health education, threat assessments, et al., relaxed
• SB 6298 · Contracting, requiring American manufacture of certain components
• SB 6299 · Artificial intelligence may supplement or enhance instruction but not replace educators
• SB 6300 · Adoption of alternative learning standards authorized
• SB 6310 · Funding, allocations for utilities and insurance modified
• SB 6320 · Funding, accounting for remote or online alternative learning experience programs in student enrollment
• SB 6326 · Funding, general fund minimum balances and reporting requirements
• SJR 8200 · Funding, authorizing issuance of school bonds by a majority of voters
• SI 26001 · Parents' bill of rights
• HI 26001 · Parents' bill of rights
• HI 26638 · Biologically male students barred from female scholastic sports
• SI 26638 · Biologically male students barred from female scholastic sports

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.