State Designations, Official: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026

Legislative staff filed 15 measures from the 2025-26 session under State Designations, Official. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and measures with a page of their own are linked.

• HB 1017 · Kimchi day, designating 22 November
• HB 1631 · Marine forest, official state, designating bull kelp forests, nereocystis luetkeana
• HB 1938 · State flag, appointing redesign committee and requiring referendum
• HB 2119 · Daylight savings time, eliminating
• HB 2166 · Certain Christian and Jewish holidays recognized
• HB 2197 · English as state language
• HB 2447 · Bluntnose sixgill shark as official shark
• SB 5000 · The evergreen state, designating state nickname as
• SB 5046 · Kimchi day, designating 22 November
• SB 5325 · Cactus, designating pediocactus nigrispinus, aka basalt, snowball, hedgehog, Columbia plateau cactus
• SB 5489 · Sandstone, designating the Wilkeson sandstone as official state
• SB 5560 · Clam, designating razor clam as
• SB 5625 · Clam, designating Pacific geoduck, aka Panopea generosa, as
• SB 6108 · Bluntnose sixgill shark as official shark
• SJM 8009 · Joe Mentor memorial overpass, designating SR 3 overpass at junction of Chico Way NW in Bremerton

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.