Telecommunications: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026

Legislative staff filed 13 bills from the 2025-26 session under Telecommunications. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.

• HB 1103 · Commercial messaging, restricting telephone solicitation and texts and barring contact of do not call registry
• HB 1441 · Broadband, modifying project process including repair and replace
• HB 1453 · Telecommunication cable, penalties for scrap metal businesses dealing with stolen copper
• HB 1503 · Digital equity, improving and requiring broadband minimums
• HB 1671 · Data privacy, restrictions and consumer rights
• HB 1771 · Universal communications services program, state, expanding and extending dates
• HB 1820 · Personality rights, earnings for minor children featured on for-profit vlog
• HB 1834 · Minors, restricting businesses that provide an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by
• HB 1887 · Data broker, requiring registration and reporting and creating severance tax
• SB 5188 · Broadband service, expanding grant and loan program to repair
• SB 5207 · Electronic media services, requiring refunds for canceled subscriptions
• SB 5505 · Universal communications services program, state, expanding and extending dates
• SB 5708 · Minors, restricting businesses that provide an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by

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.