Unemployment Compensation: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026

Legislative staff filed 10 bills from the 2025-26 session under Unemployment Compensation. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.

• HB 1682 · Part-time workers, modifying
• HB 1773 · Wage replacement program, creating for workers ineligible for unemployment insurance
• HB 1843 · Students, repealing disqualification
• HB 2264 · Unemployment status and employer layoffs
• HB 2563 · Pilot period for serving notices electronically
• SB 5041 · Benefits, modifying for strikes and eliminating disqualification for lockouts
• SB 5540 · Students, repealing disqualification
• SB 5626 · Wage replacement program, creating for workers ineligible for unemployment insurance
• SB 5874 · Amendments to periodic reports
• SB 6134 · Worker notice required for possible overpayment assessments

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.