Utilities: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 51 bills from the 2025-26 session under Utilities. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1249 · Commercial liftoff for energy from advanced nuclear advisory commission, creating to recommend nuclear facilities
- HB 1253 · Public utilities, expanding ownership arrangements
- HB 1302 · Connection charges, permitting waivers for industrial symbiosis
- HB 1329 · Power purchases, allowable sources
- HB 1336 · Meters, restricting replacement
- HB 1461 · Joint operating agencies, modifying contracting authority
- HB 1514 · Thermal energy networks, encouraging
- HB 1522 · Wildfire mitigation plans, permitting to be filed with the commission
- HB 1643 · Transportation, responsibility for facility removal
- HB 1656 · Expenses, allowing securitization of certain costs
- HB 1673 · Capital expenditures, allowing incentive rates of return
- HB 1712 · Renewable resources, allowing certain biomass facilities to meet standards
- HB 1819 · Rates, allowing incentive rates of return for reconductoring advanced conductors
- HB 1842 · Insurance, allowing public utilities to form, own, or use captive insurers
- HB 1847 · Large utilities, requiring targets for sale of electricity from distributed energy priorities and community solar
- HB 1856 · Municipal gas utilities, allowing alternative emission reduction pathway for certain utilities
- HB 1871 · Battery incentive program, public utilities tax credit for qualified light and power businesses
- HB 1903 · Statewide low-income energy assistance program, conditions for gas companies opting out
- HB 1913 · Public utility tax, repealing credit for light and power and gas distribution businesses
- HB 1990 · Expenses, allowing securitization of certain costs
- HB 2245 · Clean energy transformation act updates including reporting requirements
- HB 2275 · Wildfire prevention and protection fund, creating to pay damages for participating utilities
- HB 2296 · Expanding distributed energy resources including meter-mounted and portable solar generation devices
- HB 2373 · Large electric utilities required to offer energy assistance programs including monthly bill discount program
- HB 2416 · Waste to energy facilities and allocation of cost allowances
- HB 2515 · Emerging large energy use facilities requirements, sustainability reports, fees, and cost allowances
- HB 2519 · Rate discount for school districts
- HB 2575 · Certain utility reporting requirements eliminated or made biennial
- HB 2581 · Clean energy transformation act alternative compliance options expanded
- HB 2690 · Low-income energy assistance clarification
- SB 5088 · Taxation, authorizing counties to impose a public utility tax
- SB 5401 · Power purchases, allowable sources
- SB 5425 · Energy independence act, revising to avoid overlap with clean energy transformation act
- SB 5430 · Wildfire mitigation plans, permitting to be filed with the commission
- SB 5445 · Renewable use compliance, alternative investment in local energy resilience projects
- SB 5465 · Expenses, allowing securitization of certain costs
- SB 5466 · Capital expenditures, allowing incentive rates of return
- SB 5627 · Underground utilities, modifying location, marking, and excavation
- SB 5690 · Owners, requiring advance notice of fish barrier removal projects
- SB 5698 · Municipal gas utilities, allowing alternative emission reduction pathway for certain utilities
- SB 5727 · Battery incentive program, public utilities tax credit for qualified light and power businesses
- SB 5982 · Clean energy transformation act updates including reporting requirements
- SB 6008 · Grants for utilities with qualified residential battery incentive programs
- SB 6050 · Expanding distributed energy resources including meter-mounted and portable solar generation devices
- SB 6076 · Contracting requirements and "prudent utility management"
- SB 6092 · Waste to energy facilities and allocation of cost allowances
- SB 6096 · Utility connection charges deferral system required
- SB 6121 · Model tariff for retail electricity consumers that are large energy use facilities and contract requirement
- SB 6157 · Wildfire prevention and protection fund, creating to pay damages for participating utilities
- SB 6165 · Limiting exercise of eminent domain on agricultural lands
- SB 6171 · Emerging large energy use facilities requirements, sustainability reports, fees, and cost allowances
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.