Veterans: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026

Legislative staff filed 12 measures from the 2025-26 session under Veterans. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and measures with a page of their own are linked.

• HB 1016 · Employer incentives, b & o and public utility tax credits for employing veterans and active-duty spouses
• HB 1102 · Veterans benefits, requiring provision of information and modifying veteran service officer program
• HB 1106 · Disability, adjusting threshold for property tax exemption
• HB 1161 · Veteran employability training and career advancement for reentry program, establishing for justice involved veterans
• HB 1397 · Property tax, local, deducted from state tax for certain services
• HB 1541 · Veterans affairs advisory committee, modifying membership
• HJM 4012 · Major Richard Star Act, petitioning for
• SB 5200 · Medical foster homes, exempting from adult family homes rules
• SB 5338 · Veterans affairs advisory committee, modifying membership
• SB 5390 · Lifetime disabled veteran pass, benefits
• SB 5827 · Veteran preference and "qualifying discharge" definition
• SB 5954 · Tuition and fees waiver eligibility for veteran surviving child or spouse

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.