Water and Water Rights: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 23 bills from the 2025-26 session under Water and Water Rights. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1290 · Pollution control, requiring trading program for permittees
- HB 1615 · Water system classification, modifying
- HB 1670 · Sewage spills, requiring public website
- HB 1678 · Sewage, imposing levy upon certain dischargers of untreated sewage
- HB 1691 · Yakima River Basin water supply projects, extending expiration date
- HB 1906 · Water companies, change of ownership and rates
- HB 1922 · Hydraulic projects, handling woody debris
- HB 1937 · Stormwater general permits, circumstances for presumption of compliance
- HB 1944 · Water-sewer districts, raising notification standards for sale of property
- HB 1947 · Group B public water systems, reducing requirements
- HB 2010 · Safe drinking water grant program, establishing for economically distressed communities
- HB 2544 · Pilot process for general adjudication of the upper Columbia river
- SB 5212 · Adjudication, water resource inventory area 1 claim filing
- SB 5261 · Hydropower, allowing permits for nonconsumptive use in WRIAs where minimum instream flows are not being met
- SB 5303 · Yakima River Basin water supply projects, extending expiration date
- SB 5450 · Sewage spills, requiring public website and notification
- SB 5467 · Water-sewer districts, raising notification standards for sale of property
- SB 5635 · Sewage, modifying approval of alternative on-site sewage disposal systems
- SB 5640 · Energy facility construction, requiring applicants to show adequate water supply
- SB 5660 · Water, stormwater, and sanitary sewer services, extending
- SB 5669 · Irrigation districts, modifying elections including security measures and mail-in ballots
- SB 5712 · Stormwater general permits, circumstances for presumption of compliance
- SB 5896 · Pollutant discharge unlawful
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.