Bill #

Abbrev. Title

Short Description

Status

Sponsor

Position

Priority

HB 1004

Property tax exemption

Increasing the personal property tax exemption.

H Rules R

Leavitt

Support

High

HB 1083

Aircraft fuel tax distrib.

Concerning the distribution of aircraft fuel tax revenue.

H Approps

Dent

Monitoring

HB 1100

Local sales and use tax

Creating a local sales and use tax.

H Finance

Jacobsen

Medium

HB 1126 (SB 5315)

Local tax rate changes

Standardizing notification provisions relating to local tax rate changes and shared taxes administered by the department.

S Loc Gov

Walen

Support

Medium

HB 1197 (SB 5166)

Operating budget, supp.

Making 2023-2025 fiscal biennium second supplemental operating appropriations.

H Approps

Ormsby

Monitoring

HB 1198 (SB 5167)

Operating budget

Making 2025-2027 fiscal biennium operating appropriations.

H Approps

Ormsby

Monitoring

HB 1202 (SB 5194)

State gen. obligation bonds

Concerning state general obligation bonds and related accounts.

H Cap Budget

Tharinger

Monitoring

SHB 1210

Urban area tax preferences

Concerning targeted urban area tax preferences.

H Rules R

Barnard

Monitoring

HB 1284

Investmnt income B&O deduct.

Eliminating the investment income business and occupation tax deduction for corporations and other business entities.

H Finance

Pollet

High

HB 1319

Wealth tax

Enacting a wealth tax on the ownership of stocks, bonds, and other financial intangible property.

H Finance

Street

Oppose

High

HB 1320

Business & occupation tax

Modifying business and occupation tax rates to fund programs and services to benefit Washingtonians.

H Finance

Street

Oppose

High

HB 1334

Property tax revenue growth

Modifying the annual regular property tax revenue growth limit.

H Finance

Pollet

Monitoring

HB 1340

Prepared food sales tax

Exempting prepared food from sales tax.

H Finance

Manjarrez

Support

High

HB 1373

Senior citizens local tax

Imposing a local sales tax wholly credited against the state sales tax to support programs for senior citizens.

H Finance

Orcutt

Monitoring

HB 1374

Sales and use tax rate

Reducing the state sales and use tax rate.

H Finance

Orcutt

Medium

HB 1375

Estate tax exclusion

Adjusting the estate tax exclusion amount for inflation.

H Finance

Orcutt

Monitoring

HB 1376

Capital gains tax prepayment

Concerning the prepayment of capital gains taxes six months prior to the due date.

H Finance

Orcutt

High

HB 1411

Assumed revenues

Limiting assumed revenues to projected revenues by the economic and revenue forecast council.

H Approps

Couture

Monitoring

HB 1471 (SB 5392)

BSA transfers

Concerning budget stabilization account transfers.

H Approps

Ormsby

Monitoring

HB 1532

Sales tax sourcing impact

Authorizing funding tools to mitigate the impact of sales tax sourcing in certain cities that host industrial and warehousing industries.

H Finance

Stearns

Support

High

HB 1569

Tax exemptions

Increasing tax exemption transparency and accountability.

H Approps

Pollet

Monitoring

HB 1614 (SSB 5314)

Capital gains tax

Modifying the capital gains tax.

H Finance

Thai

Monitoring

HB 1650

Airport projects/local REET

Concerning the addition of airport capital projects as an allowable use of local real estate excise tax revenues.

H Finance

Dent

Monitoring

HB 1665

Capital gains tax repeal

Repealing the capital gains income tax.

H Finance

Dufault

Monitoring

HB 1666

Estate tax repeal

Repealing the estate tax.

H Finance

Dufault

Monitoring

HB 1702

Public utility tax, counties

Authorizing counties to impose a public utility tax.

H Finance

Wylie

Oppose

Medium

HB 1703 (SSB 5610)

Equine industry

Establishing an equine industry tax credit, allowing the horse racing commission to impose a fee, and using equine industry sales tax revenues for federal regulatory compliance.

H Finance

Stearns

Monitoring

HB 1729

State school levies

Providing property tax relief by reducing both parts of the state school levies.

H Finance

Orcutt

Monitoring

HB 1778

State sales tax revenues

Sharing state sales tax revenues with local governments and not increasing the state or local sales tax rate.

H Approps

Dufault

Monitoring

HB 1791

Local real estate excise tax

Increasing the flexibility of existing funding sources to fund public safety and other facilities by modifying the local real estate excise tax.

H Finance

Paul

High

HB 1805

Children services/local tax

Creating a local sales and use tax to fund services for children and families that enhance well-being, promote mental health, and provide early interventions.

H Finance

Tharinger

Monitoring

HB 1839

Advanced computing surcharge

Increasing the investments in our workforce by amending the advanced computing surcharge.

H Finance

Reed

Monitoring

HB 1882

State tax on lodging

Imposing an additional temporary state tax on lodging.

H Finance

Cortes

Concerns

Medium

HB 1995

Tax preferences

Concerning tax preferences.

H Finance

Thomas

High

HB 1997

Property tax cut

Cutting statewide property tax revenues by 10 percent without creating a shift to other taxpayers.

H Finance

Mendoza

Medium

HB 1998

Investment income/B&O tax

Clarifying the scope of the investment income business and occupation tax deduction.

H Finance

Walen

Medium

SB 5145

State spending prgs. review

Implementing the periodic review of state spending programs.

S Ways & Means

Gildon

Monitoring

SB 5151

Annual state spending growth

Limiting annual state spending growth to median worker wage growth, with excess revenues dedicated to property tax relief.

S Ways & Means

Gildon

Monitoring

SB 5166 (HB 1197)

Operating budget, supp.

Making 2023-2025 fiscal biennium second supplemental operating appropriations.

S Ways & Means

Robinson

Monitoring

SB 5167 (HB 1198)

Operating budget

Making 2025-2027 fiscal biennium operating appropriations.

S Ways & Means

Robinson

Monitoring

SB 5194 (HB 1202)

State gen. obligation bonds

Concerning state general obligation bonds and related accounts.

S Ways & Means

Trudeau

Monitoring

SSB 5314 (HB 1614)

Capital gains tax

Modifying the capital gains tax.

S Rules 2

Stanford

High

SB 5315 (HB 1126)

Local tax rate changes

Standardizing notification provisions relating to local tax rate changes and shared taxes administered by the department.

H Finance

Gildon

Support

Medium

SB 5340

Sales tax exemptions

Exempting permanently from sales and use tax bottled water, prepared food, and clothing.

S Ways & Means

Fortunato

Medium

SB 5341

Children's product sales tax

Exempting permanently from the sales and use tax purchases of products for young children.

S Ways & Means

Fortunato

Monitoring

SB 5392 (HB 1471)

BSA transfers

Concerning budget stabilization account transfers.

S Ways & Means

Robinson

Monitoring

SB 5518

Sales tax sourcing impact

Authorizing funding tools to mitigate the impact of sales tax sourcing in certain cities that host industrial and warehousing industries.

S Ways & Means

Kauffman

Support

High

SB 5645

Estate tax/extraordinary rev

Transferring extraordinary revenue collections from the estate tax to the developmental disabilities community services account.

S Ways & Means

Braun

Monitoring

SB 5673 (HB 1924)

Manufacturing/sales tax

Providing a sales and use tax exemption for manufacturing facilities and green manufacturing facilities.

S Ways & Means

Boehnke

Monitoring

SB 5674

Manufacturing facilities/tax

Concerning manufacturing facilities.

S Ways & Means

Boehnke

Monitoring

SB 5675

Manufacturing/B&O tax

Providing a business and occupation tax exemption for manufacturing facilities and green manufacturing facilities.

S Ways & Means

Boehnke

Monitoring

SB 5766

Passive investment vehicles

Clarifying the business and occupation tax treatment of the investment income of passive investment vehicles managed by a person subject to business and occupation tax under RCW 82.04.290(1).

S Ways & Means

Liias

Medium

SJR 8201

Investment/LTSS accounts

Amending the Constitution to allow the state to invest moneys from long-term services and supports accounts.

S Ways & Means

Braun

Medium

Bill #

Abbrev. Title

Short Description

Status

Sponsor

Position

Priority

SHB 1128 (SSB 5062)

Child care workforce board

Establishing a child care workforce standards board.

H Approps

Fosse

Oppose

High

SHB 1212 (SSB 5509)

Child care center siting

Concerning the siting of child care centers.

H Approps

Alvarado

Medium

HB 1350 (SSB 5500)

Child care reimburse. rates

Modernizing reimbursement rates for the working connections child care program.

H Approps

Alvarado

Medium

HB 1564

Child care assist./B&O tax

Supporting employers providing child care assistance to employees by establishing a business and occupation and public utility tax credit.

H Finance

Penner

High

HB 1582 (SSB 5655)

Child care centers/buildings

Concerning child care centers operated in existing buildings.

H Rules R

Caldier

Monitoring

SHB 1648

Child care qualifications

Modifying child care provider qualifications.

H Approps

Dent

Monitoring

SSB 5062 (SHB 1128)

Child care workforce board

Establishing a child care workforce standards board.

S Ways & Means

Stanford

Oppose

High

SB 5130

Child care licensing fees

Eliminating child care licensing fees.

S Ways & Means

Wilson

Medium

SB 5310

Child care subsidy rates

Concerning child care subsidy rates.

S Ways & Means

Braun

Monitoring

SSB 5509 (SHB 1212)

Child care center siting

Concerning the siting of child care centers.

S Ways & Means

Alvarado

Medium

Bill #

Abbrev. Title

Short Description

Status

Sponsor

Position

Priority

SHB 1015

Energy labeling/residential

Concerning energy labeling of residential buildings.

H Rules R

Duerr

Oppose

Medium

HB 1208 (SSB 5155)

Salmon recovery projects

Extending a program to streamline the environmental permitting process for salmon recovery projects.

H Approps

Tharinger

Monitoring

SHB 1303 (SB 5380)

Environmental justice

Increasing environmental justice by improving government decisions.

H Approps

Mena

Oppose

Medium

SHB 1543 (SSB 5514)

Clean buildings standard

Increasing compliance pathways for the clean buildings performance standard.

S Environment, En

Doglio

Monitoring

SHB 1610 (SB 5582)

Critical energy infra./PRA

Concerning the disclosure of critical energy infrastructure information.

H 2nd Reading

Hunt

Monitoring

SHB 1715

Energy standard/comply cost

Regarding the costs of compliance with the state energy performance standard.

H Approps

Dye

Monitoring

SHB 1975

Climate commitment act

Amending the climate commitment act by adjusting auction price containment mechanisms and ceiling prices, addressing the department of ecology's authority to amend rules to facilitate linkage with other jurisdictions, and providing for market dynamic analysis.

H Approps

Fitzgibbon

Concerns

Medium

HB 1994

Renewable energy hosts/tax

Encouraging local support of communities that host renewable energy through changes in tax policy.

H Finance

Klicker

Monitoring

SSB 5155 (HB 1208)

Salmon recovery projects

Extending a program to streamline the environmental permitting process for salmon recovery projects.

S Ways & Means

Salomon

Monitoring

SSB 5359 (HB 1328)

Clean energy development

Accelerating the development of clean energy and transmission.

S Ways & Means

Shewmake

Monitoring

SSB 5360

Environmental crimes

Concerning environmental crimes.

S 2nd Reading

Trudeau

Medium

SB 5380 (SHB 1303)

Environmental justice

Increasing environmental justice by improving government decisions.

S Environment, E

Lovelett

Oppose

Medium

SSB 5514 (SHB 1543)

Clean buildings standard

Increasing compliance pathways for the clean buildings performance standard.

S Rules 2

Shewmake

Monitoring

Bill #

Abbrev. Title

Short Description

Status

Sponsor

Position

Priority

SHB 1076

Health technology assessment

Concerning the health technology assessment program.

H Rules R

Walen

Monitoring

SHB 1123 (SSB 5083)

Health carrier reimbursement

Ensuring access to primary care, behavioral health, and affordable hospital services.

H Rules R

Macri

Monitoring

HB 1379 (SB 5084)

Health carrier reporting

Concerning health carrier reporting.

H Rules R

Lekanoff

Monitoring

HB 1392 (SB 5372)

Medicaid access program

Creating the medicaid access program.

H Approps

Macri

Oppose

Medium

HB 1560 (SB 5638)

Hospital exec. excise tax

Funding health care access by imposing an excise tax on the annual compensation paid to certain highly compensated hospital employees.

H Finance

Reed

Monitoring

SHB 1589 (SB 5588)

Health carriers & providers

Concerning the relationships between health carriers and contracting providers.

H Approps

Bronoske

Monitoring

SSB 5083 (SHB 1123)

Health carrier reimbursement

Ensuring access to primary care, behavioral health, and affordable hospital services.

S Ways & Means

Robinson

Monitoring

SB 5084 (HB 1379)

Health carrier reporting

Concerning health carrier reporting.

H HC/Wellness

Robinson

Monitoring

SSB 5331 (HB 1199)

Insurance code violations

Strengthening consumer protection through increased insurer accountability for violations of the insurance code.

S Rules 2

Cortes

Monitoring

SSB 5387 (HB 1675)

Corp practice of health care

Concerning the corporate practice of medicine.

S Ways & Means

Robinson

Oppose

High

SSB 5493

Hospital price transparency

Concerning hospital price transparency.

S Rules 2

Riccelli

Monitoring

SB 5638 (HB 1560)

Hospital exec. excise tax

Funding health care access by imposing an excise tax on the annual compensation paid to certain highly compensated hospital employees.

S Ways & Means

Saldana

Monitoring

Bill #

Abbrev. Title

Short Description

Status

Sponsor

Position

Priority

HB 1040

Rental income/property tax

Concerning rental income received by people eligible for certain property tax exemption programs.

H Rules R

Doglio

Monitoring

HB 1044

County REET admin. fees

Concerning county fees for administration of the real estate excise tax.

H Finance

Wylie

Oppose

Medium

HB 1075

Affordable housing financing

Expanding housing supply by supporting the ability of public housing authorities to finance affordable housing developments.

S Housing

Walen

Monitoring

SHB 1081

Solicited real estate

Establishing consumer protections for owners of solicited real estate.

H Rules R

Donaghy

Monitoring

2SHB 1096

Lot splitting

Increasing housing options through lot splitting.

H Rules R

Barkis

Support

High

SHB 1098 (SB 5544)

County local roads

Concerning county local roads.

H Rules R

Low

Monitoring

SHB 1108

Housing cost task force

Creating a task force on housing cost driver analysis.

H Approps

Klicker

Support

High

SHB 1135

Local government planning

Ensuring that local government planning complies with the growth management act.

H Rules R

Duerr

Monitoring

2SHB 1195 (SB 5497)

Housing & shelters

Concerning compliance with siting, development permit processes and standards, and requirements for permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, indoor emergency housing, or indoor emergency shelters.

H Rules R

Peterson

Medium

HB 1206 (SB 5679)

Multifamily tax exemption

Expanding eligibility to utilize the multifamily tax exemption program to all counties required or choosing to plan under RCW 36.70A.040.

H Finance

Low

Support

High

2SHB 1217 (SSB 5222)

Residential tenants

Improving housing stability for tenants subject to the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act by limiting rent and fee increases, requiring notice of rent and fee increases, limiting fees and deposits, establishing a landlord resource center and associated services, authorizing tenant lease termination, creating parity between lease types, and providing for attorney general enforcement.

H Rules R

Alvarado

Oppose

High

SHB 1263 (SSB 5232)

Essential needs program uses

Updating eligible uses for the essential needs and housing support program.

H Approps

Cortes

Monitoring

HB 1345

Detached ADU limits

Establishing limitations on detached accessory dwelling units outside of urban growth areas.

H Rules R

Low

Concerns

High

SHB 1353

ADU self-certification

Establishing a self-certification program for accessory dwelling unit project permit applications.

H Rules R

Ramel

Monitoring

HB 1380

Public property regulations

Allowing objectively reasonable regulation of the utilization of public property.

H Approps

Gregerson

Oppose

High

HB 1403

Condominium construction

Simplifying condominium construction statutes.

H Rules R

Taylor

Medium

SHB 1491

Transit-oriented housing dev

Promoting transit-oriented housing development.

H Cap Budget

Reed

Monitoring

HB 1494

Multiple-unit dwellings/tax

Concerning the property tax exemptions for new and rehabilitated multiple-unit dwellings in urban centers.

H Finance

Ramel

Medium

SHB 1576

Historic landmarks/cities

Concerning the designation of historic landmarks by cities.

H Rules R

Walen

Monitoring

HB 1694

City & county REET revenues

Concerning revenues from the excise tax on real estate transactions imposed by cities and counties under RCW 82.46.035.

H Finance

Thai

Monitoring

SHB 1696

Covenant homeownership prg.

Modifying the covenant homeownership program.

H Approps

Taylor

Monitoring

SHB 1700

Comprehensive plan updates

Concerning the timing of updates for comprehensive plans and development regulations.

H Rules R

Volz

Monitoring

HB 1717 (SB 5591)

Affordable housing/sales tax

Creating a sales and use tax remittance program for affordable housing.

H Finance

Leavitt

Monitoring

HB 1858

Deed of trust assignment/fee

Eliminating the exemption for assignments or substitutions of previously recorded deeds of trust from the document recording fee and the covenant homeownership program assessment.

H Approps

Scott

Monitoring

SHB 1859

Housing dev./religious orgs.

Expanding opportunities for affordable housing developments on properties owned by religious organizations.

H Finance

Salahuddin

Medium

HB 1867

Affordable housing REET

Allowing counties or cities to impose a real estate excise tax for the purpose of developing affordable housing, subject to the will of the voters.

H Finance

Ramel

High

SHB 1935

Project permit definition

Concerning the definition of project permit and project permit application.

H Rules R

Duerr

Support

Medium

SSB 5142

Eminent domain purchase back

Providing owners of real estate taken through eminent domain by school districts, or sold under threat of eminent domain, the opportunity to purchase the real estate back when it is not put to intended public use.

S 2nd Reading

Hasegawa

Medium

SSB 5148 (HB 1235)

GMA housing element

Ensuring compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act.

S Ways & Means

Bateman

Monitoring

ESSB 5184 (HB 1299)

Minimum parking requirements

Concerning minimum parking requirements.

S Passed 3rd

Bateman

Oppose

High

SSB 5197

Local government planning

Ensuring that local government planning complies with the growth management act.

S Rules 2

Salomon

Monitoring

SSB 5222 (2SHB 1217)

Residential tenants

Improving housing stability for tenants subject to the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act by limiting rent and fee increases, requiring notice of rent and fee increases, limiting fees and deposits, establishing a landlord resource center and associated services, authorizing tenant lease termination, creating parity between lease types, and providing for attorney general enforcement.

S Ways & Means

Trudeau

Oppose

High

SSB 5232 (SHB 1263)

Essential needs program uses

Updating eligible uses for the essential needs and housing support program.

S 2nd Reading

Wilson

Monitoring

SSB 5249

Kit home siting

Concerning siting kit homes.

S Ways & Means

Wilson

Support

High

SB 5461

Intensive rural dev. areas

Concerning residential development in limited areas of more intensive rural development.

S Rules 2

Lovelett

Monitoring

SSB 5469

Rental housing market

Prohibiting algorithmic rent fixing and noncompete agreements in the rental housing market.

S Ways & Means

Salomon

Monitoring

SSB 5470

Detached ADUs

Establishing limitations on detached accessory dwelling units outside urban growth areas.

S Rules 2

Goehner

High

ESB 5471 (HB 1840)

Middle housing

Authorizing middle housing in unincorporated growth areas and unincorporated urban growth areas, certain limited areas of more intensive rural development, and fully contained communities.

S Passed 3rd

Goehner

High

SSB 5496 (HB 1732)

Home buying by entities

Preserving homeownership options by limiting excessive home buying by certain entities.

S Ways & Means

Alvarado

Medium

SB 5529

ADU tax exemptions

Amending the county population threshold for counties that may exempt from taxation the value of accessory dwelling units to incentivize rental to low-income households.

S Rules 2

Gildon

Support

High

SB 5544 (SHB 1098)

County local roads

Concerning county local roads.

S Transportation

Liias

Monitoring

SSB 5552

Kit homes/building codes

Concerning the creation of building codes for kit homes.

S Rules 2

Wilson

Monitoring

SB 5553

Multifamily housing/tax

Providing a sales and use tax incentive for multifamily affordable housing.

S Ways & Means

Salomon

Monitoring

SSB 5558

Growth management plans

Concerning growth management comprehensive plans.

S Rules 2

Goehner

Monitoring

SB 5559

UGA subdivision process

Streamlining the subdivision process inside urban growth areas.

S 2nd Reading

Lovelett

Monitoring

SB 5576 (HB 1763)

Affordable housing funding

Providing state funding for essential affordable housing programs.

S Ways & Means

Lovelett

Monitoring

SB 5580

Corp. homeowner registration

Concerning the registration of certain corporations and trusts that own single-family homes and condominium units.

S Ways & Means

Orwall

Medium

SSB 5587

Affordable housing dev.

Concerning affordable housing development in counties not closing the gap between estimated existing housing units within the county and existing housing needs.

S Ways & Means

Cleveland

Medium

SSB 5611

Land use permitting workload

Streamlining and clarifying local governments' land use permitting workloads.

S Rules 2

Salomon

Monitoring

SB 5612

Multiunit housing/SEPA

Creating a categorical exemption for multiunit housing development within the incorporated areas in an urban growth area under the state environmental policy act.

S Housing

Salomon

Monitoring

SSB 5613

Residential development

Concerning the development of clear and objective standards, conditions, and procedures for residential development.

S Ways & Means

Salomon

Monitoring

SSB 5614

Impact fees

Concerning impact fees.

S Rules 2

Salomon

Monitoring

SB 5647

Affordable housing/REET

Providing a real estate excise tax exemption for the sale of qualified affordable housing.

S Ways & Means

Alvarado

Monitoring

SB 5659

Housing shortage/local share

Eliminating each local government's proportional share of Washington's housing shortage.

S Ways & Means

Goehner

Monitoring

SB 5729

Housing permitting

Encouraging construction of affordable housing by streamlining the permitting process.

S Rules 2

Gildon

Support

High

SB 5732

Housing supply/GMA

Creating greater accountability for increasing the supply of housing consistent with growth management.

S Housing

Braun

Support

High

SB 5733

Updating comprehensive plans

Concerning updating comprehensive plans.

S Housing

Braun

High

SB 5748

Impact fees

Incentivizing the substantial reduction or elimination of impact fees.

S Ways & Means

Wilson

High

SSB 5749

Housing opportunity zones

Concerning housing development opportunity zones.

S Rules 2

Wilson

High

SB 5753

Public housing task force

Establishing a public housing task force.

S Housing

Hasegawa

Monitoring

SB 5755

Residential dev./commercial

Incentivizing residential development with public benefits on underutilized commercial properties.

S Housing

Alvarado

Concerns

High

Bill #

Abbrev. Title

Short Description

Status

Sponsor

Position

Priority

HB 1095

Law enforcement funding

Incentivizing cities and counties to attract and retain commissioned law enforcement officers.

H Finance

Walen

Support

High

SHB 1252

Pretrial release

Concerning pretrial release.

H Rules R

Davis

Support

High

SHB 1399 (SB 5364)

Sheriffs, chiefs, etc.

Modernizing, harmonizing, and clarifying laws concerning sheriffs, chiefs, marshals, and police matrons.

H Approps

Goodman

Medium

HB 1428

Criminal justice assistance

Concerning the county criminal justice assistance account and municipal criminal justice assistance account.

H Approps

Rule

Support

High

HB 1435 (SSB 5060)

Law enf. hiring grants

Creating a law enforcement hiring grant program.

H Approps

Abell

Support

High

HB 1436 (SB 5285)

Law enf. officers/increase

Incentivizing cities and counties to increase employment of commissioned law enforcement officers.

H Finance

Abell

Support

High

SHB 1592 (SB 5404)

Public defense services

Concerning public defense services.

H Approps

Peterson

High

HB 1786

Public safety facilities

Adding public safety facilities to the allowable uses of revenues for local infrastructure financing projects.

H Finance

Volz

Monitoring

HB 1996

Behavioral health diversion

Authorizing a qualified county to impose a tax for the funding of behavioral health diversion from the criminal justice system.

H Finance

Farivar

High

SSB 5060 (HB 1435)

Law enforcement personnel

Creating a law enforcement hiring grant program.

S Ways & Means

Holy

Support

High

SSB 5356

Criminal justice trainings

Concerning training provided by the criminal justice training commission.

S Ways & Means

Orwall

Monitoring

SSB 5367

Law enf. community grants

Concerning grant programs fostering community engagement through law enforcement-community partnerships and immersion.

S Ways & Means

Orwall

High

Bill #

Abbrev. Title

Short Description

Status

Sponsor

Position

Priority

HB 1002

PTSD/coroners & examiners

Recognizing posttraumatic stress disorder as an occupational disease for county coroners, examiners, and investigative personnel.

H Rules R

Abbarno

Oppose

Medium

HB 1016

Veterans/employer incentives

Providing employer tax incentives for the support of veterans and military families.

H Finance

Abbarno

Medium

SHB 1070 (SSB 5043)

PTSD/correctional workers

Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting correctional facility workers.

H Approps

Davis

Oppose

Medium

SHB 1121

Work restrictions/age 16, 17

Concerning restrictions on the working conditions and hours of sixteen- and seventeen-year olds.

H Rules R

McClintock

Support

Medium

SHB 1155 (SB 5437)

Noncompetition agreements

Prohibiting noncompetition agreements and clarifying nonsolicitation agreements.

H Rules R

Berry

Concerns

Medium

HB 1167

Maritime careers task force

Directing the statewide career and technical education task force to consider educational opportunities for careers in maritime professions.

H Rules R

Shavers

Monitoring

SHB 1168

Artificial intelligence info

Increasing transparency in artificial intelligence.

H Approps

Shavers

Monitoring

SHB 1170

AI content notices

Informing users when content is developed or modified by artificial intelligence.

H Rules R

Shavers

Monitoring

SHB 1213 (SB 5539)

Paid family & medical leave

Expanding protections for workers in the state paid family and medical leave program.

H Approps

Berry

Oppose

High

HB 1275 (SB 5381)

Self-insurer withdrawal

Establishing department authority to ensure payment is received from the self-insured employer after a self-insured group or municipal employer has their self-insurer certification withdrawn.

H Rules R

Scott

Oppose

Medium

SHB 1308 (SB 5345)

Access to personnel records

Concerning access to personnel records.

H Rules R

Reed

Oppose

High

SHB 1313

Mass layoffs

Addressing mass layoffs, relocations, and terminations.

H Rules R

Scott

Concerns

Monitoring

SHB 1332

Transp. network companies

Concerning transportation network companies.

H Rules R

Obras

Medium

HB 1335

Military spouse employment

Protecting military spouses from employment discrimination.

H Approps

Richards

Concerns

Medium

HB 1402

Job posting/driver's license

Concerning job postings requiring driver's licenses.

H Approps

Scott

Monitoring

SHB 1420

Textile producers

Establishing producer responsibility for textiles.

H Approps

Reeves

Monitoring

SHB 1437 (SSB 5492)

Tourism promotion

Concerning sustainable state tourism promotion.

H Approps

Walen

Monitoring

SHB 1483 (SB 5423)

Digital electronics/repair

Supporting the servicing and right to repair of certain products with digital electronics in a secure and reliable manner.

H 2nd Reading

Gregerson

Monitoring

SHB 1524

Isolated employees

Concerning workplace standards and requirements applicable to employers of isolated employees.

H Approps

Obras

Concerns

Medium

SHB 1595

Economic development plan

Creating a five-year statewide economic development plan.

H Approps

Ryu

Monitoring

SHB 1644 (SB 5756)

Working minors

Concerning the safety and health of working minors. Imposes significant restrictions and penalties on employers' ability to get minor work permits - particularly variances.

H Rules R

Fosse

Monitoring

HB 1664 (SSB 5606)

Long-term care ombud funding

Providing sufficient funding for the Washington state long-term care ombuds program.

H Approps

Zahn

Monitoring

SHB 1671

Personal data privacy

Protecting personal data privacy.

H Approps

Kloba

Monitoring

SHB 1672

Employer technology use

Addressing technology used by employers in the workplace.

H Approps

Kloba

Monitoring

SHB 1682

Unemployment ins./part-time

Concerning part-time workers in the unemployment insurance system.

H Approps

Ortiz-Self

Monitoring

HB 1747 (SB 5549)

Job applicants and employees

Expanding protections for applicants and employees under the Washington fair chance act.

H Rules R

Ortiz-Self

Medium

HB 1785

Excessive executive comp.

Imposing a surcharge on publicly traded companies providing excessive executive compensation.

H Finance

Doglio

Monitoring

SHB 1788 (SSB 5548)

Workers' compensation

Concerning workers' compensation benefits.

H Approps

Richards

Oppose

High

HB 1833

AI grant program

Creating an artificial intelligence grant program.

H Approps

Keaton

Monitoring

HB 1843 (SB 5540)

Students/unemployment ins.

Concerning students' eligibility to receive unemployment insurance benefits.

H Rules R

Entenman

Monitoring

HB 1860 (SB 5649)

Supply chain competitiveness

Creating a Washington state supply chain competitiveness infrastructure program.

H Transportation

Reed

Monitoring

SHB 1875

Sick leave/immigration

Allowing the use of paid sick leave to prepare for or participate in certain immigration proceedings.

H Rules R

Salahuddin

Monitoring

SSB 5023 (HB 1561)

Domestic workers

Providing labor market protections for domestic workers.

S Rules 2

Saldana

Concerns

Medium

SSB 5041

Unemp ins/strikes & lockouts

Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for striking or lockout workers.

S Ways & Means

Riccelli

Oppose

High

SSB 5043 (SHB 1070)

PTSD/correctional workers

Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting correctional facility workers.

S Ways & Means

Dhingra

Oppose

Medium

SSB 5061

Public works wages

Requiring certain wages in public works contracts to be at least the prevailing wage in effect when the work is performed.

S Transportation

Conway

Monitoring

SB 5070

Interchange fees on tips

Concerning prohibiting fees on certain acts of commerce to protect tipped wages for workers while reducing the financial burden on employers.

S Labor & Comm

Saldana

Monitoring

SSB 5101

Worker leave/hate crimes

Expanding access to leave and safety accommodations to include workers who are victims of hate crimes or bias incidents.

S Rules 2

Valdez

Concerns

Medium

SSB 5104

Immigration status coercion

Protecting employees from coercion in the workplace based on immigration status.

H Labor & Workpla

Hasegawa

Concerns

Medium

SSB 5217

Pregnancy accommodations

Expanding pregnancy-related accommodations for all employers. Only impact for construction would be the provisions requiring payment for break or leave time if accommodations not made that can adapt in a way that works during work time. Changes this piece to a wage and hour issue.

S Ways & Means

Nobles

Medium

SSB 5291 (HB 1415)

Long-term services trust

Implementing the recommendations of the long-term services and supports trust commission.

S Rules 2

Conway

Medium

SSB 5292

Family & medical leave rates

Concerning paid family and medical leave rates.

S Ways & Means

Conway

Oppose

Medium

SSB 5336

Isolated employees

Concerning protections for isolated employees.

S Rules 2

Orwall

Concerns

Medium

SB 5381 (HB 1275)

Self-insurer withdrawal

Establishing department authority to ensure payment is received from the self-insured employer after a self-insured group or municipal employer has their self-insurer certification withdrawn.

S Rules 2

Conway

Oppose

Medium

SSB 5408 (HB 1831)

Wage and salary disclosures

Allowing for corrections to wage and salary disclosures.

S 2nd Reading

King

Support

Medium

SSB 5492 (SHB 1437)

Tourism promotion

Concerning sustainable state tourism promotion.

S 2nd Reading

Riccelli

Monitoring

SSB 5501

Employee driving requirement

Concerning employer requirements for driving.

S 2nd Reading

Stanford

Low

SSB 5525

Layoffs

Concerning employment loss due to businesses closing or mass layoffs.

S Rules 2

Cleveland

Medium

SB 5540 (HB 1843)

Students/unemployment ins.

Concerning students' eligibility to receive unemployment insurance benefits.

S Rules 2

Hasegawa

Low

SSB 5548 (SHB 1788)

Workers' compensation

Concerning workers' compensation benefits.

S Ways & Means

Shewmake

Concerns

High

SSB 5600 (HB 1951)

TNCs/large-scale events

Concerning regulation of transportation network companies during large-scale events.

S Rules 2

Alvarado

Monitoring

SSB 5610 (HB 1703)

Horse racing/federal costs

Establishing an equine industry tax credit, allowing the horse racing commission to impose a fee, and using equine industry sales tax revenues for federal regulatory compliance.

S Ways & Means

Kauffman

Monitoring

SSB 5626 (SHB 1773)

Wage replacement

Creating a wage replacement program for certain Washington workers excluded from unemployment insurance.

S Ways & Means

Saldana

Oppose

High

SB 5649 (HB 1860)

Supply chain competitiveness

Creating a Washington state supply chain competitiveness infrastructure program.

S Transportation

Liias

Monitoring

SB 5754

Washington state public bank

Creating the Washington state public bank.

S Ways & Means

Hasegawa

Monitoring

Bill #

Abbrev. Title

Short Description

Status

Sponsor

Position

Priority

HB 1043

Commute trip reduction

Extending the commute trip reduction tax credit.

H Finance

Wylie

Monitoring

HB 1054

County ferry contracts

Concerning county ferry maintenance and repair contracts.

S Loc Gov

Leavitt

High

HB 1226 (SB 5160)

Transportation budget, supp.

Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium.

H Transportation

Fey

High

HB 1227 (SB 5161)

Transportation budget

Making transportation appropriations for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium.

H Transportation

Fey

High

HB 1264

Ferry system salaries

Concerning the salaries of ferry system collective bargaining units.

H Transportation

Fey

Medium

HB 1324 (SB 5550)

Transportation funding/CCA

Funding the state transportation system using climate commitment act revenues.

H Transportation

Barkis

Support

High

HB 1377

Ferry system emergency decl.

Declaring the ferry system to be in a state of emergency to authorize expedient actions.

H Transportation

Caldier

Support

High

HB 1405

Complete streets obligations

Reducing the requirements of complete streets obligations for transportation projects.

H Transportation

Walsh

High

SHB 1409

Clean fuels program

Concerning the clean fuels program.

H Approps

Fitzgibbon

Medium

SHB 1418

PTBA governing body members

Adding two voting members that are transit users to the governing body of public transportation benefit areas.

H Rules R

Timmons

Monitoring

SHB 1529

Cities/county road resources

Increasing opportunities for cities to utilize county resources for road construction and maintenance.

H Rules R

Griffey

Medium

HB 1537

Roadway safety account use

Expanding access to funding from the multiuse roadway safety account for eligible cities and for the Washington state departments of natural resources and fish and wildlife for maintenance and guidance of motorized recreation on green dot roads.

H 2nd Reading

Barkis

High

SHB 1673 (SSB 5466)

Electric transmission system

Improving reliability and capacity of the electric transmission system in Washington state.

H Approps

Ramel

Monitoring

HB 1823

Transp. improvement board

Modifying transportation improvement board provisions.

H Rules R

Low

Monitoring

HB 1837 (SB 5667)

Intercity passenger rail

Establishing intercity passenger rail improvement priorities.

H Transportation

Reed

Monitoring

HB 1869

Transit costs/adjacent state

Prohibiting the expenditure of Washington state funds for any capital costs of a transit agency created pursuant to the laws of an adjacent state.

H Transportation

Ley

Monitoring

HB 1902

Transp. project permitting

Convening a work group regarding the streamlining of permitting for transportation projects.

H Transportation

Richards

Support

Medium

HB 1921 (SB 5726)

Transportation revenue

Establishing new sources of transportation revenue based on motor vehicle use of public roadways.

H Transportation

Fey

Concerns

High

HB 1923

Passenger-only ferries

Increasing the availability of passenger-only ferries by establishing the mosquito fleet act.

H Transportation

Nance

Support

High

HB 1961

Motor vehicle revenues use

Directing revenues from fees, charges, or taxes assessed on motor vehicles based on miles traveled on the highways to be used for highway purposes in accordance with the state Constitution.

H Transportation

Walsh

High

HB 1992 (SB 5581)

Safe system approach strat.

Implementing safe system approach strategies for active transportation infrastructure.

H Transportation

Zahn

Monitoring

SB 5073

Motor vehicles sales tax use

Dedicating the sales tax on motor vehicles to highway uses.

S Ways & Means

Fortunato

Support

High

SB 5160 (HB 1226)

Transportation budget, supp.

Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium.

S Transportation

Liias

High

SB 5161 (HB 1227)

Transportation budget

Making transportation appropriations for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium.

S Transportation

Liias

High

SSB 5374

Transportation/tribal rep.

Including tribal representation in certain transportation activities.

S Rules 2

Kauffman

Monitoring

SSB 5466 (SHB 1673)

Electric transmission system

Improving reliability and capacity of the electric transmission system in Washington state.

S Ways & Means

Shewmake

Monitoring

SSB 5528

Transp. electrification

Concerning the installation of transportation electrification infrastructure.

S 2nd Reading

Liias

Monitoring

SB 5550 (HB 1324)

Transportation funding/CCA

Funding the state transportation system using climate commitment act revenues.

S Transportation

MacEwen

Support

Medium

SB 5581 (HB 1992)

Safe system approach strat.

Implementing safe system approach strategies for active transportation infrastructure.

S Transportation

Shewmake

Monitoring

SSB 5601 (HB 1844)

Alternative jet fuels

Advancing the production and use of alternative jet fuels in Washington.

S Ways & Means

Liias

Monitoring

SB 5667 (HB 1837)

Intercity passenger rail

Establishing intercity passenger rail improvement priorities.