2023 Bill Tracker

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Bill Topics

 
Updated April 28th, 2023
*Please note that bill statuses are subject to change. For the most up to date information check the bill page.
 

Healthcare

Bill # Description Status
HB 1222 Requiring coverage for hearing instruments.
Delivered to Governor.
HB 1281 Increasing access to the provisions of the Washington death with dignity act; companion to SB 5179. 

Companion bill signed into law.
HB 1313 Improving health care affordability for older adults and people with disabilities on medicare; companion to SB 5492. 

Dead for session. 
SB 5179 Increasing access to the provisions of the Washington death with dignity act; companion to HB 1281. 

Governor signed. Chapter 36, 2023 Laws. Effective date 7/23/2023. 
SB 5097 Creating an advisory council on rare diseases. 

Dead for session.
SB 5492 Improving health care affordability for older adults and people with disabilities on medicare; companion to HB 1313.

Dead for session.

 

Behavioral Health

Bill # Description Status
HB 1134 Implementing the 988 behavioral health crisis response and suicide prevention program. 
Delivered to Governor.
SB 5120 Establishing 23-hour crisis relief centers in Washington State. 
Delivered to Governor.

 

Housing

Bill # Description Status
HB 1265 Establishing a property tax exemption for adult family homes that serve people with intellectual or developmental disabilities and are owned by a nonprofit; companion to SB 5302. 

Governor signed.
Chapter 69, 2023 Laws. Effective date 7/23/2023.
HB 1388 Protecting tenants by prohibiting predatory residential rent practices and by applying the consumer protection act to the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act.  Dead for session.
SB 5302 Establishing a property tax exemption for adult family homes that serve people with intellectual or developmental disabilities and are owned by a nonprofit; companion to HB 1265.  Senate Rules “X” file.

 

Criminal Legal System

Bill # Description Status
HB 1024 Concerning labor and income of incarcerated persons. Dead for session.
HB 1077 Concerning courthouse facility dogs. 
Governor signed.
Chapter 59, 2023 Laws. 
Effective date 7/23/2023.
HB 1189 Concerning the release of incarcerated individuals from total confinement prior to the expiration of a sentence.  Dead for session.
HB 1087 Concerning solitary confinement; companion to SB 5135.  Dead for session.
HB 1345 Concerning the contribution to cost of privileges by incarcerated individuals. 
Governor signed.
Chapter 177, 2023 Laws.
Effective date 7/23/2023.
HB 1432 Concerning juvenile justice; companion to SB 5474.  Dead for session.
SB 5046 Concerning postconviction access to counsel.  Delivered to Governor.
SB 5135 Concerning solitary confinement; companion to HB 1087.  Dead for session.
SB 5415 Concerning public defense services for persons committed as not guilty by reason of insanity.
Governor signed.
Chapter 120, 2023 Laws. 
Effective date 4/20/2023.
SB 5474 Concerning juvenile justice; companion to HB 1432.  Dead for session.

 

Policing

Bill # Description Status
HB 1025 Creating a private right of action for harm from violations of the state Constitution or state law by peace officers.  Dead for session.
HB 1445 Concerning law enforcement and local corrections agency misconduct through investigations and legal action.  Dead for session.
HB 1513 Improving traffic safety.  Dead for session.
HB 1579 Establishing a mechanism for independent prosecutions within the office of the attorney general of criminal conduct arising from police use of force. Dead for session.

 

Human Services

Bill # Description Status
HB 1260 Accelerating stability for people with a work-limiting disability or incapacity; companion to SB 5480. Delivered to Governor.
HB 1407 Maintaining eligibility for developmental disability services.  Delivered to Governor.
HB 1580 Creating a system to support children in crisis.  Delivered to Governor.
SB 5480 Accelerating stability for people with a work-limiting disability or incapacity; companion to HB 1260. Dead for session.

 

Voting and State Government

Bill # Description Status
HB 1048 Enhancing the Washington voting rights act; companion to SB 5047. 
Governor signed.
Chapter 56, 2023 Laws. 
Effective date 1/1/2024.
HB 1174 Improving access and removing barriers to jail-based voting.  Dead for session.
HB 1181 Improving the state’s response to climate change by updating the state’s planning framework. Delivered to Governor.
HB 1541 Establishing the nothing about us without us act.  Dead for session.
SB 5047 Enhancing the Washington voting rights act; companion to HB 1048.   Senate Rules “X” file. 
SB 5112 Updating processes related to voter registration; companion to HB 1229. 

 

Delivered to Governor. 

 
SB 5117 Reforming the state building code council, its operations and procedures, and its statutory authority.  Dead for session.

 

Education

Bill # Description Status
HB 1109 Providing funding for school districts for special education.
Dead for session.
HB 1211 Concerning special education funding formula; companion to SB 5311.  Dead for session.
HB 1305 Improving access to and provision of a free appropriate public education for students with disabilities.  Dead for session.
HB 1479 Concerning restraint or isolation of students in public schools and educational programs.  Dead for session.
SB 5031 Concerning safety net award distributions.  Dead for session.
SB 5237 Establishing complaint procedures to address noncompliance with certain state education laws.  Dead for session.
SB 5311 Concerning special education funding formula; companion to HB 1211. 
Dead for session. 
 
SB 5315 Concerning nonpublic agencies operating special education programs for students with disabilities.
Delivered to Governor. 
SB 5523 Addressing the forensic pathologist shortage.  Delivered to Governor.

Transportation

Indigenous Rights