Bill Topics
Healthcare |
Behavioral Health |
Housing |
Criminal Legal System |
Support Services |
Voting and State Government |
Education |
Policing |
Transportation |
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Indigenous Rights |
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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 |
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HB 1222 | Requiring coverage for hearing instruments. |
Delivered to Governor.
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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.
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SB 5120 | Establishing 23-hour crisis relief centers in Washington State. |
Delivered to Governor.
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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. |
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SB 5315 | Concerning nonpublic agencies operating special education programs for students with disabilities. |
Delivered to Governor.
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SB 5523 | Addressing the forensic pathologist shortage. | Delivered to Governor. |