And the bad bills just keep coming…

And the bad bills just keep coming…

Myriads of bills were introduced this first of two sessions of the Washington State Legislature.  Many are in committees, and some will die there, others will be passed out to the floor of the House and/or Senate for debate and to possibly become the law of the land.  Many are unfavorable (to say the least) to Washington citizens.

The State Legislature, consisting of the House and the Senate, both have a Democrat majority.  With the governor also a Democrat, it gives a trifecta to the State Legislature, where there is no stopping the bills without great public input from passing.  Many of them are not citizen-friendly.

The easiest way to get your information to your elected representatives is to call the toll free number – 800-562-6000 and tell them which bill numbers you oppose and/or approve.  You can give them a whole list of them.  They will ask for your name and address, to determine who your representatives are, and will get the information to them from you.

There are several excellent organizations and websites following the bills as they make their way through the Legislature.  You can participate with hundreds and sometimes thousands of other concerned citizens in voicing your view to your elected representatives.  Here are just a few (bookmark these and check in daily, if you can, and they take action by weighing in on the bills, both bad and good).

Conservative Ladies of Washington – Legislative Action Center

Washington Policy Center (scroll down for good information about current proposed legislation)

Nancy Churchill is following bills closely and writing about them here: https://influencingolympia.substack.com/

If you’d like to participate and help with following bills, and/or learn about how to Influence Olympia, sign up for their excellent short course here: https://influencingolympia.com/

Washington State GOP Olympia Watch

Washington State Senate GOP Caucus– check out the latest bills and read about how they will affect your lives

Washington State House GOP Caucus – check out the latest bills and read about how they will affect your lives

Get actively involved to make a positive difference in your life and in the lives of your family, friends, neighbors, and Washingtonians!

Here are some primary bills making their way through the Legislature, from Conservative Ladies of Washington:

Education
HB 1031: Mitigating the impact of rising school facility temperatures resulting from climate change. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1032: Concerning school district elections. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1285: Making financial education instruction a graduation requirement in public schools. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1296: Promoting a safe and supportive public education system. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1590: Supporting student success through instruction in self-resiliency skills. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1634: Providing school districts and public schools with assistance to coordinate comprehensive behavioral health supports for students. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1767: Concerning school enrollments for enrichment funding. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1855: Expanding protections for certain students to promote inclusivity in public schools. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5003: Establishing the school security and preparedness infrastructure grant program. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5004: Updating emergency response systems in public schools including panic or alert buttons. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5007: Supporting students who are chronically absent and at risk for not graduating high school. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5012: Concerning the organization of interscholastic athletics. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5030: Improving access to educational services by reducing barriers to obtaining vital records and allowing alternative forms of documentation. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5123: Expanding protections for certain students to promote inclusivity in public schools. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5126: Establishing a statewide network for student mental and behavioral health. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5134: Requiring public schools to commemorate the contributions of Chinese Americans and Americans of Chinese descent. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5135: Concerning school districts’ authority to establish their curriculum. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5136: Protecting the rights of parents and guardians by using students’ given names in public schools. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5137: Requiring parental or legal guardian approval before a child participates in comprehensive sexual health education. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5177: Considering the experiences of historically marginalized and underrepresented groups when identifying professional development resources on certain topics. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5179: Establishing a complaint process to address noncompliance with certain state education laws. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5180: Securing the rights of students to have a safe, civil, and respectful learning community. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5181: Amending the parents rights initiative to bring it into alignment with existing law. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5186: Concerning school district elections. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5189: Supporting the implementation of competency-based education. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5271: Requiring school districts of the first class to employ a school nurse. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5369: Enhancing youth mental health and well-being through advanced training and expansion of the workforce in schools. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5442: Establishing a college promise pilot program. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5666: Establishing a public school-based mental health internship grant program. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SJR 8200: Amending the Constitution to allow 55 percent of voters voting to authorize school district bonds. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
Housing & Local Government
HB 1044: Concerning county fees for administration of the real estate excise tax. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1217: 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. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1696: Modifying the covenant homeownership program. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1763: Providing state funding for essential affordable housing programs. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5576: Providing state funding for essential affordable housing programs. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
Public Safety/Law & Justice
HB 1052: Clarifying a hate crime offense. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1056: Concerning law enforcement and local corrections agency misconduct through investigations and legal actions. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1095: Incentivizing cities and counties to attract and retain commissioned law enforcement officers. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1125: Providing judicial discretion to modify sentences in the interest of justice. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1132: Enhancing public safety by limiting bulk purchases and transfers of firearms and ammunition. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1163: Enhancing requirements relating to the purchase, transfer, and possession of firearms. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1386: Imposing a new tax on firearms, firearm parts, and ammunition. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1504: Enhancing public safety by requiring financial responsibility to purchase or possess a firearm or operate a firearm range. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1512: Improving traffic safety. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1811: Enhancing crisis response services through co-response integration and support. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5022: Concerning law enforcement agency and prosecutor offices hiring. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5038: Clarifying a hate crime offense. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5066: Concerning law enforcement and local corrections agency misconduct through investigations and legal actions. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5068: Concerning agencies, firefighters, prosecutors, and general or limited authority law enforcement, extending eligibility for employment to all United States citizens or persons legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5098: Restricting the possession of weapons on the premises of state or local public buildings, parks or playground facilities where children are likely to be present, and county fairs and county fair facilities. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5101: Expanding access to leave and safety accommodations to include workers who are victims of hate crimes or bias incidents. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
Health Care
HB 1072: Preserving access to protected health care services. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1129: Concerning health plan coverage of fertility-related services. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1176: Concerning greater consistency in the provision of health care services for minors under the age of 17. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1445: Developing the Washington health trust. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1482: Assuring equity in health coverage. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1560: Funding health care access by imposing an excise tax on the annual compensation paid to certain highly compensated hospital employees. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5112: Establishing a prescribing psychologist certification in Washington state. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5121: Concerning health plan coverage of fertility-related services. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5321: Concerning access at public postsecondary educational institutions to medication abortion. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
Human Services
HB 1092: Maintaining the safety of children. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1845: Concerning payment standards for cash assistance programs. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
State Government & Elections
HB 1146: Improving access and removing barriers to voting in jails and state hospitals. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1147: Supporting civic engagement for incarcerated and institutionalized individuals in state custody to promote inclusion and rehabilitation. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1262: Updating the governor’s interagency coordinating council on health disparities. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1434: Establishing Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as state holidays. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1448: Increasing representation and voter participation in local elections. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1531: Preserving the ability of public officials to address communicable diseases. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1713: Concerning automatic voter registration for tribal members. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5077: Concerning expansion of voter registration services by government agencies. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5106: Establishing Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as state holidays. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
SB 5228: Updating the governor’s interagency coordinating council on health disparities. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
Business
HB 1181: Concerning labor standards and the Washington minimum wage act. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1284: Eliminating the investment income business and occupation tax deduction for corporations and other business entities. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
Energy, Environment, Climate, Technology
HB 1303: Increasing environmental justice by improving government decisions. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
HB 1517: Providing a revenue stream to fund digital equity programs. | 2025-2026 Regular Session  
Uncategorized
HB 1321: Concerning the governor’s authority to limit outside militia activities within the state. | 2025-2026 Regular Session