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Washington House Civil Rights and Judiciary Committee
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committee members
Assistant Ranking Republican Member
Hunter Abell (R)
Brian Burnett (R)
Debra Entenman (D)
Vice Chair
Darya Farivar (D)
Roger Goodman (D)
Jenny Graham (R)
Cyndy Jacobsen (R)
Strom Peterson (D)
Osman Salahuddin (D)
Chair
Jamila Taylor (D)
My-Linh Thai (D)
Amy Walen (D)
Ranking Republican Member
Jim Walsh (R)
| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB1007 | Concerning requisites of notice in small claims actions. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/13/2025 |
| HB1014 | Implementing recommendations of the 2023 child support schedule work group. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/13/2025 |
| HB1046 | Protecting the vulnerable by providing immunity from civil liability for damage to a motor vehicle arising from the rescue of vulnerable persons or domestic animals. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/13/2025 |
| HB1053 | Concerning juvenile access to an attorney. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| HB1056 | Concerning law enforcement and local corrections agency misconduct through investigations and legal actions. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| HB1065 | Concerning family burial grounds. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| HB1112 | Removing the city residency requirement for judges pro tempore in municipalities with a population of more than 400,000 inhabitants. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/13/2025 |
| HB1118 | Concerning restoration of the right to possess a firearm. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| HB1132 | Enhancing public safety by limiting bulk purchases and transfers of firearms and ammunition. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| HB1144 | Adding an additional superior court judge in Skagit county. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| HB1152 | Enhancing public safety by establishing secure storage requirements for firearms in vehicles and residences. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| HB1163 | Enhancing requirements relating to the purchase, transfer, and possession of firearms. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/13/2025 |
| HB1174 | Concerning court interpreters. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/13/2025 |
| HB1207 | Concerning superior court clerk fees. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/13/2025 |
| HB1215 | Removing references to pregnancy from the model directive form under the natural death act. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/16/2025 |
| HB1218 | Concerning persons referred for competency evaluation and restoration services. | Crossed Over | 01/13/2025 |
| HB1281 | Making technical corrections and removing obsolete language from the Revised Code of Washington pursuant to RCW 1.08.025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/14/2025 |
| HB1297 | Reporting self-employed workers to the division of child support. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| HB1333 | Concerning dignity in pregnancy loss. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| HB1359 | Reviewing laws related to criminal insanity and competency to stand trial. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/17/2025 |
| HB1361 | Updating process service requirements. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/17/2025 |
| HB1362 | Creating a gambling treatment diversion court pilot program to be conducted by the administrative office of the courts. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| HB1403 | Simplifying condominium construction statutes. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/20/2025 |
| HB1426 | Creating a civil protection order to prevent impaired driving. | In Committee | 01/20/2025 |
| HB1440 | Concerning seizure and forfeiture procedures and reporting. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/21/2025 |
| HB1460 | Concerning protection order hope cards. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/21/2025 |
| HB1499 | Concerning legal financial obligations. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| HB1504 | Enhancing public safety by requiring financial responsibility to purchase or possess a firearm or operate a firearm range. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| HB1507 | Limiting health care nondisclosure agreements. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| HB1518 | Establishing liability standards for certain vehicle collisions. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| HB1527 | Concerning settlement demands or offers made prior to mandatory mediation of health care claims. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| HB1575 | Concerning the defense of property rights. | In Committee | 01/24/2025 |
| HB1592 | Concerning public defense services. | In Committee | 01/24/2025 |
| HB1620 | Concerning limitations in parenting plans. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/27/2025 |
| HB1621 | Authorizing superior courts to appoint housing court commissioners. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/27/2025 |
| HB1632 | Protecting consumers by removing barriers created by medical debt. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| HB1635 | Concerning the composition of the boards of directors of consumer cooperatives and cooperative associations. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| HB1731 | Regarding unclaimed property held by a museum or historical society. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/30/2025 |
| HB1733 | Increasing the reimbursement cap for moving and relocation expenses incurred by persons affected by agency displacements. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/30/2025 |
| HB1743 | Enhancing opportunities for community-based providers to provide health care services in carceral settings. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| HB1787 | Updating the involuntary treatment commitment standards for individuals suffering from a substance use disorder. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| HB1820 | Protecting the interests of minor children featured on for-profit family vlogs. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| HB1872 | Concerning firearms. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| HB1881 | Concerning material changes to the operations and governance structure of participants in the health care marketplace. | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| HB1890 | Concerning the establishment of liability standards for prosecutors. | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| HB1891 | Concerning the establishment of liability standards for criminal defense counsel. | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| HB1892 | Concerning the establishment of liability standards for state legislators. | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| HB1893 | Concerning the establishment of liability standards for superior, district, and municipal court judges. | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| HB1897 | Concerning liability protections for community public safety programs. | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| HB1905 | Concerning appointed counsel for individuals detained under the involuntary treatment act. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| HB1909 | Establishing the court unification task force. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| HB1918 | Creating supreme court judicial districts. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| HB1920 | Concerning juvenile access to attorneys when contacted by law enforcement. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| HB1928 | Requiring senate confirmation of gubernatorial appointments to vacancies on the supreme court. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| HB1929 | Requiring senate confirmation of gubernatorial appointments to vacancies on the court of appeals. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| HB1956 | Concerning public defense recruitment and retention. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| HB1962 | Concerning spring blade knives. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| HB1999 | Concerning foreign ownership of agricultural land in Washington. | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
| HB2028 | Preserving Washington farmland by limiting purchases by certain entities. | In Committee | 02/27/2025 |
| HB2029 | Concerning recognition of legal personhood by a governmental entity. | In Committee | 02/27/2025 |
| HB2095 | Protecting vulnerable users of public ways. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2102 | Concerning legal financial obligations. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2158 | Concerning electronic notarial acts. | Crossed Over | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2161 | Concerning the general powers and duties of the attorney general’s office. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2162 | Establishing a public interest law grant program and a business and occupation tax credit for approved contributions to the program account. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2163 | Clarifying public defense caseload standards for local jurisdictions. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2178 | Concerning court rules and procedures. | Crossed Over | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2239 | Providing Washingtonians and their loved ones with location choices for interment of remains. | Crossed Over | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2248 | Concerning corporate filings and other documents processed by the secretary of state's corporations and charities division. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2255 | Concerning litigation finance. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2256 | Concerning termination of unauthorized Uniform Commercial Code filings. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2263 | Establishing a public counsel integrity act. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2304 | Increasing the supply of condominiums by expanding the types of condominium buildings that may be subject to an express warranty of quality and express warranty insurance coverage. | Crossed Over | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2320 | Concerning the regulation of firearm manufacturing. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2321 | Requiring three-dimensional printers be equipped with certain blocking technologies. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2332 | Concerning driver privacy protections. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2342 | Establishing the Washington state religious liberty commission. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2354 | Concerning common interest communities. | Crossed Over | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2383 | Concerning the involuntary treatment act. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2386 | Concerning garnishment forms. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2393 | Concerning correctional facility liability for inmate injuries resulting from voluntary controlled substance use, when lawful intake and medical care requirements are met. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| HB2396 | Allowing for direct review of administrative agency decisions in certain circumstances. | In Committee | 01/13/2026 |
| HB2412 | Adding an additional superior court judge in Yakima county. | In Committee | 01/13/2026 |
| HB2445 | Ending probates for profit. | Crossed Over | 01/13/2026 |
| HB2453 | Concerning psychiatric pharmacists. | In Committee | 01/13/2026 |
| HB2500 | Protecting charitable organizations and ensuring the timely and secure transfer of property designated to them. | In Committee | 01/15/2026 |
| HB2548 | Strengthening health care market standards. | Crossed Over | 01/16/2026 |
| HB2571 | Concerning evidence of medical, hospital, or similar expenses occasioned by an injury. | In Committee | 01/19/2026 |
| HB2585 | Establishing a state false claims act. | In Committee | 01/20/2026 |
| HB2590 | Exempting limited equity cooperatives from the Washington uniform common interest ownership act. | In Committee | 01/20/2026 |
| HB2595 | Concerning collateral attacks on judgment and sentence in criminal cases. | In Committee | 01/20/2026 |
| HB2596 | Restoring parenting time lost. | In Committee | 01/20/2026 |
| HB2597 | Concerning remedies for violations of federal constitutional rights occurring during immigration enforcement. | In Committee | 01/20/2026 |
| HB2602 | Establishing data and personal safety protections within areas of public accommodation for all Washington residents. | In Committee | 01/21/2026 |
| HB2603 | Addressing transfers on death of vehicle titles. | In Committee | 01/21/2026 |
| HB2640 | Concerning unauthorized Uniform Commercial Code filings. | In Committee | 01/23/2026 |
| HB2644 | Concerning the use of body worn cameras by law enforcement officers. | In Committee | 01/23/2026 |
| HB2646 | Mitigating disputes between unit owners and unit owners associations under the Washington uniform common interest ownership act. | In Committee | 01/23/2026 |
| HB2651 | Gathering and preserving digital data and evidence relating to federal agent misconduct. | In Committee | 01/23/2026 |
| HB2680 | Concerning the recovery of attorneys' fees in garnishment proceedings. | In Committee | 01/27/2026 |
| HB2700 | Requiring arbitration for tort claims against the state of Washington and its subdivisions. | In Committee | 01/28/2026 |
| HB2706 | Creating an administrative process for adjudicating department of children, youth, and families tort claims against the state. | In Committee | 01/29/2026 |
| HB2735 | Establishing a constitutional floor in family law cases. | In Committee | 02/12/2026 |
| HJM4008 | Encouraging legal education. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| HJR4202 | Amending the Constitution to elect state supreme court justices by judicial districts. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| HJR4203 | Amending the Constitution to provide for senate confirmation of gubernatorial appointments to vacancies on the supreme court. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| HJR4211 | Creating an interbranch commission on court rules. | In Committee | 01/13/2026 |
| SB5006 | Making updates to Washington's corporation acts. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/07/2025 |
| SB5021 | Concerning retention of court exhibits. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/07/2025 |
| SB5037 | Enacting the uniform custodial trust act. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/07/2025 |
| SB5093 | Concerning dignity in pregnancy loss. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/07/2025 |
| SB5098 | 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. | Crossed Over | 03/07/2025 |
| SB5122 | Enacting the uniform antitrust premerger notification act. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/07/2025 |
| SB5129 | Concerning common interest communities. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/17/2025 |
| SB5142 | 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. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/28/2025 |
| SB5169 | Concerning testimony of children. | Crossed Over | 03/13/2025 |
| SB5202 | Ensuring the efficacy of judicial orders as harm reduction tools that increase the safety of survivors of abuse and support law enforcement in their efforts to enforce the law. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/17/2025 |
| SB5486 | Concerning open motion picture captioning in motion picture theaters. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/13/2025 |
| SB5534 | Concerning spring blade knives. | Crossed Over | 03/14/2025 |
| SB5536 | Concerning the just and equitable distribution of real property and liabilities in the dissolution of marriage or domestic partnerships. | Crossed Over | 03/14/2025 |
| SB5632 | Protecting the confidentiality of records and information that may be relevant to another state's enforcement of its laws. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/06/2025 |
| SB5651 | Revised for 2nd substitute: Concerning exemptions from garnishment. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/14/2025 |
| SB5720 | Enacting the uniform consumer debt default judgments act. | Crossed Over | 02/09/2026 |
| SB5745 | Revised for 2nd substitute: Concerning legal representation under the involuntary treatment act. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/12/2025 |
| SB5837 | Revised for 1st substitute: Concerning guardianship, conservatorship, and other protective arrangements for adults. | Crossed Over | 02/14/2026 |
| SB5865 | Concerning garnishment forms. | Crossed Over | 01/30/2026 |
| SB5886 | Revised for 1st substitute: Concerning personality rights. | Crossed Over | 02/09/2026 |
| SB5906 | Establishing data and personal safety protections within areas of public accommodation for all Washington residents. | Crossed Over | 02/14/2026 |
| SB5912 | Reinstating the indigent defense task force. | Crossed Over | 02/09/2026 |
| SB5925 | Concerning the general powers and duties of the attorney general’s office. | Crossed Over | 02/14/2026 |
| SB5993 | Revised for 1st substitute: Concerning lowering the interest rate for medical debt. | Crossed Over | 02/10/2026 |
| SB6002 | Concerning driver privacy protections. | Crossed Over | 02/06/2026 |
| SB6009 | Concerning direct review of administrative decisions by the court of appeals. | Crossed Over | 02/14/2026 |
| SB6011 | Concerning the authority of court of appeals bailiffs to assess threats to court of appeals judicial officers and staff members. | Crossed Over | 02/12/2026 |
| SB6087 | Revised for 1st substitute: Concerning donations for children. | Crossed Over | 02/14/2026 |
| SJM8006 | Concerning the limited license legal technician program. | Crossed Over | 02/07/2025 |