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Washington Senate Health and Long-Term Care Committee
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| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB1009 | Adjusting the membership of the pharmacy quality assurance commission. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/31/2025 |
| HB1114 | Concerning the respiratory care interstate compact. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/06/2025 |
| HB1142 | Standardizing basic training and certification requirements for long-term care workers who provide in-home care for their family members, including spouses or domestic partners. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/07/2025 |
| HB1157 | Authorizing access to certifications of birth and death to additional family members. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/31/2025 |
| HB1186 | Expanding the situations in which medications can be dispensed or delivered from hospitals and health care entities. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/06/2025 |
| HB1187 | Protecting patients involved in motor vehicle accidents from delayed ambulance bills. | Crossed Over | 01/26/2026 |
| HB1190 | Allowing additional health professions to access the University of Washington health sciences library. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/31/2025 |
| HB1234 | Concerning the mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and social workers advisory committee. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/07/2025 |
| HB1287 | Addressing the disclosure of health information for care coordination. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/14/2025 |
| HB1291 | Concerning cost sharing for maternity services. | Crossed Over | 03/05/2025 |
| HB1382 | Modernizing the all payers claim database. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/07/2025 |
| HB1394 | Concerning the retention of hospital medical records. | Crossed Over | 03/06/2025 |
| HB1395 | Streamlining the home care worker background check process. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/14/2025 |
| HB1427 | Concerning certified peer support specialists. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/13/2025 |
| HB1430 | Concerning advanced practice registered nurse and physician assistant reimbursement. | Crossed Over | 03/05/2025 |
| HB1432 | Improving access to appropriate mental health and substance use disorder services. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/14/2025 |
| HB1531 | Preserving the ability of public officials to address communicable diseases. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/11/2025 |
| HB1546 | Concerning general supervision of diagnostic radiologic technologists, therapeutic radiologic technologists, and magnetic resonance imaging technologists by licensed physicians. | Crossed Over | 03/12/2025 |
| HB1589 | Concerning the relationships between health carriers and contracting providers. | Crossed Over | 03/11/2025 |
| HB1640 | Placing licenses issued in chapters 18.71B and 18.71C RCW under the authority of the uniform disciplinary act. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/07/2025 |
| HB1669 | Concerning coverage requirements for prosthetic limbs and custom orthotic braces. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/14/2025 |
| HB1686 | Creating a health care entity registry. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/12/2025 |
| HB1706 | Aligning the implementation of application programming interfaces for prior authorization with federal guidelines. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/06/2025 |
| HB1718 | Concerning well-being programs for certain health care professionals. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/11/2025 |
| HB1720 | Expanding the types of medication assistance that may be provided to residents of community-based care settings. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/21/2025 |
| HB1755 | Exempting elective percutaneous coronary intervention performed in certain hospitals owned or operated by a state entity from certificate of need requirements. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/11/2025 |
| HB1784 | Concerning certified medical assistants. | Crossed Over | 03/07/2025 |
| HB1811 | Enhancing crisis response services through co-response integration and support. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/06/2025 |
| HB1813 | Concerning the reprocurement of medical assistance services, including the realignment of behavioral health crisis services for medicaid enrollees. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/14/2025 |
| HB1824 | Concerning inspections for accredited birthing centers. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/06/2025 |
| HB1971 | Increasing access to prescription hormone therapy. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/11/2025 |
| SB5019 | Revised for 1st substitute: Expanding the situations in which medications can be dispensed or delivered from hospitals and health care entities. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| SB5051 | Consolidating regulatory authority for nursing assistants. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/13/2025 |
| SB5064 | Creating an advisory council on rare diseases. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| SB5075 | Concerning cost sharing for prenatal and postnatal care. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| SB5083 | Ensuring access to primary care, behavioral health, and affordable hospital services. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/13/2025 |
| SB5084 | Concerning health carrier reporting. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/13/2025 |
| SB5100 | Standardizing basic training and certification requirements for long-term care workers who provide in-home care for their family members, including spouses or domestic partners. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| SB5112 | Establishing a prescribing psychologist certification in Washington state. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| SB5118 | Updating the requirements for the clinical experience license for international medical graduates. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/13/2025 |
| SB5121 | Concerning health plan coverage of fertility-related services. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| SB5124 | Establishing network adequacy standards for skilled nursing facilities and rehabilitation hospitals. | Crossed Over | 01/13/2025 |
| SB5178 | Protecting public health and safety by regulating the transfer of sodium nitrite. | Crossed Over | 01/13/2025 |
| SB5183 | Prohibiting the sale of certain tobacco and nicotine products. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| SB5185 | Revised for 1st substitute: Establishing a pilot program that creates a pathway to physician licensure for international medical graduates. | Crossed Over | 01/13/2025 |
| SB5200 | Concerning veterans' medical foster homes. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/13/2025 |
| SB5201 | Concerning access to psychedelic substances. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| SB5204 | Concerning ibogaine-assisted therapy. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| SB5226 | Establishing funding for physician residency positions dedicated to international medical graduates. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| SB5228 | Updating the governor's interagency coordinating council on health disparities. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| SB5233 | Developing the Washington health trust. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| SB5239 | Concerning the retention of hospital medical records. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/14/2025 |
| SB5242 | Establishing an interactive screening program to improve access to behavioral health resources for health care providers. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| SB5244 | Providing an exemption for women, infants, and children program staff to perform hematological screening tests. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/14/2025 |
| SB5254 | Strengthening patients' rights regarding their health care information. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| SB5258 | Implementing state auditor recommendations for reducing improper medicaid concurrent enrollment payments. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| SB5273 | Concerning the availability of community violence prevention and intervention services. | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
| SB5299 | Revised for 1st substitute: Concerning virtual direct supervision of diagnostic radiologic technologists, therapeutic radiologic technologists, and magnetic resonance imaging technologists by licensed physicians. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| SB5324 | Aligning the implementation of application programming interfaces for prior authorization with federal guidelines. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| SB5326 | Accessing an emergency supply of insulin. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| SB5335 | Establishing the rural nursing education program. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| SB5337 | Creating a certification for memory care services. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/17/2025 |
| SB5344 | Establishing the essential worker health care program. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| SB5351 | Ensuring patient choice and access to care by prohibiting unfair and deceptive dental insurance practices. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/17/2025 |
| SB5353 | Concerning the diabetes prevention and obesity treatment act. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| SB5361 | Delaying the use of the ASAM 4 criteria, treatment criteria for addictive, substance related, and co-occurring conditions. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/20/2025 |
| SB5372 | Creating the medicaid access program. | In Committee | 01/20/2025 |
| SB5387 | Concerning the corporate practice of medicine. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| SB5395 | Making improvements to transparency and accountability in the prior authorization determination process. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| SB5448 | Exempting certain dialysis services from certificate of need requirements. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| SB5449 | Concerning the mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and social workers advisory committee. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| SB5452 | Allowing board-certified psychiatric pharmacists to be licensed as agency-affiliated counselors. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| SB5455 | Concerning the administration of the Andy Hill cancer research endowment. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/23/2025 |
| SB5477 | Improving access to appropriate mental health and substance use disorder services. | In Committee | 01/24/2025 |
| SB5478 | Concerning benefits authorized to be offered by the public employees' benefits board. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/24/2025 |
| SB5481 | Providing access to behavioral health services to children using licensed clinicians colocated within the school. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| SB5493 | Concerning hospital price transparency. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/24/2025 |
| SB5498 | Concerning contraceptive coverage. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/27/2025 |
| SB5504 | Supporting caregivers who provide complex care services to children with heightened medical needs. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| SB5507 | Providing coverage for massage therapy under medical assistance plans. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| SB5513 | Expanding pharmacists' scope of practice to improve access to health care and the management of chronic diseases. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| SB5531 | Streamlining the home care worker background check process. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| SB5557 | Codifying emergency rules to protect the right of a pregnant person to access treatment for emergency medical conditions in hospital emergency departments. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/28/2025 |
| SB5561 | Creating a health care entity registry. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| SB5568 | Updating and modernizing the Washington state health plan. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/29/2025 |
| SB5577 | Concerning medicaid coverage for HIV antiviral drugs. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/29/2025 |
| SB5579 | Prohibiting health carriers, facilities, and providers from making any public statements of any potential or planned contract terminations unless it satisfies a legal obligation. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/30/2025 |
| SB5588 | Concerning the relationships between health carriers and contracting providers. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| SB5594 | Revised for engrossed: Concerning biosimilar medicines and interchangeable biological products. | Crossed Over | 01/30/2025 |
| SB5597 | Concerning water recreation facilities. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| SB5602 | Improving cardiac and stroke outcomes. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| SB5606 | Providing sufficient funding for the Washington state long-term care ombuds program. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| SB5629 | Concerning coverage requirements for prosthetic limbs and custom orthotic braces. | Crossed Over | 02/03/2025 |
| SB5642 | Improving performance on maternal health and preventative cancer screening metrics for medicaid clients. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| SB5657 | Authorizing certain health professions to act as physician substitutes for plasma source donation centers. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| SB5668 | Ensuring timely, efficient, and evidence-based additions to newborn screenings. | In Committee | 02/05/2025 |
| SB5672 | Delaying the home care aide certification requirements. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/05/2025 |
| SB5683 | Concerning health carrier transparency of payment timeliness of claims submitted by health care providers and health care facilities. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| SB5691 | Adopting the department of social and health services report recommendations addressing a regulatory oversight plan for continuing care retirement communities. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/06/2025 |
| SB5765 | Concerning psychiatric pharmacists. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| SB5781 | Restoring trust in public health by conforming to food and drug administration labeling. | In Committee | 02/28/2025 |
| SB5823 | Concerning patient advocates. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5845 | Modernizing and clarifying timely payment requirements for health carriers. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5867 | Partnering with a mobile pregnancy application to improve maternal and infant health. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5877 | Making a technical correction to the surcharges authorized for certified anesthesiologist assistants. | Crossed Over | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5899 | Creating a license endorsement to allow qualified licensed chiropractors to perform chiropractic diagnosis and adjustments on nonhuman animals. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5900 | Permitting the medical use of cannabis by qualifying patients in specified health care facilities. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5904 | Concerning the use of nursing titles. | Crossed Over | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5915 | Concerning the health technology assessment program. | Crossed Over | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5916 | Concerning nonopioid drugs for the treatment of pain. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5921 | Concerning psilocybin. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5924 | Expanding prescriptive authority for pharmacists. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5933 | Facilitating the rapid sharing of overdose mapping information for overdose prevention. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5946 | Expanding the income eligibility for the medical assistance program. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5947 | Establishing the Washington health care board. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5948 | Establishing deadlines for the universal health care commission. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5953 | Establishing a medical loss ratio of at least 90 percent for health plans. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5955 | Concerning the medicaid deprivatization act. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5959 | Concerning residency requirements for charity care. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5967 | Preserving access to preventive services by clarifying state authority and definitions. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5981 | Revised for 2nd substitute: Concerning the 340B drug pricing program. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5985 | Concerning endometriosis. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB5990 | Expanding the qualifications of those who may serve as a local health officer in rural counties. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB6019 | Improving the functioning of home care rate statutes. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB6025 | Updating the definition of fetal death. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB6059 | Creating the Washington state board of governors for licensed social workers. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB6060 | Concerning alternative routes to social worker licensure. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |
| SB6071 | Revised for 1st substitute: Modernizing overpayment recovery requirements. | In Committee | 01/13/2026 |
| SB6072 | Concerning veterinarian-client-patient relationships. | In Committee | 01/13/2026 |
| SB6094 | Concerning facilities licensed to provide pediatric transitional care services. | In Committee | 01/13/2026 |
| SB6102 | Aligning the quality assurance fee for the ambulance transport fund with federal regulations. | Crossed Over | 01/13/2026 |
| SB6103 | Making payments for services provided by a rural emergency hospital subject to appropriation. | Crossed Over | 01/13/2026 |
| SB6107 | Concerning nursing delegation. | In Committee | 01/14/2026 |
| SB6115 | Concerning comprehensive cancer education programs. | In Committee | 01/14/2026 |
| SB6138 | Requiring a multiprovider system be used for dental procedures where a patient is placed under deep sedation. | In Committee | 01/14/2026 |
| SB6146 | Expanding oral health equity and increasing access to preventive dental care. | In Committee | 01/14/2026 |
| SB6159 | Strengthening public hospitals. | In Committee | 01/15/2026 |
| SB6161 | Concerning department of health information on dementia. | In Committee | 01/15/2026 |
| SB6166 | Ensuring transparency in credentials and communications between patients and health care professionals. | In Committee | 01/15/2026 |
| SB6182 | Establishing an abortion savings program. | In Committee | 01/16/2026 |
| SB6183 | Concerning coverage for HIV antiviral drugs. | In Committee | 01/16/2026 |
| SB6191 | Limiting state medicaid coverage for transition-related surgical and nonsurgical interventions to only adults. | In Committee | 01/16/2026 |
| SB6194 | Allowing payments to be made based on allowable costs for services provided by any rural hospital that is located on a federally recognized Indian reservation. | In Committee | 01/16/2026 |
| SB6202 | Providing coverage for standard fertility preservation services for medicaid enrollees. | In Committee | 01/16/2026 |
| SB6210 | Concerning the health plan certification process. | In Committee | 01/19/2026 |
| SB6226 | Protecting the clinical autonomy of audiologists. | In Committee | 01/20/2026 |
| SB6232 | Creating the Washington state board of licensed mental health counselors. | In Committee | 01/20/2026 |
| SB6258 | Creating a nondisciplinary pathway for relinquishing licenses issued by the Washington medical commission. | In Committee | 01/21/2026 |
| SB6267 | Concerning nursing education program standards. | In Committee | 01/21/2026 |
| SB6292 | Establishing a joint legislative executive committee on health care financing. | In Committee | 01/22/2026 |
| SB6305 | Concerning the truth in mental health coverage act. | In Committee | 01/26/2026 |
| SB6342 | Requiring coverage for seizure detection devices as durable medical equipment under certain circumstances. | In Committee | 01/30/2026 |
| SJM8002 | Concerning Medicare. | Crossed Over | 01/13/2025 |
| SJM8004 | Concerning Universal Health Care. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/13/2025 |
| SJR8204 | Amending the Constitution to address reproductive freedom and gender-affirming care. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| SJR8206 | Amending the Constitution to establish a right to affordable health care. | In Committee | 01/12/2026 |