Committee

Washington Senate Law and Justice Committee

Bill Bill Name Progress Referral Date
HB1007 Concerning requisites of notice in small claims actions. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/14/2025
HB1014 Implementing recommendations of the 2023 child support schedule work group. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/13/2025
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 01/31/2025
HB1052 Clarifying a hate crime offense. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/17/2025
HB1112 Removing the city residency requirement for judges pro tempore in municipalities with a population of more than 400,000 inhabitants. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/31/2025
HB1113 Concerning accountability and access to services for individuals charged with a misdemeanor. Crossed Over 03/11/2025
HB1133 Concerning sexually violent predators. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/12/2025
HB1149 Preventing cruelty to animals. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/13/2025
HB1163 Enhancing requirements relating to the purchase, transfer, and possession of firearms. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/11/2025
HB1174 Concerning court interpreters. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/07/2025
HB1205 Prohibiting the knowing distribution of a forged digital likeness. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/06/2025
HB1215 Removing references to pregnancy from the model directive form under the natural death act. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/14/2025
HB1218 Concerning persons referred for competency evaluation and restoration services. Crossed Over 03/14/2025
HB1219 Concerning the interbranch advisory committee. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/14/2025
HB1244 Concerning training as an alternative to driver license suspension for the accumulation of certain traffic infractions. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/05/2025
HB1281 Making technical corrections and removing obsolete language from the Revised Code of Washington pursuant to RCW 1.08.025. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/07/2025
HB1359 Reviewing laws related to criminal insanity and competency to stand trial. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/07/2025
HB1361 Updating process service requirements. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/07/2025
HB1440 Concerning seizure and forfeiture procedures and reporting. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/07/2025
HB1457 Requiring electronic monitoring of sexually violent predators granted conditional release. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/05/2025
HB1460 Concerning protection order hope cards. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/14/2025
HB1484 Concerning exceptional sentences for offenses which result in the pregnancy of a victim of rape. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/21/2025
HB1574 Protecting access to life-saving care and substance use services. Crossed Over 03/14/2025
HB1620 Concerning limitations in parenting plans. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/11/2025
HB1731 Regarding unclaimed property held by a museum or historical society. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/07/2025
HB1733 Increasing the reimbursement cap for moving and relocation expenses incurred by persons affected by agency displacements. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/13/2025
HB1829 Concerning tribal warrants. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/07/2025
HB2015 Improving public safety funding by providing resources to local governments and state and local criminal justice agencies, and authorizing a local option tax. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/13/2025
SB5002 Concerning federal immigration enforcement. In Committee 01/13/2025
SB5006 Making updates to Washington's corporation acts. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/13/2025
SB5021 Concerning retention of court exhibits. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/13/2025
SB5022 Concerning law enforcement agency and prosecutor offices hiring. In Committee 01/13/2025
SB5028 Concerning unlawful camping. In Committee 01/13/2025
SB5037 Enacting the uniform custodial trust act. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/13/2025
SB5038 Clarifying a hate crime offense. In Committee 01/13/2025
SB5056 Concerning Washington state patrol providing firearm background checks when state record systems are unavailable. In Committee 01/13/2025
SB5057 Concerning ownership of agricultural real estate. In Committee 01/13/2025
SB5060 Revised for 2nd Substitute: Increasing the number of law enforcement agency and county corrections officer personnel. In Committee 01/13/2025
SB5065 Prohibiting the use of certain animals in traveling animal acts. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/13/2025
SB5066 Concerning law enforcement and local corrections agency misconduct through investigations and legal actions. In Committee 01/13/2025
SB5067 Concerning impaired driving. In Committee 01/13/2025
SB5068 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. Crossed Over 01/13/2025
SB5071 Revised for 1st Substitute: Updating the endangerment with a controlled substance statute to include fentanyl or synthetic opioids. Crossed Over 01/13/2025
SB5078 Concerning ownership of agricultural real estate. In Committee 01/13/2025
SB5093 Concerning dignity in pregnancy loss. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/13/2025
SB5094 Concerning sexually explicit depictions of minors. In Committee 01/13/2025
SB5096 Removing references to pregnancy from the model directive form under the natural death act. In Committee 01/13/2025
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 01/13/2025
SB5099 Protecting the public from gun violence by establishing additional requirements for the business operations of licensed firearms dealers. In Committee 01/13/2025
SB5105 Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning sexually explicit depictions of minors. Crossed Over 01/13/2025
SB5116 Concerning the immediate use of marriage licenses for medical necessity. In Committee 01/13/2025
SB5122 Enacting the uniform antitrust premerger notification act. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/13/2025
SB5132 Concerning requisites of notice in small claims actions. In Committee 01/13/2025
SB5133 Concerning departures from the guidelines for caregiver status. In Committee 01/13/2025
SB5140 Enhancing requirements relating to the purchase, transfer, and possession of firearms. In Committee 01/13/2025
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 01/13/2025
SB5144 Providing oversight of state agency tortious conduct through legislative hearings. In Committee 01/13/2025
SB5147 Reviewing laws related to criminal insanity and competency to stand trial. In Committee 01/13/2025
SB5169 Concerning testimony of children. Crossed Over 01/13/2025
SB5198 Concerning training as an alternative to driver license suspension for the accumulation of certain traffic infractions. In Committee 01/13/2025
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 01/13/2025
SB5209 Explicitly listing the department of labor and industries in the definition of limited authority Washington law enforcement agency while not granting new enforcement authority. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/13/2025
SB5213 Penalizing the possession of fentanyl. In Committee 01/13/2025
SB5223 Concerning criminal offense fingerprinting. Crossed Over 01/13/2025
SB5224 Concerning officer certification definitions, processes, and commissioning. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/13/2025
SB5227 Concerning offenses involving child sex dolls. In Committee 01/13/2025
SB5229 Facilitating civil commitment for treatment for a person requiring revival by opioid overdose reversal medication. In Committee 01/13/2025
SB5237 Concerning leaving a child unattended in a vehicle. In Committee 01/14/2025
SB5238 Addressing reckless driving in cases involving excessive speed. Crossed Over 01/14/2025
SB5250 Improving legal processes to deter squatters. In Committee 01/14/2025
SB5267 Ensuring that offenders who are incarcerated and commit murder may be charged with the death penalty. In Committee 01/14/2025
SB5268 Revised for 1st Substitute: Imposing community custody after a conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm. Crossed Over 01/14/2025
SB5269 Providing judicial discretion to modify sentences in the interest of justice. In Committee 01/14/2025
SB5282 Reestablishing the advisory board for the missing and exploited children task force. Crossed Over 01/15/2025
SB5286 Concerning policing costs driven by proximity to state hospitals. Crossed Over 01/15/2025
SB5290 Allowing persons who complete substance abuse programs to seek dismissal of certain controlled substance related charges. In Committee 01/15/2025
SB5295 Updating Washington's sexual assault survivor bill of rights. In Committee 01/16/2025
SB5302 Prohibiting the purchase of small unmanned aircrafts manufactured or assembled by a covered foreign entity. In Committee 01/16/2025
SB5312 Concerning net nanny operations involving fictitious minors. In Committee 01/16/2025
SB5323 Concerning the penalties for theft and possession of stolen property from first responders. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/17/2025
SB5333 Concerning penalties related to eluding police vehicles and resisting arrest. In Committee 01/17/2025
SB5347 Concerning organized retail theft. In Committee 01/17/2025
SB5348 Creating a sentencing enhancement for organized retail theft. In Committee 01/17/2025
SB5349 Exempting a concealed pistol license holder from the prohibition against importing firearms classified as assault rifles. In Committee 01/17/2025
SB5350 Concerning background check system for firearms transfers. In Committee 01/17/2025
SB5356 Concerning training provided by the criminal justice training commission. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/20/2025
SB5362 Concerning victims of crime act funding. In Committee 01/20/2025
SB5364 Modernizing, harmonizing, and clarifying laws concerning sheriffs, chiefs, marshals, and police matrons. In Committee 01/20/2025
SB5366 Concerning exceptional sentences for offenses which result in the pregnancy of a victim of rape. In Committee 01/20/2025
SB5367 Concerning grant programs fostering community engagement through law enforcement-community partnerships and immersion. In Committee 01/20/2025
SB5376 Preventing cruelty to animals. In Committee 01/20/2025
SB5404 Concerning public defense services. In Committee 01/21/2025
SB5436 Interfering with access to a place of religious worship. Crossed Over 01/22/2025
SB5453 Concerning public defense recruitment and retention. In Committee 01/23/2025
SB5472 Concerning farm holdings. In Committee 01/23/2025
SB5480 Protecting consumers by removing barriers created by medical debt. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/24/2025
SB5486 Concerning open motion picture captioning in motion picture theaters. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/24/2025
SB5520 Concerning the wrongly convicted persons act. In Committee 01/27/2025
SB5521 Improving traffic safety. In Committee 01/27/2025
SB5530 Concerning penalty increases for certain offenses. In Committee 01/28/2025
SB5532 Establishing standards for civil proceedings and unprofessional conduct involving child abuse and domestic violence. In Committee 01/28/2025
SB5533 Concerning the custody of a child when a parent has a history of domestic violence. In Committee 01/28/2025
SB5534 Concerning spring blade knives. Crossed Over 01/28/2025
SB5535 Concerning rights of individuals to bear arms. In Committee 01/28/2025
SB5536 Concerning the just and equitable distribution of real property and liabilities in the dissolution of marriage or domestic partnerships. Crossed Over 01/28/2025
SB5538 Concerning the removal of unauthorized persons. In Committee 01/28/2025
SB5566 Increasing the penalty for assaulting a law enforcement officer. In Committee 01/29/2025
SB5569 Recognizing a court's authority to authorize a defendant's direct transfer from jail to inpatient or residential substance use disorder treatment. In Committee 01/29/2025
SB5575 Concerning limitations in parenting plans. In Committee 01/29/2025
SB5584 Revised for 1st Substitute: Establishing the position of independent prosecutor within the office of the governor. In Committee 01/30/2025
SB5585 Concerning tribal warrants. In Committee 01/30/2025
SB5632 Protecting the confidentiality of records and information that may be relevant to another state's enforcement of its laws. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/03/2025
SB5644 Deterring criminal conduct involving gift cards. In Committee 02/03/2025
SB5646 Concerning criminal penalties for assaulting outreach workers. In Committee 02/03/2025
SB5651 Revised for 2nd Substitute: Concerning exemptions from garnishment. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/04/2025
SB5664 Concerning impaired driving. In Committee 02/05/2025
SB5685 Concerning theft in the third degree. In Committee 02/06/2025
SB5688 Concerning federal orders that violate the United States Constitution, Washington Constitution, or judicial precedent. In Committee 02/06/2025
SB5704 Concerning material changes to the operations and governance structure of participants in the health care marketplace. In Committee 02/07/2025
SB5706 Determining child custody. In Committee 02/07/2025
SB5713 Concerning chemical abortion. In Committee 02/10/2025
SB5714 Declaring civil immigration enforcement as unprofessional conduct of bail bond recovery agents. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/10/2025
SB5715 Concerning retroactively applying the requirement to exclude certain juvenile convictions from an offender score regardless of the date of the offense. In Committee 02/10/2025
SB5720 Enacting the uniform consumer debt default judgments act. In Committee 02/10/2025
SB5735 Establishing state standards for the labeling of imitation firearms sold inside Washington state. In Committee 02/12/2025
SB5742 Concerning impaired driving. In Committee 02/13/2025
SB5745 Revised for 2nd Substitute: Concerning legal representation under the involuntary treatment act. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/13/2025
SB5782 Concerning impaired driving. In Committee 03/03/2025
SB5783 Prohibiting use of vaccination status in certain administrative and legal proceedings. In Committee 03/03/2025
SJM8006 Concerning the limited license legal technician program. Crossed Over 01/13/2025
SJM8012 Requesting an investigation into the killing of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi. In Committee 04/09/2025