PIA Bill Status & Upcoming Events Report - February 24, 2025
Published February 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM · Legislative Advocacy - Washington

Upcoming Events
Appropriations (House) - HHR A and Virtual JLOB - 2/24 @ 1:30pm
• SHB 1563 - Public Hearing - Establishing a prescribed fire claims fund pilot program. (Remote Testimony Available).
Appropriations (House) - HHR A and Virtual JLOB - 2/25 @ 1:30pm
• SHB 1168 - Public Hearing - Increasing transparency in artificial intelligence. (Remote Testimony Available).
• HB 1402 - Public Hearing - Concerning job postings requiring driver's licenses. (Remote Testimony Available).
• SHB 1516 - Public Hearing - Conducting a study of insurance coverage options for permanently affordable homeownership units. (Remote Testimony Available).
Transportation (Senate) - SHR 1 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg - 2/25 @ 1:30pm
• SSB 5067 - Exec Session - Concerning impaired driving.
Ways & Means (Senate) - SHR 4 and Virtual JACB - 2/25 @ 1:30pm
• SSB 5491 - Public Hearing - Establishing a prescribed fire claims fund pilot program. (Remote Testimony Available).
Appropriations (House) - HHR A and Virtual JLOB - 2/27 @ 9:00am
• SHB 1168 - Exec Session - Increasing transparency in artificial intelligence.
| Bill # | Abbrev. Title | Short Description | Status | Sponsor | Position | Priority |
| HB 1006 (SB 5108) | Service contracts | Regulating service contracts and protection product guarantees. | S Business, Fin S | Ryu | ||
| HB 1046 | Motor vehicle damage/rescue | 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. | S Law & Justice | Leavitt | ||
| HB 1078 (Dead) | Pet insurance | Concerning pet insurance. | H ConsPro&Bus | Walen | ||
| SHB 1168 | Artificial intelligence info | Increasing transparency in artificial intelligence. | H Approps | Shavers | ||
| SHB 1170 | AI content notices | Informing users when content is developed or modified by artificial intelligence. | H Rules R | Shavers | ||
| HB 1181 (Dead) | Labor standards | Concerning labor standards and the Washington minimum wage act. | H Labor & Workpl | Mena | ||
| HB 1194 (SSB 5127) | Collector vehicle licenses | Creating additional requirements for collector vehicle and horseless carriage license plates to improve compliance and public safety. | H Transportation | Goodman | ||
| HB 1197 (SB 5166) | Operating budget, supp. | Making 2023-2025 fiscal biennium second supplemental operating appropriations. | H Approps | Ormsby | ||
| HB 1198 (SB 5167) | Operating budget | Making 2025-2027 fiscal biennium operating appropriations. | H Approps | Ormsby | ||
| HB 1199 (Dead) (SSB 5331) | Insurance code violations | Strengthening consumer protection through increased insurer accountability for violations of the insurance code. | H ConsPro&Bus | Taylor | ||
| SHB 1213 (SB 5539) | Paid family & medical leave | Expanding protections for workers in the state paid family and medical leave program. | H Approps | Berry | ||
| SHB 1308 (SB 5345) | Access to personnel records | Concerning access to personnel records. | H Rules R | Reed | ||
| HB 1315 (Dead) | Impaired driving | Concerning impaired driving. | H Community Safe | Donaghy | ||
| HB 1320 | Business & occupation tax | Modifying business and occupation tax rates to fund programs and services to benefit Washingtonians. | H Finance | Street | ||
| HB 1334 | Property tax revenue growth | Modifying the annual regular property tax revenue growth limit. | H Finance | Pollet | ||
| HB 1402 | Job posting/driver's license | Concerning job postings requiring driver's licenses. | H Approps | Scott | ||
| HB 1504 (Dead) | Firearm financial resp. | Enhancing public safety by requiring financial responsibility to purchase or possess a firearm or operate a firearm range. | H Civil R & Judi | Reeves | ||
| SHB 1516 | Insurance/affordable units | Conducting a study of insurance coverage options for permanently affordable homeownership units. | H Approps | Hill | ||
| SHB 1522 (SSB 5430) | Utility wildfire mitigation | Concerning approval of electric utility wildfire mitigation plans. | H Rules R | Dent | ||
| SHB 1539 | Wildfire protection | Addressing wildfire protection and mitigation. | H Rules R | Reeves | ||
| SHB 1563 (SSB 5491) | Prescribed fire claims | Establishing a prescribed fire claims fund pilot program. | H Approps | Bernbaum | ||
| HB 1645 (Dead) (SB 5721) | Automobile insurance | Enhancing consumer protections for automobile insurance coverage. | H ConsPro&Bus | Peterson | ||
| SHB 1714 | Small business risk pooling | Enabling opportunities for risk pooling by small businesses for property and liability risks. | H Finance | Cortes | ||
| SB 5042 | Autonomous vehicles | Concerning vehicle and operator requirements for autonomous vehicles. | S Transportation | Lovick | ||
| SSB 5067 | Impaired driving | Concerning impaired driving. | S Transportation | Lovick | ||
| SB 5107 (Dead) | Local gov. vehicle insurance | Concerning underinsured motorist coverage for local government employees. | S Loc Gov | Boehnke | ||
| SB 5108 (HB 1006) | Service contracts | Regulating service contracts and protection product guarantees. | H ConsPro&Bus | Kauffman | ||
| SSB 5127 (HB 1194) | Collector vehicle licenses | Creating additional requirements for collector vehicle and horseless carriage license plates to improve compliance and public safety. | S 2nd Reading | Lovick | ||
| SB 5166 (HB 1197) | Operating budget, supp. | Making 2023-2025 fiscal biennium second supplemental operating appropriations. | S Ways & Means | Robinson | ||
| SB 5167 (HB 1198) | Operating budget | Making 2025-2027 fiscal biennium operating appropriations. | S Ways & Means | Robinson | ||
| SSB 5262 (SHB 1505) | Insurance statutes | Correcting obsolete or erroneous references in statutes administered by the insurance commissioner. | S 2nd RdConsCal | Kauffman | ||
| SSB 5331 (HB 1199) | Insurance code violations | Strengthening consumer protection through increased insurer accountability for violations of the insurance code. | S Rules 2 | Cortes | ||
| SB 5345 (Dead) (SHB 1308) | Access to personnel records | Concerning access to personnel records. | S Labor & Comm | Saldana | ||
| SSB 5430 (SHB 1522) | Utility wildfire mitigation | Concerning approval of electric utility wildfire mitigation plans. | S Rules 2 | Chapman | ||
| SB 5465 (Dead) (SHB 1656) | Wildfire costs/securitizing | Authorizing electrical companies to securitize certain wildfire-related costs to lower costs to customers. | S Environment, E | Shewmake | ||
| SSB 5491 (SHB 1563) | Prescribed fire claims | Establishing a prescribed fire claims fund pilot program. | S Ways & Means | Warnick | ||
| SB 5721 (HB 1645) | Automobile insurance | Enhancing consumer protections for automobile insurance coverage. | S Rules 2 | Stanford |
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