House Republican bills passed by the Legislature

During the 2023 legislative session, 63 bills prime sponsored by Washington House Republicans were passed by the Legislature and sent to the governor’s desk to be signed. You can learn more about these bills in the links below.

House Republican Bills Passed By the Legislature | 2023
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Sponsor: Abbarno
Installing signs on or near bridges to provide information to deter jumping.
Sponsor: Maycumber
Establishing regional apprenticeship programs.
Sponsor: Dent
Creating the pesticide advisory board.
Sponsor: Low
Modifying medal of valor award presentation requirements.
Sponsor: Dent
Mitigating the risk of wildfires through electric utility planning and identification of best management practices appropriate to each electric utility’s circumstances.
Sponsor: McEntire
Concerning association records in common interest communities.
Sponsor: Stokesbary
Concerning public safety employees’ retirement plan membership for public safety telecommunicators.
Sponsor: Corry
Concerning reorganization of domestic mutual insurers.
Sponsor: Connors
Exempting the sale and leaseback of property by a seller from the residential landlord-tenant act when the seller agrees to a written lease at closing.
Sponsor: Harris
Concerning medical assistants.
Sponsor: Schmick
Concerning the disposition of the remains of a county resident who dies indigent in an adjacent county outside of Washington.
Sponsor: Harris
Imposing criminal penalties for negligent driving involving the death of a vulnerable user victim.
Sponsor: Mosbrucker
Concerning the membership of the sentencing guidelines commission.
Sponsor: Mosbrucker
Addressing the extent to which Washington residents are at risk of rolling blackouts and power supply inadequacy events.
Sponsor: Mosbrucker
Modifying the motorcycle safety education advisory board.
Sponsor: Connors
Reducing light pollution associated with certain energy infrastructure.
Sponsor: Rude
Concerning the recording of school board meetings.
Sponsor: Ybarra
Concerning compliance with labeling requirements for wipes.
Sponsor: Robertson
Redistributing the vehicle identification number inspection fee.
Sponsor: Dent
Concerning municipal airport commissions.
Sponsor: Steele
Modifying the low-income home rehabilitation program.
Sponsor: Abbarno
Updating the executive team of the office of the secretary of state by adding signing authority to the chief of staff position.
Sponsor: Low
Concerning organ transport vehicles.
Sponsor: Couture
Creating a child malnutrition field guide for the department of children, youth, and families.
Sponsor: Klicker
Streamlining development regulations.
Sponsor: McClintock
Creating license review and reporting requirements.
Sponsor: Rude
Concerning jury service.
Sponsor: Rude
Concerning the Walla Walla water 2050 plan.
Sponsor: Hutchins
Addressing the access of certain aquatic lands by a public transportation benefit area.
Sponsor: Stokesbary
Splitting the volunteer firefighters’ and reserve officers’ relief and pension principal fund into two accounts.
Sponsor: Abbarno
Updating statutes related to state employment by removing obsolete language, eliminating unnecessary reports, conforming a reporting period to fiscal year, and modernizing employee pay procedures.
Sponsor: Griffey
Concerning off-duty employment of fish and wildlife officers.
Sponsor: Robertson
Concerning a motor carrier’s ability to access restroom facilities required by rules authorized under chapter 49.17 RCW.
Sponsor: Orcutt
Prohibiting unjustified employer searches of employee personal vehicles.
Sponsor: Dye
Concerning aviation assurance funding in response to wildland fires.
Sponsor: Eslick
Increasing the cap on gross sales for cottage food operations.
Sponsor: Steele
Authorizing additional counseling services for immediate family members of homicide victims.
Sponsor: Mosbrucker
Providing tools and resources for the location and recovery of missing persons.
Sponsor: Robertson
Addressing the purchase and distribution of insignia to manufacturers of recreational vehicles and/or park trailers.
Sponsor: Hutchins
Requiring driver training curriculum to include instruction on sharing the road with large vehicles, including commercial motor vehicles and buses.
Sponsor: Mosbrucker
Prohibiting the sale of over-the-counter sexual assault kits.
Sponsor: Caldier
Concerning the dentist and dental hygienist compact.
Sponsor: Schmick
Concerning municipal officers’ beneficial interest in contracts.
Sponsor: Dent
Concerning the membership and subcommittees of the oversight board for children, youth, and families.
Sponsor: Ybarra
Administering educational service district elections.
Sponsor: Barnard
Concerning meetings of county legislative authorities.
Sponsor: Schmidt
Concerning unemployment insurance benefits appeal procedures.
Sponsor: Goehner
Allowing functionally consolidated port districts to adopt a unified levy.
Sponsor: Maycumber
Concerning the Washington auto theft prevention authority account.
Sponsor: Barnard
Concerning health carriers offering dental only coverage.
Sponsor: Kretz
Establishing a memorial on the capitol campus to commemorate eastern Washington.
Sponsor: Schmick
Protecting workers displaced due to finfish aquaculture facility closure.
Sponsor: Waters
Allowing people 18 years of age or older to work in certain 21 year and older establishments.
Sponsor: Waters
Concerning complimentary liquor by short-term rental operators.
Sponsor: Rude
Clarifying the responsibilities and accountability for the effective delivery and oversight of public education services to charter school students.
Sponsor: Eslick
Ensuring completion of conditional scholarship obligations and reducing penalties for excusable incomplete obligations.
Sponsor: Griffey
Creation of a hope card program.
Sponsor: Waters
Prohibiting products that combine alcohol and tetrahydrocannabinol.
Sponsor: Mosbrucker
Reducing toxic air pollution that threatens human health.
Sponsor: McEntire
Addressing the operating and maintenance deficit of the Wahkiakum county ferry.
Sponsor: Sandlin
Supporting economic development in distressed areas through hiring of grant writers.
Sponsor: Cheney
Concerning real property appraisers.
Sponsor: Steele
Concerning eligibility for participation in the public employees’ benefits board for retired or disabled employees of counties, municipalities, and other political subdivisions.