WashingtonSB 51672025-2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

Making 2025-2027 fiscal biennium operating appropriations.

Sponsored By: June Robinson (Democratic)

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1,575 provisions identified: 1379 benefits, 113 costs, 83 mixed.

Named defendants receive compensation and reimbursements

The law provides $450,344 to Ezequiel Apolo-Albino for a wrongful conviction. Self-defense acquittal reimbursements include Haynes $27,610; Rounsville $53,336; Duffy $6,000; Bimwela $680; and Davis $1,000. They also include Wells $29,273; Armstead $7,756; Sulcer $361,725; Villagomez $11,153; and Ledbetter $36,635. Remaining reimbursements are Hopkins $6,702; Hickman $6,542; Van Housen $10,403; Good $247,582; and Johnson $10,828. These payments apply only to the named recipients, not an open household benefit.

Cash and emergency help for families

The law sets aside $530.53 million for WorkFirst grants, diversion cash assistance, and additional diversion emergency help. The Department of Social and Health Services can also use state money to help working families eligible for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Those families do not have to be receiving cash assistance. This provision does not set each family's payment amount.

Continued health coverage for qualifying immigrants

Washington continues Medicaid-like coverage for eligible adults age 19 or older, including adults over 65. Countable income must be at or below 138% of the federal poverty level. Immigration status must block federal Medicaid or federal health exchange subsidies; applicants cannot qualify for another full-scope federal medical program. Coverage matches categorically needy Medicaid in amount, duration, and scope, using Medicaid-like enrollment, renewal, and appeal procedures. The Health Care Authority conducts outreach and reports program information and spending twice yearly.

Continuous health coverage for young children

The law funds continuous Apple Health eligibility for children from birth through age six. Household income must be at or below 215% of the federal poverty level. The extension starts only after federal approval of the state's section 1115 Medicaid waiver. This funding does not itself establish that federal approval has occurred.

Health coverage for excluded institutional residents

Washington must provide Medicaid-equivalent benefits to people excluded from Medicaid solely because they live in an institution for mental diseases. The state uses state-only money as needed. This rule addresses only that reason for exclusion; it does not expand Medicaid eligibility generally.

Medicaid asset protection for Holocaust survivors

The Health Care Authority may ignore recovered insurance money or other recovered assets when checking Holocaust survivors’ Medicaid financial eligibility. Survivors must meet the definition in Washington law. The provision sets no dollar limit on this authority. Other Medicaid eligibility requirements still apply.

Medicare savings help drops asset test

The law funds removal of the asset test from Medicare Savings Program reviews. Applicants and members are no longer screened using that asset test. This removes an eligibility barrier to help with Medicare costs. The provision does not set a new benefit amount or income threshold.

More care support for developmental disabilities

The law funds access to Individual and Family Services and Basic Plus waivers for people on the service request list. The number served follows Caseload Forecast Council forecasts, not unlimited enrollment. Enhanced respite beds for children with developmental disabilities give caregivers breaks and support behavioral stabilization and plans to remain at home. The law also provides $1.729 million in fiscal year 2024 and $1.945 million in fiscal year 2025. That money is solely for operating intensive habilitation services and enhanced out-of-home service facilities.

Premium help for Medicare-eligible employee retirees

Eligible retired or disabled employees can get up to $183 monthly toward health premiums in calendar years 2026 and 2027. They must be Medicare-eligible and qualify under RCW 41.05.085. The subsidy requires Public Employees' Benefits Board approval. Reserves or other funds cannot raise it above $183 per month.

State health coverage for immigrant adults

Beginning July 1, 2024, state coverage provides care comparable to Medicaid for qualifying adults age 19 or older, including seniors. Countable income must be at or below 138% of the federal poverty level. Immigration status must block federal Medicaid or exchange subsidies, and applicants cannot qualify for another full-scope federal medical program. The program uses Medicaid enrollment, renewal, review, and appeal procedures, with flexibility to protect privacy and reduce burdens. Funding caps are $5.778 million for fiscal year 2025, $71.376 million for 2026, and $70.976 million for 2027.

College aid programs receive state funding

The law provides $318.565 million for the Washington College Grant and $11.471 million for opportunity scholarship matching funds. It also provides the University of Washington’s college affordability program $49.816 million for fiscal year 2024 and $51.36 million for 2025. These funds support college grants, scholarships, and affordability programs. These provisions do not state individual awards or change the programs’ eligibility rules.

Funding for college grants and affordability

The Washington College Grant receives $276.416 million from the general fund in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. It also receives $458.742 million, $69.639 million, and $67.654 million from three other state accounts. A separate college affordability program receives $19.789 million for fiscal year 2024. Its fiscal year 2025 funding rises from $20.283 million to $20.402 million. Students must meet each program's eligibility requirements; these appropriations do not set individual award amounts.

Higher stipends for low-income service members

Eligible Washington service corps members receive a stipend of $26,758 per year. Members qualify for this amount when their income is below 200 percent of the federal poverty level upon entering a service year. The law also funds one outreach staff member. The supplied provision does not state the prior stipend or the size of the increase.

Scholarships and help for Passport students

The Passport to College program receives $6.999 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Eligible students can receive scholarship awards of up to $5,000. The Washington Student Achievement Council must contract with a nonprofit for college completion support. At least $500,000 each year must fund that support. The law does not guarantee every eligible student the maximum scholarship.

School access for deaf young people

The Washington Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth receives $19.19 million for fiscal year 2026. It receives $19.329 million for fiscal year 2027, plus $4.119 million in private and local funds. Funding must offer enrolled students ages 3 through 21 the opportunity to participate in at least 1,080 instructional hours. It must also offer the opportunity to earn 24 high school credits.

Specialized schooling for students with disabilities

The law funds full-time instruction for grades 6–12 at the Washington State School for the Blind, in Vancouver or online. Enrolled students must have the chance to receive at least 1,080 instructional hours and earn 24 high school credits. It provides $19.124 million in fiscal 2025 for the Washington Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth. It also allows up to $1.25 million for teachers and aides at Seattle Children's Hospital. Hospital staffing uses this funding instead of the usual home-and-hospital and special education funding routes.

Tuition help for local Renton graduates

Renton Technical College receives $500,000 to award full tuition and fees to eligible students. Students must attend the college and have graduated from the school district where its main campus is located. They must complete the federal or Washington student financial aid application. The law does not state how many students receive awards.

Funding for working families’ tax payments

The law funds Working Families Tax Exemption payments with $239 million for fiscal year 2026 and $259 million for 2027. It also provides $165 million for fiscal year 2024 and $230 million for 2025. The 2025 amount is $24 million above the prior $206 million amount. Payments go to people who qualify for the program. These funding provisions do not set household payment amounts or eligibility thresholds.

Fuel payments for farms and transporters

The law provides $30 million for eligible farm fuel users and transporters purchasing agricultural fuel exempt from Climate Commitment Act requirements. A signed statement of annual use sets payments: $600 below 1,000 gallons; $2,300 from 1,000 to under 4,000 gallons. Payments are $3,400 from 4,000 to under 10,000 gallons and $4,500 for 10,000 gallons or more. Licensing must begin payments by September 1, 2024; recipients can submit overcharge records, and administration cannot exceed 5% of funding. The law bars consolidated climate account funding after Initiative 2117's effective date if the measure is approved.

Organic farming grants and certification help

The law provides $400,000 in fiscal year 2025 to help farmers pay organic certification and related inspection fees. Individual certification grant amounts are not stated. In fiscal year 2026, Agriculture receives $100,000 for an organic agriculture grant program with few barriers to applying. A nonprofit runs that program, and no recipient can receive more than $25,000.

Peak harvest overtime grants for farms

The law provides $250,000 in fiscal year 2025 for eligible specialty-crop farms. Farms must grow handpicked specialty vegetables for local markets or schools and hire only domestic agricultural workers. A Washington resident must own and operate the farm. Each grant is limited to the equivalent of four weeks of paid overtime during peak harvest, capped at $20,000.

Funding keeps mental health services running

The law provides $1.66055 billion for Washington’s mental health program. This includes $703.408 million in state General Fund money for fiscal year 2026 and $729.03 million for 2027. The money funds program operations, not a set cash payment to patients.

Funding for students needing special education

The law provides $5.330484 billion for special education costs beyond regular schooling costs. This includes $2.247317 billion in state funds for fiscal 2026 and $2.381953 billion for 2027. Federal funds provide $646.52 million, and the Education Legacy Trust Account provides $54.694 million. Safety net funding includes $205.458 million in state funds each year and $29.574 million federally for districts showing additional needs. Federal eligibility rules apply; the state must use available federal discretionary funds for excess federal awards and recover awards from ineligible districts.

More school meal funding for kids

Fiscal year 2025 school food funding rises from $1.08399 billion to $1.191942 billion. State funding rises from $102.357 million to $119.918 million; federal funding rises from $925.799 million to $1.01619 billion. Within school meal funding, district reimbursements rise from $74.667 million to $83.617 million. Those reimbursements cover meals not paid at the federal free-meal rate at schools required to use the Community Eligibility Provision. Funding to implement the free school meals law rises from $16.023 million to $24.634 million.

More learning assistance funding for students

Fiscal year 2025 learning assistance funding rises from $491.565 million to $492.853 million in state money. Federal funding rises from $636.543 million to $647.67 million. Total funding for fiscal years 2024–2025 rises from $1.613061 billion to $1.625476 billion, supporting the 2023–24 and 2024–25 school years. For 2024–25, the statewide average allocation rises from $1,052 to $1,054 per annual average full-time equivalent student. Another $135,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 supports implementation of the learning assistance program.

More school transportation funding for students

The law provides $803.792 million for pupil transportation in fiscal year 2024 and $829.27 million in fiscal year 2025. District allocations cover the 2023–24 and 2024–25 school years for students who meet state transportation eligibility definitions. For 2024–25, the statewide average allocation rises from $803 to $822 per annual average full-time equivalent student. The law also provides $32.177 million for fiscal year 2024 and $41.519 million for fiscal year 2025 to account for district transportation allocations. These amounts fund district services, not household payments.

More special education funding for students

For 2024–25, the statewide average special education allocation rises from $12,762 to $13,061 per annual average full-time equivalent student. Fiscal year 2025 state funding rises from $1.925849 billion to $1.992731 billion, and federal funding from $664.372 million to $692.218 million. The total appropriation rises from $4.456359 billion to $4.551087 billion, with district funding covering costs beyond basic education. State safety net funding rises from $151.047 million to $205.498 million for fiscal year 2025. Districts must show needs beyond regular funding and follow the award process; the superintendent must recover advance awards later found ineligible.

State funding for University of Washington

The law provides $1.098129 billion from specified state accounts for University of Washington operations during 2025–2027. This includes $442.276 million in General Fund-State money for fiscal year 2026 and $41.821 million for fiscal year 2027. The appropriation supports university operations, not direct household payments.

Medicaid budget limits can trigger cuts

The Health Care Authority must control spending when it estimates Medicaid costs will exceed annual appropriations. It can reduce provider payment rates or eliminate optional services to stay within the budget. The law does not identify which rates or services will change in advance.

Licensing fees for long-term care providers

For fiscal years 2024 and 2025, annual fees are $225 per adult family home bed and $116 per assisted-living bed. Nursing facilities pay $359 per bed annually. Adult family homes also pay a nonrefundable $2,750 initial processing fee and a $700 ownership-change application fee. Each application to expand an adult family home to seven or eight beds costs a nonrefundable $485. DSHS can raise fees to cover actual regulatory costs, but total license fees cannot exceed annual licensing and oversight costs.

Child services funding falls overall

The children and families services appropriation falls from $1.544235 billion to $1.540946 billion. Fiscal year 2025 state funding falls from $527.084 million to $527.006 million. Federal funding falls from $518.649 million to $515.138 million, while private/local funding rises from $2.824 million to $3.124 million. The department must spend the money on the programs and amounts specified in the law.

Medical assistance grows with funding shifts

The law raises total medical assistance appropriations from about $25.525 billion to $26.748 billion. Fiscal 2025 state general fund money rises from about $2.977 billion to $3.362 billion. Federal funding rises from about $16.820 billion to $17.693 billion, while private and local funding falls from about $1.252 billion to $1.246 billion. Fiscal 2025 cannabis-account, hospital safety net, 988, and ambulance transport funding also decrease. These are program funding changes, not specified payments to individual beneficiaries.

Kindergarten funding limits early-admission coverage

The law provides $670.803 million in fiscal year 2024 and $869.125 million in fiscal year 2025 for all-day kindergarten. These funds cover the 2023–24 and 2024–25 school years. Beginning in 2023–24, funding for children admitted early under entry-rule exceptions is limited to those deemed likely to succeed. This is a state funding restriction, not a charge to families.

University of Washington operating funds shift

The law sets University of Washington appropriations at $1.245591 billion. State general funding falls $25,000 for fiscal year 2024 and rises $199,000 for fiscal year 2025. Workforce Education Investment Account funding rises $392,000, while Geoduck Aquaculture Research Account funding falls $207,000. These are university operating funds, not direct student payments.

Crime victims get funded support services

The law provides $20 million in fiscal year 2026 for grants to crime victim service providers. Commerce must distribute the money under the Office of Crime Victims Advocacy's state plan. Funding supports services, but the law does not set individual payments or reimbursement amounts.

Funded immigration legal help for low-income residents

The law provides $9 million each fiscal year in 2026 and 2027 for immigration legal representation or referrals. It also provides $8 million each fiscal year in 2024 and 2025 for the same purpose. People must be found indigent under Washington’s standards in chapter 10.101 RCW.

Funding for immigrants and citizenship services

The Washington New Americans Program receives $2 million each fiscal year in 2026 and 2027. Commerce may require a cash match or donated goods or services to qualify for state funding. Naturalization services through the Department of Social and Health Services receive $3.545 million each year. These provisions do not set individual payments or explain who qualifies for naturalization services.

Funding keeps low-cost dispute resolution available

Resolution Washington receives $10.5 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for statewide dispute resolution capacity. Funded centers and programs must guarantee citizens access to low-cost alternatives to lawsuits. The money supports services rather than direct household payments.

Lawyer funding for children in foster care

The law funds appointed lawyers for children and youth in dependency cases. Fiscal year 2025 funding rises by $850,000, from $7.711 million to $8.561 million, including higher contracted attorney rates. The program receives $8.611 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027, including implementation of Senate Bill 5761. Lawyers must follow the court commission's practice, caseload, and training standards.

Legal help for domestic violence survivors

The law provides $2 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for domestic violence survivors' legal aid. Services include help with protection orders, family law, immigration, and related civil legal issues. The legal issue must arise from or relate to the domestic violence experienced. The funding pays for services, not cash benefits.

More individual security reviews for youth

The law funds classification specialists and a formal security classification process for youth in full and partial confinement facilities. Youth receive more frequent individual security reviews. The policy review covers evidence-based criteria, review frequency, possible added security levels, and reasons for overrides. The department must update needed rules and report statutory barriers to legislative committees.

More practical help for new immigrants

The Office of Refugee and Immigrant Assistance receives funding to expand help for newcomers to the United States and Washington. Individual services target people who do not qualify for federal refugee resettlement services. Help covers housing, food, transportation, education, employment, connections to legal services, and finding social services. Grants also support school districts with significant increases in homeless students seeking asylum, plus dedicated support for the Sub-Saharan African community.

Prison navigators help parents reunite

The law provides $320,000 in state funds for fiscal year 2025 to continue two contracted parent navigators. They help incarcerated parents in dependency or child welfare cases with reunification, services, courts, guardianship, and visits. One works at the Washington Corrections Center for Women. The other works at Airway Heights or another suitable men's facility. Navigators must have lived experience with the child welfare system.

Vehicle incentives prioritize communities needing help

Commerce receives $50 million for programs and incentives to buy or convert to alternative-fuel vehicles. It must prioritize people in overburdened communities and those most in need. Priorities include low-income communities, communities with large health disparities, and communities of color likely to gain substantial health benefits. The law does not set individual incentive amounts or exact eligibility rules.

Help when drinking water becomes unsafe

The law provides $813,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $345,000 in 2025 to help homes and businesses access safe water. Their individual wells or small water systems must be contaminated. Another $1 million from the Model Toxics Control Account funds emergency drinking water grants in overburdened communities. Commerce may distribute those grants through existing programs, including emergency rapid response. The law does not set a standard household payment.

Advocacy services for people with disabilities

The law funds ombuds services that provide advocacy for people with developmental disabilities. Funding is $768,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $797,000 in fiscal year 2025. Commerce must contract with a private nonprofit to provide these services. The funding does not provide direct cash payments.

Behavioral health help beyond Medicaid coverage

State money supports behavioral health care for people and services not covered by Medicaid. When possible, spending must be maintained in this order: crisis and commitment services, community inpatient care, then residential care. Residential support includes personal care and emergency housing assistance. The provision gives no individual payment amount.

Behavioral health help for Spokane youth

The law provides $1 million for fiscal year 2025 for behavioral health stabilization and support for homeless youth in Spokane. The contractor must already provide permanent supportive housing and services in Spokane. It must also run a low-barrier shelter serving youth under 18 and young adults ages 18 through 24. The provision does not set a payment for each person.

Benefit protections for youth in care

The department must help caregivers and youth understand who can manage benefits and how to keep benefits after leaving care. By January 1, 2026, it must adopt rules requiring notice when it applies for benefits for a child. Rules must also explain how to request and approve money for unmet personal needs when the department manages benefits. Youth turning 18 must get information and support unless they need a representative payee to manage their money. The law does not increase benefit amounts.

Better screenings and asthma help for children

Beginning January 1, 2025, the law funds higher primary-care payments for postnatal, child, and adolescent mental health screenings. Screening funding covers children ages 0 through 21 and their families, supporting follow-up under pediatric Bright Futures guidelines. The Health Care Authority must also fund assessments of health-related social needs for children and families using billing code G0136. Children diagnosed with asthma and enrolled in medical assistance gain covered allergen-control bed and pillow covers. These provisions do not state payment amounts.

Campus contraception and free overdose supplies

The law provided $200,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $230,000 in 2025 for campus vending machines. Machines stock emergency and other contraception, including condoms, plus naloxone and fentanyl test strips. Applying schools received $10,000 on a first-come basis in 2024; new applications had priority in 2025. Schools with more than 20,000 full-time-equivalent students may receive another $10,000. Funded schools must arrange supplies with the Department of Health and provide naloxone and fentanyl test strips free.

Care and housing supports continue

The department must continue tailored support for older adults, Medicaid alternative care, presumptive eligibility, and housing supports. These are the services described in initiative 2 of Washington’s Medicaid demonstration waiver. Funding comes through the Health Care Authority’s Medicaid quality improvement program. The department cannot increase state general fund spending for this initiative.

Care transition help for disabled people

The child welfare and social services departments must help qualifying adolescents age 13 or older move voluntarily to Lake Burien’s leased specialized treatment facility. Qualifying conditions include complex developmental or intellectual disabilities or autism, sometimes alongside mental health or substance use diagnoses. The partnership emphasizes movement toward less restrictive community care, while funded transition teams coordinate clients’ moves between care settings. The department must report annually on clients served, placement stability, outcomes, and recommendations. A specialty-rate pilot for trained community residential providers serves up to 30 people with complex physical and behavioral health needs, and funds staff, training, and help locating affordable housing.

Child care subsidy funding for families

The law allocates $353.402 million in federal WorkFirst funds for Working Connections Child Care, administered by the child welfare department. Part of the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families grant supports these child care subsidies. This provision funds the program without changing eligibility or setting each family’s subsidy amount.

Civil hospital beds receive funding and priorities

The law funds 192 Eastern State Hospital civil beds in fiscal year 2024 and 162 in fiscal year 2025. It funds 287 Western State Hospital civil beds in each year. DSHS must fully operate Eastern’s funded capacity, including beds available to Western Washington residents. Separately, $8.048 million for fiscal year 2024 and $7.677 million for fiscal year 2025 reopens a 30-bed Western civil ward. Priority goes to eligible forensic-ward patients committed after charges were dismissed and civil evaluations completed, preserving forensic beds for Trueblood patients awaiting admission from jail.

Community care option for nursing residents

The Department of Social and Health Services can place nursing home clients into less restrictive community care. This applies when their nursing home care is paid entirely with state funds. The new setting must continue to meet each client’s care needs. The law does not guarantee a placement.

Community care options for nursing home clients

DSHS may place nursing home clients whose care uses state-only funds in less restrictive community settings. The community setting must continue to meet each client’s care needs. The law does not state a change to clients’ payment amounts.

Continued addiction treatment in jail and prison

Corrections must continue opioid treatment medicines for people entering full confinement who received them before transfer, in jail or outside custody. The law provides $1.784 million each in fiscal years 2026 and 2027, and separately lists $4.458 million for treatment. For jail opioid and alcohol medicines, it provides $2.5 million each in fiscal years 2024 and 2025. That jail funding also includes $81,000 in federal money and $9.28 million from opioid settlements. During 2025–2027, lawmakers can also fund jail medicines and short-term housing vouchers for people with substance use disorders who may interact with the justice system; these appropriations bypass the account's usual distribution rules and limits, but funding is not guaranteed.

Continued community treatment and clubhouse support

The law funds continued contracts for intensive community treatment teams, which must keep all essential parts of the PACT care model. The Health Care Authority must account for Medicaid and non-Medicaid costs and may allow extra funds for costs Medicaid cannot cover. Clubhouse programs receive $3.396 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, plus $16.2 million in federal funds. The authority must review federal options for including clubhouse services in managed care contracts.

Court-related mental health services stay funded

The law maintains evaluator staffing for people in local jails awaiting assessments of their ability to face trial. It provides $7.147 million in each of fiscal 2026 and 2027 to preserve staffing increases begun in fiscal 2016. Treatment to restore that ability receives $71.69 million in fiscal 2026 and $77.825 million in fiscal 2027. This preserves service increases made from fiscal 2016 through 2025. The department can contract for treatment at alternative locations when the secretary finds a need.

Covered medical exams for violence victims

The crime victims’ compensation program receives $500,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for suspected domestic violence victims’ medical exams. Neither victims nor medical facilities may be charged for covered exams. This money cannot replace funding for sexual assault exams. If costs exceed the appropriation, domestic violence exam payments return to payment after insurance, without cutting other claimants’ provider reimbursement rates.

Dental coverage and help for adults

The law funds dental benefits for adults enrolled in Washington medical assistance. Adults in the medical care service program get a Medicaid-equivalent dental benefit. It also provides $100,000 in fiscal year 2026 for a partnership connecting Medicaid patients with dental services. These provisions do not list covered dental services or individual benefit amounts.

Dental coverage for medical assistance adults

Adults enrolled in Washington's medical care service program have access to a Medicaid-equivalent dental benefit. The law provides enough funding for that benefit. This provision does not state a dollar value or start date.

Diaper bank help for families

The law provides $1.25 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for diaper bank grants. Banks use the grants to buy diapers, wipes, and essential baby products for families in need. Priority goes to providers serving or located in marginalized, low-income communities or communities of color, and providers supporting racial equity. A Federal Way nonprofit diaper bank receives $150,000 from the 2026 funding. The law does not set the amount or frequency of help per family.

Discharge help for psychiatric hospital patients

The law funds discharge case managers stationed at Washington state psychiatric hospitals. They help patients who are ready for discharge move into less restrictive community placements. The provision does not specify a funding amount or individual payment.

Doula coverage for public employee families

Beginning January 1, 2026, the Uniform Medical Plan covers doula services. This applies to enrolled state and school employees and their covered dependents. The provision does not state coverage limits or member cost-sharing amounts.

Drug court treatment continues after dismissal

Criminal Justice Treatment Account money is reserved for substance use treatment and related support. Counties must be offered control of their shares; otherwise, behavioral health contracts follow locally approved plans. Participants in drug court as of February 24, 2021, can finish treatment after charges under RCW 69.50.4013(1) are dismissed. They must choose to continue and substantially follow program requirements. Continued participation is voluntary and lasts through the end of the treatment plan.

Expanded housing and care for foster youth

The department must carry out the D.S. foster care settlement on its required timeline and implementation plan. Funded services include emerging-adult housing, therapeutic foster care, statewide hub homes, and qualified residential treatment. The law also supports revised licensing standards, family group planning, referrals, transition services, exceptional placement costs, and monitoring. These services support foster children and youth, including emerging adults and those needing specialized placements.

Family planning for uninsured young adults

The Health Care Authority provides family planning services to uninsured 19-year-olds with income at or below 260 percent of the federal poverty level. They must lack other public or private insurance and not be covered by or eligible for another medical assistance family planning program. Services match those covered by the state family planning waiver program as of August 2018.

Fewer reviews and more citizenship help

The law funds removal of mid-certification reviews for aged, blind, or disabled assistance and Housing and Essential Needs referrals. It does not change benefit amounts. The department must review aged, blind, or disabled assistance clients for citizenship help that could support federal Supplemental Security Income eligibility. Those cases get high priority for naturalization funding, but help and federal benefit eligibility are not guaranteed.

Flexible help for children in crisis

The law provides state and federal funding to carry out the children in crisis program. The Governor’s Office gets $1.136 million in fiscal year 2026 and $1.137 million in 2027 for flexible support. Support can cover housing, residential care, coordinated services, respite, and caregiver help for safe hospital discharge or avoiding hospitalization. The project director must approve each expense, and funds cannot pay administrative costs. Both funding provisions lapse if Substitute House Bill 1272 was not enacted by June 30, 2025.

Free counseling for underinsured residents

The law provides $400,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $400,000 for fiscal year 2025 for free behavioral health care. A Seattle-based nonprofit matches volunteer specialty providers with patients for counseling and related services. Washington residents qualify when uninsured or underinsured and their income is below 300 percent of the federal poverty level. The Health Care Authority can require reports on efforts to secure local, federal, or charitable funding.

Free counseling support for uninsured people

The law provides $150,000 each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to renew a Seattle nonprofit's contract. Funding supports continued free counseling and behavioral health services. People served must be uninsured or underinsured, with income below 300% of the federal poverty line. The organization can be required to document efforts to get other funding.

Free overdose medicine for high school students

The law provides $345,000 for free nasal naloxone for high school students, without barriers to access. Distribution prioritizes juniors and seniors, with anonymous access through school health offices, vending machines, or other machines. Schools and districts with higher opioid use and overdose rates can receive priority. All students must have access to information about recognizing overdoses and giving naloxone. The department must use or expand existing bulk purchasing and distribution arrangements with educational service districts.

Free overdose supplies for college students

The Department of Health receives $400,000 in opioid settlement money for nasal naloxone and fentanyl test strips. Supplies are for free, barrier-free distribution to students at public colleges. The goal is naloxone kits for five percent of enrolled students, not a guaranteed kit for every student.

Free support for prenatal alcohol exposure

The law allocates $320,000 in state funds for fiscal year 2024, $1.347 million for 2025, and $1.004 million in federal funds. The money carries out Second Substitute House Bill 1168 on prenatal substance exposure. Of the federal funding, $500,000 is reserved for free support groups for people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, parents, and caregivers. The contractor must be a statewide nonprofit with expertise in these disorders and experience supporting parents and caregivers.

Full food benefits and produce incentives

Washington's state food assistance benefit equals 100% of the matching federal SNAP benefit amount. This provision does not change who qualifies or set a separate household dollar amount. The fruit and vegetable incentives program receives $1.477 million each in fiscal years 2026 and 2027. The incentive provision does not specify individual eligibility or incentive amounts.

Funded goods for low-income families

The law provides $2 million each fiscal year in 2026 and 2027 for goods delivered to low-income families. It also provides $2 million each fiscal year in 2024 and 2025 for this purpose. The Department of Children, Youth, and Families contracts with nonprofit, nongovernmental groups to buy and deliver the goods. The law does not set the type or amount each family receives.

Funding expands court-related mental health treatment

Competency-restoration services receive $71.69 million in fiscal year 2024 and $77.825 million in 2025. These services help people become able to take part in their criminal court cases. Funding maintains service increases made from 2016 through 2021 and adds forensic beds during the 2023–2025 budget period. The Department of Social and Health Services can contract for alternative locations when its secretary determines they are needed.

Funding for assisted outpatient treatment

The law provides $7.601 million in state funds in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for assisted outpatient treatment. It also provides $2.82 million in federal funds for treatment and related implementation under chapter 210, Laws of 2022. Of this funding, $1,000 is reserved to carry out Senate Bill 5130. The provision does not set a payment for each patient.

Funding for local mental health crises

Crisis facilities receive $11.426 million in fiscal year 2024, $15.651 million in 2025, and $21.554 million in federal funds. The Health Care Authority must track whether these centers reduce state psychiatric hospital admissions. A one-time contract with Snohomish County's behavioral health organization provides $1.1 million each in 2024 and 2025. It supports a new 32-bed Lynnwood recovery center that must serve Medicaid and other low-income residents. A nonprofit grant provides $150,000 each in 2026 and 2027 for startup and services at a Skagit County crisis facility serving Medicaid and uninsured clients.

Funding for opioid treatment and recovery

The law provides $2.139 million from the opioid settlement account for prevention, outreach, treatment, and recovery support. That money covers only services that cannot be reimbursed under the state Medicaid plan. Another $3.768 million supports treatment through new opioid treatment providers. Those providers must have received grants under chapter 1, Laws of 2023, special session. These provisions do not set individual payment amounts.

Funding for residential behavioral health treatment

Residential treatment services receive $2.266 million in fiscal year 2024, $14.151 million in 2025, and $19.269 million in federal funds. That money serves Medicaid and state-funded clients at facilities scheduled to open during the 2023–2025 budget period. Intensive behavioral health facilities receive $1.401 million each in 2024 and 2025, plus $3.21 million in federal funds. Another $55.988 million in federal funds supports long-term inpatient beds at the University of Washington behavioral health teaching facility. State agencies and the university must evaluate potential patients committed after dismissed criminal charges and a civil evaluation under the specified state laws.

Funding preserves reproductive health care access

The Health Care Authority must maintain and increase family planning access through Department of Health sexual and reproductive health providers. It must work within appropriations and use rates in effect July 1, 2022. The law provides $3.5 million each year in fiscal 2026 and 2027 to maintain abortion care access. General funding remains, but proposed fixed allocations for provider grants, navigation, workforce activities, and security are removed. The grants fund programs and providers, not direct payments to patients.

Funding protects access to abortion care

The law funds programs and grants to maintain access to abortion care in Washington. It provides $7.657 million for fiscal year 2024 and $7.853 million for 2025. The money supports programs and providers, not a set payment to patients.

Funding supports court-linked mental health care

The law provides $10.364 million in fiscal year 2024 for behavioral health and stabilization services for Trueblood lawsuit class members at the King County South Correctional Entity. A 48-bed Clark County long-term care facility receives $2.19 million for fiscal year 2024 and $19.742 million for fiscal year 2025. It serves people committed to a state hospital after criminal charges were dismissed and a civil evaluation occurred under RCW 10.77.086 or 10.77.088. Placements must maximize state hospital forensic beds for Trueblood class members awaiting admission from jail. Field response teams receive $4 million each year; the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs must distribute $7 million in grants to Trueblood phase one and two regions.

Health benefits for mental institution residents

Washington must provide Medicaid-equivalent benefits to people excluded from Medicaid solely because they live in an institution for mental diseases. Benefits must match those they receive when Medicaid-eligible. The state must use state-only funds as needed to provide this coverage.

Health homes continue for Medicaid members

The law funds the health homes program for eligible Apple Health members from January 1 through December 31, 2026. Listed appropriations are $7.407 million, $7.628 million, and $26.468 million. This money continues program services rather than providing direct payments to members.

Health premium help for lower-income residents

The law includes separate $115 million and $75 million appropriations for the state's health insurance premium assistance program. The $115 million provision supports assistance beginning with plan year 2023. Eligible exchange customers must have income at or below 250% of the federal poverty level and meet additional program eligibility requirements. Another $10 million supports customers who cannot get federal premium tax credits, subject to continued approval of the applicable waiver. These provisions do not state each person's assistance amount.

Help for patients returning to communities

The Health Care Authority funds a pilot for people who are difficult to discharge, with care management and support services. It includes provider incentives, timely home- and community-services assessments, and administrative support through Harborview Medical Center. The authority must work with the contractor and task force named in section 133(11). Financial service specialists at state psychiatric hospitals help discharge-ready clients move to community placements. Within existing resources, a separate program prioritizes assisted outpatient treatment and support services for eligible state hospital patients committed under RCW 10.77.086.

Higher dental limits for jaw care

The law raises Uniform Dental Plan limits for covered jaw-joint services to $1,000 each year and $5,000 over a lifetime. These limits apply to temporomandibular joint services. Actual reimbursement depends on the plan’s coverage terms.

Higher monthly support for foster youth

Beginning July 1, 2023, basic foster care payments increase by $50 per youth each month for all age groups. The supervised independent living subsidy also increases by $50 monthly for each youth in extended foster care. Each increase equals $600 per youth over 12 months.

Higher payments for subsidized child care

Working Connections Child Care funds provider base rates at the 85th percentile of the market, using the 2024 survey. Participating centers receive these rates beginning July 1, 2026; participating licensed family homes also receive higher base rates. Cost-of-care enhancement funding is $63.067 million for fiscal year 2024. Fiscal year 2025 enhancement funding rises from $61.847 million to $72.193 million. These are provider payments; the law does not state a change in families' out-of-pocket costs.

Home visits and referrals for families

The law provides $12.847 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 through the home visiting services account. It also funds statewide access points and resource navigators linking families to services from pregnancy through a child’s age five. In Pierce County, an early-childhood nonprofit must continue referrals and offer brief newborn home visits as part of an abuse prevention project. Those visits must be voluntary, flexible, culturally appropriate, and responsive to residents’ needs. These provisions fund services, not fixed household payments.

Homeless outreach teams receive state funding

The law provides $7.5 million each year in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for homeless outreach stabilization teams. These teams provide outreach and stabilization services under the 2021 recovery-services law. The funding supports services, not a set cash payment to households.

Hospital patients get discharge planning support

Funded case managers help state psychiatric hospital clients ready for discharge move to less restrictive community care. The law also provides $4.118 million in state funds each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027, plus $396,000 federally. The department must hire discharge-review staff, including psychologists, and establish a sex offense and problematic behavior program. It must track results and compare them with historical data when available. Within the funding, $504,000 each year pays bed fees for patients found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Hospital transition help in Columbia County

The law requires a pilot providing Apple Health patients 31 days of continuous support after hospital discharge in Columbia County. Services include rides, transitional housing help, rehabilitation coordination, benefit navigation, transitional primary care, and a 24-hour clinic phone line. The Health Care Authority must contract with the health plan covering the most Apple Health clients statewide. The pilot must operate with a hospital in Columbia County.

Household help for sponsored immigrant children

The law funds help for children ages 0–17 placed in Washington with nonparent sponsors after release from federal refugee custody. Children must not have reunited with a parent. Sponsor households must show financial need and have income below 250% of the federal poverty level. Help can cover housing, childcare, transportation, internet and data, household goods, and other unmet needs. Support can continue for up to 60 days after the child turns 18.

Housing and job help without Medicaid

People ineligible for Medicaid have funded access to supported housing and employment services. Each service receives $1 million in fiscal year 2026 and $1 million in fiscal year 2027. Before authorizing services, the Health Care Authority must check eligibility for initiative 3a or 3b of its Medicaid demonstration waiver. The authority or its third-party administrator must identify eligible clients.

Injectable addiction treatment for uninsured people

The Health Care Authority receives $2 million in opioid settlement money to expand access to long-acting injectable buprenorphine. Funding covers both the drug and its administration. Help is for uninsured people who do not qualify for another state or federal health insurance program.

Jails and prisons get treatment support

The law funds expanded medication treatment for opioid and alcohol use disorders in city, county, regional, and tribal jails. It provides $3.045 million for fiscal 2026 and $5.041 million from the opioid settlement account. In state prisons, opioid treatment funds are no longer limited to medication purchases. The corrections department can use that money for other treatment services.

Kinship caregivers get more navigator support

The law funds kinship care support and expands navigator staffing. Each area agency on aging gets one kinship navigator, and King County gets two. These staff help kinship caregivers and families find support. No direct household payment is specified.

Legal help for residents facing discharge

The Office of Civil Legal Aid receives $783,000 each fiscal year in 2026 and 2027 to establish legal services. The help serves Medicaid-eligible long-term care residents facing discharge from a provider-owned setting. This funding does not change Medicaid eligibility.

Limited health coverage waiver for disabilities

The Health Care Authority and Department of Social and Health Services must develop and implement a Katie Beckett demonstration waiver. Enrollment is limited to 1,000 clients during the waiver period. The authority must use that experience to recommend a future TEFRA state plan option to the legislature. This provision does not state eligibility details or the waiver period's dates.

Maple Lane adds inpatient treatment cottages

Maple Lane campus operations receive $77.102 million in fiscal 2026 and $81.301 million in fiscal 2027. Oak, Columbia, and Cascade cottages provide specified civil commitment and insanity-acquittal treatment. Baker and Chelan cottages must open for people committed after criminal charges are dismissed and a civil evaluation is completed. Placement decisions must maximize state hospital forensic beds for Trueblood lawsuit class members waiting in jail for admission.

Maple Lane funds court-related inpatient care

Maple Lane receives $14.466 million for fiscal year 2024 and $28.234 million for fiscal year 2025. Funding operates the Oak, Columbia, Cascade, and Baker cottages. Treatment includes people committed after criminal charges were dismissed and civil evaluations completed, and people acquitted by reason of insanity who were ordered into treatment. Cascade’s competency restoration funding runs through fiscal year 2024. Placements must preserve state hospital forensic beds for Trueblood patients awaiting admission from jail.

Medicaid asset protection for Holocaust survivors

The Health Care Authority can disregard qualifying recovered insurance proceeds or other assets when deciding Medicaid eligibility for Holocaust survivors. Recoveries must meet the definition in RCW 48.104.030. The law does not set a dollar limit for this exclusion.

Medicaid care before release needs approval

The Health Care Authority must seek federal approval for Medicaid services up to 90 days before release. The services are for Medicaid-eligible people who are incarcerated or committed and approaching release. Services can include case management, clinical visits, medication-assisted treatment, a 30-day medication supply, medical equipment, lab tests, and radiology. Access depends on required federal waivers and agreement with federal Medicaid officials.

Medicaid care funded before prison release

The law funds prerelease Medicaid care for people leaving prison or jail who meet the demonstration waiver's eligibility terms. Services include case management, clinical consultations, medication-assisted therapy, community health workers, and a 30-day medication supply. It also funds medical equipment, medications, lab work, and radiology. State funding is $4.534 million for fiscal year 2026 and $6.37 million for fiscal year 2027. Federal funding is $157.866 million, with another $91.178 million in private or local funds.

Medicaid treatment for people under supervision

Behavioral health entities must provide outpatient substance use treatment to Medicaid enrollees under Corrections community supervision. Their networks must include providers skilled in structured, evidence-based treatment for this group. Corrections and the Health Care Authority must coordinate care through a written agreement, with necessary service data, access, and reports. The agreement's active-supervision provisions cover Medicaid-eligible people who meet the medical need for outpatient treatment.

Medicaid waiver funds housing and employment

The law provides up to $131.704 million federally and $58.916 million locally for waiver-supported housing and employment services. Clients must be identified as eligible by Social and Health Services or its third-party administrator. The agencies must ensure allowable, necessary services; reimbursements must be reasonable and within the applicable per-person limit. A separate funding cap rises federally from $46.45 million to $61.782 million, and locally from $21.432 million to $28.451 million. That appropriation cannot be supplemented with the specified state funds or transferred funds.

Medicaid waiver funds long-term support

The law funds long-term support for people eligible under initiative 2 of Washington's Medicaid demonstration waiver. It provides up to $146.275 million federally and $146.29 million locally for those services and initiative 3 administration. The Health Care Authority must contract with and fund Social and Health Services to administer initiative 2. These are maximum amounts, not payments promised to each recipient.

Mental health help around jail involvement

The law funds mental health services for people with mental illness in county and city jails. It also supports connections to mental health programs after release and requires information on funding uses, clients, and services. Selected diversion programs continue receiving grants funded by Trueblood contempt fines. Grants support assessments, mental health and substance use treatment, case management, job help, and related social services. The Health Care Authority selects continuing programs with the plaintiffs and court monitor; funding does not guarantee individual access.

Mobile methadone units get treatment support

The law supports mobile methadone services across Washington, including every unit operating before fiscal 2024. Listed state funding is $2.616 million for fiscal 2024 and $3.322 million for fiscal 2025. It also provides $2.145 million in federal funds and $2.624 million from the opioid settlement account. All mobile units receive service-support subsidies. The Health Care Authority must explore a Medicaid managed-care payment rate that reflects their costs.

More beds at state psychiatric hospitals

Western State Hospital receives $6.9 million for fiscal year 2024 and $13.61 million for fiscal year 2025 for 30 additional beds. Eastern State Hospital receives $3.228 million for fiscal year 2024 and $6.088 million for fiscal year 2025 for eight additional beds. This funding supports inpatient hospital capacity rather than household payments.

More cash help for eligible households

Since November 1, 2023, households receiving TANF or State Family Assistance get $100 extra monthly with a child under three. Beginning January 1, 2024, TANF grants rise 8%. The same 8% increase applies to aged, blind, or disabled assistance, refugee cash assistance, pregnant women assistance, and consolidated emergency assistance. WorkFirst receives $202.559 million in fiscal year 2025 state funds and $854.033 million in federal funds. Its client assistance funding rises to $500.478 million for grants and diversion assistance for eligible clients.

More covered care for Medicaid patients

Classic Medicaid removes its limit on mental health visits. It also covers shingles vaccines and substance use screening, brief intervention, and treatment referrals. These benefits match those available in the Medicaid alternative benefit plan. Apple Health also covers all FDA-approved HIV antiviral drugs without prior authorization in both fee-for-service and managed care.

More dental care for Medicaid patients

Beginning January 1, 2024, Apple Health covers up to four gum treatments per 12 months for qualifying adults. Patients must be at least 21 and have a current diabetes diagnosis. The law also continues payment for dental health aide therapists treating Medicaid clients at tribal facilities. The Health Care Authority must seek available federal funding tied to specified appeal decisions.

More evaluations and court-ordered patient services

DSHS receives $2.593 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for patients found not guilty by reason of insanity. These expanded services follow the Ross v. Lashway settlement. Another $2.619 million for fiscal year 2024 and $4.524 million for fiscal year 2025 funds additional forensic evaluators. They conduct competency evaluations in jails and community settings.

More federal funding for Medicaid treatment

Behavioral health entities can use local money to draw additional federal Medicaid matching funds. Matched rates cannot exceed the upper end of each entity's federally allowed rate range. Extra funds must support Medicaid state-plan or waiver services for Medicaid clients. Specified state funds can also draw a match, but cannot reduce crisis, commitment, inpatient, residential, or outpatient services for non-Medicaid clients.

More funding for Medicaid housing supports

The law provides up to $62.475 million federally and $44.275 million locally for additional Medicaid waiver housing supports. Services are limited to housing supports described in the waiver for eligible participants. A separate federal cap rises from $28.156 million to $32.309 million, and its local cap from $22.067 million to $23.969 million. That appropriation cannot be supplemented with the specified state funds or transferred funds. Neither appropriation sets a payment for each household.

More help for newly arriving immigrants

Washington provides $25 million in fiscal year 2026 to expand services for people newly arriving in the United States and Washington. Recipients must not qualify for federal refugee resettlement services. Help can include housing, food, transportation, childhood education, education and job support, legal-service connections, and help finding social services. Up to $810,000 can cover staffing expenses. The law does not set individual benefit amounts.

More help leaving psychiatric hospitals

The law funds discharge case managers and financial service specialists at state psychiatric hospitals for clients ready to leave. They help clients move to less restrictive community placements; no individual cash payment is specified. Another $5 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 addresses placement barriers and guardianship needs for discharge-ready civil patients. DSHS may consider the University of Washington teaching facility, enhanced services facilities, and other community facilities. Strategies also include Eastern civil-ward placements for eligible Western forensic-ward patients to free forensic beds.

More Medicaid application help for households

DSHS must help clients applying for or receiving state-funded services enroll in Medicaid expansion coverage. Before open enrollment, it must coordinate health exchange referrals for clients who are ineligible for Medicaid. DSHS completes Healthplanfinder Medicaid applications for households applying for or receiving public assistance. The Health Care Authority completes applications for households applying for or receiving medical assistance. State agencies expand staff access to Healthplanfinder to support one entry point across assistance programs; these changes do not change eligibility rules.

More naloxone reaches community care settings

The Department of Health receives $6.895 million from the opioid settlement account to expand naloxone distribution. Naloxone reverses opioid overdoses. The department must prioritize access gaps in community behavioral health and other community settings.

More specialized care for young children

The law funds continued infant and early childhood mental health consultation, including culturally appropriate support for tribal child care, ECEAP, and Head Start providers; the department must consult federally recognized tribes. Dedicated ECLIPSE funding requires contracts for therapeutic child care and treatment for abused, neglected, at-risk, or drug-affected children. Department-referred children get priority, and the department must seek more funding to continue and expand services. Early intervention assessments and services receive $4 million from the Education Legacy Trust Account. A licensed Spokane center with an existing mental health pilot receives $150,000 each in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for trauma-informed care of high-needs preschoolers facing greater suspension or expulsion risk.

More staff support hospital patient discharge

The Department of Social and Health Services must hire psychologists and other staff for state hospital discharge work. Their duties include reviews, scheduling, planning, and transportation. The department must also establish a sex offense and problematic behavior program within its sex offense review and referral team. Funding includes $504,000 each year for bed fees for patients found not guilty by reason of insanity.

More support for foster care families

Beginning January 1, 2024, foster care uses seven maintenance payment levels instead of four. This system receives $5.527 million in state funds for 2024, $11.054 million for 2025, and $5.284 million federally. Caregiver services include placement help, case aides, after-hours support, training, coaching, child care, and respite coordination. The D.S. settlement receives $7.685 million in state funds for 2024, $11.329 million for 2025, and $3.326 million federally. Its required timeline and plan cover housing for young adults, therapeutic foster care, hub homes, licensing, family planning, referrals, transitions, residential treatment, exceptional placement costs, and monitoring.

More support for people with disabilities

Adult day respite rates for clients with intellectual or developmental disabilities rise from $3.40 to $5.45 per 15-minute unit. Supported employment and community inclusion provider increases receive $11.074 million in fiscal year 2024 and $13.222 million in 2025. Another $150,000 in fiscal year 2026 funds nonprofit independent living, community access, institutional transitions, and inclusive emergency planning services. Contractors must collaborate statewide, serve specified regions, and show relevant expertise and results. These are service and provider funds, not direct household payments.

Peer support after addiction treatment

Managed care plans must provide peer support for people with substance use disorders leaving emergency departments or inpatient care. Access also covers people treated through hub-and-spoke treatment networks. The law includes $1.85 million each in fiscal years 2024 and 2025, plus $13.312 million in federal funds. This money supports peer services through behavioral health payments to managed care plans.

Post-hospital care for qualifying noncitizens

The state funds personal care for noncitizens who cannot get Medicaid and need care after leaving an acute-care hospital. The two funding provisions specify limits of up to 33 clients and up to 40 clients. Eligible people already on the department's services wait list get priority. The provisions do not state individual payment amounts or service duration.

Post-hospital care for some noncitizens

The law funds personal care for up to 33 noncitizens who cannot get Medicaid when leaving an acute care hospital. Eligible people already on the department's service wait list get priority. The provision does not state each person's service amount or how long care lasts.

Pregnancy coverage and doulas for Medicaid

Qualifying teens keep pregnancy-related coverage when the modified adjusted gross income standard otherwise ends their eligibility. They must qualify under an existing pregnancy medical program. The law also funds covered doula services for Apple Health clients. Statewide work supports doula referrals, workforce development, access, certification, and provider Medicaid enrollment, including links to certified, Medicaid-enrolled doulas.

Pregnancy support targets higher-risk births

The Health Care Authority targets maternity support funding to pregnant women with factors linked to poor birth outcomes. Listed factors include hypertension, prior preterm or low-birth-weight birth, disability, substance abuse, severe mental illness, unhealthy weight, and tobacco use. African American or Native American race is also a listed factor. The agency prioritizes proven practices and, when practical, uses local public funding to increase federal support.

Premium help without federal tax credits

The Washington Health Benefit Exchange gets $10 million for premium help for customers who cannot receive federal premium tax credits. Customers must meet the state income and other eligibility criteria referenced in the law; this provision does not state those thresholds. The waiver-based assistance depends on continued approval of the applicable waiver. If the waiver ends, the money funds comparable state coverage for customers who qualified under it. The Exchange can designate an organization to run that state program.

Prison healthcare and medical staffing funded

The law funds specialized gender-affirming medical and mental healthcare for incarcerated people: $627,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $1.715 million in 2025. Services must follow the October 2023 Disability Rights Washington settlement with the Department of Corrections. Medical staffing to reopen Washington State Penitentiary unit G receives $118,000 in 2024 and $354,000 in 2025. Clallam Bay units G and H receive $68,000 and $164,000, respectively. Coyote Ridge unit F receives $207,000 and $354,000, respectively.

Reopening youth treatment in Clark County

The law provides $5 million in one-time fiscal year 2025 funding to reopen a Clark County youth treatment facility. The program must own the facility, previously closed for licensing issues, and submit a reopening plan to the Health Care Authority. More than 60% of clients must be Medicaid-eligible, with care addressing combined substance use and mental health disorders and sexual exploitation. Money is limited to reopening costs, treatment, and services allowed by the approved plan and contract. The program must submit a fiscal year 2025 assessment and report on future needs.

Replacement help for stolen assistance benefits

The department can replace eligible cash or food benefits stolen through card skimming or cloning. Covered programs include TANF, State Family Assistance, pregnant women assistance, refugee cash assistance, aged, blind, or disabled assistance, and State Food Assistance. Replacements are limited to twice per federal fiscal year and must follow federal food-benefit replacement guidelines. Unspent funds lapse September 30, 2024, or when the federal replacement requirement ends, whichever is later.

Respite care for people with disabilities

The law allocates $2.648 million for fiscal year 2024 and $1.464 million for 2025 for children’s enhanced respite beds statewide. These beds give caregivers temporary relief, support behavioral stability, and help develop plans for children with developmental disabilities to remain home. It also allocates $2.173 million for fiscal year 2024 and $1.836 million for 2025 for 13 adult community respite beds. The adult beds serve people with developmental disabilities as an alternative to planned or emergency respite in a residential habilitation center.

Safer community moves for psychiatric patients

The department must arrange an individual assessment before certain patients leave state psychiatric hospitals for community placements. This applies to patients with additional long-term care or developmental disability needs. The assessment identifies and authorizes needed services and specialized training, with resident and staff safety considered. The department must review the placement within 30 days of entry. It must conduct at least two more reviews during the patient's first year.

Safer placements after psychiatric hospital discharge

The law continues community placement beds for psychiatric hospital patients with added long-term care or developmental-disability needs. Before discharge, each patient must receive an individual assessment identifying and authorizing needed services. The department must consider the safety of other residents and staff. A placement review is required within 30 days of entry, plus at least two more during the first year. These rules do not add a payment duty for patients.

School health services receive grant support

The law provides $3.834 million in each of fiscal 2026 and 2027 for school health centers and behavioral health services. The Department of Health must create a plan for the centers to support themselves financially. The grants do not guarantee a particular service to each student.

School meals and summer food help

The law provides $11.703 million in fiscal year 2026 and $11.692 million in 2027 as state matching funds for federal child nutrition programs. Funds can eliminate eligible public school students’ breakfast copays and reduced-price lunch copays from prekindergarten through grade 12. They can also support summer food programs in low-income areas, reimburse eligible breakfasts, and start or expand breakfast programs. Separately, the law funds Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer food assistance after the 2023–2024 and 2024–2025 school years. That program must follow federal requirements, and the department can use a third party to administer it.

Settlement funding supports court-linked mental healthcare

The law provides $9.119 million in fiscal year 2026 and $9.145 million in 2027 for the Trueblood settlement. Services include court competency evaluations, treatment to restore competency, forensic navigators, crisis support, training, and workforce development. The Department of Social and Health Services must work with the Health Care Authority and Criminal Justice Training Commission. Work must follow the settlement’s timeline and plan. Another $2.593 million each year funds Ross v. Lashway settlement services for patients found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Specialized care after leaving the hospital

The law funds enhanced service facilities and expands discharge case management to long-term care behavioral health settings. Acute-care patients ready for discharge can be referred to available specialized beds when their behavior diagnosis or history makes other licensed facilities unlikely to work; the setting's contract must meet their needs. Prior or current involuntary treatment detention is not required. The law also funds community placements for state psychiatric hospital patients ready for discharge who need long-term care or developmental disability services. Each patient needs a pre-discharge assessment covering services, specialized training, and safety; DSHS reviews placements within 30 days and at least twice more during the first year.

Specialized care for substance-exposed young children

The law provides $100,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for one pediatric interim care center. It can serve up to 13 children through age two; at least 75% must need special care from their mothers’ substance use. The center must offer on-site parent training and at least three months of consultation and support to parents accepting placements. The child welfare department cannot require case management as a contract condition. Separately, $2 million in one-time opioid settlement funding continues a pilot reimbursing a licensed Spokane County facility for infant withdrawal care following prenatal substance exposure.

Specialized treatment for youth with disabilities

The law funds voluntary transitional treatment at leased property in Burien, including Lake Burien care. The psychiatric treatment program serves youth ages 13–17 with an intellectual or developmental disability, or autism. They must also have a severe psychiatric diagnosis requiring round-the-clock care under a physician's direction. Admission requires consent from the youth, guardian, or legal representative, and capacity is limited to 12 youth at once. Services focus on moving youth to less restrictive community care.

State grocery benefits match federal SNAP

The law sets Washington State Food Assistance benefits at 100% of the applicable federal SNAP benefit amount. Each household's dollar benefit depends on that federal amount.

State psychiatric hospitals keep civil beds

The law funds 162 civil beds at Eastern State Hospital and 287 at Western State Hospital in fiscal 2026 and 2027. The department must fully operate Eastern’s funded beds, including capacity not needed by eastern Washington residents. It must also work with the Health Care Authority to increase community long-term inpatient capacity.

Street medicine for people without housing

The law provides $2.65 million each in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to continue street medicine contracts. Teams serve people experiencing homelessness with acute or chronic health needs in King County, Kitsap County, Tacoma, Everett, and Spokane. Services include medical, mental health, substance use, and infectious disease care and prevention. Teams also provide case management and help finding services.

Summer grocery benefits for eligible children

The law funds summer electronic food benefits for eligible children after the 2024-25 and 2025-26 school years. Implementation receives $6.911 million in fiscal year 2026, $4.924 million in fiscal year 2027, and $11.837 million in federal funds. The program must follow federal requirements in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023. A third party can administer it through March 2027. This provision does not set each child's benefit amount.

Supervision and health tracking for Medicaid

The Health Care Authority must arrange supportive supervision and oversight through health plans for Medicaid managed-care clients. Plans must use financially sound rates set by the authority and approved by the federal government. Managed-care contracts must track patient health and health outcomes. Contracts must also expect each patient to receive a wellness exam that records their starting health status.

Support for foster children and families

The child welfare department must make foster care maintenance payments to programs where children stay with parents in residential substance use treatment. Those payments count as foster care maintenance costs in state forecasting and budget planning. The law also allocates $499,000 in state funds in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, plus $310,000 in federal funds, for Family Connections. Funding supports areas where that program already operates. The contractor must be a community organization experienced with foster families and running the program.

Targeted health support around pregnancy

Maternity support funding must target pregnant women with health, behavioral, or demographic factors linked to poor birth outcomes. The Health Care Authority must prioritize evidence-based care and, when practical, use local public funds to increase federal support. The birth equity project receives $972,000 each in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to reduce health gaps around birth. The law also provides $346,000 for information and services addressing opioid use disorder during pregnancy and after birth. That opioid funding must follow settlement agreement conditions.

Time-limited family planning for uninsured teens

During the 2023–2025 budget period, qualifying uninsured 19-year-olds received family planning services. Income had to be at or below 260% of the federal poverty level. Participants had to need the services and have no public or private insurance. They also could not be covered by or eligible for another medical assistance family planning program. Services matched the state's family planning waiver coverage as of August 2018; this provision ended June 30, 2025.

Transition help for disability center residents

When Rainier School or another residential habilitation center closes, the department must help residents move to other settings. Residents receive meaningful placement choices, individual plans developed with their support networks, coordinated services, and covered transition costs. The department must monitor residents' outcomes and well-being; the provision sets no closure date. The law also funds guardianship fees for moves from these centers to community supported living. Those fees are intended to match fees for moves to adult family homes.

Treatment and placement help for youth

The law funds a gradual start of intensive mental health services for high-needs youth under the T.R. v. Dreyfus and Porter settlement. It also funds inpatient care navigators in seven regions to handle referrals, coordinate placements, and arrange community treatment alternatives. Navigator funding is $3.437 million in state money for fiscal year 2024, $4.772 million for 2025, and $1.705 million in federal money. Each fiscal year reserves $445,000 in state money and $79,000 in federal money for the existing Pierce County program.

Treatment support for justice-involved people

Behavioral health entities must provide medically necessary outpatient substance use treatment to Medicaid members under corrections community supervision. Provider networks must include specialists in structured, evidence-based treatment, and agencies must coordinate to avoid duplicate services. The law also continues Trueblood settlement services, including competency evaluations and restoration, crisis diversion, education, training, and workforce development. Trueblood class members must meet service eligibility and medical-need requirements. Regional entities must plan timely treatment access for eligible justice-involved people, following the settlement schedule and implementation plan.

Young people get adulthood transition support

The law funds LifeSet case management for people transitioning to adulthood in or leaving foster care, juvenile justice, or mental health systems. Community organization contracts receive $1.206 million for fiscal year 2024 and $1.554 million for fiscal year 2025. Providers must have expertise in the LifeSet model. The provision does not set a per-person payment.

Eligible households get utility and heating help

The law provides $25 million through existing federal low-income energy assistance grantees for utility bill help. Households must earn below 80% of area median income and live in communities with high environmental health disparities. Each assisted household must be offered an energy assessment and can receive funding for efficient electric heating or cooling replacements. No more than 60% can target multifamily buildings, where most residents must meet the income test and the community must meet the disparity test. Commerce must establish processes protecting renters from rent increases or eviction caused by the assistance.

Emergency housing continues for foster teens

The law funds the emergency adolescent housing pilot in fiscal years 2026 and 2027. It provides housing and intensive case management for hard-to-place foster youth who are at least 16 years old. The provision does not state the funding amount.

Funding keeps very low-income supportive housing running

The law provides $12.5 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027, plus $37 million, for supportive housing. Grants cover operations, maintenance, and services. Eligible units must be dedicated to permanent supportive housing and serve households earning no more than 30% of area median income. Projects must have or expect public capital funding and need rent supplements to cover ongoing costs. Projects with federal operating subsidies qualify only when those subsidies do not fully cover these costs.

Funding services for homeless families and youth

The Washington Youth and Families Fund receives money solely for services to homeless families and youth. For fiscal years 2024–25, funding includes $500,000 each year from the General Fund, plus $4 million from housing funds. Those funds provide $1 million from Home Security, $2 million from Housing Trust, and $1 million from Affordable Housing for All. For fiscal years 2026–27, funding totals $4 million: $1 million each year from the state General Fund and $2 million from Housing Trust. The law does not set each household's award amount.

Homeless University District youth get support

The law provides $500,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for homeless youth and young adults in Seattle's University District. Funding supports planning and implementation of a one-stop center with service navigation. The university must work with community providers and its colleges and departments. It may contract with Commerce to expand services.

Housing help does not require treatment

The law provides $5.623 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, plus $3.748 million in federal funds. The money maintains and expands housing-first programs for adults with behavioral health conditions. Services must fit each person's needs, and housing support cannot depend on receiving behavioral health treatment. The Health Care Authority and Commerce must collaborate; their status report was due December 31, 2023.

Housing help prioritizes unhoused people with barriers

The law provides $11.252 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for housing help for unhoused people. Help can include long-term rent subsidies, permanent supportive housing, and low- or no-barrier housing beds. Priority goes to people with mental health or substance use disorders, other complex conditions, or a criminal history. People leaving behavioral health treatment facilities or local jails also receive priority. The law does not set an individual assistance amount.

Housing support follows crisis care or diversion

The law provides $2.317 million in fiscal 2024 and $4.433 million in fiscal 2025 for grants to three behavioral health organizations. They arrange housing for people diverted from prosecution or leaving crisis stabilization, suited to individual needs and avoiding shared-group housing when possible. Temporary lodging generally must lead to permanent housing with support within six months, except in unusual circumstances. All behavioral health administrative services organizations must have a chance to submit plans. Selection favors matching resources, sustainable permanent housing plans, and relevant experience.

Legal help for renters facing eviction

The Office of Civil Legal Aid receives $2.579 million each year in fiscal years 2026–27 for tenants at risk of eviction. This funds information, advice, and representation for tenants not yet eligible for appointed counsel. Appointed eviction counsel receives $19.612 million in 2026 and $16.898 million in 2027 for tenants who cannot afford a lawyer. That program prioritizes counties with the most evictions and tenants at disproportionate risk. Funding supports legal help, not cash payments or changes to rent obligations.

More housing and outreach for homeless youth

The Office of Homeless Youth receives $7 million from the Home Security Fund for outreach, services, and housing. Resources must be shared fairly across Washington. Funding also supports partnerships testing ways to prevent homelessness after young people leave public systems and an integrated services model. Separately, a Bellingham nonprofit receives $100,000 in fiscal year 2024 for youth services throughout Whatcom County. That grant adds staff capacity for appointment help, service navigation, and resource assessments.

More rental help after nursing homes

The nursing home to community program's rental subsidy base rises to $1,400. The program also adds 200 slots for people moving from nursing homes into community settings. The provision does not state payment frequency, so $1,400 is not a confirmed monthly or annual payment.

Older foster youth get supported housing

Supported housing and case management serve hard-to-place foster youth age 16 or older. The law provides $2.406 million in fiscal 2024 and $2.382 million in fiscal 2025 for supported housing programs. It also provides $1.248 million in state funds each year to continue the emergency adolescent housing pilot. That pilot offers housing and intensive case management to the same age group. The law does not state individual payments or the number of youth served.

Short-term housing help during substance use

The Health Care Authority receives funding for short-term housing vouchers for people with substance use disorders. The law provides $500,000 in state funds for fiscal year 2024 and $4.5 million from the opioid settlement account. This provision does not state each voucher's amount or how long it lasts.

Unhoused people get rental and housing support

The law provides $11.844 million each in fiscal 2024 and 2025 for housing assistance to unhoused people. Help includes long-term rental subsidies, permanent supportive housing, and beds with few or no entry barriers. Priority goes to people with mental health, substance use, or other complex conditions, criminal histories, or departures from treatment or local jails. Separately, the Affordable Housing for All Account receives $18.5 million in fiscal 2026 and $22.166 million in fiscal 2027. That money funds permanent supportive housing operations, maintenance, and services; neither provision sets individual payment amounts.

College pathways for people leaving prison

The law provides $819,000 to implement incarcerated-student grants, subject to Substitute Senate Bill 5953’s enactment by June 30, 2024. That money lapses if the deadline was not met. Another $800,000 funds pathways from prison to the University of Washington Tacoma. The university must work with formerly incarcerated women, Tacoma Community College, specified community groups, state college officials, and corrections officials. These provisions do not set individual grant amounts.

College support for students without housing

The law provides $648,000 for participating four-year colleges serving students experiencing homelessness, plus $46,000 for administration. Another appropriation provides $1.388 million, with up to $46,000 per fiscal year of that amount for administration. The Student Achievement Council must distribute the college funding without reduction. Separate $204,000 funding for Northwest Indian College requires House Bill 1540’s enactment by June 30, 2025; otherwise it lapses. These funds support college services, not a stated payment to each student.

Education help and program review for foster youth

Education coordinators for foster youth receive $539,000 in state funds for fiscal 2026 and $540,000 for 2027. The contract also uses $656,000 in private/local funds and $252,000 federally to help youth in school and college. Priority goes to regions with many foster youth, outreach backlogs, or youth with high educational needs. The law also provides $150,000 for a Passport to Careers implementation review, due June 30, 2024, with recommendations to improve reach and effectiveness. The review must consult foster-youth organizations, the community-college board, public four-year schools, and program partners; funds may pay stipends to participating or eligible youth.

Employment help for refugees and immigrants

The law provided $2.366 million each year in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for refugee and immigrant employment services. Of that amount, $1.774 million annually went to statewide refugee and immigrant assistance organizations. That funding supported employment pathways for people with limited English skills. The provision sets no individual payment amount.

Employment help reaches more income levels

The law provides $5.292 million to expand Economic Security for All to residents above 200 percent of federal poverty. Residents must show financial need for support services or training costs to keep or get a job. Unspent funds may support participants below 200 percent of federal poverty. Individual payment amounts are not stated.

Equal pay protections for vendor workers

Covered state agency vendors must pay similarly employed workers equally under new or renewed contracts during the 2025–2027 budget period. This covers workers with the same employer whose jobs require comparable skill, effort, and responsibility under similar conditions. Allowed differences include seniority, merit, production, valid job-related factors, and valid regional differences. Contracts must allow termination for noncompliance, and the Department of Enterprise Services must update its master contracts.

Foreign-trained doctors get job preparation support

The law provides $300,000 in fiscal year 2025 to a King County nonprofit serving only foreign-trained physicians. It supports preparation for U.S. clinical work and Washington's medical doctor: clinical experience license. The nonprofit can offer stipends up to $2,000 per physician for exams, English classes, resumes, interviews, or other job-readiness expenses. It can also provide educational outreach to medical providers and institutions. A stipend is not guaranteed to every physician.

Free school meals funded for children

The law provides $24.634 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for the 2023 free school meals law. The money supports meals through school districts. Children covered by that program can receive free meals; the budget does not set a family cash payment.

Funding for student work-study aid

The state provides $8.034 million for work-study financial aid payments in fiscal year 2026. It provides $8.035 million in fiscal year 2027. Up to 4% can cover program administration. The law does not set an individual student's payment amount.

Grants support nursing students’ clinical placements

The Washington Board of Nursing receives $3 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for clinical-placement grants. Funding is $2.955 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Grants encourage nurses to supervise nursing students in health care settings. The goal is more placements where students can complete required clinical hours; individual grant amounts are not stated.

Help resolving workers’ light-duty complaints

The law provides $400,000 to staff a process for resolving light-duty work complaints under Washington’s workers’ compensation law. The medical aid account and accident account each provide $200,000. Workers can seek resolution, but the law guarantees no particular outcome or payment.

Higher pay funding for direct-care workers

Beginning July 1, 2025, covered developmental-disability service providers receive a 2% rate increase. Covered settings include supported living, group homes, group training homes, licensed staff residential services, community protection, and children's out-of-home services. Providers must use the full increase for higher compensation for direct support professionals and other direct-care workers. The law does not set each worker's dollar increase.

Higher salaries for eligible school employees

State compensation funding provides eligible school employees a 2.5% salary increase for 2025–26 and 2.6% for 2026–27. Substitute-teacher salary adjustments are excluded. Monthly collective-bargaining allocation rates are $1,307 for 2025–26 and $1,341 for 2026–27. These rates remain subject to annual legislative revision.

Job support for disabled tribal members

Washington provides $550,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for grants to federally recognized tribes in Washington. The grants fund culturally appropriate job rehabilitation services and adaptive technology for tribal members with disabilities who are seeking work. The money goes to tribes for services and technology, not as a set payment to individuals.

Job support for people with disabilities

The law provides $99,000 each year in fiscal 2026 and 2027 for grants to federally recognized Washington tribes. Services help tribal members who are blind, have low vision, or are deaf-blind. They include culturally appropriate job support, independent living, youth support, and adaptive technology. The law also funds supported employment and community inclusion for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities leaving high school during 2023–2025. That funding covers people expected to use those services; no per-person payment is stated.

Job training for state food assistance recipients

The law provides $560,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for state-funded employment and training. Participants must receive Washington's state food assistance benefits. The law does not specify each person's training services or payment amount.

Lower tuition in Western's peninsula programs

Western Washington University receives $886,000 in each fiscal year from 2024 through 2027 for specified partner-campus tuition reductions. Covered four-year programs are at Olympic College in Bremerton and Poulsbo, and Peninsula College in Port Angeles. Reductions apply only to tuition above the state-funded resident undergraduate rate. Separately, $580,000 makes Western on the Peninsulas' human services program state-supported, with the goal of lowering tuition. The law does not state each student's savings.

Minimum wage for hospital program workers

Patients working in Western State Hospital’s vocational rehabilitation program receive Washington’s state minimum hourly wage. The same pay rule applies to Eastern State Hospital’s work readiness program. The law provides $455,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for these wages. Each participant’s total pay depends on hours worked.

More computing degrees at Washington campuses

The University of Washington gets $14 million to expand degrees in Seattle's Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Another $2.854 million increases computing and engineering enrollment at the Tacoma campus. The law does not set added seat counts, tuition changes, or individual scholarships.

More early learning slots for children

The law funds at least 14,278 Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program slots in fiscal year 2026. It funds at least 14,528 slots in fiscal year 2027. Each year, 100 slots are reserved for foster children for school-year-round enrollment. Payments for full-day slots rise 5% in fiscal year 2026. The program adds 250 full-day slots in fiscal year 2027.

More education pathways for incarcerated students

The law provides $600,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for education in state correctional facilities. Programs include transferable credits, associate and bachelor’s degrees, workforce credentials, and student success planning. The college must appoint an implementation team and work with stakeholders on curriculum and student support. It must also train faculty and staff to work with incarcerated people. The funding does not guarantee a credential or payment to each student.

More job support for disabled students

The law funds supported employment and community inclusion services for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities leaving high school in 2025–2027. Funding covers those expected to use these services. It also provides $3.208 million in federal funds for vocational rehabilitation through the school year a student turns 22. That allocation lapses unless Substitute Senate Bill 5253 was enacted by June 30, 2025.

Nurses get faster licensing and training help

The Washington Board of Nursing must hire enough staff to process nursing license applications within seven days. The Department of Health also gets $350,000 in fiscal year 2027 for sexual assault nurse examiner training stipends. Registered nurses training as adult/adolescent or pediatric examiners can receive one stipend, capped at $2,500. Eligible costs include specified training charges, reasonable travel, and other expenses the department approves. The law does not guarantee each nurse the full $2,500.

Paid residencies train special education teachers

The law provides $1.306 million to start special education teacher residencies in 2024–25 and $2.612 million for Western Washington University’s program. The program supports one cohort of 17 residents per school year, paid at first-year paraeducator rates. Each mentor receives a $2,500 annual stipend. Residents complete at least 900 practice hours, with at least half coteaching with their mentor and the rest with another teacher. Residents cannot have lead responsibility for student learning. Priority goes to communities where residents are expected to fill vacancies and stay; school partners must help design culturally responsive coursework meeting teacher standards.

Pay increases for covered public employees

Covered state employees receive a 3% wage increase on July 1, 2025, and 2% on July 1, 2026. This provision excludes employees represented or bargaining under the listed statutory authorities. Eligible community and technical college employees receive the greater of the general increase or their applicable cost-of-living adjustment. Their resulting increases are 3% on July 1, 2025, and 2.7% on July 1, 2026. For covered exempt executive, legislative, and judicial employees, the elected-official salary commission does not set maximum salaries under this provision.

Public workers may get higher disability benefits

The state and school employee benefits boards may adjust employer-paid long-term disability benefits to a maximum of $450 per month. The boards are not required to make this change. Any adjustment must fit within existing funding.

Public workers’ labor agreements receive funding

The law funds listed state and higher education labor agreements and awards for 2025–2027, including sufficient funding for specified college agreements. It also funds legislative agreements with the Legislative Professionals Association and Washington Public Employees Association. Funding excludes pay and benefit terms not presented by the end of the 2025 session. Positions supported by capped grants or dedicated funds with too little revenue receive no added funding from other sources. A separate rule allows funding approval for the Western Washington University police agreement ratified by October 5, 2024. That request is exempt from the usual October 1 submission and financial-feasibility certification requirements, but approval is not guaranteed.

Regional degree programs support future teachers

Western Washington University receives $700,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for an early childhood education degree. The program is at Western on the Peninsulas, in partnership with Olympic College. At full implementation, it is expected to award about 75 degrees each year. Another $530,000 each year operates bilingual elementary and secondary education degree programs in south King County. Each bilingual program cohort can support up to 25 students per year at full implementation.

Salary funding for Washington State nurses

Washington State University receives $3.91 million from the Workforce Education Investment Account for nursing salary increases. The money is solely for that purpose during the 2025–2027 budget period. The law does not set an individual raise amount.

Salary increases for covered school employees

The law funds 3.7% salary increases for public school employees covered by state salary allocations for 2023–24 and 2024–25. Fiscal year 2025 funding for these compensation adjustments totals $893.654 million. Each employee's dollar increase depends on the covered salary.

Scholarships and support for Native students

The law provides $2.2 million for Native American scholarships during 2025–2027. Students must belong to a federally recognized tribe located in Washington, file a FAFSA, and enroll in an undergraduate degree program. They must maintain satisfactory academic progress. Tribal consultation informs award priorities, and awards must be distributed by May each fiscal year. Up to $200,000 can fund administration, student services, outreach, and application help. Separate funding, with no stated amount, supports a Native Pathways student advisor and underserved student specialist for enrollment and retention.

Special education students retain full funding

School districts must ensure special education students as a group receive their full share of general basic education funding. When that funding cannot provide an appropriate education, districts must provide services through special education excess-cost funds. The state superintendent must ensure full basic education funding for the entire school day. These rules protect school services rather than creating direct household payments.

Support for high school college courses

Running Start funding covers combined school and college enrollment up to 1.4 full-time-equivalent units, following program course requirements. The state superintendent must set summer-course funding rules and track and report combined participation each year. The law also provides $1.053 million for college-in-the-high-school expansion tied to chapter 314, Laws of 2023. It provides $2.445 million to implement the college-in-the-high-school fee law, Second Substitute Senate Bill 5048, plus $630,000 for expansion. The funding provisions do not state a per-student fee reduction or the number of added places.

Weekly support for students returning to school

The state education office must adopt rules requiring at least weekly contact for students counted for funding in authorized dropout reengagement programs. Contact must include instruction, academic or career counseling, or case management. Districts must track program spending separately and report accurate monthly student counts and full-time-equivalent enrollment. Resident and nonresident enrollment must be reported separately.

Western students get expanded degree options

Western Washington University gets $3.632 million to expand Western on the Peninsulas. New two-plus-two degree programs include industrial engineering, data science, and sociology. Separate allocations of $890,000 and $445,000 continue expansion of undergraduate electrical and computer engineering. Another $2.478 million expands bilingual educator education. These funds support programs rather than setting tuition cuts or individual grants.

Western students get more academic support

Western Washington University gets $1.552 million for expanded remedial math, more English 101 courses, and first-year seminars. The funding also supports disability accommodation counselors. The law does not specify service amounts for individual students.

WorkFirst funds job and transportation help

The law allocates $167.934 million in WorkFirst funding for job search, education, training, and help removing work barriers. Services also include limited-English support, tribal assistance, and implementation of the working family support program. The Department of Social and Health Services must allocate funds based on client results and cost-effectiveness. Another $2.474 million supports transportation, prioritizing recipients who most need financial help returning to work. Transportation funds cannot replace existing repayment arrangements for restoring driver's licenses; no individual payment amount is set.

Advance payments for child care providers

The law funds implementation of federal child care payment requirements for participating providers. Payments include money based on enrollment and payments made in advance. The state also does not pursue some overpayments, but the provision does not identify which cases qualify.

More support for child care providers

The law funds higher health care contributions and a cost-of-care rate increase for covered family child care providers. These increases carry out their 2025–2027 collective bargaining agreement; the provision does not state their size. Separately, the law provides $1.728 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for low-income providers. That money must reduce barriers to joining the Early Achievers program. No amount per provider is specified.

Climate spending targets overburdened communities

During 2025–2027, agencies must coordinate investments from specified climate accounts so at least 35% directly benefits vulnerable people in overburdened communities. The goal is 40%. Environmental justice assessments apply only to covered agencies and significant agency actions. Community engagement plans apply to specified non-covered executive agencies and public colleges receiving more than $2 million from listed accounts during 2023–2025. The law directs community investments, not individual checks.

Counties receive criminal justice service funding

The law provides $152.169 million for county criminal justice assistance during the 2025–2027 budget period. Spending cannot exceed available funds distributed under the law for this purpose. The money funds county services, not direct household payments.

Funding strengthens wildfire and disaster response

Natural Resources receives $85.32 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027, plus $16.05 million, for emergency response. This includes fire suppression, with monthly reports on costs and the number and type of fires suppressed. State Patrol receives $7.5 million for fire-service mobilization during emergencies and disasters authorized by state law. Separately, the fiscal year 2025 General Fund transfer to the Disaster Response Account rises from $10 million to $57 million. These amounts fund state response operations, not direct household checks.

Funding supports state and municipal justice

The law sets aside $100 million in fiscal year 2026 for the supplemental criminal justice account. It requires that appropriation to lapse unless House Bill 2015 was enacted by June 30, 2025. Municipal criminal justice assistance receives $60.343 million for the 2025–2027 budget period. Municipal spending cannot exceed funds available through the statutory distributions.

Funding supports wildfire and emergency response

Natural Resources receives $88.617 million in state General Fund money for fiscal year 2024 and $104.982 million for fiscal year 2025. Another $16.05 million comes from the Disaster Response Account. These funds must be used only for emergency response, including fire suppression.

More funding for child services agency

Fiscal year 2025 program-support funding for the Department of Children, Youth, and Families rises from $840.824 million to $889.393 million. State funding rises from $293.151 million to $323.118 million; federal funding rises from $171.942 million to $190.241 million. The provision does not assign the added money to specific services. The Governor's Office also receives $7,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for the agency's oversight board. That board funding lapses unless Senate Bill 5199 was enacted by June 30, 2025.

More local criminal justice funding

County criminal justice assistance rises from $129.925 million to $130.355 million, an increase of $430,000. Municipal criminal justice assistance rises from $51.744 million to $51.879 million, an increase of $135,000. The money goes to local governments; these provisions do not create household payments or new individual duties.

Funding keeps two Seattle hospitals operating

Harborview and University of Washington Medical Center receive funding for hospital operations and teaching. The law provides $80 million for fiscal year 2024, $60 million for 2025, and $20 million in federal funds. Another $3.5 million from the Workforce Education Investment Account addresses barriers to moving patients into community care. Of that amount, $600,000 continues the complex discharge task force through completion and a pilot based on Harborview's bed readiness program. The funding does not set individual patient payments.

Funding supports long-term psychiatric hospital beds

The law provides $59.65 million each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for 74 Olympic Heritage beds across three wards. The Department of Social and Health Services cannot use the other 38 beds; a selected contractor can after the required contracting process. Another $25.522 million in federal funds supports long-term inpatient beds at the University of Washington behavioral health teaching facility. The agencies and university must set placement criteria for state hospital patients civilly committed after criminal charges were dismissed. Their findings were due December 1, 2023.

Funding supports public health and supplies

The 2025–2027 budget provides $188.431 million for Health Department administration and $177.788 million for health sciences programs. Foundational public health services receive $129.091 million each fiscal year, plus $42.048 million from a dedicated account. That $300.23 million must be distributed under state public health law. The medical logistics center receives $4.916 million in fiscal year 2026 and $4.873 million in fiscal year 2027. Health officials must coordinate with social services officials to reduce protective-equipment disposal and share supplies between agencies.

Patient needs guide state hospital staffing

State hospital staffing receives $84.565 million for fiscal year 2024 and $77.343 million for fiscal year 2025. Another $960,000 supports a staffing tool and related work at Western and Eastern State Hospitals. The tool tracks daily patient needs by ward and minimum direct-care staffing by profession, with reliability checks and staff consultation. DSHS must track staffing and spending monthly, including contracted forensic restoration facilities; reports were due December 1, 2023, and December 1, 2024. Exceeding monthly allotments or extending approval requires advance written approval, with legislative notice within 30 days of approved excess spending.

School meal programs get state reimbursements

The law provides $83.617 million each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for school meal reimbursements. Eligible schools or school groups must participate in the federal community eligibility program under Washington’s 2022 law. State money covers meals not reimbursed at the federal free-meal rate. Payments go to schools or districts, not directly to families.

Districts keep special education funding share

The state must pass 85 percent of federal special education funds to school districts. Districts may use increased federal funds for high-cost students, regional special education services, and staff training. Training can focus on including students with disabilities in regular classrooms.

Early learning help before kindergarten

The law provides $94.183 million in fiscal 2026 and $95.936 million in 2027 for transition-to-kindergarten programs. Funding supports 7,266 annual average full-time-equivalent eligible children each school year. Families receive access to funded early learning, not a specified cash payment.

Funding changes for special education students

The law sets aside $114.271 million for fiscal 2026 and $195.418 million for 2027 to implement special education funding changes. These cover the funding multiplier, enrollment limit, and safety net payments in Senate Bill 5263. It also sets aside $5.123 million for 2026 and $7.275 million for 2027 for services under Senate Bill 5253. Each allocation lapses unless its companion bill was enacted by June 30, 2025.

Higher school staff salary funding rates

For 2025–26 and 2026–27, statewide minimum salary funding rates for certificated instructional staff are $80,164 and $82,248, respectively. Rates for certificated administrative staff are $118,994 and $122,088. Rates for classified staff are $57,507 and $59,002. Each district's allocation equals the applicable rate multiplied by its regional cost factor. These amounts fund districts, not guaranteed individual salaries, except as provided by state school-employee salary law.

School districts get funding and transportation grants

The law provides all Washington school districts one-time funding of $50 per pupil for the 2024–25 school year. Funding totals $51.75 million from the state general fund and $250,000 from the Washington Opportunity Pathways Account. This is separate from statutory basic education and goes to districts, not families. Subject to available funds, eligible districts can also receive transportation grants of up to $10 million statewide in each of fiscal 2026 and 2027. Awards must consider efficiency ratings, performance measures, and local conditions, including unusual geography.

School staffing funds include small-school support

For 2025–26 and 2026–27, school staffing funds follow enrollment, class-size, and salary formulas. Central-office staff units equal 5.3% of eligible staff units; salary fringe-benefit factors are 16.02% for certificated staff and 18.07% for classified staff. Benefit-unit factors are 1.02 and 1.43, respectively; these are district funding factors, not employee pay raises. Eligible small or remote schools get extra teaching, administrative, and support staff units based on enrollment, grades served, or remote-and-necessary status. Those units include inflation-adjusted maintenance, supplies, and operating funds, but are reduced by other general education units already provided.

State agencies receive secure software licenses

The law provides $86.566 million solely to buy and distribute Microsoft 365 licenses for state agencies. The licenses must include advanced security features and cloud-based phone system capabilities. Washington Technology Solutions must report each year by December 31 on distributed licenses and additional licenses agencies hold. Reports must include statewide license counts, types, and costs.

State funding supports public worker pensions

The state contributes $102 million in fiscal year 2026 and $106.3 million in 2027 to law enforcement and firefighter retirement systems. Those contributions are paid monthly. Judicial retirement systems receive $4.9 million and $4.6 million in those years, paid quarterly. The appropriations fund the systems but do not change individual pension amounts.

Funding for local Medicaid health projects

The law provides up to $657.598 million in federal funds and $207.273 million in local funds for community health projects. The money is restricted to accountable communities of health under initiative 1 of Washington's Medicaid demonstration waiver. The Health Care Authority must consider local input, and no more than six local projects are allowed. This funding does not create a household payment or a right to individual assistance.

Funding keeps state veterans homes operating

The law provides $215.905 million to operate Washington’s state veterans homes during the 2025–2027 budget period. The total includes state, federal, and private or local funds. It does not set new eligibility rules, resident payments, or individual service levels.

Medicaid providers get milestone-based improvement funding

The law makes up to $557.333 million in federal money and $227.643 million in private or local money available. The Health Care Authority may pay Apple Health managed care plans and partner providers when they meet improvement milestones. Funding supports only initiatives 1, 2, and 3 of the Medicaid 1115 demonstration waiver. Plans and providers must meet the authority's performance and reporting deadlines. These payments do not create an individual enrollee entitlement.

More emergency food help for households

Washington's emergency food assistance program receives $20.57 million in base funding in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. The law adds $46.625 million in each year to run the program. The Department of Agriculture receives the money. These provisions do not set household eligibility or benefit amounts.

More funding for health premium help

The law raises fiscal year 2025 funding for Washington's health care affordability account from $45 million to $85 million. The account supports premium help for eligible residents. It also receives $55 million in fiscal year 2026 and $30 million in fiscal year 2027. These provisions do not set household eligibility thresholds or assistance amounts.

Central students get university operating support

Central Washington University receives $185.956 million in total operating support for the 2025–2027 budget period. Its budget reserves $240,000 from the workforce education account for computer science faculty and expanded cybersecurity capacity. It also reserves $692,000 from the Accident Account to increase enrollment in occupational safety and health programs. The operating appropriation does not set individual student payments or tuition changes.

Higher funding rates for homecare providers

The law funds higher rates for individual providers contracted through the consumer-directed employer, with rates set by the state rate-setting board. State general funds include $33.412 million for fiscal year 2026 and $80.128 million for fiscal year 2027. Homecare agency rate parity must be consistent with the board’s rate. Agencies also receive a $0.30 hourly administrative-rate increase beginning July 1, 2025, plus another $0.23 beginning July 1, 2026. The combined agency increase is $0.53 per hour, not a guaranteed worker wage increase or direct household payment.

More bilingual learning funding for students

For 2024–25, the statewide average transitional bilingual allocation rises from $1,622 to $1,649 per annual average full-time equivalent student. Fiscal year 2025 state funding rises from $260.599 million to $269.058 million. Federal funding rises from $137.117 million to $152.111 million. Total funding for fiscal years 2024–2025 rises from $647.673 million to $671.126 million. District funding covers the 2023–24 and 2024–25 school years, including support for students who have exited the program.

Operating funds for Eastern Washington University

Eastern Washington University receives $182.373 million for operations during the 2025–2027 budget period. This appropriation does not state how much goes to a particular program, student, or household.

University operations and student needs funded

Washington State University receives $685.115 million for operations during the 2025–2027 budget period. The law also provides $1.15 million from the workforce education investment account to implement House Bill 1559 on postsecondary student needs. That allocation does not specify services or individual benefit amounts. Western Washington University receives $10,000 for fiscal 2024 to implement Senate Bill 5238 on academic employee bargaining. The bargaining allocation does not itself specify changes to pay, rights, or employment terms.

State funds liquor and cannabis distributions

For 2025–2027, the law provides $87.96 million from the Liquor Excise Tax Account and $98.876 million from the Liquor Revolving Account. It provides $44.177 million from the Dedicated Cannabis Account under the 2022 distribution law. Another $104,000 from the General Fund supports additional tax distributions. Money goes to recipients named by law, and spending cannot exceed available distribution funds. These allocations do not change household tax rates or create individual payments.

Employment help funding cut for Medicaid-ineligible people

Fiscal year 2025 funding for supported employment services for people ineligible for Medicaid falls from $3.008 million to $250,000. Services are similar to those under Medicaid waiver initiatives 3a and 3b. Eligibility for those initiatives must be determined before services are authorized. This funding period ends June 30, 2025; the provision does not state an individual service reduction.

Future surcharge assumptions for school employees

Future school employee health funding proposals agreed to in bargaining must assume a $25 monthly tobacco-use surcharge. They must also assume a surcharge of at least $50 monthly for some covered spouses or domestic partners. That surcharge applies when the spouse or partner declines other employer insurance worth at least 95% of the largest-enrollment public employee plan. These surcharges are in addition to the member premium. The provision sets no specific plan year when charges begin.

Health cost controls for public employees

The public employee and school employee benefits boards must keep health benefits within available funding. They must use cost controls such as employee premium payments, higher costs when receiving care, or benefit changes. Managed competition is another allowed option. Applicable health care agreements can provide different terms. The law does not choose a specific change or set the amount of any increase.

In-home parenting pilots end earlier

The law moves the in-home parenting pilot section's expiration to June 30, 2025, from July 1, 2026. The section requires two pilots for families involved in child welfare, children's mental health, or juvenile justice systems. One serves families west of the Cascade crest and one east. Each offers three in-home sessions weekly and round-the-clock crisis support to prevent or limit out-of-home placement. The pilots must build on existing services without duplicating them.

Public employee health plans require surcharges

Applicable employee health plan boards must charge tobacco-using members $25 monthly, on top of premiums. A second surcharge of at least $50 monthly applies when a covered spouse or domestic partner declines qualifying employer coverage. That other coverage must have benefits and premiums worth at least 95% of the largest-enrollment Public Employees' Benefits Board plan. Both charges apply when both conditions are met.

Public employees face health benefit limits

The accountable care plan ends as a state and school employee coverage option beginning in plan year 2026. The law also eliminates Smart Health from affected employee plans, as provided by Senate Bill 5807. The Health Care Authority cannot add obesity or weight-loss drug coverage without a specific legislative appropriation; existing diabetes coverage need not end. The Public Employees’ Benefits Board must review costs, and benefit increases require enough savings from other benefit changes. The board cannot change retiree rules to restore eligibility for retiree benefits.

State SSI supplement alone cannot qualify

Receiving Washington’s state Supplemental Security Income payment alone does not qualify a person for medical assistance under this rule. The restriction applies only when that payment is the sole basis for eligibility. It does not change eligibility based on other circumstances.

State SSI supplements alone exclude Medicaid

Receiving a Washington state supplement to Supplemental Security Income does not, by itself, qualify someone for medical assistance. This limits eligibility when the state supplement is the person’s only qualifying basis. The rule does not state that people qualifying on another basis lose coverage.

Fewer funded early learning slots

The Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program supports at least 16,778 slots in fiscal year 2024. For fiscal year 2025, funded slots fall from 17,278 to 16,433. State General Fund support falls from $156.585 million to $147.546 million. The reduction leaves fewer publicly funded slots available to eligible children.

Less graduate tuition help at Washington State

The law reduces Washington State University funding to reflect fewer state-supported graduate tuition waivers. It does not state how many waivers are reduced or any student's tuition increase. The university must keep its existing practices and procedures for tuition waivers for eligible veterans.

Teacher bonus funding falls; amounts stay unchanged

Fiscal 2025 funding for National Board-certified teacher bonuses falls from $77.623 million to $69.619 million. Funding covers the 2023–24 and 2024–25 school years; the stated 2024–25 bonus remains $6,324. Teachers must hold valid, unexpired National Board certification and teach in a Washington public school. An additional annual $5,000 requires free or reduced-price lunch eligibility of at least 50% in high schools, 60% in middle schools, or 70% in elementary schools. The appropriation falls by $8.004 million, but the provision does not reduce the stated bonus amounts.

Work-study keeps student and employer limits

During 2025–2027, state work-study continues to exclude nonresident students. Earlier increases in employers' required wage share and adjusted employer match rates also remain in place. School funding distributions consider off-campus job development, past program use, and student need. The law does not state the wage-share or match percentages.

Less funding for state mental healthcare

The law cuts the DSHS Mental Health Program's total budget from $1.7656 billion to $1.730313 billion. Revised fiscal year 2025 funding includes $722.713 million in state money, $193.022 million federal, and $6.009 million private/local. Fiscal year 2024 state funding is $808.569 million. The law does not specify changes to any household's eligibility or benefit amount.

Less funding for waiver support services

The law lowers federal funding caps for waiver support services and administration from $87.665 million to $63.677 million. The local funding cap falls from $87.666 million to $63.684 million. Money is limited to initiative 2 long-term support services and initiative 3 administrative costs. The Health Care Authority must contract with and fund DSHS to run initiative 2. Specified state funds and transferred money cannot supplement this funding.

Lower caps for Medicaid quality funding

The law lowers the Medicaid quality program's federal funding cap from $467.787 million to $420.677 million. Its private/local cap falls from $191.068 million to $171.826 million. Payments can depend on providers and organizations meeting milestones, performance timelines, and reporting deadlines. Money can support only initiatives 1, 2, and 3 of the Medicaid demonstration waiver. The law bars supplementation or transfers from specified funding sources.

Climate transfers shrink; later funding intended

The law reduces two Climate Investment Account transfers to the carbon emissions reduction account. One fiscal year 2025 transfer falls from $200 million to $5.847 million, with an October 15, 2024 deadline. A second transfer, available on or after January 1, 2025, falls from $324 million to $162 million. The law states an intent to transfer another $194.153 million and $162 million in fiscal year 2027. Those later transfers are not required by these provisions.

State technology and system budgets shrink

The state technology agency's total funding falls from $308.533 million to $152.986 million. The revised total includes $7.623 million in state funds for fiscal 2024 and $6.278 million for fiscal 2025. It also includes $2.777 million in federal funds and $136.308 million from the Washington Technology Solutions Revolving Account. Separately, Liquor Revolving Account funding for regulatory system updates falls from $35.278 million to $22.528 million. Those updates remain subject to section 701's conditions, limits, and reviews; specific household service changes are not identified.

Lower payments to Medicaid health plans

Beginning January 1, 2026, the Health Care Authority must cut Medicaid managed care payment rates by 1%. It can change provider payment schedules, state-directed payments, or other administrative rules to carry out the cut. This changes payments to health plans and providers, not household benefit amounts directly.

Medicaid budget overruns can trigger service cuts

The Health Care Authority must act when quarterly spending reports and caseload forecasts show medical assistance spending will exceed appropriations. It must keep spending within its annual budget authority. Its options include reducing provider rates or eliminating optional services. This rule does not create a new personal payment duty for Medicaid recipients.

Medicaid supervision funded, skills benefit restricted

Beginning July 1, 2024, the state transitions affected behavioral health personal-care clients to Medicaid supportive supervision and oversight services. Funding covers eligible services in adult family homes, assisted living, and enhanced services facilities, including specified exceptional behavioral health personal care. Managed-care contracts must use federally approved rates that reflect expected costs. Adult family home services depend on the applicable collective bargaining agreement being signed. The Health Care Authority cannot start a skills development and restoration benefit without funding specifically for it.

Behavioral health cuts despite federal increases

The law cuts total community behavioral health funding from $5.564254 billion to $5.516081 billion. Fiscal year 2025 state funding falls from $1.226089 billion to $1.172621 billion. Federal funding rises from $3.078664 billion to $3.102474 billion, partly offsetting the cuts. Opioid settlement funding falls from $78.744 million to $74.877 million. Funding from the statewide 988 crisis response account falls from $33.499 million to $18.786 million.

Health Department funding rises and falls

For fiscal year 2025, Health Department state general fund money falls from $184.729 million to $168.256 million. Federal general fund money rises from $589.612 million to $611.612 million; private/local money rises from $189.255 million to $190.497 million. Climate Commitment money falls from $91 million to $89.822 million; Health Professions money falls from $197.115 million to $197.015 million. Safe Drinking Water money rises from $8.964 million to $10.801 million. These are agency funding changes, not set household benefits.

Hospital staffing funded with spending limits

State hospital staffing receives $84.565 million in fiscal 2026, $77.343 million in fiscal 2027, and $960,000 in federal funds. Eastern and Western State Hospitals must use a tool measuring daily patient needs and minimum staffing by profession. The department must test whether users score needs consistently and track monthly ward staffing and costs, including overtime and contracted services. Staffing and spending cannot exceed approved monthly limits without advance written approval from the state budget director. Reports are due December 1 each fiscal year; lawmakers must be notified within 30 days of excess-spending approval or an extension.

Veterans funding shifts across service budgets

For fiscal year 2025, state headquarters funding falls from $5.324 million to $5.24 million. State field services funding falls from $12.007 million to $11.146 million. State veterans-home funding falls from $19.507 million to $16.274 million. Veterans homes' federal funding rises from $136.196 million to $146.25 million. Their private and local funding rises from $11.982 million to $12.936 million.

Larger tobacco settlement transfer, with cap

The fiscal 2025 transfer limit from the Tobacco Settlement Account to the General Fund rises from $92 million to $375 million. The transfer cannot exceed the actual annual base payment plus applicable fiscal 2025 diligent enforcement settlement payments. This permits a larger General Fund transfer but removes that money from the settlement account. The provision does not say how the General Fund uses it.

State shifts money between dedicated accounts

For fiscal year 2025, the law moves $15 million from the Secretary of State's Revolving Account to the General Fund. It also moves $67.697 million from the Electric Vehicle Incentive Account to the General Fund. Another $10 million moves from the Natural Climate Solutions Account to the Natural Resource Real Property Replacement Account to repay the Teanaway property and community forest loan. During 2025–2027, lawmakers may also transfer excess nontribal gambling funds and excess certified public accountants' account funds to the General Fund. These transfers do not themselves state changes to household incentives, fees, or eligibility.

Community health funding shifts within caps

Maximum federal funding for accountable communities of health rises from $342.398 million to $394.249 million. Maximum local funding falls from $213.592 million to $195.181 million. The Health Care Authority must consider local needs and fund no more than six local projects under initiative 1. These ceilings cannot be increased using the state funds or transferred funds barred by the law.

Higher Medicaid hospital payments require local funding

The Health Care Authority must seek federal approval for inpatient payments that raise participating hospitals' rates to average commercial-payer levels. That program is capped at $200.661 million in federal money and $91.43 million in local money. It also designs inpatient payments for UW Medicine and optional affiliated hospitals, maintains their outpatient program, and seeks approval to expand it. UW payments target average commercial-payer levels; required approvals and federal payment rules apply. Hospitals keep the payments but provide required local inpatient funding and bear added UW program costs; state general-fund spending cannot increase.

Amateur radio operators get capped leases

Natural Resources may lease state-managed tower sites to amateur radio operators for no more than $100 yearly per site per lessee. The law provides $266,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to cover lost lease revenue. That money compensates the department and trust beneficiaries.

Digital help for people facing access barriers

The law provides $2.5 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for digital assistance, devices, and subscriptions. Grants fund organizations providing one-on-one help to people with limited access to services. Groups served include job seekers, students and families, English learners, Medicaid clients, people experiencing poverty, and seniors. The funding does not guarantee a device or subscription for each household.

Energy upgrade help for homes and businesses

Commerce gets $3.5 million from the Climate Commitment Account to provide energy assistance and help people access programs. Assistance can include incentives, energy audits, and rebates for home and small-business upgrades. The law does not state individual eligibility rules or rebate amounts.

Funding for early childhood court services

The Office of Public Defense receives $102,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for early childhood court. The money is solely for implementing Substitute Senate Bill 5149. The appropriation lapses unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2025. This funding provision does not specify household eligibility or individual payments.

Funding supports crime victims and witnesses

The state crime victim and witness assistance account receives $2 million each fiscal year in 2026 and 2027. The money supports assistance for crime victims and witnesses. This provision does not set individual eligibility rules or payment amounts.

Hardship pay supports task force participation

Task force members can receive compensation under state law when financial hardship may hamper their participation. This continues authority to support participation and diverse representation on the task force and tribal advisory committee. The provision does not state a payment amount or schedule.

Individual help during declared state emergencies

The law provides $2.5 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for individual emergency assistance. Assistance must follow state emergency assistance law and occur during an emergency proclaimed by the governor. State budget officials must notify legislative fiscal committees about each assistance application or request received and each funding allocation. The appropriation does not set individual payment amounts.

Language help for families using services

The law provides Commerce $175,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for language access. Activities may include translation, interpretation, and materials in other languages. An Issaquah nonprofit receives another $125,000 each year for cultural programs and help navigating services. It helps families facing language or cultural barriers use schools, public safety, health, human services, and local government.

Legal advice for kinship caregivers continues

The law maintains a legal advice phone line and support program for relatives caring for children. It provides $604,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $607,000 in fiscal year 2027. Guidance covers kinship care, guardianship, child welfare, and custody. The funding supports legal help, not cash payments to caregivers.

Legal and family help after incarceration

Statewide reentry legal aid receives $1.007 million in fiscal year 2026 and $1.022 million in fiscal year 2027. A separate $150,000 grant in fiscal year 2025 helps fathers return from incarceration and reunite with their families. That nonprofit must have state contracting experience in corrections betterment projects and family access and visitation services. Neither appropriation sets a cash payment for individuals.

Legal help for Black gender-diverse communities

The law provides $150,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to a nonprofit with Seattle and Tacoma offices. Its mission must include legal and social services for Black intersex and gender-diverse communities in Washington. Funding supports legal help, including criminal law and civil rights cases, rather than household payments.

Low tower rents for amateur radio

Natural Resources can lease radio tower sites to amateur radio operators for up to $100 annually per site, per lessee. The actual charge depends on the lease terms. The law also funds compensation for lost lease revenue to trust beneficiaries and the department.

More funding for lower-cost dispute resolution

Resolution Washington receives $9.975 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. The grant must build statewide dispute resolution centers and programs offering a low-cost alternative to going to court. The law does not set participant fees, eligibility rules, or individual savings.

Phone legal help for older adults

The Office of Civil Legal Aid can use up to $40,000 each fiscal year for phone legal advice and assistance. Otherwise eligible people age 60 or older can receive help regardless of household income or assets. Help is limited to legal matters authorized by RCW 2.53.030(2)(a) through (k).

Poverty workgroup members get participation support

A Seattle nonprofit focused on poverty reduction and racial equity receives $100,000 each in fiscal years 2026 and 2027. It must convene and staff a poverty reduction workgroup steering committee made up of people with lived experience of poverty. Funding may reimburse members’ travel, child care, and other participation costs. This is participation support, not a general household benefit.

Refunds and help after possession cases

Beginning July 1, 2025, the law provides $5.937 million to establish refunds for convictions vacated by court order because of State v. Blake. Refunds cover paid legal debts, collection costs, and document-verified third-party costs; court officials must certify each refund amount. Another $870,000 each fiscal year funds related resentencing, conviction removal, and refund work. Public defense may also spend up to $5,000 total in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 on urgent client help. That help serves simple possession advocacy program clients whose urgent needs threaten court attendance or court-ordered services; the office sets eligibility and fast review rules.

Seattle arts programs support community healing

The law provides a $350,000 fiscal year 2025 grant for community-based arts programs focused on healing. Programs serve survivors of gender-based violence, people returning from incarceration, and other community members. The recipient must be a Seattle nonprofit with arts experience, including work with veteran and Latino groups. The law sets no payment or service amount per participant.

Skating lessons funded for low-income preschoolers

A Seattle-based nonprofit receives $100,000 each fiscal year in 2026 and 2027 to expand preschool skating lessons. The lessons serve children from diverse and low-income families. The money funds the program, not payments to families.

Tacoma families get funded cultural services

A Tacoma nonprofit receives $125,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. The grant funds social services, arts, and education for Latino and Indigenous communities. Activities may include family support for bilingual and bicultural clients. The grant funds services, not direct household payments.

Veterans get local officers and cemetery funding

Veterans Affairs gets $1.02 million in fiscal year 2026 and $900,000 in 2027 for contracted veteran service officers. One position serves each of Walla Walla, Clallam, Stevens, Asotin, and Skamania counties; two serve Island County. The five-county allocation is $750,000 each year; Island County gets $270,000 in 2026 and $150,000 in 2027. Another $1.437 million in state and federal money funds veterans cemetery services during 2025–2027. These provisions do not set individual benefit payments or change cemetery eligibility.

Whatcom water users get claim assistance

Whatcom County receives $200,000 in fiscal year 2026 to administer technical help with water-rights claims. Assistance must be available to all water users filing adjudication claims in Water Resource Inventory Area 1. The grant cannot fund challenges to another claimant's claims.

Youth safety callers must receive help

The Attorney General's YES youth safety tip line receives $958,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Anyone contacting it for themselves or another person must receive timely help and cannot be turned away. Services include triage, referrals, follow-up, emergency alerts when warranted, and statewide outreach. Information is confidential, but disclosure is allowed when necessary to respond to a specific emergency threat to life. The vendor must be selected through competitive contracting.

Help protecting families' benefit card money

The department funds a Seattle organization to teach communities how to protect electronic benefit card money from skimming and trafficking. Outreach focuses on highly affected communities, including those in King and Yakima counties. Messages must fit each community's language and cultural needs. Where practical, the department must share information and data to improve outreach.

Funding runs disability savings account program

Commerce receives $557,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to design and administer Washington’s disability savings program. The program is called Achieving a Better Life Experience, or ABLE. The funding supports program access but does not set an individual payment or change account eligibility in this provision.

Asthma help for children near Sea-Tac

King County receives $300,000 to expand community health worker asthma services for children near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The funding targets children living within 10 miles of the airport, where children face disproportionate asthma rates.

At-home care coordination for Medicaid clients

The law funds area agency on aging case managers for Medicaid clients with mental illness who live in their own homes. Case managers coordinate services within existing case-management standards. The Department of Social and Health Services and those agencies must agree before adding or changing requirements. This is service coordination, not a cash payment.

Child welfare families get safety support

A $1.35 million opioid-settlement pilot can contract with up to eight public health nurses to help caseworkers explain fentanyl risks and child safety. Related pilots support third-party safety-plan participants, nurses in protective-services safety planning, and regional legal liaisons for abuse and neglect cases. Two evidence-based intensive in-home parenting pilots serve children and families from birth through age 18. Their funding includes $972,000 from opioid settlements and $300,000 in private or local funds. The services support families involved with child welfare, children’s mental health, or juvenile justice systems.

Citizenship funding priority for assistance clients

The department must review clients receiving aged, blind, or disabled assistance for potential help through naturalization. Clients who may gain federal Supplemental Security Income through citizenship get high priority for department naturalization funding. The law does not set an individual award or guarantee federal benefit eligibility.

Community mental health groups receive funding

The law provides $125,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for community-led mental health groups, classes, and statewide outreach. The work focuses especially on Latino communities, rural areas, and tribes. The nonprofit recipient must be the Washington office of a national grassroots organization helping people affected by mental health conditions. This is service funding, not a household cash payment.

Conditional funding for children in crisis

The social services department receives $138,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for the children in crisis program. The law also provides $161,000 in federal funds solely to implement Substitute House Bill 1272. The budget requires this funding to lapse unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2025. This provision does not state individual eligibility rules or payment amounts.

Continued services for blind young children

The law provided $201,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $201,000 in fiscal year 2025 for continued statewide services. The services are for Washington youth who are blind or have low vision and are under age 14. These are earlier-year appropriations, not new fiscal year 2026–2027 funding.

Dementia support and provider training funded

The law funds dementia education, resource staff, and direct services in three areas of Washington. It also provides $226,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for University of Washington dementia-care training. The Project ECHO program uses virtual teaching, case discussions, and practice support to connect providers with experts. It aims to add 15–20 smaller-clinic providers yearly, initially including university neighborhood clinics and Virginia Mason Memorial in Yakima. The training funding does not guarantee a specific patient service.

Dental care funding for incarcerated people

The law provides $362,000 in fiscal year 2025 state funds to staff a mobile dental clinic. The clinic serves incarcerated people at each stand-alone minimum-security camp run by the Department of Corrections.

Dental funding supports Medicaid and uninsured patients

The University of Washington School of Dentistry receives $1 million in state funding in each fiscal year from 2024 through 2027. The money supports its role as a major dental care provider for Medicaid-covered and uninsured people. The appropriations support care capacity, but do not guarantee a specific amount of treatment for each patient.

Doorway Project youth get care coordination

The law provides $75,000 each year in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for a Doorway Project community care coordinator. The coordinator serves youth transitioning toward adulthood through a partnership with the University of Washington Seattle campus. The funding pays for coordination, not direct payments to youth or families.

Enrollment help when Medicaid coverage ends

State agencies must expand eligibility staff access to Healthplanfinder, where the Health Care Authority must complete medical assistance applications. They must refer clients about to lose Medicaid to the Washington Health Benefit Exchange. Beginning January 1, 2027, the Exchange must start developing an automated system to connect those clients with qualified health plans. The Exchange must work with stakeholders, and funding is subject to section 701 of the law. Referrals do not guarantee coverage, and the law sets no date for the automated system to begin operating.

Foster and kinship families get support

Kinship caregivers obtaining an initial foster care license qualify for maintenance payments for up to 90 days. The law provides $2.113 million for fiscal year 2024 and $4.119 million for fiscal year 2025. It also provides $453,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for foster and kinship care hubs. Hubs support foster parents, biological families, child outcomes, and less restrictive community placements.

Free bilingual health and household services

A Redmond nonprofit gets $200,000 in fiscal year 2026 to expand free bilingual services in King and Snohomish counties. It serves Latino, low-income, vulnerable, immigrant, and Spanish-speaking communities. Supported programs include health outreach, financial coaching, small business help, youth technology space, internships, and home-buying support. The grant does not set a household payment.

Funding keeps long-term care advocacy running

The law provides $1.332 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to operate Washington's long-term care ombudsman program. The program serves people receiving long-term care. This funding does not change who qualifies for care or provide individual cash payments.

Funding supports families staying together

The law provides enough funding to maintain payment rates for family preservation service providers. It also provides $4.104 million for fiscal year 2024 and $3.939 million for fiscal year 2025. Those amounts expand combined in-home services to serve more families. These provisions do not set a payment amount for each family.

Funding supports family services and visits

The law provides $2.4 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for performance-based family-support service contracts. Contracted visits for children in temporary out-of-home care receive $6.696 million in state funds each year, plus $2.94 million in federal funds. Visit funding reimburses providers for certain unpaid services, including work tied to missed or canceled visits. The provisions fund services and provider payments, not a set payment for each family.

Funding supports Seattle nursing home care

The law provides state and federal funds for nursing home services at the Transitional Care Center of Seattle. The funds also cover urgent building costs. The provision does not state an amount or change residents' eligibility.

Grants help youth get treatment evaluations

The law provides $140,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for juvenile rehabilitation grants. Defense attorneys and counties can apply for sex offender evaluations or treatment before a case is decided. Those costs qualify only when the court does not cover them. Grants also support process planning, site assessments, and training in additional treatment methods.

Help enrolling children and tracking development

A nonprofit toll-free hotline helps families learn about and enroll children in Apple Health for Kids. It receives $90,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027, plus $180,000 in federal funds. The Department of Health also receives $266,000 each year to operate the universal development screening system. These funds support services rather than direct family payments.

HIV care support for Spanish speakers

The law provides $125,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for a Seattle community organization serving Spanish speakers. The recipient must provide access to HIV testing and treatment. Funding can support expansion into Snohomish County and support groups for people living with HIV. This grant supports services, not household cash payments.

Hospital caregivers get information and training

The law provides $75,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for caregiver information and training. Funding covers hospital messages about resources, online videos on common care tasks, and information provided when patients enter Washington hospitals. The provision does not provide cash payments to caregivers.

Hotline funding helps families enroll children

The law funded a nonprofit-operated toll-free hotline helping families learn about and enroll children in Apple Health for Kids. It provided $90,000 in state funds for fiscal year 2024 and $90,000 for fiscal year 2025. It also provided $180,000 in federal funds. This funding ended June 30, 2025.

King County gets opioid treatment funding

The law provides $250,000 in fiscal 2024 and $250,000 in fiscal 2025 for a one-time King County contract. The contract with the county’s behavioral health administrative services organization expands medication treatment for opioid use disorder. The funding goes toward services, not direct patient payments.

Local application help for veterans continues

Social and Health Services must continue its agreement with Veterans Affairs to refer veterans who may qualify for services. Veterans Affairs staff must work at selected community service offices in King and Pierce counties to help with applications. The rule continues access to help; it does not change benefit amounts or eligibility.

Local mental health support for youth

The law allocates $1 million in fiscal year 2025 for four nonprofit grants supporting local youth development and mental health services. Services range from prevention to crisis care, and grants can also support evaluation. Two grants support established health-zone programs, and two support programs being developed and implemented. A Blaine park and recreation district also receives $50,000 in fiscal year 2025 for mental health counselors at youth day camps.

Lower fees for state abortion medication

From May 20 through June 30, 2025, the law removed the $5-per-dose fee for abortion medication provided by DSHS. Covered sales and distributions could not cost more than list price. People and providers obtaining medication from the department saved $5 for each covered dose.

Meal and volunteer support for seniors

The law funds volunteer services, with priority for groups traditionally served by long-term care, including seniors and people with disabilities. It also funds area agencies on aging to maintain senior meals at community sites, through pantries, and by home delivery. Neither provision sets a payment amount per person.

Mental health funding for campus counseling

Evergreen receives $137,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for student mental health, adding to existing funding. Each year, Evergreen also receives $39,000 and Western Washington University receives $48,000 for one full-time military-focused counselor each. A separate allocation provides $64,000 each year for one full-time counselor serving active military members or veterans. All three counselors must hold a license under Washington’s counseling law and have relevant military-related training and experience. The funding does not guarantee a set amount of care per person.

Mental health support for new parents

The perinatal support warm line receives $500,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. It offers peer support, resources, and referrals to new and expectant parents and people transitioning to parenthood. Services address postpartum depression and other mental health issues, including people at risk of these conditions. The funding supports the service, not cash payments to callers.

Midwifery license fees capped at $525

Health cannot charge more than $525 annually for a new or renewed midwifery program license. State funds supplement the program's fee revenue. The prior fee is not stated, so individual savings cannot be calculated.

Midwifery license fees capped at $525

The Department of Health cannot charge more than $525 annually for a new or renewed midwifery-program license. State funds also support the program beyond license fee revenue. The law does not state the earlier fee or individual savings.

More crisis care for disabled adults

The law funds 10 additional stabilization beds by June 2025 for adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities. It also funds mobile crisis diversion services across all three Washington regions. More developmental-disability case managers are funded to reduce caseloads from 75 to 66 clients per manager by June 2027.

More Medicare counseling for seniors

The Insurance Commissioner receives $3.297 million for the senior health insurance benefit advisor program. The money expands education, outreach, counseling, and complaint help. Older adults and people with disabilities get support with Medicare enrollment and access to care, not direct cash payments.

More outreach for King County seniors

The law funds direct services, outreach, and case management in at least four senior housing communities. The communities must be in a King County city next to a major international airport. Services connect seniors with health, housing, and social resources to support safe, independent living at home.

More respite beds for disabled adults

The state funds 13 community respite beds across Washington for adults with developmental disabilities. The beds give caregivers a break and provide community-based stabilization. They offer an alternative to planned or emergency respite at a residential habilitation center.

More staff for paid leave claims

The law provides $10.823 million from the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Account for more program staff. They process paid family and medical leave claims and answer worker and employer questions. This funding does not change benefit amounts or eligibility.

More support for parent-child visits

Contracted family visits receive $6.696 million in state funds in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, plus $2.94 million federally. Service improvements receive $375,000 in state funds in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027, plus $112,000 federally. Strategies can include higher provider mileage payments and transportation-only contracts for children in out-of-home care and their families. Supervision can be reduced when that is best for the child. Providers can also receive payment for some uncompensated work, including missed or canceled visits.

More support for youth seeking care

The Office of Homeless Youth receives $500,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for supportive care grants. Grants go to organizations addressing the needs of youth seeking protected health care services. The funds implement Washington's 2023 protected-care law, ESSB 5599. They do not set payments for individual youth.

More treatment for juvenile justice youth

The law provides $1.537 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for juvenile justice treatments and therapies. Programs must use culturally relevant, research-informed prevention and intervention approaches. They must include positive youth development, healing-centered engagement, peer-centered approaches, or a combination. The child welfare agency can focus delivery at fewer programs to control costs.

More tribal help with SNAP applications

The law funds expansion of the tribal SNAP eligibility determination project to five additional tribes. Funding includes $270,000 in state money for fiscal year 2025 and $272,000 in federal money. It also provides $192,000 for fiscal year 2026, $163,000 for fiscal year 2027, and $465,000 in federal money. This supports eligibility reviews, not changes to SNAP benefit amounts or eligibility rules.

No dental deductible for covered children

Children up to age 15 enrolled in the Uniform Dental Plan no longer have a deductible for covered dental care. The law does not state the former deductible amount. It does not change other plan cost-sharing terms.

Ombuds services for people with disabilities

The law provides $797,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for developmental disability ombuds services. The Department of Commerce must contract with a private nonprofit to provide these services. The funding does not establish individual payments.

Opioid care supports youth leaving custody

The law provides $652,000 in opioid settlement funds for medical staff in juvenile rehabilitation facilities. Staff provide opioid use disorder education and medication-based treatment. Another $1.048 million each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 funds contracted education and intervention after youth leave rehabilitation.

Optional insurance help for college athletes

The University of Washington and Washington State University can create an insurance pilot within existing resources. Each school selects eligible current or former intercollegiate athletes and can pay their insurance costs. Coverage can include enrolled athletes and former athletes' care for sports-related injuries and conditions. Former athletes must qualify for post-eligibility care under their athletic association's rules. The pilot is optional, not guaranteed coverage.

Patients get digital treatment order registry

The law provides $384,000 in fiscal year 2025 for a statewide registry of portable orders for life-sustaining treatment. The Department of Health must store and digitally reproduce these treatment-order forms. It must build on its earlier registry work when practical.

Payment for naturopathic primary care

The Health Care Authority must pay naturopathic physicians for primary care provided to medical assistance clients. Payments must stay within appropriated funds. The money goes to providers, not patients, and these provisions set no payment rate.

Pierce County food bank gets funding

A Pierce County food bank receives $200,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $200,000 in fiscal year 2025. The grant supports continued food services for low-income people and can cover costs of a possible move. It does not create an individual cash payment.

Pierce County pilot supports Black residents

The law provides $500,000 in fiscal year 2024 for a Pierce County healthcare pilot serving the African American community. It uses an existing community health equity program. The pilot addresses chronic conditions, birth-related care, dental care, and behavioral health needs. The provision does not set individual eligibility rules or payment amounts.

Reproductive care patients get coordination support

The law provides $412,000 in fiscal year 2025 to develop and implement the Washington Reproductive Access Alliance. It supports a website, phone line, administrative coordination, and patient care coordination. It also provides social support for patient travel. The provision does not set individual payment amounts or eligibility rules.

Respite care for Tri-Cities disability families

The law funds new respite-care beds in the Tri-Cities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The beds expand local access to respite care. The provision does not state how many beds are funded.

Seattle nonprofit funds low-income safety-net services

The law provides a $500,000 fiscal year 2025 grant for safety-net services for low-income families and individuals. The recipient must be a Seattle nonprofit community action agency with a history of serving the Central District’s African American community. The law does not establish an individual cash payment.

Stipends for low-income health department participants

The Department of Health gets $166,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for community participation stipends. The money is only for low-income people taking part in the department's priority engagements. The law does not state each person's payment or the number of recipients.

Support for abused children and foster families

A Spokane child advocacy center receives $94,000 each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 through a service contract. The contract supports ongoing care for children who experienced abuse or neglect and their families. Another $250,000 each year funds supportive visits for families involved in foster care. Trained visit navigators help children and parents have structured, positive visits.

Support for deaf and hard-of-hearing people

The law funds services and support for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind. The provision does not name the services or state a funding amount. It does not set an individual cash payment.

Support for foster and kinship families

The law requires at least $3.1 million annually in state supplemental payment spending for foster children eligible under the state plan. It does not set each child's payment amount. The child welfare agency must track spending and report monthly amounts to the social services agency. This spending cannot count toward another federal maintenance-of-effort requirement. The law also funds kinship navigator services in the Colville Indian Reservation, Yakama Nation, and other tribal areas.

Telehealth funding supports Washington farmworkers

The law provides $150,000 in fiscal year 2026 to develop a telehealth program for Washington farmworkers. The grant goes to a Burien-based nonprofit. Its telehealth company partner must also be based in Washington. The funding supports program development, not direct payments to workers.

Treatment and housing support for families

A Spokane nonprofit experienced in family drug treatment and housing receives $2.351 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. The law also allocates $1.1 million for fiscal year 2024 and $1.4 million for 2025 to an existing Spokane family treatment and housing program. The 2026–2027 recipient must report annually to the governor and child welfare department on families served, entries, exits, and costs. A south Seattle program gets $100,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for pregnant women or mothers leaving inpatient substance use treatment, and their children. It must serve people with both substance use and mental health conditions, provide daily on-site help, and serve regardless of age, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

University counseling for military and veterans

Eastern Washington University receives $45,000 each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for one full-time mental health counselor. The law also provided $64,000 annually for a University of Washington counselor in fiscal years 2024 and 2025. Western Washington University received $48,000 annually for a counselor in those same years. Counselors must be licensed and have training and experience working with active military members or veterans. The funding supports counseling access, not individual payments.

Urgent expense help for represented parents

The Office of Public Defense gets $40,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for parents representation program clients. Temporary help covers urgent housing, utility, transportation, food, and other needs that could harm dependency cases or family reunification. The office must apply eligibility criteria and quickly review requests from program contractors. The law does not set a payment amount per parent.

Youth support in Issaquah and Granger

An Issaquah nonprofit teen center receives $200,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $100,000 in fiscal year 2027. It provides counseling, case management, and connections to housing support for youth ages 12 to 19. A Granger community organization receives $125,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for youth mental and behavioral health education and support. Its services may include employment help, counseling, tutoring, and mentoring. The Granger recipient must run Spanish-language public radio and have a mission serving Spanish-speaking residents' social, educational, and health needs in central and eastern Washington.

Appraiser license fee increases face caps

Annual fees for new or renewed certified real estate appraiser licenses cannot exceed 133% of October 1, 2024 fees. The Department of Licensing must set the adjusted fees by October 14, 2025. The dollar ceiling depends on the earlier fee.

Funding affordable homes in east King County

The law provides $500,000 in fiscal year 2025 to an east King County nonprofit recognized as a by-and-for organization. Funding supports resident education, fair transit-area development partnerships, and land acquisition and assembly strategies near high-capacity transit stations. It also supports an Eastside affordable housing project that may produce up to 33 homes. The law does not set rents or household eligibility.

Funding landlord relief and tenancy preservation

The law provides $2.883 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to the landlord mitigation program account. Funding covers expected claims under landlord damage relief, landlord survivor relief, and tenancy preservation programs. It supports reimbursements and efforts to preserve tenancies. The provision does not set a payment amount for each landlord or tenant.

Help after mobile home community sale notices

The law provides $250,000 in fiscal year 2025 to an Olympia-based nonprofit that helps cooperative businesses. The grant funds technical help and direct support for manufactured and mobile home community residents immediately after a sale notice. The nonprofit's focus includes resident-owned communities, home care agencies, and businesses becoming worker- or community-owned cooperatives. The law does not set a payment for each household.

Homebuyers get counseling and planning support

The law provides $50,000 in fiscal 2024 and $250,000 in fiscal 2025 for nonprofit homeownership advice and education. Each year includes $25,000 each for two Seattle nonprofits serving Black communities: a community land trust and a homeowner-support organization. Another $2 million in fiscal 2025 supports Covenant Homeownership work through the Housing Finance Commission. This includes $1.5 million for counseling and technical help, awarded through competitive proposals to qualifying nonprofits, housing agencies, or development authorities. The remaining $500,000 funds a starter-home affordability plan due January 15, 2025; these funds do not set household purchase payments.

Housing help for refugees fleeing Ukraine conflict

A Seattle community center receives $50,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $420,000 in fiscal year 2025. The center serves eastern European refugees and immigrants in Washington who fled the Ukraine-Russia conflict. Funding supports short-term housing help, immigration services, and other support. The law does not set a payment amount for each household.

More shelter in Kitsap and Whatcom

Kitsap County receives $477,000 in fiscal year 2025 for 70 continuous-stay shelter beds. The beds use a low-barrier, harm-reduction model. Whatcom County receives $250,000 in fiscal year 2025 to serve more families through its motel shelter program. The law does not state how many additional Whatcom families receive shelter.

Property owners get cleanup access compensation

Ecology receives $100,000 for access contracts with property owners next to cleanup site 16913. Contracts must pay fair rental value for space used, blocked, or otherwise unavailable for commercial rent during cleanup. Values must use comparable properties and market conditions before cleanup began. Ecology must give owners a written explanation of its assessment. Access provided July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2027, may be reimbursed.

Rental help follows behavioral health discharge

The law provides $675,000 in each of fiscal 2024 and 2025 for rental vouchers and bridge housing support. The program aims to prevent people leaving behavioral health facilities from becoming homeless. People leaving state-operated facilities receive priority. The law does not set individual voucher amounts or how long help lasts.

Seattle-area families get housing stability support

A Seattle nonprofit receives $15,000 in fiscal 2024 and $20,000 in fiscal 2025 to help families find and keep housing. Outreach targets Black, Indigenous, and other families of color, with emphasis on African American households wanting to live in Seattle. Separately, a King County nonprofit receives $200,000 in fiscal 2026 to help families stay housed during a rental assistance study. That nonprofit must run at least two emergency shelters with at least 500 beds. The law does not set each family's payment amount or assistance period.

Service center funded for homeless youth

The law provides $500,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for homeless youth and young adults. The services are in Seattle's University District. The University of Washington must work with community providers and university units to plan and implement a one-stop service center. The center includes help finding services, and the university can contract with the Department of Commerce to expand services. The money funds local services, not direct cash payments.

Transitioning youth get housing voucher funding

The law funds juvenile rehabilitation community transition services at $878,000 in fiscal 2026 and $879,000 in fiscal 2027. Within those amounts, $105,000 each year is reserved for housing vouchers for youth receiving transition services. The law does not set each youth's voucher amount.

Violence survivors get targeted rent support

The law provides $100,000 in fiscal 2025 for housing help for people fleeing or recently escaped intimate partner violence. Funding goes through providers with current Office of Crime Victims Advocacy contracts for domestic or intimate partner violence services. Priority goes to survivors facing the greatest risk of serious violence and the fewest housing resources. Providers must spend at least 80% of contracted funds on rent payments to landlords; the rest can cover program operations.

Vulnerable households get emergency housing support

Cities, counties, and nonprofits can receive funding for emergency housing assistance. Help includes short-term rent, moving costs, other one-time housing costs, and temporary shelter. Commerce must coordinate distributions with the Governor's Office. Priority goes to providers serving families with children, pregnant people, or other medically vulnerable people. The provision does not state total funding or individual awards.

Youth leaving state care get housing services

The law provides $1.187 million in state funds each in fiscal 2024 and 2025 for housing support after foster care or juvenile rehabilitation. In fiscal 2026 and 2027, it provides $432,000 each year for housing services for youth-agency clients released from incarceration. It also provides $505,000 each year for contracted housing services for youth leaving juvenile rehabilitation facilities. These funds support services, but the law does not set individual payment amounts.

Youth leaving treatment get housing guidance

The law continues contracted safe-housing information and support for youth leaving inpatient facilities. It provides $100,000 each in fiscal 2024 and 2025, and $250,000 each in fiscal 2026 and 2027. The later funding serves youth leaving inpatient mental health or substance use treatment. These services provide guidance and support, not guaranteed housing placements or direct rental payments.

Accessible devices for disabled state workers

The law provides $50,000 from fiscal year 2025 funding for accessible technology and devices for state employees with disabilities. The Office of Financial Management can buy devices directly or fund purchases by employing agencies. The devices support employment and reasonable workplace accommodations; no per-worker amount is set.

Accessible library protected from deeper cuts

The Washington Talking Book and Braille Library cannot face a larger percentage funding cut than the library overall. This protects its relative funding for accessible reading services. It does not prevent all funding cuts.

Aid for public-service graduate students

The law provides $450,000 to continue student assistance in fee-based public-service graduate and professional programs. Eligible programs must charge more than $18,000 in annual tuition. Programs must prioritize traditionally underrepresented students committed to public service in physician assistant, community-oriented public health, or social work programs. Assistance can support students volunteering or working with public health agencies. The law does not set an award amount per student.

Autism support returns for university students

The University of Washington must resume its campus inclusion program for students with autism. The program provides academic coaching, peer mentoring, social support, and career preparation. The university must use existing resources; the law provides no separate appropriation.

Campus support returns for autistic students

The law requires the funded institution to restart its autism inclusion program using existing resources. The program provides academic coaching, peer mentoring, social support, and career preparation for autistic students.

Career help for foreign-trained physicians

The law provides $150,000 in fiscal 2026 to a King County nonprofit that exclusively serves foreign-trained physicians. Funding supports preparation for work in U.S. clinical settings. It may cover outreach about the medical doctor clinical experience program, exam stipends, and professional development. No individual stipend amount is set.

Career training support for health workers

The law provides $2 million in grants for health care apprenticeships, certifications, and support such as tuition, childcare, and travel. Eligible labor-management partnerships need matching funds and the ability to support students. Employers qualify only if more than half their patients are covered by Medicaid and they join or create a partnership. Preference goes to projects serving racially diverse students and in-demand fields with paths to living-wage jobs.

Construction training for low-income job seekers

A King County nonprofit receives a $475,000 grant in fiscal year 2025 for construction preapprenticeship training linked to housing development. The program must support low-income people, especially women and people of color. It must create construction career paths and address sexism and racism in housing, education, training, employment, and career development. The grant does not set a cash payment for participants.

Counseling and assistance for military-connected students

The law provides $39,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for one full-time counselor at the funded institution. The counselor must hold a state mental health license and have training and experience serving active military members or veterans. Edmonds College receives $85,000 in fiscal year 2025 for veteran students' counseling, financial assistance, and reentry services. The appropriations do not set individual assistance amounts.

Covered professionals pay one annual surcharge

During the 2023–2025 budget period, people covered by RCW 43.70.110(3)(c) pay only one annual professional-license surcharge. The surcharge is up to $25, regardless of how many professional licenses they hold. This limit applies through June 30, 2025; the actual surcharge can be below $25.

Education grants funded for National Guard students

The law reserves $250,000 for the National Guard grant program. The money must be used only for that program. This provision does not state individual award amounts or eligibility requirements.

Eight rural nursing students get support

The state provides $42,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for an eight-student rural nursing cohort. Students must remain in rural environments while working toward nursing credentials. Support may include tuition vouchers and travel help. The law does not set individual award amounts.

Entrepreneur pilot funded for international students

The law provides $300,000 for an entrepreneur-in-residence pilot for graduate and postgraduate international students. It does not set individual awards or describe a direct student payment.

Everett students get funded technology programs

The law provides $1.37 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for Everett university center technology programs. The money operates software engineering and data analytics programs. At full implementation, the programs are expected to enroll 50 students each academic year. The university must report these students separately in data sent to the education research data center.

Funding for targeted college aid programs

The law provides $910,000 from workforce education funds for the University of Washington Allen School Scholars Program. A separate provision reserves $580,000 for the same program. It reserves $1.347 million solely for the Shelton Promise pilot. It also provides $42,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to implement the 2024 incarcerated-student grant law. These provisions do not specify individual award amounts or detailed eligibility rules.

Funding supports grants for incarcerated students

The law provides separate fiscal year 2025 appropriations of $42,000 and $330,000 to implement grants for incarcerated students. Both appropriations lapse if Substitute Senate Bill 5953 was not enacted by June 30, 2024. These provisions do not set individual grant amounts or full eligibility rules.

Funding supports Shelton Promise students

The law provides $223,000 from the Workforce Education Investment Account for the Shelton Promise pilot. The appropriation does not set individual student awards or full eligibility rules.

Girls get civic and relationship skills programs

The law provides $150,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to a Seattle nonprofit improving girls' status in Washington. Funding may continue civic engagement programs. It may also support online training for adults who lead healthy relationship skills groups for girls. The grant pays for programs, not direct family payments.

Grants for nurses training anesthesia residents

The law provides $162,000 in fiscal 2025 for Department of Health grants to certified registered nurse anesthetists. Recipients must train nurse anesthesia residents as preceptors. The law does not state the number of grants or the amount each recipient receives.

Help navigating unresolved unemployment claims

The law provides $280,000 for one full-time worker handling unresolved claims that constituents ask their legislators to escalate. This includes help with unemployment claims. Another $100,000 in federal funds supports training for apprentices and their advocates to file claims and navigate unemployment insurance. Neither appropriation changes benefit amounts or eligibility.

Insurance program guidance for rideshare drivers

Community groups receive $200,000 in grants to help transportation network company drivers access an insurance pilot program. Services include outreach, language help, education, and culturally appropriate support. This funding pays for guidance, not insurance benefits, and sets no coverage terms.

Job and education help during addiction recovery

The law provides $5.242 million from the opioid settlement account for Health Care Authority grants. Grants fund employment and education service providers helping people with substance use disorder. The provision does not set individual payments, detailed eligibility rules, or a participant count.

Job seekers get clearer unemployment help

The law provides $1 million for unemployment insurance navigators serving underserved communities; at least $684,000 must fund community-group contracts. Another $5.774 million in federal funds supports translations into Washington's 10 most-spoken languages and related equity work. Translation and equity projects require grantor approval. Letters, alerts, and notices must use plain language, and claimant understanding must be checked before approval. These changes do not increase benefit payments or change eligibility.

Job training for people facing work barriers

The law provides $150,000 in fiscal 2025 for trauma-informed cultural and job training for people of color and others facing employment barriers. A social purpose corporation operating a Tumwater cultural community center runs it. Another $150,000 in 2025 funds concert-work training for underserved youth through a Seattle youth-arts nonprofit producing a Labor Day music festival. A statewide trail-maintenance and hiking nonprofit receives $170,000 in each of fiscal 2024 and 2025 for the Emerging Leaders outdoor program. It must provide safe, inclusive technical outdoor skills and professional development for diverse participants, including Indigenous people and people of color.

Job training help for SNAP recipients

The law provides $185,000 in fiscal year 2026 for SNAP employment and training services. It also funds services tied to the department’s USDA settlement duties, without stating that amount. Services target adults who can work, have no dependents, and receive SNAP. They must also be open to all Basic Food Employment and Training participants.

Lower-cost museum programs for Washington students

The law allocated $600,000 each in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to expand access to Burke Museum education programs. Funded activities include free or reduced-cost programs, transportation reimbursement, and school partnerships. The money also supports tribal consultation, expanded Native programming, and digitizing museum collections. The law does not specify savings or payments for each family.

Marine science and cybersecurity education funded

Western Washington University receives $1.306 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for a new marine, coastal, and watershed sciences program. It also receives $300,000 in fiscal year 2025 for cybersecurity education through a contract with a Kitsap County nonprofit. The cybersecurity partnership includes the Washington State Cyber Range in Poulsbo. These appropriations do not set student tuition aid or individual awards.

Maritime training for low-income job seekers

A Seattle nonprofit receives $200,000 in fiscal year 2025 to help low-income Washington residents become mariners. Services include training, credentials, and other support. The recipient must build fair workforce systems, address structural racism, and consult two Seattle unions representing West Coast mariners. The law sets no direct payment for participants.

Mental health training for university faculty

Western Washington University receives $100,000 for mental health first aid training for faculty. The money comes from the workforce education investment account. Faculty receive training, not a cash benefit.

Mentoring support for foster and local youth

The law provides $375,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for a foster youth mentoring pilot. A Washington mentoring organization administers grants to nonprofits with existing in-state programs. Mentoring must be one-to-one or serve no more than three youth per mentor. Another $125,000 each year funds mentoring for ages 12 through 19 in south King County. The department must contract with an all-male African American organization for that local program.

More accessibility support for college students

The law reserves $50,000 for captioning, sign language interpreters, and other accessibility tools and services at the funded institution. The money must be used only for these purposes. The law does not set a cash payment or service amount for each student.

More campus wellness and student help

The law provides $1.397 million for increased student support services at the University of Washington Tacoma. It also provides $137,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for mental health and wellness at another funded institution. The wellness money must add to, not replace, existing program funding. Neither allocation sets individual payments or lists the specific services each student receives.

More classes and support for students

The law provides $196,000 in fiscal year 2024 for more laboratory, art, and media lab classes at the funded institution. It provides $670,000 to maintain psychology enrollment capacity. Another $600,000 maintains the precollege immersion program and Evergreen first-year experience. It also provides $988,000 for enrollment and retention support, including an advisor and underserved student specialist for Native pathways.

More college affordability funding for students

For fiscal year 2025, Central Washington University's college affordability funding rises from $14.696 million to $14.782 million. Its funding for college-in-high-school fees rises from $5.709 million to $6.79 million. Its total appropriation increases by $1.167 million. Evergreen's general fund support rises by $58,000, including affordability funding that increases from $4.47 million to $4.496 million. These funds are reserved for the named programs; the law does not set individual student payments.

More college programs for recent immigrants

The law provides $7.456 million to expand existing community and technical college programs for refugees and immigrants. Programs serve people who arrived in Washington on or after July 1, 2021, including arrivals from Afghanistan and Ukraine. The law does not set a payment amount for individual students.

More education for incarcerated students

The law allocated $600,000 each in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for education in Department of Corrections facilities. Another $554,000 from the workforce education investment account supports expanded education and reentry services. The funding supports transferable credits, associate and bachelor's degrees, job credentials, and staff training. The college must appoint an implementation team and work with stakeholders on student success and credential pathways. It must also train faculty and staff to work with incarcerated students.

More help applying for college aid

The Washington Student Achievement Council receives $575,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for financial aid application help. The money supports digital tools, expanded training, and more events for high school students, including seniors and College Bound Scholars. Assistance covers the federal student aid application and Washington's state aid application. This funding does not guarantee an aid award.

More museum and community learning opportunities

The Burke Museum receives $200,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027, plus $160,000 from workforce education funds. This supports reduced-cost or free student programs, transportation, school partnerships, and the Burkemobile, especially for underserved schools and locations. It also supports tribal consultation, Native programming, and digitizing Native collections. For fiscal year 2025, a Seattle nonprofit receives $45,000 for hands-on, culturally relevant math learning with community partners. A Federal Way nonprofit receives $250,000 to expand equitable arts access; it must run a semiprofessional theater and provide theater education.

More staff for Native student programs

The law provides $213,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for faculty supporting Native American and Indigenous programs. It also provides $85,000 each year for a Native pathways assistant director. The money supports program staffing at the funded institution, not individual student payments.

More staff for worker claims and complaints

Beginning July 1, 2025, the law funds more workers' compensation claims staff to expand capacity and reduce caseloads. It also funds staff in wage payment, retaliation, child labor, determinations, and fiscal units. Those positions support timely worker complaint investigations. The provisions give no funding amounts and guarantee no claim outcome or processing time.

More staff support for unemployment claims

The law provides $11.156 million to add unemployment insurance staff and maintain program ambassadors. The funding supports timely claim processing and responses to customer questions. It does not change benefit amounts or eligibility.

More student support at Western

Western Washington University receives $2.52 million for outreach, financial aid help, retention, mental health, and pandemic-related learning support. This money must add to, not replace, existing student-support funding. Western also receives $548,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for support services for traditionally underrepresented students. Another $1 million supports additional outreach and student services at Western on the Peninsulas. The law does not set individual cash awards.

More support for Western degree programs

Western Washington University receives $3.426 million to maintain access to science, technology, engineering, and math degrees. It also receives $400,000 to upgrade cyber training equipment and software. The law provides $150,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to recruit and retain high-quality, diverse graduate students. These funds support programs and recruitment, not guaranteed admission or individual awards.

More support for Western Washington students

Western Washington University receives $548,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for services helping traditionally underrepresented students succeed. It also receives $1 million for student support and outreach at Western on the Peninsulas. Another $400,000 supports academic access and outreach. These funds support services rather than setting cash awards for students.

New credentials and pathways for teachers

The Professional Educator Standards Board must develop elementary and secondary ethnic studies endorsements with teacher education and ethnic studies faculty. Teachers need a valid teaching license and must show ethnic studies content knowledge and teaching skills appropriate to students’ ages. The board gets $48,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $16,000 in 2027 to implement educational interpreter bill SSB 5025. It also gets $28,000 in fiscal year 2026 to implement teacher residency and apprenticeship bill ESHB 1651. Each bill’s implementation funding lapses unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2025.

Nursing and social work degrees funded

Western Washington University receives $361,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for its nursing master's program. Its registered nurse-to-bachelor's nursing program receives $433,000 in each of those years. The law also provides $694,000 to establish a social work master's program at the university's Western on the Peninsulas campus. These appropriations fund degree programs, not specified tuition payments or individual awards.

Nursing facility worker wage support continues

The law continues nursing facility payment add-ons that support wage equity for direct and indirect care workers. As far as possible, each facility’s wage add-on must match the wage payment it received June 30, 2023. The law does not set a new wage increase for individual workers.

Nursing license applications processed within days

The Washington Board of Nursing must hire enough staff to process nursing license applications within seven days. The provision sets a processing deadline, not a guarantee of license approval. It does not change application fees.

One-time extra pay for trainee caseworkers

Beginning July 1, 2024, the law funds one-time extra assignment pay for qualifying social service specialist 2 trainees, reference 77B. It provides $1.484 million for fiscal year 2025. The Department of Children, Youth, and Families and Washington Federation of State Employees must negotiate the pay arrangement. The law does not state each employee’s payment.

Orientation support for college grant recipients

Western Washington University receives $125,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for Washington College Grant recipients' orientation. The program must focus on first-generation and traditionally underrepresented students. It can include peer support, follow-up mentoring, and evidence-based measures of student success. The university's proposal was due December 1, 2023, for implementation in the 2024–2025 academic year.

Outdoor learning funded for local students

The law provides $250,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for Connections and Snow to Sea. These outdoor learning programs serve youth in the Blaine, Mount Baker, and Nooksack Valley school districts. Funding pays for educational experiences, not household cash benefits.

Psychology students get funded scholarship opportunities

The law provides $2.224 million to expand Seattle's Master of Arts in Applied Child and Adolescent Psychology program. It assigns $1.116 million to program support and $1.108 million to student scholarships. Individual scholarship amounts and eligibility rules are not stated.

Public colleges can waive operating fees

Public college governing boards and the State Board may waive all or part of any student's operating fees. This authority adds to existing fee waivers but does not guarantee a waiver. State General Fund money cannot replace tuition and fee revenue lost through these waivers.

Resources for farmworker ideas and collaboration

The law provides a Washington farmworker-support nonprofit $250,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $250,000 in fiscal year 2025. The grant pays for outreach, learning materials, tools, and technology. It also supports farmworker ideas for improving production and cooperation with employers.

Scholarship support for future health professionals

The law reserves $150,000 to implement the behavioral health scholarship law. During 2025–2027, at least 5% of each health-professional and behavioral-health loan repayment and scholarship account’s appropriations must fund conditional scholarships. Money can instead fund loan repayment when demand is unmet and no eligible conditional scholarship applications are submitted. The Student Achievement Council and University of Washington must use existing resources to maximize training for Health Corps and Behavioral Health Corps scholarship recipients. These provisions do not set individual award amounts.

Scholarships and degree programs for future teachers

The law provides $2 million for conditional scholarships tied to teacher shortages, without setting individual awards or eligibility rules. Western Washington University receives $700,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for an early childhood education degree program. Its Western on the Peninsulas campus must work with Olympic College, with about 75 bachelor's degrees expected annually at full implementation. Two bilingual educator degree programs in south King County receive $530,000 in each of those years. The elementary and secondary programs can each support cohorts of up to 25 students annually at full implementation.

School support for students in residential care

The law funds school-district contracts for students living in residential habilitation centers. The Department of Social and Health Services funds transportation, building space, and other needed school support. This is service funding, not a direct household payment.

Sexual assault prevention reaches more schools

The law allocated $150,000 in fiscal year 2025 to continue sexual assault prevention education in Tacoma schools. The grant also expands programming to the Franklin Pierce School District. The recipient must be a state-accredited community sexual assault program serving Pierce County. It must provide professional training, prevention education, intervention, and victim advocacy for sexual assault, sexual abuse, and sex trafficking.

Snohomish youth and families get support

Snohomish County human services receives $625,000 in fiscal year 2025 for technical help and a nonprofit contract. The funded work supports youth, parents, and families through school partnerships and social activities. The provision does not set a payment or eligibility formula for each family.

Solar job training for underserved residents

A Rainier Valley social service nonprofit with an innovative learning center receives $1 million in fiscal year 2025. The grant supports hands-on clean-energy training for solar technician apprenticeships and jobs. The program serves formerly incarcerated people and community members who have low incomes or are homeless.

State funding supports Native American apprentices

The law reserves $2.25 million to implement the 2024 law concerning Native American apprentices. The money must support that apprenticeship program. This provision does not state individual payments or eligibility details.

State workers can receive separation incentives

State agencies can offer voluntary retirement or separation incentives with approval from the Director of Financial Management. Programs must save money or break even over their first two years, including pension costs. Agencies must follow state guidelines developed with the retirement department and report results by the required deadline. The retirement department can collect an incentive’s pension cost from the employer for the proper pension account. Employees have access only when their agency offers a program; the law sets no incentive amount.

Students get help paying health credential costs

The law provides $375,000 in fiscal 2025 to help students pay for required health care job credentials. Students must take a health care course at a skill center or comprehensive high school. Credentials must be industry-recognized and required for employment. The law sets no per-student subsidy amount.

Students get scholarship and application support

College Bound Scholarships receive $1.165 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027, including possible summer-session awards. Opportunity Scholarship awards do not count as state-funded aid when calculating the specified College Bound award. Another $425,000 expands student aid outreach and application help at participating community and technical colleges in Educational Service District 113. The law does not set individual scholarship amounts.

Training grants support paraeducator compensation

District grants reimburse two days of paraeducator certificate training in each of the 2024–25 and 2025–26 school years. Funding also supports four training days for new paraeducators in their first year. Districts must prioritize compensation for workers who complete the required instruction hours. Up to $750,000 per fiscal year can support materials, curriculum access, and removal of assessment-cost barriers.

Transportation options for summer skills students

School districts may provide transportation for students attending summer skills center programs. Rides depend on available pupil transportation funds and are not guaranteed. The law does not provide a direct household payment.

Underrepresented students get public service pathways

The law provides $140,000 for regional expansion of the Junior Summer Institute pilot. It creates a pathway into public policy and public service for historically underrepresented students. This is program funding, not a direct student payment.

Universities must accept qualifying college credits

State and regional universities, including Evergreen State College, must accept qualifying college-level courses from the specified school-based college programs. The student must be admitted, and the university must recognize the courses as transferable. Covered courses are those taken under RCW 28A.600.290 or 28A.600.300. This can help students avoid repeating coursework, but the law states no dollar savings.

Vocational service support for injured workers

The law provides $1.642 million from the medical aid account for rent costs tied to expanded vocational services. This supports adding Labor and Industries specialists at WorkSource offices and a quality-assurance team. The services support injured workers in workers’ compensation, without guaranteeing a payment or service outcome.

Western funds nursing and social work degrees

Western Washington University receives $361,000 each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for its nursing master’s program. It also receives $433,000 each year for its registered-nurse-to-bachelor’s nursing program. Another $1.01 million implements a Master of Social Work program at Western on the Peninsulas. The money supports these degree programs; the provisions do not set individual tuition aid amounts.

Western students get new academic offerings

Western Washington University receives $1.306 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for marine, coastal, and watershed sciences. The money must be used to develop that program. Another $908,000 must establish an ethnic studies curriculum. These appropriations fund academic offerings, not specified tuition aid or a guaranteed number of student seats.

Work and learning help for immigrants

Refugee and immigrant employment services get $2.366 million in fiscal year 2026, including $1.774 million for limited-English-proficiency pathway services. A women-led Washington community group gets $40,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for neighborhood learning. That program serves extremely vulnerable, low-income Afghan women and girls, with instant translation in three languages. A Seattle nonprofit gets $200,000 in fiscal year 2025 for job and small-business training, advancing Latino immigrants’ well-being. That training primarily serves low-income Latinx immigrant families in south King County.

Higher pay for informal child caregivers

Beginning July 1, 2025, family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in Working Connections Child Care get higher provider payments. The increase is 50 cents per hour for each covered child. A caregiver's total increase equals $0.50 times their covered child-hours.

Building operators get free energy training

The Smart Building Center education program receives a $150,000 Climate Commitment Account grant for qualified energy manager training. Training must be on demand and free for owners and operators of all tier 2 buildings. It helps them comply with Washington's clean buildings performance standards. Funds cannot be spent or committed before January 1, 2025. The subsection is void if Initiative 2117 was approved in the 2024 general election.

Advice and growth help for small businesses

For each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, a business center receives $1 million for confidential, free, one-on-one assistance. Funding expands outreach in underserved communities and can improve services for women- and minority-owned businesses. A Thurston County development organization receives $225,000 each year for growth training, materials, trainers, and multilingual coaching and mentoring. A Bellingham nonprofit receives $125,000 each year to help establish innovation centers and grow businesses in northwest Washington. These programs fund services rather than guaranteed cash payments to businesses.

Agriculture training for underrepresented communities

Agriculture receives $150,000 in fiscal year 2026 for support, training, and services for historically marginalized and underrepresented people statewide. The department works with local organizations and community leaders serving people in agriculture and ranching. Activities can include sustainable farming, culturally relevant crops, family support, and agricultural activities for youth exposed to poverty and violence. No individual payment amount is stated.

Business grants for eligible cannabis licensees

Commerce administers business-support grants for cannabis licensees whose licenses were issued after July 1, 2024. Licensees must meet the state's social equity applicant criteria. Awards depend mainly on the strength of their social equity plans. Grants can support licensing help, business and financial training, plan development, and mentoring. Individual award amounts are not stated.

Business help in Benton and Franklin

The law provides $250,000 in fiscal year 2025 for small business assistance in Benton and Franklin counties. Services include technical help, workforce development training, and business innovation training. The recipient must be a development organization with a coalition of 26 to 99 businesses, nonprofits, and business leaders. It must be a recognized organization led by and serving Black, Indigenous, and other people-of-color communities.

Business training through arts organizations

The law provides $250,000 in fiscal year 2025 for a Tacoma nonprofit's arts and culture business incubator. It offers creative entrepreneurs training and technical help; the nonprofit must also host performances and youth and adult arts education. Another $350,000 funds business help for small businesses owned or run by people from historically disadvantaged groups. That contractor must be a Federal Way arts, entertainment, or media business experienced with Black, Indigenous, and other people-of-color communities. Services can include business and intellectual-property development, marketing, coaching, networking, and startup help.

Export help for Washington small businesses

The law provides $1.07 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for small business export assistance. At least one program employee must work outside Seattle to help rural businesses plan exports. It also provides $600,000 each year for state representation in international markets offering trade and investment opportunities. Before contracting, the department must consult development organizations and groups representing small businesses, rural industries, and disadvantaged businesses. These funds support services, not set payments to individual businesses.

Fee relief for struggling care homes

DSHS may waive some or all licensing and processing fees for a one-time adult family home relicensing. Exceptional circumstances, such as a provider's death or incapacity, must cause the relicensing, and full payment must create hardship. The department may also waive administrator training for up to 120 days when needed to keep care going during relicensing.

Free advising and export help for businesses

The law provides $1.335 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for small-business export help and international-market representation. It also funds a business center offering confidential, free, one-on-one advice. The center must expand outreach in underserved communities, especially to businesses owned by Black, Indigenous, and people of color.

Grants for juvenile rehabilitation providers

The law provides $83,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $67,000 in fiscal year 2025 for juvenile rehabilitation provider grants. Applicants must be registered Washington businesses or nonprofits with no more than $1 million in prior-calendar-year gross receipts. They must work in person at a Washington juvenile correctional facility and follow its directives. At least one principal needs a related master's degree and professional therapeutic gaming experience. Travel cannot exceed 10% of a grant; the Secretary of State can use up to 10% of funding for administration.

Grants help protect cattle from wolves

The law provides $1.4 million in two-year grants for proactive, nonlethal measures to prevent wolf-related cattle injuries and deaths. At least $1.1 million is reserved for qualified past grantees with a record of meeting program goals. Up to $300,000 may go to qualified new applicants; if none qualify, unused money is divided equally among successful grantees. Range riders or herd monitors must visit targeted cattle areas daily or nearly daily, and grantees must coordinate prevention work. Range riders must send Fish and Wildlife monthly GPS logs and written activity reports.

Hardship relief for adult family homes

DSHS can waive licensing and processing fees when exceptional events require an adult family home to get a new license. Examples include a provider's death or incapacity. DSHS must find that full payment creates hardship. It can also waive administrator training for up to 120 days when needed to keep care going during relicensing. These waivers are not guaranteed.

More advising for Whatcom business owners

Western Washington University's small business development center receives $150,000 from the Workforce Education Investment Account. The money must expand technical help for Black, Indigenous, and other people of color who own businesses in Whatcom County. It does not provide direct grants or loans to owners.

More help starting very small businesses

The law provides $1 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to a nonprofit supporting microenterprise organizations. Its sole purpose must be grants, capacity building, and technical help for that network. The network serves businesses with five or fewer employees through training, advice, and microloans. Separately, a nonprofit network gets $100,000 each year to help low-income people in urban areas start and sustain small businesses. Neither appropriation sets an individual award amount.

Startup help for underserved small businesses

The law provides $3 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to a nonprofit supporting small-business development groups. The network serves businesses with five or fewer employees, including Black-, Indigenous-, other people-of-color-owned, veteran-owned, and limited-resource businesses. Support includes training, advice, and small loans for rural and urban businesses that are hard to serve. A separate nonprofit network receives $100,000 each year to help limited-income urban residents start or sustain small businesses. Individual benefit amounts are not stated.

Targeted business help near Seattle and Tacoma

The law provides $250,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for business assistance in south King and Pierce counties. Programs serve minority-, women-, and veteran-owned businesses, focusing on African American-owned businesses. The contractor must be a Tukwila nonprofit offering education and business assistance to underserved and minority groups, especially African Americans. The department's preliminary and final outcome reports are due June 30, 2024, and June 30, 2025, respectively.

Trauma care support for childcare providers

The law provides $900,000 for trauma-informed care support tied to Working Connections Child Care improvements. It supports family childcare providers covered by the 2025–2027 collective bargaining agreement. The law does not set an amount for each provider.

Voluntary soil health tools for farms

The law provides $581,000 from the Climate Commitment Account to implement Saving Tomorrow's Agricultural Resources, or STAR. This voluntary, science-based software helps Washington producers track soil-health improvements. It also gives producers a way to generate market-based incentives, but no payment amount is stated.

Academy training for specialized state officers

The law provides $290,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for limited-authority state peace officer training. It covers officers from gambling, liquor and cannabis, parks, natural resources, and insurance agencies. Up to 30 officers can attend the basic academy and 30 the equivalency academy. Slots go to agencies based on the earliest application date. Employing agencies must repay the training commission for actual costs.

Added capacity to prosecute environmental crimes

Fish and Wildlife receives $639,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to support the Attorney General’s Office. The money adds capacity to prosecute environmental crimes. The department must report prosecution progress to legislative committees by December 1 each year.

Agencies coordinate fish restoration permit reviews

A shared permit team receives $273,000 for Fish and Wildlife and $78,000 for Puget Sound Partnership each fiscal year in 2026 and 2027. Natural Resources receives $12,000 from the Aquatic Lands Enhancement Account and $10,000 from the Resource Management Cost Account. Projects must directly benefit fish or habitat and use a joint aquatic resources permit application. Archaeology and Historic Preservation must complete cultural-resources review, including Executive Order 21-02 review. Each agency keeps responsibility for its own permit review and approval.

Agencies get election and records funding

The law provides $148,000 to carry out House Bill 1962 on voter address changes. It provides $125,000 for Senate Bill 5890 on ballot rejections. Another $125,000 supports Senate Bill 6125 on Lakeland Village records. The money supports the Secretary of State and other responsible agencies in carrying out these measures.

Artificial intelligence task force receives funding

The law provides $131,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $528,000 for 2025 for artificial intelligence task-force legislation. The money is restricted to implementing that law. This appropriation does not establish new household benefits or specific policy outcomes.

Asian Pacific affairs commission funding grows

The Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs’ fiscal year 2025 state general fund budget rises from $920,000 to $1.020 million. Its total appropriation rises to $1.963 million. The law does not specify a new household benefit or service change.

Battle Ground studies safer downtown walking

Battle Ground gets $187,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $188,000 in fiscal year 2025 to study downtown corridor designs. The study focuses on pedestrian access, safety, and community amenities. The funding pays for planning and does not require a particular redesign.

Better communication access in youth facilities

The law provides $770,000 each in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for secure communication technology in juvenile rehabilitation facilities. The Department of Children, Youth, and Families must implement the system. It gives incarcerated people better communication services and access to education, rehabilitation services, and entertainment.

Boating safety and education get funding

The law sets aside $3.23 million for boating safety and education distributions. Spending cannot exceed the money available under the legal distribution rules. The provision does not name individual recipients or set household payments.

Child abuse and dependency laws funded

The law provides $100,000 for fiscal year 2025 to implement legislation on time limits for childhood sexual abuse claims. It also provides $1.1 million in legal-services revolving funds for the Attorney General's dependency-case work. That money is restricted to implementing legislation on giving legal notice through publication in dependency cases. These funding provisions do not state new claim deadlines or case-notice rules.

Child crime and death investigations funded

The law provides $1.135 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for efforts against internet crimes targeting children. It also raises Washington Forensic Investigation Council funding from $821,000 to $836,000 from the Death Investigations Account. These funds support investigations and council operations, not household payments.

Children get funded protection center services

The law provides $694,000 in fiscal year 2025 for two receiving centers, one in western and one in eastern Washington. They serve youth facing commercial or sexual exploitation, or at risk of exploitation. Children's advocacy center services receive $1.62 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. These appropriations fund services rather than direct payments to children or families.

Clark County gets lake restoration funding

The law provides a $300,000 grant to Clark County to develop and carry out a Vancouver Lake restoration and maintenance plan. The county and Ecology must involve nearby property owners, relevant agencies, tribes, and nonprofit groups. The plan must build on work already completed.

Clemency board receives staff and technology

The Clemency and Pardons Board receives $216,000 for fiscal year 2025 for staff and related operating costs. The money supports records, public disclosure, victim liaisons, and technology. It does not change eligibility or guarantee clemency or a pardon.

Climate funding supports planning and transparency

The law provides $352,000 from the Climate Commitment Account to implement House Bill 1176 on climate-ready communities. Another $772,000 from the Climate Investment Account funds a public portal and related information about climate spending, grants, and funding opportunities. The Office of Financial Management must coordinate the portal with Ecology and the law's spending-tracking process. These funds do not create direct household payments or new grant eligibility.

Climate grant help and multilingual outreach

Ecology gets $1.416 million for Climate Commitment Act staff and resources; climate-account use ends if approved Initiative 2117 takes effect. The Puget Sound clean air agency gets $370,000 to identify emission-reduction projects and help eligible applicants apply and report. Ecology must prioritize projects in overburdened communities. Another $2 million from the Climate Investment Account funds multilingual information about climate funding benefits and grant access. That outreach money cannot be spent or committed before January 1, 2025; the provision becomes void if approved Initiative 2117 takes effect.

Colville and Spokane tribes get water funding

For 2025–2027, the law provides $10.14 million to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. It provides another $7.489 million to the Spokane Tribe of Indians. Both appropriations come from the Columbia River Water Delivery Account for water delivery. Spending cannot exceed available money under the legal distribution rules, and no individual household payments are set.

Commerce grants target barriers facing communities

Commerce receives $253,000 to add equity and environmental justice to grant programs and reduce barriers for vulnerable populations in overburdened communities. It must prioritize programs funded by the five specified climate accounts. The provision bars consolidated climate account spending for this work if Initiative 2117 was approved in the 2024 election. That restriction starts on the measure’s effective date.

Commerce grants target barriers for communities

Commerce receives $253,000 from the Climate Commitment Account to improve fairness and environmental justice in its grant programs. The work aims to reduce barriers for vulnerable people in communities carrying heavy environmental burdens. Commerce must prioritize grant programs funded by the law's listed climate accounts. No applicant is guaranteed an award.

Communities get bear hazard assessments

The law provides $224,000 in fiscal year 2025 for up to four community bear hazard assessments. Assessments target communities with historically high levels of human-bear conflict. Fish and Wildlife must send initial funding recommendations to legislative committees by December 31, 2024.

Community grants fund legal and reentry help

The law provides $60 million from the Community Reinvestment Account for grants. Grants support economic development, civil and criminal legal help, community violence prevention and intervention, and reentry services. Funding shares among these areas must stay similar to awards during the 2023–2025 budget period. The money funds organizations and services rather than direct household payments.

Community preservation authority receives operating funds

The law provides $2.248 million from the General Fund for fiscal year 2025 for Community Preservation and Development Authority operations. The money must go into the authority account's operating subaccount. It does not establish direct household payments or individual eligibility rules.

Community voices shape climate resilience planning

The law provides $2 million from the Climate Commitment Account for a statewide community-assembly pilot run by DSHS. Assemblies focus on overburdened communities and develop ideas for sustainable investments and climate resilience. Topics must fall within DSHS authority, or DSHS must coordinate with the responsible agency. The law bars consolidated climate account funding for this work from Initiative 2117’s effective date if voters approved it in 2024.

Community-run groups included in reinvestment grants

For 2025–2027, community reinvestment grant rules expressly include organizations run by and for Black, Latino, and Native American communities. They also include Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities, without limiting the definition to these groups. The law does not guarantee awards or set grant amounts.

Conservation project help for underserved communities

The law provides $896,000 to cover Washington Conservation Corps cost-share requirements for qualifying organizations chosen through competitive applications. Priority goes to communities without past Corps support, with high cumulative environmental health impacts, or in distressed areas. Areas with high shares of people of color or low-income residents also receive priority. The money supports organizations and community projects, not direct household payments.

Coordinated permit reviews for fish restoration

The Recreation and Conservation Office receives $38,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for coordinated fish-restoration permit reviews. Projects must directly help fish or fish habitat and use a joint aquatic resources permit application. The Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation must complete cultural resource review, including requirements under Executive Order 21-02. Each agency keeps its own permit review and approval process.

Counties get funding for youth referrals

Beginning July 1, 2025, counties receive $2 million each fiscal year in 2026 and 2027 for youth referral costs. The money covers processing and case management for truancy, children needing services, and at-risk youth referrals. The courts office must use a fair formula that neither rewards above-average processing costs nor penalizes below-average costs. Counties must report annual petition counts and actual costs within 45 days after each fiscal year ends.

Counties get more election cost reimbursement

County election reimbursements receive $16.998 million for fiscal year 2024. Fiscal year 2025 funding rises from $21.45 million to $25.943 million. The money covers the state's share of primary, general, and presidential primary elections, plus mandatory recounts of state measures. The Secretary of State must validate county costs before reimbursement. Funds can also pay for printing and distributing the presidential primary voters' pamphlet.

Counties get prosecution and autopsy funding

The law provides $9.778 million for prosecuting attorney distributions and $6.329 million for county-funded autopsies. Spending on each purpose cannot exceed the money available under its legal distribution rules. It also directs the Office of Financial Management to give Kitsap County $300,000 in fiscal year 2026 for extraordinary criminal justice costs. These payments support public services, not household checks.

Counties receive court and arrest funding

Designated county clerk offices receive $1 million for fiscal year 2026 and $800,000 for 2027 to collect court-related debts. The grants must arrive by October 1 each fiscal year; they do not change what individuals owe. County adult court costs tied to juvenile code revisions receive $331,000 each year. Repeat-offender arrest costs receive $226,000 annually through county funding and $133,000 annually through municipal funding. Arrest reimbursements are distributed quarterly under state distribution rules.

Counties receive emergency communications funding

The law provides $11 million from the 911 Account solely for county financial assistance supporting 911 services. It also provides $1 million for the Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office public safety radio network improvement project. These appropriations fund emergency communications, not household payments.

Counties receive funding for emergency calls

The law provides $11 million from the 911 Account for financial assistance to counties. The funding supports county 911 services that connect people with emergency responders. The provision does not set individual county allocations or household payments.

County juvenile programs get targeted grants

County juvenile accountability programs receive $8.198 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. The block grant formula assigns 37.5% to at-risk youth, 15% to risk assessment, and 25% to evidence-based program participation. It assigns 17.5% to minority populations, 3% to substance use and mental health alternatives, and 2% to suspended disposition alternatives. Specified sex-offender alternatives and evidence-based expansion grants stay outside the formula. The department must prioritize evidence-based services and consider eligible youth and participation; approved promising practices are also allowed. An oversight committee can change formula categories to improve services or effectiveness and cost-benefit savings; courts must collect and share outcome data and provide related system access.

Court program funding avoids lapse conditions

The law removes funding lapse conditions tied to other bills being enacted by June 30, 2024. It preserves $200,000 for water rights commissioners and $51,000 for unenforceable legal financial obligations. It also preserves $248,000 for dependency outcome reporting and $479,000 for children and families.

Crab gear management helps protect whales

Fish and Wildlife receives $285,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to manage electronically tracked crab-fishing gear. The work aims to prevent whale entanglements during migration. Gear management must follow the Endangered Species Act permit covering incidental harm to protected species.

Crime victims and survivors receive support

Three providers expecting reduced crime-victim advocacy funding receive $317,000 for fiscal year 2025 to maintain sexual assault survivor services. Allocations are $200,000 for a King County center, $77,000 for an accredited Richland program, and $40,000 for a multiregion nonprofit. Hate-crime and bias-incident law implementation receives $743,000 for 2025. Crime-victim and witness law implementation receives $79,000 for 2024 and $521,000 for 2025, up from $471,000 for 2025. Implementation funds are restricted to their named laws; survivor-service funds go to providers, not directly to survivors.

Crisis training in court settlement regions

The law provides $899,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for crisis intervention training. Funding is limited to the phase one, two, and three regions identified in the Trueblood settlement agreement. The provision funds training, not household payments.

Crop damage response gets implementation funding

The law provides $184,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $650,000 in fiscal year 2025 for deer and elk crop-damage implementation. It also provides a $50,000 fiscal year 2025 grant for the Yakama Nation to join an elk-collaring pilot. These funds lapse unless Senate Bill 5784 was enacted by June 30, 2024. This funding does not itself set compensation amounts for farmers.

Disaster support for access needs and tribes

The law provides $876,000 from the Disaster Response Account for access and functional needs services and coordination. It funds a dedicated program manager and tribal liaison. These resources support disaster planning and response for people with access needs and tribal communities, not household payments.

Drought funds can support water banking

During 2025–2027, lawmakers can appropriate state drought preparedness account money for activities related to water banking. The law authorizes this use but does not require spending or set an amount.

Eastern Washington child care center funded

The law funds a child receiving care center east of the Cascade mountains. It provides $579,000 in state funds in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, plus $110,000 in federal funds. The money supports regional receiving care services, not direct household payments.

Election data supports voting rights reviews

The law provides $77,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $250,000 for 2025 for the University of Washington election data repository. It must retain at least 12 years of specified records and update them as data becomes available after election certification. The Secretary of State must send specified results, voter histories, district maps, and voting-location lists. A qualified director must use validated methods; non-identifying data is free online, while voter-identifying data is excluded from public posting. The database must analyze rejected and corrected ballots, identify groups with above-average rejection rates, and publish a free annual report. Staff may provide nonpartisan assistance, and county auditors must send the specified list to local political subdivisions.

Emergency communications purchases must meet standards

The law provides $40 million for homeland security. Communications equipment bought with this money by state agencies or local jurisdictions must meet state interoperability standards. Those standards come from the Washington State Interoperability Executive Committee and support equipment working together.

Emissions study for Spokane’s waste plant

The law provides $650,000 from the Climate Commitment Account to study carbon-emissions cuts at Spokane’s waste-to-energy plant. The feasibility and engineering study does not guarantee completed improvements or household savings. Funds cannot be spent or committed before January 1, 2025. The provision becomes void on Initiative 2117’s effective date if that initiative is approved.

Environmental appeals get more hearing staff

The Environmental and Land Use Hearings Office gets $164,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $379,000 in fiscal year 2025. Another $898,000 comes from the Climate Investment Account. The money adds staff to handle increased caseloads, including Climate Commitment Act appeals. It does not change household eligibility or legal duties.

Environmental appeals office gets added capacity

The Environmental and Land Use Hearings Office receives $379,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027, plus $100,000. This hires staff for increased cases, including Climate Commitment Act appeals. Fiscal year 2027 funding includes $37,000 solely for House Bill 1409 on clean fuels and $9,000 solely for Senate Bill 5284 on solid waste. Funding solely for Senate Bill 5334 on natural resources civil enforcement appeals totals $25,000 in 2026 and $45,000 in 2027. Each companion-law appropriation lapses unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2025.

Environmental forensic science center receives funding

The Center for Environmental Forensic Science receives $443,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for operations. The appropriation supports the center's work rather than direct household payments or eligibility changes.

Environmental justice and climate planning funded

The Department of Health receives $5.996 million to carry out the Healthy Environment for All Act. The money supports staff, the Environmental Justice Council, and its community engagement plan. Another $72,000 from the natural climate solutions account is restricted to implementing climate response strategy legislation. These appropriations support state environmental work, not household payments.

Environmental justice funding and neighborhood monitoring

The Department of Health gets $7.924 million to carry out the Healthy Environment for All Act. This funds staff, the Environmental Justice Council, and community engagement. During the 2025–2027 budget period, Ecology must prioritize placing air monitors inside overburdened communities. It must also prioritize work with local governments, tribes, and community groups. Where feasible, it must fund and support evidence-based community monitoring of fine-particle air pollution.

Environmental justice grants support community input

The law provides $26.355 million for capacity grants supporting input to state agencies and the Environmental Justice Council. The work supports the Healthy Environment for All Act and updates to the Department of Health’s environmental health disparities map. At least 50% of the amount distributed for capacity grants must be reserved for tribes and tribal organizations.

Expanded testing for pollutants in salmon

The law provides $6.042 million from the Model Toxics Control Operating Account to continue and expand salmon contaminant testing. The work uses tissue samples already collected. Tests include 6PPD-quinone, PFAS, and PCBs to identify where exposure happens and where pollutants come from.

Farm pest eradication programs receive funding

Central Washington's Japanese beetle monitoring and eradication program receives $4.992 million for fiscal year 2024 and $4.105 million for 2025. The 2025 amount rises from $3.655 million. Northern giant hornet eradication receives $246,000 for 2024, $401,000 for 2025, and $1.889 million in federal funds. These programs address invasive pests affecting agriculture and beekeeping; they do not provide household checks.

Federal flood control money gets distributed

The law appropriates $48,000 for distribution of federal flood control funds in Washington. The provision does not name recipients or set their shares. It does not establish direct household payments.

Ferndale receives help improving navigation signs

Ferndale receives $50,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for its greater market-area wayfinding system. The grant supports signs and navigation improvements for residents and visitors. It does not provide household payments.

First responders get wellness training support

The law provides $1.384 million for fiscal year 2025 to implement the first responder wellness law. The commission must use the funding for a task force and contracts to develop training. This appropriation supports wellness planning and training development, not direct household payments.

Fisheries enforcement gets officers and vessel

The law provides $2.714 million in fiscal year 2025 for additional marine and freshwater fisheries enforcement officers. It also funds a patrol vessel dedicated to coastal operations. The money supports fisheries compliance, not direct household payments.

Fisheries get research and harvest monitoring

The law provides $4.096 million to test previously collected salmon tissue for contaminants, including 6PPD-quinone and PCBs, and trace exposure sources. Puget Sound recreational steelhead spawning and harvest monitoring gets $822,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. Shellfish and related fishery monitoring gets $509,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $305,000 in fiscal year 2025. That funding also supports responses to emerging environmental issues and data-system upkeep. Another $222,000 in fiscal year 2025 implements House Bill 2293 on birds preying on salmon; it lapses unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2024.

Forest management gets research and partnerships

Forest practices research gets $1.857 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, following the forest practices board's approved schedule and work plan. Another $5.5 million funds outcome-based tribal contracts to implement the forest practices program. Contract overhead rates cannot exceed each tribe's federal indirect-cost agreement rate. A $500,000 portion depends on biennial receipts under RCW 82.04.261 exceeding $8 million. When receipts exceed $8 million but fall below $8.5 million, the shortfall below $8.5 million lapses.

Forest research and tribal partnerships funded

The Department of Natural Resources receives $2.823 million from the Natural Climate Solutions Account for forest practices research and monitoring. Work must follow the Forest Practices Board's schedule and priorities and carry out the program under the 2012 settlement agreement. Another $5.5 million funds outcome-based tribal contracts, with indirect costs limited to each tribe's federal agreement rate. Of that amount, $500,000 depends on biennial receipts under the specified tax law exceeding $8 million. For receipts above $8 million but below $8.5 million, funding equal to the shortfall from $8.5 million lapses.

Foster and adoptive families get support

The law provides $453,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for a hub-home model supporting foster and kinship families. It also provides $250,000 in each year for trained navigators to guide structured, positive parent-child visits. Another $600,000 in each year funds enhanced adoption placement services through a national nonprofit partnership. Adoption services focus on children in state custody who are legally eligible for adoption, especially those with high needs. The partnership must include private matching funds, and its funding must add to, not replace, the state agency's adoption work.

Foster youth help review their rights

Children, Youth, and Families receives $50,000 in fiscal year 2026 for a work group on foster youths' rights. The group also examines how to explain those rights. It must include current or former foster youth and organizations representing them. Recommendations are due to the legislature by December 1, 2025. The review does not itself create new rights.

Free election data and analysis funded

The University of Washington receives $250,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to maintain an election data repository. It must keep specified available election and demographic data covering at least the previous 12 years. It must publish non-identifying data free, analyze ballot rejections and corrections, and provide nonpartisan technical help. Public posting excludes information identifying individual voters, and estimates must use scientifically rigorous, validated methods. The Secretary of State must send specified election data after certification and completion of voter history files.

Funding builds statewide policy research database

The law provides $300,000 from the Workforce Education Investment Account to continue building Washpop, a statewide research data repository. It supports research on criminal justice, safety, economic prosperity and equity, health, and social well-being. The funding does not establish a household payment or service.

Funding climate planning and community input

The law provides $200,000 for the Environmental Justice Council and Ecology to develop tracking of Climate Commitment Act spending. Public input funding targets tribes and vulnerable people in overburdened communities, including participant cost recovery or stipends. Individual stipend amounts are not set. It also provides $150,000 solely to carry out House Bill 1181 on climate planning. The University of Washington Climate Impacts Group receives $400,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025.

Funding community trees against environmental risks

The law provides $5.991 million from the natural climate solutions account solely for urban forestry investments. The projects address heat, flooding, and pollution and support healthier, more resilient communities. The law does not set household payments or savings amounts.

Funding continues Indigenous safety advisory work

The Attorney General’s Office receives $250,000 each in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for continued Indigenous advisory work. Funding supports the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People Task Force and the Truth and Healing Tribal Advisory Committee. It does not specify individual services or household payments.

Funding continues invasive pest detection

The Department of Agriculture receives $200,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for spotted lanternfly early detection. The work also includes surveying and controlling the associated invasive tree-of-heaven plant. The funding supports pest detection and control, not direct household payments.

Funding correctional training and youth security

The law provides $500,000 in fiscal year 2025 for the AMEND Washington Way contract and its collaboration and training program. It also provides $2.6 million that year for enhanced security at Green Hill School, including canine services.

Funding elk crop protection in Skagit

The law provides $100,000 in fiscal year 2025 for elk management in the Skagit Valley. The work must involve affected tribes and landowners and include measures to limit elk damage to crops. It does not establish compensation payments for farmers or landowners.

Funding environmental justice and tribal energy input

During 2025–2027, the legislature can use the Climate Commitment Account for environmental justice work, including the 2021 law's implementation. That authority sets no amount and guarantees no funding. The law separately provides $404,000 from that account for tribal engagement on clean energy projects under HB 1216. The Governor's Office of Indian Affairs coordinates with federally recognized tribes holding treaty rights in Washington and consults three state agencies. Funds can support tribal participation, outreach contacts and preferences, and training for project developers.

Funding environmental research and ocean monitoring

The University of Washington's environmental forensic science center receives $443,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $750,000 in 2025. Puget Sound kelp conservation, coordination, monitoring, and research receive $484,000 total. That includes $125,000 each fiscal year for Friday Harbor Labs and $117,000 for the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. Ocean acidification research receives $520,000 for priority experiments on marine life. Another $300,000 supports monitoring assistance at the Washington Ocean Acidification Center.

Funding firearm investigations and offender checks

Local jurisdictions get $30,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for investigations of prohibited firearm purchases or transfers. Investigations must involve people barred from owning or possessing firearms. The Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs gets $5 million each year to verify registered sex offenders' and kidnapping offenders' addresses and residency. The funding supports existing enforcement work and creates no new household payment or personal duty.

Funding for aquatic structure and tire cleanup

The law provides $591,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $552,000 for 2025 to carry out the derelict aquatic structures law. Those funds are limited to implementing Substitute Senate Bill 5433. It also provides $1 million for tire removal in Puget Sound. Tire projects must give priority to removing tire reefs.

Funding for aviation assurance law

The law provides $431,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $331,000 for 2025 to carry out aviation assurance funding legislation. The money is limited to implementing Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1498. This allocation does not specify a direct benefit or payment for travelers.

Funding for chemical testing and cleanup

The law provides $4.136 million for PFAS chemical investigation, monitoring, business assistance, pollution source control, water treatment, and cleanup capacity. The work includes municipal wastewater facilities and contaminated sites. Community-focused investments must prioritize vulnerable people in overburdened communities, with a goal of directing at least 40% of funds toward that benefit. Another $196,000 funds implementation of Senate Bill 5033 concerning biosolids and PFAS. That amount requires the separate bill to have been enacted by June 30, 2025; otherwise, it lapses.

Funding for coastal and flood preparedness

The law provides $3.914 million for coastal monitoring, a resilience team, and grants helping communities plan projects and seek funding. At least 25% must benefit tribes. A $200,000 grant supports flood-risk reduction, ecosystem recovery, research, and sediment management in the Spirit Lake-Toutle/Cowlitz River system. Another $37,000 funds implementation of floodproofing Senate Bill 5649. That appropriation lapses if the bill was not enacted by June 30, 2024; it does not itself create household grants.

Funding for coastal waters and wildlife

The Northwest Straits Commission receives $455,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to support seven marine resources committees equally. Washington's ocean acidification response under Executive Order 12-07 receives $102,000 in each year. The law provides $150,000 for the state marine management plan and the Coastal Marine Advisory Council's ongoing work. It also provides $542,000 to study European green crab behavior and spread in state waters. Workshops help natural resource managers monitor crab larvae.

Funding for communities facing drought

The law provides $6 million from the emergency drought response account and $2 million from the state drought preparedness account. The money funds implementation of the drought preparedness legislation identified in the act. It does not set household eligibility rules or individual payment amounts.

Funding for communities facing pollution burdens

The law provides $2.468 million for air-quality work in heavily polluted, overburdened communities identified in RCW 70A.65.020. Ecology also receives $1.15 million to carry out HEAL Act and other environmental justice requirements and add expertise within programs. Another $400,000 funds a study of access and fairness in environmental incident reporting and resolution. Ecology must consult government bodies and community groups representing overburdened communities. Its report is due October 1, 2026, covering existing systems, barriers, service gaps, and ways to improve access and transparency.

Funding for community clean energy partnerships

The law provides $1.25 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to test community engagement in clean energy transitions. The test partners with communities, utilities, and project developers. Another $263,000 pays for two grant writers helping tribal and overburdened communities seek state and federal funding. They work through the Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Program. For grant writing, consolidated climate account spending is barred after Initiative 2117’s effective date if voters approved it in 2024.

Funding for community justice programs

The law provides $500,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, plus $1 million in federal funds, for community grants. The Health Care Authority must maintain an agreement with the Criminal Justice Training Commission to provide these grants. Another $330,000 for fiscal year 2025 is solely for implementing Substitute Senate Bill 5588 on mental health sentencing alternatives. That $330,000 lapses if the companion bill was not enacted by June 30, 2024. These appropriations do not set individual payments or eligibility rules.

Funding for crime victim legal support

The law provides $200,000 from the Workforce Education Investment Account for grants to Washington law schools with crime victim support clinics. It also provides $6,000 for fiscal year 2024 at one funded institution and $23,000 at Western Washington University. Those allocations support implementation of Second Substitute House Bill 1028 concerning crime victims and witnesses. The implementation funding does not specify new individual services, rights, or payments.

Funding for domestic violence response

The law provides $1.169 million each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to carry out Washington's 2023 domestic violence law. Another $300,000 in fiscal year 2026 funds university research comparing Strength at Home with standard treatment and studying another approach. The university must have completed a randomized domestic violence treatment trial at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The trial must focus on Washington residents referred to treatment through criminal or civil legal systems.

Funding for family support and mentoring

The law provides $2.4 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for performance-based family support contracts. It also provides $400,000 each year to a Washington mentoring organization. That organization supports public-private partnerships offering training and technical help to mentoring programs serving at-risk youth. These funds support services, not direct household payments.

Funding for firearm harm research

The law provides $500,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for firearm policy research. The program must study death and injury risks, evaluate state firearm policies, and assess the consequences of firearm violence. It must also develop strategies to reduce firearm violence. The funding supports research, not a direct household safety service.

Funding for food waste management

The law provides $1.645 million from the Climate Commitment Account for food waste grants under House Bill 2301. Another $1.335 million from the Model Toxics Control Operating Account funds that bill’s waste-management implementation. Both appropriations lapse if House Bill 2301 was not enacted by June 30, 2024. Food waste grant money cannot be spent or committed before January 1, 2025. That grant appropriation also lapses on Initiative 2117’s effective date if the initiative is approved; household grant amounts are not specified.

Funding for forest and watershed research

The law provides $312,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $313,000 for 2025 for ecosystem and watershed research. The department must work with the Olympic Natural Resources Center on emerging threats and T3 watershed experiments on state trust lands. The work also includes long-term field trials and collaboration with interested groups. Spending on Swiss needlecast surveys cannot exceed $30,000 in any fiscal year.

Funding for invasive moth control

Agriculture gets $462,000 in state funds in each of fiscal 2026 and 2027 for invasive moth control. The law also provides $700,000 in federal funds. The state money matches federal funding for eradication treatments and follow-up monitoring.

Funding for lakes and kelp recovery

Clark County gets $330,000 to develop and carry out a Vancouver Lake restoration plan involving governments, tribes, owners, and nonprofits. The plan should use earlier planning work. Another $1.46 million funds Puget Sound kelp coordination, monitoring, restoration, and research by named tribes and organizations. For fiscal year 2025, $200,000 supports Spanaway Lake cyanobacteria and aquatic plant plans, including testing, samples, and monitoring. The Spanaway work assesses treatment options but does not guarantee treatment or household payments.

Funding for Nooksack water rights discussions

The law provides $1.375 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for the state's Nooksack water-rights court process. The money supports preparation and filing in water resource inventory area 1. Ecology also receives $200,000 in 2026 for discussions with federal officials, tribes, water users, and local governments. Those discussions concern a possible federal Indian water-rights settlement, and Ecology must report the court process's status to legislative committees. This funding does not itself settle or change household water rights.

Funding for parks and cultural resources

State Parks receives $500,000 from the Climate Commitment Account to assess cultural-resource vulnerability. The law also provides $1.111 million for maintenance and operations at the Fort Worden state park campus. The Parks and Recreation Commission must develop a long-term management plan for that campus.

Funding for pollution controls and cleanup

The law provides $2 million for Ecology to handle increased demand for existing water-pollution administrative orders. These orders cover projects affecting state waters. Another $501,000 from the Model Toxics Control Operating Account’s private/local appropriation funds cleanup at Walla Walla’s Stillwater Holdings Chevron site. These appropriations do not create household payments or new personal duties.

Funding for population and equity research

The law provides $1.238 million solely to establish Washpop, a statewide population and policy research data repository. Researchers can study criminal justice, economic prosperity, equity, health, and social well-being. Another $200,000 funds a research framework on inequities affecting people of Middle Eastern descent. That work covers poverty, service access, language barriers, and access to justice; it does not establish direct services.

Funding for regional sports complex discussions

The Chelan-Douglas Regional Port Authority receives a $225,000 grant for public discussion about a future regional sports complex. The grant also supports sharing study information. Topics may include consultant studies, committee recommendations, design, location, economic effects, costs, and financing. This grant does not pay to build the complex.

Funding for shellfish coordination and pests

The law provides $174,000 in fiscal 2025 for genome sequencing and research to control European green crab. Agriculture gets $170,000 in each of fiscal 2026 and 2027 to continue its shellfish coordinator. It also gets $300,000 from the Model Toxics Control Operating Account to implement the burrowing shrimp law. That $300,000 lapses unless Substitute House Bill 1309 was enacted by June 30, 2025.

Funding for shooting ranges and cleanup

The law provides $719,000 for fiscal year 2025 plus $473,000 from the state toxics cleanup account for specified shooting-site work. The money supports an authorized target range, a public stakeholder process to find additional range locations, and lead-pollution response. Lead work must address known dispersed shooting sites. The funds cannot be used for unrelated purposes.

Funding for Spokane River pollution planning

The Department of Ecology receives $2 million for a Spokane River water-quality plan addressing PCBs and other emerging contaminants. Ecology must bring together a planning group that includes representatives from communities facing heavy pollution burdens. It must consult the Spokane Tribe of Indians and other interested tribes when developing and carrying out water-quality actions.

Funding for state climate planning

The law provides $7.791 million to review the Department of Natural Resources’ buildings and equipment and plan emissions cuts. It also provides $350,000 to carry out the climate response strategy law and $250,000 for the climate planning law. Each allocation is limited to its stated purpose. This money supports state planning, not household payments.

Funding for state cybersecurity and privacy

Washington Technology Solutions gets $16.655 million solely for its Office of Cybersecurity. It also gets $2.692 million solely for its Office of Privacy and Data Protection. These appropriations fund state offices but do not promise specific resident services or household payments.

Funding for statewide forensic investigation services

The law provides $143,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for a state forensic anthropologist position. The University of Washington must work with the King County Medical Examiner’s Office and send it the full funding. The position performs statewide work rather than serving only King County.

Funding for the state leadership board

The law provides $374,000 solely to carry out the 2022 law concerning the Washington State Leadership Board. The money funds implementation, not direct household payments.

Funding for timely jail competency services

The law provides $9.119 million in fiscal year 2024 and $9.145 million in 2025 for Trueblood settlement services. These include evaluations of ability to stand trial, treatment to restore that ability, navigation, crisis diversion, and workforce training. Another $7.147 million each year maintains added evaluators and efforts to speed evaluations for people in local jails. Those evaluator increases began in fiscal year 2016. DSHS must work with health and criminal justice training agencies and follow the settlement's timeline and implementation plan.

Funding for veterans services and operations

Veterans Affairs gets $38.063 million for field services during the 2025–2027 budget period, from state, federal, private, and local sources. Headquarters gets $10.042 million: $5.001 million in fiscal 2026, $5.031 million in fiscal 2027, and $10,000 from the Charitable, Educational, Penal, and Reformatory Institutions Account. These appropriations fund services and operations without changing veterans' eligibility or setting individual payments.

Funding for Washington New Americans

The law provides $2 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for the Washington New Americans Program. The Department of Commerce may require matching cash or donated goods or services to qualify for state funding. The provision does not specify services or payments for individual participants.

Funding for Washington's equity office

The law provides $20.473 million from the GOV central service account solely for the Office of Equity. This provision does not specify household services, eligibility changes, or direct payments.

Funding for weather and avalanche information

The Northwest weather and avalanche center receives $129,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. The grants support center operations and regional weather and avalanche information.

Funding for wildfire law implementation

The law provides $636,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $353,000 for 2025 to carry out wildfire and electric utility legislation. Another $307,000 for 2025 is reserved for legislation about areas where homes and wildlands meet. That allocation lapses unless Engrossed Senate Bill 6120 was enacted by June 30, 2024. These funds support implementation, not direct payments to residents.

Funding for youth facilities and oversight

The law provides $1.418 million in fiscal year 2026 to maintain Naselle Youth Camp's facility, property, and assets. It also sets aside $183,000 in 2026 and $172,000 in 2027 to implement a juvenile rehabilitation ombuds program. The ombuds funding requires Senate Bill 5032 to have been enacted by June 30, 2025; otherwise, it lapses. This budget provision does not describe the ombuds' duties or services.

Funding for youth rehabilitation and advocacy

For fiscal year 2025, the law provides $200,000 for a nonprofit offering statewide girls’ advocacy and equity training. The contract includes girl-centered antibias training, advocacy stipends, and support for girls in juvenile rehabilitation. It also provides $1.701 million to open and operate a 48-bed living unit at Stafford Creek Corrections Center in Aberdeen. That funding includes a modular building and recreation area.

Funding for youth support and prevention

In each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027, the law provides $808,000 for TeamChild, a youth-serving project. It also provides $500,000 each year for gang prevention and intervention grants, prioritizing applicants with the greatest demonstrated gang problems. Applicants must include a local government and a nonprofit with a record of effective gang prevention and intervention programs. County juvenile courts can apply to Children, Youth, and Families for $50,000 each year for less restrictive local detention options modeled on Jefferson County's Proctor House. Both grant programs require reports on youth served, services provided, and effects on youth and communities.

Funding forest recovery and land care

Wildfire-damaged habitat restoration receives $1.657 million in fiscal year 2024 and $1.44 million in fiscal year 2025. That money is limited to agency-owned or managed lands damaged by wildfires. The law also provides $3.166 million solely for forest treatments on western Washington trust lands. Another $3.356 million is reserved for increasing Natural Resources' ability to actively manage its natural areas.

Funding helps clear Blake convictions

The law provides $7.563 million for local costs tied to State v. Blake, including resentencing, clearing convictions, and certifying refunds. Beginning July 1, 2025, the courts office must contract for eligible court, clerk, defense, and prosecution expenses upon local request. Cities and counties can also assign conviction-clearing work to that office. Another $8.615 million from the Judicial Stabilization Trust Account supports public defense for Blake relief and the simple possession representation program. The public defense office sets an allocation formula; counties can seek grants or direct lawyer contracts, while cities receive direct contracts.

Funding helps disability advocates join summits

The law provides two separate $250,000 amounts in fiscal year 2025 for developmental disability summits. One funds two organizations to host an October 2024 summit on barriers facing people with developmental disabilities and their families. Those organizations must be led by Black, Indigenous, or other people of color and have experience serving this community. The other grant supports advocates, caregivers, and others attending a 2025 summit on federal and state disability program funding. Its recipient must be an Olympia-based nonprofit advocating alongside people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families; program eligibility does not change.

Funding helps expand rural broadband service

Up to $800,000 from the Public Service Revolving Account is available to the Utilities and Transportation Commission for rural broadband expansion. The money must supplement funds committed by a telecommunications company on behalf of an eligible government entity. It funds service expansion, not direct household payments or a stated reduction in internet bills.

Funding helps investigate and identify deaths

The law provides $250,000 from the Death Investigations Account to help local governments investigate multiple deaths. This includes $30,000 for the Adams County crime lab's investigation of a double homicide from fiscal year 2021. The forensic investigation council must set award criteria for unexpected, extraordinary, catastrophic events or investigations involving multiple jurisdictions. Another $210,000 from the account helps local governments identify human remains.

Funding helps protect state election systems

The Secretary of State receives $8 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for election security. The money funds staff, security assessments, threat monitoring, training, and grants to public and private partners. County grants must address identified threats and expand existing grants and contracts. The funding does not provide household payments.

Funding human rights and racial review

The University of Washington Center for Human Rights receives $410,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. This money must add to, rather than replace, the center's other funding. Another $426,000 supports continued implementation of the racial restrictions review law. These appropriations do not set household payments or new eligibility rules.

Funding implementation of domestic violence protections

The law provides $400,000 in fiscal year 2025 general funds and $500,000 from the workforce education investment account. The money carries out House Bill 1715 concerning domestic violence. These appropriations do not set household payments or individual eligibility rules.

Funding implements nonspot shrimp licensing law

Fish and Wildlife receives $79,000 in fiscal year 2026 solely to implement nonspot shrimp pot licensing legislation. The law makes this funding contingent on Substitute Senate Bill 5076 becoming law by June 30, 2025. Otherwise, the appropriation lapses. It does not provide payments to license holders.

Funding implements prescribed fire claims law

The Department of Natural Resources receives $440,000 from the Natural Climate Solutions Account to implement prescribed fire claims legislation. Funding lapses unless Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1563 was enacted by June 30, 2025. This appropriation does not set claim rules, household eligibility, or payment amounts.

Funding implements vessel and park-pass laws

The Recreation and Conservation Office receives $50,000 in fiscal year 2026 solely to implement Senate Bill 5281. That bill concerns vessel length and nonresidents. The law also provides $150,000 from the Recreation Access Pass Account solely to implement Senate Bill 5390 on Discover Pass. Each appropriation lapses unless its companion bill was enacted by June 30, 2025. These budget provisions do not state vessel rules, pass prices, or pass eligibility changes.

Funding improves access to political disclosures

The Public Disclosure Commission receives $2.17 million from the Public Disclosure Transparency Account. The money improves public access to information about campaigns, lobbying, and elected officials, and supports accurate, timely reporting. By October 31 each year, the commission must report to state budget officials and legislative fiscal committees. Reports must cover funding plans, projects, spending, priorities, and accountability measures.

Funding improves recreation access and safety

The law provides $100,000 in fiscal year 2026 for outdoor access grants serving underrepresented communities affected by environmental inequities. Another $200,000 funds Lake Union safety education for both motorized and nonmotorized water users that year. Fish and Wildlife recreation lands receive $3.75 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for overdue maintenance. An additional $1.2 million comes from the Limited Fish and Wildlife Account. Work covers trails, roads, campgrounds, facilities, and water access areas.

Funding invasive mussel and moth response

Quagga mussel monitoring and response receive $1.81 million in state funds and $1.81 million in private and local funds. The work addresses mussels discovered on Idaho's Snake River in July 2023; funding years are not specified. Invasive moth treatments and follow-up monitoring receive $502,000 in state funds for fiscal year 2024 and $514,000 for 2025. The law also provides $1.434 million in federal funds for the moth work. The moth funding is restricted to treatments and monitoring tied to matching federal funding.

Funding keeps state government television coverage

The law provides $6.052 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for full television coverage of state government proceedings. The Department of Enterprise Services must contract with a nonprofit to cover those proceedings and other statewide events. The nonprofit must raise cash, donated support, or commitments equal to 40% of the state contribution. Payment requires documentation that the funding criteria are met. The nonprofit must prepare an annual independent audit, financial statement, and report with measures of program success.

Funding preserves artifacts at Lakeland Village

The law provides $57,000 from the state general fund in fiscal year 2026 to preserve artifacts at Lakeland Village. The money pays for preservation work. It does not establish household payments.

Funding public lands safety and recreation

The law provides $250,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $580,000 in fiscal year 2025 to match federal funds. This identifies replacements for recreation lost through lower Snake River reservoir drawdown; the 2025 amount rises from $350,000. Public-lands enforcement, recreation planning, and a shared data system receive $2.185 million in 2024 and $1.705 million in 2025. Natural Resources must create the system jointly with Fish and Wildlife and State Parks. Agencies must work with tribal governments to consider and include cultural resources and practices in management plans.

Funding puts victim protections into practice

The law funds implementation of separate laws on crime victims and witnesses, and domestic violence. Crime victim and witness funding is $1.085 million for fiscal year 2024 and $1.04 million for fiscal year 2025. Domestic violence funding is $381,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $628,000 for fiscal year 2025. Each appropriation is reserved for implementing its named law; these provisions do not spell out new services or eligibility rules.

Funding repairs parks and public trails

Local park repair grants receive $2.5 million each in fiscal years 2024 and 2025. These one-time, needs-based grants cover eligible repairs, replacements, and delayed accessibility upgrades, with a $100,000 limit per organization. Local parks agencies may partner with nonprofits. Recreation maintenance on department-managed state lands receives another $5 million each year for trails, facilities, roads, campgrounds, and water access. The department is encouraged to work with nonprofits.

Funding repairs recreation lands and fields

Natural Resources receives $3.75 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to address recreation-land maintenance backlogs. Work covers trails, facilities, roads, campgrounds, and water access areas. A separate $180,000 fiscal year 2025 appropriation funds an institution's soccer field renovation and lighting upgrades. These funds support repairs and facility use, not household payments.

Funding restoration in the Snohomish watershed

The law provides $2.864 million from the natural climate solutions account for parts of the Snohomish watershed resilience plan. Work includes kelp and eelgrass care, large woody debris projects, aquatic restoration grants, and culvert removal. The money is reserved for implementing that plan.

Funding restores habitats and greener communities

Fish and Wildlife receives $1 million in fiscal year 2026 to restore wildfire-damaged lands it owns or manages. It also receives $1.15 million from the Climate Commitment Account and $530,000 from the Natural Climate Solutions Account. That money supports habitat connectivity planning and energy-efficiency projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Natural Resources receives another $3 million from the Natural Climate Solutions Account for urban forestry.

Funding restores wildlife and native habitats

The law provides $14 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for biodiversity and species recovery. This includes threatened and endangered species work and a review of Fish and Wildlife. Funding can support habitat, fish passage, technical help, education, research, and awards to public, nonprofit, academic, or tribal groups. Another $1.175 million each year continues shrubsteppe habitat and wildlife restoration on public lands and willing landowners’ private lands. That restoration must be coordinated with natural resource agencies and interested groups.

Funding state-run Tacoma and Spokane reentry centers

Corrections receives funding to staff and operate three reentry centers as state-run facilities. Tacoma's Sixth Avenue center gets $320,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $324,000 in 2027. Spokane's Eleanor Chase center gets $219,000 in 2026 and $227,000 in 2027. Spokane's Brownstone center gets $319,000 in 2026 and $333,000 in 2027.

Funding studies police vehicle pursuit data

The Office of Financial Management gets $400,000 in fiscal year 2025 to hire a consultant to analyze vehicle pursuit data. The consultant must recommend statewide data elements, collection methods, public access, and a data-management organization. Input must include people and families with law enforcement experience, including Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color. The report was due to the governor and legislative committees by June 30, 2025. This funding does not directly change pursuit rules.

Funding supports county elections and security

The law provides $16.998 million in fiscal year 2026 and $21.45 million in 2027 for the state's election costs. Counties receive reimbursement for eligible primary, general election, and mandatory state-measure recount costs validated by the Secretary of State. Each year also includes $870,000 for voter registration and election system staff, database upkeep, county support, and user service. Another $81,000 each year funds systems that detect attempted election security breaches. The Secretary of State receives $580,000 each year to move agency systems to Azure cloud services, subject to required technology reviews.

Funding supports court competency evaluation requirements

The law provides $3.278 million in fiscal year 2026 and $4.345 million in fiscal year 2027 for competency evaluations. The funds implement requirements in a 2023 law. This appropriation does not itself change household eligibility or provide direct payments.

Funding supports crime victims and evidence

The law provides counties $4 million for crime victim and witness assistance during 2025–2027. Spending is limited to available money under the account's legal distribution rules. It also allocated $801,000 in fiscal year 2025 for the Attorney General to create a permanent sexual assault kit initiative program. These provisions support services and evidence handling, but do not set individual payments or eligibility rules.

Funding supports diversion and fentanyl detection

The law provides $2.5 million for fiscal year 2025 for Seattle's law enforcement assisted diversion program. The program addresses drug possession and public use. State money must add to, not replace, Seattle's existing local funding. Another $150,000 for fiscal year 2025 supports model training and certification standards for canine teams that detect fentanyl.

Funding supports domestic violence response teams

The law allocates $8.326 million from the Domestic Violence Co-Responder Account to implement Substitute House Bill 1498. The funding is solely for that domestic violence response law. The appropriation lapses unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2025. It does not provide direct household payments.

Funding supports election security and registration

The Secretary of State receives $8 million each in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for election security. Funding covers staffing, assessments, threat monitoring, training, county grants, and expanded public or private grants and contracts addressing identified threats. The law also provides $237,000 in fiscal year 2026 to implement Senate Bill 5077 on agency voter registration. That appropriation depends on the bill’s enactment by June 30, 2025.

Funding supports elk hoof disease work

The law provides $585,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 solely for elk hoof disease work under existing law. The funding does not establish direct household payments or individual service eligibility.

Funding supports firearm violence policy research

A firearm policy research program receives $500,000 each fiscal year in 2026 and 2027. It studies firearm death and injury risks, state laws, and the effects of firearm violence. It also develops strategies to reduce firearm violence. The funding itself creates no new personal requirement.

Funding supports firefighting and post-fire hazards

Fish and Wildlife receives $217,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $467,000 in fiscal year 2025 solely for emergency fire suppression. That money cannot pay indirect or administrative expenses. Wildland fire safety implementation under House Bill 1578 receives $2.5 million in fiscal year 2024 and $2.822 million in 2025. Of the 2025 amount, $322,000 funds the post-fire debris flow program.

Funding supports fisheries and marine restoration

Regional fisheries enhancement groups receive $250,000 each fiscal year in 2026 and 2027 to increase their work. Toutle and Skamania hatchery operations receive $375,000 each year. University of Washington Friday Harbor Labs receives $100,000 for an ongoing project restoring a critically endangered starfish. That project could help stabilize marine ecosystems, including kelp forests and eelgrass.

Funding supports guardianship and decision help

Beginning July 1, 2025, the law provides $6 million for local courts' required guardianship attorneys and court-appointed visitors. The money comes from the Judicial Stabilization Trust Account; court shares must shrink proportionally if funding is insufficient. Another $4.188 million supports decision-making assistance under a 2024 law. During the 2025–2027 biennium, the courts office must collect uniform data on hospital requests, guardianships, and less restrictive options. It must also track support and housing provided.

Funding supports humanities community conversations

The Secretary of State receives $75,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for Humanities Washington community conversations. The money supports its speaker's bureau programming. It is not a direct payment to participating households.

Funding supports long-term care account implementation

The Secretary of State receives a $2.226 million fiscal year 2026 appropriation to implement Senate Joint Resolution 8201. The resolution concerns investments and long-term services and supports accounts. Availability of this money depends on the resolution’s enactment by June 30, 2025. This provision does not set individual account benefits or payment amounts.

Funding supports natural resources enforcement appeals

The Department of Natural Resources receives $43,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $56,000 in fiscal year 2027. The money implements Senate Bill 5334 concerning appeals of the department's civil enforcement actions. Funding lapses unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2025. This appropriation does not describe appeal procedures or establish a household payment.

Funding supports noise reduction near ports

The law provides $67,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for noise reduction at qualifying port districts. The money must be used only for the noise reduction program. It supports port activities rather than direct payments to nearby households.

Funding supports officers and victim-centered training

The law reserves $236,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $226,000 for fiscal year 2025 to implement the limited-authority officer law. It also provides $50,000 for fiscal year 2025 to train the Okanogan County Sheriff's Office. Training covers victim-centered and trauma-informed policing, investigations, stalking, protection orders, and victim support. The commission must limit disruption, keep attendance records, and make unused funds available to repay reasonable, necessary overtime for participants.

Funding supports Olympic ecosystem research

Natural Resources receives $500,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to work with the Olympic Natural Resources Center. Work covers emerging ecosystem threats, T3 watershed experiments on state trust lands, and long-term ecosystem productivity field trials. The funding also supports collaboration with stakeholders. It does not establish household payments or service rights.

Funding supports Parents for Parents services

The law provides $500,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for the Parents for Parents program. The money maintains and improves its service model, including host organizations and county coordinators. It supports program services, not direct payments to families.

Funding supports policing around state hospitals

In each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027, Western State Hospital's Lakewood policing partnership receives $320,000 for listed policing and related costs. Lakewood also receives $45,000 each year for police services at the hospital and nearby areas. Eastern State Hospital receives $320,000 each year for one investigator, one police officer, and one community services officer. Medical Lake receives another $25,000 each year for police services at the hospital and nearby areas. Social and Health Services must report each December of the biennium on Medical Lake's fund use and calls answered.

Funding supports prescribed fire claims account

The law sets aside $2 million from the Natural Climate Solutions Account for the prescribed fire claims account. Funding depends on Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1563 becoming law by June 30, 2025. Otherwise, the appropriation lapses. This provision does not set claimant eligibility or payment amounts.

Funding supports prison and policing oversight

The law allocated $125,000 in fiscal year 2024 for a Corrections Ombuds report on prolonged restrictive housing. It covers people held there more than 120 total days during incarceration or more than 45 consecutive days in the prior fiscal year. Corrections information on placements, offenses, sanctions, suicide attempts, programming, and related policies was due June 30, 2024. The Attorney General also received $6.189 million for fiscal year 2024 and $4 million for fiscal year 2025. Those funds are limited to implementing the 2021 law enforcement data law.

Funding supports registered offender address checks

The Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs receives $5 million each in fiscal years 2024 and 2025. Funds must be used solely to verify registered sex offenders’ and kidnapping offenders’ addresses and residency under state registration law.

Funding supports salmon and habitat recovery

Regional salmon recovery groups receive $1.704 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for operations and administration. A salmon-restoration nonprofit receives $100,000 each year to install and store tools that prevent steelhead deaths at Hood Canal Bridge. Another $1 million supports native trees and shrubs for riverbank restoration under the governor’s salmon strategy. The state provides $400,000 each year to match funding for the Puget Sound nearshore partnership. That partnership joins the Department of Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Funding supports Seattle Central District preservation

The law provides $2.75 million to the Central District Community Preservation and Development Authority. The money comes from the Community Preservation and Development Authority Account. It supports the authority's legal duties, not a direct payment or specified benefit to households.

Funding supports Seattle neighborhood preservation

The Central District Community Preservation and Development Authority receives $500,000. The Pioneer Square-International District Community Preservation and Development Authority also receives $500,000. Each authority must use the money only to carry out its duties under state law. The provisions do not establish individual household payments or new eligibility rules.

Funding supports state international leadership work

The law allocated $75,000 from the state General Fund for fiscal year 2025 to implement HB 2000. The funding is solely for that law's international leadership work. This provision does not identify household payments or changes to household costs or eligibility.

Funding supports statewide investigations and forensics

The state DNA database account receives $482,000 each fiscal year in 2026 and 2027. State forensic anthropology receives $143,000 each year through the University of Washington. The university must send all that funding to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office for statewide work. Any funding for the missing and exploited children task force must support operations following federal Internet Crimes Against Children standards.

Funding supports stipends for state boards

The Office of Financial Management gets $250,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to implement the existing stipend law. That law concerns members of state boards and similar bodies. This appropriation does not specify individual stipend amounts or eligibility details.

Funding supports surface mine reclamation implementation

Natural Resources receives $2.026 million from the Surface Mining Reclamation Account to implement Senate Bill 5319. The appropriation lapses unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2025. This funding provision does not describe the reclamation rules or costs for affected parties.

Funding supports voluntary farm conservation

The law provides $10.719 million from the Public Works Assistance Account solely for the voluntary stewardship program. That money cannot pay agency overhead or administrative expenses. Another $1 million from the Natural Climate Solutions Account connects researchers and practitioners to measure farm conservation practices. The research also studies why landowners join voluntary incentive programs. These provisions do not set payments for individual farms or landowners.

Funding supports voter outreach and access studies

The Secretary of State received $3.724 million for fiscal year 2024 and $2.674 million for fiscal year 2025 to counter false election-security narratives and engage communities. Each year's funding includes $500,000 for county auditor grants; outreach includes young voters, voters with disabilities, tribal communities, and non-English-speaking voters. A statewide digital assessment tool received $125,000 each year, with improvement recommendations due June 30, 2025. A University of Washington Evans School study of voting access in jails received $90,000 each year, with recommendations due December 1, 2024. The study covers registration, materials, pre-election assistance, voting barriers, and assistance upon release.

Funding supports wildfire prevention and response

The Conservation Commission receives $2.5 million to work with conservation districts on priority forest health and community wildfire resilience projects. Fish and Wildlife receives $1.2 million to reduce severe wildfire risk and strengthen forests on its lands. Work includes thinning, removing burnable material, creating fire breaks, and prescribed burns. The department also receives $467,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 solely for emergency fire suppression. Neither department appropriation can pay agency overhead or administrative expenses.

Funding supports wildfire response and readiness

The Department of Natural Resources receives $8.47 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for fire suppression administration. Another $396,000 comes from the Disaster Response Account for that work. The State Patrol receives $500,000 from that account to position fire-service resources before an expected mobilization event. Early deployment must follow section 6 of the state's Fire Services Resource Mobilization Plan.

Funding supports World Cup event safety

The law provides $2.75 million in fiscal year 2026 for safety and security related to the 2026 World Cup. The money is solely for a contract with a public or private entity. Activities include law enforcement, fire resources, emergency management, traffic control, and venue security.

Funding supports youth justice prevention programs

County juvenile courts receive access to $2.841 million in grants each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Programs must support positive youth development and be effective, community-based, culturally relevant, and informed by research. Courts must apply to Children, Youth, and Families; grant amounts follow per-participant treatment costs identified by the institute. Another $369,000 in fiscal year 2026 goes through an organization providing culturally relevant sports for Indigenous children and teens. That program aims to keep at-risk youth out of the juvenile justice system.

Funding targets invasive crabs and beetles

Natural Resources receives $2.543 million for European green crab eradication and control on state-owned aquatic lands and nearby lands as appropriate. It must coordinate with Fish and Wildlife and support that agency's quarterly legislative progress reports. Agriculture receives $2.38 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to monitor and eradicate Japanese beetles in central Washington. These programs fund pest control, not household payments.

Funding targets invasive European green crabs

Fish and Wildlife receives $6.082 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to eradicate and control European green crabs. The department coordinates control work and provides grants to partner organizations. It must report progress, successes, and challenges to legislative committees by September 15 each year.

Funding targets invasive mussels and wildlife disease

Quagga mussel monitoring and response receive $1.81 million in state funds each fiscal year in 2026 and 2027. Another $3.62 million comes from private and local funds. Work can include inspections, decontamination, equipment, training, monitoring, coordination, and public outreach. Chronic wasting disease response receives $900,000 in 2026 and $489,000 in 2027. Fish and Wildlife must follow its chronic wasting disease management plan.

Funding targets pollution and safer products

The law provides $8.504 million solely to address and reduce 6PPD pollution. This includes $4.428 million to identify effective stormwater treatments. The remaining funding includes $2.212 million from the Model Toxics Control Operating Account and $1.864 million from the Hazardous Waste Assistance Account. Work includes water and sediment monitoring and finding safer alternatives in consumer products. Funds may support the University of Washington and Washington State University.

Funding targets Yakima Valley groundwater pollution

Agriculture receives $1.49 million from the Model Toxics Control Operating Account to expand pollution-reduction work. The work targets groundwater nitrate pollution from irrigated agriculture in the lower Yakima Valley. The appropriation does not create direct household payments or set individual eligibility rules.

Funding targets youth firearm violence prevention

The firearm safety office receives $8.618 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027, including grant planning for heavily affected cities. Each year, $5.318 million supports evidence-based youth prevention and intervention, including $250,000 for a credible messenger program in at least three regions. Youth grants must serve young people at high risk of committing or experiencing firearm violence in high-violence areas. The office must fund University of Washington training and support for culturally relevant transition services involving families. Priority goes to programs partnering with the university's psychiatry and behavioral sciences department for training and support.

Funding to address first responder theft

Corrections gets $19,000 in fiscal year 2026 solely to implement Senate Bill 5323 concerning theft from first responders. The funding lapses unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2025. This provision does not describe implementation activities or create household payments.

Funding to carry out climate laws

Ecology gets $275,000 to implement House Bill 1912 on agricultural fuel exemptions and $2.816 million for House Bill 1975 on the Climate Commitment Act. The law also sets aside $1.115 million for House Bill 1409 on clean fuels and $426,000 for House Bill 1462 on hydrofluorocarbons. Another $670,000 from the Model Toxics Control Operating Account funds Senate Bill 5036 on statewide emissions data. Each amount requires its companion bill to have been enacted by June 30, 2025; otherwise, that amount lapses. These budget provisions fund implementation, not new household payments or specified tax changes.

Funding to carry out plastic protections

The law provides $65,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $55,000 for 2025 to carry out plastic pollution legislation. The money is limited to implementing Substitute House Bill 1085. This allocation does not provide household payments or set household costs.

Funding to Carry Out Psilocybin Legislation

The Dedicated Cannabis Account provides $42,000 each for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 solely to implement psilocybin legislation. The money supports Second Substitute Senate Bill 5263. This appropriation does not specify household eligibility, services, or payments.

Funding to carry out waste laws

Ecology gets $89,000 to implement House Bill 1670 on sewage-containing spills and $493,000 for House Bill 1154 on solid waste handling. It also gets $1.656 million for Senate Bill 5284 on solid waste management and $261,000 for House Bill 1497 on waste materials. Each amount requires its companion bill to have been enacted by June 30, 2025; otherwise, that amount lapses. The appropriations fund agency implementation and do not themselves create household payments.

Funding to detect and control invasive species

The law provides $857,000 for fiscal year 2025 to eradicate and control European green crabs on state aquatic lands and appropriate nearby lands. The department must coordinate with Fish and Wildlife and support quarterly legislative progress reports. Another $120,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 continues early detection of spotted lanternflies. That money also supports surveys and control of tree-of-heaven.

Funding to implement legal aid laws

Public Defense gets $1.808 million from the Judicial Stabilization Trust Account solely to implement chapter 293, Laws of 2024. Civil Legal Aid gets $204,000 in each of fiscal 2026 and 2027 solely to implement chapter 328, Laws of 2024. These provisions do not describe the specific services or household payments.

Funding to implement pesticide committee law

Agriculture gets $118,000 from the Model Toxics Control Operating Account to implement a pesticide application committee law. The money lapses unless Substitute House Bill 1294 was enacted by June 30, 2025. This budget provision does not describe the committee's detailed rules.

Funding to implement tank and waste laws

The Attorney General’s Office receives $338,000 solely to implement the petroleum storage tank law in House Bill 1175. It also receives $106,000 solely to implement the waste material management law in House Bill 2301. Both amounts come from the legal services revolving account. These appropriations do not themselves specify household rules, costs, or benefits.

Funding to launch public infrastructure assistance

The law provides $250,000 in state funds for fiscal year 2025 to the Washington Military Department. The money is solely for implementing Substitute House Bill 2020 concerning the public infrastructure assistance program. This appropriation does not establish a direct household payment.

Funding to prevent and prepare for spills

The law provides $600,000 from the oil spill prevention account for a University of Washington Sea Grant contract. The program continues small-spill prevention education for commercial fishing vessels, ferries, cruise ships, ports, and marinas. San Juan County receives a $276,000 grant for oil-spill preparedness. That grant supports staff, response equipment, training, and operating costs.

Funding to start firearm purchase permits

The law sets aside $8.728 million in fiscal year 2027 to start the permit-to-purchase firearms program under HB 1163. The money goes to the state firearms background check system account. The appropriation lapses unless HB 1163 was enacted by June 30, 2025. This funding provision does not set permit fees or eligibility rules.

Funding to study offshore wind impacts

Ecology receives $816,000 to study state authority over possible floating offshore wind projects in federal waters off Washington's Pacific coast. It must coordinate with state agencies, consult tribes, seek public input, and hold at least two scenario-planning exercises. Another $731,000 funds a tribal-state science panel and research agenda on ecological effects, emphasizing treaty-protected tribal resources. Ecology must invite coastal tribes, inter-tribal groups, and state agencies, review scientific evidence, catalog potential effects, and coordinate with other states. Both reports are due November 1, 2026; the authority report must address federal processes, consultation, public comment, and possible state regulatory actions.

Funding to survey Black historic sites

The law provides $125,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 solely for the Black historic sites survey project. This funds the survey, not direct household payments.

Funding trains coroners and medical examiners

The Criminal Justice Training Commission receives $1.598 million from the death investigations account. The money funds 240 hours of forensic death investigation training for coroners and medical examiners. The training aims to meet national recommendations for certification and accreditation.

Funding trains limited authority state officers

The law provides $290,000 each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for academy training for limited-authority peace officers. Eligible employers are the Gambling Commission, Liquor and Cannabis Board, State Parks, Natural Resources, and Insurance Commissioner. Up to 30 officers can attend the basic academy and 30 the equivalency academy, with slots assigned by earliest application. Training does not have to begin within six months of employment. Employing agencies must reimburse the Criminal Justice Training Commission for actual training costs.

Funding updated statewide land mapping

Natural Resources receives $2.5 million in fiscal year 2024 and $3.28 million in fiscal year 2025. The money must be used only to collect and update statewide lidar data, which maps land surfaces using laser measurements.

Grant-writing help for tribes and communities

The law provides $526,000 from the Climate Commitment Account for two grant writers through the Thriving Communities assistance program. They help tribes and overburdened communities seek state and federal funding that advances environmental justice. This assistance supports applications but does not guarantee grant awards.

Grants help communities reduce wildfire risks

The Conservation Commission receives $5 million to work with conservation districts on unhealthy forests and community wildfire resilience. Firewise grants receive $10 million for local governments and private landowners to reduce forest fuels in high-wildfire-hazard areas. Another $10 million from the natural climate solutions account funds forest treatments where wildfire prevention and air-quality benefits have the greatest potential. The law bars consolidated climate account funding for those treatments after Initiative 2117 takes effect if the initiative is approved.

Grants support community environmental justice input

The Department of Health receives $4 million for grants to tribes, tribal organizations, communities facing heavy environmental burdens, and vulnerable populations. Grants support input on the Healthy Environment for All Act or updates to the environmental health disparities map. At least 50% of distributed grant money must be reserved for tribes and tribal organizations.

Grants support local waste programs

The law provides $24 million in grants to local governments for solid waste and financial assistance programs. It does not set household payments or savings.

Groups help shape salmon habitat policy

The Governor must invite federally recognized tribes, local governments, producers, fishing groups, businesses, salmon recovery groups, forestry, agricultural, and environmental organizations to discuss streamside habitat policy and spending. The process addresses salmon and steelhead recovery and must have an independent facilitator. The Governor’s Office may hire that facilitator without competitive procurement. Preliminary recommendations are due June 1, 2026; the final report and implementation proposals are due November 15, 2026. Fiscal year 2027 funds support proposal development, with no amount specified here.

Habitat conservation programs get state funding

The law provides $3.596 million from the General Fund for Habitat Conservation Program distributions during 2025–2027. Spending cannot exceed available money under the legal distribution rules. The appropriation supports program recipients rather than direct household payments.

Hatcheries get production and fish health

In each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, tribal hatchery operations get $1.777 million, including $200,000 for tagging and marking. Yakama Nation hatcheries also get $330,000 per year, and public utility districts get $175,000 per year for added production. This production funding must prioritize more prey for Southern Resident orcas. Fiscal year 2025 provides $403,000 in state funds, plus $42,000 in private and local funds, for two fish-health positions covering veterinary care and marking-trailer upkeep. Another $801,000 in fiscal year 2025 funds rebuilding an Autofish marking system.

Hatchery funding supports food for orcas

In each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission grants receive $1.777 million for hatchery operations. That includes $200,000 yearly for tagging and marking, plus specified annual grants to nine tribes. The Yakama Nation receives $330,000 yearly, and public utility districts receive $175,000 yearly for additional hatchery production. All three hatchery allocations must prioritize more prey for southern resident orcas. Another $560,000 yearly funds seal and sea lion management on the lower Columbia River and tributaries to support Chinook salmon and orca prey.

Help for communities facing climate hazards

The law provides $1.914 million for coastal-hazard monitoring, analysis, a resilience team, and community project-design and funding assistance grants. At least 25% of this funding must benefit tribes. Ecology receives $1.317 million to help local governments address climate risks, including updates to shoreline plans. Another $331,000 funds coordination of the state climate resilience strategy, progress tracking, and public outreach. Ecology can support a lasting coordination structure and additional resilience work as resources allow.

Help with waterways and fish restoration

Ecology receives $2.256 million to help landowners and local governments with voluntary water-quality compliance, cleanup plans, and sound management practices. The work covers shellfish-growing, farm, forest, and other areas, including streamside areas important for salmon recovery. Another $262,000 supports Ecology's role in a multiagency team to streamline permit reviews for fish-restoration projects. Projects must directly benefit fish or habitat, use a joint aquatic resources permit application, and complete cultural-resource review. That review includes Archaeology and Historic Preservation's review under Executive Order 21-02; each agency keeps its own permit decisions.

Higher payments for foster care providers

Beginning July 1, 2023, child-placing agencies receive a $1,000 incentive for each new foster home certified for licensure. The payment goes to the agency, not the foster household. Independent living service provider rate increases receive $750,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. The law does not specify each provider's rate increase.

Hood Canal steelhead protection gets funding

The law provides $3.5 million in fiscal year 2024 and $298,000 in fiscal year 2025 to reduce steelhead deaths. The grant funds near-term fixes at the Hood Canal Bridge. The recipient must be a nonprofit whose mission is salmon and steelhead restoration.

Indian child welfare cases get legal funding

The law provides the Attorney General $9.188 million for additional legal services in child dependency cases. The funding applies where the state or federal Indian Child Welfare Act governs the case. Within 90 days after each fiscal year, the Attorney General must report on new cases, legal-service time, and case duration. This appropriation does not create a household payment or specify a right to a personal lawyer.

Indigenous population data work receives funding

The Indigenous Demographic Data Collection Work Group receives $350,000 for fiscal year 2025. The money supports data collection with the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs. It does not create a household payment.

Irrigation planning for possible dam removal

The law provides $250,000 for fiscal year 2024 to study irrigation under a possible lower Snake River dam-removal scenario. Ecology must examine water delivery during and after drawdown, interim measures, mitigation, and system-upgrade costs. The study must address maintaining current irrigation amounts under existing water rights. A status update is due December 31, 2024; the funding does not authorize dam removal or guarantee water delivery.

Issaquah receives biometric monitoring pilot funding

Issaquah receives $53,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $35,000 in fiscal year 2027 for a two-year biometric monitoring pilot. The money is limited to that pilot. This provision does not specify how the system affects residents or establish individual benefits or protections.

King County coalition gets recovery funding

The law provides $750,000 in federal coronavirus recovery funds for a King County coalition's pandemic recovery work. The recipient must be a tax-exempt charitable organization comprising more than 90 local nonprofit and business leaders. Its recovery work must include Black, Indigenous, and other people of color. The grant does not create a direct household payment.

Language help for children and families

The Department of Children, Youth, and Families gets $704,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $1.022 million for 2025. The money funds its language access plan. This includes translated materials, a central language access team, multilingual outreach, technical help, and staff training. The funding supports communication with children, families, providers, and caregivers rather than direct payments.

Legal funding for tribal child cases

The Attorney General's Office gets $7 million from the state legal services revolving fund for additional legal services. The money is limited to dependency cases covered by the state and federal Indian Child Welfare Acts. The office must report case, workload, and duration details within 90 days after each fiscal year ends. This funds the office's legal capacity, not a guaranteed lawyer or payment for each family.

Livestock grants fund nonlethal wolf prevention

The Department of Agriculture provides $912,000 for Northeast Washington wolf-livestock management grants, limited to proactive, nonlethal prevention. Range riders and herd-monitoring grantees must visit targeted cattle areas daily or nearly daily and coordinate prevention efforts. They must send GPS track logs and monthly written activity reports to the Department of Fish and Wildlife. Up to $100,000 each fiscal year may support a local wildlife specialist through the Ferry and Stevens county sheriffs’ offices.

Livestock producers get wolf-conflict support

Fish and Wildlife receives $390,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for wolf-conflict work, including a $200,000 Southeast Washington pilot. It must coordinate with other deterrence providers and give livestock producers technical help. Northeast Washington contract range riders are allowed only when providers funded through the regional wolf-livestock grant program leave a coverage gap. The department is discouraged from shooting wolves from helicopters. Another $130,000 each year funds an outside facilitator to help the wolf advisory group seek shared solutions.

Local communities get emergency response equipment

Cheney's fire department gets $175,000 in fiscal year 2024 for a Type 6 fire truck. It replaces a truck destroyed during a mutual aid fire. Ferry/Okanogan Fire Protection District 14 gets $175,000 that year for a new ambulance and related costs for 911 response. Elma gets $30,000 to place automatic external defibrillators in city vehicles and public spaces in city buildings.

Local death investigators get funding

The law provides $250,000 to help local governments investigate multiple deaths, including $30,000 for an Adams County double-homicide investigation from fiscal year 2021. The council must set award criteria for unexpected, extraordinary, catastrophic events or investigations involving multiple jurisdictions. Another $210,000 helps local governments identify human remains. The law also provides $1.598 million for 240 hours of forensic investigation training for coroners and medical examiners. Training must address national recommendations for certification and accreditation.

Local drug investigations get grant funding

The law allocated $2.7 million in fiscal year 2025 for local task forces working across jurisdictions. Eligible task forces previously received federal Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant funding. They must follow that program's requirements and national law enforcement best practices. A separate $395,000 grant supports the Yakima Valley Local Crime Lab's firearm-crime analysis and data collection, fentanyl-death investigations, and rapid DNA work group.

Local governments get climate planning funds

The law provides $22.544 million from the Climate Commitment Account for local government climate planning implementation. The money can be used only for that work. The provision does not set household payments or specify changes to household costs or services.

Local governments get emissions reduction grants

The law provides $10 million from the Climate Commitment Account for local programs, services, and facilities in approved emissions-reduction plans. Commerce must find that funded activities reduce greenhouse gases or driving miles per person. Projects with added benefits or serving disproportionately affected communities receive priority. The law includes a funding ban tied to voter approval of Initiative 2117 in the 2024 election. That clause bars consolidated climate funds for these purposes beginning on the initiative's effective date upon approval.

Local governments get impaired-driving enforcement funding

For 2025–2027, the law provides quarterly payments totaling $1.86 million to counties and $1.24 million to cities. The money helps carry out specified criminal justice laws, including impaired-driving laws. City shares follow the latest population figures from the Office of Financial Management. A city's share goes to its county if it substantially decriminalized or repealed its criminal code after July 1, 1990, and does not reimburse the county for specified criminal-case costs.

Local help during dangerous weather

The law provides $300,000 for fiscal year 2024 to reimburse local governments and federally recognized tribes for extreme-weather responses. Eligible costs include warming and cooling centers, transportation, temporary housing, and life-safety work during extreme heat, cold, or wildfire smoke. Applicants must lack local resources and serve vulnerable people in areas the department identifies as facing combined environmental and health harms. Claimed costs must benefit those vulnerable people. Another $1.08 million for fiscal year 2025 supports Military Department implementation of Substitute House Bill 1012 on extreme weather.

Local police get body-camera grants

The law provides $1.2 million for fiscal year 2024 and $400,000 for fiscal year 2025 for local police body-camera grants. The Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs administers the grants. Money can cover cameras, upkeep, data storage, public-records requests, and needed staff. Agencies must follow state body-camera law, train staff, show they can redact footage, and meet data and reporting rules.

Local police get firearm investigation grants

The law provides $30,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for additional local investigation grants. Grants cover attempted firearm purchases or transfers by people barred from owning or possessing firearms. The provision funds enforcement work, not household payments or new firearm restrictions.

Local specialist funding for wolf management

The Department of Agriculture must provide $100,000 each fiscal year to the Ferry and Stevens county sheriffs’ offices. The money supports a local wildlife specialist who assists Fish and Wildlife with wolf management in northeast Washington. County offices receive the funds, not residents directly.

Lottery purchases must follow gaming law

The Washington State Lottery cannot use the covered appropriation to buy gaming system capabilities that violate state law. This is a limit on Lottery purchases, not a new duty for players or retailers.

Lynnwood jail funds support after release

The statewide reentry council receives $787,000 in fiscal year 2025 for a pilot at Lynnwood municipal jail. Participants receive intensive, peer-led case management before and after release. The program must use a trauma-informed approach centered on human dignity.

Marine cleanup and ocean research funded

The Department of Natural Resources receives $4.206 million from the Aquatic Lands Enhancement Account for marine cleanup and monitoring. Work includes removing creosote pilings and debris and monitoring zooplankton and eelgrass beds on state-owned aquatic lands. It supports orca recovery, ocean-acidification monitoring, and the Puget Sound action agenda. The law also provides $520,000 from the Natural Climate Solutions Account for experiments on ocean acidification's effects on marine life. Another $300,000 from that account supports monitoring at the Washington Ocean Acidification Center.

Marine habitats get cleanup and monitoring

The Puget Sound nearshore partnership gets a $400,000 state match in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. The partnership joins Fish and Wildlife with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Another $4.206 million funds removal of creosote pilings and marine debris. That money also continues monitoring tiny marine animals and eelgrass beds on state-owned aquatic lands.

More beds and safer juvenile facilities

The law provides $12.5 million each in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for juvenile rehabilitation at Stafford Creek in Aberdeen. It funds a 48-bed living unit, modular building, and recreation area. Dedicated specialists must develop and carry out policies addressing violence, harmful behavior, and safety incidents at full and partial confinement facilities. Every six months, officials must review infraction data with juvenile justice policy and reform groups, identify disparities, and make needed changes. Reviews must consider staffing, facility population, and available programs.

More court help and appeals lawyers

The Office of Public Defense receives $2.002 million in fiscal year 2025 for appellate attorney contracts addressing backlogs and increased workload. The office must train the contracted lawyers serving people who cannot afford appeals counsel. Beginning July 1, 2025, the law provides $520,000 from the judicial stabilization trust account for courthouse self-help pilots. Two courthouses must host the centers, one on each side of the state.

More digital help for underserved residents

The law provides $15 million in fiscal year 2024 and $20 million in fiscal year 2025 for digital-access grants. The grants fund devices, subscriptions, and one-on-one help using digital services. Services reach people with limited access, including job seekers, students, English learners, Medicaid clients, people experiencing poverty, and seniors. At least $3 million of fiscal year 2025 funding must go to tribes.

More disaster response and recovery support

The Disaster Response Account provides $784,000 for National Guard fire-suppression training, equipment, and related costs. Another $876,000 funds a disaster access and functional needs manager, related services, and a dedicated tribal liaison. These resources support people needing access or functional help and tribal communities during disaster preparedness and response. Whatcom County gets $750,000 from the general fund in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. That grant supports relief and recovery from the presidentially declared November 2021 flooding and mudslides disaster, not direct household payments.

More funding for autopsies and investigations

County funding for public autopsies rises from $6 million to $6.21 million, an increase of $210,000. The law adds a $55,000 fiscal 2025 General Fund transfer to the Death Investigations Account. With the $3 million fiscal 2024 transfer, the stated transfers total $3.055 million. State Patrol gets $150,000 in each of fiscal 2026 and 2027 for the Forensic Investigations Council's records and open-meetings compliance, administration, payments, website, and email. Website and state email work must be coordinated with Washington Technology Solutions.

More funding for children and families

Children's advocacy centers receive $1.62 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. This includes $94,000 each year for ongoing care at a Spokane center serving abused or neglected children and their families. Beginning July 1, 2024, $1.75 million in fiscal year 2025 raises rates paid to family preservation service providers. TeamChild's fiscal year 2025 funding rises from $645,000 to $808,000.

More funding for emergency fire response

Fire service mobilization funding rises by $23.56 million, from $23.5 million to $47.06 million in the Disaster Response Account. The State Patrol can use it only for mobilization costs during emergencies or disasters authorized under state law. It must coordinate with the Military Department and report current and planned spending quarterly to budget officials and legislative fiscal committees. Another $784,000 from the account supports National Guard fire suppression training, equipment, and related costs.

More funding for parks and maintenance

State parks funding rises from $262.251 million to $263.121 million. The increase includes $785,000 in fiscal year 2025 general funds and $85,000 from the parks renewal and stewardship account. Fort Worden's fiscal year 2025 maintenance funding rises from $450,000 to $950,000. The parks commission and development authority must review financial records, develop a maintenance cost-recovery model, and propose lease changes by June 1, 2024. These provisions do not set new visitor fees.

More funding for petroleum tank programs

The underground storage tank account appropriation rises by $106,000, from $957,000 to $1.063 million. The Pollution Liability Insurance Agency's total appropriation reaches $12.535 million. The law also provides $8.34 million from its trust account to carry out House Bill 1175 concerning petroleum storage tanks.

More funding for public defense lawyers

The public defense office receives $13.6 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for counties and cities. It must distribute that money using the allocation formulas in state law. It also must allocate $900,000 each fiscal year to improve trial defense, split equally between counties and cities. Appellate lawyer contracts receive $2.632 million in fiscal year 2026 and $2.812 million in 2027. That funding addresses backlogs and added workload for appeals by people unable to afford lawyers, and includes attorney training.

More funding for wildfire rebuilding work

The law provides $182,000 from the fiscal year 2024 general fund for Gray wildfire recovery in Medical Lake. It covers firefighting water, water and sewer restoration, replacement water meters, and emergency sewer capping. Another $1.85 million in fiscal year 2025 implements House Bill 1899 on wildfire reconstruction. Of that amount, $1.7 million is reserved for grants. This provision does not specify individual grant amounts or all eligible household recipients.

More funding for youth rehabilitation

Fiscal year 2025 state funding for juvenile rehabilitation rises by $16.754 million, from $154.077 million to $170.831 million. The law also provides $328,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $318,000 in 2027 for juvenile rehabilitation ombuds oversight. That oversight funding lapses unless Senate Bill 5032 was enacted by June 30, 2025. The Green Hill School state library branch receives $154,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027.

More funding to monitor marine habitats

The law provides $278,000 to coordinate and monitor Puget Sound kelp conservation and recovery. Another $593,000 supports kelp and eelgrass surveys, imagery, studies of threats, and management of the habitat conservation plan. For that $593,000 allocation, consolidated climate account spending is barred after Initiative 2117’s effective date if voters approved it in 2024. The funds support habitat work, not household payments.

More operating money for appeals courts

The Court of Appeals’ fiscal year 2025 state general fund budget rises from $27.771 million to $28.649 million. Total funding for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 rises from $55.944 million to $56.822 million. The provision adds operating money but does not specify a change in court services.

More practical support for community nonprofits

The law provides $300,000 in fiscal year 2025 to maintain and expand practical support for community organizations. Services include human resources, technology, financial services, fundraising, and advice. The contractor must be a Seattle-based nonprofit providing management and technology consulting, training, and free advisory services to nonprofits and community organizations.

More public information on release placements

The law sets aside $189,000 for fiscal year 2025 for one communications manager at the special commitment center. The position shares public information about conditional releases to less restrictive placements. DSHS must use the money solely to establish that position.

More staff help small forest landowners

Natural Resources receives $1 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for its small forest landowner office. The funding restores staffing and supports help for small forest landowners. Assistance includes guidance related to Forest and Fish Act rules. The law sets no individual award or payment amount.

More staff review officer certification complaints

The Criminal Justice Training Commission gets $401,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $378,000 in 2027 for additional staff. The staff are intended to reduce delays in reviewing and investigating officer certification complaints.

More support for local community centers

The law provides three grants in fiscal year 2025. A $750,000 grant helps buy community center property serving south King County. The recipient must be Seattle-based, have a Federal Way office, and be rooted in Washington's Latino community. A Ferndale nonprofit resource center gets $200,000 for service navigation, immediate help, and outreach. A downtown Renton group focused on community and economic development gets $184,000 for navigation and education services.

More support for local conservation districts

Conservation districts receive $500,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $4 million for fiscal year 2025. The money expands technical assistance and district operating capacity. The law does not set household payments or define which landowners qualify for services.

More support for people leaving prison

Corrections receives $2.326 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for reentry, discharge services, and iCOACH supervision staffing. Separate provisions fund $2.297 million in state money for fiscal year 2025 and $1.236 million for fiscal year 2024. Another appropriation provides $3.089 million for fiscal year 2025. Services include housing and voucher help, education, preemployment testing, transition planning, behavioral interventions, case management, and health care discharge teams. The funding also supports community partnerships for people leaving custody or supervised under iCOACH.

More training for corrections staff statewide

The law funds four additional corrections officer academy classes during 2025–2027. Listed amounts are $1.312 million for fiscal year 2026, $1.306 million for 2027, and $870,000 without a stated year. Classes can take place in Burien, Spokane, Pasco, Vancouver, or Arlington. Corrections also gets $761,000 in 2026 and $758,000 in 2027 for the statewide AMEND collaboration and training team and contract.

More tribal and community energy input

The law provides $2.5 million for tribal and community input on renewable energy and transmission sites. Of that, $2 million supports a tribal collaborative and participating tribes in finding potential sites. This work must consider tribal energy needs, sovereignty, rights, sensitive natural areas, working lands, and community harms and benefits. Another $500,000 supports early and ongoing input from overburdened communities on transmission routes. Where feasible, that work must identify community benefits and reduce or avoid conflicts.

More wildlife work to protect salmon

The law provides $753,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for lower Columbia River seal and sea lion management. The work aims to increase Chinook salmon and food for Southern Resident orcas. It also provides $470,000 each year for seal and sea lion diet surveys in the Salish Sea. Those surveys help identify nonlethal ways to protect salmon and steelhead.

New grants support tribal cultural programs

The law establishes a tribal cultural affairs program with $868,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $867,000 in 2027. Each year, $500,000 is reserved for grants supporting tribal culture, arts, and creative programs. The money supports community programs, not direct household payments.

New prosecutors get trial-skills training

The law provides $694,000 for fiscal year 2025 to implement the public defense and prosecution law. This funding pays for contracted trial-skills training for people new to prosecution. It also supports administration of a rural prosecution program for law students.

Nooksack communities get flood prevention funding

The law provides $4.002 million for flood prevention in the Nooksack basin and Sumas Prairie. This includes $2 million for Whatcom County floodplain planning and $900,000 for cross-border coordination. Another $1.102 million supports local and Ecology capacity. Of that amount, Whatcom County receives $738,000, and the rest supports Ecology staff assistance.

Nooksack water claim help and planning

The law provides $150,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for engagement toward a federal Indian water-rights settlement. Ecology must issue monthly claims-period reports and legislative reports by June 30, 2024, and June 30, 2025. Whatcom County gets a separate $150,000 grant to help all WRIA 1 water users filing Nooksack claims, but not contest others’ claims. County grants of $330,000 for 2024 and $370,000 for 2025 support the watershed board’s water-supply planning, technical work, and mediation. Those planning funds become available only after the adjudication is filed and cannot support adjudication activities.

Officers get programs for short-term emergency help

The law allocated a $500,000 grant in fiscal year 2025 to help local police agencies start community-supported assistance programs. Officers can offer people in need short-term help, such as food, clothing, or fuel. The recipient must be a Puyallup-based nonprofit experienced in helping local agencies run these programs. Participating agencies can also seek private funding. The grant does not guarantee assistance or set household eligibility rules.

Officials review regional drug task forces

The law reserves $50,000 in fiscal year 2025 for three roundtables on drug task forces spanning multiple jurisdictions. Commerce and the Governor's Office must coordinate discussions of policies, rules, and funding. State, tribal, and local representatives must participate, and federal representatives must be invited. Commerce must report findings to legislative committees by June 30, 2025.

Oil spill readiness for San Juan

The law gives San Juan County $276,000 to strengthen ongoing oil spill response readiness. The grant covers staffing, equipment, training, and operating expenses. It does not provide direct household payments.

Orca protection gets research and monitoring

The parks commission gets $21,000 in fiscal year 2024 to implement the orca vessel protection law under Senate Bill 5371. Shipping noise reduction and monitoring get $350,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. The Puget Sound Partnership must contract with Washington Maritime Blue to run Quiet Sound and coordinate with Canadian and U.S. authorities. An orca-focused Friday Harbor organization gets $100,000 in fiscal year 2025 for research using scent-detection dogs to collect whale waste samples without disturbing whales. That research must coordinate with Fish and Wildlife as appropriate.

Outdoor users get safety information funding

The Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center gets $129,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. Lake Union boater education gets $125,000 each year to help prevent conflicts between boats and airplanes. Those grants can go to local or federal agencies or nonprofits, and a public report is due June 30, 2025. The Lake Union money cannot restrict public recreational, commercial, or tribal use of the lake.

Park operations and historic site protection

State Parks gets $5,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, plus $142,000 for operating costs. Those costs arise from capital projects completed during the 2021–2023 budget period. Cultural resource work gets $127,000 for 2024 and $128,000 for 2025, plus $750,000 for related preservation work. The money funds site monitoring, historic-property evaluations, preservation project management, and Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act compliance.

Peer support for eastern Washington reentry

The public defense office receives $300,000 in fiscal year 2026 for peer-led reentry services in eastern Washington. It must contract with a nonprofit that has worked with the corrections department on trauma training for people reentering communities. Services include training, referrals, resources, and peer coaching. Support covers basic needs, housing, behavioral health, family, civic involvement, and voting.

Permit review support for fish restoration

The historic preservation department gets $30,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for joint restoration permit review. Projects must directly benefit fish or fish habitat and use a joint aquatic resources permit application. The department must have completed cultural-resources review, including review under Executive Order 21-02. The funding pays for agency participation, not grants to applicants.

Planning a new child welfare system

The law provides $1.885 million in state funds for fiscal year 2024 and $1.885 million in federal funds. The money supports a feasibility study of a new child welfare information system. The study must develop an implementation plan and estimate system costs. It does not itself create new family services or change eligibility.

Police get crisis and intervention training

A University of Washington institute receives $500,000 each year in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to develop and test police training on interactions with people who use drugs. A steering committee must include lived-experience voices, researchers, clinicians, and police; training must work statewide without duplicating existing curricula. Pilot interviews and before-and-after ratings must assess practicality and stigmatizing beliefs, and the final training must incorporate feedback. Another $899,000 each year funds crisis intervention training in phase one regions of the Trueblood settlement. The law also provides $346,000 for fiscal year 2024 solely to implement the existing officer duty-to-intervene law.

Prison entry screenings get scanner funding

Corrections receives $1.612 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to operate body scanners. Programs operate at the Washington Corrections Center for Women and the Washington Corrections Center. They screen employees, contractors, visitors, volunteers, incarcerated people, and others entering secure areas.

Prison funding aims to reduce isolation

Corrections receives $438,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for changes intended to reduce solitary confinement. The money supports increased correctional staffing, mental-health training, and changes to restrictive-housing environments. The funding concerns people in Department of Corrections custody.

Prison funding supports care and less isolation

The law provides $13.605 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for prison medical staff. Staff support patient-centered care, addiction care, and screening for chronic illness, infectious disease, and serious mental health needs. Another $842,000 in 2024 and $2.256 million in 2025 supports efforts to reduce solitary confinement. That money pays for correctional staffing, mental health training, and changes to restrictive housing.

Prison funding targets less solitary confinement

The law provides $5.869 million in fiscal year 2025 for prison measures intended to reduce solitary confinement. This includes $5.577 million in state general fund money reserved solely for restrictive housing measures serving that goal. The money supports correctional staffing, mental health training, and changes to restrictive housing areas.

Prisons fund screening and safety compliance

Two provisions fund body-scanner programs at the Washington Corrections Center for Women and the Washington Corrections Center. They specify $127,000 in state general funds and $1.612 million for fiscal year 2025, respectively. Screening covers staff, contractors, visitors, volunteers, incarcerated people, and others entering the secure areas. Separately, the Department of Corrections must provide at least one dedicated Prison Rape Elimination Act compliance specialist at each institution. That staffing must stay within appropriated funds.

Public gets state employee contact directory

The state technology agency must host and support an online directory of public state employee contact information. It must do this within existing resources. The requirement improves public access to contact information, not household payments.

Public input on statewide recycling goals

The law provides $500,000 for an independent study of recycling, reuse, and waste-reduction targets. It includes producer responsibility for consumer packaging and paper products, with a consultant report due December 1, 2023. Recommended rates must be designed for statewide achievement by 2032. Public input must include accessible meetings and representative surveys covering overburdened communities and urban and rural areas. The study informs future legislation rather than changing household duties.

Puget Sound shipping noise reduction funded

Puget Sound Partnership receives $350,000 each fiscal year in 2026 and 2027 for shipping-noise reduction and monitoring. It must contract with Washington Maritime Blue to establish and run Quiet Sound. The program must include a leadership committee, work groups, and early and ongoing consultation with federally recognized tribes. Work must be coordinated with Canadian and U.S. authorities.

Recreation funds can support trails and facilities

During 2025–2027, the nonhighway and off-road vehicle activities account can fund Department of Natural Resources recreation programs. Allowed programs benefit off-road vehicle, nonhighway road, and nonmotorized recreation facilities. This authority runs through June 30, 2027, and does not require a project or set a funding amount.

Reforestation gets seed and nursery planning

The law provides $2.066 million from the Natural Climate Solutions Account for a comprehensive reforestation strategy. Natural Resources must address barriers involving seed collection, public nursery capacity, and workforce needs. The money supports state planning and capacity, not household payments.

Regional police academies get class funding

The law provides $6.987 million for fiscal year 2024 and $4.212 million for fiscal year 2025 for regional police academy classes. These additional classes are at new academies in Pasco, Snohomish County, and Clark County. Funding covers 75% of six classes in 2024 and 100% of five classes in 2025; scheduling must minimize waits and meet legal wait-time requirements. The commission can also award up to $50,000 to agencies accredited during the biennium by a recognized state or national accreditor. Each agency can receive only one award per biennium, and award money cannot replace existing funding.

Research and monitoring of tire pollution

Ecology gets $2.702 million to study the tire chemical 6PPD, assess safer alternatives, and recommend protective actions. A progress report is due December 31, 2024. Another $5.195 million funds water and sediment monitoring and guidance in stormwater manuals to reduce toxicity. The law also provides $300,000 to study waste tires’ contribution to 6PPD-q pollution, with a report due June 30, 2025. That study covers tire management, markets, origins, destinations, and alternatives to tire-derived rubber; it does not itself change regulations.

Research funded for compost-based stormwater systems

The law provides $188,000 in fiscal year 2026 for research on green stormwater infrastructure. The research must study how well compost-based systems remove pollutants over the long term. The appropriation funds research rather than household payments or a right to services.

Retail crime pilot emphasizes diversion

A statewide organization receives $1 million in fiscal year 2025 for three organized retail crime pilot sites emphasizing diversion. Each site is limited to $300,000; the organization must reasonably try to place one east of the Cascade Mountains. Sites must coordinate local governments or associations, diversion and restitution programs, retailers, police, prosecutors, public defense, and therapeutic courts. The recipient’s results report was due June 15, 2025, and the department’s legislative report was due June 30, 2025.

Safe drinking water help for small communities

The Department of Health gets $416,000 each fiscal year in 2026 and 2027 for Group B water programs with local health agencies, covering rules, technical help, and training. It also gets $685,000 each year to help homes and businesses using contaminated wells or small water systems access safe water. The Office of Drinking Water gets $5.264 million in federal funds for small-system technical help, engineering, and construction management. Another $1.69 million funds the lower Yakima Valley nitrate plan, including outreach, well testing, and alternate water supplies. The department can contract with local governments, local health agencies, and nonprofits to run that plan.

Salmon recovery gets planning and restoration

Statewide salmon planning gets $135,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, aligned with tribal priorities and regional plans. An implementation plan is due to the governor's office and state budget office by October 31, 2024. Another $398,000 creates a streamside habitat coordinator to organize projects, shared measures, and data systems. The law also provides $3 million for streamside salmon habitat restoration and $2 million to teach landowners and the public how to protect streamside buffers.

Seattle and Tacoma community services funded

The Pioneer Square-International District Community Preservation and Development Authority receives $2 million from the community preservation account for its duties. Tacoma receives $134,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $135,000 for 2025 for Hilltop Community Hub operations. The hub runs a distribution center providing housing goods to community members. These funds support organizations and services, not specified cash payments to residents.

Security grants for nonprofits facing threats

Commerce receives $100,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for nonprofit security and repair grants. Projects can include building improvements, security upgrades, planning, training, and exercises. Nonprofits must show threats or damage tied to their mission, beliefs, or ideology, and show why the investment is needed.

Security grants for small rural courts

Beginning July 1, 2025, the law provides $500,000 each fiscal year in 2026 and 2027 for court security matching grants. Eligible courts must be small and located in rural counties under the law's definitions. Grants pay for security equipment and services at municipal, district, and superior courts. They cannot pay for staff or administrative costs.

Senior volunteer program receives state grants

The Retired Senior Volunteer Program receives $375,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. The grants support the program. This provision does not specify participant payments, eligibility, or services.

Shoreline restoration and bridge runoff funded

The Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe receives $2.4 million from the Climate Commitment Account for phase 3 of shoreline restoration. Another $100,000 from the stormwater account funds runoff planning at the Aurora Bridge and I-5 Ship Canal Bridge. Planning can include engineering studies, community input, partner coordination, and staff support. The bridge funding supports planning, not a completed runoff project.

Skagit tribes and districts get mediation

The law provides $200,000 in fiscal year 2026 for mediation through the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Invited parties include federal fisheries officials, state Agriculture and Fish and Wildlife agencies, and the Skagit Drainage and Irrigation Districts Consortium. Invitations also include the Swinomish, Upper Skagit, and Sauk-Suiattle tribes. The department must support meetings and technical work. Meeting notes, points of agreement, and recommendations are due to the legislature by June 30, 2026.

Small forest landowners get assistance funding

The small forest landowner office gets $1 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. The funding restores staff capacity and supports help for small forest landowners, including help with Forest and Fish Act rules. The law does not set individual payment amounts or guarantee assistance to each landowner.

South King County gets air-quality equipment

The law provides $6 million from the Climate Commitment Account for air-quality equipment at south King County facilities. Ecology must work with the University of Washington; equipment may include air purifiers targeting ultrafine particles or aviation-related pollution. Equipment must measurably improve air quality at participating residential, recreational, and educational facilities. Spending or commitments were barred before January 1, 2025. The law makes this provision void upon Initiative 2117’s effective date if the initiative is approved.

State arts and history programs funded

The Arts Commission receives $15.634 million for 2025–2027. This includes $79,000 yearly for creative districts and $708,000 in fiscal year 2026 for the Billy Frank Jr. statue law. The Washington State Historical Society receives $5.535 million in fiscal year 2026 and $5.565 million in fiscal year 2027. The Eastern Washington State Historical Society receives $9.601 million for 2025–2027, including $119,000 yearly solely for an art curator. The funding supports arts, history, and museum programs rather than direct household payments.

State arts commission receives private funding

The law provides $224,000 in private/local General Fund funding for the Washington State Arts Commission. The provision supports the commission but does not identify specific services or direct household payments.

State funding helps Thurston County courts

Beginning July 1, 2026, the law provides $1.094 million for statewide impacts on Thurston County courts in fiscal year 2027. The legislature states its intent to continue this policy in later budget periods. This appropriation funds only fiscal year 2027.

State funds court information systems

The law provides $10 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for the judicial information systems account. This supports state court information systems. It does not create household payments or change individual eligibility.

State funds police training classes

The law funds 75 percent of costs for 23 statewide basic law enforcement classes in fiscal year 2024. It funds all costs for 22 classes in fiscal year 2025. The training commission must schedule classes to minimize waits and meet statutory wait-time requirements. It must track and report average waits and hold at least three classes in Spokane each year.

State funds support community reinvestment

The law provides $25 million each in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 solely for the community reinvestment account. This provision does not specify funded programs, eligibility rules, or household payment amounts.

State government television coverage gets funding

The law allocated $4.052 million for fiscal year 2024 and $6.052 million for fiscal year 2025 for government television coverage. The Secretary of State contracts with a nonprofit for start-to-finish coverage of state deliberations and other statewide events. The nonprofit must raise cash, in-kind support, or commitments equal to 40% of the state's contribution. It must provide an annual independent audit, financial statement, and report measuring program results. State funds cannot pay for lobbying, reportable political contributions, or specified gifts, honoraria, travel, lodging, meals, or entertainment for public officials.

State groups get public participation guidance

The law required the Office of Equity to consult state boards and commissions about barriers to public participation. Its findings were due July 1, 2024, and a participation toolkit was due November 30, 2024. The toolkit covers recruitment, meaningful engagement, accessible design, onboarding, compensation, and state offices available for advice. Covered temporary groups are created by legislation adopted after January 1, 2025, examine issues directly affecting underrepresented populations, and report to the legislature. The office's advice cannot restrict compliance with federal law.

State hospitals get local policing support

For each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, Western State Hospital’s Lakewood community-policing partnership receives $311,000. It covers staff, equipment, reports, investigations, training, liaison work, parking enforcement, and related policing activities. Another $45,000 each year supports Lakewood police services at the hospital and nearby. Eastern State Hospital receives $311,000 each year for an investigator, police officer, and community services officer, plus $25,000 for nearby Medical Lake police services. DSHS must report Medical Lake’s spending and calls each December of the fiscal biennium to state budget officials and legislative fiscal committees.

State lands get conservation planning tools

A public lands data system gets $336,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. Natural Resources and Fish and Wildlife must work with tribes so land plans consider cultural resources and practices. Another $1.5 million funds an inventory and plan for environmental benefits from state lands, working with Ecology and balanced stakeholder input. That work covers eligible lands, market opportunities, a model of emission-reduction costs, and a proposed public dashboard; findings are due December 31, 2024. The Puget Sound Partnership also gets $14,000 in fiscal year 2024 to implement the climate response strategy under House Bill 1170.

State lawyers funded to implement laws

Attorney General legal work receives $78,000 in General Fund-State money and $30,000 in revolving funds for psilocybin legislation. Allocations include $2.071 million for cannabis social equity, $204,000 for hospital staffing, and $2.316 million for speed safety cameras. They also include $50,000 for climate planning, $276,000 for crime victims and witnesses, and $426,000 for health services and access. Further amounts are $311,000 for missing persons, $2.01 million for Indigenous women, and $26,000 for private detention facilities. Transportation network company insurance programs receive $75,000; each allocation is restricted to implementing its related law.

State lawyers receive more litigation funding

The Attorney General's total budget rises by $1.03 million, from $540.515 million to $541.545 million. Dedicated resources for sexually violent predator cases receive $731,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $1.462 million for 2025. The criminal litigation unit receives $699,000 in each year for increased wrongful-conviction claims, workload, and case complexity. These amounts fund state legal work, not compensation payments to people claiming wrongful conviction.

State leadership board receives funding

The law provides $743,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $820,000 in 2027 for the Washington State Leadership Board account. This funds the board's account, not direct household payments.

State offices coordinate digital equity work

The Office of Equity must jointly lead the Washington Digital Equity Forum with the Statewide Broadband Office. They use appropriations in the budget section, but this provision does not specify an amount. It requires coordination, not direct household payments or internet service benefits.

State parks fund climate risk work

The law provides $1.083 million from the Climate Commitment Account and $350,000 from the Natural Climate Solutions Account for park climate work. The work identifies and reduces emissions and assesses areas at risk from climate change. Another $1.8 million and $300,000 from those accounts fund electric mowers, historic-building energy checks, and coastal erosion and flooding studies. The law bars consolidated climate account spending on this second package after Initiative 2117's effective date if voters approved it in 2024.

State parks get maintenance and planning

The law provides $3.75 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to maintain state park facilities and trails. Park project planning gets $299,000 each year, plus $1.797 million for staff and technical support. Planning includes addressing tribal and community concerns. Miller Peninsula Park gets $200,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $400,000 in fiscal year 2025 for its master plan and environmental review. These funds do not change visitor fees or create household payments.

State policy research receives continued funding

The Washington State Institute for Public Policy receives $2.09 million for fiscal year 2026 and $2.035 million for 2027. It also receives $793,000 from the Workforce Education Investment Account. The money supports research, program reviews, operations, and ongoing studies, not household payments.

State water law guide gets updated

The law allocated $50,000 in fiscal year 2025 for the Attorney General to update its water law guide's introduction. The update covers municipal water law, the trust water rights program, stream flows, and significant appeals court cases. It was required to be completed by June 30, 2025. This funding supports legal information, not changes to water rights or household payments.

Statewide team coordinates retail crime cases

The Attorney General’s Office receives funding for a centralized, statewide organized retail crime task force. The team coordinates investigations and prosecutions across jurisdictions. Funding is $755,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $1.51 million in fiscal year 2025.

Studies of juvenile justice changes

The juvenile justice council gets $300,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, including one additional staff member. After consulting relevant stakeholders, it must report on community compensation and juvenile court records by October 31, 2024. A report on extending juvenile court jurisdiction to ages 18, 19, and 20 is due June 30, 2025. That report must include an implementation plan and cost analysis; this funding does not itself change court jurisdiction.

Study examines Dash Point city status

Commerce gets $200,000 in fiscal year 2025 to study making Dash Point and Browns Point one city. The consultant must examine the tax base, crime, homelessness, infrastructure, public services, and behavioral health services. Results were due to the Office of Financial Management and legislative committees by June 1, 2025. The study does not itself create a city or change residents' taxes or services.

Study examines prison family communication costs

The Office of Financial Management gets $20,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $140,000 in fiscal year 2025 to study communication costs. The research covers voice, video, email, and text messaging for incarcerated people and their families. It must examine rate changes over time and services provided free of charge. The report was due to the governor and legislative policy and fiscal committees by December 31, 2024. The funding does not itself change communication rates.

Study examines slavery's effects and remedies

Commerce receives $150,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for a study on slavery's lasting effects and possible remedies. It must consult the State Commission on African American Affairs. The study focuses on direct descendants and requires researchers with expertise in reparations, history, policy, economic valuation, and genealogy. Preliminary, interim, and final reports are due June 30, 2026, December 31, 2026, and June 30, 2027. This funding supports research, not reparations payments.

Study of septic waste treatment capacity

The law provides $250,000 for fiscal year 2025 to study treatment capacity for waste pumped from septic systems. The Department of Health must contract with a statewide association of local public health officials. The analysis covers current capacity and future infrastructure needs tied to development growth, with results due June 30, 2025. It does not pay for household septic-system improvements.

Tacoma reentry center gets operating support

The law provides $129,000 for fiscal year 2025 to staff and operate the Sixth Avenue Reentry Center in Tacoma. The center operates as a state-run facility serving people receiving reentry services. The appropriation does not set an individual benefit amount.

Task force studies extremism and mass violence

The law allocated $247,000 in fiscal year 2025 for a joint Attorney General and Health Department task force. It recommends a public health and community-based approach to extremism and mass violence. At least 10 appointed members must represent community, law enforcement, and public health or nonprofit organizations; each agency gets at most one voting member. The Attorney General provides staff, and nonlegislative member reimbursement follows state law. The first meeting was due December 31, 2024, with reports due June 1, 2025, and December 1, 2026; the task force is not directed to change criminal law, add penalties, or increase enforcement.

Task force studies geoduck harvest challenges

The law funds a task force to study threats to tribal treaty and state geoduck harvests and ways to sustain or expand harvests. Funding includes $475,000 for fiscal year 2024, $253,000 for 2025, and $62,000 from a separate state account. The public lands commissioner must invite specified tribal, agency, partnership, and academic representatives. The task force’s findings and recommendations were due December 1, 2024.

Task force studies preventing mass violence

The Attorney General’s Office and Department of Health receive $253,000 in fiscal year 2026 for an extremism and mass violence task force. It must recommend a public health and community-based prevention framework. At least 10 members must represent different stakeholder groups; each agency may have no more than one voting member. Recommendations cannot direct criminal-law changes, create criminal penalties, or increase criminal law enforcement. The final report and recommendations are due December 1, 2026.

Tribal committee studies boarding school harms

The law allocated $250,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for a five-member Tribal Advisory Committee. The Attorney General's Office establishes and staffs the committee to study Washington Indian boarding schools and recommend responses to lasting harms. Members must be citizens of federally recognized tribes, have relevant experience or expertise, and represent diverse geographic areas. At least six listening sessions with tribes and Native-led organizations were required. The final report was due June 30, 2025.

Tribal grants can support climate projects

During 2025–2027, the climate investment account can fund tribal capacity grants for climate resilience, adaptation, and clean energy projects. It can also support applications for state or federal grants and related work. Spending depends on available account money and legislative appropriations; no amount is set.

Tribes receive climate planning grants

Federally recognized tribes receive $24.536 million in grants for climate consultation, clean-energy siting and projects, resilience, adaptation, and grant applications. The grants also support offshore-wind science-panel participation and related work. Of the total, $3 million completes grants awarded or amended from January 1 through June 30, 2025. Applicants are encouraged, but not required, to include a supporting tribal resolution.

University climate impacts work receives funding

The University of Washington's Climate Impacts Group receives $400,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. The funding supports the group in the College of the Environment. It does not establish direct household payments or individual services.

University gets honey bee research funding

Washington State University gets $135,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $135,000 in 2027 for a honey bee biology research position. The money is restricted to that position and does not provide household payments.

University human and civil rights work funded

The University of Washington Center for Human Rights receives $410,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. This money must add to, not replace, the center's other funding. Central Washington University receives $422,000 for the 2025–2027 budget period solely for civil rights and risk mitigation staff. These appropriations support university work and personnel, not direct household payments.

Updated public maps of Washington waters

The law provides $3.307 million to update surface-water maps and improve tools, accuracy, and use of statewide water data. Consolidated climate account money cannot support that work once Initiative 2117 takes effect if approved. Another $206,000 from the natural climate solutions account starts a public map combining water rights, mapping, water-bank, mitigation, and metering data. Ecology must consult local and tribal governments and report project status by June 30, 2025. That money cannot be spent or committed before January 1, 2025; the web-map provision becomes void if approved Initiative 2117 takes effect.

Water systems and wastewater studies funded

Water-system consolidation grants receive $808,000, and the drinking-water technical services program receives $1.044 million. Island County receives $150,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $87,000 for 2025 to study affordable wastewater options in unincorporated areas. The study examines alternatives to septic and sewer systems and must identify regulatory barriers. The Department of Health must have a chance to review and consult; its recommendations must appear in the final report. These funds do not set household water rates or change wastewater rules.

Waterways get invasive species control funding

Flowering rush removal gets $1.464 million in federal funds and $50,000 from the Aquatic Lands Enhancement Account. That work is limited to the Columbia River basin and Whatcom County. Green crab control and grants get $6.082 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. Fish and Wildlife must provide quarterly reports and a long-term response plan by October 1, 2024. The plan must cover trapping sites, operating efficiencies, ongoing and possible federal funding, and recommended funding for 2025–2027.

Wellness grants support local public-safety officers

The law provided $1.5 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for local law enforcement and corrections wellness grants. Eligible uses include resilience, injury prevention, peer support, fitness, nutrition, stress management, suicide prevention, and physical or behavioral health services. The commission must consult the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs and the Washington State Fraternal Order of Police. It must also consult the Washington Council of Police and Sheriffs when developing the program. These are earlier-year appropriations.

Wildfire funds can support post-fire recovery

During 2025–2027, the wildfire response, forest restoration, and community resilience account can fund post-wildland-fire work, including debris flow monitoring. Eligible recipients include state agencies, federally recognized tribes, local governments, and fire and conservation districts. Nonprofits, forest collaboratives, and small forestland owners are also eligible recipients. The provision sets no funding amount.

Wildfire response and recovery get funding

Fire suppression administration gets $5.647 million in fiscal year 2024 and $8.47 million in fiscal year 2025. Another $330,000 comes from the Disaster Response Account; these funds are limited to indirect and administrative suppression costs. Central and eastern Klickitat conservation districts get $500,000 in fiscal year 2025 for post-wildfire recovery where needed to protect public resources. Recovery work can include technical help, seeding, weed control, dozer-line repair, forest health, and shrub-steppe restoration.

Women's prison gets operating and reopening funds

The Washington Corrections Center for Women gets $159,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $212,000 in 2027 for direct variable costs. Corrections also gets $247,000 in 2026 and $329,000 in 2027 to reopen and operate living unit L. The funding supports this facility's operations and capacity, not individual payments.

Youth homeless shelters get funded inspections

The law provides $197,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for youth shelter oversight. The Department of Children, Youth, and Families uses the money for inspections and certifications every two years. Oversight covers day and overnight shelters serving homeless people under age 18.

Youth safety tip line provides help

The Attorney General must operate the YES tip line for concerns about a young person’s safety or well-being. Anyone contacting it for themselves or someone else must receive timely help and cannot be turned away. Services include risk assessment, referrals, emergency alerts, follow-up, and confidentiality protections. Youth views must guide the program, with priority for marginalized and minority communities; a competitively selected vendor must follow state confidentiality and data rules. Funding is $1.458 million each in fiscal years 2024 and 2025.

Youth shelters face regular safety inspections

The child welfare department receives $197,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for youth shelter oversight. It must inspect and certify overnight and day shelters serving homeless people under age 18 every two years.

Funding chemical oversight and cleaner waterways

Ecology gets $375,000 to identify more priority consumer products containing PFAS for possible regulation and issue manufacturer information orders. The work also covers chemicals used to replace priority chemicals. Another $300,000 funds removal of tires containing 6PPD from floatplane docks in salmon-bearing waterways. That grant can also help pay for replacement products without 6PPD. Both appropriations come from the state model toxics control operating account; neither sets household payments or product prices.

Funding for cosmetic product chemical protections

The law provides $418,000 from the Model Toxics Control Operating Account to carry out cosmetic product chemical legislation. It also provides $52,000 in fiscal year 2025 for the Environmental and Land Use Hearings Office to implement House Bill 1047. These appropriations do not list specific chemical restrictions or household payments.

Funding for electric vehicle fire policy

The law provides $76,000 from the Model Toxics Control Operating Account to implement Senate Bill 5812 concerning electric vehicle fires. The appropriation lapses if that bill was not enacted by June 30, 2024. This funding provision does not specify new household safety duties or direct payments.

Funding for safe unused drug disposal

The law provides $288,000 from the secure drug take-back account for community drug disposal programs. The money must carry out Washington's 2021 drug take-back law.

Funding tests child care for lead

The Department of Health receives $157,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to test child care facilities for lead. It also connects facilities needing cleanup or repairs with financial resources. The work aims to reduce children's lead exposure.

Funding to carry out lead protections

The law sets aside $1.426 million from the Lead Paint Account to carry out Substitute Senate Bill 5494. The funding lapses if that lead-based paint bill was not enacted by June 30, 2025. This appropriation does not create a household payment.

More funding to investigate hospital complaints

The law provides $1.359 million in fiscal year 2024 and $680,000 in 2025 for hospital complaint investigations. It also provides $680,000 in private and local funds. The Department of Health uses the money to investigate complaints and address its backlog. This appropriation does not promise an individual remedy or payment.

More research on consumer product chemicals

The law provides $500,000 to develop mobile screening methods for fluorine in consumer products and compare them with established methods. The School of Public Health's report on a working method and exposure recommendations was due June 30, 2025. Another $750,000 funds Ecology's review of products containing PFAS chemicals and ingredients used to replace priority chemicals. Ecology issues information orders to manufacturers for this work. These funds support research and review, not new product bans or household reporting duties.

More technical help for small water systems

The law provides $492,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for Group B drinking water programs. Health officials must coordinate with local health agencies; funds may support rules, implementation, technical help, and training. Separately, $7.146 million in federal funds pays for small water systems' technical assistance, engineering support, and construction management. The support goes to water programs and systems, not directly to household customers.

Treasurer gets retirement savings implementation funding

The law provides $280,000 from the State Treasurer's Service Account to implement SB 6069 concerning retirement savings. The money is solely for implementation work. This provision does not set individual contributions, eligibility rules, or household benefit amounts.

Agencies must report sensitive information requests

Six agencies must promptly alert the Attorney General about covered requests from federal agencies or federal, state, or local law enforcement. They are Social and Health Services, Health Care Authority, Labor and Industries, Health, Corrections, and Children, Youth, and Families. Covered requests concern specified health, eligibility, provider, facility, noncitizen-service, or protected-care information, with agency-specific limits tied to covered services or spending. Contractors must promptly notify the agency they work with when they receive covered requests. These notice rules do not themselves block disclosure or change household eligibility.

Behavioral health clinics get bridge funding

The law provides $4.5 million in fiscal year 2026 to help eligible community behavioral health agencies maintain operations. Agencies must participate in federal certified community behavioral health clinic expansion programs whose grants expire during statewide planning. Another $178,000 in 2026, $58,000 in 2027, and $650,000 federally funds development of the clinic model. The Health Care Authority must study options, costs, payment methods, and health-system effects, including services for children and families. It must identify a path to statewide implementation by fiscal year 2027.

Behavioral health facility legal services funded

The law provides $615,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for legal services related to the behavioral health teaching facility. The funding does not create household payments or change individual eligibility for care.

Behavioral health planning includes children and families

The planned community behavioral health clinic payment model must include services for children, youth, and families. It must use at least one federally approved method that sets provider payments in advance. The plan may use a federal demonstration, a Medicaid waiver or plan amendment, or both, with continued expert consultation. Separately, $250,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 supports up to two agencies developing intensive youth services. That money may pay for hiring, training, technical help, and related capacity-building costs.

Better phone and document tools for benefits

Community services technology receives $1.878 million for fiscal year 2024 and $3.78 million for fiscal year 2025. The law also provides $2.746 million in federal funds. Improvements include automated phone responses and document uploads, aimed at reducing call-center and lobby waits. The project remains subject to the law’s technology funding conditions, limits, and review requirements.

Better tracking of behavioral health needs

The law provides $250,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to model justice-system risk and hospital-bed demand. DSHS and the Health Care Authority must report by December 1 each biennium year on risk, data sharing, services, and repeat offenses. Bed forecasts must be updated in February, June, and November, considering capacity, referrals, wait lists, stay lengths, and community investments. Community behavioral health data must also enter the existing management system in phases, with timely, consistent reporting required in health-plan and service-organization contracts. Where practical, data must show historical monthly counts and separate Medicaid from non-Medicaid services and children from adults, with budget-staff consultation.

Blind residents get independent living support

The law funds the Department of Services for the Blind's independent living program. It provides $184,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $367,000 for fiscal year 2025. The money supports program services but does not state a new eligibility rule or payment per person.

Blood donation groups receive rebuilding grants

The law provides $500,000 in fiscal year 2024 to rebuild Washington’s blood supply. The money must be split equally among the four largest nonprofit blood donation organizations operating in the state. It can only support rebuilding the supply, including more donation-center staff and mobile blood drives.

Broader funding options for crisis care

During the 2025–2027 budget period, the Legislature may use Washington’s 988 account to maintain and expand crisis services. These include mobile crisis teams, 23-hour crisis relief centers, and other community settings. These appropriations are exempt from an account-use limit. This authority ends June 30, 2027; the provision does not set a funding amount.

Burien hospital gets heart procedure exemption

During the 2025–2027 fiscal biennium, the Department of Health must waive a certificate-of-need approval requirement for one Burien hospital. The hospital serves 23% Medicaid patients, and the exemption covers elective percutaneous coronary interventions, procedures to open narrowed heart arteries. The exemption does not guarantee any person access to care.

Cancer research grants receive state funding

The law provides $31.684 million for the Andy Hill Cancer Research Endowment Program. The money can pay for research grants and program administration. It does not provide direct patient payments or health coverage.

Care coordinator funded for transitional-age youth

The law provides $75,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for a transitional-age youth care coordinator. The position serves the Doorway Project in partnership with the University of Washington Seattle campus. The appropriation does not state an age range, individual eligibility rules, or payments.

Children get care during family treatment

The law provides $748,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for one interim pediatric care center. It serves up to 13 children through age two; at least 75% must need special care because of their mothers' substance abuse. The center must offer on-site parent training and at least three months of consultation and support after placement. The Department of Children, Youth, and Families cannot require case management as a contract condition. Separately, the department must pay foster care maintenance to programs placing children with parents in residential substance abuse treatment; these payments count as foster care maintenance for forecasting and budgeting.

Children get funded emergency placement services

Emergency placement contracts receive $7.106 million in state funds in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027, plus $1.188 million federally. Contract operating costs cannot count toward family foster home maintenance payments; unsustainable costs for added beds must appear in budget submissions. The D.S. settlement receives $9.376 million in state funds for 2026, $8.709 million for 2027, and $512,000 federally. Settlement funding supports young-adult housing, statewide care hubs, emergency receiving care, exceptional placement costs, and ongoing quality improvement. The child welfare department must follow the settlement's timeline and implementation plan.

Children’s behavioral health tools get funding

The law provides $400,000 for fiscal year 2025 to continue developing BH360, an online platform for parents. Work includes mapping available services, technical development, and input from families with lived experience. Another $91,000 each year in fiscal years 2024 and 2025, plus $126,000 in federal funds, implements House Bill 1580 concerning children in crisis. These appropriations do not establish household payment amounts, eligibility rules, or individual service entitlements.

Children's mental health university work funded

The law provides $376,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for specified university work on children's mental health. The money is restricted to the work authorized by the cited children's mental health law. It does not create a specific service entitlement or direct payment for families.

Cities get crisis and diversion funding

The Association of Washington Cities receives $2 million each year in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to reimburse documented team-creation costs. Supported teams include police-assisted diversion, community referral, and mobile crisis models; applicants with facility-based crisis triage and stabilization capacity get priority. Cities are encouraged to build regional models, and Whatcom County’s alternative response team receives a separate $587,000 each year. A one-time $160,000 fiscal year 2024 grant continues Snoqualmie’s regional behavioral health coordinator; the city and authority’s report was due December 31, 2023. Another $5 million from opioid settlements maintains police-assisted diversion grants outside King County.

Closer tracking of hospital discharge delays

The law provides $100,000 each in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to track state hospital patients moving to community care. It does not change the existing 14-day transition requirement. Tracking covers determination and notification dates, plus the transition date or a finding that inpatient care is needed again. The department must share information regularly and report progress toward the 14-day standard by December 1 each year of the biennium.

Clubhouse services receive funding across Washington

The law funds clubhouse services in every Washington region. It provides $3.114 million in state funds each year in fiscal years 2024 and 2025, plus $5.402 million federally. This provision does not set individual eligibility rules or cash benefits.

College pilot helps students find health coverage

The law provides $80,000 for fiscal year 2024 to help students connect with health coverage, including registered apprentices. The Student Achievement Council works with the Council of Presidents to support up to two four-year colleges. One college must be east of the Cascades and one west. Staff can explain coverage, conduct outreach, and help with applications and Washington Healthplanfinder enrollment. Exchange helpers must meet contracting, security, and other program requirements; the pilot does not change coverage eligibility.

Colleges report sensitive government information requests

Washington higher education institutions must promptly notify the Attorney General about specified government or law enforcement information requests. The rule covers health care, program eligibility, or protected health care information that may affect spending on covered services. Institutions must also require their contractors to promptly notify them of such requests. This rule creates no household payment or information-reporting duty.

Coordination and travel support for reproductive care

The law funds the Washington Reproductive Access Alliance with $412,000 each in fiscal years 2026 and 2027, plus $72,000. The alliance provides a service-coordination website, phone line, administrative support, patient-care coordination, and social support for patient travel. This funding supports patients and care coordination rather than setting an individual cash benefit.

Counties can manage justice treatment funds

The Health Care Authority must offer counties the option to manage their shares of criminal justice treatment funds. If a county declines, behavioral health entities must manage the funds under plans approved by local panels. The law does not state distribution amounts or change individual eligibility.

Counties get commitment hearing cost support

The law provides $900,000 for fiscal year 2025 to reimburse King County, legal services organizations, or both for commitment hearings. Priority goes to 180-day hearings at state-operated facilities, including DSHS and University of Washington facilities. Remaining money can cover other involuntary-treatment hearings at facilities in King County. Another $67,000 for fiscal year 2025 reimburses Thurston County for 180-day hearings at Maple Lane. The funding does not change commitment criteria or individuals’ financial liability.

Counties reimbursed more for commitment hearings

Fiscal year 2025 reimbursements to Pierce and Spokane counties rise from $1.204 million to $1.529 million. The money covers their costs of conducting 180-day commitment hearings at state psychiatric hospitals. It goes to counties, not directly to patients or families.

Coverage guidance for care home workers

The law provides $200,000 each in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for health coverage education for adult family home owners and employees. The Health Benefit Exchange must work with the Department of Social and Health Services and the Home Training Network. Funds support educational resources and training to help people connect with coverage. This provision does not change eligibility rules or premiums.

COVID testing support for targeted groups

The law provides $18.7 million in fiscal year 2024 and $1.3 million in federal funds for COVID-19 response work. The Department of Health must keep distributing testing supplies to agricultural workers and tribal governments. Spending requires the Office of Financial Management's approval of the department's plan.

Crisis centers and teams receive funding

The 988 account provides $15.398 million for crisis center startup grants, six-month operating subsidies, and care reimbursement for non-Medicaid clients. Competitive awards consider geographic need, regional capacity, and readiness, prioritizing providers with fewer funding options and earlier opening dates. The Health Care Authority must enforce health plan service and network requirements and report sustainable funding recommendations by December 1, 2025. Separately, 10% of annual 988 tax receipts supports grants, performance payments, and endorsement work for endorsed crisis teams. Up to 30% of that dedicated share can support teams affiliated with Washington tribes.

Crisis service funding gaps get reviewed

The Health Care Authority must bring public and private stakeholders together to review crisis-service funding gaps and recommend options. The review covers mobile crisis teams, joint response teams, and facility services, including state subsidies for privately insured and Medicaid clients. It must explore proportional insurer contributions, separating Medicaid-covered services from other work, and simpler provider billing. Up to $300,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $450,000 for fiscal year 2025 support the work. Preliminary and final reports were due December 1, 2023, and December 1, 2024; the review itself does not change benefits or premiums.

Dental care gaps get public review

The law provides $100,000 through a Pierce County organization with dispute-resolution expertise to convene an oral health equity work group. The group must review the Department of Health's assessment and identify communities with the greatest gaps in oral health. Members must represent community groups, dental and medical providers, health centers, tribal clinics, foundations, public health, and water systems. Findings and recommendations are due to the legislature by June 30, 2025.

Direct contracts for maternal recovery support

The Health Care Authority must contract directly with providers for covered case management for pregnant and parenting women. Within its funding, it may contract with the University of Washington and community providers for specialized substance-use case management. This includes the parent-child assistance program and support for postpartum women. Contractors must provide service and outcome data when asked. Indirect administrative charges cannot exceed 10% of a contract; this is not a cap on household costs.

Electric vans for crisis response teams

The law provides $1 million from the 988 account to buy electric vans for behavioral health crisis and suicide prevention teams. Teams must have the state endorsement required by law. Of the total, $700,000 supports endorsed teams generally, and $300,000 supports endorsed teams affiliated with a Washington tribe.

Families get translated congenital infection information

The law provides $114,000 for fiscal year 2025 for educational materials about congenital cytomegalovirus, also called CMV. The Department of Health must develop, translate, and distribute the materials. This provides health information, not a new medical coverage benefit or household payment.

Food assistance organizations receive continued funding

We Feed Washington receives $18 million in fiscal year 2024 and $17 million in 2025 to support hunger-relief organizations. Washington’s emergency food assistance program receives $5 million in 2024, $20 million in 2025, and $15 million federally. A separate $10.6 million federal allocation is shared among emergency food assistance, local food infrastructure and market-access grants, and farmers-to-families food boxes. These funds support food programs, not a set household payment.

Forensic nursing services get statewide coordination

The law provides $111,000 for fiscal year 2025 to create a statewide forensic nurse coordination program. The program supports coordination of forensic nursing services. The appropriation does not set an individual payment or eligibility rule.

Franklin County emergency care gets funding

Franklin County Public Hospital District #1 receives $493,000 in each of fiscal 2026 and 2027. The money supports three full-time emergency medical technicians and other medical transport resources. Services include care for Coyote Ridge Corrections Center.

Funding addresses nicotine and cannabis health risks

Nicotine control, quitting support, treatment, and substance-use prevention receive $2.5 million for fiscal year 2024 and $2.768 million for 2025. Community-based programs must consider unequal nicotine addiction impacts on youth and racial or other groups. The Addictions, Drug and Alcohol Institute receives $500,000 for cannabis and public health research. That research includes information on the connection between first-episode psychosis and cannabis use.

Funding and higher withdrawal treatment rates

Secure withdrawal and stabilization facilities receive $9.795 million for fiscal year 2024 and $10.015 million for fiscal year 2025. The law also provides $15.025 million in federal funds. Within this funding, the Health Care Authority may raise the daily fee-for-service rate up to $650. Behavioral health entities must pay providers at least the rate the authority sets. Facilities facing federal mental-institution funding restrictions need a waiver allowing full federal participation to receive these service funds.

Funding child health notices and records

The law provides $1.164 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for the Child Profile health promotion notification system. Health also gets $296,000 each year to maintain the health and human services master person index. The index funding supports the health and human services coalition initiative. These provisions fund information systems without changing household eligibility or creating direct payments.

Funding connects people with recovery services

The law provides $250,000 each year in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for a statewide recovery community organization. Local recovery representatives must lead it, center lived experience, and offer free education, training, events, and a conference. It must engage diverse people in recovery, families, and providers statewide while prioritizing equity and justice. Another $500,000 each year supports substance use treatment resources using contingency management under the 2021 law. Another $2.565 million each year funds recovery planning, nurse oversight of jail care transitions, and emergency department medication programs linked to outreach and case-management referrals.

Funding coordinates opioid prevention and treatment

The law provides a $200,000 grant from the Opioid Abatement Settlement Account to a statewide public health association. The grant supports coordination of opioid prevention, harm reduction, and treatment across state and local programs, including schools.

Funding coordination of dementia care work

Health gets $127,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to coordinate dementia-related work. This includes coordination across agencies and carrying out recommendations in the updated state Alzheimer's plan. The provision does not create household payments or change service eligibility.

Funding education about end-of-life care

The law provides $85,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for end-of-life training, outreach, and education. Funds must pass through to a Washington nonprofit with expertise in end-of-life care and the Death with Dignity Act. The grant does not change eligibility for care or provide household payments.

Funding for 988 crisis coordination

The law provides $1.145 million from the statewide 988 crisis response account for behavioral crisis coordination. The money must carry out Senate Bill 6251. This appropriation does not set individual service levels or payments.

Funding for 988 mental health help

The law provides $8.557 million from Washington's statewide 988 behavioral health crisis response account. The money must implement the 988 system legislation. It supports crisis response services, not a cash benefit.

Funding for behavioral health worker training

Washington State University receives $327,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for behavioral health pharmacy training. Its pharmacy college must retain two residency positions and one behavioral health faculty member. The law also funds behavioral health workforce legislation with $1.016 million in general funds for 2024 and $390,000 for 2025. Additional private, local, and health professions account funds support that implementation.

Funding for cancer screening and research

The law provides $945,000 in fiscal year 2026 for Andy Hill cancer research matching funds. This money cannot fund new grants lasting more than two years. It also provides $1.398 million for 2024 and $1.9 million for 2025 for breast, cervical, and colon cancer screening. That funding also supports cancer community partnerships and the state cancer registry.

Funding for college opioid prevention implementation

The law provides $97,000 for fiscal year 2025 to carry out higher education opioid prevention legislation at the funded institution. The money lapses unless Second Substitute House Bill 2112 was enacted by June 30, 2024. This allocation does not specify individual payments or particular prevention services.

Funding for community mental health groups

The law provides $125,000 in fiscal year 2025 for community-led mental health support groups, classes, and outreach across Washington. The grant recipient must be the Washington office of a national grassroots organization supporting people affected by mental health conditions. The funding supports community services, not direct payments to participants.

Funding for community mental health services

The Health Care Authority receives state and federal funding for community behavioral health services at the Olympic Heritage Behavioral Health Facility. It also receives $300,000 in fiscal year 2026 for a second year of occupational therapy workforce grants to contracted agencies. Grants can fund therapy, hiring, training, technical help, fieldwork, and other approved activities; a final report is due January 1, 2027. A statewide mental health nonprofit gets $250,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. It must offer free community and school education, support, and help finding local services for peers and families.

Funding for ibogaine addiction therapy research

The law provides $250,000 for an initial study of ibogaine-assisted therapy at the University of Washington. The study is based at its Center for Novel Therapeutics in Addiction Psychiatry. This money funds research and does not itself make treatment available to patients.

Funding for opioid prevention and treatment

The law provides $232,000 in fiscal year 2025 to implement higher education opioid prevention legislation. That funding lapses unless Second Substitute House Bill 2112 was enacted by June 30, 2024. It also provides $214,000 in fiscal year 2025 to implement substance use treatment legislation. That funding lapses unless Second Substitute Senate Bill 6228 was enacted by June 30, 2024.

Funding for opioid prevention at colleges

The law provides separate amounts of $412,000 and $122,000 for opioid prevention at Washington colleges. The $122,000 amount is for fiscal year 2025. Both amounts lapse if Second Substitute House Bill 2112 was not enacted by June 30, 2024. These provisions do not specify individual student services or payments.

Funding for pregnancy substance use care

Beginning July 1, 2024, eligible hospitals receive higher daily inpatient payments through the substance-using pregnant people program. The increase applies to hospitals paid through the inpatient prospective payment system. Hospitals in the certified public expenditures or sole community hospital programs are excluded. The law also provides $400,000 from opioid settlement funds for maternal and infant health work in the state opioid response plan.

Funding for prison behavioral health certification

Corrections gets $83,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $90,000 in 2027 for behavioral health certification administration and support. It also gets $451,000 in 2026 and $468,000 in 2027 for implementation in correctional operations. Both allocations support Senate Bill 5388 and lapse unless it was enacted by June 30, 2025. These funding provisions do not establish individual payments or eligibility changes.

Funding for substance use treatment prevention

The law provides $214,000 each in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to implement the 2024 substance use treatment law. Another $1.486 million from opioid settlements goes to the health professions account for that implementation. Federal funding of $3.5 million continues existing county drug and alcohol prevention programs. The cannabis account provides $12.878 million each in 2024 and 2025 for treatment, prevention, surveys, research, home visiting, and youth grants. Those cannabis funds must be divided among activities in the same proportions as the fiscal year 2021 allocation.

Funding for the Latino health center

The Latino Center for Health receives $500,000 from the General Fund in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. It also receives $500,000 from the Workforce Education Investment Account. The money is solely for the center. This provision does not identify specific services, eligibility rules, or individual benefits.

Funding for university stem cell research

Washington's general fund provides $2.625 million in each of fiscal 2026 and 2027 to the University of Washington. The money supports its Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine. Funds must support research using pluripotent stem cells and related methods, not direct household payments or treatment benefits.

Funding helps jails provide opioid medicines

The law provides $538,000 from the opioid settlement account for technical help to improve medication access in jails. The medicines treat opioid use disorder. The provision does not specify how many people receive treatment or create direct payments to individuals.

Funding helps maintain abortion care access

The law funds programs and grants to maintain access to abortion care, including support for providers. This provision does not state a separate provider-grant amount or a direct household payment.

Funding helps open behavioral health facility

The law provides $7.5 million for fiscal year 2024 to help open a behavioral health teaching facility. The money covers staff, training, and other opening costs. It does not provide direct household payments.

Funding helps patients leave psychiatric hospitals

The law provides Spokane behavioral health entities $1.125 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. It funds intensive treatment teams, crisis outreach, nursing-facility mental health care, and a 16-bed treatment facility to reduce hospital use. Entities must review results annually and change services that are not working well. Coordinated services for people leaving or diverted from psychiatric inpatient care receive $1.423 million each year, plus $5.908 million in federal funds; state agencies must set program standards together. Another $2 million each year covers higher room and board costs for inpatient and residential behavioral health services outside hospitals.

Funding helps people buy healthy produce

Fruit and vegetable incentive programs receive $4.5 million in fiscal year 2024 and $4.523 million in 2025. Those totals include $500,000 for 2024 and $600,000 for 2025 for fruit and vegetable prescriptions. The prescription program serves people facing food insecurity or a high risk of chronic health conditions. The law does not set a per-person benefit amount.

Funding helps substance-exposed infants and parents

The law provides a one-time $5.5 million opioid settlement allocation for care of infants exposed to substances before birth. The pilot reimburses a licensed pediatric transitional care facility in Spokane County for neonatal abstinence syndrome services. It includes $190,000 for Washington State University research on outcomes and avoiding costlier medical care, with a report due December 1, 2024. Another $100,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 funds a full-time coordinator for programs serving pregnant and parenting people in substance use treatment.

Funding hospital tracking and discharge planning

The law provides $17.752 million in fiscal year 2024 to maintain public health technology developed during COVID-19. It requires a funding strategy and real-time hospital and skilled-nursing bed tracking plan, with costs, by September 15, 2023. The tracking plan excludes behavioral health hospitals and facilities. Another $205,000 in fiscal year 2024 supports the difficult-to-discharge task force and its subgroups through October 31, 2023.

Funding implementation of the psilocybin law

The law provides $1.464 million solely to carry out Senate Bill 5263 concerning psilocybin. This appropriation does not name households receiving benefits or establish direct payments.

Funding implements crisis co-response legislation

The law provides $300,000 from the Workforce Education Investment Account to implement crisis co-response legislation. The funding depends on Substitute House Bill 1811 becoming law by June 30, 2025. Otherwise, the appropriation lapses. This provision does not set individual payments or eligibility for crisis services.

Funding implements existing state psilocybin law

The law provides $730,000 from the Workforce Education Investment Account to implement the state's 2023 law concerning psilocybin. This appropriation does not describe implementation activities, individual eligibility, or direct household financial benefits.

Funding implements high potency cannabis law

The Health Care Authority receives $328,000 in state funds for fiscal year 2025 and $328,000 in federal funds. The money implements the law concerning high-THC cannabis products. The requirement for that law's enactment by June 30, 2024 was met. This funding does not specify individual benefits or product restrictions.

Funding keeps public health databases running

Health gets $2.786 million in fiscal 2026 and $3.156 million in fiscal 2027 to maintain cloud-based public health technology. It also gets $686,000 in fiscal 2026 and $757,000 in fiscal 2027 for the WA Health database. That database tracks health care beds and supplies. This money maintains systems rather than changing health coverage.

Funding keeps Washington's referral helpline running

Washington Information Network 211 receives $1 million in fiscal year 2026 and $1 million in fiscal year 2027. The money supports its statewide information and referral service. It does not change household benefit eligibility or provide direct payments.

Funding local health board tribal changes

The State Board of Health gets $124,000 in fiscal 2026 to implement legislation on local health boards and tribes. The money lapses unless Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1946 was enacted by June 30, 2025. This appropriation does not describe the underlying law's full requirements.

Funding maintains behavioral health personal care

The law provides $14.435 million for managed care organizations to reimburse the state's share of exceptional behavioral health personal care. The funding covers people who have not moved to the new 1915(i) state plan services. It does not set an individual payment amount.

Funding places overdose supplies in communities

The law provides $900,000 in fiscal year 2025 to buy machines dispensing naloxone, fentanyl test strips, and other health supplies. The Health Care Authority cannot favor machines because they offer telehealth. Another $133,000 from the opioid settlement account keeps naloxone available in public libraries for emergency response. The Department of Health can provide supplies directly or fund partnerships, delivery, replacement, staff training, and related work.

Funding plans better behavioral health access

A legislative-executive behavioral health committee gets $250,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to assess needs and capacity. It had to convene by September 1, 2023, meet at least quarterly, and submit a sustainable five-year access plan by June 1, 2025. Membership must include legislative and executive officials, two people representing those with behavioral health conditions, and a tribal and urban Indian organization representative. Separately, the Office of Financial Management gets $350,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $900,000 in fiscal year 2025 to study long-term uses of the Olympic heritage behavioral health campus. That study covers service options, needs, capacity, federal matching funds, costs, staffing, and providers; consultation with UW's medical school, HCA, and DSHS is required, with findings due June 30, 2025, and no services created by this funding.

Funding plans statewide community service referrals

The Health Care Authority receives $11.838 million in federal funds and $11.838 million in private or local funds for a community information exchange. Before seeking bids or starting the project, it must consult stakeholders and assess existing platforms, system connections, and costs. Before starting, it must also submit a proposal to use federal funding. Waiver funds cannot be spent without legislative authorization. The selected system is intended to connect with state-funded systems and track electronic referrals through completion.

Funding protects health in schools and childcare

Child care lead testing receives $186,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $100,000 in 2025. The Department of Health also connects facilities with financial resources to remove lead hazards. Grants for school-based health centers and behavioral health services receive $814,000 in each of those years.

Funding school employee health benefit access

The law provides $324,000 from the School Employees' Insurance Administrative Account to implement Substitute Senate Bill 5275. The money is limited to carrying out that measure concerning School Employees' Benefits Board benefit access. This appropriation does not explain the access change or its effect on individual employees.

Funding studies culturally appropriate health care

The law provides $150,000 in fiscal year 2026 to a Seattle community organization working on health justice and culturally appropriate care. The organization must also work on integrative medicine. The grant can support a study of its care model to help refine services. It does not create new household payments or care eligibility.

Funding studies domestic violence treatment options

The law provides $200,000 in fiscal year 2025 for a work group planning insurance billing for domestic violence intervention treatment. It must include survivors, treatment professionals, state agencies, Medicaid managed care organizations, and commercial insurers. Its preliminary report was due December 31, 2024, covering Medicaid authority, billing codes, provider credentials, education, and needed law or funding changes. Another $1.3 million funds a trial comparing Strength at Home with standard treatment, plus an internal family systems demonstration. The university must have completed a prior trial at Joint Base Lewis-McChord; the new trial targets people referred through Washington's criminal or civil legal systems, without itself changing insurance coverage.

Funding suicide prevention for military families

The law provides $104,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for veteran and military suicide prevention. The money continues implementation of the 2022 suicide prevention law. It does not establish individual payments or new eligibility rules.

Funding supports better mental health treatment

The University of Washington’s Evidence-Based Practice Institute receives $446,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, plus $178,000 in federal funds. The money supports finding, testing, and using proven or promising behavioral health practices. The institute and Health Care Authority must plan to seek nonstate funding, and the authority must report spending annually during the biennium. Another $200,000 in fiscal year 2025 funds a nonprofit’s mental health learning materials and treatment innovation. The nonprofit must meet specified experience requirements for mental health events and materials, and mission requirements covering stigma, care coordination, and research.

Funding supports child welfare and receiving care

The law directs $68.496 million in federal WorkFirst funds to child welfare services. A receiving care center east of the Cascade Mountains gets $579,000 in state funds in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. It also receives $110,000 in federal funds. These provisions fund services without setting household payments or changing individual eligibility.

Funding supports community mental health care

Mental health peer respite centers and a pilot drop-in center receive $708,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, plus $1.598 million in federal funds. Suicide prevention and treatment strategies receive $800,000 each year, plus $1.452 million in federal funds. Another $750,000 in fiscal year 2025 helps behavioral health agencies add occupational therapy. That money supports services, hiring, training, technical help, student fieldwork, and approved activities aimed at increasing access. The Health Care Authority must report patient, program, and student counts by June 30, 2025.

Funding supports developmental disabilities council

The law provides $140,000 each in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 solely for the Washington Developmental Disabilities Council. It does not specify an individual payment or a particular change in disability services.

Funding supports diversity in clinical trials

The law provides $686,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $669,000 in 2025 solely to implement clinical trial diversity legislation. The appropriation implements Second Substitute House Bill 1745. It does not specify participant eligibility, enrollment requirements, or direct household benefits.

Funding supports early health screening for children

Early hearing detection, diagnosis, and intervention receive $381,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $607,000 in 2025. The law also provides $215,000 for 2025 to implement Senate Bill 6234 on newborn screening for BCKDK deficiency. These funds support screening programs, not direct payments to families.

Funding supports family medicine training positions

The University of Washington's family medicine residency network receives $10 million to maintain and expand training positions in Washington. The money is limited to that network. The law does not state how many positions it supports or guarantee better patient access.

Funding supports family reconciliation and crisis services

The law provides $300,000 each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to implement SHB 1509 on family reconciliation. It also provides $124,000 in state funds each year, plus $60,000 in federal funds, to implement SHB 1272's children in crisis program. Each appropriation lapses if its companion bill was not enacted by June 30, 2025. These appropriations fund implementation, not specified household payment amounts or eligibility changes.

Funding supports hospital care at home

The law provides $161,000 in private/local general fund money solely to implement Substitute House Bill 2295 on hospital-at-home services. This appropriation funds implementation work. It does not specify which patients qualify, what care is covered, or what families pay.

Funding supports local public health services

The state treasurer distributes $36.386 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to listed counties and health districts. These grants support public health services, including nursing, in the amounts specified in section 710. Snohomish County's health department separately receives $689,000 each year for sexual health clinics, infection services, and an epidemiology and technical team. That funding also covers field-based syphilis treatment, research into jail-based services, and a culturally responsive clinic.

Funding supports mental health advance directives

The law provides $248,000 in fiscal year 2025 state funds and $213,000 in federal funds for mental health advance directive implementation. The money is solely for carrying out Second Substitute Senate Bill 5660. It lapses unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2024. This funding provision does not itself state new individual rights or payments.

Funding supports mental health care for youth

The law provides $1 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for a youth behavioral health pilot. The state school agency must contract with a community-based youth-development nonprofit to deliver the pilot. Funding also supports staff training that responds to trauma and respects cultural differences. Another $134,000 in private/local general fund money solely implements Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5853 on behavioral crisis services for minors. That implementation appropriation does not specify family eligibility or service amounts.

Funding supports mental health court proceedings

The law funds reimbursement for specified 180-day involuntary treatment hearings in Pierce, Spokane, and Thurston counties, and hearings in King County. King County funds cover counties and legal services organizations, prioritizing 180-day hearings at state facilities before other local facility hearings. Another $91,000 each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 implements the involuntary treatment counsel bill, E2SSB 5745. Criminal insanity implementation under 2SHB 1359 receives $61,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $29,000 in fiscal year 2027. Each companion-bill appropriation lapses if its bill was not enacted by June 30, 2025.

Funding supports mobile and coordinated healthcare

Washington's care-a-van mobile health program receives $671,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $12,000 in 2025. The medical coordination center receives $700,000 for 2025 operating costs. The telemedicine collaborative receives $50,000 in each of 2024 and 2025 solely to continue its work. These appropriations do not specify new patient eligibility or household payments.

Funding supports mobile behavioral crisis teams

The law funds behavioral health co-responders on emergency medical teams that do not use law enforcement. Funding is $500,000 in state money each year in fiscal years 2024 and 2025, plus $1 million federally. Another $5.474 million from the 988 account and $210,000 federally supports crisis-response implementation, including House Bill 1134. Of that funding, $4 million goes to mobile and community crisis teams seeking endorsement, prioritizing culturally relevant care where access is lowest. Remaining money supports analysis of enhanced payment rates and related implementation work.

Funding supports no-cost meals for students

The law provides $57,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to implement the 2020 no-cost school meals law. This appropriation supports implementation, but does not specify new eligibility rules or individual benefit amounts.

Funding supports opioid care access centers

The law provides $6.7 million in opioid settlement funds and $700,000 federally for a Seattle opioid recovery and care center. Its contractor must be an established Seattle behavioral health provider with a project partnership and additional operations and research funding. The contract does not require competitive bidding. Another $9.5 million in opioid settlement funds supports health engagement hub pilot sites under the 2023 special-session law. That money can also pay for technical help and evaluation.

Funding supports opioid prevention and education

The law provides $500,000 from the opioid settlement account solely for Spanish-language opioid prevention services. Another $1.626 million funds programs to prevent inappropriate opioid prescribing. A $2 million campaign covers synthetic drugs, including fentanyl, and accurate messages about reducing harm. The Health Care Authority must develop and run that campaign with the Department of Health.

Funding supports opioid recovery and medication safety

The law provides $2 million from opioid settlement funds for prevention, treatment, and recovery services. These services must follow the applicable settlement agreements. For fiscal year 2025, another $341,000 supports local health agencies, community groups, and tribes in reducing opioid harms and connecting people to care. The safe medication return program also receives $268,000 for 2025 operating costs.

Funding supports opioid treatment and continuity

A hospital pilot receives $500,000 in opioid settlement funds for rapid inpatient methadone treatment, including $250,000 for hospital technical help. Hospitals must choose to participate; the Health Care Authority must plan Apple Health coverage, including a federal amendment or waiver if needed. Its report on the pilot and statewide costs is due June 30, 2025. A Seattle opioid treatment provider flooded in January 2024 receives a one-time grant: $250,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $750,000 for fiscal year 2025, covering higher per-client costs and transition services during repairs. Another $611,000 in fiscal year 2025 state funds and $462,000 in federal funds solely implement Second Substitute Senate Bill 6228; that funding lapses unless the bill was enacted by June 30, 2024.

Funding supports recovery and crisis services

Recovery navigator funding is $22 million for fiscal year 2024 and $24.5 million for 2025, including technical assistance. Teams provide community outreach and case management based on the law enforcement assisted diversion model. These totals include $2 million each year to maintain services in King, Pierce, and Snohomish Counties. They also include $2.5 million in 2025 for regions whose projected spending exceeds revenues provided under this funding provision. A separate $250,000 one-time fiscal year 2024 contract funds Kitsap County crisis triage services not reimbursed by Medicaid.

Funding supports safe storage and prevention

The law provides $500,000 each in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for safe storage programs and suicide prevention. Funding supports outreach and education across Washington. It does not create individual payments or a new personal legal requirement.

Funding supports statewide crisis line implementation

The law provides $300,000 from the statewide 988 crisis response and suicide prevention line account. The money is solely for implementing House Bill 1134 concerning the 988 system. This provision does not specify a particular service change or individual benefit amount.

Funding supports statewide poison help services

The Washington Poison Center receives $1.035 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for poison-related services. This is in addition to funding provided under RCW 69.50.540. The provision does not set individual payments.

Funding supports suicide prevention and crisis response

Statewide suicide prevention receives $2.265 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. Funding covers awareness, hotline staffing, responder training, tribal and agricultural outreach, the Governor's Challenge, and a University of Washington initiative. Youth prevention receives $1.3 million yearly for multi-agency coordination, plus a separate $162,000 yearly appropriation for 2024 and 2025. The law also provides $208,000 from the 988 crisis response account solely to implement the 988 system legislation. Another $157,000 is solely for implementing behavioral health support legislation; these appropriations do not define new individual benefits.

Funding to carry out health laws

The law sets aside separate amounts of $36,000 and $26,000 each year in fiscal years 2026–2027 for child-fatality legislation, SSB 5163. Pregnancy-loss legislation, SSB 5093, gets $80,000 in 2026 and $18,000 in 2027. Vital-records access legislation, SSB 5030, gets $76,000 in 2026; mobile-markets legislation, SSB 5214, gets $55,000 that year. Each appropriation lapses unless its companion bill was enacted by June 30, 2025. These provisions fund implementation but do not themselves state the companion laws' household benefits or requirements.

Funding to coordinate behavioral crisis services

The law provides $282,000 in state funds for fiscal year 2025 and $253,000 in federal funds for behavioral crisis coordination. The money is solely for implementing Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 6251. Both allocations lapse if that bill was not enacted by June 30, 2024. This appropriation does not set a direct household payment.

Funding to implement pregnancy loss law

Corrections gets $48,000 in fiscal 2026 solely to implement Substitute Senate Bill 5093 concerning pregnancy loss. The money lapses unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2025. This appropriation does not describe individual services or benefits.

Funding to improve Indian health services

The law provides $8.208 million in fiscal year 2026 and $708,000 in 2027 for Indian health improvement. The money goes into the Indian health improvement reinvestment account. This appropriation does not set individual eligibility or household payment amounts.

Funding upgrades 988 crisis response technology

The Health Care Authority receives $1.61 million from the 988 account and $1.572 million in federal funds for technology planning. The Department of Health receives $1.042 million for planning; another $1.034 million in federal funds supports its statewide technology solution. Both agencies must coordinate with Washington Technology Solutions and report progress to legislative fiscal committees by October 1, 2025. The health department's update must cover connected systems, replacements, transitions, risks, and schedule or scope changes; section 701 review conditions apply. Related federal spending must use the department's program index and appear in its technology budget.

Grants support regional mental health response

The mental health field response team program receives $4 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. The Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs must distribute $7 million in grants to regions covered by the Trueblood settlement. Grants cover the settlement's phase one, two, and three regions. The association must report annually by September 1 to the governor and legislative committees on outcomes and best practices.

Health agencies must coordinate shared projects

The Health Care Authority must lead a health and human services coalition with specified state agencies. The coalition guides shared projects and federal funding. The state's chief information officer must help coordinate efficient resource use, technology, and data systems. Agencies must use existing resources, and coalition work remains subject to section 701 of the law.

Health agency receives law implementation funding

The Health Care Authority receives state and federal funds solely to carry out chapter 360, Laws of 2024, from 2SHB 2320. This provision does not state the amount or describe that law's requirements. Household cost or benefit changes cannot be determined from this appropriation alone.

Health education funding for Latinx families

The law provides $384,000 from opioid settlement funds to carry out legislation concerning children and families. Of that amount, $359,000 funds two full-time staff positions providing health education to the Latinx community.

Health enrollment help for Pacific migrants

Lead navigator organizations receive $100,000 each year in four regions with the highest concentrations of Compact of Free Association citizens. The money supports staff from that community to provide enrollment help beyond the existing program. It also funds community-led outreach and enrollment. This is enrollment support, not a direct payment or guarantee of coverage.

Health facility enforcement law receives funding

The law provides $3,000 in legal-services revolving funds to implement Department of Health facilities enforcement legislation. The money is restricted to that implementation work. This provision does not identify new penalties or the facilities affected.

Health provider laws get implementation funding

The law funds implementation of several health profession laws; these appropriations do not state their licensing, practice, or fee changes. Behavioral health provider implementation gets $67,000 in general funds for fiscal year 2025 and $94,000 from the health professions account. That account also provides $49,000 for anesthesiologist assistants and $95,000 for MRI technologists. It reserves $5,000 for the physician assistant compact and $68,000 for physician assistant practice changes. Another $22,000 supports the physician health program fee law, but this provision does not state the fee amount or payer.

Hepatitis information reaches more language communities

The Department of Health receives $96,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $92,000 for 2025 for digital hepatitis B information. Materials must fit communities' languages and cultures. Ethnic and cultural leaders and organizations share the information with foreign-born people and those who speak little or no English.

High-potency cannabis law gets implementation funding

The law reserves $200,000 in general funds for fiscal year 2025 to implement the law on high-THC cannabis products. This appropriation supports implementation work. It does not describe the product rules or create a direct household payment.

Higher payments for behavioral health providers

The law continues a 15% rate increase for providers receiving state funds for qualifying non-Medicaid behavioral health services. The increase began January 1, 2024. Behavioral health administrative services organizations must continue it; the earlier requirement also covers Medicaid managed care organizations. This is one continuing increase, not two separate 15% increases. It does not set a household payment or coverage change.

Higher payments for home care providers

The law funds higher rates for individual care providers working through the consumer-directed employer. It also funds matching home care agency rates and employer administrative costs, with amounts set by the rate-setting board. Separately, developmental disabilities home care agencies receive an administrative rate increase of 56 cents per hour, effective July 1, 2023. These payments go to providers and agencies, not directly to households.

Higher payments for home health providers

Beginning January 1, 2025, home health and medically intensive children's group home program rates increase by 7.5%. Private duty nursing reimbursement is $67.89 per registered nurse hour and $55.79 per licensed practical nurse hour. These are payments to providers, not direct payments to households.

Higher payments support Medicaid care access

The law funds higher health homes program rates for fee-for-service enrollees, beginning July 1, 2023. It also raises administrative payments to brokers arranging nonemergency medical rides for Medicaid patients. Neither provision states the size of the increase or provides a direct patient payment.

Hospital safety team receives dedicated funding

The law funds a violence reduction team at Western State Hospital to improve patient and staff safety at both state hospitals. It provides $5.083 million for fiscal year 2024, $7.535 million for fiscal year 2025, and $583,000 in federal funds. The Department of Social and Health Services must report by December 1, 2023, and December 1, 2024. Reports must cover the safety strategy, patient profile, staffing model, and results.

Latino health center receives state funding

The Latino Center for Health receives $500,000 in state general funds in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. It also receives $300,000 from the Workforce Education Investment Account. The law supports the center without specifying individual services, eligibility, or payments.

Legal funding supports behavioral health facility

The law provides $615,000 in fiscal year 2025 for legal services related to the behavioral health teaching facility. The money pays for legal work connected to the facility. This appropriation does not itself add patient services or change patient costs.

Local health zones receive targeted funding

Health equity zones receive $257,000 each in fiscal years 2026 and 2027. The money supports identifying and carrying out local efforts to improve health and reduce health gaps. Funding applies to zones defined in state law. It does not create a direct household payment or individual service entitlement.

Medicaid access funding has enactment deadline

The law sets aside funding solely to implement Substitute House Bill 1392 concerning the Medicaid access program. The appropriation lapses unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2025. The supplied provision does not state the amount, services, eligibility rules, or whether that condition was met.

Medicaid payments support family doctor training

The Health Care Authority must establish Medicaid payments supporting family medicine residency training with the Family Medicine Residency Network and UW Medicine. The program focuses on underserved people and regions. Eligible teaching sites must pay resident training costs that qualify for federal funding. Payments must add to, not replace, other funding. The authority was required to seek needed federal approvals and matching funds by January 1, 2025.

Medicaid plans face care and payment reviews

The Health Care Authority must review Medicaid managed-care rates yearly and adjust assumptions about patients’ care needs when appropriate. A separate midyear review applied to plan year 2024 after post-emergency eligibility reviews. Potential changes must reach the Medicaid forecast work group no later than they reach health plans. Plans must also make reasonable efforts to contract with networks combining medical care, behavioral health care, and social support. Those networks must draw on local, federal, or charitable funding.

Mental health outreach for university veterans

Central Washington University receives $52,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for one full-time outreach position. The position supports mental health outreach and service coordination for veterans served by the university. The staff member must know issues relevant to veterans.

Mental health support funded for veterans

The law provides $104,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to continue veterans and military suicide-prevention work. It also provides $42,000 each year for one full-time mental health counselor serving active military members or veterans. The counselor must be licensed and have training and experience working with these groups. The provisions do not specify individual service amounts or out-of-pocket costs.

Minimum spending for foster child payments

The state must spend at least $3.1 million annually on qualifying supplemental payments for eligible foster children. The Department of Children, Youth, and Families must report these amounts monthly to the Department of Social and Health Services. The spending cannot also count toward another federal minimum state-spending requirement. The law does not set an individual child's payment amount.

More adoption placement help for children

The law provides $600,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for enhanced adoption placement services. Services serve children in state custody who are legally free for adoption, including children with high needs. A partnership with a national nonprofit must include private matching funds. State money must add to, not replace, the department's work to find permanent adoptive homes.

More community prevention and recovery support

Opioid settlement funds provide $1.5 million to increase existing community prevention and wellness contracts across Washington. Another $750,000 pays for additional outreach workers supporting Oxford house expansion. The Department of Health receives $1.45 million for fiscal year 2025 to stabilize and expand community harm reduction programs. Those programs must offer research-based help and care navigation, and may include naloxone access and bloodborne infection prevention. These funds support programs and workers, not direct household payments.

More counselors for underrepresented university students

Central Washington University receives $240,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for two counselor positions. The positions must support better mental health counseling access for traditionally underrepresented students. The funding pays for staff, not individual student payments.

More crisis response and youth suicide prevention

The law provides $12.141 million from the 988 account and $17.636 million in federal funds for regional crisis teams. Mobile and community teams must hold or seek state endorsement. Starting in fiscal year 2025, lawmakers intend funding to support performance payments to endorsed teams. The law also provides $3.579 million from the 988 account for crisis coordination. Youth suicide prevention and intervention coordination receives $1.098 million each in fiscal years 2026 and 2027.

More dementia support across Washington communities

The law funds statewide expansion of Dementia Friends through the Memory and Brain Wellness Center. Funding is $100,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $150,000 for fiscal year 2025. It also provides $100,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. This money supports the program, not direct household payments.

More funding administers school employee benefits

The law raises the school employee insurance administration appropriation from $33.739 million to $33.981 million. The money supports administration of the School Employees' Benefits Board program. This provision does not specify changes to employee premiums or benefits.

More funding for autism care providers

The law increases funding for the Health Care Authority's existing University of Washington contract. The contract supports primary care providers designated as autism centers of excellence. The provision does not state the increase amount or provide direct payments to families.

More funding for physician oversight

The Washington State Medical Commission receives $2 million from the health professions account and $293,000 from the public health supplemental account. The money supports physician regulation, commission operations, and work on equity in its policies and processes.

More funding supports health insurance marketplace

For fiscal year 2025, state funding for the Washington Health Benefit Exchange rises from $7.156 million to $7.616 million. Federal funding rises from $67.396 million to $69.055 million. The money supports Exchange operations and services. This provision does not specify changes to individual coverage or premium assistance.

More help locating behavioral health facilities

Commerce must create a model ordinance that cities and counties can use when locating community behavioral health facilities. Local governments do not have to adopt it. The law also provides $198,000 in fiscal year 2024 to retain a state administrator coordinating facility-location assistance. The administrator works with local governments, providers, the Health Care Authority, and the Department of Social and Health Services. These measures support planning, not guaranteed care for any patient.

More help preventing and quitting nicotine

The law provides $2.112 million each in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for nicotine prevention, control, and quitting services. Funding also supports other substance-use prevention and education. Community strategies must consider unequal harms from nicotine addiction, especially flavored products. This includes effects on youth and racial groups.

More local support for children’s dentistry

The Health Care Authority receives funding to contract with local Access to Baby and Child Dentistry programs. The contracts maintain and expand local coordinator capacity for babies’ and children’s dental services. The provision does not state a funding amount or direct household payment.

More opioid recovery and treatment access

The law provides $1.69 million for opioid prevention, treatment, and recovery support. It also funds a hotline that helps people access opioid treatment medicines, including buprenorphine. Both funding uses must follow opioid settlement agreement conditions. These provisions do not state fiscal years, and the hotline provision gives no dollar amount.

More overdose medicine for communities

The Department of Health receives $10.25 million from opioid settlements to expand naloxone distribution. Naloxone reverses opioid overdoses. Distribution must prioritize access gaps in community behavioral health programs and other community settings. The funding includes $1.25 million for a dedicated statewide supply for first responders.

More staff to help kinship caregivers

The law adds funding for staff in the statewide kinship caregiver engagement unit. It provides $732,000 in state funds in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, plus $362,000 in federal funds. The money supports work with caregivers and children in kinship care, not direct household payments.

More support for community crisis care

Regional behavioral health organizations can reuse certain prior-contract reserves for required services, prioritizing core duties and severe, lasting conditions. They must notify the Health Care Authority first and report spending; misuse of earlier funding can require plan changes. Updated reporting instructions are due September 1, 2025. The law maintains peer staff who help people return to community care and funds mobile and community crisis teams. Grants prioritize culturally relevant care for underserved people, and performance payments go to teams endorsed under the 2023 crisis-response law.

More support for mental health workers

The law provides $800,000 to pilot culturally responsive training for children's mental health workers at community behavioral health sites. More than half the project team must be community and lived-experience stakeholders representing communities of color. It also provides $250,000 for infant mental health workforce planning, including tribal connections and consultation with the Health Care Authority. Another $250,000 funds a study of scholarships tied to public behavioral health work—not scholarship awards. All three projects have reporting deadlines of June 30, 2025, and address training, workforce diversity, or related improvements. Separate state and federal funding implements sections 2 and 3 of Second Substitute House Bill 1427 on peer support specialists; it lapses if that bill was not enacted by June 30, 2025.

New forecasts for state hospital beds

Social and Health Services gets $250,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $250,000 in 2027 for a predictive tool. Working with the Health Care Authority, it must identify clients at high risk of future criminal justice involvement. The tool supports state hospital bed forecasts using capacity, referrals, wait lists, lengths of stay, and related factors. Tool reports are due December 1 each fiscal year; finance-office-directed forecasts are updated in February, June, and November. The funding does not guarantee anyone a hospital bed.

Opioid prevention and emergency treatment support

The law provides $500,000 from opioid settlement funds for opioid prevention services delivered in Spanish. It also funds a program giving Washington emergency departments real-time guidance on medications for opioid use disorder. That program schedules follow-up appointments and uses opioid settlement and federal funds.

Pierce Transit pilots behavioral health response

Pierce Transit gets $250,000 in fiscal year 2024 for a transit and behavioral health co-response pilot. It must work with a Pierce County behavioral health professional agency. The pilot supports riders and people needing a behavioral health response, without setting individual eligibility or payment amounts.

Pilot addresses difficult hospital discharge delays

The law provides $410,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $615,000 in fiscal year 2025 for a hospital discharge task force and pilot. The task force oversees the pilot and recommends ways to address difficult discharges and capacity for care after hospitalization. The two-year pilot, based on a Harborview Medical Center model, had a November 1, 2023 launch deadline. Initial recommendations were due November 1, 2023, interim findings July 1, 2024, and a final report July 1, 2025. The provision does not guarantee care or set individual eligibility.

Planning funds support behavioral health clinics

Clinic-model planning receives $400,000 for fiscal year 2024, $600,000 for fiscal year 2025, and $350,000 in federal funds. Building on its December 2022 report, the Health Care Authority must study federal rules, payments, managed care, costs, and system effects. A report due December 31, 2024, must include a path to statewide certified community behavioral health clinics by fiscal year 2027. Provider-rate planning receives $250,000 in fiscal year 2025 state funds and $250,000 in federal funds, with reports due December 31, 2024, and October 1, 2025. This work prepares phase 3 comparison rates and possible minimum payment schedules for January 1, 2026, and January 1, 2027; it does not itself set rates or guarantee statewide clinics.

Planning minimum payments for behavioral health

The Health Care Authority must continue comparing major Medicaid managed-care behavioral health payment rates. It must prepare for a minimum fee schedule and address data and system limits. A report due October 1, 2025, must include phase 3 rates, updated phase 1 and 2 rates, implementation needs, and a proposed approach. The report must estimate impacts of a minimum schedule starting January 1, 2027. This provision does not set that schedule or change what Medicaid clients pay.

Planning specialized residential treatment for youth

The Health Care Authority must work with a provider seeking to reopen a Clark County youth behavioral health facility. They must identify a licensing and service pathway for enhanced residential substance-use care. Work with the provider and Medicaid managed care plans must also seek a higher payment rate. That rate development covers diagnosis, treatment, and medication management for co-occurring mental health conditions. The law does not set a final rate or guarantee reopening.

Prevention funding for tribal communities

Tribes receive grants totaling $1 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to use the Icelandic prevention model. The law also provides $3.2 million from opioid settlement funds for a tribal education campaign. The campaign covers opioid misuse prevention, overdose response, and treatment.

Providers get input on Medicaid rates

The Health Care Authority and its rate experts must use a transparent process when setting or updating Medicaid behavioral health rates. Managed care plans, behavioral health service organizations, providers, and their representatives must get a chance to review proposed regional changes. They can submit data and feedback. The authority must openly incorporate that information and adjust rates when appropriate and allowed by federal law.

Public health expands overdose prevention tools

The law provides $2.623 million from opioid settlement funds for a drug overdose prevention campaign for youth and adults. Another $750,000 in settlement funds pays Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department to develop an opioid and fentanyl response toolkit. The toolkit must use research and community input, follow the state response plan, and include prevention, education, awareness, and policy strategies. The Department of Health also gets $1.105 million for fiscal year 2025 to improve opioid and fentanyl data systems. These systems must support state, local, public, and private partners with local data for program delivery, emergency response, and regional coordination.

Recovery centers receive community support funding

The Health Care Authority receives $3.5 million in opioid settlement funds to support new and existing clubhouses across Washington. Another $250,000 in fiscal year 2025 funds expanded services at a recovery resource center in North Kitsap County. Those services include longer hours, recovery café activities, peer support, work and education opportunities, and substance-free social activities. The funding goes to organizations, not directly to households.

Recovery services get planning and oversight

Behavioral health organizations receive $1.4 million each year in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for regional recovery navigator plans and planning positions. The work focuses on improving access to and quality of integrated behavioral health services. Another $200,000 each year supports recovery oversight committee meetings, staff, and contracted services. The law also provides $444,000 each year and $716,000 in federal funds solely to implement House Bill 1515 on behavioral health contracts. These allocations support planning and administration, not new individual benefit amounts.

Research guides mental health screening for students

The law provides $120,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $250,000 for fiscal year 2025 for school mental health research. The research covers data use and universal social-emotional, behavioral, and mental health screening in public schools. A preliminary report was due December 1, 2024; the final report and best-practices guide were due June 30, 2025. The guide must address training, engagement, services, privacy, cultural responsiveness, and community partnerships. This funding does not guarantee screenings or services for individual students.

Research on opioid addiction treatment

The law provides $10,000 for a randomized study running from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2027. It compares ibogaine-assisted therapy with usual treatment for adults diagnosed with opioid use disorder. Therapy takes place at a licensed North American clinic and is followed by structured therapeutic support. The study tracks engagement, opioid use, deaths, daily functioning, cravings, motivation, and confidence in managing change. Private donations can also fund the study; this appropriation does not create a right to treatment.

Rural communities get health workforce support

The law provides $426,000 for fiscal year 2025 for two new area health education centers. The centers must recruit, train, and retain health care professionals in rural and underserved areas. This funding supports workforce capacity but does not guarantee a particular medical service or lower patient bill.

Specialized care funding for disabled residents

The law funds a pilot specialty payment rate for adult family homes serving up to 100 people. Participants must have an intellectual or developmental disability and another health or behavioral health diagnosis. The payments support care providers; the provision does not state the rate or provide direct household payments.

Spokane behavioral health services receive funding

Spokane behavioral health entities receive $1.125 million each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027. The money funds services intended to reduce utilization. The supplied excerpt does not identify which services or type of utilization are covered.

Stabilization support for defendants with disabilities

The law provided $1.1 million in fiscal year 2024 and $1.1 million in fiscal year 2025 for a stabilization pilot. It offers short-term stabilization and transition support to people unable to stand trial because of an intellectual or developmental disability. These are earlier-year appropriations, and the provision does not set a payment for each participant.

Staffing support for tribal health policy

The Department of Health gets $130,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for tribal policy office staffing. The money must support that office and does not provide direct household benefits.

State agencies must coordinate brain-injury efforts

Washington's traumatic brain injury council must work with other state agencies addressing traumatic brain injuries. Their efforts must complement one another and support the state's broader work. This requirement does not establish a household payment or new benefit eligibility.

State funding supports cancer research grants

The law provides $22.22 million for the Andy Hill Cancer Research Endowment Program. The money can pay for research grants and program administration. It does not provide direct health coverage or payments to patients and families.

State funds health and community referrals

The Health Care Authority receives funding to develop a statewide electronic system linking people to health and community services. It must work with other state-funded systems and track whether referrals are completed. Before starting or seeking bids, the authority must review existing platforms, connection needs, and costs with health and community stakeholders. It must also consult the health and human services enterprise coalition and submit a federal-funding proposal before starting. Spending federal waiver money requires legislative approval.

State funds paid sick leave implementation

The law provides $479,000 from the Accident Account and $102,000 from the Medical Aid Account for paid sick leave implementation. These funds must be used only to carry out Senate Bill 5793. This budget provision does not itself set workers' payments or eligibility; those effects depend on the paid sick leave legislation.

State hospitals get violence reduction funding

A violence reduction team at Western State Hospital receives $8.611 million in state funds in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Another $924,000 comes from federal funds. The team works to improve patient and staff safety at both state hospitals. Each December, the department must report strategies, patients served, staffing, facility-wide safety measures, and individual patient outcomes.

State seeks traditional health care coverage

The Health Care Authority must apply for a federal section 1115 waiver by December 31, 2025. The application seeks coverage for traditional health care practices. This requirement does not itself provide coverage or specify eligible practices or patients.

Street teams bring care to homeless people

The law provides $3.7 million in fiscal year 2025 for five street medicine teams serving people experiencing homelessness. Teams must quickly assess and address urgent and ongoing physical and behavioral health needs. Services include medical care, mental health and substance use support, infectious disease care, case management, and help finding services. Funding assigns $1 million each to King County, Spokane, and Tacoma; $500,000 to Everett; and $200,000 to Kitsap County. One team must serve Seattle and one must serve Spokane.

Stronger checks on crisis line technology

Washington Technology Solutions must oversee linked 988 crisis-response platforms for the Department of Health and Health Care Authority. Its report is due October 31, 2025, covering budget, scope, schedule, milestones, risks, delays, fixes, and added costs. The report must address changes to the planned October 1, 2025, bid request and January 1, 2028, launch. Vendors must show working software every two weeks, gather user feedback, and allow ongoing updates.

Studies of new family benefit options

The law provides $150,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for three studies. They examine universal child allowances, child care, and baby boxes; a state social wealth fund; and benefits for nonworkers. The studies are due to the governor and legislature by June 30, 2025. They do not create benefits or change who qualifies for help.

Study examines paying parents for caregiving

The Washington State Institute for Public Policy receives $146,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $44,000 in 2027. It studies potential state savings from paying legally responsible parents to care for their children with developmental disabilities. The study covers possible program, hospital, foster care, and residential facility savings where possible. State Actuary, Social and Health Services, Health Care Authority, and Children, Youth, and Families officials must provide needed cooperation and information. Reports are due December 31, 2025, and November 15, 2026; the study does not create caregiver payments.

Suicide prevention and hotline support expand

The law provides $1.914 million in each of fiscal 2026 and 2027 for statewide suicide prevention. Activities include public awareness, hotline staffing, and first-responder training. Funding also supports work with tribes, agriculture, service members, and incarcerated people. An updated plan is due December 1, 2025, covering completed and planned work, trends, and campaign and training results.

Supervision funding supports residential care residents

For fiscal year 2025, adult family home supervision receives $33.893 million in state funds and $37.013 million federally. The state amount depends on signing the specified collective bargaining agreement between the state and adult family homes. Assisted living and enhanced services facility supervision receives $10.262 million in state funds and $11.207 million federally. These funds support supervision and oversight services, not direct payments to residents.

Tacoma basic income program gets funding

The law provides $950,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $950,000 in fiscal year 2025 for Tacoma’s guaranteed basic income program. The money goes to a Pierce County nonprofit to continue operating the program. This provision does not set household payment amounts, eligibility rules, or the number of participants.

Therapeutic courts keep treatment funding

The law provides $9 million from the criminal justice treatment account to maintain eligible therapeutic court programs. Eligible courts were created or expanded in fiscal year 2021, including service expansions at existing courts. Courts must use evidence-based practices, including medication-assisted treatment in jail settings. The money cannot replace existing funding for this purpose.

Training funds support community health workers

The law provides $627,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for community health worker recommendations. Funding supports statewide leadership, training, and connections with insurers, care providers, and public health systems. Pediatric worker training and a support platform receive $486,000 for 2024 and $85,000 for 2025. Within the 2024 amount, $250,000 funds a pediatric organization to bring together workers serving on clinic teams for shared learning.

Training support for community health workers

The Department of Health receives $72,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for its community health worker platform. This also continues training in pediatric settings for children with behavioral health needs. Another $211,000 each year implements community health worker task force recommendations. That work covers statewide leadership, training, and coordination with insurers, health care providers, and public health systems.

Tri-Cities food bank receives operating support

The law provides $128,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $127,000 for fiscal year 2025 for Tri-Cities food bank operations. The grant is solely for those operations, including food storage. It supports food bank services rather than direct payments to families.

Tribal communities get opioid prevention support

The law provides $313,000 in federal funds for a Native American media campaign to prevent substance abuse and suicide. It establishes a Tribal Opioid and Fentanyl Response Task Force with $480,000 for fiscal year 2025. Its first meeting was due by August 1, 2024, followed by quarterly meetings, a fiscal year 2025 summit, and policy and budget recommendations. A status report was due June 30, 2025; eligible members can receive statutory stipends capped at $200 per official meeting day. A separate $500,000 from opioid settlements and $250,000 in federal funds support a tribal fentanyl summit in fiscal years 2024 and 2025.

Tribal communities receive opioid response funding

The law provides $15.447 million in opioid settlement funds to tribes and urban Indian health programs through the Health Care Authority. Recipients can choose prevention, outreach, treatment, recovery support, and other responses allowed by the settlement agreements. Another $2 million in settlement funds pays for tribal education about opioid misuse prevention, overdose response, and treatment. Tribes also receive $1 million in fiscal year 2025 state grants to use the Icelandic model of prevention in their communities.

Tribal health policy gets implementation support

The law provides $86,000 for fiscal year 2025 to staff a new Office of Tribal Policy at the Department of Health. It also reserves $53,000 for fiscal year 2025 to implement the law concerning Indian health care providers. These appropriations fund staffing and implementation work, without specifying changes to individual coverage or eligibility.

Tribal programs receive opioid response funding

The Health Care Authority passes $16.814 million to tribes and urban Indian health programs for opioid and overdose response. Recipients can fund prevention, outreach, treatment, recovery support, and related strategies. Activities must be allowed under the opioid settlement agreements.

Volunteer firefighter disease benefits get studied

The law provides $50,000 to study whether certain diseases should be presumed duty-related for volunteer firefighter benefit claims. The Board for Volunteer Firefighters must examine the existing occupational disease presumptions, disease prevalence, and costs of extending relief and pension benefits. Its report to legislative fiscal committees was due June 30, 2025. The study itself does not extend benefits.

Wellness support for officers and families

The law funds an anonymous, on-demand wellness and behavioral health app with $1 million in each fiscal year, 2024 through 2027. Eligible users include Washington officers, 911 operators and dispatchers, current or retired law enforcement agency employees, and their families. Local police and corrections agencies also get wellness grants totaling $1.5 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Grants support services such as peer support, fitness, stress management, and suicide prevention. The Criminal Justice Training Commission must consult three named law enforcement groups when designing the grants.

Youth substance use prevention receives funding

The law allocates $2 million in opioid settlement funds to maintain substance use prevention services for ages 12 through 25. Services address underage drinking, cannabis, tobacco, opioids, prescription drugs, and other drug misuse. Dedicated cannabis funding supports treatment, residential care, youth prevention, home visiting, surveys, and help using proven programs. It also supports pregnant and parenting women, with activity shares following fiscal year 2021 allocations. Another $219,000 each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 supports long-term planning by the children and youth behavioral health work group.

Commerce must publish local housing data

Commerce must publish housing data online for required local housing-needs assessments. The information includes local housing profiles and data on unequal racial impacts, exclusion, and displacement. Commerce must also provide an accessible dashboard. This supports housing planning but does not provide housing payments or change who qualifies for help.

Communities get help siting housing facilities

The law provides $600,000 for Commerce to help local governments plan and choose supportive and emergency housing sites. The assistance also covers resolving siting disputes. A report identifying funded governments and the status of resolved disputes was due March 1, 2025. The funding does not establish household eligibility or direct housing payments.

Development near military bases gets review

Commerce receives $100,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for its report on development near military installations. The report identifies projects addressing development that conflicts with military installation needs. The funding pays for the biennial report, not the projects themselves.

Funding helps domestic violence shelters

The law provides $750,000 in fiscal year 2024 for domestic violence providers, divided according to shelter bed capacity. It also provides $285,000 in fiscal year 2025 for specified shelters facing reduced staff compensation funding. Those shelters are in Thurston, Spokane, Lewis, Clallam, Yakima, Mason, and Cowlitz counties. The 2025 funding must maintain current services for survivors.

Funding runs housing grants for homeless students

The law funds administration of a grant program linking homeless students and their families with stable housing. For fiscal years 2024–25, it provides $1 million each year from the General Fund, plus $2 million from the Home Security Fund. It provides the same funding amounts for fiscal years 2026–27. This money runs the program; it does not set the housing assistance available to each family.

Funding supports local growth planning work

Commerce gets $250,000 for a task force on including water, sewer, school, and port districts in Growth Management Act planning. Its recommendations must build on recent reports, including the Collaborative Roadmap Phase III report. The law also provides $16,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $46,000 in fiscal year 2025 to implement Senate Bill 5834 on urban growth areas. These funds support planning and implementation work, without specifying household costs or boundary changes.

Funding supports residential housing law implementation

The law allocated $225,000 from the state General Fund for fiscal year 2025 to implement HB 2071 concerning residential housing. The money is solely for state implementation work. This provision does not specify who qualifies for housing help or how housing costs change.

Funding supports staffed recovery homes

The law provides $6 million from the opioid settlement account for operating grants to new staffed recovery residences. These homes must serve people with substance use disorders who need more support than a level 1 recovery residence. Up to 10% of the subsection’s funds can cover staffing and administrative expenses. Certification help through a nationally recognized recovery residence organization receives $350,000 in federal funds and $300,000 in settlement funds. A separate contract receives $75,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for landlord partnerships, statewide accreditation, a complaint process, and tracking recovery outcomes.

Housing coordination and zoning information get studies

Whatcom County receives $200,000 in fiscal 2025 to study a housing coordination body, including a possible healthy housing office. The study examines sustainable funding, lease guidance, small-landlord support, and coordination with major employers and higher education institutions. Commerce also receives $96,000 in fiscal 2024 and $423,000 in fiscal 2025 for a statewide zoning atlas feasibility study. The proposed public atlas maps key features of local zoning codes. These funds do not create the office or atlas, change zoning, or provide housing payments.

Housing mini-academy receives targeted state funding

The law provides $63,000 from the Workforce Education Investment Account for a housing mini-academy. The provision does not describe its activities or participants. It does not establish a direct household housing benefit.

Local governments get homeless housing grants

The law provides $34 million in fiscal 2025 for local homeless housing services, including shelter, temporary housing, and permanent supportive housing. It assigns $12 million to King County, $3 million to Tacoma, and $4 million to Spokane. Another $15 million goes to other eligible local governments, which cannot use the amounts reserved for those three places. The $15 million must prioritize maintaining service levels and preventing existing beds or programs from closing.

Local governments get permit review grants

Local permit-review legislation receives $464,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $3.51 million for 2025. At least $3 million must go to local-government grants. The funding supports permitting work but does not specify changes in applicants' costs or permit timelines.

Mobile home preservation gets funding study

The law provides $250,000 in fiscal 2025 to study ways to fund manufactured and mobile home community preservation. Commerce must examine nonprofit, cooperative, and resident-owned affordable housing options. The study must consult financial experts, conduct field interviews, and identify existing and new funding approaches. Its report to the governor and legislature was due June 30, 2025. The study does not itself provide housing assistance.

More support for Vancouver care housing

The law increases Vancouver Housing Authority funding for a licensed residential care facility in Vancouver. Funding covers operating and service costs. The facility serves low-income people, people with disabilities, and people who are homeless or formerly homeless. The provision does not state the increase or set a cash payment to residents.

Rural housing funding for disabled residents

The law provides $198,000 in fiscal year 2025 for affordable and permanent supportive housing in rural Snohomish and Skagit counties. The housing serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The recipient must be an Arlington-based nonprofit offering housing, supported living, employment help, job-readiness and life-skills training, and arts and music programs. The grant does not guarantee a home or payment to any individual.

Agricultural workers keep workforce service support

The law provides $3.264 million from the Employment Service Administrative Account to continue the Office of Agricultural and Seasonal Workforce Services. The office supports Washington's agricultural and seasonal workers. This allocation does not set an individual payment or change eligibility.

Campus cards must show crisis hotlines

Higher education institutions must print a suicide, crisis, or counseling hotline number on the back of newly issued campus cards. The requirement covers student and faculty identification cards. The hotline can be campus-based, local, state, or national.

Career and technology training for students

The state education superintendent may distribute $436,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for approved extended-day school-to-work training. Each program’s grant is capped at $500 per enrolled full-time-equivalent student. A statewide public-private information technology academy gets $1.5 million in fiscal year 2026. It offers public school students and staff educational software, technology certifications, and software training.

Career education funds face overhead limits

District overhead charges for approved middle and secondary career education cannot exceed 5% or a lower federal cap. The limit applies to combined state basic education and career education enhancement allocations. Districts must report full-time-equivalent enrollment monthly, with payments adjusted on the same schedule as basic-support enrollment.

Charter schools receive targeted program funding

Charter schools receive $3.293 million to implement the 2023 law on school inflation increases and $1.421 million for special education funding. The law also provides $7.815 million for enrichment payments to charter schools. Another $224,000 supports operating-cost legislation, and $111,000 supports legislation concerning a special education cap. Those last two appropriations lapse unless their respective companion bills, House Bills 2494 and 2180, were enacted by June 30, 2024. The money goes to schools, not directly to families; this provision does not state the special education cap's size.

Cities get permit technician training support

The law provides a $25,000 grant for training intended to help cities and counties hire permit technicians faster. The recipient must be a nonprofit association of public officials involved in building-code development, enforcement, and administration. It must work with the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges on the training. The grant does not provide direct payments to trainees.

Clearer school spending reports for families

During 2025–26 and 2026–27 budget development, hearings, and review, districts must show state materials and operating funding, planned spending, and differences. If funding exceeds planned spending, districts must explain how they plan to use the gap to improve student achievement. Districts receiving state funding for alternative learning programs must separately track spending, including programs delivered through providers. They must also keep accurate monthly student headcounts and full-time-equivalent enrollment, separating resident and nonresident students.

College preparation and financial aid help

The state education office receives $3 million from the Workforce Education Investment Account for community-based college preparation services. It must contract with and oversee providers offering advising, workshops, speakers, community activities, campus visits, workplace trips, and resources. Each community and technical college receives $2.72 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for community-based financial aid help. Another $575,000 each year supports federal and state aid application completion by high school seniors and College Bound Scholars. That money funds digital tools, training, and events, not individual student aid awards.

Continued support for at-risk youth

The law provides $750,000 each in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to maintain independent living service provider rates for youth. It also funds a Washington mentoring organization in both years to continue public-private partnerships. These partnerships train and help mentoring programs serving at-risk youth. The mentoring funding amount is not stated, and neither provision creates direct household payments.

Early childhood networks get continued funding

The law provides $1 million each in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for a community-based early childhood network. The department must contract with Washington Communities for Children to maintain the network. The money supports services for communities and families, not direct household checks.

Early learning access information for families

The law provides $150,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for public regional early-learning dashboards and reports. A qualified statewide nonprofit must develop consumer-friendly information about subsidized child care and preschool supply, demand, and equitable access. Reports must break down information by program, facility, location, family, payment, and grant outcomes. The funding does not change eligibility or benefits.

Education foundation support gets spending authority

The law provides $75,000 in private/local General Fund spending authority for a Strada Education Foundation operating support grant. This supports foundation operations. The provision does not specify direct household benefits or changes to services.

Education pathways for people leaving custody

The law provides $800,000 to build a pathway from prison to the University of Washington Tacoma. The university must work with formerly incarcerated women, Tacoma Community College, and Freedom Education Project Puget Sound. Required partners also include the Women's Village, the community-college board, and the Department of Corrections. Another $1.182 million each year in fiscal 2026 and 2027 funds an education oversight team at Green Hill and Echo Glen. That team supports learning and connects youth with community programs as they return home.

Elementary schools get recess implementation funding

The law provides $17,000 in fiscal year 2024 to implement Senate Bill 5257 concerning elementary school recess. The money must be used for that implementation work. This allocation does not provide direct payments to families.

Extra staffing support for remote schools

Qualifying small districts and schools designated remote and necessary receive extra teaching, administrative, and support staff allocations. Eligibility and amounts depend on enrollment, grade span, school type, and remote-and-necessary status. Existing general education staff allocations reduce the extra units; career-training and skills-center enhancement units do not. Districts also receive extra funding for materials, supplies, and operating costs. That funding uses the 2010–11 nonemployee-related-cost formula, adjusted each year for inflation.

Farmworker inspections and workplace injury prevention

The law provides $3.774 million from the accident account and $890,000 from medical aid for an agriculture workplace compliance unit. The unit conducts inspections and bilingual safety outreach for workers and employers. Labor and Industries must also track injuries requiring immediate inpatient hospitalization, study hazards and prevention, and report annually by August 30. Priority incidents are selected using historical data and public priorities. Janitorial safety research receives $250,000 from each account for worker and employer interviews, injury risks, job demands, tools, and work methods; progress reports continue through 2025 or until tools are fully developed and deployed.

Fire protection funding for eligible schools

The state education superintendent may distribute $650,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for school fire protection. Only school districts located in a fire protection district qualify. The money must pay for fire protection and goes to districts, not families.

Firefighter and natural resources job training

The State Patrol receives $1 million from the Fire Service Training Account solely for firefighter apprenticeship training. Natural Resources receives $2.365 million from the Climate Commitment Account for statewide workforce education and training. Of that amount, $800,000 is reserved for wildland fire management training for tribal communities and members. Corps crew funding included $1.5 million annually in fiscal years 2024 and 2025, plus $1.817 million from the aquatic lands account. Full-time and seasonal crews must work on state-land management or related recreation and habitat projects with agency partners.

Foster and homeless students get education support

Foster youth education coordinators receive $999,000 in state funds for fiscal year 2024 and $1 million for fiscal year 2025. Another $656,000 in private/local funds and $252,000 in federal funds support that work. Priority goes to regions with many foster youth, outreach backlogs, or youth with high educational needs. The child and family agency must contract through the state education office, which must hire nongovernmental providers. Project Education Impact receives $75,000 in each year for an experienced nongovernmental agency to coordinate work, manage funds, and cover project costs. Another $277,000 from the state's central services account funds House Bill 1679 implementation concerning a student homelessness group, without creating direct student payments.

Funding authority supports low-income job services

During 2025–2027, lawmakers can appropriate administrative contingency funds for WorkFirst job services, participating agencies’ costs, and the specified agricultural work group. Those uses exclude the fund’s special account for programs assisting unemployed people. That special account can instead fund poverty-reduction programs connecting employment, training, education, and other existing services. These authorities require legislative appropriations and do not set funding amounts or guarantee individual help.

Funding for charter school oversight

The Washington State Charter School Commission receives $459,000 from the Washington Opportunity Pathways Account. It also receives $4.939 million from the Charter Schools Oversight Account. All Opportunity Pathways money must support Commission operations. The funding supports oversight and operations, not payments to students or families.

Funding for college retention and completion

The Washington Student Achievement Council receives $5.778 million from the Workforce Education Investment Account for services supporting underserved college students. It must contract with a statewide nonprofit located in King County to improve retention and completion. Complete Washington also receives $179,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. This provision does not describe Complete Washington's services or individual eligibility, and neither appropriation sets direct student payments.

Funding for college water center

The law provides pass-through funding to Walla Walla Community College for its water and environmental center. The center gets $375,000 in each of fiscal 2026 and 2027. This does not establish individual student payments or service entitlements.

Funding for competency-based learning implementation

The State Board of Education gets $214,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $10,000 in 2027 for competency-based education implementation. The money is solely for carrying out Senate Bill 5189. It lapses unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2025. This supports state implementation work, not payments to families.

Funding for construction training in corrections

The law provides $11,000 to implement construction training and corrections legislation identified as House Bill 2084. The appropriation lapses unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2024. This provision does not state how many people receive training or provide individual payments.

Funding for educator training and complaints

The law provides $5,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $8,000 for fiscal year 2025 to implement educator continuing education legislation. It also provides $21,000 for fiscal year 2025 to implement educator ethics and complaint legislation. The money supports implementation, not direct payments to educators or families.

Funding for inclusive lessons and languages

For fiscal year 2025, the law provides $430,000 to implement inclusive learning standards and $150,000 for dual and tribal language education. The state education office gets $30,000 to create and share age-appropriate materials for Americans of Chinese descent history month. Another $100,000 funds Holocaust and genocide curriculum and teacher training through an institute working with the state education office. These funds support school materials and programs, not payments to families.

Funding for joint response training

The law provides $535,000 in fiscal 2025 for co-response curriculum development and certification and credential opportunities. This supports training for people and agencies involved in co-response services. It does not set individual eligibility rules or household payments.

Funding for military-connected school awards

The law provides $73,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $72,000 for fiscal year 2025 for the Purple Star award. The money supports implementation of the award law for schools serving military-connected students. It does not provide payments to families.

Funding for safer schools and students

The law provides $76,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to carry out student sexual abuse protections. It also provides $49,000 each year to carry out school safety and security services. This money supports school protections, not direct payments to families.

Funding for school safety and prevention

The law provides $28,000 for fiscal year 2025 to implement legislation concerning school safety and temporary employees. It also provides $334,000 that year to implement substance use prevention education legislation. These are implementation funds, not direct payments to families. The school safety appropriation does not describe the specific measures it funds.

Funding for schools testing innovative learning

The law provides $269,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $142,000 for fiscal year 2025 for the innovative learning pilot. The money supports the pilot and participating schools. It does not provide direct payments to families.

Funding for specialized health workforce training

The law provides $122,000 annually in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for sexual assault nurse examiner training. It provides $15 million from the Workforce Education Investment Account for the Center for Behavioral Health Learning. Another $1.5 million from that account continues education and training at the Behavioral Health Institute. These appropriations support institutions and training, not guaranteed individual payments or services.

Funding for substitutes and teacher learning

For 2025–26 and 2026–27, districts receive substitute-cost funding for four days per classroom teacher unit at $151.86 daily. That equals $607.44 per teacher unit each school year and does not set substitute teachers’ actual pay. Districts also receive professional-learning funding equal to three days of salary and benefits per funded certificated instructional full-time-equivalent position. In 2025–26, one day’s funding must support staff training on cultural competency, diversity, equity, or inclusion.

Funding for the education ombuds office

The Office of the Education Ombuds gets $1.146 million in each of fiscal 2026 and 2027. The money funds the office. This provision does not specify changes to student or family eligibility, services, or payments.

Funding for vocational students and apprentices

The law provides $850,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for administrative support for apprenticeship students. This support serves Washington College Grant recipients enrolled in state-registered apprenticeship programs; it does not set higher grant amounts. The Washington Award for Vocational Excellence receives $1.208 million in each of those years. No more than $70,000 per year can pay award program administration, and this provision does not set individual award amounts.

Funding supports corrections training and reentry

The law allocated $618,000 in fiscal year 2025 to implement HB 2084 on construction training and the Department of Corrections. That appropriation does not identify who receives training. A separate $240,000 grant supports a King County nonprofit serving people formerly incarcerated in Washington prisons. Services include community reintegration, gun violence intervention, and healing through the credible messengers model. The nonprofit must provide those services using that model; the grant funds services rather than participant checks.

Funding supports educator ethics complaint rules

The law allocated $559,000 from the state General Fund for fiscal year 2025 to implement HB 1239. That law concerns educator ethics and complaints. This appropriation funds state implementation work and does not itself set household payments or eligibility rules.

Funding supports health care worker safety

The law provides $135,000 each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for an on-site safety officer at Western State Hospital. The officer oversees the hospital's response to workplace safety concerns. Another $175,000 each year funds implementation of health care workplace violence measures in Second Substitute House Bill 1162. That funding lapses if the companion bill was not enacted by June 30, 2025.

Funding supports outdoor education and recreation

The outdoor education and recreation program account receives $563,000 each fiscal year in 2026 and 2027. The money is reserved for the program purposes in RCW 79A.05.351. This provision does not set individual eligibility rules or household payments.

Funding supports underground economy task force

The law provides $51,000 from the Employment Service Administrative Account for the Underground Economy Task Force created in 2024. This funding does not establish direct household payments, new benefit eligibility, or a specified change in household costs.

Funding supports youth intervention and leadership

The Commission on Hispanic Affairs receives $105,000 each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for high school gang intervention specialists. These pilot grants can be awarded without a competitive selection process. The law also provides $1.2 million for Washington World Fellows, Sports Mentoring/Boundless Washington, Compassion Scholars, and Washington State Leadership Awards. The funding supports programs, not set payments to students or families.

Funding to carry out worker protections

The Attorney General receives dedicated implementation funding: $106,000 for warehouse employees and $9,000 for mental health counselor compensation. It also receives $61,000 for equal pay and protected classes, and $30,000 for health employee overtime. Adult entertainment worker implementation funding rises from $477,000 to $1.133 million from the Accident Account. Medical Aid Account funding for that work rises from $84,000 to $200,000. The law also provided $31,000 annually in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to implement truck-driver restroom access requirements.

Funding to implement high-school college fees

Western Washington University receives $18,000 from the Workforce Education Investment Account to implement the 2023 college-in-high-school fee law. This appropriation does not state how student fees change or how much any student saves.

Funding to recruit teachers across regions

The law provides $60,000 in state money in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for educator recruitment implementation. Another $680,000 in federal money is reserved for state-level Title II work related to the regional recruiters program. The provision does not set payments to individual teachers.

Future teachers study Washington tribal history

Teacher preparation programs must include state-developed lessons about Washington American Indian culture, history, and government. Programs must integrate the curriculum into existing courses or programs. They can adapt it to include regional details.

Gang prevention support for Latino families

The state education office receives $200,000 in fiscal year 2026 for a nonprofit-run Latino youth gang-violence prevention program. It serves Latino students ages 11 through 17 who are involved in gangs or at risk, and their parents. Services must include social-emotional learning, coordinated mental health support, and parent engagement; parent coaching is also allowed. The nonprofit must have at least 15 years of experience serving Latino communities and promoting advocacy.

Higher funding for students in institutions

For 2024–25, the statewide average institutional education allocation rises from $27,327 to $28,378 per annual average full-time equivalent student. The funding supports education programs serving students in institutional settings. It is not a direct payment to students or families.

Highly capable students get policy support

The law provides $76,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $15,000 in fiscal year 2025 for Senate Bill 5072 implementation. The money must support that legislation concerning students identified as highly capable. This budget provision does not create a direct household payment.

Job seekers get career training funding

Career-connected learning receives $7.231 million from the Workforce Education Investment Account and $8.279 million from the Administrative Contingency Account. The money supports grants to organizations connecting education with industry and pays grant administration costs. The federal Quality Jobs, Equity, Strategy, and Training grant receives another $13.537 million. It funds partnerships, community outreach, business engagement, career services, and training to support employment equity and recovery. These allocations do not set individual payment amounts.

Labor agency funds underground economy review

The law provides $350,000 for fiscal year 2025 for the Department of Labor and Industries. The money pays for convening and staffing the underground economy task force. This provision does not directly change household taxes, benefits, or legal duties.

Labor archives receive dedicated operating support

Washington labor archives receive $200,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, plus $100,000 from the Workforce Education Investment Account. The money supports a head archivist, archive activities, staffing, supplies, and equipment. The University of Washington cannot spend it on unrelated library work. The university and head archivist must work with the Friends of the Labor Archives community advisory board.

Language learning grants for school communities

The law provides $1.5 million in fiscal year 2026 for dual language grants, including $300,000 for tribal language grants. Grants can support new or existing dual language programs, immigrant and refugee heritage languages, and Indigenous languages for Native students. Each recipient must form an advisory board to guide program development and improvement. At least half its members must be parents of English learners or current or former English learner students.

Local youth get learning and career support

The law provides $120,000 in fiscal year 2025 for two nonprofits to create 4-H learning programs. Recipients must have multiple locations in Skagit or Snohomish County and at least 25 or 75 years of regional youth-service experience, respectively. Another $125,000 in fiscal year 2025 supports at-risk youth mentoring, job training, and internships in the Snoqualmie and Issaquah valleys. Those programs must work with local school districts. North Central Education Service District 171 receives $150,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $200,000 for fiscal year 2025 for Grant County youth career activities and industry-school partnerships.

More career learning support for students

The law provides $358,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to implement career and technical course equivalencies. Another $150,000 each year funds a tribal liaison to help tribal students enter career-connected learning. That learning includes career exploration, preparation, and launch programs, with high-school or college credit awarded whenever possible. The law also provides $960,000 to raise career launch funding per full-time equivalent student. During 2023–2025, enrollment beyond this appropriation is funded through another section of the law.

More earthquake safety checks for schools

The law provides $300,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for public school earthquake safety assessments. The department must assess buildings not yet checked and give priority to the state’s highest-risk areas. This funding pays for assessments, not specified building repairs.

More funding for career-connected learning

The law provides $919,000 from the Workforce Education Investment Account to expand career-connected learning under RCW 28C.30.020. The money is reserved for that expansion. It does not establish a payment for individual participants.

More funding for state school oversight

The Superintendent of Public Instruction's total appropriation rises by $54.059 million, from $290.565 million to $344.624 million. Fiscal year 2025 state general fund support rises from $61.189 million to $113.399 million. Federal funding increases by $1.599 million, and Washington Opportunity Pathways Account funding increases by $250,000. Within the state general fund amount, fiscal year 2025 base operations support rises by $460,000. The law does not specify an individual student or family benefit from these funding changes.

More funding for vocational rehabilitation services

Total vocational rehabilitation funding rises from $163.7 million to $170.886 million. Within fiscal year 2025 amounts, state funding falls from $26.976 million to $26.162 million. Federal funding rises from $110.047 million to $118.047 million. The higher overall allocation supports vocational rehabilitation services, but sets no individual benefit amount or new eligibility rule.

More harassment prevention training for farmworkers

An experienced Pierce County organization receives $50,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for farmworker peer training. Training aims to prevent workplace sexual harassment and assault. It continues in Yakima County and expands to Grant and Benton counties. The organization must support a farmworker-leader training network and share best practices at a statewide conference. The department can use up to 5% of the grant for administration.

More legal help for immigrant workers

The law provides $350,000 in fiscal year 2025 for culturally informed legal help, training, outreach, and education for immigrant workers. The services concern a federal deferred action program and employment law cases. The recipient must operate a free civil legal aid clinic with Seattle University and the University of Washington. The clinic must educate, advise, and represent workers in employment cases. Separately, the Keep Washington Working Act work group gets $200,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to strengthen its capacity.

More mentoring for at-risk local youth

The law provides $100,000 in fiscal year 2025 for Kitsap County youth mentoring and support, focusing on youth of color and transgender youth. The recipient must be a Kitsap nonprofit supporting at-risk youth and families, with a focus on LGBTQ youth and youth of color. Another $230,000 expands an existing Yakima County gang-prevention program offering mentoring, education, and drug-awareness services. The Yakima-based nonprofit must provide community safety, drug-free coalition, and youth mentoring services. Its program must aim to reduce gang involvement, truancy, and drug access and use, while increasing school enrollment.

More oversight of public education finances

The University of Washington must cooperate with state financial and accountability audits during the 2023–2025 biennium. Audits cover public services offered through partnerships and business ventures, except arrangements involving the federal government. For withheld records, the university must provide a summary and legal or contractual grounds; the auditor reports summaries quarterly. The law also provides $1.87 million to check school funding data, audit programs, and determine funding adjustments for unresolved audit exceptions. Staff must help the special education safety net committee when requested.

More support to keep students enrolled

The law funds dropout prevention, mentoring, and help returning to school. Cannabis account money is reserved for Building Bridges and district life-skills grants for kindergarten through grade 12. The state schools office must bring high-school staff together to share dropout-prevention practices. The law also provides $178,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for truancy-reduction efforts. The supplied provisions do not state the total dropout-program funding.

Nonpublic special education gets implementation funding

The law provides $169,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $487,000 in fiscal year 2025 for Senate Bill 5315 implementation. The funds must support that legislation concerning special education and nonpublic schools. The allocation does not itself set a direct payment for students or families.

Operating money for public school students

District operating-cost allocations per full-time-equivalent student are $1,614.28 for general education in 2025–26 and $1,656.25 in 2026–27. Skill centers and approved career and technical programs receive rates of $1,810.11 and $1,857.17, respectively. Grades 9–12 receive an additional $214.84 and $220.43, respectively. Designated portions lapse unless Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5192 was enacted by June 30, 2025. These amounts fund district materials, supplies, and operations, not direct payments to families.

Prison nurses get overtime reduction efforts

The Department of Corrections must keep making reasonable efforts to reduce overtime for practical nurses, registered nurses, and nursing assistants. These efforts support worker safety, worker health, and patient care. The law sets no overtime reduction target or direct pay change.

Research funding for financial education courses

Western Washington University receives $200,000 for fiscal year 2025 to contract with a Whatcom County nonprofit. The nonprofit must provide economic and financial education and study how well different financial education course formats work. The appropriation funds research, not direct payments or guaranteed courses for households.

Safety support for wildlife agency workers

The wildlife agency gets $443,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $6.313 million in 2025 for employee safety capacity. It also gets $86,000 from the limited fish and wildlife account and $196,000 from the fish, wildlife, and conservation account. Fiscal years for those account amounts are not stated. Funds support regional safety capacity, training technology, remote workers, and an outside review of the agency safety program.

School data and student outcomes studies

For fiscal year 2025, the law provides $3,000 to implement education data sharing and $150,000 to review meal-based school funding measures. The state education office must recommend alternative funding measures to lawmakers by January 1, 2025. Another $183,000 funds a joint study by the state education, agriculture, and labor agencies comparing seasonal farmworkers' children with migrant students. It covers school and program access, readiness, attendance, grade progress, test results, academic growth, graduation, discipline, teacher experience, and college and career opportunities. These studies do not themselves change school funding, meal access, or student eligibility.

School materials funding for students

The law provides $5.356 million in fiscal year 2026 and $7.339 million in 2027 to implement school materials bill ESSB 5192. Designated district allocations are $35.27 per full-time-equivalent student in 2025–26 and $37.76 in 2026–27. Additional grades 9–12 allocations include $4.69 and $5.03 per full-time-equivalent student in those respective school years. These amounts lapse unless ESSB 5192 was enacted by June 30, 2025. The money goes to school districts, not families.

School privacy and discrimination protections monitored

The law provides $200,000 in fiscal 2024 and $300,000 in 2025 for guidance and monitoring of Initiative 2081. This work supports student privacy, nondiscrimination, and protection from harassment and bullying, with monitoring as needed. The state education office had to offer a community question-and-concern process by July 1, 2024, and must report monthly. Another $1.5 million in fiscal 2025 funds one-time nondiscrimination reviews of every district between July 2024 and July 2025. Reviews can use records, with selected on-site follow-up; results, violations, corrective actions, and district responses are due December 1, 2025.

School safety center receives operating support

The law funds administration of the school safety center. The center shares information and resources after school incidents in Washington or other states. It also coordinates safety work, reviews and approves safety manuals and curricula, and maintains a website.

School staff get behavioral health training

The law provides $200,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to expand UW Bothell online courses for school staff. Courses cover student behavioral health, mental illness, assessment, intervention, referrals, substance use, and ways to promote health. They must align with public school student mental health and well-being standards.

School support for students experiencing homelessness

The law provides $1.2 million in fiscal year 2026 for services supporting students experiencing homelessness. The money is solely for implementing Washington’s 2016 homeless-student law. It does not set a direct payment or individual benefit amount for students or families.

Schools get data and accounting support

The law provides $532,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $436,000 in fiscal year 2025 to implement Senate Bill 5593 on student data transfer. Another $39,000 in fiscal year 2024 funds Senate Bill 5403 implementation on school depreciation subfunds. These allocations support school data and accounting work. They do not set new household payments or eligibility rules.

Schools get family and tribal engagement funding

School language access receives $3.348 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. This funding carries out the 2022 language access law and helps students and families communicate with schools. Another $294,000 in each year funds implementation of the 2022 law on school consultation with tribes. These allocations support school services and consultation, not direct household payments.

Schools get help reducing student restraint

The law provides $1.9 million for fiscal year 2024 and $8.1 million for 2025 to reduce restraint and end isolation. It funds training, technical help, and demonstration grants to prevent school crises. Priority goes to schools serving many students ages 3–21 with individualized education programs who spend the least time in general classes. Grant recipients must commit to ending isolation and report restraint-reduction progress by June 30, 2025. The state education office must produce a help manual and submit reports by September 30, 2024, and June 30, 2025.

Schools get new classroom learning resources

In each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, statewide multicultural, culturally responsive, and antiracist education coordination receives $200,000. The state education office must engage communities on an African American studies framework for grades 7–12, alignment across subjects, and educator training needs. Each year also provides $553,000 for a research- and community-informed algebra II pathways pilot and $300,000 for media literacy and digital citizenship ambassadors. Student climate assembly curriculum and a part-time statewide coordinator receive $62,000 in each year. The education office must evaluate participant feedback and report options to improve, expand, and extend the climate program by January 1, 2025.

Schools get student success planning funds

The law provides $1.5 million in fiscal year 2026 for ninth grade success grants, with yearly program reviews. It also funds district planning for future summer learning grants, without setting a dollar amount. High school and beyond plans receive $72,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $4.663 million in fiscal year 2025. Graduation pathway implementation receives $141,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $130,000 in fiscal year 2025. These last two allocations fund implementation of Senate Bill 5243 and House Bill 1308, respectively, not household payments.

Science and history learning for students

The Pacific Science Center gets $500,000 in fiscal year 2026 for hands-on science learning for Title I students statewide. Activities serve kindergarten through fifth grade and include Science on Wheels and virtual field trips. Another $500,000 in fiscal year 2026 funds a nonprofit contract through the state education office. That work supports teachers’ Holocaust lessons and expands Holocaust and genocide education for public school teachers and students.

Small urban schools get support payments

The Washington State Opportunity Pathways Account provides two support funds for urban or suburban schools and districts with fewer than 800 students. The $8.144 million fund requires a 2022–23 allocation under RCW chapter 28A.710 or 28A.715 and budgeted general-fund spending below $20,000 per student. Its payment is budgeted 2022–23 enrollment times the smaller of $1,550 or the gap between $20,000 and budgeted spending per student. The $210,000 fund requires a 2023–24 allocation under chapter 28A.715 and actual 2022–23 general-fund spending below $20,000 per student. It uses actual 2022–23 enrollment and spending in the same formula. The money goes to schools or districts, not families.

Special education funding and family support

Special education multiplier and enrollment-limit changes get $3.554 million in fiscal year 2026 and $7.185 million in 2027. Those amounts lapse unless E2SSB 5263 was enacted by June 30, 2025. Districts must annually train principals and lead special education teachers on instructional best practices and implementation strategies. They must send the state education office an annual training summary. A family liaison position in that office gets $87,000 in state funds each year, plus $214,000 in federal funds.

Special education funding gains budgeting flexibility

For 2025–26 and 2026–27, special education base funding includes allocations under section 504(2) and (4) and RCW 28A.150.415. July 1–August 31, 2025 funding follows section 509, chapter 376, Laws of 2024, as amended. Cooperatives with at least 15 districts providing all excess-cost special education services can request combined funding calculations. That option combines the maximum enrollment percentage and average basic education allocation per full-time-equivalent student. Districts can carry over up to 10% of state special education funds, but must keep that money in special education.

Staffing protection for merging small districts

Qualifying merged districts keep at least their combined prior-year basic education staff units for the first three school years. Every merging district must have received extra staff units under the small-district or remote-school provision. In years four through eight, the protected difference decreases in annual increments of 20 percent. This protects staffing allocations temporarily, rather than guaranteeing individual jobs.

Students get aviation and maritime education funding

The Peninsula School District aviation academy receives $179,000 in fiscal year 2026 to prepare students for aviation careers. Another $150,000 in fiscal year 2024 funds a study of a possible Olympic Peninsula maritime academy, not its construction. The study must cover scope, location, design, construction costs, and disparities affecting historically marginalized communities in the industry. A preliminary report was due December 1, 2023, and the final study was due June 3, 2024. A nonprofit meeting the maritime education and high school curriculum requirements may match the study funding.

Students get career course implementation support

Career and technical education course implementation receives $51,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $36,000 in fiscal year 2025. Those funds must be used to carry out Senate Bill 5617. Another $50,000 in fiscal year 2024 funds model teaching materials for early childhood development and services career courses. The state education office must consult one or two public high schools already offering those courses. Materials for other districts were due January 1, 2024.

Students help monitor local government cybersecurity

Western Washington University receives $300,000 to contract with a Kitsap County nonprofit for no-cost cyber monitoring for small local governments. Students from qualified colleges and universities work as cyber analysts. The funding also supports cybersecurity coursework and practical experience for students.

Students in institutions get education funding

The law funds education for students in institutions and students transitioning out of them. It provides $1.152 million in fiscal year 2024 and $1.157 million in fiscal year 2025 to implement the 2021 institutional education and release law. Another $74,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $69,000 in fiscal year 2025 funds House Bill 1701 implementation on institutional education programs. These funds support program implementation, not direct household payments.

Students keep local science degree options

Washington State University's organic agriculture systems degree program in Everett receives $580,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Its Bremerton electrical engineering program receives $630,000 in each year to continue operations. At full implementation, the engineering program is expected to produce 25 additional bachelor's degrees each year. The university must separately identify engineering program students in data sent to the education research data center. These funds support degree programs, not individual tuition aid.

Studies examine educational gaps for students

The law funded separate studies of educational opportunity gaps for Native American, Asian American, and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander students. Each study received $125,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $125,000 in fiscal year 2025. The Governor's Office of Indian Affairs manages the Native American study; the Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs manages the other two. Contractors must develop recommendations and ways to measure progress. Updates were due December 1, 2024, and final reports were due June 30, 2025.

Study of public safety workforce shortages

The law provides $200,000 for the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges to assess recruitment and retention challenges. The board must work with law enforcement, corrections, jails, colleges, and other interested parties. Its education and training recommendations must include outreach to students taking nontraditional program paths. The report to the governor and legislative committees was due October 1, 2024.

Support for students planning beyond graduation

The law provides $293,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for district guidance and planning programs. These programs support high school and beyond plans that meet state law. Another $196,000 each year supports implementation of high-school graduation requirements. The money goes toward school programs, not family checks.

Transportation funding for eligible school students

The state education superintendent must fund district transportation programs for eligible students in 2025–26 and 2026–27. Students must meet the eligibility definitions in Washington’s school transportation law. The law treats this as full implementation of the basic education transportation enhancement. From July 1 through August 31, 2025, allocations follow the prior amended law. Funding goes to districts, not directly to families.

Tribal early learning gets funding priority

The department must prioritize tribal early learning providers for complex-needs funds and equity grants. It must consult with the Office of Tribal Relations. This priority uses existing resources, with no added funding amount or end date specified.

University faces audit and disclosure requirements

Through June 30, 2027, the University of Washington must comply with state financial and accountability audits. It must provide requested financial and business information. Audits cover public services offered through partnerships and ventures, except ventures involving the federal government. For information withheld under legal or contract limits, the university must summarize the documents and cite the limit. The auditor must report those summaries to the legislature every three months.

University faculty get mental health training

Western Washington University receives $100,000 from the Workforce Education Investment Account for faculty mental health first aid training. The money must be used only for that training. It does not provide direct payments to students.

University inclusion training and campus assessments

The law provides $158,000 annually in fiscal years 2026 and 2027, plus $798,000 from the Workforce Education Investment Account. Funding continues university diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism activities. Activities include faculty and staff development, student training, and campus climate assessments. The provision creates no direct household payment.

University students support local planning projects

Western Washington University receives $300,000 to plan student studios that assist cities and counties with planning projects. The money supports local planning assistance and student participation. The provision does not identify which local governments receive help.

Volunteer firefighter pension fund receives support

The state contributes $25.548 million to the volunteer firefighters' and reserve officers' relief and pension principal fund. The money supports the fund for covered volunteers and officers. This provision does not set individual benefit amounts.

Worker protection laws receive implementation funding

Legal-services revolving funds provide $30,000 to implement paid sick leave legislation. They also provide $40,000 to implement legislation concerning adult entertainment workers. Each amount is restricted to its related law. These appropriations do not state changes to workers' leave, pay, or specific protections.

Workers get protection from climate hazards

The law includes $4 million and $10 million allocations for workplace safety programs addressing climate hazards. Grants to community-based and tribal organizations support protective equipment and resources for heat, cold, wildfire smoke, drought, and flooding. Funding serves vulnerable populations in overburdened communities as defined by state law. No more than 5% of either allocation can pay for grant administration. The Department of Health must study lost-wage and hardship assistance with specified partners; the study does not create wage payments.

Workplace rights information reaches underserved workers

The law funds workplace-rights and safety information for workers with limited English proficiency. Support includes outreach, translation, training, and other materials. It reserves $2 million for grants to community groups serving underserved workers. The provision does not state the total funding amount or create direct worker payments.

Wrestling grant program receives implementation funding

The law provides $400,000 from the Workforce Education Investment Account to implement the wrestling grant program. The appropriation carries out Senate Bill 5687. This provision does not identify grant recipients or individual award amounts.

Livestock operators get wolf deterrence support

The law provides $456,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for nonlethal wolf deterrence in northeast Washington. The money supports deterrence resources, including resources for livestock operators. The law does not set a payment amount for each operator.

Bothell receives Canyon Park travel funding

The law provides $120,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $115,000 in 2025 for Bothell's Canyon Park transportation demand management program. The program supports travel to and within the area. The appropriation does not set household payments or specific commuting cost reductions.

Broadband coordinator funding continues statewide

Washington State University Extension gets $190,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $190,000 in 2027 for its statewide broadband coordinator. The money continues the position's salary and benefits. It does not fund broadband construction or household discounts.

Building Energy Audits and Training Grants

Commerce gets $20.592 million for detailed energy-audit grants for public buildings owned by governments, tribes, or school districts. Another $250,000 funds nonprofit onsite and digital training on energy-efficient building operations. The nonprofit must be located in a city with more than 700,000 people. Its program must serve interested people across Washington, including those seeking commercial and institutional building training. These grants do not provide household payments or promise household bill savings.

Charging Maps and Muckleshoot Fast Chargers

Commerce gets $2 million for fiscal year 2024 and $1.34 million for fiscal year 2025 for charging and refueling maps. The mapping and forecasting tool must be developed with the state electric vehicle council and work toward specified benchmarks. The Muckleshoot Tribe gets a $500,000 Climate Commitment Account grant for fast chargers on Highway 164 near Dogwood Street. That grant cannot be spent or committed before January 1, 2025, and is void if Initiative 2117 passes in 2024. Neither provision creates direct household payments.

Cities and counties receive budget support

For 2025–2027, the law provides $43.751 million for eligible cities and counties, limited to available legal distributions. It provides up to $25.43 million from the Puget Sound Taxpayer Accountability Account. Each county's payment cannot exceed account deposits credited to its share. Another $2.77 million helps local taxing jurisdictions address unintended revenue shifts from 2021 tax sourcing-law changes. These allocations support local budgets, not household payments.

Clean Energy Planning and Permit Grants

Commerce gets $10 million from the Climate Commitment Account for clean-energy site planning, land-use studies, and permit staffing. Eligible recipients include ports, local governments, special districts, and federally recognized tribes. Cities and counties giving notice by December 1, 2024, qualify for automated permit software grants of at least $20,000. Above 30 applicants, Commerce prioritizes transition timing and permit volume; below 30, it can increase grants for high transition costs. Software-grant funds cannot be spent or committed before January 1, 2025; that provision is void if Initiative 2117 passes in 2024.

Cleaner industrial replacements get technical help

Through November 1, 2024, Ecology was required to provide requested technical help to emissions-intensive industries exposed to trade competition. The help concerned possible replacement facilities. A replacement had to use the same industry classification code and have lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Commerce receives large port implementation funding

The law provides Commerce $67,000 solely to carry out Senate Bill 5955 concerning large port districts. This pays for agency implementation, not direct household assistance.

Counties receive natural resource revenue funding

For 2025–2027, the law provides $81.852 million for counties designated as timber counties. It also provides $3.882 million in county payments in place of taxes under the Fish and Wildlife program. Another $150,000 from the Aquatic Lands Enhancement Account funds harbor improvement revenue distributions. Each allocation is limited to funds available under its legal distribution rules. These funds support public budgets, not direct household payments.

Dedicated funding continues a prior law

The law provides $650,000 from the Workforce Education Investment Account to continue implementing chapter 453, Laws of 2023. That law is identified as E2SSB 5440. This provision does not describe funded services, eligible recipients, or household payments.

Developers get building wastewater reuse standards

The law provides $428,000 from the model toxics control operating account to continue developing risk-based water standards. The work includes standards for developers seeking to reuse wastewater in buildings. It does not specify household charges or developer compliance costs.

Emergency money for urgent agency work

The law sets aside $1 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for critically necessary agency work. The work must address an emergency or unforeseen event. Before allocation, the requesting agency and Office of Financial Management must follow RCW 43.88.250. The funding does not create a direct household benefit.

Energy audit grants for public buildings

Commerce gets $13.088 million from the Climate Commitment Account for detailed energy audits of public buildings. Grants help building owners pay for investment-grade audits. Eligible buildings belong to state or local governments, tribes, or school districts. This is not household utility bill assistance.

Farms get climate grants and research

Sustainable Farms and Fields receives $5.1 million for grants addressing farm waste and emissions through climate-smart livestock management. Up to $3 million supports technical and financial help; up to $2 million supports research or demonstration projects. Agreements for specified technologies, including anaerobic digesters, must protect the state's interest and comply with the state Constitution. A grant and likely annual emissions-reduction report was due December 1, 2024. Another $500,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 supports farm-practice monitoring and research on voluntary program participation. A $200,000 organic and climate-smart agriculture review requires agency, university, conservation district, tribal, and other stakeholder involvement, with findings due May 1, 2025.

Federal Funding Help for Local Governments

The law provides $500,000 in fiscal year 2025 to help local governments seek federal funding. The money implements Substitute House Bill 1870. It does not establish direct household payments.

Forestry research and sales pilots funded

The law provides $70,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $30,000 for fiscal year 2025 for sustainable forestry research with Finnish partners. A report on spending, research, and future cooperation was due June 30, 2024. A specialty forest-products sales pilot receives $175,000 in each of those fiscal years. It must identify sites, conduct sales, and assess costs, revenues, constraints, bidders, and market trends with affected stakeholders. Results and recommendations were due June 30, 2025; the pilot does not promise payments to businesses.

Funding carries out clean energy laws

The law provides $145,000 from the Air Pollution Control Account for agricultural and forestry biomass law implementation. Climate Commitment Account funding includes $44,000 for fusion policy, $862,000 for geothermal resources, and $164,000 for clean energy siting. Biomass, fusion, and geothermal funding lapses if their companion bills were not enacted by June 30, 2024. Fusion and geothermal money cannot be spent or committed before January 1, 2025. Those two appropriations also lapse upon Initiative 2117's effective date if the initiative is approved. These amounts fund state implementation, not household energy-bill credits.

Funding cleaner transportation law implementation

The law sets aside $24,000 from the Workforce Education Investment Account to implement transportation electrification legislation. That money requires Substitute Senate Bill 5528 to have become law by June 30, 2025; otherwise, it lapses. Another $239,000 funds implementation of the 2023 alternative jet fuel law. Neither appropriation sets household payments or fuel prices.

Funding energy research and battery testing

The law provides $2 million from the Climate Commitment Account for battery fabrication testbed staff and operating costs. It also provides $7.722 million from that account solely for the Institute for Northwest Energy Futures. These funds support energy research facilities and institutions, not household rebates or utility rate changes.

Funding for clean energy project reviews

The Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council gets $1.068 million for operations and added environmental siting and compliance staff. Another $1.034 million supports work before applications, clean energy manufacturing reviews, and tribal review-cost reimbursements. It also funds contracted services for green hydrogen and clean energy manufacturing programs. Both amounts come from the Climate Commitment Account; neither establishes household bill credits.

Funding for Cleaner Markets and Innovation

The Climate Commitment Account provides $390,000 for a circular economy market program focused on reusing resources. At least 20% must be prioritized to benefit people in overburdened communities. Another $1 million supports innovation groups addressing greenhouse gases in those communities, renewable energy, energy efficiency, or other legally allowed purposes. Neither allocation can be spent or committed before January 1, 2025. Both provisions end when Initiative 2117 takes effect if approved.

Funding for forest habitat and timber

The law provides $10 million to prepare commercial thinning sales for habitat restoration, timber access, and increased carbon storage. In designated spotted owl areas, thinning must target stands not yet meeting habitat conditions; streamside thinning must follow the 1997 conservation plan. It provides $321,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $427,000 for 2025 solely to implement forestlands safe harbor legislation. Another $83,000 for 2025 solely funds forestry riparian easement legislation. That $83,000 lapses unless Substitute Senate Bill 5667 was enacted by June 30, 2024.

Funding for forest products trade center

Washington's general fund provides $102,000 in each of fiscal 2026 and 2027 for a University of Washington center. The funding supports the Center for International Trade in Forest Products. It does not establish household payments.

Funding for municipal research and services

The Department of Commerce receives $6.827 million from the Liquor Revolving Account for a municipal research and services contract. The contract is with the Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington. The appropriation does not establish a direct household payment.

Funding for Offshore Wind and Fusion

Commerce gets $250,000 to study offshore wind supply chains and $375,000 for a coalition examining job and community opportunities. Study reports are due June 30 and November 30, 2025. Neither allocation can be spent or committed before January 1, 2025; both end when Initiative 2117 takes effect if approved. A separate $250,000 in fiscal year 2025 supports an industry-led fusion energy group. Its June 30, 2025 report must address Washington development and manufacturing, clean-energy incentives, and state funding, including federal grant matches.

Funding for soil and water research

The law provides $2.076 million for the university’s soil health research and extension network. The network must include a site at the Mount Vernon Research and Extension Center. Walla Walla Community College’s water and environmental center receives pass-through funding of $375,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. These appropriations support research and center operations, not direct payments to farmers or households.

Funding for State Cybersecurity and Privacy

The law provides $16.939 million solely for the Office of Cybersecurity. It also provides $2.737 million solely for the Office of Privacy and Data Protection. These appropriations fund the offices without specifying new cybersecurity rules, household privacy rights, direct services, or payments.

Funding for state technology projects

The technology investment account gets $12.049 million in fiscal 2026, $6.242 million in fiscal 2027, and $260,000 from the Treasurer's Service Account. This money supports only projects in the April 26, 2025, LEAP IT-2025 list, subject to project requirements. Restricted federal funds can be transferred only as law permits. Another $2.226 million funds an enterprise data management pilot under section 701's conditions, limits, and reviews.

Funding for statewide livestock composting

Agriculture gets $893,000 from the Climate Commitment Account to plan and develop statewide livestock composting infrastructure. The stated goals are protecting human health and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The funding does not establish household payments.

Funding for the statewide broadband office

The statewide broadband office receives $1.160 million in fiscal year 2024 and $1.159 million in fiscal year 2025. The money funds the office. It does not establish a household internet subsidy, a specific construction project, or new service prices.

Funding keeps battery testing facility operating

The law provides $2 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for a battery fabrication testbed. The money is solely for staffing and operating the facility. It supports the testbed and its users, not direct household payments.

Funding offshore wind supply chain planning

Commerce gets $500,000 from the Climate Commitment Account to contract with a Seattle-based, nonregulatory coalition. The coalition supports Washington's role in the West Coast floating offshore wind supply chain. Meetings, workshops, and studies can identify business, community, and workforce opportunities. The law does not guarantee jobs or household payments.

Funding shared and dual-use solar projects

Commerce gets $163,000 for grants and technical help with commercial dual-use solar demonstration projects. Nonprofits, public entities, and federally recognized tribes are eligible for planning, early development, and installation support. The law also provides $568,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to implement the 2022 community solar law. These appropriations do not set household participation rules or bill credits.

Funding state work on geothermal energy

The law provides $1.07 million from the Climate Commitment Account to implement geothermal energy legislation, Senate Bill 6039. Money cannot be spent or committed before January 1, 2025. It lapses unless that bill became law by June 30, 2024. Approval of Initiative 2117 also triggers a lapse when the initiative takes effect. This provision does not set household rebates or energy prices.

Funding supports underground economy task force

The Attorney General’s Office receives $45,000 in fiscal year 2026 to support the underground economy task force. This provision funds its work but does not specify new household benefits or business requirements.

Funding to carry out energy laws

The law provides $288,000 from the Workforce Education Investment Account to carry out the 2023 alternative jet fuel law. Renewable energy tax incentive work receives $1.154 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Eastern Washington University receives $10,000 from the same workforce account for transportation electrification work. That $10,000 lapses unless Substitute Senate Bill 5528 was enacted by June 30, 2025. These funds do not themselves set household payments, fuel prices, or new tax benefit amounts.

Funding to manage university trust lands

Natural Resources gets $1.583 million in fiscal 2026 and $1.515 million in fiscal 2027 for university trust land management. The money goes into the Agricultural College Trust Management Account. It supports management of about 70,700 acres of Washington State University's agricultural college trust lands.

Funding Washington's aerospace innovation center

The law provides $3.062 million from the Economic Development Strategic Reserve Account for the Joint Center for Aerospace Innovation Technology. The money supports the center's aerospace innovation activity. It does not create direct household payments.

Funding work to link carbon markets

The law provides $1.787 million from the Climate Investment Account to implement carbon market linkage legislation, Senate Bill 6058. That money cannot be spent or committed before January 1, 2025. It lapses unless the bill became law by June 30, 2024. Approval of Initiative 2117 also triggers a lapse when the initiative takes effect. The Attorney General's Office separately gets $73,000 solely to implement the same law.

Geoduck surveys receive added state funding

The law provides $524,000 from the resource management cost account for biological geoduck surveys. It supplements Natural Resources' survey contract with Fish and Wildlife. Within existing budgets, both departments must develop a proposal for fair, sustainable ongoing survey funding.

Grants for Shared Use Solar Projects

The Climate Commitment Account provides $10.664 million for a commercial solar pilot serving more than one purpose. Commerce offers grants and technical help for planning, early development, and installation. Nonprofits, public entities, and federally recognized tribes developing demonstration projects receive support. The provision does not establish household solar grants.

Help accessing federal clean energy money

Commerce gets $10 million to help eligible organizations and businesses access federal clean energy tax incentives and grants. Eligible groups include local and tribal governments, community groups, housing authorities, ports, transit agencies, nonprofits, and for-profit businesses. Commerce must prioritize help benefiting vulnerable people in overburdened communities, with a goal of directing at least 25% there. It must hire a nonprofit to offer clean energy tax guidance and pilot tax-attorney office hours.

Higher funding for fire insurance distributions

Funding for fire insurance premium distributions rises from $14.606 million to $15.046 million. That is a $440,000 increase for the distribution program. The provision does not identify household recipients or change an individual's insurance premium.

Higher funding for harbor improvement distributions

The law raises harbor improvement revenue distributions from $140,000 to $152,000. The $12,000 increase supports distributions for harbor improvements. The provision does not specify a direct household benefit.

Industrial program grows with community priority

The law provides $2.11 million from the Climate Commitment Account to expand the industrial symbiosis program. At least 20% must be prioritized to benefit people in overburdened communities. Funds cannot be spent or committed before January 1, 2025. The provision includes an Initiative Measure 2117 approval condition that ends this funding authority when that measure takes effect.

More charging equipment for state vehicles

The law provides $1.501 million in fiscal year 2026 and $1.5 million in 2027 for charging equipment at state facilities. Equipment must track usage; locations prioritize state environmental goals and existing or planned zero-emission fleet vehicles. Enterprise Services must report locations, usage, and benefiting agencies and facilities to legislative fiscal committees by June 30. It must coordinate with the interagency electric vehicle council and work toward the 2022 law's benchmarks. The provision does not guarantee public access to the chargers.

More funding for cities and counties

City-county assistance rises from $34.604 million to $35.773 million, an increase of $1.169 million. The law also provides Battle Ground a $100,000 state general fund grant in fiscal 2026. That grant is solely for the city's document management system. These funds go to local governments, not directly to households.

More funding for volunteer firefighter administration

The Volunteer Firefighters’ and Reserve Officers’ Administrative Account appropriation rises from $3.679 million to $4.329 million. Funding for its benefits management system rises from $2.403 million to $3.103 million. The Washington Board for Volunteer Firefighters administers the funding. System money is solely for that system and remains subject to section 701’s conditions, limits, and review requirements. These provisions do not change individual benefit amounts.

More help planning clean energy projects

Commerce gets $5 million from the Climate Commitment Account for public and tribal clean energy siting and permitting grants. Eligible recipients include ports, counties, cities, towns, special-purpose districts, other municipal or quasi-municipal bodies, and tribes. Grants cover early project work, land-use studies, planning, and staff. Another $719,000 funds local planning and zoning help, including shared agricultural uses; tribes and local governments must help develop the guidebook. The Attorney General's Office gets $526,000 solely to implement the clean energy siting law, House Bill 1216.

More operating money for Natural Resources

The Department of Natural Resources’ fiscal year 2025 state general fund budget rises from $159.163 million to $202.934 million. Total funding in the section rises from $894.605 million to $958.507 million. The provision funds department operations without specifying a household payment or eligibility change.

More planning help for power lines

The law provides $300,000 for Commerce to help local and tribal governments permit electric transmission projects. It also funds technical help for operators, including replacing wires and using advanced technologies to increase capacity. Commerce must identify financing options and report recommendations to the governor and legislative committees by November 1, 2025.

New map for charging and refueling

Commerce gets $500,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $500,000 in 2027 for a charging and refueling map and forecasting tool. It must work with the state's electric vehicle council toward benchmarks set in a 2022 law. The money funds infrastructure information, not household payments.

Outdoor recreation study includes underserved communities

The law provides $150,000 in state General Fund money for fiscal year 2025 to update Washington's outdoor recreation economic study. The work must also examine impacts in underserved communities. It does not create a household benefit or change access to services.

Research funding supports plant-based plastic alternatives

The law provides $400,000 for nanocellulose research to develop biodegradable, plant-based replacements for cellophane and clear plastic. The University of Washington's pilot plant receives $150,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $450,000 in fiscal year 2025. The plant makes nanocellulose materials for evaluation by potential users. The funding does not set consumer prices or require households to switch products.

Retirement interest can fund safeguards

During 2025–2027, the director may use interest from specified retirement trust funds for administrative costs. Covered costs include audits, cybersecurity, petition decisions, and department liaison work. Spending must protect the funds, prevent losses, or meet laws governing them. No spending amount is set.

Secretary of State receives more funding

The Secretary of State’s fiscal year 2025 state general fund budget rises from $62.517 million to $67.262 million. Total funding in the section rises from $173.851 million to $178.596 million. The provision does not establish a direct household payment or cost saving.

State agencies pay lower personnel charges

The law reduces personnel-related charges against agency operating budgets by $839,000 in each of fiscal 2026 and 2027. The Office of Financial Management must adjust agency spending plans as needed to achieve the reduction under RCW 41.06.280. This does not directly lower household taxes or fees.

State can pay older supplier bills

State agencies and institutions can use this law's appropriations to pay for supplies or services from an earlier biennium. The Office of Financial Management must approve the spending. This provides a payment route for suppliers and service providers owed money for earlier work.

State cloud tools and contract oversight

The state provides $8.666 million for the cloud program in its December 2020 readiness report. Work includes cloud tools, service support, cybersecurity oversight, and a security roadmap. Washington Technology Solutions must oversee Enterprise Services' technology purchases and contracts using existing resources. It must also host and support an online public employee contact directory using existing resources.

State distributes federal resource and military funds

The law provides $54,000 for federal grazing fee distributions and $1.18 million for federal military fee distributions. It also provides $28.982 million from the Forest Reserve Fund for federal forest reserve distributions. These provisions do not identify individual recipients or establish household payments.

State funds fire insurance revenue distributions

The law sets aside $16.905 million for fire insurance premium distributions. Spending cannot exceed the funds available under the legal distribution rules. This funding does not establish household payments or lower insurance premiums.

State funds industry and manufacturing support

The law provides $1.808 million in fiscal year 2024 and $2.438 million in 2025 for growth investments and industry support. Commerce must provide sector leads for aerospace, energy, wood products and natural resources, and information and communication technology. Leads must also cover life sciences and global health, maritime, military and defense, and creative industries. Commerce must consider Washington's dependence on trade and engage regional governments, development organizations, small business centers, chambers, ports, and partners. Separately, $409,000 in 2024 and $411,000 in 2025 are reserved solely to implement Senate Bill 5269 concerning manufacturing.

State funds regional and Vietnam cooperation

The law provides $60,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 solely for Pacific Northwest Economic Region membership dues. It also provides Commerce $150,000 in 2024 to develop cooperation strategies with Vietnamese agencies, colleges, and organizations. The strategies cover trade, investment, climate action, and academic and cultural exchange. Commerce must report spending, results, key measures, and recommendations for further cooperation. These funds do not establish household assistance.

State funds small nuclear reactor review

The law provides $80,000 in fiscal year 2026 to review how other states support small modular nuclear reactors. The review covers funding methods and policies. It is due to lawmakers by December 31, 2025. This funds research, not payments to households or reactor developers.

State funds statewide tourism marketing

For the 2023–2025 budget period, the law authorizes up to $3 million in sales tax deposits into the tourism marketing account. Separately, it provides $9 million from that account for statewide tourism marketing and operation of the tourism marketing authority. The funding supports promotion and administration, not direct payments to households or individual tourism businesses.

State funds tobacco settlement disputes

The law provides the Attorney General's Office $1.806 million for fiscal year 2024 and $1.981 million for 2025. The money is restricted to multi-year tobacco settlement arbitrations. These disputes concern whether Washington enforced its settlement obligations and its receipt of withheld settlement payments.

State funds wild geoduck fishery surveys

Natural Resources must arrange biological surveys with Fish and Wildlife to support the wild geoduck commercial fishery. Natural Resources pays direct survey costs, but not agency overhead or indirect costs. The law states no dollar amount.

State maps public works investments

The law provides the Public Works Board $490,000 to develop an investment dashboard. It must map investments by specified state agencies and board partners for the system improvement team. The dashboard tracks public works spending; it does not directly change household services.

State money matches federal aviation grant

The state sets aside $500,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $500,000 in 2027 for a federal aviation grant match. The money can only meet state matching requirements for the Federal Aviation Administration grant. The provision does not describe the grant's aviation improvements.

State science and policy centers funded

The Washington State Academy of Sciences receives $608,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. That money supports its core work under its agreement with Washington State University. The Joint Center for Deployment and Research in Earth Abundant Materials receives $500,000 each year. The William D. Ruckelshaus Center receives $300,000 in base funding each year. These appropriations support center operations rather than direct household payments.

State studies household income measurements

The law provides Commerce $250,000 in fiscal year 2025 to evaluate alternative household income calculations. The study must consider using Census Bureau median household income data by state legislative district. Recommendations are due to legislative committees by June 30, 2025. The study does not itself change income tests for benefits or taxes.

State Technology Funding and Purchasing Oversight

The law provides $2 million for experienced managers to guide state technology projects overseen by the Chief Information Officer. Guidance and project information must reach agency stakeholders and legislative fiscal staff twice yearly and appear on the statewide technology dashboard. Recommendations to legislative fiscal committees are due each December. Another $2.226 million solely funds an agency data-management pilot, subject to section 701’s conditions, limits, and reviews. The Consolidated Technology Services Agency must oversee Enterprise Services’ technology purchasing and contracts using existing resources.

State Treasurer service account funding grows

The State Treasurer’s service account appropriation increases by $50,000, from $24.541 million to $24.591 million. The money supports the Treasurer’s office. The provision does not specify a direct household payment or service change.

Technology support for state agencies

The law provides $9.101 million for small state agencies' desktop support, service help, security, and technology advice. Another $2 million funds experienced project managers or vendors for projects overseen by Washington Technology Solutions. Project guidance and analysis must be shared at least twice yearly, and project information must appear on the statewide technology dashboard. Annual recommendations must reach legislative fiscal committees by December.

Tourism Grants and Public Stadium Upgrades

The law provides $1 million in federal recovery funds for Washington tourism promotion before the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Recipients must show COVID-19 harm and meet at least one revenue, reserve-use, or tourism-funding-need test; contracts were due December 31, 2024. The Public Stadium Authority gets $4 million in fiscal year 2025 for seating, disability access, hospitality, and security upgrades. Commerce also can award sports tourism grants to commissions whose main purpose is hosting Washington sporting events. Commerce sets application, spending, and reporting rules; recipient reports are due June 30, 2025, with no total sports-grant amount stated.

Utility Emissions Planning and Heat Studies

The Climate Commitment Account provides $150,000 for up to three studies of recovering heat from sewers. Studies assess benefits, implementation, and site considerations, including university, rural agricultural or industrial, tribal, or other suitable sites. Ellensburg gets $750,000 for staff or contractors developing and carrying out emissions-reduction and Climate Commitment Act compliance strategies for its gas utility. Neither allocation can be spent or committed before January 1, 2025; both are void if Initiative 2117 passes in 2024. The provisions do not set household utility rates or payments.

Wildlife agency gets new staff system

Fish and Wildlife gets $1.866 million in fiscal year 2026 and $584,000 in 2027 to buy a staff management system. Funding comes from specified state, federal, private, and local sources. The agency must check whether systems can track volunteer safety training. If its choice cannot, it must explain why to the state finance director. The purchase follows the budget's technology conditions and review requirements.

Funding for Cannabis Product Rule Implementation

The Dedicated Cannabis Account provides $250,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $159,000 for fiscal year 2025 for THC-product legislation. Those funds solely implement Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5367. Fiscal year 2025 General Fund money provides $245,000 for cannabis-waste legislation and $63,000 for high-THC product legislation. Those funds solely implement Substitute Senate Bill 5376 and Second Substitute House Bill 2320, respectively. These appropriations do not spell out product rules, household payments, or eligibility changes.

More oversight of cannabis product testing

The agriculture department receives $424,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $425,000 in 2027 to implement cannabis testing laboratory standards. It must establish and maintain those quality standards by rule under the 2022 law. Separately, $318,000 in 2026 and $317,000 in 2027 funds pesticide analysis in cannabis for compliance checks.

State funds Better Life program administration

The law provides $557,000 from the General Fund in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. Commerce uses the money to design and administer the Achieving a Better Life Experience program. This appropriation does not set account terms, individual eligibility, or participant payments.

Treasurer studies public investment law risks

The law provides the State Treasurer $500,000 to study investment and economic risks to Washington. The study covers other jurisdictions' existing and proposed laws limiting factors considered in public financing and investments. The listed report deadline was December 1, 2024. This funding does not change household investment returns or costs.

Accredited health providers receive lower fees

For fiscal years 2024 and 2025, the Department of Health may set fees to cover regulatory costs. Accredited providers must receive lower licensing and certification fees than nonaccredited providers. Accredited mental health and substance use treatment organizations must also receive lower program review and approval fees. Accreditation must come from an organization whose standards the department finds substantially equivalent. Discounts must reflect lower regulatory costs; the provisions set no amounts and apply through June 30, 2025.

Bridge grants support local birth care

The law funds one-time grants for qualifying Washington hospitals and birth centers facing financial distress or risks to birth care. Facilities cannot belong to a system of three or more hospitals. They must maintain similar Medicaid use, be needed for the Medicaid network, and show a long-term financial plan. The broader grants prioritize tribal-land facilities, a qualifying publicly owned sole community hospital, threatened birth centers, and certain low-volume hospitals in towns under 50,000. Funded birth centers at risk of closing labor and delivery must document investment plans and spending. A separate $300,000 hospital grant allocation caps each award at $150,000 and requires risk from low volume or high public-payer shares. Its categories include hospitals with fewer than 200 Medicaid-funded births in towns of 9,000–12,000 people, and island public district hospitals in Skagit County with fewer than 250 publicly funded births; both counts use the prior calendar year.

Cannabis revenue funds community health centers

The Health Care Authority uses appropriated cannabis-account revenue for community health center contracts serving medical assistance clients. This replaces state general fund payments for those services. The law changes the funding source, not a stated household benefit amount.

Care facilities get extra Medicaid payments

Beginning July 1, 2025, qualifying assisted living facilities and enhanced adult residential or adult residential centers get a one-time bridge rate. The add-on is $20.99 per eligible resident day for facilities with at least 75% Medicaid occupancy, measured under state law. It does not replace the separate capital add-on. Adult family homes, assisted living facilities, and nursing facilities also get payments covering annual license renewal fee increases attributable to Medicaid beds. Nursing facilities get reimbursement for Medicaid's share of the safety net assessment, excluded from the statewide weighted average payment rate.

Care facility accounts cover program costs

During the 2025–2027 budget period, three long-term care accounts have broader allowed uses. The assisted living temporary management account can cover assisted living program costs as well as resident protection. The adult family home account can cover program costs with director or designee approval and required spending controls. The nursing facility quality enhancement account can cover nursing facility costs in addition to its existing uses. The law specifies no spending amounts or direct resident payments.

Child services gain budget transfer flexibility

Beginning May 1, 2025, the child services department can move fiscal year 2025 state funds between programs with finance approval. If those transfers cannot cover costs above forecasts, it can also move money reserved for specific purposes. This exception covers foster care, adoption support, child protection, Working Connections Child Care, and juvenile rehabilitation. It provides spending flexibility, not new household payments.

Employee health funds stay reserved for benefits

School insurance-benefit funds may be allocated and spent only for employee health benefits authorized by the law. The Health Care Authority must reserve reduced-claim-cost savings for benefits in future budget periods, not administrative expenses. Drug rebates, hospital audit recoveries, recovered third-party payments, and other receipts from prior Uniform Medical Plan claims must enter the appropriate benefits account. These rules do not set new individual benefit amounts or employee fees.

Extra Medicaid funding for nursing homes

Medicaid-participating skilled nursing facilities receive a rate add-on reimbursing the Medicaid share of their safety net assessment. That add-on does not count toward the annual statewide weighted-average nursing facility payment rate. The law also provides $7 million in federal supplemental payments to nursing homes run by public hospital districts. Districts must supply the nonfederal match, and payments cannot exceed federal limits. Interim and final cost reviews apply, and payments above applicable Medicaid or Medicare limits are recovered.

Extra payments for high-Medicaid care facilities

Beginning July 1, 2024, qualifying residential care facilities receive a one-time bridge rate add-on of $20.99 per resident day. Eligible facilities are assisted living facilities, enhanced adult residential centers, and adult residential centers with at least 75% Medicaid occupancy. The payment does not replace the existing capital add-on rate. This money goes to facilities, not directly to residents.

Full Medicaid payments for rural clinics

At a rural health clinic's request, a managed care plan must pay the full published rate for eligible Medicaid visits. The plan has no right to, or financial risk for, the supplemental part of the payment. Payments must be checked and reconciled at least annually. The Health Care Authority gives final review and approval.

Funding and checks for health records

The statewide health records project gets $931,000 in state funds for fiscal year 2026 and $9.839 million in federal funds. Corrections also gets $2.505 million in fiscal year 2026 for the joint project with Social and Health Services and the Health Care Authority. Vendors must show working software every two weeks, gather user feedback, allow ongoing updates, and consider national health information-sharing standards. Beginning July 1, 2025, quarterly updates are due within 15 calendar days after each quarter, including monthly spending comparisons and next-quarter budgets. The funding follows the budget's technology conditions and review requirements.

Funding for a health entity registry

The law provides funding solely to implement House Bill 1686 concerning a health care entity registry. The appropriation lapses unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2025. This provision does not state the amount or describe registry duties for households or health care entities.

Funding for a shared benefits application

The law funds development of a shared application, benefit-status tracker, and online enrollment portal for multiple programs. The project also includes a supporting platform, customer-experience work, and a project office. Agencies must align eligibility rules with federal regulations in coordination with the Health Benefit Exchange. Funding remains subject to section 701's conditions, limits, and review requirements. This provision does not state a launch date or funding amount.

Funding for adult family home agreement

The law funds implementation of the governor's agreement with the adult family home council for the 2025–2027 budget period. The money is reserved for that agreement. This provision does not state the funding amount, agreement terms, or changes to any provider's pay or benefits.

Funding for health licensing and enforcement

The Department of Health’s licensing and enforcement management system receives $2.051 million in general funds for fiscal year 2025. Section 701’s conditions, limits, and review requirements apply to that system funding. The law also provides $59,000 in fiscal year 2025 solely to implement facility enforcement legislation in Senate Bill 5271. Another $29,000 from the health professions account supports medical assistant-EMT certification legislation in Senate Bill 5940. These funds do not themselves state new licensing requirements or changes to individual health coverage.

Funding for hospitals serving low-income patients

The law funds special payments to eligible hospitals serving low-income patients. It provides $4.261 million in state funds in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. It also provides $8.522 million in federal funds. Hospitals receive this money, not households.

Funding for medical assistance contracting legislation

The Health Care Authority gets state and federal funds solely to implement House Bill 1813 concerning medical assistance contracting. The money lapses unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2025. This provision does not state the amount or describe changes to household coverage, costs, or services.

Funding implements health cost oversight laws

The insurance commissioner receives $549,000 in regulatory-account funds to implement out-of-network health cost legislation, Senate Bill 5986. Another $175,000 from that account implements health care benefit manager legislation, Senate Bill 5213. A separate $57,000 for fiscal year 2025 also supports implementation of Senate Bill 5986. That separate funding lapses unless the bill was enacted by June 30, 2024. These provisions fund implementation but do not state consumer rules or household savings.

Funding implements health coverage access laws

The insurance commissioner receives regulatory-account funding reserved for carrying out three health coverage laws. The amounts are $86,000 for audio-only medical visits under Senate Bill 5821 and $12,000 for HIV prevention medicine under Senate Bill 6127. Another $49,000 implements preventive service coverage under House Bill 1957. These funding provisions do not state the coverage rules or household savings.

Funding supports behavioral health insurance oversight

The insurance commissioner receives $578,000 to continue behavioral health parity enforcement and oversight of provider networks and directories. The work checks access to mental health and substance use services in state-regulated individual, small group, and large group plans. Another $195,000 in regulatory-account funds is reserved to implement substance use treatment legislation, Senate Bill 6228. These provisions do not state individual coverage decisions, treatment rules, or savings.

Funding supports behavioral health service laws

The law funds implementation of behavioral health support, occupational therapy, certified peer specialist, and tribal behavioral health laws. State funding for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 is $66,000 and $502,000 for support, plus $171,000 federally. Occupational therapy receives $190,000 and $354,000 in state funds, plus $1.106 million federally. Peer specialists receive $3.605 million and $1.85 million in state funds, plus $1.539 million federally. Tribal behavioral health receives $893,000 in fiscal year 2025 and $722,000 federally; its June 30, 2024 enactment condition was met. These appropriations do not set individual payments or eligibility rules.

Funding supports employee and retiree insurance

School districts and educational service districts must include specified monthly deposits in their employer insurance funding rates. Deposits to the Public Employees' and Retirees' Insurance Account are $67.61 beginning September 1, 2025, and $77.56 beginning September 1, 2026. The Health Care Authority also reserves $78,000 solely for administrative costs of extending retiree coverage under House Bill 1804. These provisions do not set individual premiums, benefits, or retiree eligibility rules.

Funding supports memory care legislation

The law provides $438,000 from private or local general-fund money to implement memory care legislation. The funding is solely for Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5337. It lapses if that bill was not enacted by June 30, 2025. This appropriation does not set individual benefits or payments.

Funding supports nursing and rehabilitation networks

The law funds implementation of Substitute Senate Bill 5124 concerning adequate skilled nursing and rehabilitation provider networks. The funding lapses if that bill was not enacted by June 30, 2025. This provision states neither the funding amount nor the resulting network standards.

Funding supports palliative care planning

The insurance commissioner receives $228,000 from its regulatory account to implement Senate Bill 5936 concerning a palliative care work group. The money is reserved for that purpose. This provision does not create a patient payment or state changes to care access or coverage.

Funding supports the long-term care trust

The law provides separate amounts of $4.722 million and $9.606 million to implement Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5291. Both amounts lapse if that long-term care trust bill was not enacted by June 30, 2025. The trust account also provides $6.397 million for program technology and $5.074 million to implement access changes in chapter 120, Laws of 2024. Those technology and access funds are subject to section 701's conditions, limits, and review. These appropriations do not themselves specify individual eligibility rules or benefit amounts.

Funding supports traumatic brain injury legislation

The law provides $3.8 million from the traumatic brain injury account to implement Substitute House Bill 1848. The money lapses if that bill was not enacted by June 30, 2025. This appropriation does not specify payments or service amounts for individuals.

Funding to carry out paid leave

The law provides $4.936 million to carry out paid family and medical leave legislation, House Bill 1213. The funding lapses unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2025. This funding provision does not state changes to who qualifies or how much workers receive.

Funding to implement behavioral health laws

The law provides $29,000 from private/local general funds solely to implement psychiatric certification legislation in Senate Bill 5920. It provides $100,000 from the opioid settlement account solely to implement synthetic opioid legislation in House Bill 2396. Substance use treatment legislation in Senate Bill 6228 receives $175,000 from the health professions account. These appropriations fund implementation work, not a stated household payment or treatment entitlement.

Funding to implement benefit overpayment legislation

The law sets aside $38,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $38,000 in 2027 solely to implement Senate Bill 5079. The money lapses unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2025. This funding provision does not state changes to household overpayment or repayment rules.

Funding to implement infection treatment laws

The law provides $29,000 from the health professions account to implement syphilis treatment legislation in Senate Bill 5983. It also provides $10,000 from private/local general funds to implement HIV prevention medication legislation in Senate Bill 6127. These appropriations do not themselves state who qualifies, which services are covered, or individual benefit amounts.

Funding to implement long-term care portability

The Attorney General’s Office receives $33,000 from the legal services revolving account solely to implement House Bill 2467. That law concerns portability of long-term services and supports. This appropriation does not itself state who qualifies or how much an individual receives.

Funding to implement out-of-network cost rules

The law provides $49,000 from the state general fund in fiscal year 2025 to implement Senate Bill 5986. That legislation concerns out-of-network health costs. This appropriation does not state an individual payment or how much households save.

Funding to study health care affordability

The Attorney General receives $50,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to study health care affordability. The Insurance Commissioner joins the study of provider payments, overall hospital budgets, consolidation, and competition. The agencies may hire outside contractors and consult other state agencies. A preliminary report was due December 1, 2023, and a final report was due August 1, 2024. The funding does not itself change premiums, coverage, or health care prices.

Funding updates federal health coverage checks

The law funds Health Care Authority work and Washington Healthplanfinder updates to follow federally required eligibility rule changes. Authority funding includes $330,000 for fiscal year 2026, $330,000 for fiscal year 2027, and another $786,000. No amount is stated for the Healthplanfinder updates. Both funding provisions are subject to section 701. These provisions do not identify which households gain or lose eligibility.

Grants support more local child care

Commerce receives $500,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for grants, technical help, and administration addressing child care shortages. Nonprofits, school districts, educational service districts, and local governments can apply. Spending requires the Commerce director's approval, with priority for partnerships serving areas identified wholly or partly as child care access deserts. Another $150,000 each year funds a Vancouver nonprofit leading a partnership to expand affordable, high-quality child care in southwest Washington. These grants do not set family payments or child care prices.

Health plan savings stay with benefits

Savings from lower claims costs must be kept for employee benefits in future two-year budgets, not administration. Rebates and recoveries from past Uniform Medical Plan claims must go into the public employee and retiree insurance account. That money must support insurance benefits.

Higher Medicaid funding for assisted living

Beginning July 1, 2023, assisted living Medicaid funding covers 79% of the labor component and 68% of operations. Beginning July 1, 2024, the labor share rises to 82%, while operations remain at 68%. These percentages set provider reimbursement funding, not payments to residents.

Higher Medicaid payments for air ambulances

Beginning July 1, 2023, Medicaid air ambulance payment rates increase. Fixed-wing flight payments rise 189% for code A0430, and helicopter flight payments rise 265% for code A0431. Fixed-wing mileage payments rise 57% for code A0435, and helicopter mileage payments rise 68% for code A0436. These are payments to providers, not direct household payments.

Higher payment ceiling for nursing facilities

The fiscal year 2025 maximum weighted-average nursing facility payment rises from $364.67 to $376.54; the 2024 maximum remains $341.41. The law also provides $7 million in federal funds for extra payments to nursing homes run by public hospital districts. Districts must supply the required nonfederal match, and payments remain subject to federal limits. Payments undergo interim and final reviews of actual costs. Amounts above the Medicaid cost limit or Medicare upper payment limit must be recovered.

Higher payments for behavioral health treatment

Beginning January 1, 2024, fee-for-service payments for mental health and substance use disorder treatment increase by 22%. The increase excludes daily costs for long-term civil commitment inpatient services. It also excludes services receiving increases under other subsections and services affected by the psychiatric rate recalculation. These are provider payments, not cash benefits for patients.

Higher payments for children's palliative care

Beginning January 1, 2024, the Health Care Authority raises pediatric palliative care payment rates. The rates match Medicare hospice rates in effect October 1, 2022. The change funds providers, not direct payments to families.

Higher payments for developmental disability care

Provider rates for existing adult stabilization beds rise by 23% for services supporting adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Listed residential service rates rise by 2.5% on January 1, 2024, and another 2.5% on January 1, 2025. These cover supported living, group homes, group training homes, and licensed staff residential services for people with developmental disabilities. They also cover community protection and children's out-of-home services. The increases go to providers, not directly to clients.

Higher payments for home care providers

The law funds board-set rate increases for individual providers contracted through the consumer-directed employer, including new providers. It funds home care agency rates to match the board-set rates. Agency administrative payments increase by $0.56 per hour beginning July 1, 2023. They increase by $0.30 per hour beginning July 1, 2025, and another $0.23 beginning July 1, 2026. These administrative increases are agency payments, not stated increases in workers' wages.

Higher payments for specialized nursing care

Beginning January 1, 2025, independent contractor private duty nursing rates are $56.58 hourly for registered nurses and $46.49 for licensed practical nurses. Agency-employed private duty nursing rates are $67.89 hourly for registered nurses and $55.79 for licensed practical nurses. Registered-nurse skilled nursing rates are $62.93 daily for independent contractors and $75.52 for agency-employed nurses. Private duty nursing in an adult family home is paid at $898.95 per day. These are service reimbursement rates, not stated household charges.

Higher subsidy payments for child care

Beginning July 1, 2026, child care subsidy base rates must reach the 85th percentile of market rates. This benchmark applies to licensed or certified providers and uses the latest market survey published before the section's effective date. The state and family child care providers' representative must bargain over implementation. This provision does not change family eligibility or copayments.

Hospital funding supports children excluded by citizenship

The Health Care Authority must make hospital support payments within available appropriations for care provided to certain children. The children must be enrolled in the children's health program and excluded from federal Medicaid or CHIP services because of citizenship status. Payments go to hospitals, not directly to families. The provision states no payment amount.

Hospital funding supports noncitizen children’s care

The Health Care Authority must provide special hospital payments within available appropriations. Payments support hospitals serving children enrolled in the children’s health program who lack federal Medicaid or CHIP eligibility because of citizenship status. The money goes to hospitals, not directly to families. No payment amount is specified.

Insurers get help covering required benefits

The Insurance Commissioner receives $300,000 for fiscal year 2026 and $800,000 for fiscal year 2027 to offset insurer costs. The costs must arise during plan year 2026 in qualified health plans. Covered state-required benefits must appear in the benchmark plan federally approved on October 7, 2024. Funding applies when federal rules do not allow those benefits to count as essential health benefits. The law does not promise lower premiums or payments to enrollees.

Joint oversight for health and family systems

The Health Care Authority leads a coalition with the Health Benefit Exchange and the health, social services, corrections, and child-services departments. Using existing resources, the group must guide shared projects and federal funding under the budget's technology review rules. Washington Technology Solutions works with the coalition on statewide resources, technology, and data design. It also oversees Social and Health Services and child-services technology projects affecting time tracking, payroll, payments, eligibility, case management, and service approvals. This includes proposed projects and does not change household benefit amounts or eligibility.

Medicaid plan rollout gets administrative funding

The law provides $376,000 in state funds and $376,000 in federal funds for fiscal year 2025. The Health Care Authority must use this money for administrative costs of implementing the new Medicaid 1915(i) state plan. This provision does not set individual benefit amounts.

More funding for behavioral health training

The law provides $20 million for behavioral health care and training at University of Washington Medical Center in fiscal year 2025. The center must report spending of this money and federal funds by June 30, 2025. Teaching physician and facility support receives $712,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $4.183 million in 2025. Behavioral health teaching faculty operations and maintenance receive $1.869 million in 2024 and $3.738 million in 2025.

More funding to manage employee benefits

Funding to administer Washington's public employee benefits program rises from $44.982 million to $45.334 million. The money supports the Public Employees' Benefits Board and employee benefits administration. This appropriation does not set new premiums or direct payments to employees.

More payments for community health services

Community health worker services receive $2.545 million in state reimbursement funding in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. The law also provides $9.28 million in federal funds solely for those services. It funds higher primary care provider rates for Medicaid patients to help maintain access. These provisions fund providers rather than household payments and state no change in patient charges.

More staff for paid leave claims

The law provides $5.655 million from the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Account for more paid leave staff. Staff process claims and answer customer questions. This provision does not change who qualifies or how much benefits pay.

More staff to help benefit applicants

The law funds more public benefit specialists at the Department of Social and Health Services. It provides $236,000 in state funds for fiscal year 2024 and $3.367 million for fiscal year 2025. It also provides $1.329 million in federal funds. All this money must fund additional specialists to reduce call-center and lobby waits in the community services division.

Online training supports better dementia care

The University of Washington neurology department receives $226,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for online dementia-care training. The program uses the Project ECHO model to connect providers with experts through lessons and case conferences. It must address changes in care practices and health systems. Initial participants include referral sources in health systems and clinics, with a goal of adding 15 to 20 smaller-practice providers yearly.

Primary care groups negotiate payment changes

The Health Care Authority must begin primary care payment negotiations by October 1, 2025. Talks must include statewide groups representing family physicians, pediatricians, and federally qualified health centers. The payment methods must be budget-neutral and reward care quality while prioritizing comprehensive, whole-person care. The goal is to enter arrangements suited to each care delivery system no later than calendar year 2027. This provision sets no new payment rate or household charge.

Public hospitals keep payment backstop support

The law continues the public hospital certified-expenditure payment program for the 2025–2027 budget period. Participating hospitals retain the federal share of allowable inpatient payments and payments supporting hospitals serving many low-income patients. Critical access hospitals and state psychiatric institutions cannot participate. A state grant covers the gap when yearly payments fall below a hospital’s applicable baseline. Grants undergo interim and final settlements, and hospitals must repay excess amounts when asked.

Public hospitals retain federal inpatient funding

The law continues the public hospital inpatient payment program for the 2023–2025 budget period, ending June 30, 2025. Critical access hospitals and state psychiatric institutions are excluded. In fiscal years 2024 and 2025, participating hospitals retain 100% of the federal share of allowable inpatient fee-for-service costs. They also retain the maximum allowable federal payment for hospitals serving a large share of low-income patients. Statutory baseline calculations, grant rules, and repayment settlements still apply; no total funding amount is stated.

Rural clinics can request full payments

Beginning July 1, 2018, rural health clinics can request direct payment of the full published encounter rate from managed care organizations. Services must qualify for encounter payments under the Medicaid state plan. Managed care organizations have no right to, or risk for, the supplemental portion. Payments must be reconciled with the Health Care Authority at least annually. This governs clinic payments, not patient bills.

Shared Health Technology Planning and Oversight

The Health Care Authority leads a shared technology coalition with the Health Benefit Exchange, Social and Health Services, Health, Corrections, and Children, Youth, and Families. Using existing resources, it guides cross-agency projects and federal funding; the Chief Information Officer supports coordinated technology and data planning. Coalition work follows section 701’s conditions, limits, and review requirements. The Chief Information Officer also oversees current and proposed Social and Health Services technology investments affecting time tracking, payroll, payments, eligibility, case management, or authorizations. These requirements do not change household eligibility or benefit amounts.

State must seek Medicaid waiver renewal

The Health Care Authority must apply for five more years of its Medicaid 1115 demonstration waiver. The Office of Financial Management oversees renewal and reporting requirements. The authority must provide specified waiver terms and budget information before final approval or accepting funds. Federal waiver money can be accepted or spent only as this section authorizes or the Legislature appropriates. The law requires an application; it does not guarantee federal renewal or change individual eligibility.

Study of Nonprofit Health Care Subsidies

The law provides $140,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $210,000 for fiscal year 2025 to study nonprofit health care subsidies. The Office of Financial Management works with Revenue to examine providers, facilities, and insurers. The study covers tax breaks, tax-favored financing, and public payments outside health care claims. Its report was due October 1, 2024. The funding does not change taxes, reimbursements, coverage, or patient costs.

University funding supports stem cell research

The University of Washington receives $2.625 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for stem cell research. The funds are solely for its Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine. Research must use pluripotent stem cells and related methods. This funding does not establish household payments or patient services.

University must fund Northwest autism center

Eastern Washington University must spend at least $200,000 on the Northwest autism center in fiscal year 2026. It must spend at least another $200,000 in fiscal year 2027. The money comes from the university's general fund appropriation. This provision does not describe services or create a household payment.

Affordable housing promises get ongoing checks

The law provides $500,000 each in fiscal 2024 and 2025 for an affordable housing auditing program. It checks whether income-restricted homes built with housing incentives remain affordable. Covered incentives include the multifamily tax exemption. The funding supports oversight, not direct payments to residents.

Cities get grants for housing planning

Commerce receives $3 million each in fiscal 2024 and 2025 for housing planning grants and technical help. Local grants receive $2.5 million each year to support cities and counties adopting housing ordinances. Planning includes middle housing, homes near transit, homelessness responses, and housing for people earning below 50% of area median income. Middle-housing grants can study allowing this housing on at least 30% of single-family-zoned lots in covered communities. These grants fund planning, not direct household payments.

Colleges study low income student housing

The law provides $275,000 to study low-income student housing opportunities at community and technical college campuses. The study must review campus needs, rental markets, construction and operating costs, and effects on local rental supply. The report was due to legislative committees June 30, 2025. This money does not itself build housing or provide rent help.

Conditional funding for housing cost task force

The law sets aside $144,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $57,000 in fiscal year 2027 for a housing cost task force. The money is solely to carry out Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1108. The appropriation lapses unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2025. This provision itself does not change housing costs or eligibility for housing help.

Funding local growth plans and middle housing

Cities and counties receive $9 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for growth plans and development rules. Formula grants must be shared fairly, mainly for required plan updates, and cover applicable added costs from 2021 and 2023 laws. Remaining funds may support competitive grants; up to $500,000 per two-year budget may support policy research, development, or review. Separately, the law provides $847,000 each year to increase middle housing. These funds do not set household payments or guarantee lower housing costs.

Housing Agency Planning and Insurance Implementation

The Office of Financial Management gets $250,000 in fiscal year 2025 to plan a study of a possible housing department. Recommendations cover leadership, participants, programs, housing types, barriers, costs, and timing, drawing on past efforts and other jurisdictions. Recommendations were due to the governor and legislative policy and fiscal committees by December 1, 2024. The Insurance Commissioner also gets $315,000 from its regulatory account solely to implement Substitute House Bill 2329 on insurance markets and housing. These appropriations do not create a housing department, change housing assistance, or state household insurance-cost changes.

Housing and parking rules get implementation funds

The law provides $213,000 in fiscal 2025 to implement House Bill 2321 on middle housing requirements. Commerce receives $57,000 that year solely to implement Senate Bill 6015 on residential parking. The Environmental and Land Use Hearings Office receives $20,000 each in fiscal 2024 and 2025 to implement House Bill 1110 on middle housing. These appropriations support agency work, not direct household payments or stated changes in housing costs.

Housing sites get planning and exploration funds

The law provides $300,000 in fiscal 2025 to plan and prepare affordable housing sites in Roslyn. The nonprofit recipient must have Seattle and Roslyn offices and focus on land-based climate solutions and equitable, green communities. Separately, Natural Resources receives $1.2 million from the Resource Management Cost Account to pursue workforce housing opportunities on state trust lands. Neither appropriation guarantees construction, a housing unit, or a household subsidy.

Local governments get land-use planning grants

The law provides $10 million each in fiscal 2024 and 2025 for local growth-management plans and development rules. Grants use an equitable formula, with remaining money available through competition. Formula grants mainly cover required plan reviews and updates, including added implementation costs from specified growth-management laws. Up to $500,000 per two-year budget period can fund policy research or evaluation. Commerce must consult local governments, affected groups, and legislative committees on competitive grant priorities and research.

Smaller communities get more planning help

Commerce must distribute growth-management technical help and pass-through grants so smaller cities and counties receive proportionately more assistance. The law does not state the funding amount. It changes local-government assistance, not direct household payments.

Smaller communities get more planning help

The Department of Commerce must give smaller cities and counties proportionately more Growth Management Act planning help and pass-through grants. Larger jurisdictions receive proportionately less assistance. The provision sets no dollar amount or direct household payment.

Aerospace innovation center receives state support

The law provides $3.062 million from the Economic Development Strategic Reserve Account for the Joint Center for Aerospace Innovation Technology. The money supports the center. This provision does not specify individual payments or a measured effect on jobs or prices.

Arbitration implementation funds for corrections managers

The Department of Corrections receives $222,000 for fiscal year 2026 and $228,000 for fiscal year 2027. The money is solely for implementing House Bill 1068 concerning arbitration for Washington Management Service employees. The appropriations lapse unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2025. This provision does not describe arbitration rules or individual employees' financial outcomes.

Care campuses expand staff scheduling systems

The law provides $4.876 million in fiscal year 2025 state funding and $2.961 million in federal funding for scheduling-system expansion. The system manages staff leave, attendance, and schedules. Expansion covers Yakima Valley school, Maple Lane campus, Brockmann campus, Rainier school, and Fircrest school. Funding is limited to this expansion and follows section 701's conditions, limits, and review requirements.

Career education funds get overhead protection

District overhead charges to approved middle and high school career education programs cannot exceed 5% or the federal cap, whichever is lower. The limit uses combined state basic education and career education enhancement allocations. Districts must report career education enrollment monthly using the basic-support reporting method. Related payments must also be adjusted monthly on the same schedule.

Central gets transportation electrification implementation funding

Central Washington University receives a $32,000 appropriation for transportation electrification implementation during the 2025–2027 budget period. The money comes from the workforce education account and is reserved for carrying out Senate Bill 5528. The funding lapses if that bill was not enacted by June 30, 2025. It does not provide household payments.

Central students get academic and basic-needs support

For 2025–2027, Central Washington University receives $586,000 for peer mentoring and $286,000 for extended orientation to help underserved students stay enrolled. Both appropriations must add to, not replace, other program funding. Another $1.396 million funds subject tutoring, peer learning sessions, and academic success coaching. Basic-needs services receive $766,000 for two financial aid coaches, a food pantry coordinator, sexual violence support staff, and prevention work. These funds support campus services rather than direct student payments.

Cloud retraining funds for state workers

The law provides $3.498 million to implement recommendations from the cloud transition task force report. Funded work includes agency cloud-readiness planning and coordinated retraining. It also funds staff to define technology career pathways and core skills for the state workforce. The appropriation does not provide direct household payments.

College career centers receive targeted funding

Community and technical college centers of excellence get $1.262 million. Columbia Basin College gets $257,000 in fiscal year 2025 to create a hospitality center of excellence. The hospitality center serves students and employers. The provisions do not specify individual payments or how the broader center funding is divided.

College funding for inclusion and ethnic studies

Institutions get $12 million for continued diversity, equity, and inclusion work. Western Washington University gets $908,000 from the workforce education investment account to establish an ethnic studies curriculum. A separately funded institution gets $110,000 each in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for a tribal liaison position. The provisions do not specify individual payments or the liaison's services.

College students and apprentices get support

Washington State University receives $496,000 to carry out the 2023 law on postsecondary student needs. Eastern Washington University receives $1.04 million to establish and operate a mathematics, engineering, and science achievement program. The Student Achievement Council receives $850,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for apprenticeship grant administration. That money serves Washington College Grant recipients in state-registered apprenticeships. These appropriations do not set additional individual grant payments.

College workers receive pay and training support

The law dedicates $6.532 million in fiscal year 2024 and $11.108 million in fiscal year 2025 to institutional compensation support. It does not identify individual employees or their pay amounts. Campus professional development, student training, and climate assessments receive $158,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. Those activities also receive $798,000 from the workforce education investment account to continue carrying out state higher education law.

Dental workforce research gets continued funding

The Center for Health Workforce Studies receives $100,000 to continue tracking dental workforce trends, needs, and improvements. It must consult dental stakeholders and publish combined findings without identifying individuals on its website. The center may accept matching funds from stakeholders. This provision does not change dental coverage or set household payments.

Districts keep more bilingual program funds

For the 2024–25 school year, the state lowers its limit on withholding transitional bilingual program funds for central assessments. The maximum falls from 1.57% to 1.50%. This leaves a larger share of program funds with school districts.

Eastern students get coordinated campus support

Eastern Washington University receives $2.108 million for a network that brings student support services together. The network helps students facing barriers to finishing their degrees. This money must add to, not replace, other program funding. The university also receives $110,000 each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 solely for its summer bridge program.

Evergreen funds college and Indigenous programs

Evergreen State College receives $92.255 million for operations during the 2025–2027 budget period. Its funding supports continued operations of the Longhouse Center and Northwest Indian applied research institute. For each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027, the law provides $213,000 for faculty supporting Native American and Indigenous programs. It also provides $85,000 each year for a Native Pathways assistant director and $110,000 each year for a tribal liaison. These funds support college services and staffing, not direct student payments.

Expanded dental and medical imaging training

The law provides $150,000 solely to expand Tacoma Community College's imaging science program. It also provides $2.505 million from the workforce education investment account solely for UW's Regional Initiatives in Dental Education program. The money supports program expansion. The provisions do not specify added student places or individual awards.

Families get clearer school budget information

For the 2023–24 and 2024–25 school years, districts must disclose state funding for materials, supplies, and operating costs. During budget development, hearings, and review, they must show proposed spending and the difference from state funding. When funding exceeds proposed spending, districts must explain planned uses of the balance and expected gains in student achievement.

Forest revenue does not reduce school funding

During the 2023–2025 budget period, eligible federal forest revenue did not reduce school districts' general state funding. The protection applied to districts eligible under Washington's federal forest revenue law. It preserved those districts' full general funding through June 30, 2025.

Funding authority supports public labor agreements

For 2025–2027, lawmakers can approve funding for Washington Public Employees Association agreements covering legislative staff. Eligible agreements must have been ratified after October 1, 2024, and before December 31, 2024. Separately, the law funds the governor's 2023–2025 agreement with the Washington Federation of State Employees for language access providers. It provides $2,000 in state funds for fiscal year 2024, $6,000 for fiscal year 2025, and $2,000 in federal funds. These provisions do not state individual wage changes or the funding amount for legislative staff agreements.

Funding carries out college student-needs law

The law provides $586,000 from the workforce education account to carry out the 2023 postsecondary student-needs law. Separate appropriations provide $158,000 to Eastern Washington University and $168,000 to Central Washington University for the same law. These funds cover implementation during the 2025–2027 budget period. These provisions do not specify individual payments or new eligibility rules.

Funding expands college outreach and school partnerships

Renton Technical College gets $243,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $180,000 in 2025 for continued outreach and participation. Supported programs include Running Start, adult education, and the college tuition and fees program. Olympic College gets $500,000 to partner with regional high schools on college courses offered at one or more schools. These appropriations do not guarantee individual awards or tuition coverage.

Funding for career and apprenticeship programs

The Workforce Education Investment Account provides $3.6 million for nursing simulation equipment grants to skill centers. It also provides $4 million for regional apprenticeship programs, including $2 million reserved for Marysville School District. Marysville must work with Arlington, Everett Community College, other local districts, unions, registered apprenticeships, and industry groups. The account provides another $2 million for Career Launch grants to public four-year colleges. The law also authorizes $16 million in federal Good Jobs Challenge grant spending, without setting individual awards or eligibility.

Funding for career learning and training

The law provides $4.684 million for career-connected learning grants, sector partners, technical help, and administration. It also provides $500,000 to implement technical education Core Plus programs under Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2236. For 2025–2027, lawmakers can approve administrative contingency fund spending for career learning and staff needed for increased audit work. That authority excludes the specified special account; remaining appropriated money can serve other purposes authorized in the same section. These provisions do not set individual grant amounts.

Funding for college climate and jobs lessons

Community colleges get $475,000 to continue course development and program redesign. The work includes climate justice, assignments focused on solutions, and green workforce lessons. Spending or committing funds is barred before January 1, 2025. The provision includes a clause voiding it if Initiative Measure 2117 is approved in the general election.

Funding for health and veterinary careers

Washington State University receives $3.47 million for public health bachelor's degrees at Pullman, Spokane, and Vancouver. It receives $2.014 million for bachelor's and master's social work degrees at its Tri-Cities campus. Another $180,000 funds implementation of Engrossed House Bill 1705 concerning large animal veterinarians. That appropriation lapses if the companion bill was not enacted by June 30, 2025. These provisions do not set individual awards or tuition reductions.

Funding for language access providers’ agreement

The Department of Social and Health Services receives $399,000 in state money for fiscal year 2026 and $467,000 for fiscal year 2027. It also receives $508,000 in federal money. Funds are limited to carrying out the 2025–2027 language access provider agreement between the governor and Washington Federation of State Employees. The provision does not state changes to any individual provider’s pay or benefits.

Funding for local food and schools

The Department of Agriculture gets $4.342 million in fiscal 2026 and $4 million in fiscal 2027 for local food grants. These grants support food system infrastructure and market access. The farm-to-school program also gets $2.5 million each year. These provisions do not set grant award sizes or individual student benefits.

Funding for maritime students and apprentices

Bellingham Technical College gets $200,000 for its maritime apprenticeship program. Seattle Central College gets $855,000 for its Seattle maritime academy partnership. Before spending, Seattle Central must sign an agreement with Washington State Ferries and certify it to the state budget office. The agreement must address shared facilities and joint training where practical, joint recruitment, a training program, and a five-year operating plan. Training, recruitment, and operating plans had a December 1, 2023 reporting deadline.

Funding for school staffing and operations

The law provides $15.898 million for fiscal year 2024 and $20.781 million for fiscal year 2025 solely to implement the school operating-cost bill. Those amounts are subject to a lapse rule requiring House Bill 2494’s enactment by June 30, 2024. It also provides $25.165 million for fiscal year 2024 and $32.355 million for fiscal year 2025 to implement school staffing changes. Those amounts are subject to a lapse rule requiring Senate Bill 5882’s enactment by June 30, 2024. The funding supports schools, not direct household payments.

Funding for state registered apprenticeship programs

The law provides $331,000 each in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to implement state-registered apprenticeship provisions. It also provides $1.36 million from the workforce education investment account. The funding does not set an individual apprentice's payment or benefit amount.

Funding for student planning and civic leadership

The law provides $200,000 for student studios that help cities and counties with planning projects. A separate $200,000 workforce education investment account appropriation supports Western Washington University student planning studios. The studios support on-site student learning with faculty help. Western Washington also gets $500,000 from that account for its student civic leaders initiative. These appropriations do not set direct student payments.

Funding for teacher training and lessons

Schools get professional learning funding equal to three days of salary and benefits per funded, certified full-time-equivalent instructional position. For 2023–24, one day's funding must support training in cultural competency, diversity, equity, or inclusion. Educational Service District 121 gets $180,000 for fiscal year 2025 for lessons addressing Islamophobia. Its contractor must be Washington-based and have Muslim and Arab history curriculum expertise. The University of Washington gets $300,000 each in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for open-access climate science lessons, developed with teacher preparation programs and the state education office.

Funding for Washington student loan program

The law provides $80 million from the Washington Student Loan Account to implement the state student loan program. It adds $1.485 million from the Workforce Education Investment Account for the same purpose. This funding implements House Bill 1823 but does not state individual loan amounts, interest rates, repayment terms, or eligibility rules.

Funding implements strike and layoff legislation

The law provides $852,000 to implement Senate Bill 5041 on unemployment insurance during strikes or lockouts. It provides $556,000 to implement Senate Bill 5525 on business closures and layoffs. Each appropriation lapses if its companion bill was not enacted by June 30, 2025. These budget provisions do not state benefit amounts, eligibility changes, or employer duties.

Funding keeps education networks running

The law provides $9 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for the K-20 educational network. The money covers ongoing operations and equipment replacement needed to provide telecommunications services to network participants. It goes through the education technology revolving account.

Funding keeps school data networks running

The law provides $1.802 million each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for statewide school data systems. This covers financial, student, and educator data, including the Comprehensive Education Data and Research System. Another $281,000 each year supports the K-20 telecommunications network used by K-12 schools. That money can fund engineering and advanced technical help to prevent data and video service interruptions.

Funding keeps unemployment services operating

The law provides $7.792 million and $14.47 million from state accounts to cover a federal unemployment administration funding shortfall. It provides $500,000 for a technology review and a roadmap of system problems, improvements, and costs. Another $3.136 million in federal funds supports a team improving customer service, employer service, and equity. If federal labor funding is inadequate, Reed Act funds can cover up to $500,000 and $3.136 million, respectively. The technology review must meet section 701's conditions, limits, and review requirements; these provisions do not increase benefits or change eligibility.

Funding prepares teachers and expands bilingual learning

Teacher preparation and alternate certification grants receive $600,000 each year in 2026 and 2027, including up to $496,000 for college classroom-experience models. Teacher recruitment receives $1.001 million in 2026 and $997,000 in 2027, including $500,000 each year for the bilingual educator pilot. Recruitment priority goes to programs supporting bilingual teachers, underrepresented teachers, and English language learners. Another $1.418 million funds local teacher residencies in elementary, bilingual, and special education, and support for English language learners. The 2025–2027 budget also provides $1.074 million for dual language expansion in Yakima and Des Moines.

Funding supports civic journalism fellowships

Washington State University receives $1.529 million to develop and operate a journalism fellowship program focused on civic affairs. The money is restricted to that program. The provision does not state fellowship award amounts or who qualifies.

Funding supports college courses in high school

The law provides $2.862 million to carry out the 2023 law concerning College in the High School fees. Separate funding provides $5.142 million to Eastern Washington University and $7.938 million to Central Washington University for that law. These 2025–2027 appropriations come from the workforce education account. They do not themselves state student fee amounts, eligibility rules, or household savings.

Funding supports college employee compensation

Community and technical colleges get $19.85 million for compensation support in fiscal year 2024 and $35.024 million in 2025. The provision does not identify recipients or each employee's pay change. A separately funded institution gets $26,000 each in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to implement academic employee bargaining legislation. That appropriation does not itself specify changes to pay or bargaining rights.

Funding supports college students facing hardship

The law provides $5.789 million to implement postsecondary student-needs legislation. Separate workforce education investment account appropriations provide $124,000 at another funded institution and $138,000 at Western Washington University for the same legislation. A student homelessness pilot gets $3.718 million. These funding provisions do not specify individual payment amounts, detailed services, or eligibility rules.

Funding supports Economic Services for All

The law provides $12.338 million to implement Economic Services for All, as defined in chapter 92, Laws of 2024. The department must collect quarterly information on participants, support-service costs by category, and progress toward self-sufficiency. Its analysis and recommendations are due December 1, 2026. This appropriation does not set individual benefit amounts or eligibility rules.

Funding supports educator certification policy work

The educator standards board receives $85,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $28,000 for fiscal year 2025 to review national certifications for educational staff associates. The review compares standards, processes, and fit with school roles; its report was due to legislative education committees October 1, 2024. The board also receives $147,000 and $158,000, respectively, to implement House Bill 1009 on military spouse employment. Another $35,000 and $71,000, respectively, fund joint work by the educator board, paraeducator board, and state education office on language endorsements and testing. That last funding lapses if Third Substitute House Bill 1228 was not enacted by June 30, 2024.

Funding supports future doctors and nurses

The University of Washington's five-state WWAMI medical school program receives $7.345 million each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027. This supports continued operations and expansion. The Center for Indigenous Health receives $1 million to help increase American Indian and Alaska Native physicians practicing in Washington. Eastern Washington University receives $4.598 million to maintain an 80-student bachelor of nursing cohort. These funds support training programs, not guaranteed admission or individual scholarships.

Funding supports mental health specialist training

The University of Washington receives $1.8 million each year in 2026 and 2027 for added adult psychiatry residencies, plus $1.2 million from the workforce education account. Child and adolescent psychiatry residencies receive $640,000 each year, plus $426,000. Both sets of residency positions require approval from the graduate medical education accrediting council. Psychiatry integrated care training receives $1 million each year. Behavioral health pharmacy services receive $505,000 each year and must retain two residency positions and one behavioral health faculty member.

Funding supports science and engineering students

The University of Washington Bothell receives $2.7 million to maintain engineering, math, and science degree capacity and undergraduate enrollment. These programs are tied to the biomedical innovation partnership zone. Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement programs receive $150,000 each year in 2026 and 2027, plus $700,000 from the workforce education account. Of that account funding, $500,000 expands Washington State University's Everett program to help underrepresented students attend and finish science and engineering degrees. The funding does not set individual grants or tuition reductions.

Funding supports student learning and safety

Student programs receive $11.705 million in fiscal year 2026 and $11.586 million in fiscal year 2027. Programs cover kindergarten readiness, reading, bullying prevention, behavioral health, school safety, suicide prevention, high school planning, and dropout prevention. They also support culturally responsive education, math pathways, media literacy, language programs, and educational opportunity. Cannabis-account funding adds $637,000 in 2026 and $658,000 in 2027. All that account money supports Building Bridges and district life-skills grants for K-12 students.

Funding supports university social interaction research

Washington State University receives $706,000 for its complex social interactions lab. The money is restricted to the lab. The provision does not describe specific lab activities, household services, or individual payments.

Funding university forest products trade research

The University of Washington's Center for International Trade in Forest Products gets dedicated state funding. The law provides $102,000 from the General Fund in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. It also provides $350,000 from the Workforce Education Investment Account solely for the center. No direct household payment is included.

Future teachers get funded preparation pathways

The educator standards board receives $600,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for teacher preparation and alternate certification routes. Up to $500,000 each year supports colleges developing and sharing ways to increase classroom experience before certification. Another $150,000 each year implements the 2019 educator workforce supply law. The board must work with the state education office on a Western Washington University special education teacher residency starting in 2024–25. That residency receives $877,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $135,000 for fiscal year 2025; these appropriations do not set household payments.

Health professionals receive training program support

In each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, the regional WWAMI medical school program receives $7.345 million for operations and expansion. The University of Washington's psychiatry integrated care training receives $1 million each year, and sexual assault nurse examiner training receives $122,000 each year. Another $300,000 supports and promotes a long-term care nursing residency and externship. Fiscal year 2025 includes $250,000 to implement Senate Bill 6286 on the nurse anesthetist workforce. That $250,000 carries a lapse condition tied to enactment of Senate Bill 6286 by June 30, 2024.

Health workers get loan repayment funding

In each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027, the law provides $1 million for behavioral health loan repayment. It also provides $2.5 million each year for health professional loan repayment and scholarships, supporting licensed primary care professionals in critical shortage areas. Recipient contracts must guarantee at least three years of conditional loan repayments. Priorities include eligible psychiatrists and advanced registered nurse practitioners at state psychiatric hospitals, and professionals at sites committed to uninsured clients. Funds may also support forensic pathologist loan repayment; these provisions do not set individual award amounts.

Institutional education receives more school funding

The law raises fiscal year 2025 funding for institutional education from $16.754 million to $18.228 million. Total funding for fiscal years 2024–2025 rises from $32.902 million to $34.376 million. The money supports institutional education programs and their students, not direct household payments.

Insurance help for struggling school districts

The law provides $2 million in fiscal year 2026 for districts removed from their insurance pool because of financial trouble. It covers the difference between their former Washington Schools Risk Management Pool cost and private insurance. Priority goes to the district that has spent the longest time under binding financial conditions.

Job seekers get funded service technology

The law provides $9.154 million to replace the WorkSource job-services platform and $5.938 million to run and maintain it. The replacement must support statewide workforce services, the federal integrated service model, and federal performance requirements. Replacement funding must meet section 701's project conditions, limits, and review requirements. This funding does not create individual payments.

Marysville students get apprenticeship pathway funding

Marysville School District receives $1 million each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for its regional apprenticeship pathways program. It must work with Arlington School District, Everett Community College, and other local districts. Required partners also include labor unions, registered apprenticeship programs, and local industry groups. The funding supports career pathways, not direct student payments.

More accelerated nursing spaces for students

The law funds more places and graduates in the University of Washington’s established accelerated bachelor’s nursing program. It provides $1.242 million in state general funds in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Another $742,000 comes from the Workforce Education Investment Account. Of the yearly general funds, $273,000 is for Tacoma’s School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership. The provision does not guarantee admission or specify tuition assistance.

More advising for early childhood scholars

Community colleges get $801,000 for staff to recruit, advise, and support Early Achievers scholars completing early childhood qualifications. Colleges with longer scholar waitlists get priority. The college board and Department of Children, Youth, and Families have a September 30, 2024 deadline for participation, enrollment, and waitlist data. The appropriation does not set individual student payments.

More behavioral health apprenticeships for workers

The law provides $4.42 million from the accident account and $780,000 from the medical aid account for behavioral health apprenticeship grants. Labor and Industries works with the state apprenticeship council to continue or create programs. Grants can cover apprentice tuition, stipends, curriculum, and administration; at least half must cover providers’ employer implementation costs. Preference goes to groups experienced in behavioral health apprenticeships and labor-management partnerships, and up to 5 percent supports grant administration. Grantees must report recruitment and skill-building numbers by June 30, 2027 and June 30, 2028.

More capacity for parent leadership training

Everett Community College gets $200,000 for its parent leadership training institute. The money supports recruiting and training course instructors and expanding program capacity. It does not provide direct payments to participating households.

More computer science degree opportunities

The law provides $14 million from the Education Legacy Trust Account to expand computer science degrees at UW's Seattle campus. A separate $14 million workforce education investment account allocation supports the Paul G. Allen School's expansion. That expansion aims for 200 additional degrees yearly, focusing on traditionally underrepresented students. Required reports on graduation, waitlists, time to degree, and degrees awarded had June 30, 2024, and June 30, 2025, deadlines. Another $1.14 million supports growth in bachelor's computer science programs; these funds do not guarantee admission or student grants.

More computing and engineering degree capacity

The law provides $16 million to expand the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. The funding supports 200 additional degrees each year, with a focus on traditionally underrepresented students. Another $4 million supports increased computing and engineering enrollment at the Tacoma campus. The university must report graduation rates, entry waitlists, time to degree, and degrees awarded by June 30, 2026 and 2027. These appropriations do not specify individual grants or tuition reductions.

More financial literacy support for students

The law provides $3.205 million for fiscal year 2026 and $1.205 million for fiscal year 2027 for student financial literacy work. Grants help districts include financial literacy in professional development for certificated staff. Up to $1.205 million each year can cover the financial education public-private partnership’s operating expenses. The funding supports education activities, not direct payments to families.

More funding for healthcare career training

Skagit Valley College gets $2.1 million for dental therapy education. Nursing education implementation gets $882,000, and Olympic College gets $204,000 to hire directors for new healthcare pathways. The University of Washington gets $505,000 each in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for behavioral health pharmacy services. That funding supports two residency training positions and one faculty member to create a behavioral health residency program. These appropriations do not set individual student awards.

More funding for regional dental education

The law provides $5.01 million from the Workforce Education Investment Account to expand UW’s Regional Initiatives in Dental Education program. The money supports greater program capacity. It does not guarantee admission or tuition assistance for individual students.

More funding for university operations

Western Washington University's fiscal year 2025 state general fund support rises by $119,000, from $104.923 million to $105.042 million. Its capital-project account funding rises from $1.424 million to $1.607 million. The law provides $2.256 million for Western's operating costs and $2.636 million for another funded institution's operating costs. These funds cover pay and central services where costs exceed expected growth in undergraduate operating-fee revenue; they do not change fees. Western also receives compensation support of $1.61 million for fiscal year 2024 and $2.875 million for fiscal year 2025.

More instruction support for manufacturing apprentices

The law provides $200,000 solely to expand access to supplemental instruction for manufacturing apprentices. The money also supports greater instruction capacity. It does not specify the number of added places or create individual payments.

More nursing training places for students

The law allocated $2.16 million each in fiscal years 2024 and 2025, plus $3.6 million from the workforce education investment account, for community and technical college nursing programs. The funding required at least 400 new nursing places during the 2023–2025 budget period. It also allocated $1.242 million from the General Fund each year, plus $742,000 from the workforce account, for accelerated bachelor's nursing capacity. Each year's General Fund amount included $273,000 for the Tacoma School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership. These funds support more nursing places and graduates, not individual student payments.

More psychiatry training positions get funding

For adult psychiatry residencies, the law allocated $1.2 million from the General Fund each in fiscal years 2024 and 2025. Another $1.2 million came from the workforce education investment account. Child and adolescent psychiatry residencies received $427,000 from the General Fund each year, plus $426,000 from the workforce account. The residency positions must be approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The funding supports professional training rather than household payments.

More support for college student success

The law provides $2.724 million from the workforce education investment account to maintain UW's Academic Redshirt program in Seattle and establish it in Bothell. Reports cover enrollment, completion, placements, first-choice majors, demographics, grant and scholarship use, STEM degrees, and other outcomes. The preliminary report was due December 1, 2023, and the final report was due December 1, 2024. For MESA math, engineering, science, and technology enrichment, the law allocated $150,000 each in fiscal years 2024 and 2025, plus $700,000 from the workforce account. The $700,000 includes $500,000 for WSU's Everett expansion to support attendance and degree completion among underrepresented students.

More support for training Washington physicians

The law provides $10 million from the Education Legacy Trust Account for the University of Washington family medicine residency network. The money maintains and expands residency training places in Washington. It also provides $1 million to the Center for Indigenous Health. That funding is solely to increase American Indian and Alaska Native physicians practicing in Washington. Neither allocation guarantees a training place or creates a household payment.

More training for natural resources workers

The Department of Natural Resources receives $1.83 million from the Climate Commitment Account for education and training. The funding supports the statewide natural resources workforce and forest health and resilience. Of that amount, $400,000 supports wildland fire management training for tribal communities and members. The provision does not set individual payments or participant eligibility rules.

New reviews for teacher preparation programs

Educator preparation programs must review gaps at least every three years, make needed improvement plans, and undergo compliance monitoring. Reviews start with higher education teacher programs; alternative teacher routes and principal programs phase in. A broadly representative educator group had an October 1, 2024 deadline; review design and findings deadlines were December 1, 2024 and June 1, 2025. The educator standards board gets $26,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $387,000 for fiscal year 2025 to implement continuing education legislation. Ethics and complaint implementation gets $23,000 each year, subject to HB 1239's enactment by June 30, 2024, or funding lapses.

Pay funding supports Everett campus employees

The law provides $33,000 each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for employee compensation. This money is reserved for Western Washington University employees working at Washington State University's Everett campus. The appropriation does not set an individual raise amount.

Pilot supports students earning career college credits

The law provides $700,000 for a career and technical dual-credit pilot in academic years 2023–24 and 2024–25. The community college board and state education office select up to three colleges within the same educational service district. At least one must be in a county with 115,000 to 150,000 people. With stakeholder committee input, funds may cover student costs, outreach, course alignment and credit agreements, equipment, and supplies. Preliminary and final reports have deadlines of December 10, 2024 and December 10, 2025.

Planning for Broader Manufacturing Job Opportunities

The Manufacturing Council gets $100,000 in fiscal year 2025 for a group focused on broader representation in jobs and ownership. Its focus includes Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, as well as women. The group includes at least two council members and four advanced-manufacturing representatives with diversity, equity, and inclusion expertise. It must make recommendations each year. The provision does not create individual hiring rights or payments.

Planning supports long-term care workforce retention

The Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board receives $564,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. It must conduct health workforce surveys with the nursing care quality assurance commission. The work includes long-term care workforce data and a stakeholder process on retention and career paths. It does not directly change worker pay, household benefits, or care eligibility.

Public colleges fund student support efforts

The law reserves $142,000 from the workforce education investment account to carry out the 2023 postsecondary student needs law. A separate $513,000 appropriation funds implementation of House Bill 1559 on postsecondary student needs. Western Washington University receives $150,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to recruit and retain high-quality, diverse graduate students. These appropriations do not set individual student payments, tuition waivers, or eligibility rules.

Recruitment support for more diverse teachers

The law allocated $1.005 million for fiscal year 2024 and $1.001 million for fiscal year 2025 to Recruiting Washington Teachers. Priority goes to programs supporting bilingual teachers, underrepresented teachers, and English language learners. Each year's allocation includes $500,000 to implement and expand the bilingual educator pilot. The money supports recruitment programs rather than direct household payments.

Regional programs get job development funding

The law provides $400,000 to the rural jobs program match transfer account. It provides $250,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for South Sound workforce and economic development. The recipient must be a nongovernmental Federal Way nonprofit operating at least 10 years and promoting innovation, jobs, and business growth. A Tacoma nonprofit biotech incubator and science research center receives $250,000 for fiscal year 2024. That grant supports life sciences career readiness, entrepreneurship, and science career access for underserved communities; these funds do not guarantee jobs or individual payments.

Retail industry work group receives funding

The law provides $12,000 to carry out the retail industry work group legislation. The amount lapses if Senate Bill 6296 was not enacted by June 30, 2024. The money supports the work group, not direct payments to retail workers or households.

School districts receive targeted transportation grants

The law sets aside up to $10 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for alternate school transportation grants. Awards follow the state's alternate funding process and consider district efficiency, performance measures, and local conditions, including geographic limits. Another $13 million each year funds transportation safety net awards for excess allowable costs directly tied to special passengers. Districts must convincingly show need and report excess costs and the services causing them under statewide accounting guidance. Awards cannot exceed qualifying excess costs after district transportation funding and specified federal, state, tribal, or local child welfare reimbursements are counted.

School transportation receives service funding

The law provides $670,000 in fiscal year 2024 to account for state transportation allocations to school districts. It allows up to $939,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for regional transportation coordinators and related work. Coordinators help district data reflect actual transportation activity as closely as practical. Another $425,000 in fiscal year 2025 supports supplemental allocations for transportation contractor benefits under House Bill 1248. That appropriation carries a lapse condition tied to enactment of House Bill 1248 by June 30, 2024.

Schools fund advanced learning and math

Fiscal year 2025 funding for highly capable student programs rises from $32.995 million to $33.139 million. Total funding for fiscal years 2024–2025 rises from $66.166 million to $66.310 million. The College of Education receives $50,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for its math improvement pilot. That pilot continues with the Chehalis and Spokane school districts.

Schools fund career training and staffing

For the 2024–25 school year, central office staff allocation rates above general education rise for career education students. The rate rises from 12.42% to 12.44% for career and technical education, and from 17.75% to 17.77% for skill centers. Approved extended-day school-to-work training receives $436,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. The superintendent of public instruction must approve programs, and funding cannot exceed $500 per enrolled full-time-equivalent student. The money goes to school programs, not directly to students.

Schools get attendance and learning support

The state education office receives $450,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for attendance and graduation accountability. The system must use data and state and federal measures; help can target schools underperforming for specific student groups. The State Board of Education receives $1 million each year for mastery-based learning sites, teacher development, resources, evaluation, and implementation. Grant recipients must report results and join a group that shares effective practices. These learning grants can include private matching funds.

Schools get inclusion and crisis support

The law provides $6.4 million each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for inclusion centers at 20 pilot schools. That funding lapses if the special education bill, Senate Bill 5263, was not enacted by June 30, 2025. Another $2 million each year supports six demonstration sites and additional pilots to prevent crises and reduce restraint and isolation. Sites must use trauma-informed behavior supports and improve data collection and reporting. The state schools office must report to legislative committees by November 15, 2026.

Schools receive operating and safety support

For 2024–25, the statewide average district allocation rises from $10,859 to $10,861 per annual average full-time-equivalent student. Fire protection receives $650,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for schools located in legally established fire protection districts. The law provides $1.264 million in fiscal year 2024 to implement Senate Bill 5882 on school staffing. That staffing appropriation carries a lapse condition tied to enactment of Senate Bill 5882 by June 30, 2024. These funds support school operations rather than direct household payments.

Seattle university campus funds energy planning

The law provides $3 million from the Climate Commitment Account for the University of Washington's Seattle campus energy strategy. The strategy addresses modernization of campus energy infrastructure. The funding is for planning, with no stated construction timeline or household energy savings.

Services continue for agricultural seasonal workers

The law provides $3.826 million to continue the Office of Agricultural and Seasonal Workforce Services. The money keeps the office operating for agricultural and seasonal workers. It does not set individual payments or change benefit eligibility.

Special education receives implementation funding

The law provides $5.155 million from the state general fund for fiscal year 2024. This money is solely for implementing House Bill 1436 on special education funding. It supports school programs, not direct payments to families.

Staff process unemployment overpayment backlogs

The law provides $7.644 million for fiscal year 2024 and $4.332 million for fiscal year 2025. The money funds a dedicated team to process the unemployment insurance overpayment backlog. This funding does not erase overpayments or change what claimants owe.

Staffing support for merging and charter schools

Qualifying merged districts keep at least their combined pre-merger state-funded staffing units for the first three school years. The protection applies when at least two merging districts each received the specified extra staffing units. The extra allocation phases down by 20% each year in years four through eight. Charter schools get $355,000 to implement school staffing legislation. That funding lapses unless SB 5882 was enacted by June 30, 2024.

State funding covers college moving costs

Community and technical colleges get $598,000 from the state general fund for moving costs in fiscal year 2024. The money is limited to institutional moving expenses. It does not pay household moving costs.

Students get dual credit program support

Funding to implement Senate Bill 5048 on college-in-the-high-school fees rises from $5.429 million to $6.321 million. The money comes from the workforce education investment account. A separate $1,000 appropriation in fiscal year 2024 implements House Bill 1316 on dual-credit access. These provisions do not state an individual student's fee savings or payment amount.

Students get funded cybersecurity degree options

Washington State University receives $4.112 million for a bachelor's degree in cybersecurity operations. Eastern Washington University receives $2.144 million to operate a cybersecurity bachelor's option through its computer science program. Eastern also receives $268,000 for a professional Master of Science option in cyber operations. The money is restricted to these degree programs; it does not set tuition cuts or individual student payments.

Students get law and labor program support

The University of Washington Tacoma pre-law pipeline and social justice program receives $200,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies receives $300,000 from the general fund each year. The center also receives $300,000 from the workforce education investment account. It must work with the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. These funds support educational programs rather than direct student payments.

Study Funding for Power Line Workers

The law provides $275,000 in fiscal year 2025 to study line workers, line-clearance tree trimmers, and substation technicians. The study covers apprenticeships, worker demographics, barriers, wages, recruitment, and retention. An eight-member group from specified labor organizations and investor-owned and consumer-owned utilities helps set the scope and review reports. Reports are due December 1, 2024, and November 1, 2025. The funding does not directly change workers’ pay or job eligibility.

Tacoma students get pre-law program funding

The University of Washington Tacoma receives $200,000 each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for its pre-law and social justice program. The funding supports the program. It does not set individual student awards or tuition reductions.

Teacher training gets open climate lessons

The law provides $300,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for open-access climate science lessons. The University of Washington College of Education develops them for teacher preparation programs. It must work with teacher preparation programs and the state education office. The funding does not provide direct student or household payments.

Training and apprenticeships for nursing assistants

The law includes separate Board of Nursing allocations of $1.49 million and $1.26 million for nursing assistant workforce activities. They support continued virtual training and testing, apprenticeship pathways, and career-path rules. They also support a pilot to change long-term care culture and practice. The provisions do not set payments for individual trainees.

Training grants for aerospace workers

The law provides $1.7 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for aerospace and related supply-chain workforce grants. Eligible recipients are nonprofits, nongovernmental groups, and higher-education entities providing qualifying training. Grants can support apprenticeships, training capacity, equipment, facilities, curriculum, and instructor development. They can also support tuition assistance and child-care capacity for shift workers. Up to 5 percent can pay grant administration costs.

Training grants for behavioral health workers

The law provides $850,000 from the accident account and $150,000 from the medical aid account for behavioral health training grants. Grants support preapprenticeship and entry-level training, including certified nursing assistant programs. They can pay for provider implementation, apprentice tuition and stipends, curriculum development, and program administration. Preference goes to entities experienced in behavioral health apprenticeships and labor-management partnerships. Grantees must report recruitment and skill-building counts by June 30, 2026, and June 30, 2027; department administration is capped at 5 percent.

Training support for local permit technicians

The community college board gets $25,000 in fiscal year 2025 for permit technician training. It must work with a building-code professional association to design and run programs intended to speed city and county hiring. The provision does not specify participant payments or guarantee jobs.

University agricultural trust lands receive funding

The law provides $1.583 million for fiscal year 2024 and $1.515 million for fiscal year 2025. The money goes into the agricultural college trust management account. It supports management of about 70,700 acres of Washington State University agricultural college trust lands, not direct household payments.

University funding preserves labor history and studies

University of Washington labor archives receive $200,000 each year in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for an archivist and archive operations. The university and archivist must work with the Friends of the Labor Archives community advisory board. This money cannot fund unrelated university library work. The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies receives $300,000 each year, plus $300,000 from the workforce education account. The center must collaborate with the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.

University funds partnerships with Nordic countries

The University of Washington receives $350,000 for fiscal year 2025 to establish a cooperation pilot with Finland, Sweden, and Norway. Partners include academic institutions and government and public agencies. Work may cover clean energy, technology, transportation, telecommunications, agriculture, and wood science. The pilot does not provide direct household benefits.

University staff inclusion center gets funding

Eastern Washington University receives $300,000 for a Center for Inclusive Excellence serving faculty and staff. The money is restricted to the center. It does not provide individual payments or change student eligibility.

University students get more affordability funding

Washington State University's fiscal year 2025 college affordability funding rises from $36.296 million to $36.508 million, a $212,000 increase. Eastern Washington University's fiscal year 2025 affordability funding rises from $13.038 million to $13.114 million. Eastern also receives $4.536 million for implementing Senate Bill 5048 on college-in-high-school fees, up from $3.977 million. Eastern's total appropriation increases by $635,000. These funds are dedicated to the named programs, but no individual student's award or savings is specified.

Washington university funds degrees and services

The University of Washington receives $8 million for employee pay, academic improvements, student services, and related priorities. A separate $8 million maintains engineering degree production at the Seattle campus. Bothell receives $2.7 million to maintain undergraduate enrollment and degrees in engineering, math, and science supporting the biomedical innovation partnership zone. Tacoma receives $3.268 million to maintain mechanical and civil engineering bachelor's programs. All four amounts come from the workforce education investment account and support university programs, not direct student payments.

Western students get expanded college support

The law provides $3.186 million from the workforce education investment account for Western Washington University's Western on the Peninsulas expansion. The expansion includes two-plus-two degree programs such as industrial engineering, data science, and sociology. Another $1.577 million from that account supports remedial math, English 101, first-year seminars, and disability accommodation counselors. These funds expand degree options and academic support, without guaranteeing admission or individual financial aid.

Continued funding for small business innovation

The law provides $7 million in federal recovery funds to continue the Small Business Innovation and Competitiveness Fund program. The department can prioritize projects conditionally awarded funding in 2021–2023 but left unfunded because of the completion deadline. Those projects could not be substantially completed by June 30, 2023. Individual award amounts are not stated.

Funding for Cannabis Social Equity Implementation

The law provides $5.697 million solely to implement Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5080 concerning cannabis social equity. Fiscal year 2024 funding includes $1.622 million from the General Fund and $2.255 million from the Dedicated Cannabis Account. Fiscal year 2025 funding includes $357,000 and $1.463 million from those accounts, respectively. This appropriation does not set individual awards or household eligibility rules.

Funding for farm support and access

The law provides $300,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to continue developing short-term disaster aid for farmers and ranchers. Funding must prioritize those who are most economically vulnerable. Another $90,000 each year funds changes to improve agriculture department programs for underrepresented farmers and ranchers. The department may use its 2022 report, regional-market strategies, community suggestions, and consultation with affected farmers. Separately, the Northwest Agriculture Business Center receives $150,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027.

Funding for Federal Way and Seattle Innovation

The law provides $350,000 each in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to assess innovation campuses around Federal Way. The nonprofit recipient must be based there, have operated at least 30 years, and focus on regional economic development. Seattle gets $300,000 for fiscal year 2024 and $500,000 for fiscal year 2025 to lease startup and training space. Nonprofit and academic groups use that space to support technology startups, especially artificial intelligence, and teach related job skills. These funds do not provide direct payments to workers or businesses.

Funding for Washington Main Street programs

The law provides $350,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 solely for the Washington Main Street Program. This provision does not specify direct payments or eligibility for residents or businesses.

Funding rules for county business support

County business development organizations receive $4.304 million for fiscal year 2024, $5 million for 2025, and $8.304 million for 2025–2027. For both budget periods, Commerce must consider each organization's total resources when allocating funds. Urban county allocations allow up to $1 per resident, require a local match, and cap funding at $300,000 per organization. Rural allocations for 2023–2025 provide $1 per resident plus a $75,000 base. For 2025–2027, rural allocations may provide $1 per resident plus a $50,000 base.

Funding to Implement Emergency Liquor Permits

The Liquor Revolving Account provides $136,000 solely to implement House Bill 2204 concerning emergency liquor permits. The appropriation funds state implementation. It does not specify permit eligibility changes, new fees, or household payments.

Grant writing support for development organizations

The law provides $700,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for grants to associate development organizations. These grants support grant-writing assistance under Substitute House Bill 1783. The funding does not establish direct household payments.

Market and processing help for farms

The Northwest Agriculture Business Center receives $350,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. Another $1 million in federal recovery funds supports grants and technical help for meat and poultry producers and processors. That processing assistance is not limited to small businesses. A Whatcom County community organization receives $100,000 each year to run a food and farm finder connecting producers with buyers statewide. These provisions do not set individual business award amounts.

Public works contractors get training support

The law provides $1.1 million in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for public works contracting training. Local governments and contractors get help with bidding, alternative contracting, cost estimates, and bonds. The work also supports participation by women-owned and minority-owned businesses. Commerce must contract with the Municipal Research and Services Center, coordinating with the Washington Procurement Technical Assistance Center.

Recovery grants for cultural businesses

The law provides $2 million in federal recovery funds for eligible arts, heritage, and science businesses and nonprofits. Live entertainment venues are included, and grants support continued recovery from COVID-19 economic losses. Commerce sets application criteria with the Washington State Arts Commission. A separate $200,000 federal recovery grant goes to a Tacoma automotive museum for lost attendance revenue and revenue opportunities.

Regulatory guidance for construction businesses

The law provides $150,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for construction industry regulatory guidance. It also funds additional guidance tools developed with businesses in key industries. The funding does not specify direct business payments.

Seattle gets startup and worker training

The law provides Seattle $300,000 in fiscal year 2026 to lease space for nonprofit and academic institutions supporting technology startups. The money also supports developing and teaching artificial intelligence business courses for workers. It does not establish direct payments to workers or startup owners.

Software supports more diverse public suppliers

The law provides $500,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for business engagement software licenses. It renews licenses for state agencies and local workforce and economic development boards. Additional licenses support state purchasing staff implementing the supplier diversity policy. The funding creates no direct household payment or duty.

Startup support for climate technology businesses

The law includes a $500,000 Climate Commitment Account grant to establish a climate technology program and $200,000 to continue it. The program supports recruitment, development, training, and assistance, including help for underserved climate innovators. The nonprofit recipient must have prior state small-business credit initiative funding and experience managing investments and supporting Washington climate startups. Individual award amounts are not stated. The $500,000 provision bars consolidated climate account spending after Initiative 2117's effective date if the measure is approved.

Study of Farm Tourism Permit Rules

The law provides $250,000 from the fiscal year 2025 General Fund for a study of farm tourism rules elsewhere. Interested groups examine permits, alcohol sales, and agricultural buildings used for tourism. Findings and recommendations are due to the legislature by June 30, 2025. The study does not itself change Washington permit rules.

Vendor fees fund business support office

Enterprise Services must transfer master contract vendor-fee money to the Office of Minority and Women's Business Enterprises. Transfers total $1.5 million in fiscal 2026 and $1.3 million in fiscal 2027. They must be made in equal monthly installments. This provision funds the office, not direct business awards, and does not set a new fee amount.

Funding for Medical Cannabis Tax Implementation

The General Fund provides $25,000 each for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 solely to implement medical cannabis and tax legislation. The money supports Substitute House Bill 1453. This funding provision does not state an individual tax change or direct household benefit.

Funding keeps structure tax incentives running

The law provides $54,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to operate Washington’s existing structure tax incentive program. This funding does not change who qualifies, the amount of tax relief, or household tax liability.

Public utilities receive tax distribution funding

The law provides $72.286 million for public utility district excise tax distributions. Spending cannot exceed funds available under the legal distribution rules. This allocation does not directly change household taxes or utility bills.

Tax penalty relief for investment businesses

During the 2025–2027 budget period, the Department of Revenue must run an expanded voluntary disclosure program for eligible investment entities. The department must waive all penalties and interest for participants registering so it can collect business revenue due. Banking, lending, and securities businesses are excluded. Entities are also excluded if the department had started an audit by July 1, 2025.

Foster youth mentoring funding removed

The governor vetoed funding and a contract requirement for a program mentoring foster children and youth. The enacted budget does not include that specific mentoring support. The funding amount is not stated.

Higher fees for firearms certificate participants

The Washington Criminal Justice Training Commission must raise fees for its firearms certificate program. Fee revenue must match the program's $300,000 appropriation in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. The law does not state the new fee amount or each fee payer's share.

Limits on adding weight-loss drug coverage

The Health Care Authority cannot add obesity or weight-loss prescription drug coverage without a specific legislative appropriation. This applies to state- and federally funded medical assistance programs. The restriction does not remove coverage already in place.

Limits on public employee health benefits

Health benefit changes require board approval and a full cost review. Benefit increases must be fully paid for by savings from other benefit changes. The Public Employees’ Benefits Board cannot change eligibility rules to restore retiree benefits. Monthly employer health funding is capped at $1,333 per eligible employee in fiscal 2026 and $1,350 in fiscal 2027. These caps do not set employee premiums.

Construction worker child care pilot canceled

The law removes $325,000 in fiscal year 2025 funding for a construction worker child care pilot. It also removes the pilot's competitive grant requirements. The money no longer supports planned child care facilities at or near construction worksites.

Fees for tribal government training participants

Participants pay fees that cover the cost of each tribal government training session. Training covers tribal history, legal issues, sovereignty, and governments. The Governor’s Office of Indian Affairs must help the Department of Enterprise Services provide this training. The law sets no fee amount and does not say who pays when an employer covers the charge.

Less funding for Opportunity Scholarship matching

The law provides $14.635 million solely for the Opportunity Scholarship Match Transfer Account. That is $221,000 less than the previous $14.856 million amount. The provision does not change a stated award formula or specify any student's scholarship reduction.

Participants pay for tribal government training

The Office of Indian Affairs must help Enterprise Services provide government-to-government training on tribal history, law, sovereignty, and governments. Participants must pay fees that cover training-session costs. The law does not set the fee amount.

Prison sentencing software requires staff reductions

The Department of Corrections gets funding for a sentencing calculation module using one organizational index across its programs. It must reduce tolling staff within six months after the project is implemented. Staffing data must reach legislative committees within 30 calendar days after that six-month period. The law does not specify how many positions are affected.

Public college workers face raise limits

Covered public college workers' raises follow their labor agreements. Classified workers above their approved salary-range maximum cannot receive an increase. Other allowed increases are limited to normal promotions, retention, and raises provided elsewhere in this law. Certain colleges may fund additional raises for specified faculty, staff, and assistants without state General Fund or tuition money. The legislature may allow exceptions to that funding limit.

Appraiser licensing loses support and cap

The budget removes state general-fund support for the Department of Licensing's Real Estate Appraiser License Program. The governor's veto also prevents the proposed licensing fee cap from taking effect. This budget establishes no new cap. The funding amount and applicable fee rates are not stated.

Adult family homes pay expansion fees

Adult family homes pay a nonrefundable $485 fee for each application to increase capacity to seven or eight beds. The applying home pays the fee, not residents directly.

Lottery retailers face lower sales commissions

The Washington State Lottery Commission must reduce retailer commissions until they average 5.1% of sales. This is an average target, not a stated rate for every retailer. The law does not state the prior average or each retailer's resulting payment.

Residential care businesses pay renewal fees

Community residential service businesses pay an annual certification renewal fee of $859 per client in fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Total fees cannot exceed the department’s annual licensing and oversight costs. The law does not state whether residents or families pay these costs.

Flood assistance gets a smaller transfer

For the 2025–2027 budget period, the state transfers $3.7 million to the flood control assistance account instead of $4 million. That leaves $300,000 less available for eligible flood-control assistance. Spending still requires an appropriation and must follow the account's legal purposes. This transfer rule ends June 30, 2027.

Governor and support offices lose funding

The Governor's Office total funding falls from $86.373 million to $84.201 million. Fiscal year 2025 state General Fund money falls from $30.25 million to $28.578 million. Central service account funding falls from $19.538 million to $19.038 million. The Education Ombuds' fiscal year 2025 allocation falls from $1.841 million to $1.146 million. The Office of Equity allocation falls from $19.238 million to $18.738 million; specific service cuts are not stated.

Groundwater permitting guidance gets less funding

Fiscal year 2025 funding for groundwater model guidance falls from $400,000 to $300,000. The Department of Ecology must develop peer-reviewed guidance for models used in water-right permitting. Its technical advisory committee must include hydrogeologists designated or employed by tribes. A progress update was required by June 30, 2025.

Habitat conservation loses funding and support

Habitat Conservation Program distributions fall from $5.754 million to $4.675 million, a $1.079 million cut. The budget also omits 2025–2027 funding for five agencies to join a team that streamlines fish habitat restoration reviews. Those agencies are Ecology, Recreation and Conservation, Fish and Wildlife, Puget Sound Partnership, and Natural Resources. The related Habitat Recovery Pilot Program was scheduled to end June 30, 2025.

Independent investigations office loses state funding

The Office of Independent Investigations' fiscal year 2025 state funding falls from $20.196 million to $17.196 million. Total funding falls from $37.21 million to $34.21 million. The law does not identify particular services affected by the $3 million cut.

Indian Affairs office gets less funding

The Governor's Office of Indian Affairs gets $787,000 in fiscal 2025 state general-fund money, down from $987,000. Its total funding falls to $2.247 million. The law does not identify which services change or any direct household payment change.

Indigenous missing persons task force loses funding

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People Task Force receives $561,000 for fiscal year 2024. Its fiscal year 2025 support falls from $508,000 to $158,000. The $350,000 reduction lowers Attorney General's Office funding for the task force.

Juvenile facilities lose communication system funding

The governor's veto removed one-time 2025–2027 funding for a secure communication system in juvenile rehabilitation facilities. The enacted budget does not provide this specific implementation funding to the Department of Children, Youth, and Families. The amount removed is not stated.

Less funding for public defense

The law cuts Blake-related defense assistance by $500,000, from $8.863 million to $8.363 million. Statewide assistance falls $100,000, and county counsel assistance falls $400,000. County aid follows the Office of Public Defense's formula; counties can seek grants or ask the office to hire lawyers. This supports people seeking to clear convictions or receive new sentences under State v. Blake. Separately, funding for a specified public defense purpose falls from $6 million to $5 million for the year ending June 30, 2025.

Less funding for Washington environmental work

Environmental crime prosecution support gets $852,000 in fiscal 2024 and $639,000 in 2025, down from $852,000 for 2025. Ecology must report prosecution progress by December 1 each year. Lower Yakima Valley groundwater nitrate work gets $1.392 million, down from $1.492 million, to address pollution from irrigated agriculture. Puget Sound Partnership state funding falls from $9.288 million to $8.858 million in fiscal 2025. These cuts do not directly change household taxes or payments.

Limits on publicly funded political activities

The Public Disclosure Commission cannot fund an electronic political advertising directory, archive, or compilation without explicit legislative authorization. A nonprofit receiving public affairs coverage funds cannot use that money to influence legislation or agency rules. It also cannot fund reportable political contributions. Gifts, honoraria, travel, lodging, meals, and entertainment for public officers or employees are also prohibited uses of that money.

Local water projects lose budget support

The budget does not fund an Ecology contract for cleanup access near an underground gasoline tank spill in Walla Walla. It omits a 2025–2027 Clark County grant to restore and maintain Vancouver Lake. It also omits directions for Ecology to bring parties together through the Nooksack adjudication for a federal Indian water rights settlement. No funding amounts are stated, and the budget does not establish whether other cleanup arrangements are available.

Natural Resources loses added implementation funding

The budget omits added Natural Resources funding for Senate Bill 5334's appeals process for certain department-issued civil penalties. The veto message says existing spending authority can cover the expected smaller appeals workload; the omission does not repeal appeals. The budget also omits added funding to implement Senate Bill 5319's surface mine reclamation permit fee changes. The veto message says existing authority allows the department to use increased fee revenue. Neither removed amount is stated.

Patrol and local safety funding fall

State Patrol's fiscal 2025 state funding falls from $85.297 million to $84.321 million, a $976,000 cut. For 2023–2025, county impaired-driving safety funding falls from $1.615 million to $1.596 million for criminal justice implementation costs. City funding falls from $1.077 million to $1.064 million; both distributions are quarterly, with city shares based on population. A city's share goes to its county when the city substantially decriminalized or repealed its criminal code after July 1, 1990, and does not reimburse specified county criminal case costs. The law does not identify resulting household charges or service cuts.

Political ad archive spending needs approval

The Public Disclosure Commission cannot use appropriations in its budget section to create a political advertising directory, archive, or compilation. It needs explicit legislative authorization before using those funds for that purpose. The restriction does not impose a payment duty on residents.

Public agencies pay part of training costs

During 2025–2027, covered county, city, and state law enforcement agencies must pay 25% of basic training costs. Limited authority agencies already subject to full-cost reimbursement are excluded from that rule. Covered county, municipal, and state employers must also pay 25% of corrections training costs in fiscal year 2025 and 2025–2027. Payments go to the Criminal Justice Training Commission, not to employees. Both rules end June 30, 2027.

Public defense implementation funding falls

Fiscal year 2025 funding for implementing the public defense and insanity law falls from $6.602 million to $6.102 million. This is a $500,000 cut to the Office of Public Defense's implementation funding. The law does not identify specific service changes.

Public disclosure commission funding falls

The Public Disclosure Commission's total funding falls from $14.594 million to $14.368 million. Its fiscal year 2025 state General Fund allocation falls from $6.186 million to $6.099 million. Transparency account funding falls from $2.3 million to $2.161 million. These cuts reduce agency resources, not household tax bills or payments.

Recreation access and safety support shrink

Boating safety and education distributions fall from $4.272 million to $3.743 million, a $529,000 cut. The budget does not fund Recreation and Conservation Office efforts to improve outdoor access for underrepresented communities facing environmental inequities. It also does not fund that office's water safety education for people using Lake Union. Amounts for these two omitted activities are not stated.

Salmon recovery groups receive less funding

Lead entities and salmon recovery regions receive $1.714 million for fiscal year 2024 and $1.557 million for fiscal year 2025. The money supports operations and administration. The later annual amount is $157,000 lower, leaving fewer resources for those organizations.

Special commitment program funding falls

Special commitment program funding falls from $161.792 million to $160.078 million. Its fiscal year 2025 state allocation falls from $80.519 million to $78.805 million. The law does not specify which services change because of the $1.714 million reduction.

State funds Larch property reuse planning

The law provides $298,000 from the fiscal year 2025 general fund for a task force on the Larch corrections center. The Office of Financial Management must convene the task force and provide staff support. The group must identify, plan, and recommend alternate uses for the property and facilities. This provision does not decide the property's future use or create a direct household benefit.

Voluntary stewardship implementation funding drops

Funding to implement the voluntary stewardship legislation falls from $379,000 to $7,000. The money comes from the Public Works Assistance Account and is limited to implementing Substitute Senate Bill 5353. The law does not establish household payments or duties through this allocation.

Emergency child placement funding falls

Emergency and enhanced emergency child placement contracts receive $6.195 million in state funds for fiscal year 2024. Fiscal year 2025 state funding falls from $8.981 million to $6.481 million. The law also provides $1.188 million in federal funds. Emergency placement operating costs cannot count toward family foster home maintenance payment calculations.

Foster care settlement support funding falls

Fiscal year 2025 funding to phase in the D.S. foster care settlement falls from $3.597 million to $3.025 million. Monitoring funding falls from $250,000 to $143,000; plaintiff legal fees and fiduciary support fall from $965,000 to $500,000. Fiscal year 2024 amounts remain $3.525 million, $313,000, and $806,000, respectively. The children's agency must still follow the settlement timeline and plan for supported housing, therapeutic foster care, and hub homes. The plan also covers licensing standards, family group planning, referrals, transitions, residential treatment, and monitoring. Monitoring includes compliance data, progress reports, updates, and dispute resolution; legal and financial support covers related rate modeling and payments.

Later funding deadline for crisis call platform

The state now has until June 30, 2027, to fully fund the platform used by designated 988 crisis call centers. The old deadline was January 1, 2026. Agencies must still implement the platform as soon as possible. This provision sets no funding amount.

Less child care funding for families

Working Connections Child Care funding from the Workforce Education Investment Account falls from $22.764 million to $15.623 million. The law also removes $1.56 million in fiscal year 2025 state funding for seasonal child care. Seasonal child care keeps $1.56 million in fiscal year 2024 state funding and $6.701 million in federal funding. These are funding changes; the law does not state new family eligibility rules or individual cost increases.

Less funding for basic public health

The law cuts fiscal year 2025 General Fund support for foundational public health services from $151.091 million to $146.091 million. Money must be distributed under the state's foundational public health funding law. The provision does not specify an individual household benefit or service reduction.

Less funding for court-related mental health services

Fiscal year 2025 funding for the Trueblood settlement phase-in falls from $48.634 million to $45.404 million. The money supports competency evaluations and restoration, crisis diversion and support, education, training, and workforce development. Implementation must still follow the settlement's timeline and plan. The law does not specify how individual services change.

Less funding for health insurance exchange

The state appropriation from the Health Benefit Exchange Account falls from $83.528 million to $81.409 million. The provision does not identify a service cut, coverage change, or change in household costs.

Less home visiting support for families

The law cuts a state home visiting appropriation from $3.02 million to $1.77 million. It removes another $1 million for expansion while keeping $6.54 million in federal funding. It also lowers fiscal year 2025 General Fund money for the home visiting services account from $14.347 million to $13.097 million. That account money is solely for the home visiting program. The law does not specify changes to individual families' services.

Less therapeutic child care funding

The law reduces fiscal year 2025 funding for the ECLIPSE early childhood treatment program. State General Fund support falls from $3.587 million to $3.444 million. Education Legacy Trust support falls from $9.588 million to $9.303 million. The program provides therapeutic child care and specialized treatment for children affected by abuse, neglect, risk, or drugs. The law does not state a household-level loss.

Veto removes two children's care contracts

The governor's veto removed funding and contract directions for a pediatric interim care center for 2025–2027. It also removed a Spokane early learning contract focused on children affected by trauma. The Spokane contract targeted a licensed child care center with an existing mental health program. The enacted budget excludes these specific contracts and their funding; no amounts are stated.

Less housing help outside Medicaid

The law cuts fiscal year 2025 supported housing funding from $3.162 million to $750,000. Services are for people who are ineligible for Medicaid. Before approving services, the state must determine eligibility for waiver initiative 3a or 3b. This funding runs through June 30, 2025; no individual benefit amount is stated.

College sports cannot use budget funds

Colleges and universities cannot use money appropriated under this law to support intercollegiate athletics. The restriction applies to these budget funds, not all possible funding sources. It does not require students or households to make a payment.

Colleges must report financial aid data

The Washington Student Achievement Council must ensure that colleges eligible for state financial aid provide data for evaluating aid programs. Those colleges must send the data to the education data center for accessible use. This reporting rule does not change student aid eligibility or award amounts.

Community groups cannot overlap pathway grants

Community groups funded under subsection (11) or section 601(35) cannot receive Career and College Pathways Innovation Challenge grants for the same purpose. The restriction applies to overlapping funding for organizations. It does not limit students’ eligibility for other financial aid.

Early childhood programs face reporting penalties

Covered state-funded early childhood programs must report children's names, birth dates, and service dates at particular facilities. The child services department must provide this participation data to the Education Research and Data Center. In consultation with Social and Health Services, it must withhold service payments from programs that fail to report.

Funding caps for career education students

Under this funding section, skills center enrollment is capped at 1.6 full-time-equivalent students, and Career Launch enrollment at 1.2. Career Launch spending must first use the appropriation in section 501(5). This section covers enrollment beyond that appropriation, subject to its cap. These are school funding limits, not charges to families.

Less funding for districts and charters

Fiscal year 2025 general school funding falls by $1.561 million, from about $9.814 billion to $9.812 billion. The section totals about $21.370 billion and uses district funding and salary formulas for the 2023–24 and 2024–25 school years. Charter school funding falls from $178.654 million to $173.162 million. The state may use charter funds for special education awards when schools show needs beyond their regular funding. These changes fund schools; they do not directly charge families.

Western's budget money cannot fund athletics

Western Washington University cannot use the money appropriated in this budget section for intercollegiate athletics. The restriction applies to those funds, not every source of university money. The law does not state how much athletics funding is affected.

Worker protection implementation funding is reduced

Funding falls for implementing crane safety, health-worker overtime, and wage-recovery laws; each amount is restricted to its named law. Crane safety receives $1.317 million from the Accident Account and $187,000 from Medical Aid, down from $1.933 million and $294,000. Health-worker overtime receives $168,000 and $29,000 from those accounts, down from $219,000 and $38,000. Wage recovery receives $200,000 and $72,000, down from $226,000 and $76,000. These provisions reduce agency implementation funding, not stated worker pay, overtime rights, or recovery amounts.

Administration and interagency payment budgets shrink

Administration and supporting services funding falls from $178.463 million to $171.045 million. Its fiscal 2025 state funding falls from $62.924 million to $55.117 million, while federal funding rises from $62.593 million to $62.982 million. Payments to other agencies fall from $214.893 million to $211.988 million. That program's fiscal 2025 state funding falls from $85.489 million to $82.847 million; federal funding falls from $62.969 million to $62.706 million. The provisions do not identify direct changes to household services or benefits.

Commerce and economic partnerships lose funding

The listed Commerce fiscal 2025 state appropriation falls from $22.062 million to $21.462 million. Support helping state, regional, and local partners seek federal funds gets $2.5 million in 2024 and $1.8 million in 2025, down from $2.5 million for 2025. That support is limited to securing federal funds through technical help, grant writing, and economic analysis; awards are not guaranteed. Commerce cooperation with public agencies in Finland, Sweden, and Norway gets $150,000 in 2024 and $50,000 in 2025, down from $150,000 for 2025. Eligible cooperation covers clean energy, technology, transportation, telecommunications, agriculture, wood science technology, and economic development.

Counties receive smaller state land payments

Payments in place of taxes to counties hosting Fish and Wildlife program lands fall from $4.496 million to $4.134 million. Separately, Puget Sound Taxpayer Accountability Account county distributions fall from $28.63 million to $27.149 million. Each county's account distribution cannot exceed actual deposits attributed to that county under RCW 43.79.520. These changes do not establish direct household payments or household tax changes.

Energy project applicants face review fees

The Department of Commerce may charge applicants for reviewing proposed electric generation projects or conservation resources. Fees cover review and an advisory opinion on whether the project or resource qualifies toward mandatory conservation targets. The law sets no fee amount or household bill change.

Larger deductions allowed from land revenue

During 2025–2027, the board can raise the deduction limit on state and aquatic land proceeds from 25% to 32%. The board can also raise certain state forestland deductions from 25% to 27% for administration, reforestation, and protection costs. That forestland rule covers specified lands acquired under RCW 79.22.040, through exchanges, or as replacement lands. Neither increase is required, and the new ceilings cannot be exceeded. Larger deductions can leave less money for revenue recipients, including counties.

Power project applicants face possible review fees

The Department of Commerce may charge applicants to review proposed electric generation projects or conservation resources. The fee can cover review costs and written advice on whether a proposal qualifies to meet mandatory conservation targets. The law does not set a fee amount or impose a direct household charge.

State budget office funding falls

The law cuts the Office of Financial Management's fiscal year 2025 state general fund appropriation by $3.83 million. Funding falls from $24.967 million to $21.137 million. The provision does not identify resulting changes to household services.

State technology funding faces stricter checkpoints

Covered state technology projects need Washington Technology Solutions certification before each stage receives funding. Usually, 15% is held until stage completion and certification; One Washington holds at least 20%. Projects must keep detailed budgets and project plans and report monthly to a public statewide dashboard. Projects costing over $2 million, lasting more than one biennium, or using debt face independent quality reviews and added requirements. These projects generally need usable features within 180 days of signing a competitive contract, with hardware, infrastructure, and maintenance exceptions. Projects over $100 million may be divided into subprojects; One Washington must be divided, and the resident portal is covered. Officials may stop failing projects, withdraw unused funding authority, and require budget-office approval for further spending.

State vehicle purchases need central approval

State agencies generally need the Department of Enterprise Services director's approval before buying a passenger vehicle. The State Patrol, Transportation Department, and Natural Resources Department are exempt. This rule does not apply to household car purchases.

Washington fairs get less state funding

The general fund sends $2.25 million to the fair fund in each of fiscal 2026 and 2027. That is $1.75 million less each year than the previously scheduled $4 million. Annual transfers return to $4 million in fiscal 2028 and continue at that level afterward. The law does not specify changes to fair admission prices or household costs.

Washington lawmakers receive smaller operating budgets

The House's fiscal 2025 state budget falls from $62.841 million to $58.741 million. Its total fiscal 2024–2025 budget falls from $122.892 million to $118.792 million. The Senate's fiscal 2025 state budget falls from $48.193 million to $45.193 million. Its total fiscal 2024–2025 budget falls from $92.572 million to $89.572 million. The law does not identify resulting changes to public services or household payments.

Behavioral health groups face reserve caps

The Health Care Authority must set minimum and maximum reserves for behavioral health administrative service organizations. Limits must reflect required-service risks and reasonable operating reserves. Organizations over the maximum need an approved plan to spend excess reserves. Payments must be reduced until substantial compliance if an organization fails to provide or follow an adequate plan. The authority must report contracted and actual reserve levels each December of the biennium.

Care facilities pay set licensing fees

For fiscal years 2024 and 2025, annual fees are $225 per adult family home bed, $116 per assisted living bed, and $359 per nursing facility bed. Adult family homes also pay a nonrefundable $2,750 initial processing fee and a $700 ownership-change application fee. Licensing fees cannot exceed annual licensing and oversight costs, including state payments for fees tied to Medicaid clients. Continuing care retirement communities pay $900 every two years. These are facility fees, not direct charges to residents.

Care providers pay set renewal fees

Each continuing care retirement community facility pays a $900 registration fee every two years. Community residential service businesses pay $859 per client annually in fiscal years 2026 and 2027. The residential service fee cannot exceed the department's annual licensing and oversight costs. These are provider fees; the law sets no direct resident charge or pass-through formula.

Health and benefit agencies face spending limits

Social services, Health, the Health Care Authority, and Veterans Affairs cannot start state General Fund services without express legal authorization. Unexpected federal funds cannot require state spending above the budget, and unrestricted funds can support only authorized services. For social services, Health, and Veterans Affairs, those unrestricted funds replace an equal amount of state funding, which lapses. For Veterans Affairs, this federal-funding rule applies to money unrelated to the coronavirus response. The budget office must notify legislative fiscal committees when Health Care Authority state funds lapse under its rule.

Health facilities pay full inspection costs

The Department of Health must set fees covering the full cost of inspections under RCW 70.41.080 and RCW 71.12.485. Hospitals and health care facilities subject to those inspections pay the fees. The law does not set fee amounts or say how costs affect patient prices.

Health facilities pay full inspection costs

The Department of Health must set fees that cover the full cost of hospital and certain behavioral health facility inspections. These rules apply to inspections under RCW 70.41.080 and RCW 71.12.485. The inspected facilities pay the fees. The law does not state fee amounts or any resulting change in patient bills.

Health plans must repay care costs

The Health Care Authority must ensure managed care organizations repay state costs for exceptional behavioral health personal care. Repayment goes to the Department of Social and Health Services' Aging and Long-Term Support Administration. It covers state general-fund costs when a Medicaid enrollee needs the care because of a psychiatric disability. The provision does not require the enrollee to pay.

Higher licensing fees for care facilities

The state can raise long-term care licensing fees to cover actual licensing and oversight costs, but cannot exceed those costs. Adult family home fees include $450 per bed annually, $2,750 for an initial license, and $700 for ownership-change applications. Assisted living fees are $383 per bed in fiscal year 2026 and $381 in 2027. Nursing facility fees are $814 per bed in fiscal year 2026 and $834 in 2027. The cost calculation must include state payments to providers for licensing fees tied to Medicaid clients.

Limits on behavioral health payment increases

Community behavioral health payment increases remain only where they fit the required 1% Medicaid managed-care rate cut. That cut takes effect January 1, 2026. The Health Care Authority can adjust rates and state-directed payments to comply. A separate rule rebases community hospital psychiatric inpatient rates beginning January 1, 2024, using adjusted 2020 Medicare cost reports. These rules govern provider payments, not a stated change in patient bills.

Medicaid waiver projects face tighter limits

The Health Care Authority can accept or spend Medicaid demonstration waiver funds only as authorized or appropriated by lawmakers. Renewal requires budget-office oversight and measures of population health and health outcomes. Initiative 1 is limited to six accountable-community projects. Before seeking federal approval, the authority must consult and notify the legislative health oversight committee about duration and costs. Before final approval or accepting funds, it must share waiver terms and budget information with state officials and legislative committees. Waiver programs do not create a guaranteed right to services.

State health records face reporting deadlines

The statewide electronic health records project, including Corrections' part, must use two-week development cycles with live demonstrations. Teams must work together, keep the system updateable, and consider national standards for sharing records. Beginning July 1, 2025, quarterly spending, completed-work, and vendor-staffing reports are due within 30 days after each fiscal quarter. The Health Care Authority's agency team must send needed updates to its foundational project team within 15 calendar days. Funding and project work must follow the act's technology oversight requirements.

Housing academy and task force unfunded

The enacted budget does not fund the Housing Mini-Academy; its services, participants, and funding amount are not described. It also omits funding for Evergreen State College to implement the Housing Cost Task Force legislation, House Bill 1108. The governor also vetoed that task-force bill. These provisions do not create the task force or a direct household housing benefit.

Four universities face athletics spending limits

The University of Washington, Washington State University, Eastern Washington University, and Central Washington University face the same spending restriction. They cannot use their covered appropriations to support intercollegiate athletics. This limits university spending, not what students must pay.

Funding caps for career training students

State funding under these rules caps skills center enrollment at 1.6 full-time-equivalent units per student. Career Launch funding is capped at 1.2 full-time-equivalent enrollment per student. Career Launch spending must first use the appropriation in section 501(5). The additional funding covers enrollment beyond that appropriation, subject to the cap. These limits apply to school funding, not student tuition or household payments.

Hospitality training center funding left out

The enacted budget does not fund the Hospitality Center of Excellence at Columbia Basin College. The provision does not state the amount left out or which services are affected.

Less funding for state labor agency

The Department of Labor and Industries' total funding falls by $4.041 million, to about $1.088 billion. Fiscal year 2025 state General Fund support falls from $25.305 million to $20.846 million. Accident Account funding falls from $437.590 million to $437.323 million. The provision does not identify a household benefit or service that changes.

Less funding to support employee ownership

The law funds work to carry out Washington's employee ownership law. It provides $877,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $528,000 in fiscal year 2025. The 2025 amount falls from $878,000. This funding does not set a direct payment to employees.

Paraeducator training and compensation grants shrink

Fiscal 2025 paraeducator program funding falls from $17.535 million to $12.662 million. District training grants fall from $16.873 million to $12 million. Grants reimburse two certificate training days per school year in 2022–23 and 2023–24. Funding must cover four training days for new paraeducators in their first year. Districts must prioritize compensation for paraeducators who complete the required instructional hours.

School districts receive less local assistance

Fiscal 2025 local effort assistance for school districts falls from $211.467 million to $193.579 million. Total funding for fiscal 2024–2025 falls from $425.156 million to $407.268 million. The reduction is $17.888 million. Any effect on families depends on districts' budget and service choices; the provision does not name specific service cuts.

Smaller aerospace training grants in 2025

Aerospace workforce grants receive $2 million in fiscal year 2024 and $1.94 million in fiscal year 2025. Grants support aerospace and related supply-chain training, including apprenticeships. They can pay for equipment, training space, courses, instructor training, and tuition help. Funding goes to programs and organizations, not directly to households.

Youth agency caps university contract overhead

The Department of Children, Youth, and Families must cap administrative overhead at 10% on every University of Washington contract it enters. The cap limits the share of contract funds available for administration. The law does not state resulting household savings or service changes.

Less funding for multisite child care pilot

The law cuts fiscal year 2025 funding for the multisite child care licensing pilot from $173,000 to $86,000. The pilot tests whether a separate license category is feasible; it does not create that category. New or existing licensed providers may participate, and the department may adapt or waive licensing requirements for the pilot. Participants must include at least one government agency, one nonprofit, and one for-profit business.

Two farm support initiatives go unfunded

The enacted budget omits funding for a nonprofit-run, low-barrier grant program supporting Washington organic agriculture producers. It also omits funding for economic support, training, and services for people historically marginalized or underrepresented in agriculture. These omissions concern those specific initiatives, not all farm assistance. The provisions do not state funding amounts or detailed eligibility rules.

Electronic tax payments for cannabis businesses

The Liquor and Cannabis Board has authority to require electronic payment of cannabis excise taxes. The board can allow waivers for good cause under its rules. The law changes how businesses can be required to pay, not the tax rate or amount due.

Tax revenue distributions receive less funding

Liquor excise tax distribution funding falls from $89.385 million to $84.711 million. Dedicated Cannabis Account distribution funding falls from $47.216 million to $43.707 million, including a $1.178 million adjustment for fiscal 2022 distributions. Cannabis distributions follow Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5796. Public utility district excise tax distribution funding falls from $71.424 million to $68.868 million. These provisions do not change household liquor or cannabis tax bills, utility tax liability, or utility rates.

Fewer child welfare support enforcement referrals

The state child welfare agency can refer cases for child support enforcement only after a court finds parental abandonment. The finding must meet the state's legal definition of abandonment by a parent or guardian. This limits referrals through the child welfare process, but does not set or change a family's support payment.

Shared interpreter rules for social services

When practical, social-services appointments must use the same spoken-language interpreter system as Health Care Authority medical appointments. Direct individual contracts generally require providers working in Washington who are state-certified or state-authorized. Another provider can be used when a qualifying in-state provider is unavailable. Alternative credentials or standards must be accepted as meeting state standards.

Shared interpreter system with provider limits

Social and Health Services must use the Health Care Authority's spoken-language interpreter system for social service appointments whenever practicable. Directly hired interpreters generally must be state-certified or state-authorized and work at a location in Washington. If none is available, the department can hire someone meeting standards it considers equivalent.

Retirement costs follow outside service work

During 2025–2027, covered employers must pay both employer and state retirement contribution shares for qualifying outside service work. This applies when employers charge fees or recover costs for a plan member's work for a nonemployer entity. The pay must count as basic salary. Employers may charge the service recipient for these contribution costs; the rule does not require workers to pay them directly.

Running Start summer funding has limits

Running Start funding covers up to 1.4 full-time-equivalent enrollment across high school and college combined. The state education superintendent must adopt rules to fund summer courses. Those rules may average September-through-June enrollment to account for different course calendars. Enrollment must meet Running Start course requirements under chapter 202, Laws of 2015.

Weekly contact rules for returning students

Covered dropout reengagement programs must provide at least weekly contact for students counted toward state general school funding. Contact can include instruction, academic or career counseling, or case management. This supports student engagement but adds a condition for claiming funding. Districts must track program spending separately and report monthly student counts and full-time-equivalent enrollment, separating resident and nonresident students.

Wolf conflict help limits rider deployment

The law provides $403,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $377,000 in 2025 for wolf conflict prevention and staff responses. In northeast Washington, Fish and Wildlife may hire contract range riders only where grant-funded entities leave coverage gaps. It cannot deploy those riders where other riders already provide enough coverage. The department must focus on coordination and technical help for livestock producers.

Fishing funds can shift toward conservation

During 2025–2027, money can move from three dedicated accounts to the fish, wildlife, and conservation account. The source accounts are limited fish and wildlife, warm water game fish, and recreational fisheries enhancement. The fisheries enhancement transfer is allowed despite the usual ban on filling gaps in other state funding. Transfers add resources to the receiving account but reduce source-account balances; none is required and no amounts are set.

Funding for Lakeland Village records law

The law provides $267,000 in fiscal 2025 to implement Substitute Senate Bill 6125 concerning Lakeland Village records. The money lapses unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2024. This provision does not describe the records changes or individual access rules.

Funding to implement ballot rejection law

The law provides $10,000 in fiscal 2025 to implement Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5890 concerning ballot rejection. The money lapses unless that bill was enacted by June 30, 2024. This provision does not describe changes to ballot-rejection rules.

Investigation office loses dedicated spending rules

The Office of Independent Investigations has fewer rules reserving money for specific uses. The law removes earmarks for regional staffing, State Patrol evidence testing, training, contract services, and evidence-storage and office improvements. It does not state the amount affected or where that money goes next.

Local jail contracts face payment caps

Corrections' local jail contracts must create no net cost to the department. Payments cannot exceed $85 per person daily, excluding department-provided services. Local jails can house only people classified as close medium security or lower. They must provide care meeting Corrections standards, including all medical care and unexpected emergency care. They cannot house people Corrections screens out for existing extraordinary medical or mental health needs.

Local jail payments face daily cap

Corrections can contract for local jail beds for people classified as close-medium or lower security, at no net department cost. Payments cannot exceed $85 per person daily, excluding department-provided services. Local jails must provide required programs and health care meeting department standards, including unexpected emergency care. Corrections must screen out people with existing extraordinary medical or mental-health needs; jails bear care costs before transfer. Contracts must address services and transfers, and Corrections must annually report representative facility costs per person.

More officer training, with class limits

The law funds extra corrections officer academy classes in Burien or at regional academies established by the training commission. It provides $484,000 for fiscal year 2024, $3.187 million for 2025, and $1.169 million from private or local funds. Separately, basic law enforcement academy classes must have at least 30 students.

New planning for youth rehabilitation facilities

Corrections and the Department of Children, Youth, and Families must work together on a youth rehabilitation capacity model. It covers secure facilities, community residences, and community transition services, using existing resources. The law also removes the required agreement with social services for managing and maintaining the closed Naselle Youth Camp during 2023–2025.

Police academy funding and class rules

The law funds 75% of costs for 23 statewide police academy classes in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Classes cannot have fewer than 30 students. Spokane, Vancouver, Arlington, and Pasco must each host at least two classes yearly. The training commission must schedule classes to reduce waits and meet legal wait-time requirements. Its annual December report must include average student wait times at the start of each class.

Public defense gains funds, shifts accounts

The Office of Public Defense's total funding rises from $154.286 million to $154.793 million. Its fiscal year 2025 General Fund-State funding rises from $70.781 million to $72.188 million. Judicial Stabilization Trust Account funding falls from $16.218 million to $15.318 million. The provision does not specify how individual clients' services change.

Records storage savings and custom charges

The state technology agency must work with electronic records vault users to find storage savings for records kept beyond retention schedules. It must also assess a customized service charge for vault data compilations prepared for public records requests. The law does not set the charge amount or state that a particular requester owes a specified payment.

Medicaid oversight adds provider reporting duties

The Health Care Authority must devote resources to federal Medicaid program-integrity recommendations and coordinate audits to avoid duplicate work. It must develop managed-care oversight measures with its actuary and expenditure forecast work group. Oversight results must be used openly when setting payment rates. Covered providers in the 340B drug discount program receiving Medicaid funds under this section must submit annual reports.

Olympic Heritage beds face use limits

The law funds DSHS operation of 72 beds in three wards at Olympic Heritage Behavioral Health Facility. One provision bars DSHS from using 40 remaining beds and reserves them for the Health Care Authority’s selected contractor. A separate provision bars DSHS use of 38 remaining beds and likewise allows contractor use. The contractor must complete the required contracting process before using the reserved beds. The supplied provisions state different reserved-bed counts; they do not explain how those counts fit together.

Veterans homes get conditional federal funding

The law provides $1.3 million in federal funds for changes in resident counts at state veterans homes. The Department of Veterans Affairs can use this money only when a corresponding amount of state funding is withheld from spending. The state amount follows the resident-count adjustment method in the maintenance-level budget. This changes agency funding availability, not residents' payment amounts.

Climate funding falls with targeted positions

State funding for climate-ready communities falls from $5.985 million to $4.485 million. The remaining state money is paired with $3.06 million in federal funding. At least 60 percent of climate service corps positions must go to members of vulnerable populations in overburdened communities.

Districts can reduce or delay funding

School boards can request a reduction or delay in part of their state basic education funding. Boards must adopt the request at a public meeting. The state education superintendent must approve it if the change will not harm the district’s finances. Delays can last no more than two school years and do not change levy authority or local effort assistance.

Green Hill library funding shifts

The law provides $198,000 in fiscal year 2024 state funds to establish a library branch at Green Hill School. It removes the previously listed $154,000 fiscal year 2025 allocation. Green Hill students are the intended library users.

School bus funding requires competitive prices

Bus reimbursement requires state approval of a purchase from the state list or a comparable lowest-price competitive bid process. The bid must cover a similar bus category. Depreciation payments use the five-year average of lowest bids before sales tax, except in the final depreciation year. That final year uses the current school year’s lowest bid, and payments are made each August.

School enrollment counts guide state funding

District funding uses average enrollment, counting full-time-equivalent and part-time students on the fourth school day in September. Counts then use the first school day each month from October through June. Districts ending basic education in May use their last school day in May instead of June. The state education superintendent must adopt full-time-equivalent reporting rules under RCW 28A.655.210.

School funding can shift between programs

The state education office must identify specified federal school relief funds at risk of going unspent as of January 15, 2024. This covers ESSER III or CRRSA/GEER money reserved for sections 507, 522, or 523. It must report those funds to legislative fiscal committees and distribute them using districts’ most recent Title I, Part A shares. Transfers of fiscal year 2024 funds are allowed after May 1, 2024, and fiscal year 2025 funds after May 1, 2025. Transfers between listed school programs must meet formula payment schedules, receive state finance director approval, and not be barred by law.

School safety updates need funded approval

The law provides $750,000 in fiscal year 2025 to review statewide school environmental health and safety standards. An advisory committee must help, with attention to district size, regional costs, school age, and whether schools can carry out changes. The agencies must prepare a cost analysis, help assess environmental justice effects, and allow committee comments on draft rules. A report on priority rules and implementation is due June 30, 2025. New or changed school facility rules cannot take effect until lawmakers receive the rules and final cost estimate and formally fund implementation.

State funds special education lawsuit costs

The law provides $660,000 in fiscal year 2026 solely for the Superintendent of Public Instruction’s N.D. v. Reykdal litigation costs. The case is in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. This funding does not decide the case or establish a household benefit.

Corrections gets limited budget transfer authority

After May 1, 2025, Corrections can move fiscal year 2025 state general fund money between programs. Transfers require the state finance director's approval and cannot override a specific prohibition in the act. Transfers must conserve state funds as much as possible. The director must give legislative fiscal committees written notice seven days before approving a deviation.

Dedicated accounts shift money into general spending

For fiscal year 2025, the law moves $7.67 million from seven dedicated accounts into the state General Fund. Military accounts contribute $149,000 from Active State Service, $350,000 from Capital, and $1 million from Rent and Lease. The Industrial Insurance Premium Refund Account contributes $4.121 million; this transfer does not itself change refund eligibility. Auto Theft Prevention contributes $800,000, Port District Equity contributes $1 million, and Public Service Revolving contributes $250,000. These provisions do not specify household payments or how the General Fund uses the money.

Dedicated funds can shift into general spending

During 2025–2027, the law permits transfers from the drought preparedness and auto theft prevention accounts to the state general fund. Transfers add money for general spending but leave less in the source accounts for their dedicated uses. The law does not require transfers or specify amounts.

Economic reserve gains broader spending uses

During 2025–2027, economic development strategic reserve money may move to the state general fund. Lawmakers may also approve reserve money for Department of Commerce programs and grants. Neither permission requires funding or sets an amount. These uses support general spending or Commerce work but leave less in the reserve for its other purposes.

Horse racing funds can support operations

During 2025–2027, lawmakers may direct transfers from the horse racing commission's class C purse fund to its operating account. The amount must reflect the purse account's excess balance. No amount is set. The operating account gains resources while the purse account retains less.

Insurance study for child-serving organizations

The Insurance Commissioner must study a shared property and liability insurance option for certain child-care, foster-care, and child-serving organizations. Insurers and risk retention groups contacted for the study must provide requested information. Findings are due December 31, 2025. The law does not create the insurance association or change coverage.

Lawmakers can redirect dedicated state funds

During 2025–2027, lawmakers can direct transfers from three dedicated accounts into the state General Fund. These are the Public Works Assistance Account, Financial Services Regulation Fund, and Apple Health and Homes Account. Transfers add General Fund resources but reduce money remaining in those accounts. The law sets no amount and requires no transfer. This authority ends June 30, 2027.

Lawmakers can redirect hearings and military funds

During the 2023–2025 budget period, lawmakers can direct transfers from three accounts to the state General Fund. These are the administrative hearings revolving fund, Military Department Capital Account, and Military Department Rental and Lease Account. Transfers require legislative direction to the treasurer; no amount or automatic transfer is specified. A transfer makes money available to the General Fund while reducing money in the source account.

Lawmakers can shift climate program money

During 2025–2027, lawmakers can direct transfers from the Climate Investment Account to three climate accounts. The receiving accounts are Carbon Emissions Reduction, Climate Commitment, and Natural Climate Solutions. Transfers add money to receiving accounts while reducing the source account's balance. The law sets no transfer amount and requires no transfer.

License funds shift to general spending

The fiscal year 2025 transfer from the Business License Account to the General Fund rises from $7.2 million to $7.4 million. The General Fund gains $200,000, while the license account retains that much less. This is an account transfer, not a change to individual business license fees.

Licensing and safety funds can shift

During 2025–2027, the law allows transfers from several licensing and safety accounts to the state general fund. Transfers from professional engineers, business and professions, construction registration inspection, and pressure systems safety accounts must reflect excess balances. Pipeline safety money may also move, without a stated excess-balance limit. These provisions set no dollar amounts. Transfers add general fund resources but leave less money in the source accounts.

Public employee account money can move

During 2025–2027, lawmakers may direct transfers from public employee, retiree, and school employee insurance accounts to the general fund. They may also direct transfers from the retirement department's expense fund. Personnel service and higher education personnel service funds may also move to the general fund. No transfer amounts are set or transfers required. These permissions shift resources between accounts without directly changing insurance coverage, retirement benefits, or employee pay.

Public works funds can move

During 2025–2027, lawmakers may direct transfers from the public works administration and municipal revolving accounts to the general fund. Those amounts must reflect each account's excess balance. Money from the public service revolving fund may also move to the general fund. No amounts are set or transfers required. Transfers increase general fund resources while reducing source-account balances.

Records grants face cuts and shifts

During 2025–2027, the state may reduce or suspend archives grants and local public-record technology and training grants. Archives surcharge money may instead cover state archives administrative costs. Public records account money may move to the state library operations fund. State library-archives building money may move to the general fund. No transfer or reduction amounts are set.

Records storage review and service charges

Washington Technology Solutions must help agencies reduce electronic vault storage volumes and costs for records kept past retention schedules. It must also assess a customized service charge for vault data compilations prepared for public records requests. The law sets no charge amount.

Revenue agency gains another funding source

During 2025–2027, lawmakers may approve financial services regulation fund money for Department of Revenue operations. This permission does not itself provide money or set an amount. Using this source supports Revenue operations but leaves less for the fund's other uses. It does not directly change household taxes.

Sentencing software funding requires staff reductions

Corrections receives $371,000 in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to maintain and operate its sentencing calculation software. The July 1, 2025 rollout must reduce tolling staff within six months. A staffing report is due to legislative committees within 30 calendar days after that period. It must show monthly budgeted and actual staffing from fiscal year 2023 onward and monthly staff reductions after rollout.

State can redirect dedicated account money

For the 2023–2025 budget period, the law lets the Legislature direct transfers from seven dedicated accounts to the General Fund. These cover military service, Secretary of State operations, electric vehicle incentives, and auto theft prevention. They also cover industrial insurance premium refunds, port district equity, and the public service revolving fund. No transfer amount is stated, and transfers require legislative direction. The authority ends June 30, 2025, and does not itself change household electric vehicle incentive eligibility or payments.

State care facilities get upkeep funding

Brockmann campus in Clark County gets $298,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $297,000 in 2027 for facility and property upkeep. Western State Hospital gets $1.412 million each year for relocation, storage, and other costs tied to building demolition. Social and Health Services must extend master property insurance to its buildings valued over $250,000. It must also cover leased locations whose contents are valued over $250,000. These rules fund and protect state property, not household insurance.

State operating funds can shift

During 2025–2027, lawmakers may direct transfers from government performance audit, enterprise services, and state seizure accounts to the general fund. Audit and seizure transfers must reflect excess balances. Office of Financial Management central service money may also move to the general fund. These provisions set no amounts. Transfers support general spending while leaving less in the source accounts.

State technology fees face approval limits

The Consolidated Technology Services Agency needs Office of Financial Management approval before raising fees for existing services. It may charge fees covering the actual cost of new infrastructure supporting increased cloud use. These rules govern agency customers, not direct household charges.

State technology fees need spending approval

Washington Technology Solutions needs budget-office approval before raising fees for existing services. It may also set fees to recover the actual cost of new infrastructure supporting increased cloud use. The law sets no fee amount and creates no direct household charge.

Waste funds can cover agency costs

During 2025–2027, lawmakers may approve waste reduction account money for Department of Ecology general administrative costs. The law suspends the account's usual required spending allocations for that period. This gives Ecology administrative funding flexibility but removes the normal allocation protections. No amount is set.

Insurance pricing study requires insurer information

The Insurance Commissioner must study credit history, credit-based scores, and other personal insurance rating factors that may affect groups differently. Identified authorized insurers must provide requested information; study data is confidential and privileged. Published data must be grouped so information about individual companies cannot be identified. Findings and policy options are due November 1, 2026; this provision does not change premiums or rating rules. The law also provides $84,000 from the commissioner's regulatory account to implement Senate Bill 5798 concerning insurance notices.

Accredited health organizations get lower fees

During fiscal years 2026 and 2027, Health may set licensing, certification, review, and approval fees to cover regulatory costs. Organizations proving accreditation under standards Health finds substantially equivalent must pay lower fees than nonaccredited organizations. The discount must reflect reduced licensing costs. The law gives no fee amounts and does not require savings to reach patients.

Brain injury funds move to general spending

During 2025–2027, the state treasurer must transfer $1.111 million from the traumatic brain injury account to the general fund. The injury account loses that funding, while the general fund gains it. The provision does not say how the general fund will spend the money.

Cannabis funds support community health centers

The Health Care Authority must use dedicated cannabis account revenue for specified community health center contracts. This money replaces state general-fund payments for those contracts. The contracts serve medical assistance clients. The provision changes the funding source, not stated patient eligibility or service amounts.

Federal money replaces veterans homes funding

During 2025–2027, unexpected federal money unrelated to the coronavirus response triggers a state funding offset for veterans homes. The veterans department must make an equal amount of state general-fund money unavailable for spending. Federal money supports the program, but total spending stays within the existing appropriation. This rule does not require veterans or residents to pay money and ends June 30, 2027.

Health agencies gain guarded transfer flexibility

After May 1, 2025, DSHS may shift fiscal year 2025 state funds with Office of Financial Management approval. Transfers must conserve funds; specified-purpose money generally stays restricted, except mental health transfers funding actual spending through fiscal year-end. Transfers may cover costs above long-term care, developmental disability, and public-assistance forecasts; developmental disability money cannot leave that program. Health Care Authority transfers face similar approval and conservation rules, with the start date moved from after May 1, 2024, to after May 1, 2025. Both agencies' changes require written notice to legislative fiscal committees seven days before approval; DSHS notice must explain reasons and before-and-after spending and allotments.

Less state funding for child-welfare technology

The law funds purchase and initial rollout of a comprehensive child welfare information system. It provides $2.149 million in state funds for fiscal year 2024 and $10 million in federal funds. State funding for fiscal year 2025 falls from $7.851 million to $7.046 million, a cut of $805,000. The project must follow the act's technology oversight requirements.

Long-term care providers pay set fees

Annual renewal fees are $450 per bed for adult family homes. Assisted living facilities pay $383 per bed in fiscal year 2026 and $381 in 2027. Nursing facilities pay $814 per bed in fiscal year 2026 and $834 in 2027. Adult family home initial licensing costs $2,750, and ownership-change processing costs $700. Fees cannot exceed annual licensing and oversight costs, and the state covers the share tied to Medicaid clients.

Nursing home payments include caps and support

Weighted average nursing facility payment rates cannot exceed $376.54 per day in fiscal year 2026 or $394.32 in fiscal year 2027. Rates partly reflect residents’ care needs. They also include facility-specific add-on funding to soften removal of one-time increases from the 2023–2025 budget. The add-on is limited by the amount specified for the fiscal year 2026 average rate. These are provider payment rules, not amounts paid directly to residents.

Paid leave upgrades include overpayment collection

The law provides $8.966 million for technology staff to complete required upgrades to Washington's Paid Family and Medical Leave system. Work includes identifying and collecting overpayments, checking eligibility across records, and supporting optional tribal coverage. This funding is subject to section 701's conditions, limits, and review. Another $30,000 implements Substitute Senate Bill 5191 on dockworker premiums and lapses if that bill was not enacted by June 30, 2025. That appropriation does not state how dockworkers' premiums or benefits change.

Building wastewater reuse standards get funding

The law provides $362,000 to continue implementing risk-based water standards under a 2021 law. The work creates standards for developers seeking to reuse wastewater in buildings. The standards support safe reuse while setting requirements for projects using it. The provision does not state household costs or savings.

College funds can replace existing support

During the 2025–2027 budget period, workforce education investment account money can replace other higher education funding. Normally, this money must add to federal, state, and local support rather than replace it. That normal rule remains in effect outside this budget period. The exception sets no funding amount or direct student payment.

Colleges pursue enrollment and program cuts

Washington colleges must seek to maintain or expand enrollment within available funding. They must focus on Washington undergraduates and bachelor's degree pathways at community college campuses. Colleges must also seek to combine or end low-demand, duplicate, or non-core programs. The law does not guarantee more student places or a particular program outcome.

Districts can reduce or delay funding

School district boards can ask to reduce or delay part of a school year's basic education funding. A board must adopt its request at a public meeting. The state superintendent must approve a request that does not harm the district's financial condition. A delay cannot exceed two school years. The change does not affect local levy authority or local effort assistance.

Excess lottery money can support education

During 2025–2027, lawmakers may transfer shared game lottery money to the education legacy trust account. The amount must reflect the lottery account's excess balance. No amount is set. Education funding gains resources while the lottery account retains less; no individual student benefit is specified.

Public budgets reflect pension funding savings

School districts, state agencies, and public colleges receive budget adjustments reflecting adopted pension contribution rates. The rates come from the Pension Funding Council and the police and firefighter Plan 2 retirement board. Budgets also reflect pension funding savings under the companion pension law. This provision does not state a direct change to anyone's pension benefit or contribution.

School bus funding carries purchase limits

The state reimburses school bus purchases only from the required list or through comparable competitive bidding. That bidding must use the lowest price quote for a similar bus type. District bus depreciation payments use the five-year average of the lowest bids for that bus category, before sales tax. The final depreciation payment uses that school year's lowest bid. Districts receive these payments each August; the law does not state payment amounts.

Local food grants receive less funding

The law funds local food infrastructure and market access grants with $4 million in fiscal year 2024. Funding falls to $3.658 million in fiscal year 2025, a $342,000 decrease. The money supports projects rather than direct household payments.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

June Robinson
Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

T'wina Nobles
Democratic • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 459 • No: 417

House vote • 4/27/2025

Adoption as Recommended by the Conference Committee

Yes: 57 • No: 39 • Other: 2

House vote • 4/27/2025

Final Passage as Recommended by the Conference Committee

Yes: 52 • No: 45 • Other: 1

House vote • 4/27/2025

Motion to Immediately Transmit to Senate

Yes: 58 • No: 39 • Other: 1

Senate vote • 4/27/2025

Final Passage as Recommended by Conference Committee

Yes: 28 • No: 19 • Other: 1

Senate vote • 4/3/2025

Request Conference Committee

Yes: 30 • No: 19

House vote • 3/31/2025

Final Passage as Amended by the House

Yes: 54 • No: 44

House vote • 3/31/2025

937 Couture Pg 99 Ln 10

Yes: 44 • No: 54

House vote • 3/31/2025

924 Couture Pg 308 Ln 30

Yes: 44 • No: 54

House vote • 3/31/2025

930 Couture Pg 389 Ln 5

Yes: 45 • No: 53

Senate vote • 3/29/2025

234 Gildon Striker

Yes: 19 • No: 30

Senate vote • 3/29/2025

3rd Reading & Final Passage

Yes: 28 • No: 21

Actions Timeline

Effective date 5/20/2025*.
5/20/2025Senate
Chapter 424, 2025 Laws PV.
5/20/2025Senate
Governor partially vetoed.
5/20/2025legislature
Delivered to Governor.
4/28/2025legislature
Passed final passage as recommended by conference committee; yeas, 52; nays, 45; absent, 0; excused, 1.
4/27/2025Senate
Speaker signed.
4/27/2025legislature
President signed.
4/27/2025legislature
Passed final passage as recommended by conference committee; yeas, 28; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 1.
4/27/2025Senate
Conference committee report adopted.
4/27/2025Senate
Conference committee report; received 11:15 AM 4/26/2025.
4/26/2025Senate
Conference committee report; received 11:01 AM 4/26/2025.
4/26/2025Senate
Conference committee appointed. Representatives Ormsby, Macri, Couture.
4/21/2025Senate
Conference committee request granted.
4/21/2025Senate
Conference committee appointed. Senators Robinson, Stanford, Gildon.
4/3/2025Senate
Conference Requested.
4/3/2025Senate
Senate refuses to concur in the House amendments.
4/3/2025House
Third reading, passed; yeas, 54; nays, 44; absent, 0; excused, 0.
3/31/2025Senate
Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
3/31/2025Senate
Floor amendment(s) adopted.
3/31/2025Senate
Read first time, rules suspended, and placed on second reading calendar.
3/31/2025Senate
Third reading, passed; yeas, 28; nays, 21; absent, 0; excused, 0.
3/29/2025Senate
Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
3/29/2025Senate
Floor amendment(s) adopted.
3/29/2025Senate
1st substitute bill substituted.
3/29/2025Senate
Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
3/28/2025Senate

Bill Text

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1/14/2025
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High Impact

Named defendants receive compensation and reimbursements

Cash and emergency help for families

Continued health coverage for qualifying immigrants

Continuous health coverage for young children

Health coverage for excluded institutional residents

Medicaid asset protection for Holocaust survivors

Medicare savings help drops asset test

More care support for developmental disabilities

Premium help for Medicare-eligible employee retirees

State health coverage for immigrant adults

College aid programs receive state funding

Funding for college grants and affordability

Higher stipends for low-income service members

Scholarships and help for Passport students

School access for deaf young people

Specialized schooling for students with disabilities

Tuition help for local Renton graduates

Funding for working families’ tax payments

Fuel payments for farms and transporters

Organic farming grants and certification help

Peak harvest overtime grants for farms

Funding keeps mental health services running

Funding for students needing special education

More school meal funding for kids

More learning assistance funding for students

More school transportation funding for students

More special education funding for students

State funding for University of Washington

Medicaid budget limits can trigger cuts

Licensing fees for long-term care providers

Child services funding falls overall

Medical assistance grows with funding shifts

Kindergarten funding limits early-admission coverage

University of Washington operating funds shift

Medium Impact

Crime victims get funded support services

Funded immigration legal help for low-income residents

Funding for immigrants and citizenship services

Funding keeps low-cost dispute resolution available

Lawyer funding for children in foster care

Legal help for domestic violence survivors

More individual security reviews for youth

More practical help for new immigrants

Prison navigators help parents reunite

Vehicle incentives prioritize communities needing help

Help when drinking water becomes unsafe

Advocacy services for people with disabilities

Behavioral health help beyond Medicaid coverage

Behavioral health help for Spokane youth

Benefit protections for youth in care

Better screenings and asthma help for children

Campus contraception and free overdose supplies

Care and housing supports continue

Care transition help for disabled people

Child care subsidy funding for families

Civil hospital beds receive funding and priorities

Community care option for nursing residents

Community care options for nursing home clients

Continued addiction treatment in jail and prison

Continued community treatment and clubhouse support

Court-related mental health services stay funded

Covered medical exams for violence victims

Dental coverage and help for adults

Dental coverage for medical assistance adults

Diaper bank help for families

Discharge help for psychiatric hospital patients

Doula coverage for public employee families

Drug court treatment continues after dismissal

Expanded housing and care for foster youth

Family planning for uninsured young adults

Fewer reviews and more citizenship help

Flexible help for children in crisis

Free counseling for underinsured residents

Free counseling support for uninsured people

Free overdose medicine for high school students

Free overdose supplies for college students