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Member Information

Biennium 2025-26
Chamber Senate
Acronym LIIA
District 21
Name Marko Liias
Party Democrat
Email marko.liias@leg.wa.gov
Campaign Contributions (biennium) No Data Available
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) $693,527.00

30 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details ESB 5065 Prohibiting the use of certain animals in traveling animal acts.
Details SSB 5528 Concerning the installation of transportation electrification infrastructure.
Details SSB 5583 Concerning recreational fishing and hunting licenses.
Details ESSB 5801 Concerning transportation resources.
Details 2SSB 5802 Rebalancing statutory fund transfers and revenue dedications for transportation.
Details ESSB 5014 Concerning election security.
Details SB 5077 Concerning expansion of voter registration services by government agencies.
Details SB 5079 Addressing the burden of unintentional overpayments on older adults and adults with disabilities served by the department of social and health services.
Details E2SSB 5083 Ensuring access to primary care, behavioral health, and affordable hospital services.
Details SSB 5093 Concerning dignity in pregnancy loss.
Details SSB 5101 Expanding access to leave and safety accommodations to include workers who are victims of hate crimes or bias incidents.
Details SB 5110 Providing tuition waivers for tribal elders at Washington’s community and technical colleges.
Details SSB 5127 Creating additional requirements for collector vehicle and horseless carriage license plates to improve compliance and public safety.
Details SB 5141 Requiring that experience-rated group disability income insurers include all applicable rating factors and credibility formulas in rate manual filings with the insurance commissioner.
Details E2SSB 5148 Ensuring compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act.
Details SSB 5149 Expanding the early childhood court program.
Details ESSB 5184 Concerning minimum parking requirements.
Details E2SSB 5217 Expanding pregnancy-related accommodations.
Details SSB 5253 Extending special education services to students with disabilities until the end of the school year in which the student turns 22.
Details E2SSB 5263 Concerning special education funding.
Details ESSB 5281 Changing the vessel length requirement in obtaining nonresident vessel permits.
Details E2SSB 5284 Improving Washington's solid waste management outcomes.
Details 2SSB 5358 Concerning career and technical education in sixth grade.
Details SB 5457 Concerning broadcasters.
Details SB 5463 Concerning the duties of industrial insurance self-insured employers and third-party administrators.
Details ESB 5471 Authorizing middle housing in unincorporated growth areas and unincorporated urban growth areas, certain limited areas of more intensive rural development, and fully contained communities.
Details SB 5498 Concerning contraceptive coverage.
Details ESSB 5557 Codifying emergency rules to protect the right of a pregnant person to access treatment for emergency medical conditions in hospital emergency departments.
Details ESB 5595 Establishing shared streets.
Details SB 5716 Expanding the locations where a person can be guilty of unlawful transit conduct to include the Washington state ferries.

124 Sponsored Bills Introduced for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SB 5059 Concerning Washington state ferries captains.
Details SSB 5064 Creating an advisory council on rare diseases.
Details SB 5090 Updating the professional engineers' registration act.
Details SB 5140 Enhancing requirements relating to the purchase, transfer, and possession of firearms.
Details SSB 5160 Concerning additive transportation funding and appropriations.
Details ESSB 5161 Addressing transportation fiscal matters.
Details SB 5210 Establishing the ninth grade success grant program.
Details SSB 5241 Adding fusion energy to facilities that may obtain site certification for the purposes of chapter 80.50 RCW.
Details SB 5329 Concerning enforcement of laws regulating the installation of smoke detection devices.
Details SB 5346 Restricting mobile device usage by public school students.
Details SSB 5396 Supporting the continued employment of individuals applying for federal aviation administration medical certificates.
Details SSB 5400 Supporting local news journalism.
Details SSB 5432 Addressing license plate production issues.
Details SSB 5474 Expanding opportunities for organic, regenerative, climate-smart, and sustainable producers.
Details SB 5479 Providing tax relief for certain incidental uses on open space land.
Details SB 5482 Concerning the use of dogs to hunt black bear, cougar, or bobcat.
Details SB 5526 Concerning the regulation of tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, and vapor products.
Details SB 5544 Concerning county local roads.
Details SB 5577 Concerning medicaid coverage for HIV antiviral drugs.
Details SSB 5601 Advancing the production and use of alternative jet fuels in Washington.
Details SB 5604 Promoting transit-oriented development.
Details SB 5649 Creating a Washington state supply chain competitiveness infrastructure program.
Details SB 5695 Improving young driver safety.
Details SB 5705 Improving traffic safety by modifying penalty amounts for certain traffic infractions.
Details SB 5730 Concerning record checks for certain volunteers and contractors who will have access to children or persons with developmental disabilities.
Details SSB 5734 Concerning the interstate bridge replacement toll bond authority.
Details SB 5766 Clarifying the business and occupation tax treatment of the investment income of passive investment vehicles managed by a person subject to business and occupation tax under RCW 82.04.290(1).
Details SSB 5773 Concerning alternative procurement and delivery models for transportation projects.
Details SSB 5005 Concerning the city, county, and regional jail system in Washington state.
Details SSB 5017 Adopting national standards for uniformed and overseas civilian voting, including conforming amendments to existing statute.
Details SB 5022 Concerning law enforcement agency and prosecutor offices hiring.
Details SSB 5027 Establishing a loan repayment program for public defense attorneys and prosecutors.
Details SB 5038 Clarifying a hate crime offense.
Details SSB 5043 Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting correctional facility workers.
Details SB 5044 Allowing collective bargaining over contributions for certain supplemental retirement benefits.
Details SB 5046 Designating kimchi day.
Details SSB 5052 Clarifying law enforcement ability to contact juvenile witnesses and victims not suspected of criminal involvement or activity.
Details SB 5058 Implementing strategies to achieve higher recycling rates within Washington's existing solid waste management system.
Details 2SSB 5060 Increasing the number of law enforcement agency and county corrections officer personnel.
Details E2SSB 5061 Requiring certain wages in public works contracts to be at least the prevailing wage in effect when the work is performed.
Details SB 5063 Providing incentives to improve freight railroad infrastructure.
Details SSB 5067 Concerning impaired driving.
Details SB 5068 Concerning agencies, firefighters, prosecutors, and general or limited authority law enforcement, extending eligibility for employment to all United States citizens or persons legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law.
Details SB 5069 Requiring the secretary of state to print and distribute a voters' pamphlet for the primary in each even-numbered year and for the general election every year.
Details SB 5080 Making financial education instruction a graduation requirement.
Details SSB 5082 Creating a housing assistance program for youth enrolled in extended foster care.
Details SB 5088 Authorizing counties to impose a public utility tax.
Details SSB 5099 Protecting the public from gun violence by establishing additional requirements for the business operations of licensed firearms dealers.
Details SB 5114 Paying state retirement benefits until the end of the month in which the retiree or beneficiary dies.
Details SSB 5121 Concerning health plan coverage of fertility-related services.
Details SSB 5123 Expanding protections for certain students to promote inclusivity in public schools.
Details SB 5125 Calculating the provider rate for certain community residential services.
Details SB 5126 Establishing a statewide network for student mental and behavioral health.
Details SB 5130 Eliminating child care licensing fees.
Details SSB 5155 Extending a program to streamline the environmental permitting process for salmon recovery projects.
Details SSB 5156 Concerning elevator standards in smaller apartment buildings.
Details SSB 5164 Providing student navigational supports to increase postsecondary enrollment.
Details SB 5178 Protecting public health and safety by regulating the transfer of sodium nitrite.
Details 2SSB 5179 Establishing a complaint process to address willful noncompliance with certain state education laws.
Details SB 5180 Securing the rights of students to have a safe, civil, and respectful learning community.
Details ESSB 5181 Amending the parents rights initiative to bring it into alignment with existing law.
Details SB 5183 Prohibiting the sale of certain tobacco and nicotine products.
Details 2SSB 5186 Concerning local funding for school district facilities.
Details SSB 5193 Supporting remote testing options for students enrolled in online school programs.
Details SSB 5197 Ensuring that local government planning complies with the growth management act.
Details SSB 5203 Ensuring connectivity for Washington wildlife through safe passages.
Details SB 5218 Modifying motor vehicle and driver licensing laws to align with federal definitions, making technical corrections, and streamlining requirements.
Details SSB 5225 Providing clarity where candidates for the same office have similar names.
Details SB 5233 Developing the Washington health trust.
Details SB 5248 Creating a work group to make recommendations concerning bridge collisions by large commercial vessels.
Details SB 5264 Modifying retail taxes compacts between the state of Washington and federally recognized tribes located in Washington state by increasing the revenue-sharing percentages when a compacting tribe has completed a qualified capital investment.
Details SSB 5275 Modifying the funding for the passport to careers program.
Details SB 5285 Incentivizing cities and counties to increase employment of commissioned law enforcement officers.
Details SB 5286 Concerning policing costs driven by proximity to state hospitals.
Details SB 5293 Concerning the prevailing wages on public works.
Details SB 5295 Updating Washington's sexual assault survivor bill of rights.
Details SB 5302 Prohibiting the purchase of small unmanned aircrafts manufactured or assembled by a covered foreign entity.
Details SB 5304 Expanding eligibility for the students experiencing homelessness and foster youth program to an accredited tribal college.
Details SB 5307 Concerning special education funding.
Details SB 5308 Establishing the Washington guaranteed admissions program and requiring student notifications.
Details SB 5309 Concerning motor vehicle weight fees applicable to motorcycles.
Details SSB 5344 Establishing the essential worker health care program.
Details SB 5352 Increasing student access to free meals served at public schools.
Details SB 5366 Concerning exceptional sentences for offenses which result in the pregnancy of a victim of rape.
Details SSB 5369 Enhancing youth mental health and well-being through advanced training and expansion of the workforce in schools.
Details SB 5372 Creating the medicaid access program.
Details SB 5373 Shifting general elections for local governments to even-numbered years to increase voter participation.
Details SSB 5374 Including tribal representation in certain transportation activities.
Details SB 5376 Preventing cruelty to animals.
Details SSB 5382 Concerning requirements pertaining to signatures and addresses of ballot measure petitioners and petition signature gatherers.
Details 2SSB 5387 Concerning the corporate practice of health care.
Details SSB 5402 Modifying financial aid eligibility.
Details SSB 5410 Concerning parking privileges for veterans.
Details SB 5423 Supporting the servicing and right to repair of certain products with digital electronics in a secure and reliable manner.
Details SSB 5430 Concerning approval of electric utility wildfire mitigation plans.
Details SB 5454 Extending the dairy inspection program until June 30, 2031.
Details SB 5458 Concerning newspapers and eligible digital content.
Details SB 5515 Concerning fair access to community solar.
Details SB 5551 Concerning school library information and technology programs.
Details SSB 5552 Concerning the creation of building codes for kit homes.
Details SB 5553 Providing a sales and use tax incentive for multifamily affordable housing.
Details SB 5560 Designating the Pacific razor clam as the state clam.
Details SB 5562 Concerning students attending approved apprenticeship programs.
Details SB 5567 Expanding secondary training for careers in natural resources and conservation.
Details SB 5574 Providing instruction on Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander history in public schools.
Details SB 5581 Implementing safe system approach strategies for active transportation infrastructure.
Details SB 5592 Concerning manufacturers and vehicle dealers.
Details SB 5602 Improving cardiac and stroke outcomes.
Details SB 5612 Creating a categorical exemption for multiunit housing development within the incorporated areas in an urban growth area under the state environmental policy act.
Details E2SSB 5613 Concerning the development of clear and objective standards, conditions, and procedures for residential development.
Details SSB 5614 Concerning impact fees.
Details SSB 5620 Codifying the rights of children and youth in foster care.
Details SB 5622 Establishing age restrictions on diet pills and dietary supplements.
Details ESSB 5629 Concerning coverage requirements for prosthetic limbs and custom orthotic braces.
Details SB 5717 Establishing a driver work zone and first responder safety course requirement.
Details SSB 5738 Permitting individuals retired from the public employees' retirement system, the teachers' retirement system, the school employees' retirement system, and the public safety employees' retirement system additional opportunities to work for up to 1,040 hours per year while in receipt of pension benefits.
Details SB 5763 Concerning the law enforcement aviation support grant program.
Details SSB 5770 Providing housing safety, security, and protection by creating the primary residence property tax exemption.
Details SSB 5771 Increasing the working families' tax credit to reflect the economic impact of property taxes incorporated into rental amounts charged to residential tenants.
Details SB 5778 Addressing maple syrup processing operations.
Details SB 5792 Concerning temporary compensation reductions for state government employees during the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium.
Details SB 5800 Authorizing bonds for transportation funding.
Details SB 5803 Regulating tobacco and nicotine products.
Details SSB 5804 Concerning fish habitat restoration in response to the federal court injunction and supported by changes to the state tax structure and authorization of bonds.