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Representative Tharinger

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Member Information

Biennium 2025-26
Chamber House
Acronym THAR
District 24
Name Steve Tharinger
Party Democrat
Email steve.tharinger@leg.wa.gov
Campaign Contributions (biennium) $170,514.69
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) $904,110.38

20 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details EHB 1382 Modernizing the all payers claim database.
Details HB 1018 Adding fusion energy to facilities that may obtain site certification for the purposes of chapter 80.50 RCW.
Details HB 1064 Eliminating the expiration of the interagency, multijurisdictional system improvement team.
Details HB 1068 Removing the exclusion from interest arbitration of Washington management service employees at the department of corrections.
Details HB 1075 Expanding housing supply by supporting the ability of public housing authorities to finance affordable housing developments.
Details E2SHB 1096 Increasing housing options through lot splitting.
Details SHB 1142 Standardizing basic training and certification requirements for long-term care workers who provide in-home care for their family members, including spouses or domestic partners.
Details E2SHB 1163 Enhancing requirements relating to the purchase, transfer, and possession of firearms.
Details EHB 1217 Improving housing stability for tenants subject to the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act by limiting rent and fee increases, requiring notice of rent and fee increases, limiting fees and deposits, establishing a landlord resource center and associated services, authorizing tenant lease termination, creating parity between lease types, and providing for attorney general enforcement.
Details SHB 1309 Addressing the impacts of burrowing shrimp on bottom culture shellfish farming through integrated pest management research.
Details HB 1314 Concerning the early learning facilities grant and loan program.
Details SHB 1321 Concerning the governor's authority to limit outside militia activities within the state.
Details HB 1389 Extending the expiration date for reporting requirements on timber purchases.
Details SHB 1392 Creating the medicaid access program.
Details EHB 1403 Simplifying condominium construction statutes.
Details ESHB 1414 Improving access to career opportunities for students.
Details ESHB 1439 Modifying motor vehicle and driver licensing laws to align with federal definitions, making technical corrections, and streamlining requirements.
Details E2SHB 1563 Establishing a prescribed fire claims fund pilot program.
Details HB 1631 Establishing the state marine forest.
Details ESHB 1878 Improving young driver safety.

57 Sponsored Bills Introduced for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details HB 1115 Concerning the excise tax treatment of amounts received by title and escrow businesses from clients for remittance to a county filing office for the purpose of recording documents.
Details SHB 1202 Concerning state general obligation bonds and related accounts.
Details HB 1208 Extending a program to streamline the environmental permitting process for salmon recovery projects.
Details SHB 1216 Concerning the capital budget.
Details HB 1641 Amending the definition of timberland for purposes of determining the real property excise tax for a governmental entity.
Details HB 1805 Creating a local sales and use tax to fund services for children and families that enhance well-being, promote mental health, and provide early interventions.
Details SHB 1806 Ensuring that commercial fishing revenue benefits communities most dependent on the industry.
Details SHB 1906 Increasing transparency and consumer protection in water system rates.
Details HB 1983 Amending the definition of timberland for purposes of determining the real estate excise tax for a governmental entity.
Details HB 2016 Concerning an additive capital budget for state matching funds and federal expenditure authority for broadband.
Details HB 1017 Designating kimchi day.
Details SHB 1057 Promoting economic development by increasing support for local communities to access federal funds.
Details HB 1062 Providing coverage for biomarker testing.
Details SHB 1070 Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting correctional facility workers.
Details HB 1082 Concerning qualifications for child care providers.
Details HB 1090 Concerning contraceptive coverage.
Details HB 1097 Extending governmental services beyond the urban growth area in specific circumstances.
Details HB 1099 Creating a tenant assistance program.
Details HB 1124 Establishing a prescribing psychologist certification in Washington state.
Details 2SHB 1125 Providing judicial discretion to modify sentences in the interest of justice.
Details SHB 1129 Concerning health plan coverage of fertility-related services.
Details SHB 1132 Enhancing public safety by limiting bulk purchases and transfers of firearms and ammunition.
Details HB 1152 Enhancing public safety by establishing secure storage requirements for firearms in vehicles and residences.
Details HB 1199 Strengthening consumer protection through increased insurer accountability for violations of the insurance code.
Details HB 1237 Facilitating predictable and timely application decisions by the energy facility site evaluation council.
Details SHB 1263 Updating eligible uses for the essential needs and housing support program.
Details 2SHB 1285 Making financial education instruction a graduation requirement in public schools.
Details HB 1312 Paying state retirement benefits until the end of the month in which the retiree or beneficiary dies.
Details SHB 1338 Concerning school operating costs.
Details HB 1345 Establishing limitations on detached accessory dwelling units outside of urban growth areas.
Details HB 1358 Concerning the notice of sale or lease of manufactured/mobile home communities.
Details HB 1387 Concerning the prevailing wages on public works.
Details SHB 1398 Concerning factors which are considered in interest arbitration for adult family home providers.
Details HB 1415 Implementing the recommendations of the long-term services and supports trust commission.
Details ESHB 1423 Authorizing the use of automated vehicle noise enforcement cameras in vehicle-racing camera enforcement zones.
Details HB 1425 Requiring coverage of pharmacogenomic testing for psychotropic medications.
Details ESHB 1430 Concerning advanced practice registered nurse and physician assistant reimbursement.
Details HB 1433 Concerning access to psychedelic substances.
Details HB 1444 Concerning rapid whole genome sequencing.
Details SHB 1450 Concerning transition to kindergarten programs.
Details HB 1502 Establishing a behavioral health teaching clinic designation and enhancement rate.
Details SHB 1505 Correcting obsolete or erroneous references in statutes administered by the insurance commissioner.
Details SHB 1534 Enhancing the regulation of tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, and vapor products.
Details HB 1535 Ensuring patient choice and access to care by prohibiting unfair and deceptive dental insurance practices.
Details HB 1569 Increasing tax exemption transparency and accountability.
Details HB 1577 Concerning the provision of palliative care services by volunteer organizations that provide hospice care without compensation.
Details HB 1598 Concerning fair access to community solar.
Details ESHB 1622 Allowing bargaining over matters related to the use of artificial intelligence.
Details HB 1646 Adding the department of natural resources' civil enforcement decisions under RCW 76.04.205 to appeals that may be heard by the pollution control hearings board.
Details HB 1777 Concerning the requirements and process for approving and registering apprenticeship programs.
Details HB 1836 Supporting local news journalism.
Details HB 1840 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 SHB 1909 Establishing the court unification task force.
Details HB 1963 Promoting student access to information about media literacy and civic education.
Details HB 1966 Concerning public works contracting.
Details HB 1968 Concerning endangerment with a controlled substance.
Details HB 2082 Increasing funding to the education legacy trust account by creating a more progressive rate structure for the capital gains tax and estate tax.