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Senator Bateman

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Member Information

Biennium 2025-26
Chamber Senate
Acronym BATE
District 22
Name Jessica Bateman
Party Democrat
Email jessica.bateman@leg.wa.gov
Campaign Contributions (biennium) No Data Available
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) No Data Available

53 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SB 5051 Consolidating regulatory authority for nursing assistants.
Details E2SSB 5148 Ensuring compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act.
Details ESSB 5184 Concerning minimum parking requirements.
Details SSB 5221 Simplifying processes and timelines related to personal property distraint.
Details SB 5478 Concerning benefits authorized to be offered by the public employees' benefits board.
Details SB 5571 Regulating exterior cladding materials.
Details SSB 5917 Improving access to abortion medications.
Details 2SSB 6182 Establishing an abortion savings program.
Details SSB 6189 Removing the deadline for forming a public facilities district for regional aquatics and sports facilities.
Details SSB 6237 Concerning rental property disclosures of flooding history and flood risk.
Details ESSB 5009 Accommodating multiple vehicle types for transporting students.
Details ESSB 5014 Concerning election security.
Details SSB 5033 Concerning sampling or testing of biosolids for PFAS chemicals.
Details ESSB 5041 Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for striking or lockout workers.
Details ESB 5065 Prohibiting the use of certain animals in traveling animal acts.
Details SB 5077 Concerning expansion of voter registration services by government agencies.
Details SSB 5093 Concerning dignity in pregnancy loss.
Details SSB 5104 Protecting employees from coercion in the workplace based on immigration status.
Details SSB 5106 Celebrating Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
Details ESSB 5156 Concerning elevator standards in smaller apartment buildings.
Details SSB 5182 Concerning programs and services for incarcerated parents at the department of corrections.
Details SB 5244 Providing an exemption for women, infants, and children program staff to perform hematological screening tests.
Details E2SSB 5263 Concerning special education funding.
Details E2SSB 5284 Improving Washington's solid waste management outcomes.
Details SSB 5298 Concerning the notice of sale or lease of manufactured/mobile home communities.
Details SB 5306 Concerning the purchase of pension service credit for authorized leaves of absence.
Details SB 5334 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 SB 5375 Concerning the duty of clergy to report child abuse and neglect.
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 ESSB 5480 Protecting consumers by removing barriers created by medical debt.
Details SB 5498 Concerning contraceptive coverage.
Details SSB 5503 Concerning public employee collective bargaining processes.
Details ESSB 5509 Concerning the siting of child care centers.
Details E2SSB 5745 Concerning legal representation under the involuntary treatment act.
Details ESB 5872 Establishing the preK promise account.
Details SB 5892 Concerning protection of the voter registration database.
Details SSB 5185 Establishing a pilot program that creates a pathway to physician licensure for international medical graduates.
Details SSB 5346 Addressing student use of mobile devices in public schools.
Details E2SSB 5847 Concerning access to medical care in workers' compensation.
Details SSB 5855 Concerning the use of face coverings by law enforcement officers.
Details SSB 5862 Providing a cost-of-living adjustment for plan 1 retirees of the teachers' retirement system and public employees' retirement system.
Details ESSB 5937 Concerning the use of a smart access system in a residential property subject to the residential landlord-tenant act.
Details E2SSB 5981 Concerning the 340B drug pricing program.
Details ESSB 6002 Concerning driver privacy protections.
Details ESSB 6019 Improving the functioning of home care rate statutes.
Details E2SSB 6026 Concerning residential development in commercial and mixed-use zones.
Details E2SSB 6027 Modifying certain funding and exemptions related to providing and maintaining affordable housing and related services.
Details SSB 6081 Protecting Washingtonians from invasion of privacy, including the unauthorized disclosure of sex designation information and historic sex designation changes in official government records.
Details SSB 6091 Prohibiting real estate brokers from marketing residential properties to an exclusive group of prospective buyers or real estate brokers.
Details ESSB 6162 Concerning property tax reform.
Details SSB 6183 Concerning coverage for HIV antiviral drugs.
Details ESSB 6346 Establishing a tax on millionaires.

112 Sponsored Bills Introduced for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SB 5100 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 SSB 5112 Establishing a prescribing psychologist certification in Washington state.
Details SSB 5422 Allowing bargaining over matters related to certain uses of artificial intelligence.
Details SB 5477 Improving access to appropriate mental health and substance use disorder services.
Details SB 5591 Creating a sales and use tax remittance program for affordable housing.
Details SSB 5606 Providing sufficient funding for the Washington state long-term care ombuds program.
Details SB 5711 Defining the rental or lease of individual storage space at self-service storage facilities as a retail transaction for the imposition of business and occupation and sales and use taxes.
Details SB 5904 Concerning the use of nursing titles.
Details SB 5964 Establishing an independent living ombuds to support seniors living in independent living facilities and the independent living portion of continuing care retirement communities.
Details 2SSB 5965 Reducing environmental impacts associated with bags provided to customers at retail establishments.
Details SSB 6001 Concerning scissor stair regulations in the state building code.
Details SSB 6015 Concerning permit-ready residential building plans.
Details SSB 6016 Considering critical aquifer recharge areas when revising an urban growth area.
Details SB 6063 Correcting terminology to align the revised code of Washington with recent reorganization at the department of social and health services.
Details SB 6153 Concerning senior independent housing protections.
Details SB 6232 Creating the Washington state board of licensed mental health counselors.
Details SB 6267 Concerning nursing education program standards.
Details SSB 5019 Expanding the situations in which medications can be dispensed or delivered from hospitals and health care entities.
Details SB 5038 Clarifying a hate crime offense.
Details SB 5042 Concerning vehicle and operator requirements for autonomous vehicles.
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 SSB 5075 Concerning cost sharing for prenatal and postnatal care.
Details SSB 5082 Creating a housing assistance program for youth enrolled in extended foster care.
Details SB 5094 Concerning sexually explicit depictions of minors.
Details SB 5096 Removing references to pregnancy from the model directive form under the natural death act.
Details SSB 5121 Concerning health plan coverage of fertility-related services.
Details SB 5126 Establishing a statewide network for student mental and behavioral health.
Details SB 5130 Eliminating child care licensing fees.
Details SB 5140 Enhancing requirements relating to the purchase, transfer, and possession of firearms.
Details SB 5154 Clarifying the duties of county auditors.
Details SB 5162 Concerning workplace violence in health care settings.
Details SSB 5164 Providing student navigational supports to increase postsecondary enrollment.
Details SB 5187 Providing adequate and predictable student transportation.
Details SSB 5190 Allowing schools and school districts to request extensions to state energy performance standard deadlines for K-12 school buildings.
Details SB 5198 Concerning training as an alternative to driver license suspension for the accumulation of certain traffic infractions.
Details SB 5201 Concerning access to psychedelic substances.
Details SB 5211 Authorizing payment for parental caregivers of minor children with developmental disabilities.
Details SSB 5215 Concerning debris escaping from vehicles on public highways.
Details SSB 5222 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 SB 5233 Developing the Washington health trust.
Details 2SSB 5266 Concerning the indeterminate sentence review board.
Details SB 5307 Concerning special education funding.
Details SSB 5321 Concerning access at public postsecondary educational institutions to medication abortion.
Details SSB 5332 Concerning mobile dwellings.
Details SSB 5335 Establishing the rural nursing education program.
Details SB 5352 Increasing student access to free meals served at public schools.
Details SB 5353 Concerning the diabetes prevention and obesity treatment act.
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 SB 5376 Preventing cruelty to animals.
Details SB 5421 Allowing small business establishments in residential zones.
Details SB 5429 Concerning membership in the state building code council.
Details SSB 5433 Exempting exclusive bargaining representatives for department of corrections employees from certain provisions related to coalition bargaining.
Details SB 5438 Reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with hydrofluorocarbons.
Details SB 5442 Establishing a college promise pilot program.
Details SSB 5469 Prohibiting algorithmic rent fixing and noncompete agreements in the rental housing market.
Details E2SSB 5496 Preserving homeownership options by limiting excessive home buying by certain entities.
Details SB 5497 Concerning compliance with siting, development permit processes and standards, and requirements for permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, indoor emergency housing, or indoor emergency shelters.
Details ESSB 5500 Modernizing reimbursement rates for the working connections child care program. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Defining the cost of quality child care for the biennial survey.)
Details SB 5515 Concerning fair access to community solar.
Details SSB 5522 Concerning the state capitol campus.
Details SB 5531 Streamlining the home care worker background check process.
Details SB 5554 Concerning historic landmark designations.
Details ESSB 5576 Providing a local government option for the funding of essential affordable housing programs.
Details SB 5741 Authorizing superior courts to appoint housing court commissioners.
Details SB 5779 Establishing African diaspora heritage week.
Details ESSB 5794 Adopting recommendations from the tax preference performance review process, eliminating obsolete tax preferences, clarifying legislative intent, and addressing changes in constitutional law.
Details SB 5795 Reducing the state sales and use tax rate.
Details SB 5796 Enacting an excise tax on large employers on the amount of payroll expenses above the social security wage threshold to fund programs and services to benefit Washingtonians.
Details ESB 5797 Enacting a tax on stocks, bonds, and other financial intangible assets for the benefit of public schools.
Details SSB 5798 Concerning property tax reform.
Details SB 5878 Offering plant-based food options in schools.
Details SB 5883 Concerning eligibility for membership in the school employees' benefits board programs during the second school year of employment.
Details SB 5885 Expanding opportunities for affordable housing developments on properties owned by religious organizations.
Details SB 5914 Concerning public defense services.
Details SB 5934 Reducing litigation costs by removing barriers to postconviction DNA testing.
Details SB 5946 Expanding the income eligibility for the medical assistance program.
Details ESB 5947 Establishing the Washington health care board.
Details SB 5948 Establishing deadlines for the universal health care commission.
Details SB 5958 Creating an additional regional training option for the basic law enforcement academy.
Details SSB 5379 Granting interest arbitration to certain parks and recreation commission employees.
Details 2SSB 5470 Establishing limitations on detached accessory dwelling units outside urban growth areas.
Details SSB 5852 Concerning immigrant worker protections.
Details SSB 5853 Protecting elected officials from political violence by creating the statewide emergency public official notification system.
Details ESSB 5906 Establishing data and personal safety protections within areas of public accommodation for all Washington residents.
Details ESSB 5993 Concerning lowering the interest rate for medical debt.
Details SSB 6018 Concerning the housing finance commission.
Details SSB 6028 Establishing a revolving loan fund for mixed-income affordable homeownership development.
Details SSB 6036 Exempting certain former foster care providers from adult family home licensure.
Details SB 6038 Reducing barriers to state employment by eliminating postgraduate degree requirements that are unnecessary.
Details SB 6044 Recognizing Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas.
Details E2SSB 6070 Supporting the recovery of missing persons.
Details SB 6073 Concerning membership of wildland or aviation firefighters in the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system.
Details SB 6078 Providing prelicensing supports to individuals interested in becoming a licensed child care provider.
Details SB 6095 Protecting elected officials and candidates, executive state officers, election officials, and criminal justice participants against threats and incidents of political violence.
Details SSB 6096 Concerning delayed utility connection fees for residential construction.
Details SB 6105 Raising the exemption from garnishment of earnings for judgments arising from medical debt.
Details SB 6109 Prohibiting investment of funds under management by the state investment board in private detention facilities.
Details SB 6119 Concerning 6PPD and regrettable 6PPD substitutes in tires.
Details SB 6125 Providing enrollment stabilization funding.
Details SSB 6130 Celebrating national voter registration day.
Details SSB 6158 Adopting national standards for factory built housing and commercial structures.
Details SB 6159 Strengthening public hospitals.
Details SSB 6171 Addressing emerging large energy use facilities.
Details SB 6172 Eliminating preferential treatment related to a coal-fired electric generating plant.
Details SB 6173 Creating an apple health employer assessment.
Details SB 6174 Establishing producer responsibility for textiles.
Details SB 6175 Concerning ticket sales.
Details SB 6208 Strengthening health care market standards.
Details SB 6218 Directing the withholding of state payments to the federal government if federal funding is withheld due to the existence of a valid Washington state law.
Details SB 6294 Providing local governments tax resources and fund flexibility.

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