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Representative Bergquist

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Member Information

Biennium 2025-26
Chamber House
Acronym BERG
District 11
Name Steve Bergquist
Party Democrat
Email steve.bergquist@leg.wa.gov
Campaign Contributions (biennium) No Data Available
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) $485,684.38

28 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details 2SHB 1587 Encouraging local government partner promise scholarship programs within the opportunity scholarship program.
Details ESHB 2049 Investing in the state's paramount duty to fund K-12 education and build strong and safe communities.
Details SHB 2714 Concerning caseload forecasting for food assistance programs.
Details HB 1112 Removing the city residency requirement for judges pro tempore in municipalities with a population of more than 400,000 inhabitants.
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 2SHB 1273 Improving student access to dual credit programs.
Details ESHB 1296 Promoting a safe and supportive public education system.
Details EHB 1393 Providing public school students with opportunities for cultural expression at commencement ceremonies.
Details ESHB 1483 Supporting the servicing and right to repair of certain products with digital electronics in a secure and reliable manner to increase access and affordability for Washingtonians.
Details HB 1633 Concerning prime contractor bidding submission requirements on public works contracts.
Details 2SHB 1696 Modifying the covenant homeownership program.
Details ESHB 1875 Allowing the use of paid sick leave to prepare for or participate in certain immigration proceedings.
Details 2SHB 1128 Establishing a child care workforce standards board.
Details E3SHB 1634 Providing school districts and public schools with assistance to coordinate comprehensive behavioral health supports for students.
Details 2SHB 2105 Concerning immigrant worker protections.
Details ESHB 2192 Updating the role of the Washington traffic safety commission in identifying the risk factors that lead to roadway fatalities.
Details ESHB 2219 Enhancing the operational efficiency of child care providers.
Details ESHB 2238 Concerning statewide food security.
Details HB 2254 Providing flexibility in the partnership access line assessment to cover administrative costs.
Details ESHB 2266 Encouraging permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, indoor emergency housing, and indoor emergency shelters.
Details ESHB 2303 Prohibiting employers from microchipping employees.
Details EHB 2317 Concerning early learning program licensing requirements.
Details SHB 2411 Modifying shared leave provisions to authorize shared leave for victims of a hate crime and those whose absence is due to immigration enforcement actions against the employee or the employee's relative.
Details 2SHB 2429 Supporting children and youth behavioral health.
Details HB 2441 Concerning medical insurance premium reimbursements for surviving spouses of line of duty deaths.
Details ESHB 2442 Providing local governments tax resources and fund flexibility.
Details ESHB 2508 Clarifying the scope of authority of the office of independent investigations to align with current operations and practices and to include public disclosure requirements and protect privacy.
Details ESHB 2532 Concerning the sale and distribution of nitrous oxide.

67 Sponsored Bills Introduced for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details HB 1134 Promoting resource conservation practices in public schools.
Details SHB 1356 Concerning K-12 funding.
Details HB 1527 Concerning settlement demands or offers made prior to mandatory mediation of health care claims.
Details HB 1657 Establishing the Washington 13 free guarantee.
Details HB 1865 Expanding access for small business employees and adjusting implementation dates for working connections child care.
Details HB 1919 Modifying access to the working connections child care program.
Details HB 2012 Funding the transition to kindergarten program.
Details HB 2116 Updating school enrichment funding.
Details SHB 2159 Establishing the preK promise account.
Details 2SHB 2438 Establishing the supporting our early education degree seekers scholarship.
Details HB 2519 Requiring utilities to provide discounted rates to entities that provide a public education for elementary and secondary students.
Details HB 2744 Concerning vehicle dealer reports of sale.
Details HB 1032 Concerning school district elections.
Details HB 1056 Concerning law enforcement and local corrections agency misconduct through investigations and legal actions.
Details HB 1082 Concerning qualifications for child care providers.
Details HB 1111 Concerning the indeterminate sentence review board.
Details ESHB 1113 Concerning accountability and access to services for individuals charged with a misdemeanor.
Details HB 1122 Restricting mobile device usage by public school students.
Details HB 1151 Establishing the ninth grade success grant program.
Details HB 1203 Prohibiting the sale of certain tobacco and nicotine products.
Details HB 1224 Modifying the working families' tax credit by enhancing collection services and increasing participation rates through data-sharing agreements.
Details SHB 1257 Extending special education services to students with disabilities until the end of the school year in which the student turns 22.
Details HB 1280 Concerning career and technical education in sixth grade.
Details HB 1310 Concerning special education funding.
Details SHB 1338 Concerning school operating costs.
Details HB 1349 Concerning the purchase of pension service credit for authorized leaves of absence.
Details HB 1419 Requiring interpreters providing services under certain state contracts and purchase agreements to complete national fingerprint background checks.
Details HB 1428 Concerning the county criminal justice assistance account and municipal criminal justice assistance account.
Details HB 1444 Concerning rapid whole genome sequencing.
Details 2SHB 1503 Furthering digital equity and opportunity in Washington state.
Details SHB 1532 Authorizing funding tools to mitigate the impact of sales tax sourcing in certain cities that host industrial and warehousing industries.
Details SHB 1557 Establishing the Washington guaranteed admissions program and requiring student notifications.
Details HB 1569 Increasing tax exemption transparency and accountability.
Details SHB 1623 Prohibiting deductions for credit card transaction processing fees from employee tips.
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 HB 2115 Restoring the 1985 tax exemptions for the sale of precious metals and bullion.
Details HB 2117 Adding a tribal member to the board of natural resources.
Details HB 2147 Providing funding for school materials, supplies, and operating costs.
Details HB 2160 Concerning eligibility for membership in the school employees' benefits board programs during the second school year of employment.
Details HB 2173 Concerning the use of face coverings by law enforcement officers.
Details 2SHB 1622 Allowing bargaining over matters related to the use of artificial intelligence.
Details SHB 2099 Expanding access to the early childhood education and assistance program for military families.
Details SHB 2122 Requiring hospitals to offer immunizations for influenza in certain cases.
Details SHB 2132 Concerning applications for state financial aid.
Details SHB 2144 Requiring notices to employees when electronic monitoring is used to assist employers conducting performance evaluations.
Details 2SHB 2145 Protecting patient access to discounted medications and health care services through Washington's health care safety net by preventing manufacturer limitations on the 340B drug pricing program.
Details SHB 2182 Improving access to abortion medications.
Details HB 2287 Providing pupil transportation safety net funding.
Details HB 2312 Authorizing shared leave for absences resulting from immigration enforcement actions.
Details HB 2314 Concerning dental care services at residential habilitation centers.
Details HB 2318 Adjusting the early achievers quality improvement awards.
Details HB 2321 Requiring three-dimensional printers be equipped with certain blocking technologies.
Details HB 2332 Concerning driver privacy protections.
Details HB 2364 Concerning the legislative-executive poverty reduction task force.
Details HB 2373 Requiring electric utilities to provide monthly bill assistance as part of their obligation to offer energy assistance to low-income households.
Details 2SHB 2389 Modifying provisions related to individuals found to have committed criminal offenses when under the age of 18.
Details HB 2455 Creating a housing assistance pilot program for youth enrolled in extended foster care.
Details HB 2456 Establishing a juvenile firearm early intervention alternative.
Details SHB 2489 Establishing statewide standards for when local governments may enforce laws regulating the use of public space for life-sustaining activities.
Details HB 2497 Addressing the rise in maltreatment-related child fatalities or near fatalities by supporting families that have received a child welfare response.
Details HB 2529 Concerning the department of children, youth, and families accountability board.
Details HB 2550 Adding certain students at certain community and technical colleges to the passengers that must be allowed to ride transit for free under the transit support grant program.
Details HB 2561 Including standby pay as basic salary in the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 2.
Details HB 2562 Increasing local effort assistance to align with enrichment levies.
Details HB 2567 Concerning the Washington college grant and college bound scholarship program for students attending private four-year not-for-profit institutions of higher education in Washington.
Details HB 2709 Recognizing Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas.
Details HB 2724 Establishing a tax on millionaires.