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Representative Peterson

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Member Information

Biennium 2025-26
Chamber House
Acronym PETE
District 21
Name Strom Peterson
Party Democrat
Email strom.peterson@leg.wa.gov
Campaign Contributions (biennium) $101,138.78
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) $328,272.31

76 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details E2SHB 1174 Concerning court interpreters.
Details E2SHB 1422 Modifying the drug take-back program.
Details HB 1552 Extending the fee on real estate broker licenses to fund the Washington center for real estate research and adjusting the fee to account for inflation.
Details ESHB 1815 Concerning prison riot offenses.
Details ESHB 2266 Encouraging permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, indoor emergency housing, and indoor emergency shelters.
Details HB 1003 Addressing service of notice by mail in cases involving forcible entry and forcible and unlawful detainer.
Details HB 1018 Adding fusion energy to facilities that may obtain site certification for the purposes of chapter 80.50 RCW.
Details HB 1046 Protecting the vulnerable by providing immunity from civil liability for damage to a motor vehicle arising from the rescue of vulnerable persons or domestic animals.
Details HB 1069 Allowing collective bargaining over contributions for certain supplemental retirement benefits.
Details HB 1075 Expanding housing supply by supporting the ability of public housing authorities to finance affordable housing developments.
Details HB 1109 Concerning public facilities districts.
Details ESHB 1135 Ensuring that local government planning complies with the growth management act.
Details ESHB 1141 Concerning collective bargaining for agricultural cannabis workers.
Details ESHB 1149 Preventing cruelty to animals.
Details ESHB 1155 Prohibiting noncompetition agreements and clarifying nonsolicitation agreements.
Details E2SHB 1163 Enhancing requirements relating to the purchase, transfer, and possession of firearms.
Details EHB 1191 Concerning removing vehicle titles from manufactured homes.
Details E2SHB 1213 Expanding protections for workers in the state paid family and medical leave program.
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 E2SHB 1232 Concerning private detention facilities.
Details SHB 1261 Providing tax relief for certain incidental uses on open space land.
Details SHB 1271 Permitting early deployment of state fire service resources.
Details ESHB 1296 Promoting a safe and supportive public education system.
Details EHB 1345 Establishing limitations on detached accessory dwelling units outside of urban growth areas.
Details HB 1355 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 SHB 1390 Repealing the community protection program.
Details 2SHB 1391 Improving developmentally appropriate alternatives for youth outside the formal court process.
Details SHB 1392 Creating the medicaid access program.
Details ESHB 1395 Streamlining the home care worker background check process.
Details EHB 1403 Simplifying condominium construction statutes.
Details E2SHB 1440 Concerning seizure and forfeiture procedures and reporting.
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 SHB 1486 Adding a student member to the state board for community and technical colleges.
Details SHB 1488 Concerning conservation district revenue limitations.
Details SHB 1490 Concerning fingerprint-based background checks.
Details 3SHB 1491 Promoting transit-oriented housing development.
Details ESHB 1500 Concerning resale certificates for units in common interest communities.
Details EHB 1501 Concerning inquiries into association governance or operations by unit owners in common interest communities.
Details 2SHB 1515 Modernizing the regulation of alcohol service in public spaces.
Details 2SHB 1524 Concerning workplace standards and requirements applicable to employers of isolated employees.
Details ESHB 1531 Preserving the ability of public officials to address communicable diseases.
Details E2SHB 1549 Modifying the responsible bidder criteria for public works projects.
Details EHB 1602 Addressing food service options for liquor licensees.
Details ESHB 1604 Providing parameters for conducting searches of transgender and intersex individuals confined in a local jail in compliance with federal law.
Details SHB 1621 Authorizing superior courts to appoint housing court commissioners.
Details HB 1631 Establishing the state marine forest.
Details HB 1633 Concerning prime contractor bidding submission requirements on public works contracts.
Details EHB 1687 Concerning social housing public development authorities.
Details 2SHB 1696 Modifying the covenant homeownership program.
Details HB 1760 Removing barriers for organizations selling manufactured homes to low-income households.
Details SHB 1774 Modifying allowable terms for the lease of unused highway land.
Details SHB 1791 Increasing the flexibility of existing funding sources to fund public safety and other facilities by modifying the local real estate excise tax.
Details EHB 1874 Requiring training for cosmetologists, barbers, estheticians, and hair designers on the care, styling, and treatment of textured hair.
Details ESHB 1875 Allowing the use of paid sick leave to prepare for or participate in certain immigration proceedings.
Details ESHB 2049 Investing in the state's paramount duty to fund K-12 education and build strong and safe communities.
Details ESHB 2081 Modifying business and occupation tax surcharges, rates, and the advanced computing surcharge cap, clarifying the business and occupation tax deduction for certain investments, and creating a temporary business and occupation tax surcharge on large companies.
Details 2SHB 1128 Establishing a child care workforce standards board.
Details SHB 1570 Concerning collective bargaining for certain employees who are enrolled in academic programs at public institutions of higher education.
Details E3SHB 1710 Concerning compliance with the Washington voting rights act of 2018.
Details 2SHB 1859 Expanding opportunities for affordable housing developments on properties owned by religious organizations.
Details 2SHB 1909 Establishing the court unification task force.
Details E2SHB 1974 Establishing land banking authorities.
Details 2SHB 2105 Concerning immigrant worker protections.
Details SHB 2151 Adopting national standards for factory built housing and commercial structures.
Details SHB 2152 Permitting the medical use of cannabis by qualifying patients in specified health care facilities.
Details ESHB 2165 Concerning false identification as a peace officer.
Details SHB 2228 Concerning scissor stair regulations in the state building code.
Details ESHB 2238 Concerning statewide food security.
Details SHB 2269 Concerning middle housing in unincorporated areas.
Details ESHB 2320 Concerning the regulation of firearm manufacturing.
Details E2SHB 2416 Concerning fair treatment of waste to energy facilities under the climate commitment act.
Details E2SHB 2418 Concerning permit review processes.
Details HB 2436 Concerning requirements of oil tankers operating in restricted waters.
Details ESHB 2442 Providing local governments tax resources and fund flexibility.
Details SHB 2452 Modifying requirements for service of rent increase notices.
Details HB 2664 Modifying requirements for service of unlawful detainer notices and other notices served in the same manner.

154 Sponsored Bills Introduced for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SHB 1137 Establishing uniform policies and procedures within department of corrections facilities relating to disciplinary proceedings and administrative segregation.
Details HB 1138 Improving public safety by implementing evidence-based interview practices that increase the reliability of statements collected during criminal investigations.
Details 2SHB 1195 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 HB 1235 Ensuring compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act.
Details HB 1240 Concerning vehicle impounds.
Details HB 1299 Concerning minimum parking requirements.
Details HB 1301 Concerning reducing fees and expenses for services for people confined in state facilities.
Details HB 1608 Concerning the selling, possessing, transporting, and distributing of farmed octopus.
Details HB 1645 Enhancing consumer protections for automobile insurance coverage.
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 HB 1876 Concerning the requirements for accessing the Washington death with dignity act.
Details HB 1907 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 HB 1938 Creating the Washington state flag redesign committee.
Details 2SHB 1592 Concerning public defense services.
Details SHB 1904 Prohibiting the act of declawing cats.
Details SHB 2301 Concerning extended producer responsibility requirements associated with paint.
Details HB 2359 Modifying requirements and allowed uses for certain funding related to providing and maintaining affordable housing and related services.
Details HB 2395 Authorizing additional use of certain private recreational docks and mooring buoys.
Details HB 2396 Allowing for direct review of administrative agency decisions in certain circumstances.
Details HB 2490 Providing an alternative condition for extraordinary medical placement for incarcerated individuals.
Details HB 2512 Prohibiting real estate brokers from marketing residential properties to an exclusive group of prospective buyers or real estate brokers.
Details 2SHB 2590 Exempting limited equity cooperatives from the Washington uniform common interest ownership act.
Details HB 2595 Concerning collateral attacks on judgment and sentence in criminal cases.
Details SHB 1015 Concerning energy labeling of residential buildings.
Details HB 1017 Designating kimchi day.
Details HB 1021 Promoting educational stability for children of military families.
Details SHB 1022 Creating a homes for heroes program.
Details HB 1029 Concerning 3D-printed building construction.
Details HB 1034 Concerning nonopioid drugs for the treatment of pain.
Details HB 1035 Creating policies and resources to address secondary traumatic stress in the higher education workforce.
Details SHB 1036 Adding labor trustees to college boards.
Details HB 1040 Concerning rental income received by people eligible for certain property tax exemption programs.
Details HB 1056 Concerning law enforcement and local corrections agency misconduct through investigations and legal actions.
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 1093 Providing coverage for massage therapy under medical assistance plans.
Details HB 1107 Concerning environmental impacts of fashion.
Details E2SHB 1108 Creating a task force on housing cost driver analysis.
Details SHB 1110 Vacating convictions for driving under the influence.
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 SHB 1116 Recognizing election day.
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 SHB 1178 Concerning sentencing enhancements.
Details HB 1189 Addressing parental involvement through volunteering in schools after a criminal conviction.
Details SHB 1192 Concerning disciplinary hearings held by the department of corrections.
Details SHB 1200 Authorizing payment for parental caregivers of minor children with developmental disabilities.
Details HB 1203 Prohibiting the sale of certain tobacco and nicotine products.
Details HB 1204 Concerning senior shared housing in manufactured home communities.
Details SHB 1212 Concerning the siting of child care centers.
Details ESHB 1233 Concerning work programs for incarcerated persons.
Details SHB 1263 Updating eligible uses for the essential needs and housing support program.
Details SHB 1339 Shifting general elections for local governments to even-numbered years to increase voter participation.
Details HB 1358 Concerning the notice of sale or lease of manufactured/mobile home communities.
Details HB 1362 Creating a gambling treatment diversion court pilot program to be conducted by the administrative office of the courts.
Details SHB 1380 Allowing objectively reasonable regulation of the utilization of public property.
Details HB 1383 Establishing a grant program for the purchase and distribution of essential baby products.
Details HB 1386 Imposing a new tax on firearms, firearm parts, and ammunition.
Details SHB 1388 Concerning mobile market programs.
Details SHB 1396 Increasing transparency and accountability of the office of corrections ombuds.
Details SHB 1398 Concerning factors which are considered in interest arbitration for adult family home providers.
Details HB 1404 Increasing student access to free meals served at public schools.
Details SHB 1412 Establishing the Washington state commission on Middle Eastern and North African Americans.
Details HB 1416 Increasing tobacco and vapor products taxes.
Details ESHB 1423 Authorizing the use of automated vehicle noise enforcement cameras in vehicle-racing camera enforcement zones.
Details HB 1424 Concerning transparency, public safety, and independent oversight of the city, county, and regional jail system in Washington state.
Details HB 1429 Creating a housing assistance program for youth enrolled in extended foster care.
Details HB 1433 Concerning access to psychedelic substances.
Details SHB 1434 Celebrating Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
Details 2SHB 1443 Concerning mobile dwellings.
Details 2SHB 1448 Increasing representation and voter participation in local elections.
Details SHB 1449 Legalizing the home cultivation of cannabis by persons who are 21 years of age and older.
Details 2SHB 1458 Reducing embodied carbon emissions of buildings and building materials.
Details HB 1463 Expanding time limit exemptions applicable to cash assistance programs.
Details HB 1480 Allowing all counties to impose a real estate excise tax for the purpose of developing affordable housing, subject to the will of the voters.
Details HB 1495 Establishing a college promise pilot program.
Details SHB 1499 Concerning legal financial obligations.
Details 2SHB 1503 Furthering digital equity and opportunity in Washington state.
Details HB 1507 Limiting health care nondisclosure agreements.
Details HB 1510 Concerning participation in the public employees' retirement system judicial benefit multiplier program by commissioners of the supreme court and court of appeals.
Details HB 1512 Improving traffic safety.
Details HB 1517 Providing a revenue stream to fund digital equity programs.
Details HB 1523 Establishing the essential worker health care program.
Details SHB 1534 Enhancing the regulation of tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, and vapor products.
Details SHB 1557 Establishing the Washington guaranteed admissions program and requiring student notifications.
Details HB 1560 Funding health care access by imposing an excise tax on the annual compensation paid to certain highly compensated hospital employees.
Details HB 1561 Providing labor market protections for domestic workers.
Details HB 1567 Concerning licensure of health care administrators.
Details HB 1569 Increasing tax exemption transparency and accountability.
Details HB 1617 Concerning the Washington national primate research center at the University of Washington.
Details SHB 1623 Prohibiting deductions for credit card transaction processing fees from employee tips.
Details HB 1624 Studying taxes and fees related to alcohol.
Details HB 1632 Protecting consumers by removing barriers created by medical debt.
Details HB 1694 Concerning revenues from the excise tax on real estate transactions imposed by cities and counties under RCW 82.46.035.
Details HB 1713 Concerning automatic voter registration for tribal members.
Details SHB 1714 Enabling opportunities for risk pooling by small businesses for property and liability risks.
Details HB 1716 Modifying dog breeding regulations.
Details SHB 1775 Prohibiting activities related to the production and manufacturing of fur products.
Details HB 1836 Supporting local news journalism.
Details HB 1862 Regulating the length of trains on railroads.
Details HB 1864 Transporting patients by ambulance to facilities other than emergency departments.
Details SHB 1927 Facilitating positive rent payment information to consumer reporting agencies at tenant request.
Details HB 1951 Concerning regulation of transportation network companies during large-scale events.
Details HB 2045 Investing in Washington families by restructuring the business and occupation tax on high grossing businesses and financial institutions.
Details HB 2046 Creating fairness in Washington's tax by imposing a tax on select financial intangible assets.
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.
Details SHB 2084 Increasing funding for K-12, health care, and public safety by repealing or modifying tax preferences for certain industries and goods.
Details HB 2097 Authorizing counties to impose a business and occupation tax.
Details HB 2100 Enacting an excise tax on large operating companies on the amount of payroll expenses above the minimum wage threshold of the additional medicare tax to fund services to benefit Washingtonians and establishing the Well Washington fund account.
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 2164 Reducing litigation costs by removing barriers to postconviction DNA testing.
Details HB 2173 Concerning the use of face coverings by law enforcement officers.
Details HB 2216 Protecting emergency responders and emergency response operations in Washington.
Details HB 2217 Concerning rehabilitative pathways for persons charged with certain felony offenses who have no prior felony convictions in adult criminal court.
Details SHB 1239 Preparing incarcerated people for successful reentry upon release from a correctional facility.
Details 2SHB 1420 Establishing producer responsibility for textiles.
Details SHB 1496 Strengthening patients' rights regarding their health care information.
Details 2SHB 1542 Concerning senior independent housing.
Details 3SHB 1607 Concerning recycling and waste reduction.
Details 2SHB 1622 Allowing bargaining over matters related to the use of artificial intelligence.
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 SHB 2182 Improving access to abortion medications.
Details SHB 2191 Concerning workers' wages and benefits in the construction industry.
Details SHB 2205 Concerning the regulated sports wagering industry.
Details E2SHB 2215 Concerning climate commitment act compliance obligations for fuels supplied or otherwise sold into Washington.
Details SHB 2236 Concerning the housing finance commission.
Details SHB 2257 Concerning taxes administered by the department of revenue.
Details HB 2259 Protecting the integrity of the state initiative and referendum process by requiring a demonstration of support before issuance of a ballot measure title and authorizing citizen actions for certain signature gatherer compensation violations.
Details HB 2260 Concerning requirements pertaining to signatures and addresses of ballot measure petitioners and petition signature gatherers.
Details HB 2265 Protecting tenants from periods of extreme heat.
Details 2SHB 2281 Concerning the state and tribal government-to-government relationship.
Details HB 2321 Requiring three-dimensional printers be equipped with certain blocking technologies.
Details HB 2435 Creating the legislative office on Indian affairs.
Details HB 2437 Establishing fee authority for accreditation services provided to opioid treatment programs by the department of health.
Details HB 2480 Concerning residential development in commercial and mixed-use zones.
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 2578 Adding tribal members to the fish and wildlife commission.
Details HB 2579 Promoting and funding public media and digital equity.
Details HB 2587 Establishing a pilot program to advance funds to nonprofits to support grant performance.
Details SHB 2597 Concerning remedies for violations of federal constitutional rights occurring during immigration enforcement.
Details HB 2614 Legalizing the home cultivation of cannabis by persons who are 21 years of age and older.
Details HB 2622 Concerning comparison factors that must be considered in interest arbitration for correctional employees regarding wages, hours, and conditions of employment.
Details E2SHB 2637 Safeguarding personal information entrusted to agencies that is of no legitimate concern to the public.
Details HB 2656 Creating a detention facility registry.
Details HB 2662 Ensuring that responsible principles of investing are incorporated into the investment decision making of the Washington state investment board.
Details HB 2724 Establishing a tax on millionaires.
Details HB 2734 Creating a hunger free Washington through a sugar-sweetened beverage tax and precluding a supplemental nutrition assistance program waiver.