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Senator Wellman

Portrait of Senator Wellman

Member Information

Biennium 2025-26
Chamber Senate
Acronym WELL
District 41
Name Lisa Wellman
Party Democrat
Email lisa.wellman@leg.wa.gov
Campaign Contributions (biennium) No Data Available
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) $487,389.84

46 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SB 5189 Supporting the implementation of competency-based education.
Details ESB 5769 Addressing transition to kindergarten programs.
Details SB 5922 Authorizing transportation vehicle fund transfers.
Details ESSB 6260 Implementing efficiencies and programming changes in public education.
Details SB 6278 Concerning the ongoing review of approved teacher and principal preparation programs.
Details SB 5006 Making updates to Washington's corporation acts.
Details ESSB 5009 Accommodating multiple vehicle types for transporting students.
Details ESSB 5014 Concerning election security.
Details SSB 5025 Concerning educational interpreters.
Details ESSB 5029 Concerning the transportation of individuals released or discharged from the custody of the department of corrections.
Details SSB 5030 Improving access to educational services by reducing barriers to obtaining vital records and allowing alternative forms of documentation.
Details SB 5032 Expanding the duties of the office of the family and children's ombuds to include juvenile rehabilitation facilities operated by the department of children, youth, and families.
Details SSB 5033 Concerning sampling or testing of biosolids for PFAS chemicals.
Details SB 5036 Strengthening Washington's leadership and accountability on climate policy by transitioning to annual reporting of statewide emissions data.
Details SB 5037 Enacting the uniform custodial trust act.
Details SSB 5040 Expanding the definition of uniformed personnel to all law enforcement officers employed by a city, town, county, or governing body of a municipal airport operating under the provisions of chapter 14.08 RCW.
Details ESSB 5041 Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for striking or lockout workers.
Details SB 5051 Consolidating regulatory authority for nursing assistants.
Details ESB 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 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 SSB 5104 Protecting employees from coercion in the workplace based on immigration status.
Details 2ESSB 5105 Concerning sexually explicit depictions of minors.
Details SB 5110 Providing tuition waivers for tribal elders at Washington’s community and technical colleges.
Details SB 5122 Enacting the uniform antitrust premerger notification act.
Details ESSB 5128 Concerning medical services for individuals in juvenile detention facilities.
Details ESSB 5142 Providing owners of real estate taken through eminent domain by school districts, or sold under threat of eminent domain, the opportunity to purchase the real estate back when it is not put to intended public use.
Details SSB 5163 Modernizing the child fatality statute.
Details E2SSB 5175 Concerning the photovoltaic module stewardship and takeback program.
Details ESSB 5192 Concerning school district materials, supplies, and operating costs.
Details SSB 5214 Concerning mobile market programs.
Details ESSB 5219 Concerning partial confinement eligibility and alignment.
Details 2SSB 5358 Concerning career and technical education in sixth grade.
Details SB 5506 Extending the effective date of licensing living accommodations for residential private schools.
Details ESSB 5627 Improving safe excavation practices and preventing damage to underground utilities.
Details SSB 5655 Concerning child care centers operated in existing buildings.
Details ESB 5721 Enhancing consumer protections for automobile insurance coverage.
Details ESB 5872 Establishing the preK promise account.
Details SSB 5185 Establishing a pilot program that creates a pathway to physician licensure for international medical graduates.
Details SSB 5825 Authorizing the Washington state leadership board to solicit gifts, grants, and endowments from public or private sources.
Details SSB 5855 Concerning the use of face coverings by law enforcement officers.
Details 2SSB 5974 Modernizing and strengthening laws concerning sheriffs, police chiefs, town marshals, law enforcement agency volunteers, youth cadets, specially commissioned officers, and police matrons.
Details ESSB 6087 Concerning donations for children.
Details SSB 6091 Prohibiting real estate brokers from marketing residential properties to an exclusive group of prospective buyers or real estate brokers.
Details SB 6137 Concerning the regulated sports wagering industry.
Details ESSB 6346 Establishing a tax on millionaires.

138 Sponsored Bills Introduced for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SB 5187 Providing adequate and predictable student transportation.
Details SB 5188 Concerning broadband infrastructure repair loans.
Details SSB 5190 Allowing schools and school districts to request extensions to state energy performance standard deadlines for K-12 school buildings.
Details ESB 5235 Repealing and reorganizing outdated statutes concerning public schools.
Details SSB 5240 Concerning anaphylaxis medications in schools.
Details SB 5270 Providing mentors to novice nurses in the beginning educator support team program.
Details SB 5271 Requiring school districts of the first class to employ a school nurse.
Details SSB 5282 Reestablishing the advisory board for the missing and exploited children task force.
Details SB 5307 Concerning special education funding.
Details SB 5312 Concerning net nanny operations involving fictitious minors.
Details SSB 5327 Concerning learning standards and graduation requirements.
Details SSB 5418 Concerning charter school contracts.
Details SB 5551 Concerning school library information and technology programs.
Details SB 5593 Adjusting enrichment levies and local effort assistance.
Details SB 5596 Repealing the interstate teacher mobility compact.
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 5759 Establishing the own your own art purchase program.
Details SB 5812 Investing in the state's paramount duty to fund K-12 education and build strong and safe communities.
Details SB 5858 Providing pupil transportation safety net funding for special passengers.
Details SB 5859 Expanding opportunities for competency-based assessments in graduation pathway options.
Details SB 5870 Establishing civil liability for suicide linked to the use of artificial intelligence systems.
Details SB 5875 Concerning school district liability for violation of the Washington law against discrimination.
Details SB 5888 Removing the requirement that women's commission members be subject to senate confirmation.
Details SB 5920 Providing protections for school districts against burdensome public records requests.
Details SB 5926 Expanding the public records exemption for personal information of family home child care providers to all licensed or certified child care providers.
Details SSB 5918 Providing funding for school materials, supplies, and operating costs.
Details SSB 5952 Requiring the recognition of school district decisions to waive physical education requirements for high school students.
Details ESSB 5984 Regulating artificial intelligence companion chatbots.
Details SB 6041 Updating personality rights protections.
Details SB 6042 Requiring the creation and maintenance of school maps in safe school plans.
Details SB 6120 Regulating high-risk artificial intelligence system development, deployment, and use.
Details SB 6125 Providing enrollment stabilization funding.
Details SSB 6209 Concerning financial aid awards for students attending private four-year and two-year institutions of higher education.
Details SB 6261 Requiring signed declarations of intent of school enrollment or home-based instruction.
Details SB 6280 Concerning the taxation of smoking cessation products.
Details SB 6307 Concerning correctional facility liability for inmate injuries resulting from voluntary controlled substance use, when lawful intake and medical care requirements are met.
Details SSB 5005 Concerning the city, county, and regional jail system in Washington state.
Details SB 5007 Supporting students who are chronically absent and at risk for not graduating high school.
Details SB 5008 Supporting the use of assessment, diagnostic, and learning tools in public schools.
Details SB 5013 Establishing a department of transportation map for the placement of campaign signage.
Details SSB 5017 Adopting national standards for uniformed and overseas civilian voting, including conforming amendments to existing statute.
Details SSB 5019 Expanding the situations in which medications can be dispensed or delivered from hospitals and health care entities.
Details SB 5022 Concerning law enforcement agency and prosecutor offices hiring.
Details ESSB 5023 Providing labor market protections for domestic workers.
Details SSB 5031 Concerning health care coordination regarding confined individuals.
Details SB 5034 Eliminating the expiration of the interagency, multijurisdictional system improvement team.
Details SB 5038 Clarifying a hate crime offense.
Details SB 5039 Removing the exclusion from interest arbitration of Washington management service employees at the department of corrections.
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 5045 Expanding the state battery stewardship program to include electric vehicle batteries.
Details SSB 5052 Clarifying law enforcement ability to contact juvenile witnesses and victims not suspected of criminal involvement or activity.
Details SSB 5055 Promoting agritourism in Washington.
Details SB 5058 Implementing strategies to achieve higher recycling rates within Washington's existing solid waste management system.
Details SB 5059 Concerning Washington state ferries captains.
Details 2SSB 5060 Increasing the number of law enforcement agency and county corrections officer personnel.
Details SB 5063 Providing incentives to improve freight railroad infrastructure.
Details SSB 5066 Concerning law enforcement and local corrections agency misconduct through investigations and legal actions.
Details SSB 5067 Concerning impaired driving.
Details SB 5070 Concerning prohibiting fees on certain acts of commerce to protect tipped wages for workers while reducing the financial burden on employers.
Details SSB 5082 Creating a housing assistance program for youth enrolled in extended foster care.
Details SB 5086 Consolidating the public employees' benefits board and the school employees' benefits board.
Details SB 5087 Establishing legal education programs at community and technical colleges.
Details SB 5090 Updating the professional engineers' registration act.
Details SB 5094 Concerning sexually explicit depictions of minors.
Details 2SSB 5095 Concerning school districts' authority to contract indebtedness for school construction.
Details E2SSB 5098 Restricting the possession of weapons on the premises of state or local public buildings, parks or playground facilities where children are likely to be present, and county fairs and county fair facilities.
Details SB 5113 Concerning cost-of-living adjustments for plan 1 retirees of the teachers' retirement system and public employees' retirement system.
Details SB 5119 Concerning collective bargaining for certain employees who are enrolled in academic programs at public institutions of higher education.
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 SSB 5131 Accommodating religious celebrations in state correctional facilities.
Details SSB 5155 Extending a program to streamline the environmental permitting process for salmon recovery projects.
Details SSB 5174 Concerning wood burning devices.
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 SB 5201 Concerning access to psychedelic substances.
Details SB 5205 Concerning Washington college grant award amounts.
Details SSB 5215 Concerning debris escaping from vehicles on public highways.
Details SB 5218 Modifying motor vehicle and driver licensing laws to align with federal definitions, making technical corrections, and streamlining requirements.
Details SB 5269 Providing judicial discretion to modify sentences in the interest of justice.
Details SSB 5330 Protecting consumers from spiked drinks.
Details SB 5378 Expanding access to grants within the paid family and medical leave insurance program for small school districts.
Details SSB 5410 Concerning parking privileges for veterans.
Details SSB 5434 Establishing balanced legislative oversight of gubernatorial powers during a declared emergency.
Details ESSB 5436 Interfering with access to a place of religious worship.
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 5505 Concerning the state universal communications services program.
Details SSB 5523 Concerning the role of students on the governing boards of institutions of higher education.
Details SSB 5570 Supporting public school instruction in tribal sovereignty and federally recognized Indian tribes.
Details SB 5585 Concerning tribal warrants.
Details SB 5625 Designating the Pacific geoduck as the state clam.
Details SB 5654 Addressing restraint or isolation of students in public schools and educational programs.
Details SB 5778 Addressing maple syrup processing operations.
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 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 5821 Integrating advanced nuclear energy into the state energy strategy.
Details SB 5829 Addressing the issuance of confidential identification to investigators employed by the office of the attorney general.
Details SB 5940 Creating a housing assistance pilot program for youth enrolled in extended foster care.
Details SSB 5852 Concerning immigrant worker protections.
Details ESSB 5873 Concerning escorted leaves of absence for incarcerated individuals.
Details SSB 5942 Concerning the department of children, youth, and families accountability board.
Details SSB 5956 Addressing artificial intelligence, student discipline, and surveillance in public schools.
Details SSB 5961 Transferring early literacy programs from the department of children, youth, and families to the office of the superintendent of public instruction.
Details SB 5962 Concerning spring blade knives.
Details SB 5999 Expanding revenue generation and economic opportunities from natural climate solutions and ecosystem services.
Details ESSB 6031 Enhancing public safety and enforcement of crimes that impact insurance.
Details SB 6044 Recognizing Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas.
Details 2SSB 6045 Placing agricultural employees under the jurisdiction of the public employment relations commission for the purpose of collective bargaining.
Details SSB 6049 Protecting student and employee information from public disclosure.
Details SSB 6050 Expanding the use of distributed energy resources.
Details SB 6063 Correcting terminology to align the revised code of Washington with recent reorganization at the department of social and health services.
Details SSB 6074 Reinstituting parole.
Details SSB 6085 Concerning the transparency in expenditures from the institutional welfare account.
Details SSB 6089 Increasing coordination and alignment throughout the P20W system.
Details SB 6090 Establishing the heritage orchard program.
Details SB 6105 Raising the exemption from garnishment of earnings for judgments arising from medical debt.
Details SB 6159 Strengthening public hospitals.
Details SB 6175 Concerning ticket sales.
Details SSB 6184 Updating the office of homeless youth program provisions.
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 6241 Enhancing steelhead populations with wild broodstock conservation programs.
Details SB 6252 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 SB 6254 Leveraging artificial intelligence to improve Washington's regulatory climate through streamlining language in rules and regulatory guidance documents.
Details SB 6263 Updating school district public bid limits.
Details SB 6321 Sustaining life-saving and prosperity-building scientific research in Washington by establishing the Washington institute for scientific advancement.
Details SB 6326 Addressing school district accounting, budgeting, and reporting requirements.
Details SSB 6343 Providing tax relief to Washington residents impacted by the atmospheric river and winter weather event.

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