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Senator Saldaña

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Member Information

Biennium 2025-26
Chamber Senate
Acronym SALD
District 37
Name Rebecca Saldaña
Party Democrat
Email rebecca.saldana@leg.wa.gov
Campaign Contributions (biennium) No Data Available
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) No Data Available

41 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SB 5138 Concerning public facilities districts.
Details ESSB 5403 Supporting a sustainable cannabis industry. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Limiting financial interest agreements for licensed cannabis retailers.)
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 SSB 5033 Concerning sampling or testing of biosolids for PFAS chemicals.
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 ESB 5065 Prohibiting the use of certain animals in traveling animal acts.
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 SSB 5106 Celebrating Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
Details SB 5110 Providing tuition waivers for tribal elders at Washington’s community and technical colleges.
Details SSB 5118 Updating the requirements for the clinical experience license for international medical graduates.
Details ESSB 5128 Concerning medical services for individuals in juvenile detention facilities.
Details SSB 5149 Expanding the early childhood court program.
Details SSB 5163 Modernizing the child fatality statute.
Details SSB 5182 Concerning programs and services for incarcerated parents at the department of corrections.
Details SB 5189 Supporting the implementation of competency-based education.
Details SSB 5214 Concerning mobile market programs.
Details E2SSB 5217 Expanding pregnancy-related accommodations.
Details SB 5244 Providing an exemption for women, infants, and children program staff to perform hematological screening tests.
Details E2SSB 5284 Improving Washington's solid waste management outcomes.
Details ESSB 5291 Implementing the recommendations of the long-term services and supports trust commission.
Details SSB 5388 Concerning department of corrections behavioral health certification.
Details SB 5391 Concerning the sustainable farms and fields grant program.
Details SSB 5412 Providing temporary interfund loans for school districts.
Details SB 5435 Reorganizing and adding subchapter headings to public employees' collective bargaining statutes.
Details SB 5457 Concerning broadcasters.
Details ESSB 5459 Concerning call center retention.
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 SSB 5494 Protecting Washington communities from lead-based paint.
Details SB 5498 Concerning contraceptive coverage.
Details SSB 5501 Concerning employer requirements for driving.
Details SSB 5503 Concerning public employee collective bargaining processes.
Details ESSB 5509 Concerning the siting of child care centers.
Details ESSB 5525 Concerning employment loss due to businesses closing or mass layoffs.
Details SSB 5528 Concerning the installation of transportation electrification infrastructure.
Details ESSB 5557 Codifying emergency rules to protect the right of a pregnant person to access treatment for emergency medical conditions in hospital emergency departments.
Details ESB 5595 Establishing shared streets.
Details SB 5632 Protecting the confidentiality of records and information that may be relevant to another state's enforcement of its laws.

145 Sponsored Bills Introduced for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SSB 5005 Concerning the city, county, and regional jail system in Washington state.
Details ESSB 5023 Providing labor market protections for domestic workers.
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 SB 5185 Establishing preceptorship and hardship pathways to medical practice for international medical graduates.
Details SB 5345 Concerning access to personnel records.
Details SB 5377 Concerning auto sales.
Details SB 5447 Concerning wages for journeypersons in high-hazard facilities.
Details SB 5495 Adjusting a limitation of liability in life insurance policies.
Details SB 5549 Expanding protections for applicants and employees under the Washington fair chance act.
Details SB 5578 Concerning labor standards.
Details SB 5592 Concerning manufacturers and vehicle dealers.
Details SSB 5626 Creating a wage replacement program for certain Washington workers excluded from unemployment insurance.
Details SB 5638 Funding health care access by imposing an excise tax on the annual compensation paid to certain highly compensated hospital employees.
Details SB 5722 Creating a grant program to promote local workforce development, reduce transportation pollution, and strengthen food sovereignty and climate and disaster resiliency.
Details SSB 5758 Supporting social equity in the cannabis industry by establishing distance requirements for certain licensees.
Details SB 5767 Providing hiring preferences for state employment to certain federal employees.
Details SSB 5768 Expanding eligibility for the working families' tax credit to everyone age 18 and older.
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 SB 5815 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 SB 5000 Adopting the evergreen state as the state nickname.
Details SB 5001 Implementing year-round Pacific standard time.
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 SSB 5027 Establishing a loan repayment program for public defense attorneys and prosecutors.
Details SSB 5031 Concerning health care coordination regarding confined individuals.
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 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 5052 Clarifying law enforcement ability to contact juvenile witnesses and victims not suspected of criminal involvement or activity.
Details E2SSB 5061 Requiring certain wages in public works contracts to be at least the prevailing wage in effect when the work is performed.
Details SSB 5062 Establishing a child care workforce standards board.
Details SSB 5066 Concerning law enforcement and local corrections agency misconduct through investigations and legal actions.
Details SB 5080 Making financial education instruction a graduation requirement.
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 SSB 5099 Protecting the public from gun violence by establishing additional requirements for the business operations of licensed firearms dealers.
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 SB 5103 Expediting review of sentences when there exists a pending deportation proceeding.
Details SB 5115 Creating the Washington dream act service incentive program.
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 SSB 5123 Expanding protections for certain students to promote inclusivity in public schools.
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 5133 Concerning departures from the guidelines for caregiver status.
Details SB 5140 Enhancing requirements relating to the purchase, transfer, and possession of firearms.
Details SB 5162 Concerning workplace violence in health care settings.
Details SSB 5164 Providing student navigational supports to increase postsecondary enrollment.
Details SB 5180 Securing the rights of students to have a safe, civil, and respectful learning community.
Details 2SSB 5186 Concerning local funding for school district facilities.
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 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 ESSB 5232 Supporting economic security by updating provisions related to the home security fund and the essential needs and housing support program.
Details SB 5233 Developing the Washington health trust.
Details ESB 5235 Repealing and reorganizing outdated statutes concerning public schools.
Details SSB 5238 Addressing reckless driving in cases involving excessive speed.
Details SSB 5241 Adding fusion energy to facilities that may obtain site certification for the purposes of chapter 80.50 RCW.
Details SB 5256 Concerning victims' participation in hearings conducted by the indeterminate sentence review board.
Details SB 5264 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 SB 5269 Providing judicial discretion to modify sentences in the interest of justice.
Details SB 5272 Improving school safety by extending penalties for interference by, or intimidation by threat of, force or violence at schools and extracurricular activities and requiring schools to notify the public of such penalties.
Details SB 5273 Concerning the availability of community violence prevention and intervention services.
Details SSB 5275 Modifying the funding for the passport to careers program.
Details SB 5279 Concerning qualifications for child care providers.
Details SSB 5282 Reestablishing the advisory board for the missing and exploited children task force.
Details SSB 5290 Allowing persons who complete substance abuse programs to seek dismissal of certain controlled substance related charges.
Details SSB 5292 Concerning paid family and medical leave rates.
Details SSB 5336 Concerning protections for isolated employees.
Details SSB 5344 Establishing the essential worker health care program.
Details SB 5352 Increasing student access to free meals served at public schools.
Details SB 5373 Shifting general elections for local governments to even-numbered years to increase voter participation.
Details SB 5380 Increasing environmental justice by improving government decisions.
Details SB 5381 Establishing department authority to ensure payment is received from the self-insured employer after a self-insured group or municipal employer has their self-insurer certification withdrawn.
Details SSB 5382 Concerning requirements pertaining to signatures and addresses of ballot measure petitioners and petition signature gatherers.
Details SSB 5385 Amending the definition of timberland for purposes of determining the real estate excise tax for a governmental entity.
Details SB 5386 Supporting survivors of sexual assault in public elementary and secondary schools.
Details SSB 5396 Supporting the continued employment of individuals applying for federal aviation administration medical certificates.
Details SSB 5400 Supporting local news journalism.
Details SB 5404 Concerning public defense services.
Details SB 5409 Concerning a pilot program creating a healthier environment for correctional officers, department of corrections staff, and individuals within a correctional facility.
Details SB 5411 Concerning the tax treatment of pilates studios and gymnastics facilities.
Details SB 5413 Establishing limitations on detached accessory dwelling units outside urban growth areas.
Details SB 5417 Authorizing the use of automated vehicle noise enforcement cameras in vehicle-racing camera enforcement zones.
Details SSB 5422 Allowing bargaining over matters related to certain uses of artificial intelligence.
Details SSB 5426 Improving developmentally appropriate alternatives for youth outside the formal court process.
Details SSB 5433 Exempting exclusive bargaining representatives for department of corrections employees from certain provisions related to coalition bargaining.
Details SSB 5436 Interfering with access to a place of religious worship.
Details SB 5437 Prohibiting noncompetition agreements and clarifying nonsolicitation agreements.
Details SB 5438 Reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with hydrofluorocarbons.
Details SB 5439 Concerning divestment of funds under management by the state investment board from thermal coal.
Details SB 5442 Establishing a college promise pilot program.
Details SSB 5450 Increasing transparency regarding sewage-containing spills.
Details SB 5453 Concerning public defense recruitment and retention.
Details SB 5458 Concerning newspapers and eligible digital content.
Details SB 5460 Establishing funding for community preservation and development authorities approved through RCW 43.167.060.
Details ESSB 5466 Improving reliability and capacity of the electric transmission system in Washington state.
Details SB 5468 Concerning collective bargaining for agricultural cannabis workers.
Details SSB 5469 Prohibiting algorithmic rent fixing and noncompete agreements in the rental housing market.
Details SSB 5470 Establishing limitations on detached accessory dwelling units outside urban growth areas.
Details 2SSB 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 SSB 5500 Modernizing reimbursement rates for the working connections child care program.
Details 2SSB 5502 Concerning recycling and waste reduction.
Details SSB 5504 Supporting caregivers who provide complex care services to children with heightened medical needs.
Details SB 5507 Providing coverage for massage therapy under medical assistance plans.
Details SSB 5508 Concerning the child welfare housing assistance program.
Details SB 5515 Concerning fair access to community solar.
Details SB 5517 Determining state allocations for school staff salaries.
Details SB 5519 Reducing environmental impacts associated with the operation of certain ocean-going vessels.
Details SB 5520 Concerning the wrongly convicted persons act.
Details SSB 5522 Concerning the state capitol campus.
Details SSB 5523 Concerning the role of students on the governing boards of institutions of higher education.
Details SB 5526 Concerning the regulation of tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, and vapor products.
Details SB 5541 Concerning the Washington future fund pilot project.
Details ESSB 5576 Providing a local government option for the funding of essential affordable housing programs.
Details SB 5580 Concerning the registration of certain corporations and trusts that own single-family homes and condominium units.
Details SSB 5584 Establishing the position of independent prosecutor within the office of the governor.
Details SB 5589 Conducting a study of credit history, credit-based insurance scores, and other rate factors in making rates for personal insurance.
Details SB 5593 Adjusting enrichment levies and local effort assistance.
Details SSB 5600 Concerning regulation of transportation network companies during large-scale events.
Details SSB 5601 Advancing the production and use of alternative jet fuels in Washington.
Details SB 5602 Improving cardiac and stroke outcomes.
Details SB 5621 Addressing electronic raffles at live sporting events.
Details SB 5625 Designating the Pacific geoduck as the state clam.
Details SB 5633 Concerning the subdivision of land.
Details SB 5634 Improving accessibility of community solar projects in Washington state.
Details SB 5636 Creating Mount St. Helens special license plates.
Details SB 5647 Providing a real estate excise tax exemption for the sale of qualified affordable housing.
Details SB 5700 Concerning the medical cannabis authorization database.
Details SB 5704 Concerning material changes to the operations and governance structure of participants in the health care marketplace.
Details SB 5709 Concerning county property tax levies for public health clinic purposes.
Details SB 5753 Establishing a public housing task force.
Details SB 5754 Creating the Washington state public bank.
Details SB 5755 Incentivizing residential development with public benefits on underutilized commercial properties.
Details SB 5756 Concerning the safety and health of working minors.
Details SSB 5770 Providing housing safety, security, and protection by creating the primary residence property tax exemption.
Details SSB 5771 Increasing the working families' tax credit to reflect the economic impact of property taxes incorporated into rental amounts charged to residential tenants.
Details SB 5778 Addressing maple syrup processing operations.
Details SB 5779 Establishing African diaspora heritage week.

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