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Senator Dhingra

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Member Information

Biennium 2025-26
Chamber Senate
Acronym DHIN
District 45
Name Manka Dhingra
Party Democrat
Email manka.dhingra@leg.wa.gov
Campaign Contributions (biennium) No Data Available
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) $1,897,129.00

48 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SSB 5093 Concerning dignity in pregnancy loss.
Details SB 5361 Delaying the use of the ASAM 4 criteria, treatment criteria for addictive, substance related, and co-occurring conditions.
Details SSB 5388 Concerning department of corrections behavioral health certification.
Details E2SSB 5745 Concerning legal representation under the involuntary treatment act.
Details SB 6011 Concerning the authority of court of appeals bailiffs to assess threats to court of appeals judicial officers and staff members.
Details SB 5021 Concerning retention of court exhibits.
Details SSB 5033 Concerning sampling or testing of biosolids for PFAS chemicals.
Details SB 5037 Enacting the uniform custodial trust act.
Details ESSB 5041 Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for striking or lockout workers.
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 SB 5084 Concerning health carrier reporting.
Details 2ESSB 5105 Concerning sexually explicit depictions of minors.
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 SB 5138 Concerning public facilities districts.
Details SB 5141 Requiring that experience-rated group disability income insurers include all applicable rating factors and credibility formulas in rate manual filings with the insurance commissioner.
Details SSB 5163 Modernizing the child fatality statute.
Details SB 5189 Supporting the implementation of competency-based education.
Details ESSB 5192 Concerning school district materials, supplies, and operating costs.
Details ESSB 5202 Ensuring the efficacy of judicial orders as harm reduction tools that increase the safety of survivors of abuse and support law enforcement in their efforts to enforce the law.
Details SB 5209 Explicitly listing the department of labor and industries in the definition of limited authority Washington law enforcement agency while not granting new enforcement authority.
Details E2SSB 5263 Concerning special education funding.
Details E2SSB 5355 Improving safety at institutions of higher education while supporting student survivors of sexual assault.
Details SB 5375 Concerning the duty of clergy to report child abuse and neglect.
Details ESSB 5486 Concerning open motion picture captioning in motion picture theaters.
Details ESSB 5525 Concerning employment loss due to businesses closing or mass layoffs.
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 ESSB 5752 Modifying child care and early childhood development programs.
Details SB 5868 Adding an additional superior court judge in Skagit county and in Yakima county.
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 5855 Concerning the use of face coverings by law enforcement officers.
Details ESSB 5925 Concerning the general powers and duties of the attorney general’s office.
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 E2SSB 5981 Concerning the 340B drug pricing program.
Details ESSB 6002 Concerning driver privacy protections.
Details SSB 6014 Concerning pregnancy-related accommodations.
Details ESSB 6019 Improving the functioning of home care rate statutes.
Details ESB 6058 Adding discretion to wage enforcement actions.
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 SB 6084 Clarifying the prohibition on voting more than once in an election.
Details ESSB 6110 Addressing electric-assisted bicycles and electric motorcycles.
Details ESSB 6162 Concerning property tax reform.
Details SSB 6183 Concerning coverage for HIV antiviral drugs.
Details ESB 6228 Removing a tax exemption for the warehousing and reselling of prescription drugs. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Removing a tax exemption for the warehousing and reselling of prescription drugs and providing tax relief for critical access pharmacies.)
Details ESSB 6346 Establishing a tax on millionaires.
Details ESB 6347 Undoing the recent changes to the estate tax. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Undoing certain changes to the estate tax.)
Details SSB 6355 Concerning the electric transmission system.

131 Sponsored Bills Introduced for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SB 5038 Clarifying a hate crime offense.
Details SSB 5043 Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting correctional facility workers.
Details SB 5094 Concerning sexually explicit depictions of minors.
Details 2SSB 5095 Concerning school districts' authority to contract indebtedness for school construction.
Details SB 5096 Removing references to pregnancy from the model directive form under the natural death act.
Details SSB 5330 Protecting consumers from spiked drinks.
Details SSB 5362 Concerning victims of crime act funding.
Details SB 5366 Concerning exceptional sentences for offenses which result in the pregnancy of a victim of rape.
Details SSB 5490 Providing parameters for conducting searches of transgender and intersex individuals confined in a local jail in compliance with federal law.
Details SB 5575 Concerning limitations in parenting plans.
Details SSB 5584 Establishing the position of independent prosecutor within the office of the governor.
Details SB 5585 Concerning tribal warrants.
Details SB 5704 Concerning material changes to the operations and governance structure of participants in the health care marketplace.
Details SB 6044 Recognizing Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas.
Details E2SSB 6070 Supporting the recovery of missing persons.
Details SSB 6074 Reinstituting parole.
Details ESSB 6086 Strengthening security for Washington state judicial officers and court personnel.
Details SB 6159 Strengthening public hospitals.
Details SSB 6206 Establishing a pilot program that incentivizes child care providers to care for children of first responders.
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 E2SSB 6239 Requiring arbitration for tort claims against the state of Washington and its subdivisions. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Establishing a process for adjudicating tort claims against the state of Washington and its political subdivisions.)
Details SB 5001 Implementing year-round Pacific standard time.
Details SB 5007 Supporting students who are chronically absent and at risk for not graduating high school.
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 SSB 5027 Establishing a loan repayment program for public defense attorneys and prosecutors.
Details SB 5034 Eliminating the expiration of the interagency, multijurisdictional system improvement team.
Details SB 5035 Concerning voter education during a period in which a jurisdiction is changing the method of selecting candidates.
Details SB 5046 Designating kimchi day.
Details SSB 5052 Clarifying law enforcement ability to contact juvenile witnesses and victims not suspected of criminal involvement or activity.
Details 2SSB 5060 Increasing the number of law enforcement agency and county corrections officer personnel.
Details SSB 5062 Establishing a child care workforce standards board.
Details SSB 5067 Concerning impaired driving.
Details ESSB 5071 Updating the endangerment with a controlled substance statute to include fentanyl or synthetic opioids.
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 5114 Paying state retirement benefits until the end of the month in which the retiree or beneficiary dies.
Details SSB 5131 Accommodating religious celebrations in state correctional facilities.
Details SB 5132 Concerning requisites of notice in small claims actions.
Details SSB 5147 Reviewing laws related to criminal insanity and competency to stand trial.
Details SB 5162 Concerning workplace violence in health care settings.
Details SSB 5164 Providing student navigational supports to increase postsecondary enrollment.
Details SSB 5169 Concerning testimony of children.
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 5187 Providing adequate and predictable student transportation.
Details SB 5198 Concerning training as an alternative to driver license suspension for the accumulation of certain traffic infractions.
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 SB 5233 Developing the Washington health trust.
Details SB 5273 Concerning the availability of community violence prevention and intervention services.
Details SB 5274 Concerning body worn cameras within corrections agencies.
Details SSB 5282 Reestablishing the advisory board for the missing and exploited children task force.
Details ESB 5286 Concerning policing costs driven by proximity to state hospitals.
Details SSB 5290 Allowing persons who complete substance abuse programs to seek dismissal of certain controlled substance related charges.
Details SB 5295 Updating Washington's sexual assault survivor bill of rights.
Details SSB 5321 Concerning access at public postsecondary educational institutions to medication abortion.
Details SSB 5338 Concerning the veterans affairs advisory committee.
Details SB 5345 Concerning access to personnel records.
Details SB 5352 Increasing student access to free meals served at public schools.
Details SB 5364 Modernizing, harmonizing, and clarifying laws concerning sheriffs, chiefs, marshals, and police matrons.
Details SB 5386 Supporting survivors of sexual assault in public elementary and secondary schools.
Details SSB 5402 Modifying financial aid eligibility.
Details SB 5423 Supporting the servicing and right to repair of certain products with digital electronics in a secure and reliable manner.
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 SB 5442 Establishing a college promise pilot program.
Details SB 5468 Concerning collective bargaining for agricultural cannabis workers.
Details SB 5477 Improving access to appropriate mental health and substance use disorder services.
Details SB 5499 Codifying the body scanner program at the department of corrections.
Details SB 5519 Reducing environmental impacts associated with the operation of certain ocean-going vessels.
Details SB 5541 Concerning the Washington future fund pilot project.
Details SB 5577 Concerning medicaid coverage for HIV antiviral drugs.
Details SB 5622 Establishing age restrictions on diet pills and dietary supplements.
Details SSB 5626 Creating a wage replacement program for certain Washington workers excluded from unemployment insurance.
Details SB 5697 Providing a property tax exemption for property owned by a qualifying nonprofit organization and loaned, leased, or rented to and used by any government entity to provide character-building, benevolent, protective, or rehabilitative social services.
Details SB 5709 Concerning county property tax levies for public health clinic purposes.
Details SB 5754 Creating the Washington state public bank.
Details SB 5756 Concerning the safety and health of working minors.
Details SSB 5768 Expanding eligibility for the working families' tax credit to everyone age 18 and older.
Details SSB 5770 Providing housing safety, security, and protection by creating the primary residence property tax exemption.
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 SB 5803 Regulating tobacco and nicotine products.
Details SB 5811 Establishing a tax on certain business activities related to surpluses generated under the zero-emission vehicle program.
Details SB 5826 Concerning access at public postsecondary educational institutions to medication abortion.
Details SB 5836 Adding an additional superior court judge in Skagit county.
Details SB 5894 Restoring the 1985 tax exemptions for the sale of precious metals and bullion.
Details SB 5940 Creating a housing assistance pilot program for youth enrolled in extended foster care.
Details SB 5950 Celebrating Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Guru Nanak, Guru Gobind Singh, and Vaisakhi.
Details SSB 5437 Prohibiting noncompetition agreements and clarifying nonsolicitation agreements.
Details SSB 5762 Concerning 988 crisis hotline funding and technology requirements.
Details SSB 5852 Concerning immigrant worker protections.
Details ESSB 5865 Concerning garnishment forms.
Details ESSB 5912 Reinstating the indigent defense task force.
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 SSB 6009 Concerning direct review of administrative decisions by the court of appeals.
Details 2SSB 6017 Supporting crime victims and witnesses by promoting victim-centered, trauma-informed responses.
Details ESB 6024 Streamlining monitoring and oversight activities related to community residential service business providers.
Details SB 6029 Changing the Washington code of military justice so that it includes certain protections for victims of an offense while serving within the organized militia of Washington.
Details SB 6055 Concerning firearms background check.
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 6068 Concerning workers' wages and benefits in the construction industry.
Details SSB 6080 Concerning contracts between the United States and county and municipal jails for committing or confining individuals in federal custody.
Details SSB 6097 Adding federally recognized Indian tribes to the list of entities that may participate in the conservation futures program.
Details ESSB 6129 Concerning the taxation of cigarettes and other nicotine products. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning the taxation of cigarettes, vapor products, and other products containing tobacco or nicotine.)
Details SSB 6130 Celebrating national voter registration day.
Details SB 6163 Eliminating wait lists for the individual and family services waiver by including estimated expenditures for the waiver in maintenance level budgets.
Details SB 6173 Creating an apple health employer assessment.
Details SB 6175 Concerning ticket sales.
Details SSB 6190 Protecting critical infrastructure.
Details SB 6202 Providing coverage for standard fertility preservation services for medicaid enrollees.
Details SB 6203 Concerning out-of-state convictions.
Details SB 6224 Supporting children and youth behavioral health.
Details SSB 6253 Concerning public transportation benefit area governing bodies.
Details SB 6255 Concerning the legislative-executive poverty reduction task force.
Details SB 6275 Concerning the community reinvestment program.
Details SB 6276 Protecting revenues devoted to the workforce education investment account.
Details SSB 6282 Requiring state registered apprenticeships in the building and construction trades to provide behavioral health and wellness training.
Details SSB 6286 Concerning the state's ability to fine private detention facilities that deny entry to the department of health for an inspection.
Details SSB 6296 Concerning involuntary treatment.
Details SB 6312 Prohibiting surveillance-based price discrimination and surge pricing for retail goods.
Details SB 6330 Prohibiting the use of paraquat unless authorized for research conducted under strict safety and reporting protocols.
Details SSB 6351 Increasing fiscal resources for students and children by providing targeted sales tax exemptions for schools and certain before-and-after school care programs and arts and cultural classes.
Details SB 6357 Concerning budget sustainability.

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