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Representative Lekanoff

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Member Information

Biennium 2025-26
Chamber House
Acronym LEKA
District 40
Name Debra Lekanoff
Party Democrat
Email debra.lekanoff@leg.wa.gov
Campaign Contributions (biennium) $100,728.91
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) $276,866.19

33 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details ESHB 1829 Concerning tribal warrants.
Details HB 2436 Concerning requirements of oil tankers operating in restricted waters.
Details HB 2554 Recognizing judicially affirmed and treaty-reserved fishing rights and promoting state-tribal cooperative agreements in the management of salmon, trout, and steelhead resources.
Details HB 1012 Authorizing the women's commission to solicit gifts, grants, and endowments from public or private sources.
Details HB 1028 Addressing child exposure to violence.
Details HB 1068 Removing the exclusion from interest arbitration of Washington management service employees at the department of corrections.
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 1094 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 SHB 1105 Exempting exclusive bargaining representatives for department of corrections employees from certain provisions related to coalition bargaining.
Details ESHB 1135 Ensuring that local government planning complies with the growth management act.
Details SHB 1142 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 EHB 1173 Concerning wages for journeypersons in high-hazard facilities.
Details E2SHB 1174 Concerning court interpreters.
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 SHB 1264 Concerning the salaries of ferry system collective bargaining units.
Details ESHB 1296 Promoting a safe and supportive public education system.
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 EHB 1382 Modernizing the all payers claim database.
Details 2SHB 1427 Concerning certified peer support specialists.
Details EHB 1501 Concerning inquiries into association governance or operations by unit owners in common interest communities.
Details E2SHB 1563 Establishing a prescribed fire claims fund pilot program.
Details SHB 1669 Concerning coverage requirements for prosthetic limbs and custom orthotic braces.
Details SHB 1670 Increasing transparency regarding sewage-containing spills.
Details ESHB 1946 Clarifying tribal membership on local boards of health.
Details 2SHB 1128 Establishing a child care workforce standards board.
Details ESHB 2165 Concerning false identification as a peace officer.
Details SHB 2228 Concerning scissor stair regulations in the state building code.
Details ESHB 2229 Concerning the professional engineers' registration act.
Details SHB 2230 Streamlining monitoring and oversight activities related to community residential service business providers.
Details ESHB 2247 Concerning veterinarian-client-patient relationships.
Details EHB 2588 Concerning county ferry district authority.

80 Sponsored Bills Introduced for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SHB 1144 Adding an additional superior court judge in Skagit county.
Details HB 1330 Consolidating the public employees' benefits board and the school employees' benefits board.
Details HB 1379 Concerning health carrier reporting.
Details HB 1478 Modifying the manner of death listed in a death certificate following a conviction of controlled substance homicide.
Details HB 1479 Establishing a state matching grant to support American Indian and Alaska Native students.
Details 2SHB 1583 Concerning medicaid coverage for traditional health care practices.
Details HB 1652 Reducing environmental impacts associated with the operation of certain ocean-going vessels.
Details HB 1692 Exempting certain data related to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Indian tribes from public inspection and copying.
Details SHB 1736 Concerning procedures and requirements for reporting and investigating missing persons.
Details SHB 1768 Preserving manufactured housing communities by limiting purchases by certain entities.
Details HB 1894 Supporting public school instruction in tribal sovereignty and federally recognized Indian tribes.
Details SHB 2035 Increasing license, permit, and endorsement fees.
Details 2SHB 1982 Vacating convictions involving the exercise of treaty rights by Indian tribal members.
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 SHB 2468 Correcting terminology to align the revised code of Washington with recent reorganization at the department of social and health services.
Details HB 2520 Concerning emergency meetings of public agencies.
Details HB 2555 Concerning medicaid coverage for traditional health care practices.
Details HB 2578 Adding tribal members to the fish and wildlife commission.
Details HB 2598 Improving statewide coordination in support of anadromous fish recovery.
Details SHB 2685 Concerning sharing and protection of tribal data.
Details HB 1032 Concerning school district elections.
Details HB 1034 Concerning nonopioid drugs for the treatment of pain.
Details HB 1040 Concerning rental income received by people eligible for certain property tax exemption programs.
Details HB 1059 Concerning the duties of industrial insurance self-insured employers and third-party administrators.
Details SHB 1070 Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting correctional facility workers.
Details SHB 1071 Implementing strategies to achieve higher recycling rates within Washington's existing solid waste management system.
Details HB 1072 Preserving access to protected health care services.
Details HB 1082 Concerning qualifications for child care providers.
Details HB 1090 Concerning contraceptive coverage.
Details SHB 1123 Ensuring access to primary care, behavioral health, and affordable hospital services.
Details SHB 1129 Concerning health plan coverage of fertility-related services.
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 HB 1151 Establishing the ninth grade success grant program.
Details HB 1152 Enhancing public safety by establishing secure storage requirements for firearms in vehicles and residences.
Details HB 1208 Extending a program to streamline the environmental permitting process for salmon recovery projects.
Details HB 1211 Concerning the duty of clergy to report child abuse and neglect.
Details HB 1214 Expanding eligibility for the working families' tax credit to everyone age 18 and older.
Details HB 1235 Ensuring compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act.
Details 2SHB 1285 Making financial education instruction a graduation requirement in public schools.
Details HB 1354 Concerning coverage of legislative session employees in the insurance programs offered by the public employees' benefits board.
Details SHB 1394 Concerning the retention of hospital medical records.
Details ESHB 1430 Concerning advanced practice registered nurse and physician assistant reimbursement.
Details HB 1433 Concerning access to psychedelic substances.
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 SHB 1499 Concerning legal financial obligations.
Details HB 1502 Establishing a behavioral health teaching clinic designation and enhancement rate.
Details SHB 1505 Correcting obsolete or erroneous references in statutes administered by the insurance commissioner.
Details HB 1512 Improving traffic safety.
Details HB 1523 Establishing the essential worker health care program.
Details HB 1535 Ensuring patient choice and access to care by prohibiting unfair and deceptive dental insurance practices.
Details SHB 1557 Establishing the Washington guaranteed admissions program and requiring student notifications.
Details HB 1569 Increasing tax exemption transparency and accountability.
Details HB 1713 Concerning automatic voter registration for tribal members.
Details HB 1749 Ensuring consideration of climate change, carbon sequestration, environmental health disparities, and treaty-protected and cultural resources in the state environmental policy act.
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 SHB 1806 Ensuring that commercial fishing revenue benefits communities most dependent on the industry.
Details SHB 1867 Allowing counties or cities to impose a real estate excise tax for the purpose of developing affordable housing, subject to the will of the voters.
Details HB 2038 Establishing the youth behavioral health account and funding the account through the imposition of a business and occupation additional tax on the operation of social media platforms.
Details HB 2070 Providing state funding parity for Western Washington University.
Details HB 2160 Concerning eligibility for membership in the school employees' benefits board programs during the second school year of employment.
Details SHB 1496 Strengthening patients' rights regarding their health care information.
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 ESHB 2196 Expanding access to PANDA PANS treatment.
Details HB 2237 Concerning deputy state fire marshals.
Details 2SHB 2281 Concerning the state and tribal government-to-government relationship.
Details SHB 2351 Protecting emergency responders and emergency response operations in Washington.
Details 2SHB 2389 Modifying provisions related to individuals found to have committed criminal offenses when under the age of 18.
Details SHB 2544 Concerning a pilot process for the upper Columbia water rights adjudication.
Details HB 2564 Concerning the health plan certification process.
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 2573 Concerning community access to food, medicine, and health services.
Details HB 2619 Reducing regulatory stress in agriculture.
Details HB 2620 Restoring collaboration in the forest practices rule-making process for the benefit of long-term protection of natural resources and the forest products industry.
Details HB 2723 Modifying existing tax preferences.
Details HB 2724 Establishing a tax on millionaires.
Details HB 2725 Undoing the recent changes to the estate tax.
Details HB 2727 Creating the educational transit access grant program to reduce the cost of public transportation for community and technical college students.