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Representative Simmons

Portrait of Representative Simmons

Member Information

Biennium 2025-26
Chamber House
Acronym SIMM
District 23
Name Tarra Simmons
Party Democrat
Email Tarra.Simmons@leg.wa.gov
Campaign Contributions (biennium) $135,791.50
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) $646,693.81

66 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details HB 1234 Concerning the mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and social workers advisory committee.
Details E2SHB 1432 Improving access to appropriate mental health and substance use disorder services.
Details SHB 1706 Aligning the implementation of application programming interfaces for prior authorization with federal guidelines.
Details HB 1012 Authorizing the women's commission to solicit gifts, grants, and endowments from public or private sources.
Details SHB 1023 Adopting the cosmetology licensure compact.
Details SHB 1079 Supporting remote testing options for students enrolled in online school programs.
Details E2SHB 1102 Increasing support and services for veterans.
Details EHB 1106 Recognizing the tremendous sacrifices made by our military veterans by phasing down the disability rating requirements to ensure more disabled veterans are eligible for property tax relief.
Details HB 1114 Concerning the respiratory care interstate compact.
Details ESHB 1119 Concerning supervision compliance credit.
Details HB 1130 Concerning utilization of developmental disabilities waivers.
Details ESHB 1141 Concerning collective bargaining for agricultural cannabis workers.
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 E2SHB 1163 Enhancing requirements relating to the purchase, transfer, and possession of firearms.
Details HB 1167 Directing the statewide career and technical education task force to consider educational opportunities for careers in maritime professions.
Details EHB 1173 Concerning wages for journeypersons in high-hazard facilities.
Details E2SHB 1174 Concerning court interpreters.
Details SHB 1177 Concerning the child welfare housing assistance program.
Details EHB 1185 Concerning membership on the correctional industries advisory committee.
Details ESHB 1201 Identifying accommodations allowing pets in an emergency or extreme weather event.
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 EHB 1219 Concerning the interbranch advisory committee.
Details E2SHB 1232 Concerning private detention facilities.
Details HB 1270 Concerning automatic deferred compensation enrollment for county, municipal, and other political subdivision employees.
Details SHB 1271 Permitting early deployment of state fire service resources.
Details SHB 1272 Extending the program to address complex cases of children in crisis.
Details 2SHB 1273 Improving student access to dual credit programs.
Details HB 1275 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 EHB 1279 Providing postsecondary education consumer protections.
Details SHB 1281 Making technical corrections and removing obsolete language from the Revised Code of Washington pursuant to RCW 1.08.025.
Details HB 1287 Addressing the disclosure of health information for care coordination.
Details ESHB 1296 Promoting a safe and supportive public education system.
Details SHB 1308 Concerning access to personnel records.
Details SHB 1309 Addressing the impacts of burrowing shrimp on bottom culture shellfish farming through integrated pest management research.
Details SHB 1321 Concerning the governor's authority to limit outside militia activities within the state.
Details SHB 1371 Concerning parking privileges for veterans.
Details EHB 1382 Modernizing the all payers claim database.
Details HB 1389 Extending the expiration date for reporting requirements on timber purchases.
Details 2SHB 1391 Improving developmentally appropriate alternatives for youth outside the formal court process.
Details SHB 1392 Creating the medicaid access program.
Details EHB 1393 Providing public school students with opportunities for cultural expression at commencement ceremonies.
Details ESHB 1395 Streamlining the home care worker background check process.
Details SHB 1418 Adding two voting members that are transit users to the governing body of public transportation benefit areas.
Details HB 1457 Requiring electronic monitoring of sexually violent predators granted conditional release.
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 3SHB 1491 Promoting transit-oriented housing development.
Details SHB 1498 Concerning domestic violence co-responder programs.
Details HB 1511 Concerning Washington state ferries captains.
Details 2SHB 1516 Conducting a study of insurance coverage options for permanently affordable homeownership units.
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 HB 1540 Expanding eligibility for the students experiencing homelessness and foster youth program to an accredited tribal college.
Details HB 1556 Expanding tuition waivers for high school completers at community and technical colleges.
Details EHB 1628 Creating the fire service policy board.
Details HB 1631 Establishing the state marine forest.
Details HB 1633 Concerning prime contractor bidding submission requirements on public works contracts.
Details ESHB 1644 Concerning the safety and health of working minors.
Details 2SHB 1696 Modifying the covenant homeownership program.
Details HB 1858 Eliminating the exemption for assignments or substitutions of previously recorded deeds of trust from the document recording fee and the covenant homeownership program assessment.
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 SHB 1879 Concerning meal and rest breaks for hospital workers.
Details SHB 1899 Concerning the homelessness point-in-time count.
Details ESHB 1902 Convening a work group regarding the streamlining of permitting for transportation projects.

200 Sponsored Bills Introduced for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details HB 1118 Concerning restoration of the right to possess a firearm.
Details HB 1124 Establishing a prescribing psychologist certification in Washington state.
Details 2SHB 1125 Providing judicial discretion to modify sentences in the interest of justice.
Details SHB 1146 Improving access and removing barriers to voting in jails and state hospitals.
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 HB 1196 Revoking a person's voting rights only when convicted of a state crime punishable by death.
Details ESHB 1233 Concerning work programs for incarcerated persons.
Details SHB 1243 Addressing the burden of unintentional overpayments on older adults and adults with disabilities served by the department of social and health services.
Details ESHB 1430 Concerning advanced practice registered nurse and physician assistant reimbursement.
Details HB 1743 Enhancing opportunities for community-based providers to provide health care services in carceral settings.
Details HB 1765 Exempting email addresses of individuals who subscribe to regular communications and updates from local agencies.
Details HB 1991 Exempting from public inspection and copying requirements email addresses of individuals who subscribe to regular communications of certain agencies as defined under the public records act.
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 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 HB 1049 Increasing the availability of sexual assault nurse examiners.
Details HB 1056 Concerning law enforcement and local corrections agency misconduct through investigations and legal actions.
Details SHB 1057 Promoting economic development by increasing support for local communities to access federal funds.
Details HB 1058 Providing incentives to improve freight railroad infrastructure.
Details HB 1059 Concerning the duties of industrial insurance self-insured employers and third-party administrators.
Details HB 1062 Providing coverage for biomarker testing.
Details HB 1069 Allowing collective bargaining over contributions for certain supplemental retirement benefits.
Details SHB 1070 Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting correctional facility workers.
Details HB 1073 Keeping our Washington national guard strong act.
Details HB 1090 Concerning contraceptive coverage.
Details HB 1093 Providing coverage for massage therapy under medical assistance plans.
Details HB 1103 Expanding protections against unwanted telephone calls and text messages for cellular users.
Details HB 1107 Concerning environmental impacts of fashion.
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 SHB 1123 Ensuring access to primary care, behavioral health, and affordable hospital services.
Details SHB 1127 Modifying provisions of the revised uniform unclaimed property act.
Details SHB 1128 Establishing a child care workforce standards board.
Details SHB 1129 Concerning health plan coverage of fertility-related services.
Details E2SHB 1131 Concerning clemency and pardons.
Details SHB 1132 Enhancing public safety by limiting bulk purchases and transfers of firearms and ammunition.
Details SHB 1136 Providing student navigational supports to increase postsecondary enrollment.
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 1143 Concerning Washington college grant award amounts.
Details SHB 1147 Supporting civic engagement for incarcerated and institutionalized individuals in state custody to promote inclusion and rehabilitation.
Details 2SHB 1150 Improving Washington's solid waste management outcomes.
Details HB 1152 Enhancing public safety by establishing secure storage requirements for firearms in vehicles and residences.
Details SHB 1155 Prohibiting noncompetition agreements and clarifying nonsolicitation agreements.
Details HB 1158 Improving community inclusion services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Details HB 1166 Establishing the providing effective education for reentry success act.
Details SHB 1178 Concerning sentencing enhancements.
Details SHB 1180 Implementing certain recommendations from the sex offender policy board concerning the criminal offense of failure to register.
Details HB 1181 Concerning labor standards and the Washington minimum wage act.
Details SHB 1182 Granting interest arbitration to certain parks and recreation commission employees.
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 1199 Strengthening consumer protection through increased insurer accountability for violations of the insurance code.
Details SHB 1200 Authorizing payment for parental caregivers of minor children with developmental disabilities.
Details SHB 1212 Concerning the siting of child care centers.
Details HB 1214 Expanding eligibility for the working families' tax credit to everyone age 18 and older.
Details E2SHB 1218 Concerning persons referred for competency evaluation and restoration services.
Details HB 1220 Concerning appropriate response to assaults by individuals in behavioral health crisis.
Details HB 1229 Resentencing of individuals sentenced as a persistent offender.
Details HB 1231 Supporting the exploration and implementation of later starting times for public schools.
Details HB 1235 Ensuring compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act.
Details HB 1237 Facilitating predictable and timely application decisions by the energy facility site evaluation council.
Details HB 1241 Improving access to and provision of a free appropriate public education for students with disabilities.
Details SHB 1257 Extending special education services to students with disabilities until the end of the school year in which the student turns 22.
Details HB 1262 Updating the governor's interagency coordinating council on health disparities.
Details HB 1267 Adjusting funded special education enrollment.
Details 2SHB 1274 Concerning retroactively applying the requirement to exclude certain juvenile convictions from an offender score regardless of the date of the offense.
Details HB 1278 Concerning the role of students on the governing boards of institutions of higher education.
Details HB 1280 Concerning career and technical education in sixth grade.
Details HB 1282 Improving the well-being of children in child care by enhancing transparency measures and modifying liability insurance requirements.
Details 2SHB 1285 Making financial education instruction a graduation requirement in public schools.
Details ESHB 1291 Concerning cost sharing for maternity services.
Details HB 1292 Concerning cost-of-living adjustments for plan 1 retirees of the teachers' retirement system and public employees' retirement system.
Details HB 1295 Using evidence-based instructional practices in reading and writing literacy for public elementary students.
Details HB 1297 Reporting self-employed workers to the division of child support.
Details HB 1298 Concerning student athlete insurance.
Details HB 1299 Concerning minimum parking requirements.
Details HB 1301 Concerning reducing fees and expenses for services for people confined in state facilities.
Details SHB 1302 Concerning utility connection charge waivers.
Details HB 1306 Establishing preceptorship and hardship pathways to medical practice for international medical graduates.
Details HB 1310 Concerning special education funding.
Details HB 1312 Paying state retirement benefits until the end of the month in which the retiree or beneficiary dies.
Details SHB 1313 Addressing mass layoffs, relocations, and terminations.
Details SHB 1317 Concerning persons serving long sentences for offenses committed prior to reaching 21 years of age.
Details 2SHB 1322 Improving outcomes for individuals adjudicated of juvenile offenses by increasing opportunities for community placement options and refining procedural requirements.
Details SHB 1339 Shifting general elections for local governments to even-numbered years to increase voter participation.
Details HB 1354 Concerning coverage of legislative session employees in the insurance programs offered by the public employees' benefits board.
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 HB 1367 Improving motorcycle safety by authorizing the use of the right shoulder of limited access roadways.
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 SHB 1388 Concerning mobile market programs.
Details SHB 1394 Concerning the retention of hospital medical records.
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 1424 Concerning transparency, public safety, and independent oversight of the city, county, and regional jail system in Washington state.
Details HB 1425 Requiring coverage of pharmacogenomic testing for psychotropic medications.
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 HB 1445 Developing the Washington health trust.
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 HB 1453 Protecting consumers by increasing penalties for scrap metal businesses who purchase stolen copper from telecommunication cables.
Details HB 1455 Funding the state toxicology laboratories to process submissions for drug and alcohol impairment cases in a timely manner.
Details HB 1463 Expanding time limit exemptions applicable to cash assistance programs.
Details HB 1482 Assuring equity in health coverage.
Details HB 1487 Concerning victims of crime act funding.
Details HB 1492 Providing early registration for students with dependents.
Details HB 1496 Strengthening patients' rights regarding their health care information.
Details SHB 1500 Concerning resale certificates for units in common interest communities.
Details HB 1501 Concerning inquiries into association governance or operations by unit owners in common interest communities.
Details HB 1502 Establishing a behavioral health teaching clinic designation and enhancement rate.
Details HB 1507 Limiting health care nondisclosure agreements.
Details HB 1512 Improving traffic safety.
Details HB 1513 Safeguarding natural resources in the Washington State Seashore Conservation Area.
Details HB 1520 Expanding pharmacists' scope of practice to improve access to health care and the management of chronic diseases.
Details HB 1521 Supporting caregivers who provide complex care services to children with heightened medical needs.
Details HB 1523 Establishing the essential worker health care program.
Details HB 1528 Improving individualized education plans for special education.
Details HB 1535 Ensuring patient choice and access to care by prohibiting unfair and deceptive dental insurance practices.
Details ESHB 1541 Concerning the veterans affairs advisory committee.
Details HB 1547 Establishing a statewide network for student mental and behavioral health.
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 1570 Concerning collective bargaining for certain employees who are enrolled in academic programs at public institutions of higher education.
Details EHB 1574 Protecting access to life-saving care and substance use services.
Details HB 1577 Concerning the provision of palliative care services by volunteer organizations that provide hospice care without compensation.
Details HB 1579 Providing adequate and predictable student transportation.
Details HB 1580 Concerning career and technical education in alternative learning experience programs.
Details HB 1591 Providing remedies for defendant survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, or human trafficking.
Details SHB 1592 Concerning public defense services.
Details HB 1600 Modifying the fee to support family services.
Details ESHB 1622 Allowing bargaining over matters related to the use of artificial intelligence.
Details SHB 1623 Prohibiting deductions for credit card transaction processing fees from employee tips.
Details HB 1632 Protecting consumers by removing barriers created by medical debt.
Details HB 1639 Requiring entities offering medicare advantage coverage in Washington to provide certain disclosures to consumers.
Details HB 1642 Providing additional plan choice to members of the teachers' retirement system plans 2 and 3, the school employees' retirement system plans 2 and 3, and the public employees' retirement systems plans 2 and 3.
Details HB 1645 Enhancing consumer protections for automobile insurance coverage.
Details SHB 1653 Concerning payments to tow truck operators for the release of vehicles to indigent citizens.
Details HB 1657 Establishing the Washington 13 free guarantee.
Details HB 1658 Ensuring dedicated funding for history and heritage museums and county historic preservation programs.
Details SHB 1660 Reporting information related to racial disproportionality in child welfare.
Details HB 1661 Concerning the Washington future fund pilot project.
Details HB 1663 Enhancing youth mental health and well-being through advanced training and expansion of the workforce in schools.
Details HB 1664 Providing sufficient funding for the Washington state long-term care ombuds program.
Details HB 1667 Concerning comprehensive cancer education programs.
Details SHB 1671 Protecting personal data privacy.
Details SHB 1672 Addressing technology used by employers in the workplace.
Details HB 1677 Concerning access at public postsecondary educational institutions to medication abortion.
Details HB 1680 Improving access to patient care by increasing preventive dental care.
Details SHB 1682 Concerning part-time workers in the unemployment insurance system.
Details HB 1687 Concerning social housing public development authorities.
Details HB 1693 Providing an exemption for women, infants, and children program staff to perform hematological screening tests.
Details 2SHB 1710 Concerning compliance with the Washington voting rights act of 2018.
Details HB 1713 Concerning automatic voter registration for tribal members.
Details HB 1726 Prioritizing lumber procured from Washington state lumber mills for the purpose of public works projects.
Details HB 1732 Preserving homeownership options by limiting excessive home buying by certain entities.
Details HB 1734 Concerning outdoor learning grants to expand and improve the delivery of outdoor learning opportunities.
Details HB 1739 Regulating the use of self-service checkout stations.
Details HB 1741 Expanding access to treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome.
Details HB 1746 Providing local effort assistance for public schools.
Details HB 1748 Conducting a study of credit history, credit-based insurance scores, and other rate factors in making rates for personal insurance.
Details SHB 1750 Creating guidelines for voter suppression and vote dilution claims under the Washington voting rights act.
Details HB 1751 Establishing a sales and use tax exemption for required course materials at public institutions of higher education.
Details HB 1759 Designating the twelfth day of December as the day of the 12s.
Details HB 1762 Prohibiting institutions of higher education from requiring students to live on campus.
Details SHB 1773 Creating a wage replacement program for certain Washington workers excluded from unemployment insurance.
Details SHB 1784 Concerning certified medical assistants.
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 HB 1864 Transporting patients by ambulance to facilities other than emergency departments.
Details HB 1866 Creating a pilot program to advance funds to nonprofits to support grant performance.
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 1873 Increasing access to the working connections child care program for graduate and professional students.
Details HB 1876 Concerning the requirements for accessing the Washington death with dignity act.
Details HB 1881 Concerning material changes to the operations and governance structure of participants in the health care marketplace.
Details HB 1887 Creating a data broker registry for the purpose of imposing a data broker severance tax.
Details HB 1897 Concerning liability protections for community public safety programs.
Details HB 1900 Enhancing consumer protections against financial fraud.
Details SHB 1903 Establishing a statewide low-income energy assistance program.
Details HB 1905 Concerning appointed counsel for individuals detained under the involuntary treatment act.
Details SHB 1909 Establishing the court unification task force.
Details HB 1915 Strengthening tenant protections.
Details ESHB 1923 Increasing the availability of passenger-only ferries by establishing the mosquito fleet act.
Details SHB 1927 Facilitating positive rent payment information to consumer reporting agencies at tenant request.
Details HB 1932 Authorizing cannabis consumption in regulated environments.
Details HB 1951 Concerning regulation of transportation network companies during large-scale events.
Details HB 1955 Encouraging youth participation in fishing and shellfishing.
Details HB 1956 Concerning public defense recruitment and retention.
Details HB 1974 Establishing land banking authorities.
Details SHB 1996 Authorizing a qualified county to impose a tax for the funding of behavioral health diversion from the criminal justice system.

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