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Representative Stearns

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Member Information

Biennium 2025-26
Chamber House
Acronym STEA
District 47
Name Chris Stearns
Party Democrat
Email Chris.Stearns@leg.wa.gov
Campaign Contributions (biennium) No Data Available
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) No Data Available

13 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details HB 1222 Concerning public inspection and copying of proprietary financial and security information submitted to or obtained by the gambling commission.
Details EHB 1461 Concerning contracts for materials or work required by joint operating agencies.
Details SHB 1105 Exempting exclusive bargaining representatives for department of corrections employees from certain provisions related to coalition bargaining.
Details ESHB 1141 Concerning collective bargaining for agricultural cannabis workers.
Details HB 1327 Concerning horse racing.
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 SHB 1392 Creating the medicaid access program.
Details E2SHB 1432 Improving access to appropriate mental health and substance use disorder services.
Details E2SHB 1549 Modifying the responsible bidder criteria for public works projects.
Details SHB 1670 Increasing transparency regarding sewage-containing spills.
Details 2SHB 1696 Modifying the covenant homeownership program.
Details SHB 1811 Enhancing crisis response services through co-response integration and support.
Details ESHB 2015 Improving public safety funding by providing resources to local governments and state and local criminal justice agencies, and authorizing a local option tax.

29 Sponsored Bills Introduced for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details HB 1265 Concerning commercial sexual exploitation.
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 1362 Creating a gambling treatment diversion court pilot program to be conducted by the administrative office of the courts.
Details HB 1513 Safeguarding natural resources in the Washington State Seashore Conservation Area.
Details SHB 1532 Authorizing funding tools to mitigate the impact of sales tax sourcing in certain cities that host industrial and warehousing industries.
Details SHB 1703 Establishing an equine industry tax credit, allowing the horse racing commission to impose a fee, and using equine industry sales tax revenues for federal regulatory compliance.
Details HB 1713 Concerning automatic voter registration for tribal members.
Details HB 1111 Concerning the indeterminate sentence review board.
Details 2SHB 1125 Providing judicial discretion to modify sentences in the interest of justice.
Details SHB 1128 Establishing a child care workforce standards board.
Details SHB 1182 Granting interest arbitration to certain parks and recreation commission employees.
Details HB 1249 Creating the commercial liftoff for energy from advanced nuclear advisory commission.
Details HB 1266 Establishing the Washington state commission on boys and men.
Details HB 1358 Concerning the notice of sale or lease of manufactured/mobile home communities.
Details HB 1404 Increasing student access to free meals served at public schools.
Details ESHB 1423 Authorizing the use of automated vehicle noise enforcement cameras in vehicle-racing camera enforcement zones.
Details SHB 1434 Celebrating Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
Details HB 1525 Providing a sales and use tax exemption for a motor vehicle sold to a tribe or tribal member.
Details HB 1567 Concerning licensure of health care administrators.
Details 2SHB 1583 Concerning medicaid coverage for traditional health care practices.
Details ESHB 1622 Allowing bargaining over matters related to the use of artificial intelligence.
Details HB 1624 Studying taxes and fees related to alcohol.
Details HB 1679 Encouraging electric utility investments in advanced nuclear reactor projects for clean energy transformation act compliance.
Details HB 1759 Designating the twelfth day of December as the day of the 12s.
Details SHB 1822 Establishing a driver work zone and first responder safety course requirement.
Details HB 1836 Supporting local news journalism.
Details HB 1853 Designating school district recreational properties as green community schoolyards and developing a model shared-use agreement to increase the use of existing playgrounds and playfields.
Details HB 1894 Supporting public school instruction in tribal sovereignty and federally recognized Indian tribes.
Details HB 1908 Protecting developmentally disabled individuals and their families by maintaining the operation of existing state facilities with underutilized capacity and allowing new residents.