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Representative Stearns

Portrait of Representative Stearns

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

25 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 2496 Concerning tribal consultation conducted by the energy facility site evaluation council.
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.
Details HB 2091 Requiring public employers under chapter 41.80 RCW to provide employee information to exclusive bargaining representatives.
Details 2SHB 1128 Establishing a child care workforce standards board.
Details 2SHB 2105 Concerning immigrant worker protections.
Details ESHB 2225 Regulating artificial intelligence companion chatbots.
Details SHB 2296 Expanding the use of distributed energy resources.
Details SHB 2334 Adjusting the price of a cash transaction to eliminate the need for pennies.
Details HB 2436 Concerning requirements of oil tankers operating in restricted waters.
Details 2SHB 2479 Concerning the recovery of unpaid wages.
Details ESHB 2508 Clarifying the scope of authority of the office of independent investigations to align with current operations and practices and to include public disclosure requirements and protect privacy.
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 EHB 2575 Reducing certain reporting obligations under environmental or energy laws.

61 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 2103 Authorizing certain public entities to contract for the capability of renewable or nonemitting electric generation projects.
Details HB 2117 Adding a tribal member to the board of natural resources.
Details 2SHB 2281 Concerning the state and tribal government-to-government relationship.
Details HB 2493 Supporting crime victims and witnesses by promoting victim-centered, trauma-informed responses.
Details SHB 2526 Concerning prostitution.
Details HB 2572 Increasing access to voting services for military, overseas, Native American, and disabled voters.
Details HB 2579 Promoting and funding public media and digital equity.
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 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 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.
Details HB 2173 Concerning the use of face coverings by law enforcement officers.
Details HB 2212 Reducing microplastic pollution from washing machines.
Details 2SHB 1622 Allowing bargaining over matters related to the use of artificial intelligence.
Details SHB 2122 Requiring hospitals to offer immunizations for influenza in certain cases.
Details SHB 2132 Concerning applications for state financial aid.
Details SHB 2144 Requiring notices to employees when electronic monitoring is used to assist employers conducting performance evaluations.
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 2157 Regulating high-risk artificial intelligence system development, deployment, and use.
Details SHB 2183 Requiring counties to develop and implement heat response plans.
Details SHB 2205 Concerning the regulated sports wagering industry.
Details HB 2332 Concerning driver privacy protections.
Details HB 2349 Providing community notification regarding the release or discharge of sexually violent predators.
Details SHB 2351 Protecting emergency responders and emergency response operations in Washington.
Details SHB 2401 Establishing the boys and men commission.
Details HB 2464 Concerning reporting requirements and law enforcement responses for incidents at private detention facilities.
Details HB 2481 Prohibiting surveillance-based price discrimination and surge pricing for retail goods.
Details SHB 2499 Modernizing conservation district election procedures and requiring financial disclosures from district supervisors and candidates for district supervisor.
Details E2SHB 2515 Addressing emerging large energy use facilities.
Details HB 2527 Increasing opportunities for tenants to own homes under eventual tenant ownership programs established under the federal low-income housing tax credit program.
Details HB 2555 Concerning medicaid coverage for traditional health care practices.
Details HB 2573 Concerning community access to food, medicine, and health services.
Details HB 2587 Establishing a pilot program to advance funds to nonprofits to support grant performance.
Details SHB 2597 Concerning remedies for violations of federal constitutional rights occurring during immigration enforcement.
Details HB 2599 Protecting the integrity of therapy and psychotherapy services.
Details HB 2634 Concerning the safe management of radioactive waste and cleanup of hazardous substance releases into the environment.
Details E2SHB 2637 Safeguarding personal information entrusted to agencies that is of no legitimate concern to the public.
Details HB 2724 Establishing a tax on millionaires.

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