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Representative Cortes

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Biennium 2025-26
Chamber House
Acronym CORT
District 38
Name Julio Cortes
Party Democrat
Email Julio.Cortes@leg.wa.gov
Campaign Contributions (biennium) $131,680.30
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) $254,427.81

28 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details 2SHB 1391 Improving developmentally appropriate alternatives for youth outside the formal court process.
Details SHB 1821 Expanding the definition of "interested party" for the purposes of prevailing wage laws.
Details HB 1012 Authorizing the women's commission to solicit gifts, grants, and endowments from public or private sources.
Details EHB 1052 Clarifying a hate crime offense.
Details SHB 1105 Exempting exclusive bargaining representatives for department of corrections employees from certain provisions related to coalition bargaining.
Details HB 1109 Concerning public facilities districts.
Details ESHB 1141 Concerning collective bargaining for agricultural cannabis workers.
Details E2SHB 1163 Enhancing requirements relating to the purchase, transfer, and possession of firearms.
Details SHB 1205 Prohibiting the knowing distribution of a forged digital likeness.
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 1308 Concerning access to personnel records.
Details SHB 1321 Concerning the governor's authority to limit outside militia activities within the state.
Details SHB 1351 Adjusting age requirements for accessing the early childhood education and assistance program.
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 ESHB 1395 Streamlining the home care worker background check process.
Details SHB 1490 Concerning fingerprint-based background checks.
Details 3SHB 1491 Promoting transit-oriented housing development.
Details 2SHB 1515 Modernizing the regulation of alcohol service in public spaces.
Details E2SHB 1563 Establishing a prescribed fire claims fund pilot program.
Details ESHB 1644 Concerning the safety and health of working minors.
Details 2SHB 1696 Modifying the covenant homeownership program.
Details SHB 1733 Increasing the reimbursement cap for moving and relocation expenses incurred by persons affected by agency displacements.
Details EHB 1747 Expanding protections for applicants and employees under the Washington fair chance act.
Details ESHB 1815 Concerning prison riot offenses.
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 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.

72 Sponsored Bills Introduced for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SHB 1263 Updating eligible uses for the essential needs and housing support program.
Details SHB 1302 Concerning utility connection charge waivers.
Details HB 1463 Expanding time limit exemptions applicable to cash assistance programs.
Details SHB 1714 Enabling opportunities for risk pooling by small businesses for property and liability risks.
Details SHB 1773 Creating a wage replacement program for certain Washington workers excluded from unemployment insurance.
Details HB 1866 Creating a pilot program to advance funds to nonprofits to support grant performance.
Details HB 1882 Imposing an additional temporary state tax on lodging.
Details HB 1017 Designating kimchi day.
Details HB 1056 Concerning law enforcement and local corrections agency misconduct through investigations and legal actions.
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 1069 Allowing collective bargaining over contributions for certain supplemental retirement benefits.
Details HB 1082 Concerning qualifications for child care providers.
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 1128 Establishing a child care workforce standards board.
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 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 SHB 1200 Authorizing payment for parental caregivers of minor children with developmental disabilities.
Details HB 1235 Ensuring compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act.
Details HB 1306 Establishing preceptorship and hardship pathways to medical practice for international medical graduates.
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 SHB 1344 Increasing access to respite care for those with intellectual or developmental disabilities and their caregivers.
Details HB 1350 Modernizing reimbursement rates for the working connections child care program.
Details HB 1352 Providing mentors to novice nurses in the beginning educator support team program.
Details HB 1383 Establishing a grant program for the purchase and distribution of essential baby products.
Details HB 1386 Imposing a new tax on firearms, firearm parts, and ammunition.
Details SHB 1388 Concerning mobile market programs.
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 HB 1424 Concerning transparency, public safety, and independent oversight of the city, county, and regional jail system in Washington state.
Details HB 1429 Creating a housing assistance program for youth enrolled in extended foster care.
Details ESHB 1430 Concerning advanced practice registered nurse and physician assistant reimbursement.
Details HB 1433 Concerning access to psychedelic substances.
Details SHB 1434 Celebrating Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
Details SHB 1437 Concerning sustainable state tourism promotion.
Details HB 1445 Developing the Washington health trust.
Details HB 1492 Providing early registration for students with dependents.
Details HB 1493 Concerning the age at which clients of the developmental disabilities administration may receive employment and community inclusion services.
Details SHB 1499 Concerning legal financial obligations.
Details HB 1555 Concerning nursing home payment rates.
Details HB 1567 Concerning licensure of health care administrators.
Details HB 1568 Modifying financial aid eligibility.
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 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 SHB 1634 Providing school districts and public schools with assistance to coordinate comprehensive behavioral health supports for students.
Details HB 1661 Concerning the Washington future fund pilot project.
Details SHB 1672 Addressing technology used by employers in the workplace.
Details 2SHB 1710 Concerning compliance with the Washington voting rights act of 2018.
Details HB 1723 Promoting the efficient administration of school construction assistance program projects.
Details HB 1732 Preserving homeownership options by limiting excessive home buying by certain entities.
Details HB 1744 Deterring criminal conduct involving gift cards.
Details HB 1759 Designating the twelfth day of December as the day of the 12s.
Details HB 1785 Imposing a surcharge on publicly traded companies providing excessive executive compensation.
Details SHB 1816 Concerning civilian-staffed crisis response teams.
Details 2SHB 1834 Protecting Washington children online.
Details HB 1836 Supporting local news journalism.
Details HB 1860 Creating a Washington state supply chain competitiveness infrastructure program.
Details HB 1864 Transporting patients by ambulance to facilities other than emergency departments.
Details HB 1873 Increasing access to the working connections child care program for graduate and professional students.
Details SHB 1909 Establishing the court unification task force.
Details HB 1951 Concerning regulation of transportation network companies during large-scale events.
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 HB 2013 Concerning temporary authorizations for liquor licensees in fan zones or host cities.
Details HB 2024 Providing housing safety, security, and protection by creating the primary residence property tax exemption.
Details HB 2025 Increasing the working families' tax credit to reflect the economic impact of property taxes incorporated into rental amounts charged to residential tenants.