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Representative Couture

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Member Information

Biennium 2025-26
Chamber House
Acronym COUT
District 35
Name Travis Couture
Party Republican
Email Travis.Couture@leg.wa.gov
Campaign Contributions (biennium) No Data Available
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) No Data Available

15 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details HB 2124 Concerning the threshold for payment of a lump sum retirement allowance in lieu of a monthly benefit.
Details E2SHB 1096 Increasing housing options through lot splitting.
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 1130 Concerning utilization of developmental disabilities waivers.
Details SHB 1133 Concerning sexually violent predators.
Details HB 1190 Allowing additional health professions to access the University of Washington health sciences library.
Details SHB 1309 Addressing the impacts of burrowing shrimp on bottom culture shellfish farming through integrated pest management research.
Details SHB 1371 Concerning parking privileges for veterans.
Details ESHB 1414 Improving access to career opportunities for students.
Details HB 1457 Requiring electronic monitoring of sexually violent predators granted conditional release.
Details SHB 1498 Concerning domestic violence co-responder programs.
Details E2SHB 1563 Establishing a prescribed fire claims fund pilot program.
Details HB 1947 Reducing satellite management agency requirements for simple group B public water systems.
Details ESHB 1295 Using evidence-based instructional practices in reading and writing literacy for public elementary students.
Details SHB 2714 Concerning caseload forecasting for food assistance programs.

145 Sponsored Bills Introduced for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details HB 1033 Authorizing local licensing and regulation of child care providers.
Details HB 1091 Concerning sexually violent predators' ineligibility to earn supervision compliance credit.
Details HB 1092 Maintaining the safety of children.
Details HB 1140 Establishing empowerED scholarships using educational savings accounts.
Details HB 1193 Increasing protections for child welfare workers.
Details HB 1225 Reforming the Washington state budgeting process through requiring prioritized spending on essential state functions, placing limitations on state spending and revenue proposals, and requiring accountability for every dollar spent within the state budget.
Details HB 1245 Concerning business development.
Details HB 1246 Concerning juvenile justice.
Details HB 1247 Concerning placement of individuals in juvenile rehabilitation institutions.
Details SHB 1248 Improving the effectiveness of juvenile justice programs by providing ongoing evaluations and clarifying juvenile diversion practices.
Details HB 1267 Adjusting funded special education enrollment.
Details HB 1411 Limiting assumed revenues to projected revenues by the economic and revenue forecast council.
Details HB 2002 Concerning criminal justice and the recovery of firearms used in the commission of a crime.
Details HB 2053 Concerning limiting state employment based on population.
Details HB 2054 Limiting the number of full-time equivalent employees in higher education.
Details HB 2055 Establishing a state revenue limit and directing excess revenues be deposited in the budget stabilization account.
Details HB 2056 Reestablishing a state expenditure limit.
Details HB 2057 Concerning the identification and review of new programs.
Details HB 2058 Concerning third-party audits of private entities receiving public moneys.
Details HB 2059 Requiring certain disclosures from private entities that receive state funding.
Details HB 2060 Prohibiting elected officials and their spouses from holding employment or any beneficial interest in private entities.
Details HB 2063 Adjusting tuition waivers for high school completers at community and technical colleges.
Details HB 2065 Reducing administrative staffing at institutions of higher education.
Details HB 2066 Providing financial relief for families by establishing a sales tax holiday for back-to-school shopping.
Details HB 2125 Concerning payment of expenses from the earnings of retirement system trust funds.
Details HB 2167 Keeping the legislature's promises by reducing the sales tax in the event of an income tax or a tax on individual earnings.
Details HB 2241 Establishing radiation dose standards for the operation of ionizing radiation screening systems regulated by the department of health.
Details HB 2448 Reinstating a state expenditure limit to promote sustainable budgets and create permanent tax relief for all Washingtonians.
Details HB 2449 Reforming the Washington state budgeting process through zero-based budget reviews.
Details HB 2450 Maintaining food assistance for certain individuals affected by federal eligibility requirements.
Details HB 2609 Exempting vapor products from the tobacco products tax.
Details HB 2659 Concerning commercial shellfish fees.
Details HB 2672 Requiring certain disclosures from private entities that receive state funding.
Details HB 2704 Requiring all less restrictive alternatives for sexually violent predators to be operated by the department of social and health services or a contracted provider.
Details HB 2742 Providing financial relief for families by establishing a sales tax and use tax holiday.
Details HB 2743 Reducing state property taxes.
Details HB 2746 Reducing state property taxes.
Details HB 1000 Expanding the circumstances that may constitute a major violation of the uniform controlled substances act.
Details HB 1010 Authorizing accessory dwelling units in rural areas.
Details HB 1025 Reopening the exemption from the long-term services and supports trust program for employees who have purchased long-term care insurance.
Details HB 1027 Concerning housing of inmates in state correctional facilities.
Details HB 1051 Permitting the recording of individualized education program team meetings.
Details HB 1084 Establishing tax exemptions for unleaded aircraft fuel.
Details 2SHB 1085 Improving school safety by extending penalties for interference by, or intimidation by threat of, force or violence at schools and extracurricular activities and requiring schools to notify the public of such penalties.
Details HB 1086 Concerning motor vehicle chop shops.
Details HB 1087 Expanding the crime of endangerment with a controlled substance to include fentanyl and other high-potency synthetic opioids.
Details HB 1117 Removing the delegation of authority related to California motor vehicle emissions standards to generate new transportation revenue for the state by reducing administration burdens on the government and the people.
Details HB 1164 Expanding urban growth area boundaries for residential development.
Details HB 1176 Concerning greater consistency in the provision of health care services for minors under the age of 17.
Details HB 1179 Providing a property tax valuation freeze for senior citizens and disabled veterans.
Details HB 1184 Creating a narrow exemption from overtime provisions for certain nonprofits and small businesses.
Details HB 1188 Requiring local government and tribal approval of wind and solar siting recommendations by the energy facility site evaluation council.
Details SHB 1200 Authorizing payment for parental caregivers of minor children with developmental disabilities.
Details HB 1221 Increasing legislative involvement in gubernatorial proclamations relating to a state of emergency.
Details HB 1241 Improving access to and provision of a free appropriate public education for students with disabilities.
Details HB 1249 Creating the commercial liftoff for energy from advanced nuclear advisory commission.
Details SHB 1252 Concerning pretrial release.
Details HB 1255 Funding the removal of illegal and dangerous encampments.
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 1266 Establishing the Washington state commission on boys and men.
Details HB 1276 Concerning organized retail theft.
Details 2SHB 1285 Making financial education instruction a graduation requirement in public schools.
Details HB 1286 Concerning the crime of endangerment with a controlled substance.
Details HB 1307 Easing the financial burden on families by removing sales and use tax on diapers and essential child care products.
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 HB 1323 Making obstructing highways a crime.
Details HB 1324 Funding the state transportation system using climate commitment act revenues.
Details HB 1331 Increasing public safety by elevating the penalty for unlawful delivery of a controlled substance resulting in death.
Details HB 1340 Exempting prepared food from sales tax.
Details SHB 1344 Increasing access to respite care for those with intellectual or developmental disabilities and their caregivers.
Details HB 1349 Concerning the purchase of pension service credit for authorized leaves of absence.
Details HB 1354 Concerning coverage of legislative session employees in the insurance programs offered by the public employees' benefits board.
Details HB 1363 Modifying licensing requirements for child care and early learning providers.
Details HB 1366 Authorizing military surplus vehicles to operate on public highways.
Details HB 1367 Improving motorcycle safety by authorizing the use of the right shoulder of limited access roadways.
Details HB 1369 Creating special license plates that support working forests.
Details HB 1374 Reducing the state sales and use tax rate.
Details HB 1375 Adjusting the estate tax exclusion amount for inflation.
Details HB 1377 Declaring the ferry system to be in a state of emergency to authorize expedient actions.
Details HB 1433 Concerning access to psychedelic substances.
Details HB 1451 Concerning civil commitment of sexually violent predators.
Details HB 1452 Addressing motor vehicle and retail theft offenses.
Details HB 1453 Protecting consumers by increasing penalties for scrap metal businesses who purchase stolen copper from telecommunication cables.
Details HB 1454 Funding multijurisdictional drug task forces.
Details HB 1487 Concerning victims of crime act funding.
Details SHB 1529 Increasing opportunities for cities to utilize county resources for road construction and maintenance.
Details SHB 1534 Enhancing the regulation of tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, and vapor products.
Details HB 1538 Providing capital financial assistance to small school districts with demonstrated funding challenges.
Details HB 1564 Supporting employers providing child care assistance to employees by establishing a business and occupation and public utility tax credit.
Details HB 1584 Ending vote by mail for nonabsentee voters and restoring in-person voting at polling places and voting centers.
Details HB 1585 Requiring verification of citizenship for voter registration.
Details HB 1586 Modifying joint administrative rules review committee provisions.
Details HB 1637 Concerning nonfirearm measures to increase school safety for students and staff.
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 1678 Providing funding for enhanced wastewater treatment infrastructure for salmon recovery.
Details HB 1699 Defending equity in interscholastic sports.
Details HB 1726 Prioritizing lumber procured from Washington state lumber mills for the purpose of public works projects.
Details HB 1741 Expanding access to treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome.
Details HB 1743 Enhancing opportunities for community-based providers to provide health care services in carceral settings.
Details HB 1744 Deterring criminal conduct involving gift cards.
Details HB 1777 Concerning the requirements and process for approving and registering apprenticeship programs.
Details HB 1787 Updating the involuntary treatment commitment standards for individuals suffering from a substance use disorder.
Details HB 1865 Expanding access for small business employees and adjusting implementation dates for working connections child care.
Details HB 1919 Modifying access to the working connections child care program.
Details HB 1928 Requiring senate confirmation of gubernatorial appointments to vacancies on the supreme court.
Details HB 1929 Requiring senate confirmation of gubernatorial appointments to vacancies on the court of appeals.
Details HB 1954 Establishing criminal and civil penalties for destruction of critical communications infrastructure.
Details HB 1959 Eliminating the office of equity.
Details HB 2012 Funding the transition to kindergarten program.
Details HB 2036 Concerning persons convicted of violent offenses with a firearm.
Details HB 2093 Reinstating the tax exemptions for the sale of precious metals and bullion.
Details HB 2101 Exempting live presentations from retail sales and use tax.
Details HB 2115 Restoring the 1985 tax exemptions for the sale of precious metals and bullion.
Details HB 2121 Exempting nonprofits and schools from certain sales and use taxes on services.
Details HB 2126 Providing an exemption for taxes on fuel used in school buses.
Details HB 2130 Repealing new taxes imposed by Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill No. 5814 during the 2025 regular legislative session.
Details HB 2136 Providing a benefit increase to certain retirees of the teachers' retirement system plan 1.
Details HB 2138 Improving student performance and success.
Details HB 2150 Making the implementation of climate policy contingent on the department of ecology reporting greenhouse gas emissions in a manner that allows for measuring the effectiveness of those policies.
Details HB 2153 Prohibiting homebuyers from receiving multiple state-funded down payment assistance loans or grants.
Details HB 2162 Establishing a public interest law grant program and a business and occupation tax credit for approved contributions to the program account.
Details HB 2166 Recognizing major religious holidays.
Details HB 2187 Supporting employers providing child care assistance to employees by establishing a business and occupation and public utility tax credit.
Details HB 2188 Promoting transparency in certain industrial insurance rate increases.
Details HB 2202 Establishing a dental care pilot at the Rainier school residential habilitation center.
Details HB 2209 Concerning sentencing enhancements for theft offenses, robbery, possessing stolen property, and trafficking stolen property.
Details HB 2234 Addressing increased school utility costs due to the climate commitment act.
Details HB 2235 Concerning public records act exemptions regarding concealed pistol licenses, permits to purchase firearms, and firearms purchases or transfers.
Details 2SHB 1622 Allowing bargaining over matters related to the use of artificial intelligence.
Details SHB 2133 Making the property tax exemption for multipurpose senior citizen centers permanent.
Details SHB 2135 Modifying and extending the adaptive housing retail sales and use tax preference for disabled veterans.
Details SHB 2146 Combating sexual exploitation of minors.
Details ESHB 2196 Expanding access to PANDA PANS treatment.
Details SHB 2203 Creating the offense of reckless interference with emergency operations.
Details HB 2290 Exempting schools and school districts from retail sales and use tax.
Details HB 2335 Repealing the business and occupation tax increases enacted in 2025.
Details HB 2349 Providing community notification regarding the release or discharge of sexually violent predators.
Details HB 2533 Modifying procedures for releasing sexually violent predators to less restrictive alternative placements.
Details HB 2565 Concerning the investment of gifts, grants, conveyances, bequests, and devises of the University of Washington.
Details HB 2628 Concerning regularly updating the budget outlook to reflect the most recent revenue forecast.
Details HB 2635 Providing supervision of a sexually violent predator after release or discharge.
Details HB 2647 Establishing accountability requirements for homeless housing grant programs.
Details HB 2719 Establishing empowerED scholarships for foster care students using educational savings accounts.
Details HB 2737 Concerning commercial shellfish fees.

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