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Representative Waters

Portrait of Representative Waters

Member Information

Biennium 2025-26
Chamber House
Acronym WATE
District 17
Name Kevin Waters
Party Republican
Email Kevin.Waters@leg.wa.gov
Campaign Contributions (biennium) No Data Available
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) No Data Available

9 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details EHB 1602 Addressing food service options for liquor licensees.
Details EHB 1609 Promoting efficient administration of state education agencies.
Details HB 1698 Updating liquor permit and licensing provisions.
Details HB 1731 Regarding unclaimed property held by a museum or historical society.
Details HB 1064 Eliminating the expiration of the interagency, multijurisdictional system improvement team.
Details HB 1314 Concerning the early learning facilities grant and loan program.
Details SHB 1606 Concerning state employee access to peer-reviewed journals.
Details HB 1633 Concerning prime contractor bidding submission requirements on public works contracts.
Details HB 1760 Removing barriers for organizations selling manufactured homes to low-income households.

43 Sponsored Bills Introduced for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SHB 1104 Updating the professional engineers' registration act.
Details HB 1658 Ensuring dedicated funding for history and heritage museums and county historic preservation programs.
Details HB 1712 Allowing the use of electricity generated by qualified biomass facilities in the Pacific Northwest to meet renewable resource requirements.
Details HB 1726 Prioritizing lumber procured from Washington state lumber mills for the purpose of public works projects.
Details HB 1884 Concerning cannabis regulation.
Details HB 1993 Exempting child care providers from the business and occupation tax.
Details HB 1001 Concerning capital projects for the provision of fire protection services.
Details SHB 1071 Implementing strategies to achieve higher recycling rates within Washington's existing solid waste management system.
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 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 1311 Concerning the implementation of the recommendations of the department of fish and wildlife regarding the gray wolf.
Details HB 1323 Making obstructing highways a crime.
Details HB 1346 Removing cannabis industry barriers.
Details HB 1348 Concerning employee ownership of licensed cannabis businesses.
Details HB 1362 Creating a gambling treatment diversion court pilot program to be conducted by the administrative office of the courts.
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 1369 Creating special license plates that support working forests.
Details HB 1384 Providing tax exemption for the first 20,000 gallons of wine sold by a winery in Washington.
Details SHB 1406 Concerning associate development organizations.
Details HB 1433 Concerning access to psychedelic substances.
Details HB 1525 Providing a sales and use tax exemption for a motor vehicle sold to a tribe or tribal member.
Details HB 1526 Modifying the snack bar liquor license.
Details SHB 1529 Increasing opportunities for cities to utilize county resources for road construction and maintenance.
Details HB 1555 Concerning nursing home payment rates.
Details HB 1559 Concerning tolling on Interstate 5 bridges spanning the Columbia river.
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 2SHB 1607 Concerning recycling and waste reduction.
Details HB 1624 Studying taxes and fees related to alcohol.
Details SHB 1625 Supporting back country search and rescue organizations and volunteers through the creation of the back country search and rescue grant program.
Details HB 1661 Concerning the Washington future fund pilot project.
Details HB 1746 Providing local effort assistance for public schools.
Details HB 1759 Designating the twelfth day of December as the day of the 12s.
Details HB 1765 Exempting email addresses of individuals who subscribe to regular communications and updates from local agencies.
Details HB 1860 Creating a Washington state supply chain competitiveness infrastructure program.
Details HB 1869 Prohibiting the expenditure of Washington state funds for any capital costs of a transit agency created pursuant to the laws of an adjacent state.
Details HB 1932 Authorizing cannabis consumption in regulated environments.
Details HB 1978 Concerning transparency in election tabulation devices.
Details HB 1988 Permitting individuals retired from the public employees' retirement system, the teachers' retirement system, and the school employees' retirement system additional opportunities to work for up to 1,040 hours per year while in receipt of pension benefits.
Details HB 2036 Concerning persons convicted of violent offenses with a firearm.

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