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Representative Obras

Portrait of Representative Obras

Member Information

Biennium 2025-26
Chamber House
Acronym OBRA
District 33
Name Edwin Obras
Party Democrat
Email Edwin.Obras@leg.wa.gov
Campaign Contributions (biennium) No Data Available
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) No Data Available

35 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details ESHB 1332 Concerning transportation network companies.
Details SHB 1490 Concerning fingerprint-based background checks.
Details 2SHB 1524 Concerning workplace standards and requirements applicable to employers of isolated employees.
Details EHB 1052 Clarifying a hate crime offense.
Details HB 1068 Removing the exclusion from interest arbitration of Washington management service employees at the department of corrections.
Details HB 1112 Removing the city residency requirement for judges pro tempore in municipalities with a population of more than 400,000 inhabitants.
Details ESHB 1141 Concerning collective bargaining for agricultural cannabis workers.
Details ESHB 1149 Preventing cruelty to animals.
Details E2SHB 1163 Enhancing requirements relating to the purchase, transfer, and possession of firearms.
Details EHB 1173 Concerning wages for journeypersons in high-hazard facilities.
Details SHB 1186 Expanding the situations in which medications can be dispensed or delivered from hospitals and health care entities.
Details SHB 1205 Prohibiting the knowing distribution of a forged digital likeness.
Details E2SHB 1213 Expanding protections for workers in the state paid family and medical leave program.
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 ESHB 1296 Promoting a safe and supportive public education system.
Details SHB 1308 Concerning access to personnel records.
Details EHB 1382 Modernizing the all payers claim database.
Details ESHB 1385 Concerning fingerprint background check on applicants.
Details ESHB 1395 Streamlining the home care worker background check process.
Details 2SHB 1427 Concerning certified peer support specialists.
Details 3SHB 1491 Promoting transit-oriented housing development.
Details E2SHB 1549 Modifying the responsible bidder criteria for public works projects.
Details E2SHB 1563 Establishing a prescribed fire claims fund pilot program.
Details HB 1633 Concerning prime contractor bidding submission requirements on public works contracts.
Details ESHB 1644 Concerning the safety and health of working minors.
Details SHB 1670 Increasing transparency regarding sewage-containing spills.
Details 2SHB 1696 Modifying the covenant homeownership program.
Details EHB 1747 Expanding protections for applicants and employees under the Washington fair chance act.
Details SHB 1774 Modifying allowable terms for the lease of unused highway land.
Details 2SHB 1788 Concerning workers' compensation benefits.
Details SHB 1821 Expanding the definition of "interested party" for the purposes of prevailing wage laws.
Details EHB 1874 Requiring training for cosmetologists, barbers, estheticians, and hair designers on the care, styling, and treatment of textured hair.
Details ESHB 1875 Allowing the use of paid sick leave to prepare for or participate in certain immigration proceedings.
Details ESHB 1946 Clarifying tribal membership on local boards of health.
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.

93 Sponsored Bills Introduced for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details HB 1424 Concerning transparency, public safety, and independent oversight of the city, county, and regional jail system in Washington state.
Details SHB 1623 Prohibiting deductions for credit card transaction processing fees from employee tips.
Details HB 1744 Deterring criminal conduct involving gift cards.
Details HB 1792 Consolidating regulatory authority for nursing assistants.
Details HB 1828 Authorizing certain health professions to act as physician substitutes for plasma source donation centers.
Details HB 1897 Concerning liability protections for community public safety programs.
Details HB 1943 Encouraging public school instruction in awareness of blood donation.
Details HB 1069 Allowing collective bargaining over contributions for certain supplemental retirement benefits.
Details SHB 1070 Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting correctional facility workers.
Details SHB 1076 Concerning the health technology assessment program.
Details HB 1090 Concerning contraceptive coverage.
Details E2SHB 1108 Creating a task force on housing cost driver analysis.
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 1123 Ensuring access to primary care, behavioral health, and affordable hospital services.
Details HB 1124 Establishing a prescribing psychologist certification in Washington state.
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 1129 Concerning health plan coverage of fertility-related services.
Details SHB 1132 Enhancing public safety by limiting bulk purchases and transfers of firearms and ammunition.
Details HB 1138 Improving public safety by implementing evidence-based interview practices that increase the reliability of statements collected during criminal investigations.
Details SHB 1146 Improving access and removing barriers to voting in jails and state hospitals.
Details HB 1152 Enhancing public safety by establishing secure storage requirements for firearms in vehicles and residences.
Details HB 1158 Improving community inclusion services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Details SHB 1161 Establishing the veteran employability training and career advancement for reentry program.
Details SHB 1180 Implementing certain recommendations from the sex offender policy board concerning the criminal offense of failure to register.
Details HB 1181 Concerning labor standards and the Washington minimum wage act.
Details SHB 1187 Protecting patients involved in motor vehicle accidents from delayed ambulance bills.
Details SHB 1192 Concerning disciplinary hearings held by the department of corrections.
Details 2SHB 1195 Concerning compliance with siting, development permit processes and standards, and requirements for permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, indoor emergency housing, or indoor emergency shelters.
Details SHB 1200 Authorizing payment for parental caregivers of minor children with developmental disabilities.
Details HB 1203 Prohibiting the sale of certain tobacco and nicotine products.
Details HB 1204 Concerning senior shared housing in manufactured home communities.
Details HB 1220 Concerning appropriate response to assaults by individuals in behavioral health crisis.
Details HB 1239 Preparing incarcerated people for successful reentry upon release from a correctional facility.
Details HB 1262 Updating the governor's interagency coordinating council on health disparities.
Details SHB 1263 Updating eligible uses for the essential needs and housing support program.
Details HB 1265 Concerning commercial sexual exploitation.
Details HB 1306 Establishing preceptorship and hardship pathways to medical practice for international medical graduates.
Details SHB 1356 Concerning K-12 funding.
Details SHB 1357 Providing special education funding and support for inclusionary practices.
Details HB 1358 Concerning the notice of sale or lease of manufactured/mobile home communities.
Details HB 1362 Creating a gambling treatment diversion court pilot program to be conducted by the administrative office of the courts.
Details HB 1383 Establishing a grant program for the purchase and distribution of essential baby products.
Details SHB 1394 Concerning the retention of hospital medical records.
Details HB 1404 Increasing student access to free meals served at public schools.
Details SHB 1412 Establishing the Washington state commission on Middle Eastern and North African Americans.
Details HB 1425 Requiring coverage of pharmacogenomic testing for psychotropic medications.
Details HB 1429 Creating a housing assistance program for youth enrolled in extended foster care.
Details SHB 1434 Celebrating Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
Details 2SHB 1448 Increasing representation and voter participation in local elections.
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 1534 Enhancing the regulation of tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, and vapor products.
Details SHB 1557 Establishing the Washington guaranteed admissions program and requiring student notifications.
Details HB 1560 Funding health care access by imposing an excise tax on the annual compensation paid to certain highly compensated hospital employees.
Details HB 1567 Concerning licensure of health care administrators.
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 HB 1632 Protecting consumers by removing barriers created by medical debt.
Details SHB 1653 Concerning payments to tow truck operators for the release of vehicles to indigent citizens.
Details HB 1654 Concerning the administration of the international fire code.
Details HB 1661 Concerning the Washington future fund pilot project.
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 1739 Regulating the use of self-service checkout stations.
Details HB 1748 Conducting a study of credit history, credit-based insurance scores, and other rate factors in making rates for personal insurance.
Details SHB 1750 Creating guidelines for voter suppression and vote dilution claims under the Washington voting rights act.
Details HB 1751 Establishing a sales and use tax exemption for required course materials at public institutions of higher education.
Details HB 1759 Designating the twelfth day of December as the day of the 12s.
Details HB 1805 Creating a local sales and use tax to fund services for children and families that enhance well-being, promote mental health, and provide early interventions.
Details SHB 1808 Creating an affordable homeownership revolving loan fund program.
Details SHB 1816 Concerning civilian-staffed crisis response teams.
Details SHB 1817 Supporting survivors of sexual assault in public elementary and secondary schools.
Details HB 1826 Establishing a right to repair for mobility equipment for persons with physical disabilities.
Details HB 1838 Expanding access to the Washington college grant to students enrolled in certificate programs for high-demand fields.
Details HB 1840 Authorizing middle housing in unincorporated growth areas and unincorporated urban growth areas, certain limited areas of more intensive rural development, and fully contained communities.
Details HB 1843 Concerning students' eligibility to receive unemployment insurance benefits.
Details HB 1844 Advancing the production and use of alternative jet fuels in Washington.
Details HB 1845 Concerning payment standards for cash assistance programs.
Details HB 1849 Expanding the drugs eligible for the unexpired prescription drug donation program.
Details HB 1850 Facilitating the prompt replacement of defective continuous glucose monitoring equipment.
Details HB 1855 Expanding protections for certain students to promote inclusivity in public schools.
Details SHB 1859 Expanding opportunities for affordable housing developments on properties owned by religious organizations.
Details HB 1864 Transporting patients by ambulance to facilities other than emergency departments.
Details HB 1865 Expanding access for small business employees and adjusting implementation dates for working connections child care.
Details HB 1866 Creating a pilot program to advance funds to nonprofits to support grant performance.
Details HB 1873 Increasing access to the working connections child care program for graduate and professional students.
Details HB 1948 Reducing environmental and health disparities and improving the health of Washington state residents in large port districts.
Details HB 1951 Concerning regulation of transportation network companies during large-scale events.
Details HB 1976 Increasing awareness of the potential harm caused by releasing pets or aquatic plants into the natural environment.
Details HB 1979 Updating cardiac care certificate of need requirements.

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